John Miljan

John Miljan

Born: November 8, 1892
Died: January 24, 1960
in Lead, South Dakota, USA
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John Miljan (November 9, 1892 – January 24, 1960) was an American actor. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958. He was the tall, smooth-talking villain in Hollywood films for almost four decades, beginning in 1923.

Miljan made his first sound film in 1927 in the promotional trailer for The Jazz Singer, inviting audiences to see the upcoming landmark film. In later years he played imposing, authoritative parts such as high-ranking executives and military officers. He is best remembered as General Custer in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Plainsman.

Miljan died from cancer in Hollywood in 1960, aged 67. He was married to Victoire Lowe and adopted her two sons from her first marriage to actor Creighton Hale.

Movies for John Miljan...

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Title: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Character: (in "The Killers") (archive footage)
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Title: The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold
Character: Chief Tomache
Released: June 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed a silver medallion, which were sections cut off from a large silver plaque which served as a treasure map to a secret location where a large amount of gold is reputedly stashed. Two more medallions are unaccounted for, and the The Lone Ranger and his friend Tonto must use all their resources to intercept the gang, prevent further carnage and save the owners of the medallions.
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Apache Warrior
Title: Apache Warrior
Character: Chief Nantan
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An Apache brave vows revenge when he feels betrayed by the U.S. Army.
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The Ten Commandments
Title: The Ten Commandments
Character: The Blind One
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
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Johnny Moccasin
Title: Johnny Moccasin
Character: Chief Dark Thunder
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre.
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The Wild Dakotas
Title: The Wild Dakotas
Character: Antelope
Released: February 28, 1956
Type: Movie
When Aaron Baring signs on as wagon master for a group of settlers headed to Montana's Powder River Valley, his dictatorial style soon creates problems. When the settlers reach their destination, Baring unwisely declares war on the local Indians. When savvy frontier scout Jim Henry tries to promote cooperation between the natives and the newly arrived settlers, Baring responds by having Williams whipped.
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Run for Cover
Title: Run for Cover
Character: Mayor Walsh
Released: April 29, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.
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Pirates of Tripoli
Title: Pirates of Tripoli
Character: Malek
Released: February 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A pirate tries to help a deposed Arabian princess reclaim her throne.
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Bonzo Goes to College
Title: Bonzo Goes to College
Character: Wilbur Crane
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him college.
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Camera Sleuth
Title: Camera Sleuth
Character: Herman Taphert (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1951
Type: Movie
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we see how real-life investigator Jo Goggin used a motion picture surveillance camera to gather evidence and disprove a fraudulent insurance claim.
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M
Title: M
Character: Blind Baloon Vendor
Released: March 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
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Walk Softly, Stranger
Title: Walk Softly, Stranger
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1950
Type: Movie
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Mrs. Mike
Title: Mrs. Mike
Character: Mr. Howard
Released: December 23, 1949
Type: Movie
This film is based on the novel, Mrs. Mike, which is based on the real life woman, Kathy O'Fallon Flannigan. A Boston teenager is sent to live with her uncle in frontier Canada because of her fragile health. She eventually falls in love with own of the few-if only-young, white males in the region. They marry and depart for the northern wilderness to set up house and home. The rest of the movie is about her struggles and joys of living and travelling in this rugged country.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Lesh Lakish
Released: December 21, 1949
Type: Movie
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
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Stampede
Title: Stampede
Character: T. J. Furman
Released: May 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Brothers Mike and Tim McCall own a large ranch in Arizona, using the surrounding lands for grazing cattle. Stanley Cox and LeRoy Stanton sell this land to settlers who arrive to find it bone dry, as a dam on the McCall ranch controls the water. Among the settlers are John Dawson and his daughter Connie. The latter goes to the nearest town to take action, but Sheriff Ball tells him there is nothing he can do. Tim falls for Connie but Mike is unimpressed with her charms. While returning from a town dance, Tim discovers Stanton trying to dynamite the dam, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Stanton later sends his men to stampede the cattle while he and Cox blow up the dam. Despite the efforts of Mike and Sheriff Ball, the cattle are wiped out and Mike races to the dam and kills Stanton in a gunfight.
