Warren Hymer

Warren Hymer

Born: February 25, 1906
Died: March 25, 1948
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Warren Hymer...

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Title: James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
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Gentleman Joe Palooka
Title: Gentleman Joe Palooka
Character: Louie - Sparring Partner
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Ira Eyler
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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The Affairs of Susan
Title: The Affairs of Susan
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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3 Is a Family
Title: 3 Is a Family
Character: Coolie
Released: November 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled business schemes force his wife, Fay Bainter, to enter the workplace. The couple's daughter, Marjorie Reynolds, shows up with her twin babies in tow. Son Arthur Lake arrives with his pregnant wife (Jeff Donnell). And overbearing maiden aunt Helen Broderick also decides to move in. Because his wife is away at work, poor old Charlie Ruggles is not only housekeeper, but nursemaid and servant as well.
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Since You Went Away
Title: Since You Went Away
Character: Convalescent Wishing for Tutti Frutti (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.
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Government Girl
Title: Government Girl
Character: Military Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.
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Gangway for Tomorrow
Title: Gangway for Tomorrow
Character: Pete
Released: November 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
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Danger! Women at Work
Title: Danger! Women at Work
Character: Pete
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Three women inherit a 10-ton truck and decide to go into business. Hi jinks ensue.
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Spy Train
Title: Spy Train
Character: Herman Krantz
Released: July 9, 1943
Type: Movie
People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
Title: Hitler- Dead or Alive
Character: Hans 'Dutch' Havermann
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: Police Sgt. Pete Corrigan
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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Baby Face Morgan
Title: Baby Face Morgan
Character: Wise Willie
Released: September 15, 1942
Type: Movie
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
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Lure of the Islands
Title: Lure of the Islands
Character: Albert
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Tana, a voluptuous half-caste girl of the South Seas, falls in love with FBI agent Wally and wishes to marry him and leave the island. Wally, with his pal Jinx, is there to investigate rumored Japanese spy activity. He agrees to marry her if she will help him in his investigations. Through the discovery of a contraband radio set tuned to Japanese reception, Wally learns that the local Commandant is in league with the enemy and is planning an invasion of the island.
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Henry and Dizzy
Title: Henry and Dizzy
Character: Clarence MacGillicuddy
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
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One Thrilling Night
Title: One Thrilling Night
Character: Pat Callahan
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
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She's in the Army
Title: She's in the Army
Character: Cpl. Buck Shane
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a newspaper columnist, who wagered $5000 that she couldn't last six weeks.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Maxie the Goat
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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So's Your Aunt Emma!
Title: So's Your Aunt Emma!
Character: Joe Gormley
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders.
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Girls' Town
Title: Girls' Town
Character: Joe Barker
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
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Mr. Wise Guy
Title: Mr. Wise Guy
Character: Dratler
Released: February 20, 1942
Type: Movie
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.
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Jail House Blues
Title: Jail House Blues
Character: Big Foot Louie
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
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Torpedo Boat
Title: Torpedo Boat
Character: Marine
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
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Birth of the Blues
Title: Birth of the Blues
Character: Limpy
Released: November 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of the city. Betty Lou joins their band as a singer and gets Louie to show her how to do scat singing. Memphis and Jeff both fall in love with Betty Lou.
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Buy Me That Town
Title: Buy Me That Town
Character: Crusher Howard
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
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Reaching for the Sun
Title: Reaching for the Sun
Character: Percy Shelley
Released: May 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: Angelface
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Title: Love, Honor and Oh-Baby!
Character: Bull
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman--but he can't stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn't know who he is.
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Character: Big Foot Louie
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Title: Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Character: Dutch
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Bugs Watson
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Calling All Marines
Title: Calling All Marines
Character: Snooker
Released: September 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: O'Hara
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Boy Friend
Title: Boy Friend
Character: Greenberg
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Title: Mr. Moto in Danger Island
Character: Twister McGurk
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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The Lady and the Mob
Title: The Lady and the Mob
Character: Frankie O'Fallon
Released: April 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: Seaman Rocky Haggerty
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Guard-Waiter
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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You and Me
Title: You and Me
Character: Gimpy
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Joy of Living
Title: Joy of Living
Character: Mike
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
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Arson Racket Squad
Title: Arson Racket Squad
Character: Tom Jones
Released: March 27, 1938
Type: Movie
New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading terror and loss of property, including human life.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Kid Mulligan
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Lady Behave!
