Ward Bond

Ward Bond

Born: April 9, 1903
Died: November 5, 1960
in Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wardell Edwin Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film character actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than 200 films, as well as in the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1961. Among his best-remembered roles are Bert the cop in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in John Ford's The Searchers (1956).

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Title: Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 2015
Type: Movie
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Title: The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Character: John L. Sullivan (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
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Title: Battleground
Character: Quincannon (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
Features historic films from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and more.
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Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Title: Golden Saddles, Silver Spurs
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
This documentary traces the history of the B-Western from it's silent movie origins to its demise in the early 1950s. The film contains a large number of scenes from early silents and seldom seen films, as well as old photographs of the stars and one-sheet advertisements for lost films.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Directed by John Ford
Title: Directed by John Ford
Character: (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 1971
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.
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Alias Jesse James
Title: Alias Jesse James
Character: Major Seth Adams (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
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Rio Bravo
Title: Rio Bravo
Character: Pat Wheeler
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.
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China Doll
Title: China Doll
Character: Father Cairns
Released: June 6, 1958
Type: Movie
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Major Seth Adams
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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The Wings of Eagles
Title: The Wings of Eagles
Character: John Dodge
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
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The Growler Story
Title: The Growler Story
Character: Quincannon
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
True story of Lt.Cdr. Howard W.Gilmore who was awarded the Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save his submarine, February 1943.
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The Halliday Brand
Title: The Halliday Brand
Character: Big Dan Halliday
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
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Pillars of the Sky
Title: Pillars of the Sky
Character: Dr. Joseph Holden
Released: September 14, 1956
Type: Movie
First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.
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Dakota Incident
Title: Dakota Incident
Character: Sen. Blakely
Released: July 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Western Skit
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Wagon Train
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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The Searchers
Title: The Searchers
Character: Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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Rookie of the Year
Title: Rookie of the Year
Character: Buck Goodhue
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.
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A Man Alone
Title: A Man Alone
Character: Sheriff Gil Corrigan
Released: October 17, 1955
Type: Movie
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Larry 'Buck' Goodhue
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: Star Stage
Character: Patterson
Released: September 9, 1955
Type: TV
The show featured two-act plays. Two-thirds were live, and the rest on film.
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Mister Roberts
Title: Mister Roberts
Character: Dowdy
Released: July 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Mr. Roberts is as an officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned Navy ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
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The Red, White and Blue Line
Title: The Red, White and Blue Line
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A promotional film for United States Savings Bonds
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The Long Gray Line
Title: The Long Gray Line
Character: Herman Kohler
Released: February 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
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The Bob Mathias Story
Title: The Bob Mathias Story
Character: Coach Virgil Jackson
Released: October 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Film biography of the Olympics Decathlon champion, with the famous athlete and his wife playing themselves.
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Title: Climax!
Character: Sheriff Ab Kale
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
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Johnny Guitar
Title: Johnny Guitar
Character: John McIvers
Released: May 26, 1954
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
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Gypsy Colt
Title: Gypsy Colt
Character: Frank MacWade
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
In this trans-species remake of Lassie, Come Home, a faithful horse undertakes a perilous journey to return to the family it loves.
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Hondo
Title: Hondo
Character: Bufallo Baker
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
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Blowing Wild
Title: Blowing Wild
Character: Dutch Peterson
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.
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The Moonlighter
Title: The Moonlighter
Character: Cole Gardner
Released: September 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela (Barbara Stanwyck), who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.
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Title: The Christophers
Released: April 20, 1953
Type: TV
The weekly half-hour series featured individuals from various walks of life who used their gifts to make the world a better place.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Thunderbirds
Title: Thunderbirds
Character: Lt. John McCreery
Released: November 20, 1952
Type: Movie
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Lt. Pannetti
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Hank Fetterman
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: M / Sgt. Lou Diamond
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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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Harvey Kendall
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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Hellgate
Title: Hellgate
Character: Lt. Tod Voorhees
Released: September 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A man is framed and sent to the toughest prison in the territory.
