Joseph Allen

Joseph Allen

Born: March 30, 1918
Died: November 9, 1962
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Movies for Joseph Allen...

The Desperate Women
Title: The Desperate Women
Character: Chirurg
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
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Cannibal Attack
Title: Cannibal Attack
Character: Jason
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
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Gunfighters of the Northwest
Title: Gunfighters of the Northwest
Character: Fletcher Stone
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for creating trouble.
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Valley of Head Hunters
Title: Valley of Head Hunters
Character: Pico Church
Released: July 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Bad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Wally Blake
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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Road to the Big House
Title: Road to the Big House
Character: George Bates
Released: December 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: Wally Blake
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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Dangerous Money
Title: Dangerous Money
Character: George Brace
Released: October 12, 1946
Type: Movie
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
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The Mantrap
Title: The Mantrap
Character: Eddie Regan
Released: April 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
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My Son, The Hero
Title: My Son, The Hero
Character: Michael Morgan
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
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Mountain Rhythm
Title: Mountain Rhythm
Character: Bill Burgess
Released: January 8, 1943
Type: Movie
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Walter Rogers
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Title: Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Character: Tom Mason
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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The Night Before the Divorce
Title: The Night Before the Divorce
Character: George Nordyke
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
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All Women Have Secrets
Title: All Women Have Secrets
Character: John Gregory
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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Death of a Champion
Title: Death of a Champion
Character: Richie Oakes
Released: August 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rubes. The Champion, in the title, is a Great Dane who has won the title at the Rubeville State Fair, and it isn't long before the Champion turns up dead, which is because somebody---motive unknown at the moment---has killed the Champion. This is repeated at other shows along the way and Quade's bright young assistant, "Small Fry", fancies himself as an amateur detective, and starts nosing around into the mystery and drags Quade along with him.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Clay Clinton
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: Joe Hilton
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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The League of Frightened Men
Title: The League of Frightened Men
Character: Mark Chapin
Released: May 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.