J. Farrell MacDonald

J. Farrell MacDonald

Born: June 5, 1875
Died: August 2, 1952
in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
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John Farrell MacDonald (June 6, 1875 – August 2, 1952) was an American character actor and director. He played supporting roles and occasional leads. He appeared in over 325 films over a 41-year career from 1911 to 1951, and directed forty-four silent films from 1912 to 1917.

MacDonald was the principal director of L. Frank Baum's Oz Film Manufacturing Company, and he can frequently be seen in the films of Frank Capra, Preston Sturges and, especially, John Ford.

Early in his career, MacDonald was a singer in minstrel shows, and he toured the United States extensively for two years with stage productions. He made his first silent film in 1911, a dramatic short entitled The Scarlett Letter made by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), the forerunner of Universal Pictures,. He continued to act in numerous films each year from that time on, and by 1912 he was directing them as well. The first film he directed was The Worth of a Man, another dramatic short, again for IMP, and he was to direct 43 more films until his last in 1917, Over the Fence, which he co-directed with Harold Lloyd. MacDonald had crossed paths with Lloyd several years earlier, when Lloyd was an extra and MacDonald had given him much-needed work – and he did the same with Hal Roach, both of whom appearing in small roles in The Patchwork Girl of Oz, which MacDonald directed in 1914. When Roach set up his own studio, with Lloyd as his principal attraction, he hired MacDonald to direct.

By 1918, MacDonald, who was to become one of the most beloved character men in Hollywood, had given up directing and was acting full-time, predominantly in Westerns and Irish comedies. He first worked under director John Ford in 1919's A Fight for Love. In all, Ford would use MacDonald on twenty-five films between 1919 and 1950.

With a voice that matched his personality, MacDonald made the transition to sound films easily, with no noticeable drop in his acting output – if anything, it went up. In 1931, for instance, MacDonald appeared in 14 films – among them the first version of The Maltese Falcon, in which he played "Detective Tom Polhaus" – and in 22 of them in 1932. Although he played laborers, policemen, military men and priests, among many other characters, his roles were usually a cut above a "bit part". His characters usually had names, and he was most often credited for his performances. A highlight of this period was his performance as the hobo "Mr. Tramp" in Our Little Girl with Shirley Temple (1935).

In the 1940s, MacDonald was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in seven films written and directed by Sturges. MacDonald appeared in Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Great Moment, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Unfaithfully Yours and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges' last American film. Earlier, MacDonald had also appeared in The Power and the Glory, which Sturges wrote. His work on Sturges' films was generally uncredited. He was notable in 1946 in John Ford's My Darling Clementine in which he played "Mac," the bartender in the town saloon. MacDonald also had uncredited roles in It's a Wonderful Life and Here Comes The Groom.

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Title: Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
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Superman and the Mole-Men
Title: Superman and the Mole-Men
Character: Pop Shannon
Released: November 23, 1951
Type: Movie
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
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Here Comes the Groom
Title: Here Comes the Groom
Character: Husband on Airplane
Released: September 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Title: Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Character: Mr. Kroeger
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Posing as a man over 70, a lecturer (Clifton Webb) enters an old-folks home to prove age is a state of mind.
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Woman on the Run
Title: Woman on the Run
Character: Cap, the Retired Ferryboat Captain
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Aided by a newspaperman, Danny Leggett, Eleanor sets out to locate her husband. The killer is also looking for him, and keeps close tabs on Eleanor.
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Hostile Country
Title: Hostile Country
Character: Mr. Lane (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.
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The Daltons' Women
Title: The Daltons' Women
Character: Alvin
Released: February 25, 1950
Type: Movie
The Dalton gang has moved west taking new identities and Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are after them. They receive help from Pinkerton agent Joan Talbot as they try to sort out who the bad guys really are.
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When Willie Comes Marching Home
Title: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Character: Gilby - Pharmacist (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
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Dakota Lil
Title: Dakota Lil
Character: Ellis
Released: February 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Female outlaw helps lawmen trap railroad bandits.
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The Dalton Gang
Title: The Dalton Gang
Character: Judge Price
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navajos or the Dalton Gang.
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You're My Everything
Title: You're My Everything
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Hollywood beckons, and we follow the star careers of the O'Connor family in silents and talkies.
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Streets of San Francisco
Title: Streets of San Francisco
Character: Pop Lockhart
Released: April 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.
