Kent Taylor

Kent Taylor

Born: May 11, 1907
Died: April 11, 1987
in Nashua, Iowa, USA
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Kent Taylor (May 11, 1907 – April 11, 1987) was an American actor.

Born Louis William Weiss in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor appeared in more than 110 films, the bulk of them B-movies in the 1930s and 1940s, although he also had roles in more prestigious studio releases, including I'm No Angel (1933), Death Takes a Holiday (1934), Payment on Demand (1951), and Track the Man Down (1955).

In the 1950s, with his movie career on the decline and television production on the upswing, he played the title role in 58 episodes of the detective series Boston Blackie and the lead in 39 episodes of ABC's The Rough Riders (1958–1959). Other small screen credits include My Little Margie, Tales of Wells Fargo, Zorro, Bat Masterson, Peter Gunn, and Hawaiian Eye. The last years of his career were spent in slasher and horror films with titles like Satan's Sadists, Blood of Ghastly Horror, I Spit on Your Corpse, and Hell's Bloody Devils.

Taylor is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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The Crawling Hand
Title: The Crawling Hand
Character: Dr. Max Weitberg
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: Movie
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living.
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Girls for Rent
Title: Girls for Rent
Character: Moreno
Released: October 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.
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The Phantom of Hollywood
Title: The Phantom of Hollywood
Character: Wickes
Released: February 12, 1974
Type: Movie
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its backlot to Hollywood property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm
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Angel's Wild Women
Title: Angel's Wild Women
Character: Parker
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: Movie
These angels don't wear halos. After stomping the lights out on a couple of racist rapists, some tough biker babes take refuge in a rural commune run by a peace-loving guru who's actually a drug kingpin with a vicious gang -- and who specializes in human sacrifices.
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Brain of Blood
Title: Brain of Blood
Character: Dr. Trenton
Released: August 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try and salvage this tale.
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Hell's Bloody Devils
Title: Hell's Bloody Devils
Character: Count von Delberg
Released: May 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
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The Mighty Gorga
Title: The Mighty Gorga
Character: Tonga Jack Adams
Released: July 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.
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Satan's Sadists
Title: Satan's Sadists
Character: Lew
Released: June 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The "Satans" are a very cruel biker gang led by Anchor. The gang goes to a diner in the middle of nowhere in the California desert where they begin to terrorize Lew and his patrons and his waitress, Tracy. After a little killing, one of the patrons named Johnny manages to escape from the bikers into the desert. They need to reach a town before the Satans catch up to them and kill them.
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Title: Land of the Giants
Character: Doc Jelko
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: TV
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.
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Brides of Blood
Title: Brides of Blood
Character: Dr. Paul Henderson
Released: May 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
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Blood Of Ghastly Horror
Title: Blood Of Ghastly Horror
Character: Elton Corey
Released: December 17, 1967
Type: Movie
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
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Title: Rango
Released: January 13, 1967
Type: TV
Rango is an American Western situation comedy starring comedian Tim Conway which was broadcast in the United States on the ABC television network in 1967. In Rango, Conway played an inept Texas Ranger who had been assigned to the quietest post the Rangers had, Deep Wells, so as to keep him from creating unnecessary trouble. The Rangers apparently had wanted him removed from the service altogether but were prevented from doing so by the fact that his father was their commander. But he seemed to bring his own trouble with him, as crime suddenly returned to a place that had seen very little of it the prior 20 years. Also appearing in Rango was the American Indian character Pink Cloud, an overly-assimilated Indian who was very fond of the ways of the whites and whose command of the English language was generally better than theirs. The theme song co-written by Earle Hagen and sung by Frankie Laine. The series ran for less than a year. TV Guide ranked the series number 47 on its TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list in 2002.
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Law of the Lawless
Title: Law of the Lawless
Character: Attorney Rand McDonald
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
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The Crawling Hand
Title: The Crawling Hand
Character: Dr. Max Weitzberg
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.
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Harbor Lights
Title: Harbor Lights
Character: Dan Crown
Released: July 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Professional gambler Dan Crown arrives in San Juan to visit his brother Alex, only to learn from the police that Alex has been found murdered. To Captain Acosta's questioning, Dan answers that he had no knowledge of his brother's affairs. Dan then finds Gina Rosario searching his hotel room, and together they begin to investigate Alex's death.
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The Day Mars Invaded Earth
Title: The Day Mars Invaded Earth
Character: Dr. David Fielding
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Martians replace scientist & his family to pave way for invasion.
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The Firebrand
Title: The Firebrand
Character: Maj. Tim Bancroft
Released: August 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A Mexican outlaw begins a one-man war against corrupt California Rangers who are harassing Hispanic locals during the California Gold Rush.
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The Broken Land
Title: The Broken Land
Character: Marshal Jim Cogan
Released: March 31, 1962
Type: Movie
A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.
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The Purple Hills
Title: The Purple Hills
Character: Johnny Barnes
Released: October 31, 1961
Type: Movie
When a bounty hunter kills an outlaw for the reward, he has to deal with both a man falsely claiming he made the kill, and the revengeful brother of the dead man.
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Walk Tall