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The Quiet Man
Title: The Quiet Man
Character: Father Peter Lonergan
Released: July 21, 1952
Type: Movie
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Title: The Gulf Playhouse
Released: March 10, 1952
Type: TV
This live show was seen through the "eye" of the camera. The actors in each episode would talk to the camera as if it were a person.
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The McGurk Way
Title: The McGurk Way
Character: Dan McGurk 4th
Released: February 3, 1952
Type: Movie
At the dedication of a new road sign, Dan McGurk tells the story of his forebears and how they helped transform rutted dirt roads into the modern highways of today. He speaks of the benefits of the trucking industry and how it depends on the nation's roadways, and he rails against regulations that make the industry less efficient and profitable. After recounting the amounts the trucking industry pays in taxes, he watches the unveiling of the sign naming the highway The McGurk Way.
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On Dangerous Ground
Title: On Dangerous Ground
Character: Walter Brent
Released: December 13, 1951
Type: Movie
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Character: Capt. Parker
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Bullfighter and the Lady
Title: Bullfighter and the Lady
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1951
Type: Movie
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.
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Only the Valiant
Title: Only the Valiant
Character: Cpl. Timothy Gilchrist
Released: April 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
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The Great Missouri Raid
Title: The Great Missouri Raid
Character: Maj. Marshal Trowbridge
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), farmers Jesse and Frank James decided to form an armed gang to face the Union troops using guerrilla warfare.
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Operation Pacific
Title: Operation Pacific
Character: John "Pop" Perry
Released: January 27, 1951
Type: Movie
During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
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Title: The Bigelow Theatre
Released: December 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Bigelow Theatre is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network. This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show, a musical variety program which aired on NBC and CBS in the late 1940s.
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Title: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Character: Inspector Charles Weber
Released: August 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
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Wagon Master
Title: Wagon Master
Character: Elder Wiggs
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Lee
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
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Singing Guns
Title: Singing Guns
Character: Sheriff Jim Caradac
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
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Title: The Silver Theatre
Released: October 3, 1949
Type: TV
The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. It was a live anthology series consisting of dramatic teleplays about romance. It was sponsored by the International Silver Company.
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Title: Suspense
Character: Bill Meeker
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: TV
Suspense is an American television anthology series that ran on CBS Television from 1949 to 1954. It was adapted from the radio program of the same name which ran from 1942 to 1962. Like many early television programs, the show was broadcast live from New York City. It was sponsored by the Auto-Lite corporation, and each episode was introduced by host Rex Marshall, who promoted Auto-Lite spark plugs, car batteries, headlights, and other car parts. Some of the early scripts were adapted from Suspense radio scripts, while others were original for television. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed. Many notable actors appeared on the program, including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Franchot Tone, Robert Emhardt, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and many more. The program was a live television series, but most episodes were recorded on kinescope. However, only about 90 of the 260 episodes survive today.
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3 Godfathers
Title: 3 Godfathers
Character: Perley 'Buck' Sweet
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: La Hire
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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The Time of Your Life
Title: The Time of Your Life
Character: McCarthy
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
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Tap Roots
Title: Tap Roots
Character: Hoab Dabney
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Sgt. Maj. Michael O'Rourke
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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Sins of the Fathers
Title: Sins of the Fathers
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A dramatized story about a town where illegal activities are allowed to thrive, some of the politicians are dishonest, and a doctor and couple of colleagues try to help townspeople see that public health measures, especially those that might control syphilis, are necessary. Two of the most influential men in town oppose clean-up and public health efforts until their young adult children contract syphilis. Spliced into the dramatic film are segments of other educational films, including animated segments, that describe the symptoms and risks of syphilis. A butcher named Tony is excited about the birth of his first child, but the child is born dead because of a maternal syphilis infection.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: James Calvert, aka 'El Gringo'
Released: November 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: John Fraser
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Bert
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: Morgan Earp
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Canyon Passage
Title: Canyon Passage
Character: Honey Bragg
Released: July 17, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Dakota
Title: Dakota
Character: Jim Bender
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In 1871, professional gambler John Devlin elopes with Sandra "Sandy" Poli, daughter of Marko Poli, an immigrant who has risen to railroad tycoon. Sandy, knowing that the railroad is to be extended into Dakota, plans to use their $20,000 nest egg to buy land options to sell to the railroad at a profit. On the stage trip to Ft. Abercrombie, their fellow passengers are Jim Bender and Bigtree Collins, who practically own the town of Fargo and Devlin is aware that they are prepared to protect the little empire... trying to drive out the farmers by burning their property, destroying their wheat, and blaming the devastation on the Indians. Continuing their journey north on the river aboard the "River Bird', Sandy and John meet Captain Bounce, an irascible old seafarer. Two of Bendender's henchmen, Slagin and Carp, board the boat and relieve John of his $20,000 at gunpoint. Captain Bounce, chasing the robber's dinghy..