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Trouble Preferred
Title: Trouble Preferred
Character: Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
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Whispering Smith
Title: Whispering Smith
Character: Bill Baggs
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Shep Comes Home
Title: Shep Comes Home
Character: Sheriff Cap Weatherby
Released: December 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.
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The Walls of Jericho
Title: The Walls of Jericho
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In a small town in Kansas, a county attorney in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman.
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Title: Belle Starr's Daughter
Character: Doc Benson
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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Fury at Furnace Creek
Title: Fury at Furnace Creek
Character: Pops Murphy (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
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Sitting Pretty
Title: Sitting Pretty
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Tacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter. Tacey puts an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter, and the ad is answered by Lynn Belvedere. But when she arrives, she turns out to be a man. And not just any man, but a most eccentric, outrageously forthright genius with seemingly a million careers and experiences behind him.
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Panhandle
Title: Panhandle
Character: Doc Cooper
Released: February 22, 1948
Type: Movie
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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If You Knew Susie
Title: If You Knew Susie
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
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Thunder in the Valley
Title: Thunder in the Valley
Character: McPherson - Innkeeper
Released: November 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister is complicated by a predatory animal that is attacking the flocks of local shepherds.
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Christmas Eve
Title: Christmas Eve
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Title: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Character: Mac, Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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Keeper of the Bees
Title: Keeper of the Bees
Character: Postmaster
Released: July 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
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Web of Danger
Title: Web of Danger
Character: Scotty MacKronish - Bus Driver
Released: June 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Title: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Man Whose Grandfather Planted Tree (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Goodbye, Weeds
Title: Goodbye, Weeds
Character: Gardener
Released: October 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A sales pitch for an herbicide/fertilizer for the lawn made by Sherwin Williams.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: Mac the barman
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Smoky
Title: Smoky
Character: Jim, the Cook
Released: June 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
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Joe Palooka, Champ
Title: Joe Palooka, Champ
Character: Long-Count Bowman
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Pillow of Death
Title: Pillow of Death
Released: December 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Bank Guard (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Johnny Angel
Title: Johnny Angel
Character: Capt. Angel
Released: October 25, 1945
Type: Movie
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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Circumstantial Evidence
Title: Circumstantial Evidence
Character: Jury Foreman
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Character: Mr. Carney The Junkman (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1945
Type: Movie
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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Hangover Square
Title: Hangover Square
Character: Street Vendor (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1945
Type: Movie
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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Greenwich Village
Title: Greenwich Village
Character: O'Shea, policeman
Released: September 27, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: The Priest
Released: July 18, 1944
Type: Movie
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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Texas Masquerade
Title: Texas Masquerade
Character: John Martindale
Released: February 8, 1944
Type: Movie
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
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True to Life
Title: True to Life
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Tiger Fangs
Title: Tiger Fangs
Character: Geoffrey MacCardle
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A big-game hunter travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry.
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The Ape Man
Title: The Ape Man
Character: Captain O'Brien
Released: March 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
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Harrigan's Kid
Title: Harrigan's Kid
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
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The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Title: The McGuerins from Brooklyn
Character: Cop
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett operates a big taxi-fleet company together and because of a misunderstanding Tim's wife Sadie thinks he is having an affair with his secretary, Ms. Lucy Gibbs. To annoy Tim, Sadie starts taking classes with a fitness instructor, Samson, and later going with him to his out-of-town health club. To sort out all the misunderstandings both Tim and Eddie go to the health club as well.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Capt. Mitchell
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: Police Captain
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Officer O'Donnell (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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The Living Ghost
Title: The Living Ghost
Character: Police Lt. 'Pete' Peterson
Released: August 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.
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One Thrilling Night
Title: One Thrilling Night
Character: Police Sergeant Haggerty
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
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Reap the Wild Wind
Title: Reap the Wild Wind
Character: Port Captain
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
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Captains of the Clouds
Title: Captains of the Clouds
Character: Dr. Neville (from Churchtown)
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Henry Hathaway
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Private Snuffy Smith
Title: Private Snuffy Smith
Character: Gen. Rosewater
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
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Law of the Timber
Title: Law of the Timber
Character: Adams
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood.