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Adventure in Baltimore
Title: Adventure in Baltimore
Character: Mr. Eckert
Released: April 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
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Perilous Waters
Title: Perilous Waters
Character: Carter Larkin
Released: February 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Character: Detective
Released: November 24, 1947
Type: Movie
George McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the family inheritance, lives in constant jealousy, hatred and resentment of his half-brother Barry, who has been supporting him. George gets his girlfriend, Carlotta Duval, a job as Barry's nurse, with the idea being to marry him, kill him, and inherit his money—and marrying George.
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That's My Man
Title: That's My Man
Character: Secretary
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
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Queen of the Amazons
Title: Queen of the Amazons
Character: Narrator / Col. Jones
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean Preston is determined to find her fiancée, Greg Jones, who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones, Wayne Monroe and the Professor. She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.
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Sinbad the Sailor
Title: Sinbad the Sailor
Character: Moga
Released: January 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
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The Killers
Title: The Killers
Character: Jake the Rake (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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White Tie and Tails
Title: White Tie and Tails
Character: Mr. Latimer
Released: August 30, 1946
Type: Movie
When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up marrying an heiress.
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The Last Crooked Mile
Title: The Last Crooked Mile
Character: Police Lieutenant Mayrin
Released: August 9, 1946
Type: Movie
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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Lost City of the Jungle
Title: Lost City of the Jungle
Character: Doctor Gaffron
Released: April 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
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Wildfire
Title: Wildfire
Character: Pete Fanning
Released: July 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.
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Back to Bataan
Title: Back to Bataan
Character: Gen. Jonathan Wainwright ('Skinny') (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
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It's in the Bag!
Title: It's in the Bag!
Character: Mr. Arnold
Released: April 21, 1945
Type: Movie
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
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I Accuse My Parents
Title: I Accuse My Parents
Character: Dan Wilson
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.
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The Merry Monahans
Title: The Merry Monahans
Character: Arnold Pembroke
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
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Bride by Mistake
Title: Bride by Mistake
Character: Major Harvey
Released: July 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
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The Fallen Sparrow
Title: The Fallen Sparrow
Character: Inspector 'Toby' Tobin
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
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Submarine Alert
Title: Submarine Alert
Character: Mr. Bambridge / Capt. Haigas
Released: June 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Charlie Craig
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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The Boss of Big Town
Title: The Boss of Big Town
Character: Kenneth Craige
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Quality was seldom a consideration in the low-budget films of PRC Studios; still, the company was a welcome harbor for character actors who aspired to occasional leading roles. In Boss of Big Town, veteran supporting player John Litel is top-billed as crusading city market official Michael Lynn. When a criminal gang muscles in on the local food distribution markets, Lynn vows to throw the rascals out. First, however, he pretends to join the villains as a paid government stooge, the better to find out the identity of the "Mister Big" behind the distribution racket. The exposure of the "mystery villain" will come as a shock to fans of the 1927 Cecil B. DeMille epic The King of Kings--but not to dyed-in-the-wool movie buffs.
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Criminal Investigator
Title: Criminal Investigator
Character: Edward Judson
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.
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The Devil with Hitler
Title: The Devil with Hitler
Character: Chairman - Board of Directors in Hell (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Scattergood Survives a Murder
Title: Scattergood Survives a Murder
Character: Rolfe
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
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The Big Street
Title: The Big Street
Character: McWhirter (Uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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North of the Rockies
Title: North of the Rockies
Character: Morgan
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Morgan and his gang are smuggling furs across the border. Both the Mounties on the Canadian side and Tex Martin on the American side are after them. When Morgan sets up Tex to be found with furs, Mountie Bill arrests him. But he lets him go hoping he will lead him to the gang and eventually the two join forces.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: George Potter
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Jim Grosso
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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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Henri Franck
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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Forced Landing
Title: Forced Landing
Character: General Valdane
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Nick Taggart
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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The Cowboy and the Blonde
Title: The Cowboy and the Blonde
Character: Bob Roycroft
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Title: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character: Carter Dangerfield
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Nicholas Tower
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Pierre Brugnon
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Queen of the Mob
Title: Queen of the Mob
Character: Pan
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: John Marlin
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Slade Wiley
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Eric Bartell
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Mariano Escobedo
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Dr. Dolan
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Ringo
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Pardon Our Nerve
Title: Pardon Our Nerve
Character: Duke Page
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
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Ride a Crooked Mile
Title: Ride a Crooked Mile
Character: Lt. Col. Stuart
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Thibaut d'Aussigny
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Border G-Man
Title: Border G-Man
Character: Louis Rankin
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
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Miracle Money
Title: Miracle Money
Character: Dr. Jones
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.
