Audie Murphy

Audie Murphy

Born: June 20, 1925
Died: May 28, 1971
in Kingston, Texas, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Audie Leon Murphy (June 20, 1924 – May 28, 1971)  was a fifth grade dropout from an extremely poor family who became the most decorated American soldier of World War II. After the war he became a celebrated movie star for over two decades, appearing in 44 films.  He also found some success as a country music composer.

Murphy became the most decorated United States soldier of the war during twenty-seven months in action in the European Theatre.  He received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional U.S. and foreign medals and citations, including five from France and one from Belgium. Murphy's successful movie career included To Hell and Back (1955), based on his book of the same title (1949) . He died in a plane crash in 1971 and was interred, with full military honors, in Arlington National Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Audie Murphy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Audie Murphy...

A Time for Dying
Title: A Time for Dying
Character: Jesse James
Released: September 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Passing through a town, a farm boy aspiring to be a bounty hunter rescues a woman who has been tricked into working in its brothel and the two travel towards his father's ranch.
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40 Guns to Apache Pass
Title: 40 Guns to Apache Pass
Character: Capt. Bruce Coburn
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers
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The Texican
Title: The Texican
Character: Jess Carlin
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads north to find his brother's killer. After battling bounty hunters he arrives in Rimrock, a town controlled by Luke Starr. Starr is the man he wants but he unable to find any evidence until he is given an item found by his brother's body.
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Trunk to Cairo
Title: Trunk to Cairo
Character: Mike Merrick
Released: June 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by nemesis George Sanders.
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Gunpoint
Title: Gunpoint
Character: Chad Lucas
Released: April 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A young, determined sheriff and his posse chase a gang of murderous train robbers, and a kidnapped woman into New Mexico.
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Arizona Raiders
Title: Arizona Raiders
Character: Clint Stewart
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. The goons are found hiding in an Indian mission. Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gang, but the bad guys catch on and brutally beat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
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Apache Rifles
Title: Apache Rifles
Character: Capt. Jeff Stanton
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.
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Bullet for a Badman
Title: Bullet for a Badman
Character: Logan Keliher
Released: September 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
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The Quick Gun
Title: The Quick Gun
Character: Clint Cooper
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Murphy helps an ungrateful town fight off a raid by his former gang.
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Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Title: Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Character: Bob 'Gif' Gifford aka Judd Tanner
Released: November 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Comanche Creek, Colorado, 1875: Prisoner Jack Mason is broken out of jail by a gang of strangers. They use him in a robbery, then when the dead-or-alive reward is high enough, they shoot him and collect. The National Detective Agency, now knowing the gang's methods, arranges to have agent Bob Gifford jailed in Comanche Creek for train robbery. The gang takes the bait (not before Gifford catches the eye of lovely saloon-keeper Abbie). But how will the bait get off the hook?
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Showdown
Title: Showdown
Character: Chris Foster
Released: May 3, 1963
Type: Movie
A cowboy has to get 12,000 dollars in stolen bonds from the ex-girlfriend of his partner, or the gang holding him hostage will kill him.
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Six Black Horses
Title: Six Black Horses
Character: Ben Lane
Released: April 24, 1962
Type: Movie
Audie and Dan Duryea are hired by a mysterious woman to take her across Indian country to her husband. On route, she tries to seduce Audie by offering to give him Duryea's share of the money if he will help her achieve her real goal: kill Duryea for having killed her husband. Audie dreams of a getting enough money to buy a ranch of his own, but his loyalty to his friend prevails. In the end, Duryea is killed anyway by the Indians and gets his wish: a funeral carriage pulled by - you guessed it - six black horses.
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War Is Hell
Title: War Is Hell
Character: Narrator - Introduction
Released: September 26, 1961
Type: Movie
During the Korean War, a glory-hunting sergeant leads his platoon on a mission against the enemy--not telling them that a cease-fire has just been declared--so that he can win medals. Trouble arises when some members of platoon begin to suspect that something is fishy.