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Riders of the Timberline
Title: Riders of the Timberline
Character: Jim Kerrigan
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
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Broadway Limited
Title: Broadway Limited
Character: Mulcahey
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
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The Great Lie
Title: The Great Lie
Character: Dr. Ferguson
Released: April 5, 1941
Type: Movie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Tim Casey
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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Meet John Doe
Title: Meet John Doe
Character: 'Sourpuss'
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
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Friendly Neighbors
Title: Friendly Neighbors
Character: Sheiff Potts
Released: November 17, 1940
Type: Movie
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-film "Weaver Brothers and Elviry" comedy-drama series. The singing hayseed family's journey begins when a drought destroys their farm. The young travelers soon hook up with a band of tramps and end up in a small town that has been nearly destroyed by the floods that occasionally roar through it. The Weavers' are moved by the townsfolk's plight and so decide to stay a spell and help out.
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Untamed
Title: Untamed
Character: Doctor Billar
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
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Pony Express Days
Title: Pony Express Days
Character: Nevada Jim
Released: July 13, 1940
Type: Movie
In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
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Stagecoach War
Title: Stagecoach War
Character: Jeff Chapman
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.
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The Last Alarm
Title: The Last Alarm
Character: Jim Hadley
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist. As he gets closer to finding the killer, things become dangerous for him and his family.
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Prairie Law
Title: Prairie Law
Character: Sheriff Jim Austin
Released: June 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Judge Curry is selling Austin's land to nesters and his men are rustling his cattle to provide beef. When the Sheriff accuses butcher Gore of possessing stolen beef, Gore kills him. Curry then holds a quick election to change the county seat so he can preside at the trial. But Brill gets the Governor to change it back and this leads to the big shootout between Curry's men and Brill and the ranchers.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Insp. Tim Ryan
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Light of Western Stars
Title: Light of Western Stars
Character: Bill Stillwell
Released: April 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Easterner Madeline Hammond buys a ranch not knowing Hayworth is using it to smuggle ammunition across the border. When trouble starts, she brings back Gene Stewart ex-foreman who left the country after fighting with the Sheriff.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Dave
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Knights of the Range
Title: Knights of the Range
Character: Cappy
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Russell Hayden, taking a break from playing Hopalong Cassidy pictures, stars as Renn Frayne, a college-educated youth heading westward who finds more than he bargained for. Following a terrifying run-in with an outlaw gang, Frayne aligns himself with the heroine Holly Ripple (Jean Parker), whose father's cattle ranch is in danger of falling into the hands of the villains. Victor Jory as Malcolm Lascallie, the wily gambler,
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The Gentleman from Arizona
Title: The Gentleman from Arizona
Character: Wild Bill Coburn
Released: December 25, 1939
Type: Movie
The "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a successful racetrack career. Everything comes to a head during the climactic Big Race, with the expected (but still satisyfing) results. Ruth Reece and Joan Barclay share the leading-lady responsibilities, while the villainy is in the capable hands of Monogram's ace utility actor Craig Reynolds.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Captain
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Joe, Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1939
Type: Movie
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
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Coast Guard
Title: Coast Guard
Character: Capt. Hansen (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Captain of the Falcon
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Mickey the Kid
Title: Mickey the Kid
Character: Sheriff J.J. Willoughby
Released: July 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children.
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Susannah of the Mounties
Title: Susannah of the Mounties
Character: Pat O'Hannegan
Released: June 13, 1939
Type: Movie
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Judge
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Craig Dolan
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Little Orphan Annie
Title: Little Orphan Annie
Character: 'Pop' Corrigan
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: CWO 'Sails' Quincannon
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Come On, Rangers
Title: Come On, Rangers
Character: Colonel Forbes
Released: November 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Chief Reardon
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Last Express
Title: The Last Express
Character: William Barton (Detective Agency Head)
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
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There Goes My Heart
Title: There Goes My Heart
Character: Officer
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
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The Crowd Roars
Title: The Crowd Roars
Character: Father Patrick Ryan
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
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Barefoot Boy
Title: Barefoot Boy
Character: Warden
Released: August 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.
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White Banners
Title: White Banners
Character: Dr. Thompson
Released: June 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Numbered Woman
Title: Numbered Woman
Character: Capt. Ryan
Released: May 22, 1938
Type: Movie
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.
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Extortion
Title: Extortion
Character: Coach Pearson
Released: May 9, 1938
Type: Movie
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
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State Police
Title: State Police
Character: Charlie Wheeler
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: Mayor Jim Hopkins
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
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Courage of the West
Title: Courage of the West
Character: Buck Saunders
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices.
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County Fair
Title: County Fair
Character: Calvin Williams
Released: November 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Racetrack drama about a young jockey accused of drugging his horse.
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The Game That Kills
Title: The Game That Kills
Character: Joe Holland
Released: September 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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My Dear Miss Aldrich
Title: My Dear Miss Aldrich
Character: 'Doc' Howe
Released: September 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits a newspaper whose editor refuses to hire lady reporters.