Title: Lady Behave!
Character: Butch
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
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Telephone Operator
Title: Telephone Operator
Character: Shorty
Released: December 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A telephone operator covering for a friend's "fling" finds herself in the middle of a major disaster when the city is hit by a big flood and her switchboard is the center of communications.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Title: Ali Baba Goes to Town
Character: Tramp
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
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Bad Guy
Title: Bad Guy
Character: 'Shorty'
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.
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Wake Up and Live
Title: Wake Up and Live
Character: Poker-Playing Thug
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.
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Sea Racketeers
Title: Sea Racketeers
Character: Mate 'Spud' Jones
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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Meet the Boy Friend
Title: Meet the Boy Friend
Character: Wilbur 'Bugs' Corrigan
Released: July 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress. His manager doesn't want this because he is afraid of Tony losing female fans so he takes up a 300 hundred thousand dollar insurance policy if Tony does in fact wed. Tony soon meets a girl name June Delaney on a bus who doesn't swoon over him like other girls. He falls for her but doesn't know her true identity.
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Married Before Breakfast
Title: Married Before Breakfast
Character: Harry
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A madcap inventor tries to market a razor-less shaving cream.
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Navy Blues
Title: Navy Blues
Character: Gerald "Biff" Jones
Released: March 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he pursues her, he discovers that she is quite beautiful and that he has competition -- but his rival has more sinister intentions than anyone imagines.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Smacksey
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Herman
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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She's Dangerous
Title: She's Dangerous
Character: Herman Valentz
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Buggsy
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Love Letters of a Star
Title: Love Letters of a Star
Character: Chuck
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman commits suicide after being blackmailed, and her husband resolves to kill the man responsible. Blackmail, suicide, murder, a cover-up not to mention yachts and sea planes all wrapped up in an efficient 66 minutes of screen time with Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles and C. Henry Gordon in the leads, and Lewis R. Foster sitting in the director’s chair.
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36 Hours to Kill
Title: 36 Hours to Kill
Character: Hazy
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Big Brain
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: Hazeltine
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Nobody's Fool
Title: Nobody's Fool
Character: Sour Puss
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A naive country boy goes to New York City, where he gets mixed up with real estate swindlers.
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Desert Justice
Title: Desert Justice
Character: Hymie
Released: April 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A gang of bank robbers holes up at a cowboy's ranch. One of the robbers turns out to be his brother. After the brother is killed by the gang, the cowboy tracks them across the desert.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Bodyguard (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Tiger O'Keefe
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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King of the Islands
Title: King of the Islands
Character: The Shipwrecked Sailor
Released: February 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In this musical short, a shipwrecked sailor is washed up on the shores of a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful princess.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Joe Sloan, Betty's Boyfriend
Released: February 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.
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The Leavenworth Case
Title: The Leavenworth Case
Character: O'Malley
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
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Hitch Hike Lady
Title: Hitch Hike Lady
Character: Chuck Regan
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
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Hong Kong Nights
Title: Hong Kong Nights
Character: Wally
Released: December 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Dopey Mullins
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Gimp
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: Terence 'Midget' Regan
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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Navy Wife
Title: Navy Wife
Character: Butch
Released: September 17, 1935
Type: Movie
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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She Gets Her Man
Title: She Gets Her Man
Character: Spike
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for Esmeralda as the crime-fighting "Tiger Woman," but also further complications.
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Silk Hat Kid
Title: Silk Hat Kid
Character: Misty
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Pete Hogan
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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Hold 'Em Yale
Title: Hold 'Em Yale
Character: Sam, The Gonoph
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Title: The Case of the Curious Bride
Character: Oscar Pender
Released: April 13, 1935
Type: Movie
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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The Gilded Lily
Title: The Gilded Lily
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Secretary Marilyn David falls in love with British aristocrat Charles Gray, to the dismay of her best friend, reporter Peter Dawes, who secretly loves her. When Peter learns that the already-engaged Charles has hurt Marilyn, he fabricates an article casting her as the "No Girl" who refused to marry a callous aristocrat. But when the publicity brings Marilyn unexpected fame, and Charles returns, she is forced to choose between the two men.