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: "Boats" Mulcahey, Chief Boatswain's Mate
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Tall in the Saddle
Title: Tall in the Saddle
Character: 'Judge' Robert Garvey
Released: September 29, 1944
Type: Movie
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart the scheming to take the ranch from its rightful owner.
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Home in Indiana
Title: Home in Indiana
Character: Jed Bruce
Released: June 15, 1944
Type: Movie
'Sparke' Thorton, a lad with a penchant for trouble, is sent to live with his Uncle and Aunt Bolt in Indiana after his Aunt Henrietta Bolt dies. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish 'Char' Bruce who shares his love for horses.
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The Fighting Sullivans
Title: The Fighting Sullivans
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Robinson
Released: February 3, 1944
Type: Movie
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
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A Guy Named Joe
Title: A Guy Named Joe
Character: Al Yackey
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
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They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: FBI Chief Craig
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
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Slightly Dangerous
Title: Slightly Dangerous
Character: Jimmy
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
Title: Hello, Frisco, Hello
Character: Sharkey
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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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: John L. Sullivan
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
Title: Hitler- Dead or Alive
Character: Steve Maschick
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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Sin Town
Title: Sin Town
Character: Rock Delaney
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Sgt. Scully
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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The Falcon Takes Over
Title: The Falcon Takes Over
Character: Moose Malloy (Uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Sheriff Edmunds
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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Swamp Water
Title: Swamp Water
Character: Tim Dorson
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Det. Tom Polhaus
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Ike Botkin
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Doctors Don't Tell
Title: Doctors Don't Tell
Character: Barney Millen
Released: September 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Eddie Adams
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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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: Wash Gibbs
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred rampant in the mountains. However, the arrival of a stranger, Daniel Howitt, begins to positively affect the mountain people, who learn to shed their hatred under his gentle influence.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Floyd, Amato's Goon
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Lov Bensey
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Know For Sure
Title: Know For Sure
Character: patient
Released: January 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Townley
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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The Long Voyage Home
Title: The Long Voyage Home
Character: Yank
Released: November 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: First Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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Kit Carson
Title: Kit Carson
Character: Ape
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
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Sailor's Lady
Title: Sailor's Lady
Character: Shore Patrolman
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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The Mortal Storm
Title: The Mortal Storm
Character: Franz
Released: June 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
Title: Buck Benny Rides Again
Character: First Outlaw
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Confederate Sergeant Checking Passengers (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Little Old New York
Title: Little Old New York
Character: Regan
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: Walton
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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Gone with the Wind
Title: Gone with the Wind
Character: Tom the Yankee Captain
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Title: Drums Along the Mohawk
Character: Adam Hartman
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Hunk
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: First Thug on Train (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Town Marshal
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Waterfront
Title: Waterfront
Character: Mart Hendler
Released: July 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: John Palmer Cass
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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The Girl from Mexico
Title: The Girl from Mexico
Character: Mexican Pete
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
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The Kid from Kokomo
Title: The Kid from Kokomo
Character: Ladislaw Klewicki
Released: May 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: American Legionnaire (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Tracklayer (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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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Title: The Return of the Cisco Kid
Character: Accused Rustler (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Bud Taylor
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Sailor Sam - Wrestler
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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Trouble in Sundown
Title: Trouble in Sundown
Character: Henchman Dusty
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the mob turns ugly but the deputy is shot when he and Clint go to get John at the shack. Things look bad for John, but Clint does not believe that John did the robbery and he will look for the real crooks.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Wes Handley
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Pardon Our Nerve
Title: Pardon Our Nerve
Character: Kid Ramsey
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Jim Hatton (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Lenihan
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Son of Frankenstein
Title: Son of Frankenstein
Character: Gendarme at Gate (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Clarence - a Policeman
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Seaman Olaf Swanson
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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The Law West of Tombstone
Title: The Law West of Tombstone
Character: Mulligan P. Martinez
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: Gambler in Fake Fight
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Mike - the Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Motorcycle Cop
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Tug
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Prison Break
Title: Prison Break
Character: Big Red Kincaid
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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Reformatory
Title: Reformatory
Character: Mac Grady
Released: June 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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Numbered Woman
Title: Numbered Woman
Character: Detective
Released: May 22, 1938
Type: Movie
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
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Gun Law
Title: Gun Law
Character: Henchman Pecos
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
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Flight Into Nowhere
Title: Flight Into Nowhere
Released: April 19, 1938
Type: Movie
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he ends up running out of gas and crashing. The members of a nearby tribal village save Bill from the wreckage, but arent willing to help him get home.