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Shadows of the Orient
Title: Shadows of the Orient
Character: Inspector Sullivan
Released: August 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Policeman
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Roaring Timber
Title: Roaring Timber
Character: Andrew MacKinley
Released: July 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley, who has to deliver the timber within sixty days.
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Flying Fists
Title: Flying Fists
Character: Bill 'One-Punch' Fagin
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
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Slim
Title: Slim
Character: Pop
Released: June 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl, who hates their dangerous profession.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Proprietor
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Parnell
Title: Parnell
Character: Irish Laborer (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
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The Hit Parade
Title: The Hit Parade
Character: Sgt. O'Hara
Released: April 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Captain of Ship
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Great Barrier
Title: The Great Barrier
Character: Major Rogers
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Mysterious Crossing
Title: Mysterious Crossing
Character: Police Chief Bullock
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Character: Windy MacLaine
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Florida Special
Title: Florida Special
Character: Captain Timothy Harrigan
Released: April 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: Michael Devlin
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Riffraff
Title: Riffraff
Character: 'Brains'
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Hitch Hike Lady
Title: Hitch Hike Lady
Character: Judge Hale
Released: December 28, 1935
Type: Movie
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
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Fighting Youth
Title: Fighting Youth
Character: Coach Parker
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Trinidad Dorn
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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Waterfront Lady
Title: Waterfront Lady
Character: Capt. O'Brien
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Harry Cromwell
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Matthews is paid 40,000 dollars in cash by Nick Conrad for his shipment of silk from China. About 15 seconds after he gets the cash, he's lured away on a false pretence and robbed by Conrad's henchmen. Newspaper reporter Jerry Mason witnesses the robbery and steals the cash from Conrad.
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The Irish in Us
Title: The Irish in Us
Character: Capt. Jackson
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Hallohan
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Marshal Andy Jordan
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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The Healer
Title: The Healer
Character: Applejack
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Mr. Keefer
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Swellhead
Title: Swellhead
Character: Umpire
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
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Star of Midnight
Title: Star of Midnight
Character: Inspector Doremus
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
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The Whole Town's Talking
Title: The Whole Town's Talking
Character: Prison Warden (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
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Northern Frontier
Title: Northern Frontier
Character: Inspector
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Captain--Harbor Patrol
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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Maybe It's Love
Title: Maybe It's Love
Character: The Cop
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
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Romance in Manhattan
Title: Romance in Manhattan
Character: Officer Murphy
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
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Our Little Girl
Title: Our Little Girl
Character: Hobo
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa decide to get a divorce, unaware of the effect their problems are having on their daughter Molly. When Elsa announces plans to remarry, Molly runs away from home.
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Beggar's Holiday
Title: Beggar's Holiday
Character: Pop Malloy
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman falls in love with the man of her dreams, not knowing that he's an embezzler who's about to flee the country.
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Once to Every Woman
Title: Once to Every Woman
Character: John Flannigan
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.
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The Crime Doctor
Title: The Crime Doctor
Character: Kemp
Released: March 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
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The Crosby Case
Title: The Crosby Case
Character: The Doorman--Mike Costello
Released: March 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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Man of Two Worlds
Title: Man of Two Worlds
Character: Michael
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.
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Murder on the Campus
Title: Murder on the Campus
Character: Police Capt. Ed Kyne
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
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Under Secret Orders
Title: Under Secret Orders
Character: John Burke
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.
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Myrt and Marge
Title: Myrt and Marge
Character: Grady
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Mulligan
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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I Loved a Woman
Title: I Loved a Woman
Character: Shuster
Released: September 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Title: How to Break 90 #6: Fine Points
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Prison Warden
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Patrick Shamus 'Pat' O'Connell
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Henry 'Hank' Davis
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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The Vanishing Frontier
Title: The Vanishing Frontier
Character: Waco
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
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The Iron Master
Title: The Iron Master
Character: J.C. Stillman
Released: February 4, 1933
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of an iron foundry dies, and his greedy heirs are outraged when they find out that he left his entire estate not to them but to the foreman of his foundry.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: 'Dickie' Collins
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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The Racing Strain
Title: The Racing Strain
Character: Mr. Martin
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and resume his career, but it may be too late for that.
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Me and My Gal
Title: Me and My Gal
Character: Pop Riley
Released: December 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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Men Are Such Fools
Title: Men Are Such Fools
Character: Prison Warden Randolph
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife is having an affair with a local lowlife; when he turns up dead, the husband is jailed for his murder, even though he protests his innocence.
