Robert Homans

Robert Homans

Born: November 7, 1877
Died: July 28, 1947
in Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Edward Homans (November 8, 1877 – July 28, 1947) was an American actor who entered films in 1923 after a lengthy stage career.

Movies for Robert Homans...

Bogart: The Untold Story
Title: Bogart: The Untold Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends and co-workers.
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Badman's Territory
Title: Badman's Territory
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1946
Type: Movie
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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Frontier Days
Title: Frontier Days
Character: Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: Bartender at Manila Hotel (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Man Alive
Title: Man Alive
Character: Uncle Barney McBride (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Come Out Fighting
Title: Come Out Fighting
Character: Police Sergeant Tom Riley
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
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River Gang
Title: River Gang
Character: Police Captain
Released: September 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
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Anchors Aweigh
Title: Anchors Aweigh
Character: Old Cop (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Two sailors, Joe and Clarence have four days shore leave in spend their shore leave trying to get a girl for Clarence. Clarence has his eye on a girl with musical aspirations, and before Joe can stop him, promises to get her an audition with José Iturbi. But the trouble really starts when Joe realizes he's falling for his buddy's girl.
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The Scarlet Clue
Title: The Scarlet Clue
Character: Capt. Flynn
Released: May 11, 1945
Type: Movie
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
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A Medal for Benny
Title: A Medal for Benny
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
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Law of the Badlands
Title: Law of the Badlands
Released: April 14, 1945
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
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The Phantom Speaks
Title: The Phantom Speaks
Character: Death Row Guard (Uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1945
Type: Movie
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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The Big Show-Off
Title: The Big Show-Off
Character: Police Captain
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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Rogues' Gallery
Title: Rogues' Gallery
Character: Police Lieutenant Daniel O'Day (as Bob Homans)
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
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The Merry Monahans
Title: The Merry Monahans
Character: Policeman
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy and Patsy love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Policeman
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Sensations of 1945
Title: Sensations of 1945
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1944
Type: Movie
As dancer Ginny Walker performs on stage, a veiled woman in the audience stands up, accuses Ginny of stealing her husband and then fires a gun at her. After Ginny collapses and is taken to her dressing room, the woman, Julia Westcolt, a friend of Ginny's, dashes backstage, discards her veil, and then congratulates her friend on their successful publicity stunt. When Ginny's press agents, Gus Crane and his son Junior, visit their client backstage, she brags about her feat and chides them for not being more creative in promoting her. Horrified at Ginny's brashness, Junior, a conservative Harvard graduate, chastises her and leaves the room.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Policeman
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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It Happened Tomorrow
Title: It Happened Tomorrow
Released: March 31, 1944
Type: Movie
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
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The Whistler
Title: The Whistler
Character: Dock Watchman (Uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1944
Type: Movie
A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
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Cover Girl
Title: Cover Girl
Character: Pop (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
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Say Uncle
Title: Say Uncle
Character: Errol's Real Uncle
Released: February 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.
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Nearly Eighteen
Title: Nearly Eighteen
Character: Judge
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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Nobody's Darling
Title: Nobody's Darling
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the upcoming school play. But Chuck thinks that she is too untalented and unglamorous to have a part in his production....
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Shantytown
Title: Shantytown
Character: Dugan
Released: April 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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She Has What It Takes
Title: She Has What It Takes
Character: Captain Pat O'Neal
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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A Stranger in Town
Title: A Stranger in Town
Character: Sergeant
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Meehan
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Title: After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: March 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Title: The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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You Can't Beat the Law
Title: You Can't Beat the Law
Character: Mr. Duncan
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
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G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Title: G-men vs. the Black Dragon
Character: Capt. Gorman [Ch. 12-13]
Released: January 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese spies attempt to subvert America's war effort; G-Men attempt to thwart their plot.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Timothy J. Delaney
Released: November 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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For Me and My Gal
Title: For Me and My Gal
Character: New York Palace Doorman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Night Monster
Title: Night Monster
Character: 'Cap' Beggs
Released: October 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
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The Sombrero Kid
Title: The Sombrero Kid
Character: Marshal Thomas Holden
Released: July 31, 1942
Type: Movie
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Friedkin) gang of claim jumpers, Jerry learns that his real father was Bart Clanton, a notorious bandit killed by Marshal Holden, who then raised the orphaned boy as his own.
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Lady in a Jam
Title: Lady in a Jam
Character: Faro Bill
Released: June 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Marshal Alvin Thompson
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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It Happened in Flatbush
Title: It Happened in Flatbush
Character: Mr. Collins
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Officer O'Garrity
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: 1st Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Joe Smith, American
Title: Joe Smith, American
Character: Old Man in Waiting Room (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Joseph
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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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Police Desk Sergeant
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Sheriff Sutherland
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
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Main Street on the March!
Title: Main Street on the March!
Character: Lighthouse Keeper (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street America", the country's military forces, and its industrial base were completely transformed when the decision was made to gear up for war. Original footage is interspersed with contemporary newsreels and stock footage.
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Sierra Sue
Title: Sierra Sue
Character: George Larrabee
Released: November 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To fight a poisonous weed, ranchers are burning their land. Gene is the Inspector brought in and he recommends spraying. The spraying goes well until the Larabee ranch is reached. When Larrabee refuses to allow the equipment on his land, Gene has it sprayed by airplane. Cattle must stay off recently sprayed land and when a Larrabee man shoots down the plane, the crash sends the cattle stampeding toward the newly sprayed land.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Man at Tar Party
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Whistling in the Dark
Title: Whistling in the Dark
Character: Flintwood Policeman (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Capt. Murray
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Out of the Fog
Title: Out of the Fog
Character: Officer Magruder
Released: June 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Pop Wallace
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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A Man Betrayed
Title: A Man Betrayed
Character: Traffic Policeman (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is actually a crook. The price of integrity is sweet in this instance, since Wayne happens to be in love with the politician's daughter (Frances Dee).
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Jailer
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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Love Thy Neighbor
Title: Love Thy Neighbor
Character: Turnkey
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.
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Lady with Red Hair
Title: Lady with Red Hair
Character: Policeman on Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Dooley Pub Owner in Ireland (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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East of the River
Title: East of the River
Character: Patrolman Shanahan
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Rhythm on the River
Title: Rhythm on the River
Character: Detective
Released: August 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
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Son of Roaring Dan
Title: Son of Roaring Dan
Character: Roaring Dan McPhail
Released: July 25, 1940
Type: Movie
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women.
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Pop Always Pays
Title: Pop Always Pays
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: June 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A businessman boasts he'll give his daughter a large amount of cash for her wedding, and then frantically tries to raise the money. This 1940 comedy stars Leon Errol, Marjorie Gateson, Dennis O'Keefe, Adele Pearce and Walter Catlett.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Stage Doorman
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Mike Hanagan
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Beyond Tomorrow
Title: Beyond Tomorrow
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they initially brought together.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Dock Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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Johnny Apollo
Title: Johnny Apollo
Character: Receptionist Guard (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Southerner (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Spencer
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Double Alibi
Title: Double Alibi
Character: Policeman at Diner
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Castle on the Hudson
Title: Castle on the Hudson
Character: Clyde Burton - the Detective Escort (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Policeman
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
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West of Carson City
Title: West of Carson City
Character: Judge Harkins
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
West of Carson City remains one of the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns. The story takes place in a gold-rush community where the locals are taken to the cleaners by duplicitious Eastern gamblers. When it becomes obvious that the local constabulary has been "bought off" by the crooks, two-fisted cattleman Jim Bannister (Brown) swings into action. The film's highlight is an outsized fistic brawl between the hero and secondary villain Breed, played by loose-limbed comic stuntman Frank Mitchell.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Missing Evidence
Title: Missing Evidence
Character: Policeman
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Constable Dunn (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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Blondie Brings Up Baby
Title: Blondie Brings Up Baby
Character: Police Capt. James (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.
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Heroes in Blue
Title: Heroes in Blue
Character: Police Officer
Released: November 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Jonesy, Policeman
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Cooper (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Bartender (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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Smuggled Cargo
Title: Smuggled Cargo
Character: Kincaid
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
When a sudden cold snap hits the Imperial Valley in California, orange growers fear that frost will kill their crops. Orange Growers Association president John Clayton assures his fellow farmers that he will help them obtain the oil needed to keep warming fires burning.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Mac - a Guard (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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They Shall Have Music
Title: They Shall Have Music
Character: Policeman at Barney's Pool Room (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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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Court Policeman at Door (Uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Winter Carnival
Title: Winter Carnival
Character: Conductor
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Hardy
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Five Came Back
Title: Five Came Back
Character: Police Captain (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Twelve people are aboard Coast Air Line's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Mr. Clay (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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Inside Information
Title: Inside Information
Character: Casey
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Policeman
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Title: Calling Dr. Kildare
Character: Hickman - Policeman Bringing Jenny (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Mail Clerk (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Unlucky Cop (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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The Saint Strikes Back
Title: The Saint Strikes Back
Character: Policer Officer Moriarity (Uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Ed the Editor (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
Title: Yes, My Darling Daughter
Character: Sergeant Murphy
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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King of the Turf
Title: King of the Turf
Character: Sgt. Brannigan
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has run away from home, hoping to find a job around horses; his biggest hobby. When he finds out the real identity of Mason, Goldie takes care of him. The two find an occasion to buy a horse for only two dollars, and start entering competitions. Goldie is an instant celebrity, but his mom reads the newspapers and tracks him down. Mason is very surprised to see her, his ex-wife, and even more astonished to hear that Goldie is his own son. However, Goldie must go back to school and so they decide to keep the secret. Since Goldie does not want to leave Mason behind, he goes to the bookies and fixes the next race, hoping to disappoint Goldie by asking him to lose on purpose.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Dock Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Boat Captain Ashman
Released: December 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Next Time I Marry
Title: Next Time I Marry
Character: Bailiff
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Policeman
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
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Slander House
Title: Slander House
Character: The Irish Policeman
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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The Night Hawk
Title: The Night Hawk
Character: Mulruney
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in order to retrieve the iron lung Bobby needs. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Lonigan searches for reporter Slim Torrence, because Slim is friends with Tom Niles, the customs officer on the verge of cracking a whiskey smuggling case. Lonigan is about to send another reporter to cover the story when Della Parrish, the publisher's daughter, assures him that she can locate Slim. With the help of Slim's young photographer, Willie Sing, Della finds Slim in a waterfront dive, and Willie and Slim sneak aboard the Pacific Queen to find Niles. Niles hints that McCormick is the head of the smuggling ring and promises Slim an exclusive when he breaks the story the next day.
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Crashing Through Danger
Title: Crashing Through Danger
Character: Pop Foster
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.
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Think It Over
Title: Think It Over
Released: July 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Title: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Character: Lt. Johnson
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from it's extremely resentful leader.
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Gold Mine in the Sky
Title: Gold Mine in the Sky
Character: Lucky Langham
Released: July 4, 1938
Type: Movie
As executor of the owner's will, singing ranch foreman Gene must see that the daughter/heiress doesn't marry without his approval.
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
Title: Little Miss Thoroughbred
Character: Pat O'Reilly
Released: June 4, 1938
Type: Movie
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: John Davis
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Walking Down Broadway
Title: Walking Down Broadway
Character: Cop
Released: March 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
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Maid's Night Out
Title: Maid's Night Out
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
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Penrod and His Twin Brother
Title: Penrod and His Twin Brother
Character: Chief Flynn
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
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Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Title: Hollywood Stadium Mystery
Character: Captain Joseph Filsom
Released: February 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Miner Grogan (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Cop
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
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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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Police Sgt. Murphy (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Policeman on Morning Beat (Uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey, now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave, a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Private Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Dance Charlie Dance
Title: Dance Charlie Dance
Character: Tim
Released: July 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
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The 13th Man
Title: The 13th Man
Character: Police Lt. Tom O'Hara
Released: June 29, 1937
Type: Movie
A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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The Great Hospital Mystery
Title: The Great Hospital Mystery
Character: Bank Guard
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
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Jim Hanvey, Detective
Title: Jim Hanvey, Detective
Character: Sheriff Garrett
Released: April 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: Policeman
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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The Great O'Malley
Title: The Great O'Malley
Character: Policeman Jim Dugan (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1937
Type: Movie
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O'Brien).
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Time Out for Romance
Title: Time Out for Romance
Character: Cop
Released: February 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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The Plough and the Stars
Title: The Plough and the Stars
Character: Timmy, Barman
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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Sinner Take All
Title: Sinner Take All
Character: Sgt. Donovan (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Ride, Ranger, Ride
Title: Ride, Ranger, Ride
Character: Colonel Summeral
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Cookie (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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The Public Pays
Title: The Public Pays
Character: Officer Donovan (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: 1st Policeman (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Gray (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Title: It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Character: Police Lt. O'Neill
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
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Women Are Trouble
Title: Women Are Trouble
Character: Police Lieutenant Mayer
Released: July 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Det. Sam Belden
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Police Captain Symonds
Released: June 7, 1936
Type: Movie
After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
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Little Miss Nobody
Title: Little Miss Nobody
Character: Policeman
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Incoming Watchman (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Laughing Irish Eyes
Title: Laughing Irish Eyes
Character: Announcer
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
An Irish crooner flirts with prize-fighting.
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Here Comes Trouble
Title: Here Comes Trouble
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Homicide Capt. P.G. Otheron
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Strike Me Pink
Title: Strike Me Pink
Character: Joe - the Cop (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
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Her Master's Voice
Title: Her Master's Voice
Character: Stationmaster
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.
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Suicide Squad
Title: Suicide Squad
Character: Capt. Tim O'Connor
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper publicity which goes to his head. His sweetheart, Mary O'Connor, and fire-department friends begin to shun him as they think he is just a publicity hound. But a daring rescue of Mary and her younger brother, Mickey, from a blazing inferno shows him to be more than just a publicity-chaser and, now, a real hero to all.
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Ship Cafe
Title: Ship Cafe
Character: Derrick Man (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
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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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: Fat Pool Player
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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His Family Tree
Title: His Family Tree
Character: Pub Sailor at Bar
Released: September 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Title: Steamboat Round the Bend
Character: Race Official
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Detractor
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The President Vanishes
Title: The President Vanishes
Character: Cop on the Beat (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Billy the Detective (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Mr. Skitch
Title: Mr. Skitch
Character: Norville - Flat River Sheriff
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew. Comedy, released in 1933.
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Lady Killer
Title: Lady Killer
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
An ex-gangster tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal activities after he accidentally becomes a movie star.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Officer Charlie Brown (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Streetcar Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Desk Sergeant, 12th Precinct
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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She Done Him Wrong
Title: She Done Him Wrong
Character: Doheney
Released: February 9, 1933
Type: Movie
New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Title: Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Character: Cop
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Flannagan
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Bill McGuire - Third-Degree Detective
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Sheriff / Gambling Kibitzer (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Chief of Police
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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Son of Oklahoma
Title: Son of Oklahoma
Character: John Clayton - aka Silent Jack Clay
Released: July 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Verdugo finds a young boy on the desert and raises him as his son. Now a grown man, Dan is framed for a stagecoach robbery by Brent, the same man that shot his father and tried to take him and his mother away twenty years earlier.
