Gordon De Main

Gordon De Main

Born: September 27, 1886
Died: March 5, 1954
in Washington, Iowa, USA

Movies for Gordon De Main...

Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Col. Duval
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Man with Masterson on Radio (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Overland to Deadwood
Title: Overland to Deadwood
Character: George Bullock
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Dock Official (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Thundering Hoofs
Title: Thundering Hoofs
Character: Dave Underwood
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bill Underwood falls out with his father and chooses the life of a cowhand rather than take charge of his father's stage line.
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The Mad Monster
Title: The Mad Monster
Character: Professor Fitzgerald
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
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This Gun for Hire
Title: This Gun for Hire
Character: Superintendent (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
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West of Tombstone
Title: West of Tombstone
Character: Wilfred Barnet
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a community revives the legend of Billy the Kid after robbers attack a stage coach. The deputy marshal believes the Kid is dead and even goes to the cemetery to exhume his body. Unfortunately, the grave is empty and as the marshal ponders the mystery, a masked rider shoots at him. The eagle-eyed lawman recognizes the man's horse and realizes that he is a prominent businessman in town.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Plainclothesman
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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Appointment for Love
Title: Appointment for Love
Character: Jason (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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International Lady
Title: International Lady
Character: Denby
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Party Guest
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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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Immigration Guard (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Second Chorus
Title: Second Chorus
Character: Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
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Murder in Greenwich Village
Title: Murder in Greenwich Village
Character: Captain Bates
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Kronsky Aide
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Salvage Boss
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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Behind the Evidence
Title: Behind the Evidence
Character: Captain Graham
Released: January 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
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Helldorado
Title: Helldorado
Character: Assayer
Released: January 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when it begins to rain. As they approach a bridge, Art notices a few stalled cars, and when the storm worsens, the bridge washes away, leaving Art, Glenda, Van and several others stranded in a canyon.
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The Cactus Kid
Title: The Cactus Kid
Character: Bartender Jake
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Perrin and his partner get paid a big sum of money at the end of their cattle drive. Shortly thereafter, the partner is found with a knife in his back and Perrin is blamed for the murder.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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The Lawless Frontier
Title: The Lawless Frontier
Character: Deputy Miller
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill Dusty and kidnap Ruby. Saving the two, he goes after Zanti. He catches him but Zanti escapes the Sheriff's handcuff's and this time Tobin has to chase him into the desert.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Jury forman
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
Title: The Hollywood Gad-About
Character: Self - Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Gambling House Proprietor (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: S.S. Official (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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Beggars in Ermine
Title: Beggars in Ermine
Character: Police Captain
Released: February 21, 1934
Type: Movie
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
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The Lucky Texan
Title: The Lucky Texan
Character: Banker Williams
Released: January 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it rich with a gold mine. They then find their lives complicated by bad guys and a woman.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Roulette Table Staff
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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The Wolf Dog
Title: The Wolf Dog
Character: Murphy
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
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The Devil's Mate
Title: The Devil's Mate
Character: Butler
Released: August 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
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Rainbow Ranch
Title: Rainbow Ranch
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
An emergency at his Aunt's ranch gets Ed Randall leave from the Navy. He returns to find the water cut off and her note due the next day. When the man he seeks legal advice from is murdered, Ed is accused and he now finds himself in jail with a lynch mob forming outside.
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The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
Character: Nicholson
Released: July 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: First Detective
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Fighting Texans
Title: Fighting Texans
Character: Julian Nash
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and gets job selling oil stock in a nearby town; there he falls in love with the sheriff's daughter and tangles with crooked stock promoters.
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Crashing Broadway
Title: Crashing Broadway
Character: Sheriff
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town, they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents of Shakespearian actor Thorndyke.
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The Return of Casey Jones
Title: The Return of Casey Jones
Character: Ike MacFarland (as G. D. Wood)
Released: May 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries to fix it but has to jump off at the last minute. Unfortunately, stories begin to circulate that he turned coward and jumped off the train first, letting it be destroyed rather than try to save it. He sets out to clear his name.
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Lilly Turner
Title: Lilly Turner
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1933
Type: Movie
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
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Cheating Blondes
Title: Cheating Blondes
Character: Policeman
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Colonel Duval
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Dude Bandit
Title: The Dude Bandit
Character: Dad Mason
Released: April 5, 1933
Type: Movie
After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.
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Alimony Madness
Title: Alimony Madness
Character: Doctor
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Doctor
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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Parachute Jumper
Title: Parachute Jumper
Character: Narcotics Squad (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Lucky Larrigan
Title: Lucky Larrigan
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: Rancher (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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The Forty-Niners
Title: The Forty-Niners
Character: Jed Hawkins (as Gordon Wood)
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
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The Heart Punch
Title: The Heart Punch
Character: Mr. Benton
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.
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The Cowboy Counsellor
Title: The Cowboy Counsellor
Character: State's Attorney
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
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The Western Code
Title: The Western Code
Character: Fred Purdy
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.
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Honor of the Mounted
Title: Honor of the Mounted
Character: Corporal McCarty
Released: June 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Eye Specialist (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1932
Type: Movie
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
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Single-Handed Sanders
Title: Single-Handed Sanders
Character: Judge Parker
Released: February 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Tom Tyler plays a small-town blacksmith, whose reckless younger brother casts his lot with a crooked politician. When brother dear steals $5000 from heroine Margaret Morris, Tyler gallantly confesses to the deed. He eventually clears himself by rallying his fellow frontiersmen to form a united front against the villains (guess he's not so "single-handed" after all).
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: (as Bud Wood) Granger, rancher
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Galloping Thru
Title: Galloping Thru
Character: Cliff Warren
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down in front of him.
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Forgotten Women
Title: Forgotten Women
Character: Walrus
Released: November 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections. As a result of the story, Jimmy becomes city editor.
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Cavalier of the West
Title: Cavalier of the West
Character: Doctor
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieutenant Allister. His older brother John now attempts to defend him at his murder trial.
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Two Fisted Justice
Title: Two Fisted Justice
Character: Marshal Houston
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: The Croupier
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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The Montana Kid
Title: The Montana Kid
Character: Marshal Jack Moore
Released: August 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man's son, then he goes after the killers.
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Mother and Son
Title: Mother and Son
Character: Joe Connors
Released: July 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman loses all her money in the 1929 stock market crash, and in order to support her family, goes back to her previous occupation--owner of a gambling house--which her son is dead set against.
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Title: The Nevada Buckaroo
Character: The Governor of Nevada
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
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Ships of Hate
Title: Ships of Hate
Character: First Mate
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
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The Ridin' Fool
Title: The Ridin' Fool
Character: Sheriff John Andrews
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Boston Harry from being hanged by a group of vigilantes who accuse him of having killed Jim Beckworth. The fugitives hide out at Juanita's hacienda and while their mercenary hostess decides how to best fleece her guests, the posse arrives.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Character: Sheriff John Evans
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but Blackie still carries the reputation of a killer. When the townspeople decide Blackie is not a fit guardian for the boy, Jim convinces Blackie to leave the boy with him. But just after Blackie leaves town, the express office is robbed and it is assumed Blackie did it.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: Red - Foreman
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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Young Eagles
Title: Young Eagles
Character: Major Lewis
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.
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Street of Chance
Title: Street of Chance
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.
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Why Leave Home?
Title: Why Leave Home?
Character: Roy
Released: October 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Fox musical.
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The Toll of Mammon
Title: The Toll of Mammon
Released: June 19, 1914
Type: Movie