Benny Bartlett

Benny Bartlett

Born: August 16, 1924
Died: December 26, 1999
in Independence, Kansas, USA
Benny Bartlett (August 16, 1924 – December 26, 1999) was an American child actor, musician, and later a member of the longest running feature-film series The Bowery Boys.

Movies for Benny Bartlett...

Dig That Uranium
Title: Dig That Uranium
Character: Butch, light-haired bowery boy
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
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Jail Busters
Title: Jail Busters
Character: Butch Williams
Released: September 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
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Spy Chasers
Title: Spy Chasers
Character: Butch
Released: July 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang (Bowery Boys) foil foes of the exiled, incognito king of Truania (Sig Ruman).
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Bowery to Bagdad
Title: Bowery to Bagdad
Character: Butch Williams
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.
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Jungle Gents
Title: Jungle Gents
Character: Butch
Released: September 5, 1954
Type: Movie
When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
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Rear Window
Title: Rear Window
Character: Man with Miss Torso (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Title: The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
Character: Butch (as Bennie Bartlett)
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Slip, Sach and the rest of the Bowery Boys enter a haunted house, where they engage in slapstick with a gorilla, a robot and a vampire
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Paris Playboys
Title: Paris Playboys
Character: Butch
Released: March 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
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Private Eyes
Title: Private Eyes
Character: Butch
Released: December 6, 1953
Type: Movie
After being punched in the nose, Sach finds out that he has the ability to read minds. Slip and the gang start up a detective agency try to cash in on Sach's new powers.
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Clipped Wings
Title: Clipped Wings
Character: Butch
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Slip and correspondence school pilot Sach, go to an air base to help a pal out...but find themselves in when they mistakenly sign enlistment forms. Can the Air Force turn these dodos into eagles? The guys may be airborne airheads, But just watch them find a way to ground a spy network that's infiltrated the base.
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Loose in London
Title: Loose in London
Character: Butch Williams
Released: May 24, 1953
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys take on British crooks when one of them thinks he's inherited a title.
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Jalopy
Title: Jalopy
Character: Butch
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
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No Holds Barred
Title: No Holds Barred
Character: Butch
Released: November 23, 1952
Type: Movie
One of the Bowery Boys gains superhuman strength, and he cashes in by becoming a pro wrestler.
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Feudin' Fools
Title: Feudin' Fools
Character: Chuck, bowery boy
Released: September 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.
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Here Come the Marines
Title: Here Come the Marines
Character: Butch
Released: June 29, 1952
Type: Movie
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
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Hold That Line
Title: Hold That Line
Character: Butch
Released: March 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
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Crazy Over Horses
Title: Crazy Over Horses
Character: Butch (as Bennie Bartlett)
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Character: Joe Scales (uncredited)
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
"Cheaper by the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families.
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Master Minds
Title: Master Minds
Character: Butch
Released: November 27, 1949
Type: Movie
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him as a fortune teller in a carnival, until a mad scientist kidnaps Sach to use him in an intelligence-switching experiment with a monster.
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Angels in Disguise
Title: Angels in Disguise
Character: Butch
Released: September 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Slip and the gang stray from newspaper work to detective work.
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Hold That Baby!
Title: Hold That Baby!
Character: Butch
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
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Fighting Fools
Title: Fighting Fools
Character: Butch
Released: March 17, 1949
Type: Movie
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
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Trouble Makers
Title: Trouble Makers
Character: Butch
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
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Smuggler's Cove
Title: Smuggler's Cove
Character: Butch
Released: October 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney. The messenger has a letter for "Terrance Mahonoey, Esq." and mistakenly delivers it to Slip. The letter informs Slip that he has inherited a mansion in Long Island. The boys then make their way to the mansion and find that it is inhabited by diamond smugglers. The real owner of the house shows up and helps save the day and defeat the smugglers and gives the boys the house as a reward.
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Jinx Money
Title: Jinx Money
Character: Butch
Released: June 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
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Heart of Virginia
Title: Heart of Virginia
Character: 'Breezy' Brent
Released: April 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
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Angels' Alley
Title: Angels' Alley
Character: Harry 'Jag' Harmon
Released: March 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
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Big Town After Dark
Title: Big Town After Dark
Character: McGonigle (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Title: The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Character: Orvie
Released: August 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