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Title: The Man from Hell's Edges
Character: The Sheriff
Released: May 5, 1932
Type: Movie
A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
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Young America
Title: Young America
Character: Patrolman Weems
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: Policeman in Paddy Wagon (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Consolation Marriage
Title: Consolation Marriage
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
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Branded Men
Title: Branded Men
Character: Chairman
Released: November 7, 1931
Type: Movie
When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
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The One Way Trail
Title: The One Way Trail
Character: George Beck
Released: October 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Tim thinks saloon owner Coldeye killed his brother. Seeking the ultimate payback, Tim gets a job in the saloon but has no idea he is targeting the wrong man.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Tim - Detective
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain beginning twenty years earlier when he was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
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Alias: The Bad Man
Title: Alias: The Bad Man
Character: Silas Warner
Released: July 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.
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The Black Camel
Title: The Black Camel
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
Released: June 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police, investigating the unsolved murder, three years earlier, of a Hollywood actor.
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The Public Enemy
Title: The Public Enemy
Character: Officer Pat Burke (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Police inspector
Released: April 18, 1931
Type: Movie
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
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Clearing the Range
Title: Clearing the Range
Character: 'Dad' Moran
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
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The Widow from Chicago
Title: The Widow from Chicago
Character: Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: A Senator - One of Lincoln's Advisors (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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The Concentratin' Kid
Title: The Concentratin' Kid
Character: C.C. Stile
Released: October 26, 1930
Type: Movie
A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.
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Spurs
Title: Spurs
Character: Dad Merril (as Bob Homans)
Released: August 24, 1930
Type: Movie
Bob Merril, looking for the killer of Buddy's father, has found the secret entrance to Pecos' hideout. There he captures Indian Joe who confesses that Marsdan was the killer, But while Bob is off riding in the rodeo his witness escapes.
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The Thoroughbred
Title: The Thoroughbred
Character: Riley
Released: August 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Riley and Donovan, racehorse owners and trainers who have been rivals and enemies for years, seek to befriend Tod Taylor, a jockey, and Ham, a retainer. Tod elects to work for Riley, incurring the enmity of rival jockeys. Riley's daughter, Colleen, sympathizes with Tod and cares for his bruises. Trying to befriend Donovan, Tod wins a match between Riley's colt, Reckless, and Donovan's best horse; and many more victories bolster his confidence. His head is turned by Margie, a come-on girl for Drake, a gambler. She precipitates his dissipation, and Tod is induced to throw the race to avoid a jail sentence.
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Trigger Tricks
Title: Trigger Tricks
Character: Thomas Kingston
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered but Tim has some tricks planned that will even the odds.
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Alias French Gertie
Title: Alias French Gertie
Character: Prison Warden
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
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Son of the Gods
Title: Son of the Gods
Character: Dugan (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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Playing Around
Title: Playing Around
Character: Pirate's Den Waiter (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1930
Type: Movie
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
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The Isle of Lost Ships
Title: The Isle of Lost Ships
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: October 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1929 talking film released in an alternative silent version with a Vitaphone track of effects and music. It was produced by Richard A. Rowland and distributed by Warner Bros..
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The Valiant
Title: The Valiant
Character: Newspaper Printer (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1929
Type: Movie
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
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Burning the Wind
Title: Burning the Wind
Character: Richard Gordon Sr
Released: February 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Two ranchers get together to fight a common enemy and fall in love.
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Guardians of the Wild
Title: Guardians of the Wild
Character: John Warren
Released: September 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.
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Obey Your Husband
Title: Obey Your Husband
Character: Stephens
Released: May 15, 1928
Type: Movie
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Doctor
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
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The Prairie King
Title: The Prairie King
Character: Jim Gardener (as Robert E. Homans)
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late Abner Ferrige. Edna takes possession but Murdock gets her to leave and while the three are away his men take possession. But when the Lawyer arrives to announce that Ferrige never filed, everyone rushes off to be the first at the claims office.
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The Princess from Hoboken
Title: The Princess from Hoboken
Character: McCoy
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
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The Silent Power
Title: The Silent Power
Character: David Webster
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
American silent film directed by Frank O'Connor.
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Wolves of the North
Title: Wolves of the North
Character: Simon Blake
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.