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Man-Proof
Title: Man-Proof
Character: Tommy Gaunt
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
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Arizona Mahoney
Title: Arizona Mahoney
Character: Cameron Lloyd
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
When Sue Bixby becomes his new boss, stagecoach robber Talbot reforms and goes after her rustled cattle.
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The Plainsman
Title: The Plainsman
Character: General George A. Custer
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: Dawson
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
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The Gentleman from Louisiana
Title: The Gentleman from Louisiana
Character: Baltimore Evans
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
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Private Number
Title: Private Number
Character: Sam Stapp
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications. The head butler also has an infatuation for the young girl but his intentions are not that good.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Gen. Juan Bautista Alvarado
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Bill Holt
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Boss Benton
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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Under the Pampas Moon
Title: Under the Pampas Moon
Character: Graham Scott
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a Buenos Aires cabaret. THe plane she is flying in is forced to land on the Pampas. Campo and his riders take the passengers to a hotel. Yvonne and Campo quickly fall in love, but she had to leave to make her singing engagement in Buenos Aires. Campo follows her and discovers that his horse that was the favorite to win the Big Race has been stolen.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Major Patterson
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Charlie Chan in Paris
Title: Charlie Chan in Paris
Character: Albert Dufresne
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is killed before she can tell him much. The case, complicated by a false murder accusation for banker's daughter Yvette, climaxes with a strange journey through the Paris sewers.
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The Ghost Walks
Title: The Ghost Walks
Character: Prescott Ames
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A ghostly and deadly dinner party, which at first turns out to be an elaborate staging of a new play for the benefit of a Broadway producer, becomes a true mystery when the players start to go missing.
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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Thomas Hall Sr.
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Belle of the Nineties
Title: Belle of the Nineties
Character: Ace Carter
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: Gordon Douglas
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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Unknown Blonde
Title: Unknown Blonde
Character: Frank Wilson
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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Whirlpool
Title: Whirlpool
Character: Barney Gaige
Released: April 10, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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The Poor Rich
Title: The Poor Rich
Character: Prince Abdul Hamidshan
Released: February 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood and his cousin Harriet Winthrop Spottiswood arrive separately at their long abandoned and very much run down family manor, each unaware that the other is going to be there, and since both have become penniless, they are forced to move into the dilapidated house. When Albert receives a letter from old acquaintances Lord and Lady Fetherstone advising the Spottiswoods of their impending visit to the manor, the cousins are at wit's end as to how to exercise non-existent skills required to make the old house acceptable for guest reception.
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Madame Spy
Title: Madame Spy
Character: Weber
Released: February 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
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The Sin of Nora Moran
Title: The Sin of Nora Moran
Character: Paulino
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
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King for a Night
Title: King for a Night
Character: Walter Douglas
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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Twin Husbands
Title: Twin Husbands
Character: Jerry Van Trevor/Jerry Werrenden
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The film begins with a guy waking up from a bump on the head. The people around him try in vain to convince him that five years have passed and that he's a rich guy. However, none of this makes sense to the character played by Miljan AND none of it makes any sense to the audience...none. After this plot is quickly abandoned, the film begins to get better. It seems that a wife and her business partner are trying to use Miljan as a double for her estranged and missing husband.
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The Mad Game
Title: The Mad Game
Character: William Bennett
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
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The Way to Love
Title: The Way to Love
Character: Marco
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets Madeleine, who works at a circus.
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Blind Adventure
Title: Blind Adventure
Character: Regan
Released: August 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: John Calhoun
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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What! No Beer?
Title: What! No Beer?
Character: Butch Lorado
Released: February 10, 1933
Type: Movie
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Charlie Shaw
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.
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Flesh
Title: Flesh
Character: Willard
Released: December 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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Prosperity
Title: Prosperity
Character: Holland
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.