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Gas House Kids Go West
Title: Gas House Kids Go West
Character: Orvie
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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The Adventures of Don Coyote
Title: The Adventures of Don Coyote
Character: Ted Riley
Released: May 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Near Border Flats, Don Coyote and his friend Sancho are interrupted on their way to the fiesta by a fight. A quick intervention on their part prompts ranch owner Maggie Riley to hire them. Coyote and Sancho meet her surly, younger brother Ted who is wanting Maggie to sell their cattle herd to pay off a bank loan before they lose the ranch. But when they try to drive a herd to market, a gang led by Big Foot Ferguson drives off their cowhands.
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Her Adventurous Night
Title: Her Adventurous Night
Character: Horace
Released: June 5, 1946
Type: Movie
A boy's tall tale about a gun puts his parents and school principal in jail.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Bellboy
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Nobody's Darling
Title: Nobody's Darling
Character: The Deacon
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Henry
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Clancy Street Boys
Title: Clancy Street Boys
Character: Benny
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Muggs' rich Uncle Pete is coming to visit. Unfortunately, Muggs' late father had bragged that he had seven kids, so Muggs recruits the members of the gang to pose as his family. Things turn sour, however, when a local mobster finds out about Muggs' deception and threatens to expose it.
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He Hired the Boss
Title: He Hired the Boss
Character: Jimmy
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
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Follow the Band
Title: Follow the Band
Character: Cootie
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.
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Kid Dynamite
Title: Kid Dynamite
Character: Beanie Miller
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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Code of the Outlaw
Title: Code of the Outlaw
Character: Tim Hardin
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
After a payroll robbery the Mesquiteers catch up with the gang. But the members escape, the gang leader is killed, and they end up with only the leaders young son who is quickly sent to a work farm. They adopt the boy hoping to learn where the money is. Just as their kindness is about to pay off a gang member takes the boy away forcing him to retrieve the money. - Written by Maurice VanAuken
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Tillie the Toiler
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Character: Glennie
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a friend, she continually throws him over for handsomer men.
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Let's Make Music
Title: Let's Make Music
Character: Tommy
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
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Alias the Deacon
Title: Alias the Deacon
Character: Willie Clark
Released: May 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.
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What a Life
Title: What a Life
Character: 'Butch' Williams
Released: October 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
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Honeymoon in Bali
Title: Honeymoon in Bali
Character: Jack
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Joe Fisher
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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The Family Next Door
Title: The Family Next Door
Character: Rufus Pierce
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her smart aleck son Sammy hears that an electric railroad line is to be built through town, she decides that the family can become rich by purchasing the lots along the right of way. Patriarch George Pierce laughs at the idea, but when Rose and Sammy learn that Cora Stewart, the wealthy town widow, has withdrawn her savings from the bank, they jump to the conclusion that she is interested in buying the lots, and mother and son secretly invest the family bank roll in the land.
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The Great Man Votes
Title: The Great Man Votes
Character: Davy McCarthy
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Milton Ramsby
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Billy Jones
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Sons of the Legion
Title: Sons of the Legion
Character: Red O'Flaherty
Released: September 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully received a dishonorable discharge after World War I, his father cannot join the Legion and in turn his son cannot join the squadron [wikipedia]
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Berth Quakes
Title: Berth Quakes
Character: The Widow's Brat
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Noted child psychologist Errol marries a widow with a nasty brat, and finds none of his theories seem to work when trapped in a pullman car on the way to his honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Title: Penrod and His Twin Brother
Character: Chuck
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Character: Cabin Boy
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Title: The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Character: Benny Bartlett
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series
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Danger – Love at Work
Title: Danger – Love at Work
Character: Junior Pemberton
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Boy
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Let Them Live
Title: Let Them Live
Character: Mike
Released: April 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Timothy
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Orville Healy
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Three Married Men
Title: Three Married Men
Character: Percy Mullins
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: David
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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13 Hours by Air
Title: 13 Hours by Air
Character: Waldemar Pitt III
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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Timothy's Quest
Title: Timothy's Quest
Character: Jimmy
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).