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
Title: Mr. Moto's Gamble
Character: Biff Moran
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! But when Moto's hunch points to a corrupt gambling syndicate, he's forced to wager his very life to unmask the culprit—or go down for the count...permanently!
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Title: The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character: Mongol Guard (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Eddie Edwards
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Hawaii Calls
Title: Hawaii Calls
Character: Muller
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
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Bringing Up Baby
Title: Bringing Up Baby
Character: Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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Born to Be Wild
Title: Born to Be Wild
Character: Bill Purvis
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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The Kid Comes Back
Title: The Kid Comes Back
Character: Spike
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
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Of Human Hearts
Title: Of Human Hearts
Character: Lout Laughing in Church (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm. It is a rich story about striving for excellence, the tension of father-son rebellion, and the love of a mother that can never die.
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Penitentiary
Title: Penitentiary
Character: Red Parsons - Prison Barber (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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Fight for Your Lady
Title: Fight for Your Lady
Character: Mr. Walton (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Connors - Death-Row Inmate
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Violets (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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The Game That Kills
Title: The Game That Kills
Character: Tom Ferguson
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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Souls at Sea
Title: Souls at Sea
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: Peter 'Spudsy' Baker
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Doorman
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Eddie (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Marry the Girl
Title: Marry the Girl
Character: Motorcycle cop
Released: July 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
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The Singing Marine
Title: The Singing Marine
Character: First Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
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A Fight to the Finish
Title: A Fight to the Finish
Character: Eddie Hawkins
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A feud between taxicab companies forms the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when the hero is double-crossed and framed for a murder by his rival with whom he was competing for the position of fleet superintendent in the city's biggest cab company.
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Mountain Music
Title: Mountain Music
Character: G-Man (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
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The Wildcatter
Title: The Wildcatter
Character: Johnson
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Eager to take advantage of a new oil boom, "Lucky" Conlon leaves his gas station and diner for Texas, with his wife Helen's blessing. In Texas, Lucky wins enough money in roulette to lease a parcel of land, and he and his friend "Smiley" begin drilling. Julia Frayne, whom Lucky met while gambling, turns out to be the daughter of oil tycoon Tom Frayne, who is eager to buy out the leases of the growing number of independent drillers, called "wildcatters," in order to hold a monopoly on the local oil fields.
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They Gave Him a Gun
Title: They Gave Him a Gun
Character: MP (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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Night Key
Title: Night Key
Character: Fingers
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Tartar Guard (Uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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23 1/2 Hours Leave
Title: 23 1/2 Hours Leave
Character: Top Sgt. Burke
Released: March 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.
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Park Avenue Logger
Title: Park Avenue Logger
Character: Paul Sangar
Released: March 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
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When's Your Birthday?
Title: When's Your Birthday?
Character: Police Detective (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Sidecar Wilson
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Casey - Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Woman-Wise
Title: Woman-Wise
Character: Kramer (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A crusading sportswriter exposes racketeers involved in paying off fighters to throw their matches.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Gus 'Knockout' Carrigan
Released: November 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Recreation Room Guard
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Legion of Terror
Title: Legion of Terror
Character: Don Foster
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.