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The Kid from Spain
Title: The Kid from Spain
Character: Pancho
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie and his Mexican friend Ricardo are expelled from college after Ricardo put Eddie in the girl's dormitory when he was drunk. Per chance Eddie gets mixed up in a bank robbery and is forced to drive the robbers to safety. To get rid of him they force him to leave the USA for Mexico, but a cop is following him. Eddie meets Ricardo there, Ricardo helps him avoid being arrested by the cop when he introduces Eddie as the great Spanish bullfighter Don Sebastian II. The problem is, the cop is still curious and has tickets for the bullfight. Eddie's situation becomes more critical, when he tries to help Ricardo to win the girl he loves, but she's engaged to a "real" Mexican, who is, unknown to her father, involved in illegal business. While trying to avoid all this trouble, Eddie himself falls in love with his friend's girl friend's sister Rosalie, who also want to see the great Don Sebastian II to kill the bull in the arena.
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Unashamed
Title: Unashamed
Character: District Attorney Harris
Released: July 2, 1932
Type: Movie
A debutante's (Helen Twelvetrees) brother (Robert Young) stands trial for killing her no-good lover.
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Night Court
Title: Night Court
Character: Crawford
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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The Rich Are Always with Us
Title: The Rich Are Always with Us
Character: Greg Grannard
Released: May 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
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The Wet Parade
Title: The Wet Parade
Character: Major Doleshal
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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Are You Listening?
Title: Are You Listening?
Character: Ted Russell
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing supplies, isn’t happy. So WBLA scriptwriter Bill Grimes is bounced from his job, setting in motion this movie’s turn from comedic to darkly tragic. William Haines, two years removed from being Tinseltown’s top male star, plays Grimes in a melodrama noted for its glimpses of live radio production and for a Depression-era ethos that includes peroxide cuties eager to land a job, a sugar daddy or both.
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Arsène Lupin
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Prefect of Police
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
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The Beast of the City
Title: The Beast of the City
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.
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Hell Divers
Title: Hell Divers
Character: Lt. Cmdr. Jack Griffin
Released: January 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: District Attorney
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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West of Broadway
Title: West of Broadway
Character: Norman
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he's just met after a night of drinking and partying.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: John Driscoll
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line, for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer can make her dreams come true, but there is only one problem, he will give her everything but a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Title: Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Character: Wayne Burlingham
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
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Son of India
Title: Son of India
Character: Juggat
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Indian jewel merchant goes from penniless to wealthy in this story about gratitude.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: Paul H. Lewis
Released: April 29, 1931
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
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The Secret Six
Title: The Secret Six
Character: Joe Colimo
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Florio
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Politics
Title: Politics
Character: Jim Curango
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Inspiration
Title: Inspiration
Character: Henry Coutant, the Sculptor
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
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Paid
Title: Paid
Character: Inspector Burke
Released: December 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
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War Nurse
Title: War Nurse
Character: French Medical Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
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Remote Control
Title: Remote Control
Character: Doctor Kruger
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.
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Our Blushing Brides
Title: Our Blushing Brides
Character: Martin W. Sanderson
Released: July 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Three department store girls--Connie, Franky, and Gerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than 20 dollars per week. Gerry is the sensible one, but the others throw themselves at amoral rich men in an attempt to hook one and better themselves. They end up being hurt and disappointed despite Gerry's attempts to warn them.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: July 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
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Estrellados
Title: Estrellados
Character: Self (Guest Appearance)
Released: July 7, 1930
Type: Movie
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
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The Sea Bat
Title: The Sea Bat
Character: Juan
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest.
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In Gay Madrid
Title: In Gay Madrid
Character: Armada - the Torero
Released: May 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.
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Show Girl in Hollywood
Title: Show Girl in Hollywood
Character: Frank Buelow
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Broadway actress leaves New York to become a star in Hollywood, and succeeds despite sleazy directors and her own ego.
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Free and Easy
Title: Free and Easy
Character: Bedroom Scene
Released: March 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira with an agent, Gopher City's own Elmer J. Butz. Elmer likes Elvira and the shy Elvira likes him, but Mrs. Plunkett, a formidable woman, has little use for hapless Elmer. On the train west, they meet movie star Larry Mitchell, who takes a shine to Elvira and helps her meet MGM directors once they get to Tinsel Town. Elmer, meanwhile, wants to help Elvira with her career and he also wants to be her man. Movie stardom does come to the Gopher City entourage, but to whom is a surprise. And who will win the lovely Elvira's hand?
