Erville Alderson

Erville Alderson

Born: September 10, 1882
Died: August 4, 1957
in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
From Wikipedia

Erville Alderson (September 11, 1882, Kansas City, Missouri – August 4, 1957, Glendale, California) was an American film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1957.

Movies for Erville Alderson...

Title: Telephone Time
Released: April 8, 1956
Type: TV
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Mobs, Inc.
Title: Mobs, Inc.
Character: Town Insurance Agent
Released: March 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.
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The Actress
Title: The Actress
Character: Mike McGrath (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1953
Type: Movie
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
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Something to Live For
Title: Something to Live For
Character: Critic (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: February 16, 1952
Type: Movie
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
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The Tall Target
Title: The Tall Target
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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Again Pioneers
Title: Again Pioneers
Character: Pa Ashby
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
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Summer Stock
Title: Summer Stock
Character: Zeb (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1950
Type: Movie
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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Captain China
Title: Captain China
Character: Doctor
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.
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Dancing in the Dark
Title: Dancing in the Dark
Character: Emery's Neighbor
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
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Sorrowful Jones
Title: Sorrowful Jones
Character: Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
Title: Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
Character: Thomas Jefferson
Released: May 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass production techniques to the USA in the late 18th century.
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The Feathered Serpent
Title: The Feathered Serpent
Character: Prof. Scott (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1948
Type: Movie
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that is supposed to reveal the location of the treasure. Charlie Chan and his #1 and #2 sons journey to the jungles of Mexico to find the victim and bring the kidnapper and his gang to justice.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Mungo
Released: November 28, 1948
Type: Movie
In Scotland in 1752, seventeen-year-old David Balfour is cheated out of his birthright by his evil uncle Ebenezer.
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Station West
Title: Station West
Character: Stageline Hired Hand (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.
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Shanghai Chest
Title: Shanghai Chest
Character: Walter Somervale
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected with the conviction and execution of an evidently innocent man.
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Hazard
Title: Hazard
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk in L.A.
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
As part of a bet, a compulsive gambler agrees to marry the winner, a professional gambler. Before he can "collect," she skips town. The gambler hires a private detective to track her down so he can collect his "winnings."
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The Bishop's Wife
Title: The Bishop's Wife
Character: Stevens
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
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Cynthia
Title: Cynthia
Character: Dingle Clerk (Uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: Simon Pringle (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Townsman at Trial (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Title: Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Darcy
Released: December 8, 1946
Type: Movie
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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Boys' Ranch
Title: Boys' Ranch
Character: Al (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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Canyon Passage
Title: Canyon Passage
Character: Judge
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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Two Sisters from Boston
Title: Two Sisters from Boston
Character: Mr. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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The Spiral Staircase
Title: The Spiral Staircase
Character: Dr. Harvey (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1946
Type: Movie
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Ranch Owner (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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Back to Bataan
Title: Back to Bataan
Character: Teacher (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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Objective, Burma!
Title: Objective, Burma!
Character: Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Released: February 17, 1945
Type: Movie
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Mr. Littlefield
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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An American Romance
Title: An American Romance
Character: Olson - Detroit Auto Works Technician (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1944
Type: Movie
A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.
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Arizona Trail
Title: Arizona Trail
Character: Dan Trent
Released: September 15, 1943
Type: Movie
A young cowboy returns home to help his father fight off a gang trying to take over the family ranch.
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Oklahoma Outlaws
Title: Oklahoma Outlaws
Character: John Kincaid
Released: September 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa.
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First Comes Courage
Title: First Comes Courage
Character: Soren
Released: July 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
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What's Buzzin', Cousin?
Title: What's Buzzin', Cousin?
Character: Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Liberal Official (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Eyes Aloft
Title: Eyes Aloft
Character: Ray Harper
Released: January 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on civilians watching the skies to warn of possible attacking or spying enemy aircraft. An army major explains to a group of civic leaders how volunteers are to be recruited and organized. Then the volunteers man posts day and night, always watching for unidentified aircraft that might be enemy forces.
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
Title: Commandos Strike at Dawn
Character: Johan Garme
Released: December 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Mr. Crowder (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Careful, Soft Shoulders
Title: Careful, Soft Shoulders
Character: Government Official
