Frank Atkinson

Frank Atkinson

Born: March 19, 1893
Died: February 23, 1963
in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK

Movies for Frank Atkinson...

Murder at the Gallop
Title: Murder at the Gallop
Character: Hotel Night Porter (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Charley Dodds
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Kitchen
Title: The Kitchen
Character: Alfred
Released: August 14, 1961
Type: Movie
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Title: Sunday-Night Play
Character: George Dickinson
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: TV
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
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Left Right and Centre
Title: Left Right and Centre
Character: a railway porter.
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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Web of Evidence
Title: Web of Evidence
Character: Night Doorman
Released: April 28, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
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Stormy Crossing
Title: Stormy Crossing
Character: Night Porter
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
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Rx Murder
Title: Rx Murder
Character: Ticket Inspector (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1958
Type: Movie
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
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Cat Girl
Title: Cat Girl
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
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At the Stroke of Nine
Title: At the Stroke of Nine
Character: Festival Hall Porter
Released: June 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
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Circus Friends
Title: Circus Friends
Character: Horace
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: Hotel Porter
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Edgar, a Taxidermist (uncredited)
Released: May 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
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Before I Wake
Title: Before I Wake
Character: Taxi driver
Released: February 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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The Black Rider
Title: The Black Rider
Character: Landlord
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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The Green Buddha
Title: The Green Buddha
Character: Lift Operator
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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Lease of Life
Title: Lease of Life
Character: Verger
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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The Fake
Title: The Fake
Character: uncredited
Released: September 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Title: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Character: Station Sergeant
Released: March 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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The Broken Horseshoe
Title: The Broken Horseshoe
Character: Railway Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1953
Type: Movie
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
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The Man in the White Suit
Title: The Man in the White Suit
Character: The Baker
Released: August 7, 1951
Type: Movie
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Mike
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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I See a Dark Stranger
Title: I See a Dark Stranger
Character: Soldier in Pub (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1946
Type: Movie
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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Wanted for Murder
Title: Wanted for Murder
Character: Chip Shop Customer
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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The Voice Within
Title: The Voice Within
Character: Farmer
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
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Great Day
Title: Great Day
Character: Man at gate (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Read All About It
Title: Read All About It
Character: Inkpin
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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Waterloo Road
Title: Waterloo Road
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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The Gentle Sex
Title: The Gentle Sex
Character: Restaurant Customer (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1943
Type: Movie
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Get Cracking
Title: Get Cracking
Character: Station Master
Released: May 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
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Much Too Shy
Title: Much Too Shy
Character: Village Policeman
Released: October 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Reporter in the Johnsons' House (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Dick Sefton
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
Character: Pierre
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Miner
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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The Body Vanished
Title: The Body Vanished
Character: Hobbleberry
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
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Over the Moon
Title: Over the Moon
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
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Where's That Fire
Title: Where's That Fire
Character: Town Clerk
Released: June 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Taxi-Driver
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Character: Protheroe, the butler
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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A Romance in Flanders
Title: A Romance in Flanders
Character: Joe Stuggins
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: Law Enforcer (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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Shipmates o' Mine
Title: Shipmates o' Mine
Character: Oliver Bright
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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Play Up the Band
Title: Play Up the Band
Character: Alf Ramsbottom
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
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Look Up and Laugh
Title: Look Up and Laugh
Character: Debt Collector
Released: August 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Soldier
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Be Careful, Mr. Smith
Title: Be Careful, Mr. Smith
Released: May 6, 1935
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Max Mack
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Death Drives Through
Title: Death Drives Through
Character: John 'Nigger' Larson
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
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The Morals of Marcus
Title: The Morals of Marcus
Character: Ship Steward
Released: February 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Character: Policeman Shot Behind Mattress (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
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Road House
Title: Road House
Character: Magician
Released: November 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Pope
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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Freedom of the Seas
Title: Freedom of the Seas
Character: O'Hara
Released: June 12, 1934
Type: Movie
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeble second-best, or will active service make a man of him?
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Pleasure Cruise
Title: Pleasure Cruise
Character: Alf
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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Sailor's Luck
Title: Sailor's Luck
Character: Bath House Attendant
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
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Cavalcade
Title: Cavalcade
Character: Uncle Dick (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
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The Right to Live
Title: The Right to Live
Character: Harry Woods
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical
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Smoke Lightning
Title: Smoke Lightning
Character: Alf Bailey
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is after the ranch and has Smoke arrested for the murder of Blake and then brings in an impostor to pose as the girl’s relative.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Stevens, Crosby's Valet (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Man Called Back
Title: The Man Called Back
Character: Lower Level Court Clerk
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Released: May 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he is accused of the crime.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Barman at New Year Party (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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The Menace
Title: The Menace
Character: Man from Cartier's
Released: January 29, 1932
Type: Movie
A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: American Embassy Valet
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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Ladies' Man
Title: Ladies' Man
Character: Valet
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."