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Not So Dumb
Title: Not So Dumb
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
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The Woman Racket
Title: The Woman Racket
Character: Chris
Released: January 24, 1930
Type: Movie
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
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Devil-May-Care
Title: Devil-May-Care
Character: Lucien DeGrignon
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Bennock
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
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Speedway
Title: Speedway
Character: Lee Renny
Released: October 7, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Major Mallory
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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Times Square
Title: Times Square
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.
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Fashions in Love
Title: Fashions in Love
Character: Frank Martin
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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A Man's Man
Title: A Man's Man
Character: John Miljan (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress goes to Hollywood to make movies and marries a soda jerk.
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Gossip
Title: Gossip
Character: Bill - Alice's Husband
Released: April 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A husband and wife arguing about which sex gossips more. Just then a friend they both know comes to visit but he isn't aware that they are now married. Soon this friend is gossiping to each of them about the other and sure enough problems start.
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The Voice of the City
Title: The Voice of the City
Character: Dapper Don Wilkes
Released: April 13, 1929
Type: Movie
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Captain Fontaine
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
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Hardboiled Rose
Title: Hardboiled Rose
Character: Steve Wallace
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
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Queen of the Night Clubs
Title: Queen of the Night Clubs
Character: Grant - Lawyer
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
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The Eternal Woman
Title: The Eternal Woman
Character: Gil Martin
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Olive Borden returns home to Buenos Aires and discovers her father has been murdered and her sister has been attacked by an American.
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Stark Mad
Title: Stark Mad
Character: Dr. Milo
Released: February 2, 1929
Type: Movie
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
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Innocents of Paris
Title: Innocents of Paris
Character: Monsieur Renard
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Directed by Richard Wallace.
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The Home Towners
Title: The Home Towners
Character: Joe Roberts
Released: November 3, 1928
Type: Movie
Man from small town comes to New York to be best man at an old friend's wedding. He mistakenly supposes that the girl and her family are after his friend's money, and almost wrecks their romance.
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Land of the Silver Fox
Title: Land of the Silver Fox
Character: James Crawford
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Alfred Katman
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Women They Talk About
Title: Women They Talk About
Character: Officer
Released: August 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.
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Lady Be Good
Title: Lady Be Good
Character: Murray
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Two engaged vaudeville magicians quarrel and go their separate ways.
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Glorious Betsy
Title: Glorious Betsy
Character: Preston
Released: April 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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The Crimson City
Title: The Crimson City
Character: Gregory Kent
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
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The Jazz Singer
Title: The Jazz Singer
Character: Host (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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The Silver Slave
Title: The Silver Slave
Character: Philip Caldwell
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, turns down Richards' proposal after the death of her husband, and she is denounced by him as a slave to silver. Lavishing the greater part of her fortune on her daughter, Janet, Bernice determines to give her the advantages she herself lacked. Despite her mother's disapproval, Janet scorns the affection of Larry Martin, a life-long friend, after meeting Philip Caldwell, a wealthy sophisticate. Worried over Janet's growing attachment to Philip, Bernice determines to win Caldwell from her daughter, and in a confrontation involving the girl and Richards, now a millionaire, Janet is disillusioned in her mother and Caldwell. Learning of her mother's sacrifice, Janet forgives her and finds happiness with Larry.
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
Title: Sailor Izzy Murphy
Character: The Lunatic
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume) to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
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A Sailor's Sweetheart
Title: A Sailor's Sweetheart
Character: Mark
Released: September 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Cynthia Botts is the headmistress of a girls' school who has left a fortune on the condition that no scandal could ever be associated with her name. But scandal, in the form of Sandy McTavish, a romantic sailor and Charlotte Ralston is just around the corner.
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The Clown
Title: The Clown
Character: Bert Colton
Released: September 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent crime drama Directed by William James Craft.
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The Desired Woman
Title: The Desired Woman
Character: Lieutenant Kellogg
Released: August 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Grant Payne
Released: August 15, 1927
Type: Movie
When a pretty small-town girl with no talent goes to Hollywood, what could go wrong? She could get Stranded!