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The Pride of the Legion
Title: The Pride of the Legion
Character: Chief Scott
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.
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Heritage of the Desert
Title: Heritage of the Desert
Character: Adam Naab
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
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This Sporting Age
Title: This Sporting Age
Character: Jerry O'Day
Released: September 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Polo, a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals by driving a small ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet.
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70,000 Witnesses
Title: 70,000 Witnesses
Character: State Coach
Released: September 9, 1932
Type: Movie
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
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Hearts of Humanity
Title: Hearts of Humanity
Character: Tom O'Hara
Released: August 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Genial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
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The Phantom Express
Title: The Phantom Express
Character: D.J. 'Smokey' Nolan
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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The Thirteenth Guest
Title: The Thirteenth Guest
Character: Captain Ryan
Released: August 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
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The Hurricane Express
Title: The Hurricane Express
Character: Jim Baker
Released: August 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyone
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: John Adams
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Week-End Marriage
Title: Week-End Marriage
Character: Mr. Davis
Released: June 18, 1932
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a hard-working husband loses his job and his wife becomes the bread winner.
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Title: The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Character: Police Sgt. J.B. Antrim (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1932
Type: Movie
A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
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Scandal for Sale
Title: Scandal for Sale
Character: Treadway
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Probation
Title: Probation
Character: George Holman
Released: March 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
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Steady Company
Title: Steady Company
Character: Hogan
Released: March 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs.
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Hotel Continental
Title: Hotel Continental
Character: Detective Martin
Released: February 21, 1932
Type: Movie
Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.
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Discarded Lovers
Title: Discarded Lovers
Character: Sommers
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Pop Evans
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Touchdown!
Title: Touchdown!
Character: Pop Stewart
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
Title: The Spirit of Notre Dame
Character: The Coach
Released: October 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's the only man on the team.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: Timson, the butler
Released: August 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'
Released: August 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones uses some unorthodox (some might say magical) methods to help a man with his drive.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: MacGuire
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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Stranger in Town
Title: Stranger in Town
Character: Scout
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Big Bill
Released: July 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Det. Sgt. Tom Polhaus
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
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Too Young to Marry
Title: Too Young to Marry
Character: Rev. Stump
Released: May 3, 1931
Type: Movie
In this comedy drama set in a small town, a milque-toast gets a backbone and stands up to his overbearing wife. Only one of his daughters is on his side. The family is amazed and shocked by his sudden change. At first they rebel, but when he defies his wife and allows his good daughter to marry the grocery boy she loves, they finally come to respect him.
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Dan Lewis
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Policeman
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Woman Hungry
Title: Woman Hungry
Character: Buzzard
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
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The Easiest Way
Title: The Easiest Way
Character: Ben Murdock
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.
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The Painted Desert
Title: The Painted Desert
Character: Jeff Cameron
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
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Other Men's Women
Title: Other Men's Women
Character: Peg-Leg
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
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The Truth About Youth
Title: The Truth About Youth
Character: Colonel Graham
Released: November 3, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
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River's End
Title: River's End
Character: O'Toole
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Sonora Slim
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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Song o' My Heart
Title: Song o' My Heart
Character: Rafferty
Released: March 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Broken hearts in Ireland. Sean is a great tenor, in semi-retirement, living in a village close to Mary, the woman he’s always loved. Mary’s aunt convinced her to marry a man for his money; he has recently deserted her, leaving her penniless. She and her two children, Eileen and Tad, move in with the selfish and austere aunt. Eileen is falling in love with Fergus, a young man who’s off to Dublin to seek his fortune. Sean is drawn out of retirement and goes on tour in America. At his first concert, he’s nervous and out of sorts until the last song, when peace descends on him like a gift. What has happened, and can family life be set right?
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Men Without Women
Title: Men Without Women
Character: Costello
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
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South Sea Rose
Title: South Sea Rose
Character: Hackett
Released: December 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
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The Painted Angel
Title: The Painted Angel
Character: Pa Hudler
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The Painted Angel is a 1929 black and white American film. The storyline is based on a story by Fannie Hurst, "Give This Little Girl a Hand."
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Train Conductor
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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Masquerade
Title: Masquerade
Character: Joe Hickey
Released: July 14, 1929
Type: Movie
The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
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Masked Emotions
Title: Masked Emotions
Character: Will Whitten
Released: June 22, 1929
Type: Movie
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Strong Boy
Title: Strong Boy
Character: Angus McGregor
Released: March 3, 1929
Type: Movie
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
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In Old Arizona
Title: In Old Arizona
Character: Stage Passenger (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: James 'Aloysius' Riley
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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4 Devils
Title: 4 Devils
Character: The Clown
Released: October 3, 1928
Type: Movie
The circus provides the backdrop for this melodrama that chronicles the lives of four children raised within the big top. Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan who had borrowed it from Fox Studios. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Mary Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
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None But the Brave
Title: None But the Brave
Character: John Craig
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
College hero Charles Stanton fails miserably as an insurance agent; so he becomes a lifeguard, saves an injured swimmer and is rewarded for his valor.
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Abie's Irish Rose
Title: Abie's Irish Rose
Character: Patrick Murphy
Released: April 19, 1928
Type: Movie
When a Catholic and a Jew wed they find themselves disowned by both of their families.
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Bringing Up Father
Title: Bringing Up Father
Character: Jiggs
Released: March 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Title: The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Released: January 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Character: The Photographer
Released: November 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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East Side, West Side
Title: East Side, West Side
Character: Pug Malone
Released: October 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully exploits star George O’Brien’s championship boxing prowess.
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Paid to Love
Title: Paid to Love
Character: Peter Roberts
Released: July 23, 1927
Type: Movie
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and they come up with a scheme to get the Crown Prince married, a prospect not particularly appealing to the Crown Prince--until he sees the beautiful cabaret dancer the pair has picked for him to marry.
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Cradle Snatchers
Title: Cradle Snatchers
Character: George Martin
Released: May 28, 1927
Type: Movie
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Drake, and Kitty Ladd-- arrange with three college boys-- Henry Winton, Oscar, and Joe Valley-- to flirt with them at a house party. Joe Valley, who poses as a hot-blooded Spaniard, is vamped by Ginsberg in female attire, and Oscar, a bashful Swede, uses caveman methods when aroused. During a rehearsal of the party, the three husbands arrive, followed by their flapper friends, leading to comic complications.
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: McGuire
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Title: Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
Character: Sloan
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping clerk, Roy Davis, and is promoted to chief model for the firm, owing to the patronage of Morton, the wealthy and wicked manager. Bertha is about to take a position in Paris as designer when Morton lures her to his home.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Sgt. Cassidy
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
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The Family Upstairs
Title: The Family Upstairs
Character: Joe Heller
Released: August 29, 1926
Type: Movie
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3 Bad Men
Title: 3 Bad Men
Character: Mike Costigan
Released: August 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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A Trip to Chinatown
Title: A Trip to Chinatown
Character: Benjamin Strong
Released: June 6, 1926
Type: Movie
A young hypochondriac who believes that he has only a week to live. His name, by the way, is Welland Strong. He decides to visit his uncle in the short amount of time he has left in the world. Eventually Strong winds up in Chinatown.
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The Shamrock Handicap
Title: The Shamrock Handicap
Character: Con O'Shea
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
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The First Year
Title: The First Year
Character: Mr. Barstow
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband's.
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The Fighting Heart
Title: The Fighting Heart
Character: Jerry
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
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Thank You
Title: Thank You
Character: Andy
Released: October 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham. On the day he arrives there pretty Diane Lee, the niece of local Rev. David Lee, arrives from Paris. A few days later Kenneth, reverting back to his wild ways, gets drunk and makes a spectacle of himself, but rather than reproving him, Rev. Lee gives him a heart-to-heart talk and gets Kenneth to turn his life around. Meanwhile, the reverend--barely able to get by on the pittance the local vestrymen pay him--asks for a raise but is denied it, being told that he must send Diane away before they'll even consider giving him any extra money. Soon afterward Kenneth falls gravely ill. His father, hearing of Kenneth's condition and of his infatuation with Diane, arrives at the village to see his son and isn't ready for what he finds.
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Kentucky Pride
Title: Kentucky Pride
Character: Donavan
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes as her breeder (Henry B. Walthall) is forced to sell her when he loses everything in a poker game. Several of the era’s most famous racehorses make appearances, including the legendary champion thoroughbred Man o’ War.
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The Lucky Horseshoe
Title: The Lucky Horseshoe
Character: Mack
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares for the owner's daughter who is taken to Europe by an aunt. Two year later the woman returns from Europe with her new wealthy fiancée and plans to hold their wedding at the ranch, which the foreman has turned into a successful tourist destination. The foreman's feelings for the woman have not been diminished by the years, and after learning some damaging information about the fiancée, the foreman must find a way to stop the wedding. (Wiki)
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Lightnin'
Title: Lightnin'
Character: Lemuel Townsend
Released: August 23, 1925
Type: Movie
Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.