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Battle at Bloody Beach
Title: Battle at Bloody Beach
Character: Craig Benson
Released: June 20, 1961
Type: Movie
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. His sole motive is not politics nor bravery, but to find his bride from whom he was separated during the Japanese invasion two years before
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Title: Whispering Smith
Character: Tom 'Whispering' Smith
Released: May 8, 1961
Type: TV
Whispering Smith is an American Western series that aired on NBC. Based on a 1948 movie, the series stars Audie Murphy as Tom "Whispering" Smith, a police detective in Denver, Colorado. Filming of the series began in 1959, but the program did not air until May 8, 1961, because of unexpected production problems. Whispering Smith combines elements of CBS's Have Gun – Will Travel starring Richard Boone, NBC's Tales of Wells Fargo starring Dale Robertson, the syndicated Shotgun Slade with Scott Brady, and ABC's The Man From Blackhawk, a Stirling Silliphant production starring Robert Rockwell. While the setting of the series is unique, it is otherwise a standard detective program.
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Posse from Hell
Title: Posse from Hell
Character: Banner Cole
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Murphy goes after bad guys who shot his friend the sheriff and abducted a local girl. In a plot reminiscent of High Noon, the posse of town blowhards gradually abandons Murphy; only tenderfoot banker Saxon remains, to prove his manhood. When they find the girl, obviously abused by her captors, Murphy shows her acceptance and sympathy whereas the others disply only revulsion.
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Seven Ways from Sundown
Title: Seven Ways from Sundown
Character: Seven Jones
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy is again the kid who puts on a badge to catch the bad guy, skillfully played by Barry Sullivan. On the way back to town the two develop a curiously close relationship - Sullivan passes up several chances to get away - but in the end Sullivan "asks for it" and Murphy obliges.
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The Unforgiven
Title: The Unforgiven
Character: Cash Zachary
Released: April 6, 1960
Type: Movie
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
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Hell Bent for Leather
Title: Hell Bent for Leather
Character: Clay Santell
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
When Clay Santell stops in the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, he is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers. The townspeople capture Santell, and turn him over to lawman Harry Deckett. Deckett, who is tired of chasing the real Travers, decides to kill Santell and pass him off as Travers. Santell escapes from Deckett, taking lovely Janet Gifford hostage in the process. Janet comes to believe Santell's story, and helps him in his struggle to prove his real identity.
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Cast a Long Shadow
Title: Cast a Long Shadow
Character: Matt Brown
Released: August 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.
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The Wild and the Innocent
Title: The Wild and the Innocent
Character: Yancey
Released: May 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet Sandra Dee in tow. She flees her family, which tried to trade her for some of Murphy's beaver pelts, and tags along with the reluctant Murphy. They get into all manner of trouble in town, and Murphy has to shoot the sheriff to rescue Dee from her job as a dancehall girl.
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No Name on the Bullet
Title: No Name on the Bullet
Character: John Gant
Released: February 1, 1959
Type: Movie
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
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Ride a Crooked Trail
Title: Ride a Crooked Trail
Character: Joe Maybe
Released: November 23, 1958
Type: Movie
After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy
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The Gun Runners
Title: The Gun Runners
Character: Sam Martin
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.
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The Quiet American
Title: The Quiet American
Character: The American
Released: February 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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Title: Suspicion
Character: Steve Gordon
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Suspicion is the title of an American television mystery drama series which aired on the NBC from 1957 through 1959. The executive producer of Suspicion was film director Alfred Hitchcock.
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Night Passage
Title: Night Passage
Character: The Utica Kid
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years wandering the west and earning his living playing the accordion, he is given a second chance by his former boss.
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Joe Butterfly
Title: Joe Butterfly
Character: Pvt. Joe Woodley
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?