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this espionage movie, set in Washington during WW II, the daughter of an ex-senator has become a dress model. She is approached by an American counter-espionage agent who offers her a chance to serve her country. The carefree son of a naval official receives a similar offer. He is asked to secure secret Naval plans. Unbeknownst to them, the man they work for is actually a Nazi spy. The two dupes finally figure it out, and the spy kidnaps them. Somehow they escape and break up the spy ring.
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The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: Burke
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.
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The Postman Didn't Ring
Title: The Postman Didn't Ring
Character: Robert Harwood Sr.
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Man with Rail
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Nate Tomkins
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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Parachute Battalion
Title: Parachute Battalion
Character: Pa Hollis
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.
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Highway West
Title: Highway West
Character: Dr. John Cook (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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The Richest Man in Town
Title: The Richest Man in Town
Character: Frank the Barber
Released: August 2, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Mr. Adams
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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The Black Cat
Title: The Black Cat
Character: Doctor Williams (uncredited)
Released: May 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Title: The Lady from Cheyenne
Character: Ike Fairchild
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
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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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Jefferson Davis
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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Knute Rockne All American
Title: Knute Rockne All American
Character: Kansas Farmer Witnessing Airplane Crash (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Mr. Ellis
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Title: Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Character: Boylston - City Council Member (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
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Flowing Gold
Title: Flowing Gold
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1940
Type: Movie
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: District Attorney Wade
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Maryland
Title: Maryland
Character: Diggs
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
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Trifles of Importance
Title: Trifles of Importance
Character: Frederick the Great (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7 affects a student accused of theft charges. The second segment shows that a person's doodles can reveal personality traits. The final segment shows why certain items are on men's suits, such as lapels.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: First Lecturer
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Harrison - Printer
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Arkansas Storekeeper (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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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Stonewall Jackson (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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Judge Hardy and Son
Title: Judge Hardy and Son
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.
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Henry Goes Arizona
Title: Henry Goes Arizona
Character: Dr. John Clemens (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Handwriting Expert (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Monroe Doctrine
Title: The Monroe Doctrine
Character: William Seward
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Title: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Character: Bailiff
Released: July 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Title: Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Character: Clint Griffith
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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Land of Liberty
Title: Land of Liberty
Character: Thomas Jefferson (edited from 'Romance of Louisiana')
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
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Outside These Walls
Title: Outside These Walls
Character: Sauers (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent newspaper devoted to attacking corruption in public life, encountering various difficulties due to his being an ex-con and opposition from the incumbent administration.
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The Hardys Ride High
Title: The Hardys Ride High
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy.
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Lincoln in the White House
Title: Lincoln in the White House
Character: Secretary of State William H. Seward
Released: February 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Sheriff at Jail
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Old Marshall
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Mr. Wyatt, Blake's Neighbor
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Out West with the Hardys
Title: Out West with the Hardys
Character: Court Deputy (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Passport Official (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Title: Love Finds Andy Hardy
Character: Court Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
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Judge Hardy's Children
Title: Judge Hardy's Children
Character: Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Lawyer Cryden (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Marshal Sam
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: President Andrew Jackson (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
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The Man in the Barn
Title: The Man in the Barn
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1937
Type: Movie
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to surrender, the barn was set afire and Booth died in the blaze. However, in 1903 a Mr. David E. George, while on his deathbed in Enid, Oklahoma, claimed to be John Wilkes Booth. This MGM An Historical Mystery series short presents evidence of the possibility that Mr. George's claim was true.
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Small Town Boy
Title: Small Town Boy
Character: Mr. Trindle
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: Deacon (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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Romance of Louisiana
Title: Romance of Louisiana
Character: Radio Broadcaster / Thomas Jefferson
Released: July 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Man at Meeting / Wedding Guest
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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John Meade's Woman
Title: John Meade's Woman
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Chris Hibbens
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Career Woman
Title: Career Woman
Character: Dr. Anderson
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accused of murder. Director Lewis Seiler's 1936 courtroom drama stars Claire Trevor, Isabel Jewell, Michael Whalen, Gene Lockhart, Eric Linden, Charles Middleton, Edward Brophy, Kathleen Lockhart, Guinn Williams, El Brendel, Sterling Holloway, Ray Brown, Howard Hickman, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Waldron Sr., Spencer Charters and Eily Malyon.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Plumber (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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Educating Father
Title: Educating Father
Character: Dr. Willoughby
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
Character: Police Chief Roberts
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Pursuit
Title: Pursuit
Character: Cop
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
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Woman Wanted
Title: Woman Wanted
Character: Constable
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Uncle Andy
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Mr. Trevor
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Dr. Wayne
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Character: Chancelor Alexei Bestuchef
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Lazy River
Title: Lazy River
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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The Fighting Code
Title: The Fighting Code
Character: Joshua La Plante
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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Hoopla
Title: Hoopla
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
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The Stranger's Return
Title: The Stranger's Return
Character: Farmhand
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.
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Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Horton
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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State Fair
Title: State Fair
Character: Martin, Hog Breeder (Uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
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Cynara
Title: Cynara
Character: Jason
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Haunted Gold
Title: Haunted Gold
Character: Tom Benedict
Released: December 17, 1932
Type: Movie
John Mason returns to the Sally Ann mine to claim his half share. Janet Cater also returns although her father lost his half share to Joe Ryan. Ryan and his gang are also there to get the gold. A mysterious Phantom is also present. Mason's plan to expose Ryan as an outlaw and to force him to turn his share to Janet works. But when distracted by the Phantom, John is made a prisoner by the gang.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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They Call It Sin
Title: They Call It Sin
Character: Mr. Cullen
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big city and is left fending for herself.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Sock Fisher
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: John Adams
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Pioneer (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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Too Many Cooks
Title: Too Many Cooks
Character: J. W. Simpson - Construction Worker
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Judge Travers
Released: December 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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The Dawn Trail
Title: The Dawn Trail
Character: Jeff Denton
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there and use the same watering stream. Mart Dalton, son of a wealthy cattleman, quarrels with and kills one of the settlers, thus placing sheriff Larry Williams in a delicate position; for he is Mart's best friend and is engaged to Mart's sister June. However, sworn to do his duty, he arrests Mart, incensing the cattlemen, who help Mart escape, leaving Larry wounded.
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The Bad Man
Title: The Bad Man
Character: Hardy
Released: September 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Bearded Mariner in Cafe
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
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Speakeasy
Title: Speakeasy
Character: City editor
Released: March 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
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Fleetwing
Title: Fleetwing
Character: Trad Ben Sabam
Released: June 24, 1928
Type: Movie
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Fazil
Title: Fazil
Character: Iman Idris
Released: June 4, 1928
Type: Movie
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Councilman
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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The Girl from Chicago
Title: The Girl from Chicago
Character: Col. Carlton
Released: November 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
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The Heart of Maryland
Title: The Heart of Maryland
Character: Maj. Gen. Kendrick
Released: July 13, 1927
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the War Between the States, Maryland Calvert is loved by Maj. Alan Kendrick, son of a Virginia general, and Capt. Fulton Thorpe. Nancy, whom Thorpe has loved unwisely, follows him to Washington and commits suicide when she learns he will not marry her; as a result, Alan is forced to request his resignation. When Fort Sumter is fired upon, Alan, who admires Lincoln's principles, joins the Union Army though his father is among the Secessionist leaders; as a result, he is estranged from Maryland. Thorpe, who has joined the Confederacy as a spy, is responsible for Alan's arrest, but Maryland victoriously comes to his aid by ringing the alarm bell.
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Salvation Jane
Title: Salvation Jane
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Sally of the Sawdust
Title: Sally of the Sawdust
Character: Judge Henry L. Foster
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Professor McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.
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Isn't Life Wonderful
Title: Isn't Life Wonderful
Character: The Professor
Released: December 5, 1924
Type: Movie
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
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America
Title: America
Character: Justice Montague
Released: February 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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The Exciters
Title: The Exciters
Character: Chloroform Charlie
Released: June 3, 1923
Type: Movie
Ronnie Rand, Required to marry before she is 21 or lose her inheritance, Ronnie Rand meets Pierre Martel, member of a gang of thieves, and, convinced that he is a "real man," she marries him. Pierre's confederates attempt to blackmail Ronnie, and when she refuses to sign a check they try to kill Pierre; but police arrive in time to save him. Pierre is revealed to be a U. S. Intelligence Service agent. Ronnie, though somewhat disappointed that her husband is not at all a crook, accepts the situation.
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The White Rose
Title: The White Rose
Character: Man of the World
Released: May 21, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
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The Good-Bad Wife
Title: The Good-Bad Wife
Character: Col. Denbigh
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
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Her Man
Title: Her Man
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.