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Let Women Alone
Title: Let Women Alone
Character: Commodore John Gordon
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Viola Brothers Shore.
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Those Who Dare
Title: Those Who Dare
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
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The Brass Bowl
Title: The Brass Bowl
Character: Hickey
Released: November 6, 1924
Type: Movie
After arriving unexpectedly at his country home, Dan Maitland discovers a young woman attempting to open his safe. She mistakes him for Anisty, a notorious thief who is Dan's double, and he gives her the jewels from the safe. Anisty appears, and there follow confusion and thrilling episodes in which Anisty is captured, escapes, and poses as Dan. Dan finally brings Anisty to justice and declares his love for Sylvia, who confesses she was searching Dan's safe to recover papers that might incriminate her father.
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The Iron Horse
Title: The Iron Horse
Character: Corporal Casey
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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The Signal Tower
Title: The Signal Tower
Character: Pete
Released: July 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
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Western Luck
Title: Western Luck
Character: 'Chuck' Campbell
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Story of twin brothers. One becomes a rancher, the other grows up on the East coast. The Easterner tries to foreclose on his brother's property, which, unbeknownst to its owner, contains oil.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Duc de Moing (Prologue)
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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Drifting
Title: Drifting
Character: Murphy
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine where her loyalties lie.
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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: Silas Martin
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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Quicksands
Title: Quicksands
Character: Col. Patterson
Released: February 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Lon Chaney plays a Parisian sculptor who falls in love with his model (Mildred Manning). She, however, cares nothing for him. The film is considered lost.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: Amhad Beg - Prime Minister
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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The Ghost Breaker
Title: The Ghost Breaker
Character: Sam Marcum
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts.
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The Bonded Woman
Title: The Bonded Woman
Character: Captain Gaskell
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-servitude to a dance-hall in Honolulu to a remote South Seas island. She survives a shipwreck along the way.
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Over the Border
Title: Over the Border
Character: Peter Galbraith
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine whiskey across the Canadian border. When she tries to warn her father and brother of the approaching police, she is arrested with the entire gang.
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Come on Over
Title: Come on Over
Character: Michael Morahan
Released: March 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
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Sky High
Title: Sky High
Character: Jim Frazer (as J. Farrel MacDonald)
Released: January 15, 1922
Type: Movie
A government agent investigates a ring that is smuggling Chinese aliens across the border from Mexico. His investigation takes him to the Grand Canyon. He finds a dazed girl wandering around who has become separated from her companions and is lost. He and the girl are soon found by her companions - the smuggling ring!
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Trailin'
Title: Trailin'
Character: Joseph Piotto
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A Tom Mix classic! Tom is a devil-may-care aristocrat whose father has mysteriously concealed all info about his deceased mother. One day, an old man shows up and shoots Tom's father dead! The only clue Tom has is a picture of a far-away ranch in Idaho that was hidden away for years in a secret locked room in their mansion.
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Riding with Death
Title: Riding with Death
Character: Sheriff Pat Garrity
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Steve Dorsey searches for the villain who murdered his partner.
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Action
Title: Action
Character: Mormon Peters
Released: September 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Three Outlaws came across a stranded baby and must decide to save the child or escape from the law.
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The Wallop
Title: The Wallop
Character: Neuces River
Released: May 9, 1921
Type: Movie
John Wesley Pringle, adventurer at large, returns home after making his strike and finds his old girl friend, Stella, engaged to Christopher Foy, who is running for sheriff. Pringle foils an attempt by incumbent sheriff Matt Lisner to kill Foy, but when Foy is accused of a murder, Pringle, in a clever ruse, captures Foy, holds the posse at gunpoint, and then releases him, explaining his motive.
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Desperate Youth
Title: Desperate Youth
Released: April 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Will the orphan girl win her hero in spite of scheming relatives who seek to keep her in the background?
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The Freeze-Out
Title: The Freeze-Out
Character: Bobtail McGuire
Released: April 9, 1921
Type: Movie
Into the town of Broken Buckle rides a stranger who threatens to open a new gambling establishment to rival the one operated by Denver Red and Headlight Whipple. The latter's sister, Zoe, who disapproves of her brother's saloon and is the local schoolteacher and owner of a notions store, tries to interest The Stranger in reforming the vice-ridden community.