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Without Orders
Title: Without Orders
Character: Tim Casey
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Gambler
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
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The Man Who Lived Twice
Title: The Man Who Lived Twice
Character: John 'Gloves' Baker
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes plastic surgery.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Policeman
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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Second Wife
Title: Second Wife
Character: 1st Partner Politician (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth.
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Crash Donovan
Title: Crash Donovan
Character: The Drill Master
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Thief (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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The Bride Walks Out
Title: The Bride Walks Out
Character: Taxi Driver(uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carolyn quit her $50-per-week modeling job to be a full-time housewife; the couple will instead live on Michael’s $35-per-week job.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Husky Man
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Man (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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The Cattle Thief
Title: The Cattle Thief
Character: Ranse Willard
Released: May 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: American Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Title: The Case Against Mrs. Ames
Character: Newsstand Customer
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
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Avenging Waters
Title: Avenging Waters
Character: Marve Slater
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Mortimer builds a fence for the cattle brought by Ken Morley. To retaliate, Slater who wants access to the land, builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. When Ken confronts Slater, he is captured. Then lightning destroys the dam and Ken, imprisoned in a shack, is in the path of the oncoming water.
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The First Baby
Title: The First Baby
Character: Tough Guy
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
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Pride of the Marines
Title: Pride of the Marines
Character: Gunner Brady
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.
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Colleen
Title: Colleen
Character: Sweeney (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Boulder Dam
Title: Boulder Dam
Character: Pa's Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Title: The Leathernecks Have Landed
Character: Tex
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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Muss 'em Up
Title: Muss 'em Up
Character: John Doe, a Gangster
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Policeman
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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Hitch Hike Lady
Title: Hitch Hike Lady
Character: Motorcycle cop
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
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We're Only Human
Title: We're Only Human
Character: Bank Robber
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
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Too Tough to Kill
Title: Too Tough to Kill
Character: Danny
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
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Broadway Hostess
Title: Broadway Hostess
Character: Lucky's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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I Found Stella Parish
Title: I Found Stella Parish
Character: Roman Soldier in Play (uncredited)
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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Guard That Girl
Title: Guard That Girl
Character: Budge Edwards
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a client of his who is to inherit three-million dollars the next Thursday. He tells them he has reason to believe the girl is in danger from five relatives who stand to benefit from her death.
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Western Courage
Title: Western Courage
Character: Lacrosse
Released: October 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money. Ken overhears Eric's plan and abducts Gloria to stop the elopement. The outlaw Lacrosse and his henchman then catch Ken without his guns, take off with Gloria, and leave a tied up Ken in a burning shack.
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Relative
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Murmex of Carthage, a Gladiator (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Jess
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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His Night Out
Title: His Night Out
Character: Lanky
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Little Big Shot
Title: Little Big Shot
Character: Kell's Henchman
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Chick
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
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Calm Yourself
Title: Calm Yourself
Character: Detective with Roscoe (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.
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Justice of the Range
Title: Justice of the Range
Character: Bob Brennan
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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Murder in the Fleet
Title: Murder in the Fleet
Character: 'Heavy' Johnson (Uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
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Black Fury
Title: Black Fury
Character: Mac - Company Policeman
Released: May 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Johnson
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Gunman at Train Station (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Roughneck Leader
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Herman Lahey
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Fighting Shadows
Title: Fighting Shadows
Character: Brad Harrison
Released: April 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
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Strangers All
Title: Strangers All
Character: Ward, Assistant Director on Film Set
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.
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The Crimson Trail
Title: The Crimson Trail
Character: Luke Long
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
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One New York Night
Title: One New York Night
Character: Policeman
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.