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The Satin Woman
Title: The Satin Woman
Character: Maurice
Released: July 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
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What Happened To Father
Title: What Happened To Father
Character: Victor Smith
Released: June 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Film was released in 1927
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The Yankee Clipper
Title: The Yankee Clipper
Character: Paul de Vigny
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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Paying the Price
Title: Paying the Price
Character: Michael Donovan
Released: April 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
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Quarantined Rivals
Title: Quarantined Rivals
Character: Ed, the barber
Released: February 28, 1927
Type: Movie
Quarantined Rivals is a 1927 silent Comedy
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The Final Extra
Title: The Final Extra
Character: Mervin Le Roy
Released: February 7, 1927
Type: Movie
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-stage atmosphere of the theatre, set against the sinister shadow of a bootleg gang and the glitter of a big musical comedy "first night" in a whirlwind of dramatic action. A hot-shot newspaper reporter and a Broadway show-girl provide the romance.
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Lucky Fool
Title: Lucky Fool
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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My Official Wife
Title: My Official Wife
Character: Nicholas
Released: October 16, 1926
Type: Movie
A glittering drama of Imperial Russia in the days before the Revolution and the reckless life of the aristocracy in the days of the Czar, featuring gorgeous gowns, beautiful women and spectacular settings.
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Almost a Lady
Title: Almost a Lady
Character: Henri
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Marcia, a pretty young girl, goes to work as a model for a lecherous dress-shop owner. She resists his advances, despite his giving her expensive gifts. One day Mrs. Reilly, a prominent society woman and a customer of the shop, invites Marcia to a party she's throwing. Marcia winds up impersonating a famous writer in order to impress a "duke" for Mrs. Reilly, who doesn't know the "duke" isn't really a duke. Complications ensue.
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The Amateur Gentleman
Title: The Amateur Gentleman
Character: Viscount John Devenham
Released: August 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Barbanas Barty inherits some money, sets off to London, meets and falls in love with Lady Cleone Meredith, and this does not set well with Sir Mortiner Carnaby, who has eyes on the fair lady himself. Barnaby becomes friend with Viscount Devehon, buys a horse from him and enters it in the big steeplechase. Sir Mortimer takes steps to rid society of the presence of this non-gentleman.
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Devil's Island
Title: Devil's Island
Character: André Le Févier
Released: July 20, 1926
Type: Movie
A wealthy Parisian surgeon finds himself serving time in a brutal penal colony.
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Footloose Widows
Title: Footloose Widows
Character: J.A. Smith
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
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Brooding Eyes
Title: Brooding Eyes
Character: Drummond
Released: March 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out about this, they conspire to cheat her out of her inheritance by passing off one of the gangster's girlfriends as the real daughter. Unbeknownst to the gang, however, their leader isn't dead and finds out what they're up to. Complications ensue.
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The Devil's Circus
Title: The Devil's Circus
Character: Lieberkind
Released: February 14, 1926
Type: Movie
In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
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Flaming Waters
Title: Flaming Waters
Character: Jasper Thorne
Released: December 13, 1925
Type: Movie
After several years' absence, the young sailor Dan O'Neill returns to his hometown. He quickly discovers that his mother has been cheated out of her life savings by slick oil speculator Jasper Thorne and is now working as a charwoman. Dan tries to avenge his mother's loss by swindling the swindler.
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The Unchastened Woman
Title: The Unchastened Woman
Character: Lawrence Sanbury
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him and, not telling him of her pregnancy, runs off to Europe where she has her child and becomes the toast of European society. Then she returns to settle with her husband once and for all.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Valentin (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Silent Sanderson
Title: Silent Sanderson
Character: Jim Downing
Released: April 13, 1925
Type: Movie
When Silent Sanderson's brother kills himself over the rejection of a woman, Silent blames Judith Benson and leaves the family homestead to begin a new life in Alaska. He is later reunited with Judith Benson, only to discover that his brother didn't commit suicide at all but was murdered by the woman's jealous husband.
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Sackcloth and Scarlet
Title: Sackcloth and Scarlet
Character: Samuel Curtis
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent Drama
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Empty Hearts
Title: Empty Hearts
Character: Frank Gorman
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively and engaging Clara Bow), doesn't care -- she turns down the fancy jewelry offered by oily Frank Gorman for a wedding ring from Kimberlin. Even though his finances never improve, Rosalie sticks by her husband only to sicken and die in a garret. Kimberlin's luck changes almost overnight and he becomes incredibly wealthy.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Thomas Chadwick
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie