Robert Gleckler

Robert Gleckler

Born: January 10, 1887
Died: February 25, 1939
in Pierre, South Dakota, USA

Movies for Robert Gleckler...

They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Doc Ward (Johnnie's Manager)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Sheriff Barney
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Tarnished Angel
Title: Tarnished Angel
Character: Checkers, Casino Owner
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Fugitives for a Night
Title: Fugitives for a Night
Character: J.G. McGee
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
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Little Miss Broadway
Title: Little Miss Broadway
Character: Detective
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Eddie
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: Nolan
Released: May 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Gun Law
Title: Gun Law
Character: Flash Arnold
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from drinking bad water. When he gets to Gunsight, everyone thinks that he is the outlaw Raven and he plays it out so that he can end lawlessness.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Title: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Character: Hardcastle
Released: December 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Hal Lynch
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
Title: The Man Who Cried Wolf
Character: Capt. Walter Reid
Released: August 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Head Waiter
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Squadron Lieutenant Commander
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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King of Gamblers
Title: King of Gamblers
Character: Ed Murkil
Released: April 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Marty Cavanaugh
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: Bruno
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a corporation. During a fierce sea-storm, Raglan rescues the passengers of a floundering ship, which includes the owner of the island, his daughter and her fiancée. The owner threatens to charge Ragland with poaching on private property, and then a gang of seal-skin thieves make an entrance.
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The Girl on the Front Page
Title: The Girl on the Front Page
Character: Bill
Released: September 26, 1936
Type: Movie
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Hinkle, a Gangster
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Love Begins at Twenty
Title: Love Begins at Twenty
Character: Gangster Mugsy O'Bannion - aka Harold McCauley
Released: August 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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I'd Give My Life
Title: I'd Give My Life
Character: Buck Gordon
Released: August 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The movie, like the play "The Noose" on which it is based, is the story of a young man wrongfully convicted of and sentenced to be hanged for a murder which he never committed.
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Yours for the Asking
Title: Yours for the Asking
Character: Slick Doran
Released: July 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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Absolute Quiet
Title: Absolute Quiet
Character: Jasper Cowdray
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's political adversary, Gov. Sam Pruden, and a nosy reporter. As the long night unfolds, each person's rivalries and weaknesses are prodded by the others.
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Too Tough to Kill
Title: Too Tough to Kill
Character: Bill Anderson
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
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Whipsaw
Title: Whipsaw
Character: Steve Arnold
Released: December 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Hot jewels from London make their way to New York, where they are stolen by racketeer Ed Dexter, who hides them with the help of his vivacious girlfriend, Vivian Palmer. Federal agent Ross McBride goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and, suspecting Vivian can lead him to the jewels, comes to her aid when she is chased by a rival gang. The two flee to the Midwest with both gangs in pursuit, but Vivian is not as gullible as Ross thinks.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Gus Hansen
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Simmons
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Dean
Released: August 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Editor Hooley
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Shad O'Rory
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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The Headline Woman
Title: The Headline Woman
Character: Harry Chase
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
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Mister Dynamite
Title: Mister Dynamite
Character: James V. King - Chief of Detectives
Released: April 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Pete Brown
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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The Case of the Curious Bride
Title: The Case of the Curious Bride
Character: Detective Byrd
Released: April 13, 1935
Type: Movie
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.
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The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: Delaney
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Police Captain
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: 'Doc' Carson
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Lou Gentry
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Now I'll Tell
Title: Now I'll Tell
Character: Al Mossiter
Released: June 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Gavin
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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Very Close Veins
Title: Very Close Veins
Character: Doc
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!
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Take a Chance
Title: Take a Chance
Character: Mike Caruso
Released: November 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
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Defenders of the Law
Title: Defenders of the Law
Character: Gangster
Released: May 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
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The Finger Points
Title: The Finger Points
Character: Sphinx Club Manager Larry Haynes
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police on a raid and Lee in the hospital.
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Big Money
Title: Big Money
Character: Monk
Released: October 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
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The Sea God
Title: The Sea God
Character: Big Schultz
Released: September 13, 1930
Type: Movie
The Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South Pacific.
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Mother's Boy
Title: Mother's Boy
Character: Gus LeGrand
Released: July 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Young Irish lad Tommy O'Day lives in a poor section of New York's Lower East Side, and is blessed with a beautiful singing voice. After an argument with his father, who accuses him of stealing the family's life savings, Tommy leaves home and gets a job singing in a cabaret. He is successful and soon lands the lead in a Broadway revue. On opening night, just as he is about to go on stage, he receives word that his mother, who he has not seen since he left home, is dying and wants to see him.