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Times Square Lady
Title: Times Square Lady
Character: Dugan - Hockey Player (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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Devil Dogs of the Air
Title: Devil Dogs of the Air
Character: Instructor
Released: February 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
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Under Pressure
Title: Under Pressure
Character: Prize Fighter (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: Mr. Clark - Football Coach
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Men of the Night
Title: Men of the Night
Character: Det. John Connors
Released: November 18, 1934
Type: Movie
"Stake-Out" Kelly, ace detective, meets Mary Higgins at a small Hollywood sandwich shop where he expects to get some information concerning Packey Davis, head of a ring of jewel thieves. His suspicions are confirmed when Mary warns him that Davis is outside - waiting for him. Kelly sets a trap and, in the ensuing battle, one of the gangsters is killed. Davis is interested in rubbing out Kelly as Kelly and Baker are the only two witnesses against Smitty, a Davis henchman. Baker is in the hospital and the plan is bring Smitty there for identification. Kelly accidentally slips the secret to Mary, who in turn innocently informs Packey. A trap is laid.
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Against the Law
Title: Against the Law
Character: Tony Rizzo
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Steve Wayne, a daring young ambulance driver for a large hospital in Los Angeles, is a rival with his friend, Doctor Bill Barie (the house surgeon in the Emergency Ward), for the attentions of nurse Martha Gray. Despite their rivalry, Steve still endeavors to free his friend from the grip of a merciless racketeer and a gambling gang. But Steve fails in his efforts and then sets out to avenge his friend and smash-up the gang.
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6 Day Bike Rider
Title: 6 Day Bike Rider
Character: First Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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Death on the Diamond
Title: Death on the Diamond
Character: Security Guard in Kelly's Room (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
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Girl in Danger
Title: Girl in Danger
Character: Wynkoski
Released: September 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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The Human Side
Title: The Human Side
Character: Cop
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Ship Steward (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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The Affairs of Cellini
Title: The Affairs of Cellini
Character: Palace Guard Finding Cellini's Clothes (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1934
Type: Movie
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Hood
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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The Circus Clown
Title: The Circus Clown
Character: Spectator
Released: June 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Second Cop
Released: June 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes awry and Mike finds himself on the run from the police, pretending to be a famous singer whose gimmick is wearing a mask in public.
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A Man's Game
Title: A Man's Game
Character: Dave Jordon
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
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Most Precious Thing in Life
Title: Most Precious Thing in Life
Character: Head Coach Smith
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Dirigible Officer
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Title: The Crime of Helen Stanley
Character: Jack Baker
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Farley
Released: April 10, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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Voice in the Night
Title: Voice in the Night
Character: Bob Hall
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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The Fighting Ranger
Title: The Fighting Ranger
Character: Dave, Cougar Henchman
Released: March 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The Buck Jones western The Fighting Ranger utilizes its familiar plotline with excellent results. When Jones' kid brother is killed by the villains, our hero quits the Texas Rangers and sets off to seek vengeance on his own. He ends up just below the Mexican border, where bandit leader Cougar (Bradley Page) lives high off the hog, knowing he can't be extradited.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Motor Cop
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Bus Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Speed Wings
Title: Speed Wings
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by brothers Tim and Jerry are stolen and suspicion falls on their office secretary Mary Stuart. But she can pilot an airplane with the best of them and she risks her life to save Tim. And when she gets kidnapped, Jerry regains his lost nerve in rescuing her.
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School for Romance
Title: School for Romance
Character: Husband
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Count Romansky is a newspaper columnist who specializes in romance issues. When he loses his job, he opens up a school where he instructs his pretty pupils on affairs of the heart.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Ben Murchison
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
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The Fighting Code
Title: The Fighting Code
Character: Joe Krull
Released: December 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The death of a young woman's father puts a cowboy on the trail of a killer.
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Straightaway
Title: Straightaway
Character: Hobo
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Auto race champ Tim Dawson and his brother Billy are fired by boss Turnberg when they won't throw an important race to his son Carl. Pop Reeves, a competitor, finds that Turnberg had bribed his top man, Rogan, to lose, and fires him, and hires the Dawsons. His daughter Ann falls for Tim, yet it's Billy that wants her and proposes to her. She says no and declares herself to Tim. At the next big race, Rogan tries to cause Billy to smash, but he does instead, then accuses Tim of being responsible before dying. A police detective decides that Tim had done it so his brother could win, and leaves him one option, his brother must lose the upcoming Indy 500 or he'll know Tim's guilty.