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Louie the Lug
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Belle of the Nineties
Title: Belle of the Nineties
Character: St. Louis fighter
Released: September 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.
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Young and Beautiful
Title: Young and Beautiful
Character: Prizefighter
Released: September 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.
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She Loves Me Not
Title: She Loves Me Not
Character: Mugg Schnitzel
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Little Miss Marker
Title: Little Miss Marker
Character: Sore Toe
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: 'Knock-Out' Walters
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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Woman Unafraid
Title: Woman Unafraid
Character: John, a Sailor
Released: March 27, 1934
Type: Movie
A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.
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The Gold Ghost
Title: The Gold Ghost
Character: Bugs Kelly
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
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George White's Scandals
Title: George White's Scandals
Character: Pete Pandos - Greek Wrestler
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from
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The Crosby Case
Title: The Crosby Case
Character: Sam Collins
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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Roast-Beef and Movies
Title: Roast-Beef and Movies
Character: Man at Gunpoint in Fictitious Film Scene (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
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King for a Night
Title: King for a Night
Character: Goofy
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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In the Money
Title: In the Money
Character: Gunboat Bimms
Released: November 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
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My Woman
Title: My Woman
Character: Al, Butler (Uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price.
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Her First Mate
Title: Her First Mate
Character: Percy
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.
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I Love That Man
Title: I Love That Man
Character: Mousey
Released: July 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.
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Midnight Mary
Title: Midnight Mary
Character: Angelo Ricci
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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A Lady's Profession
Title: A Lady's Profession
Character: Nutty Bolton
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Jitney Smith
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
Title: The Billion Dollar Scandal
Character: "Kid" McGurn
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Hype
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden
Character: Brassie Randall
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
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One Way Passage
Title: One Way Passage
Character: Sgt. Steve Burke
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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Hold 'Em Jail
Title: Hold 'Em Jail
Character: Steele
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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The Night Mayor
Title: The Night Mayor
Character: Riley
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
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Love Is a Racket
Title: Love Is a Racket
Character: Burney Olds
Released: June 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A gossip columnist helps a Broadway ingenue who's beholden to a penthouse gangster.
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The Unholy Garden
Title: The Unholy Garden
Character: Smiley Corbin
Released: October 6, 1931
Type: Movie
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hidden treasure from a collection of thieves and criminals staying at the hotel who are determined to get it. A suave gentleman thief arrives at the hotel one day with his own plan to get the loot, but complications ensue when he begins to fall for the daughter.
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Goldie
Title: Goldie
Character: Spike Moore
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.
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Charlie Chan Carries On
Title: Charlie Chan Carries On
Character: Max Minchin
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
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Seas Beneath
Title: Seas Beneath
Character: 'Lug' Kaufman
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
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Men on Call
Title: Men on Call
Character: Joe Burke
Released: December 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Railroad engineer Chuck Long finds the showgirl he's about to marry was the subject of scandal and swears off women. He joins a coast guard unit stationed at a lighthouse, and one day must rescue a drowning girl that turns out to be his old fiancée.
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Oh, for a Man!
Title: Oh, for a Man!
Character: 'Pug' Morini
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
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Sinners' Holiday
Title: Sinners' Holiday
Character: Mitch
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
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Up the River
Title: Up the River
Character: Dannemora Dan
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Big Shot
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
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Men Without Women
Title: Men Without Women
Character: Kaufman
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Bowery Kid
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.
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The Cock-Eyed World
Title: The Cock-Eyed World
Character: Marine Corporal Scout
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: Bartender
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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The Girl from Havana
Title: The Girl from Havana
Character: Spike Howard
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves.
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Title: Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Character: Martin
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
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The Far Call
Title: The Far Call
Character: Soup Brophy
Released: April 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
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Speakeasy
Title: Speakeasy
Character: Cannon Delmont
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.