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The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Title: The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Character: Lt. Frank Hewitt
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Opposing his commanding officer's decision to attack a group of innocent Indians and wipe them out, Lt. Frank Hewitt leaves his post and heads home to Texas. He knows that the attack will send all of the tribes on the warpath and he wants to forewarn everyone. He gets a chilly reception back home however. With most of the men away having enlisted in the Confederate army Frank, a Union officer, is seen by the local women as a traitor. He convinces them of the danger that lies ahead and trains them to repel the attack that will eventually come.
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Walk the Proud Land
Title: Walk the Proud Land
Character: John Philip Clum
Released: September 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft) given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to automomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.
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World in My Corner
Title: World in My Corner
Character: Tommy Shea
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
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To Hell and Back
Title: To Hell and Back
Character: Audie Murphy
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
The true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
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Title: Hollywood Preview
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: TV
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Allen in Movieland
Title: Allen in Movieland
Character: Self
Released: July 2, 1955
Type: Movie
TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."
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Destry
Title: Destry
Character: Tom Destry
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Western remake of "Destry Rides Again", starring Audie Murphy, Mari Blanchard, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson and Lyle Bettger.
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Drums Across the River
Title: Drums Across the River
Character: Gary Brannon
Released: June 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.
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Ride Clear of Diablo
Title: Ride Clear of Diablo
Character: Clay O'Mara
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.
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Tumbleweed
Title: Tumbleweed
Character: Jim Harvey
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Jim Harvey is hired to guard a small wagon train as it makes its way west. The train is attacked by Indians and Harvey, hoping to persuade Aguila, the chief, to call off the attack due to Harvey's having saved his son's life, leaves the train to negotiate. He is captured and the rest of the train is wiped out except for two sisters. Escaping and showing up in town later, Harvey is nearly hanged as a deserter, but gets away. Eventually caught by the sheriff and his posse, they are attacked by Indians. This time the Indians are defeated and Aguila, captured and dying, reveals the identity of the white man who engineered the initial attack on the wagon train, just as the perpetrator rides up behind them.
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Column South
Title: Column South
Character: Jed Sayre
Released: May 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
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Gunsmoke
Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Reb Kittredge
Released: May 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Kittridge is hired by the villans but turns to defend the rancher Saxon after learning the true situation. Kittrige wins Saxon's ranch with a cut of the cards but Saxon has other reasons for loosing the gamble. Telford and Lake try everything from bushwacking to setting a wildfire to stop the Saxon/Kittridge herd of cattle from reaching the railhead.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Tennessee
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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The Duel at Silver Creek
Title: The Duel at Silver Creek
Character: Luke Cromwell - The Silver Kid
Released: September 5, 1952
Type: Movie
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free the tiny town of Silver City from the clutches of the dastardly villains.
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The Cimarron Kid
Title: The Cimarron Kid
Character: Bill Doolin / The Cimarron Kid
Released: January 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Title: The Red Badge of Courage
Character: The Youth
Released: September 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
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Kansas Raiders
Title: Kansas Raiders
Character: Jesse James
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Sierra
Title: Sierra
Character: Ring Hassard
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Ring Hassard and his father Jeff, wild horse breakers, live in a hidden mountain eyrie as Jeff is wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Things change when they take in a lost young lady, Riley Martin, who finds that Ring has "never seen a woman close up." Jeff is injured, Ring runs afoul of horse thieves and the law, and Riley (who is a lawyer) labors to clear the Hassards (who others would prefer dead).
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The Kid from Texas
Title: The Kid from Texas
Character: Billy the Kid
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. New employer takes advantage of his naivety to kill rivals, lets the Kid take rap. Kid takes to the hills with friends until caught. Escapes hanging but remains in area to be near employer's young wife with whom he's infatuated
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Bad Boy
Title: Bad Boy
Character: Danny Lester
Released: February 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
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Beyond Glory
Title: Beyond Glory
Character: Cadet Thomas
Released: August 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.
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Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Title: Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Character: Copy Boy
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.