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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Joe
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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College Coach
Title: College Coach
Character: Assistant Coach (uncredited)
Released: November 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Red the Brakeman (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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Police Car 17
Title: Police Car 17
Character: Bumps O'Neill
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
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Lady for a Day
Title: Lady for a Day
Character: Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Cramer
Released: July 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a flinty-eyed demolition engineer named Regan (Jack Holt). While he's off on another assignment, Regan's wife Mary (Genevieve Tobin) and supposed best friend Cummings (Sidney Blackmer) engage in some heavy petting. About to wash his hands of his faithless wife and his back-stabbing chum, our hero is compelled to save both their lives when they're pinned under the wreckage of a collapsed schoolhouse. George E. Stones supplies some good-natured ethnic humor as Regan's junk-dealer pal Shapiro.
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Heroes for Sale
Title: Heroes for Sale
Character: Red (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds, a traumatized but courageous man who will experience, in the years to come, the pain of misfortune but also the happiness of success and hope and love for other human beings.
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When Strangers Marry
Title: When Strangers Marry
Character: Billy McGuire
Released: May 25, 1933
Type: Movie
In this action-drama, a railroad worker plys his trade at the straits of Malay. He begins a steamy affair with a spoiled rich girl. His romantic rival tries to break them and keep the railroad from being completed.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Elder Snead
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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Obey the Law
Title: Obey the Law
Character: Kid Paris
Released: March 11, 1933
Type: Movie
In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell people how to vote, but the barber is not swayed and becomes an example to others in his neighborhood.
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State Trooper
Title: State Trooper
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
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Lucky Devils
Title: Lucky Devils
Character: Crewman (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Gabe Powers - Henchman
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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Flesh
Title: Flesh
Character: Muscles Manning (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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That's My Boy
Title: That's My Boy
Character: Curley Decker
Released: November 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
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Air Mail
Title: Air Mail
Character: Joe Barnes (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
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Virtue
Title: Virtue
Character: Frank
Released: October 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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Rackety Rax
Title: Rackety Rax
Character: 'Brick' Gilligan
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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White Eagle
Title: White Eagle
Character: Bart - Henchman
Released: October 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his men dress as Indians and attack anything bringing mail. This leads to an Indian war. White Eagle, a pony express rider, exchanges his buckskins for his native Indian garb, and sets out to end the war.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Football Player (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Heavy Kennedy
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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Bachelor's Affairs
Title: Bachelor's Affairs
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry but the man soon regrets his rash move when she's constantly bored and looking for dancing and excitement, leaving him feel his age. He conspires with a loyal friend to find a suitable man she might run away with so he can divorce her.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Title: The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Character: Johnson (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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High Speed
Title: High Speed
Character: Ham
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
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Careless Lady
Title: Careless Lady
Character: Cop in Raid
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Title: The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Over the Hill
Title: Over the Hill
Character: Detective Escort (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1931
Type: Movie
In their farm house in a New York village, Ma Shelby prepares breakfast for her four children, Isaac, Tommy, Johnny and Susan, and then awakens them. The racket the boys make as they play and fight awakens their father, who spanks the eldest, Isaac. When a visitor chides Pa for not working, Ma sticks up for her husband, saying that he has a weak back and that he is waiting for a promised government job.
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Sob Sister
Title: Sob Sister
Character: Ward, a Cop (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Court Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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Maker of Men
Title: Maker of Men
Character: Football Player Pat (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defeat his dad's team.
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Three Girls Lost
Title: Three Girls Lost
Character: Airline Steward (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Cop in montage (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
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The Big Trail
Title: The Big Trail
Character: Sid Bascom (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.
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Up the River
Title: Up the River
Character: Inmate Socked by Saint Louis (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
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Cheer Up and Smile
Title: Cheer Up and Smile
Character: Boy at Sweetheart Dance (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1930
Type: Movie
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Townsman at the Dance (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.
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So This Is College
Title: So This Is College
Character: USC Player - #30 (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
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Salute
Title: Salute
Character: Midshipman Harold
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Words and Music
Title: Words and Music
Character: Football Player
Released: August 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Flood Extra (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1928
Type: Movie
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.