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Hitchin' Posts
Title: Hitchin' Posts
Character: Joe Alabam (as J. Farrell McDonald)
Released: September 13, 1920
Type: Movie
Jefferson Todd and Louis Castiga, brothers-in-law, come to blows on a Mississippi River steamer when Todd discovers Castiga's presence there with a woman.
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The Path She Chose
Title: The Path She Chose
Character: Father
Released: May 24, 1920
Type: Movie
Virginia Clerson lives in sordid surroundings with her drunken father, her thieving brother Frank and her wastrel sister Laura. Deciding to take a different path, Virginia runs away from her unhappy home and obtains work in a millinery factory, telling her employer, Frederick Parker, that her relatives are all dead. Virginia works hard, soon becoming superintendent of the factory, and Frederick falls in love with her. She rescues Laura from her lot as a scrubwoman, but just as Virginia and Frederick are to be married, Frank appears and reveals his sister's past.
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Bullet Proof
Title: Bullet Proof
Character: Jim Boone
Released: May 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Pierre Winton promises to avenge his father's killing at the hands of McGuirk, the bandit. While hunting for McGuirk, Pierre comes upon Mary Brown who has been badly injured in a rock slide. They fall in love, but while attempting to rescue Mary, Pierre is trapped and rendered unconscious in another rock slide. Saved by Jim Boone's band of outlaws, Pierre joins the gang, and Boone's daughter Jackie falls in love with him, but, Pierre still loves Mary, from whom he has been separated.
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Marked Men
Title: Marked Men
Character: Tom Placer McGraw
Released: December 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank. Lost film. A remake of 1916's "The Three Godfathers," which also starred Harry Carey.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Released: June 29, 1919
Type: Movie
The owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love with her, but he must decide whether to let her go to his best friend, with whom he believes her to be in love, or to try to win her for himself.
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A Sporting Chance
Title: A Sporting Chance
Character: Luther Ripley aka Kennedy
Released: June 28, 1919
Type: Movie
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.
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Riders of Vengeance
Title: Riders of Vengeance
Character: Buell
Released: June 9, 1919
Type: Movie
Harry's bride is murdered at their wedding along with Harry's mother and father, and the good-hearted outlaw turns grimly malevolent.
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A Fight For Love
Title: A Fight For Love
Character: The Priest
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.
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Roped
Title: Roped
Character: Butler
Released: January 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.
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$5,000 Reward
Title: $5,000 Reward
Character: Norcross
Released: May 25, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder his nephew takes flight but, with the help of a young woman whose life he saves, he has to try and track down the real murderer.
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Rags
Title: Rags
Character: Paul Ferguson (as Joseph Farrell MacDonald)
Released: August 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Mary Pickford plays "Rags," a pretty but wild girl who defends her alcoholic father a disgraced bank cashier, no matter how he mistreats her. Enter a handsome engineer whose family had once fired Rag's father for theft. Rags falls in love but realizes that marriage is a hopeless proposition considering her lowly place in society. But when she learns that her father plans to rob the newcomer, Rags betrays him to the sheriff, and he is shot in the ensuing battle.
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A Timely Repentance
Title: A Timely Repentance
Character: Louis Nordell
Released: March 11, 1912
Type: Movie
A lost film. John Crawford, an honest mechanic, and Wilbur Robinson, a young man of leisure, both love the same girl. She marries Crawford and they have a baby. Crawford is engaged in perfecting an invention and money is short leaving the wife dissatisfied. Robinson notes this fact and lures her away. She goes with him deserting the baby, leaving a note for her husband. While awaiting the train to leave the city they visit a picture house. The story thrown on the screen is identical to their own experience. Unable to witness the closing scenes and filled with remorse, Mrs. Crawford begs to leave and hurries home, hoping she may get there before her husband returns.
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'Tween Two Loves
Title: 'Tween Two Loves
Character: Farmer Howard
Released: September 28, 1911
Type: Movie
A story of an only daughter of a farmer; her mother is dead and she is her father's consolation. She grows up and falls in love with the young man in her father's employ, but when they tell the father of their love affair, he orders the lover off the place. He goes, but later returns and takes the girl with him, followed by a father's curse.
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The Lighthouse Keeper
Title: The Lighthouse Keeper
Character: The Lighthouse Keeper
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of an attempt on the part of Duncan to force his unwelcome attentions on Polly. He is soundly thrashed by Tom and vows vengeance.
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The Dream
Title: The Dream
Character: Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1911
Type: Movie
A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.