Title: Walk Tall
Character: Frank Carter
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
To keep peace, an Army captain (Willard Parker) hunts for an outlaw-gang leader (Kent Taylor) who is raiding Indians.
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Title: Mr. Lucky
Released: October 24, 1959
Type: TV
Mr. Lucky is a CBS adventure/drama television series that aired from October 24, 1959, to June 18, 1960, with repeats until September 3. Blake Edwards developed the program as a retooling of his Willie Dante character from Four Star Playhouse, where the role was played by studio boss Dick Powell. In the 1960–1961 season, Howard Duff assumed the role of Willie Dante in the NBC adventure/drama series Dante. Mr. Edwards directed and co-wrote the first episode of Mr. Lucky, and the credits of the first eighteen episodes included "Entire production supervised by Blake Edwards." Jack Arnold produced the show and directed fifteen of the thirty-four episodes. Henry Mancini's smooth theme music for the show reached Number 21 in the US singles charts. He released two successful LP's based on the show, Mr. Lucky and Mr. Lucky Goes Latin.
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Character: Adam Kendricks
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: Hawaiian Eye
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: TV
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
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Title: Laramie
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: TV
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert L. Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman.
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Morrell
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: TV
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
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Title: Tightrope
Released: September 8, 1959
Type: TV
Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960, under the alternate sponsorship of the J.B. Williams Company, and American Tobacco. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. The show was to have originally been titled Undercover Man but it was changed before going to air.
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Title: 77 Sunset Strip
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: TV
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: John Martin / Gabilan
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Title: The Rough Riders
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
The Rough Riders is an American Western television series set in the West after the American Civil War. It aired on ABC for the 1958-1959 television season. It was produced by Ziv Television, the production company responsible for such hit shows as Bat Masterson, Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt, and Highway Patrol.
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Title: The Rifleman
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black-and-white, half-hour episodes. "The Rifleman" aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first prime time series to have a widowed parent raise a child.
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Title: Bronco
Released: September 23, 1958
Type: TV
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
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Title: Peter Gunn
Released: September 22, 1958
Type: TV
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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Gang War
Title: Gang War
Character: Bryce Barker, Meadows' Attonery
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
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Fort Bowie
Title: Fort Bowie
Character: Col. James Garrett
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Fort Bowie commander Colonel Garrett, suspecting that his wife Alison is having an affair with good-looking Captain Thompson, sends him on a dangerous mission to try to persuade renegade Indian leader Victorio to cease his attacks against white settlers and soldiers.
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Title: Zorro
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Zorro
Character: Carlos Murietta
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Zorro
Character: Carlos Murrietta
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: TV
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Monastario, a cruel man who relishes in the misuse of his power for personal gain. Knowing that he cannot hope to single-handedly defeat Monastario and his troops, Diego resorts to subterfuge. He adopts the secret identity of Zorro, a sinister figure dressed in black, and rides to fight Monastario's injustice.
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Title: Sugarfoot
Character: Hank Farragut
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: TV
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
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The Iron Sheriff
Title: The Iron Sheriff
Character: Phil Quincy
Released: April 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Frontier peacekeeper Sheriff Galt faces a crisis of conscience in The Iron Sheriff. In the aftermath of a robbery-murder, Galt follows the trail of evidence directly to his own son, Benjie. Sworn to uphold the law at all costs, Galt is grimly determined to see that Benjie will receive a fair trial without any coercion on his part. But the townsfolk have already decided that the sheriff will try to spring the boy, and a lynch-mob mentality slows festers its way through the community. As the trial proceeds, it becomes obvious that Benjie is going to hang for his alleged crime, but there's still one or two surprises in store.
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Title: Panic!
Released: March 5, 1957
Type: TV
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Frontier Gambler
Title: Frontier Gambler
Character: Roger Chadwick
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".
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Ghost Town
Title: Ghost Town
Character: Anse Conroy
Released: March 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A stage headed West with a group of passengers is attacked by Cheyenne Indians, and takes refuge in a nearby ghost town.
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Slightly Scarlet
Title: Slightly Scarlet
Character: Frank Jansen, Mayoral Candidate / Mayor of Bay City
Released: February 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
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The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Title: The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues
Character: Dr. Ted Stevens, alias Ted Baxter
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A marine biologist and a government agent investigate mysterious deaths and rumors of a sea monster in a secluded ocean cove, and find themselves involved with a marine biology professor conducting secretive experiments, international spies trying to steal his secrets, a radioactive light on the sea bottom, and the malevolent thing which guards it.
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Secret Venture
Title: Secret Venture
Character: Ted O'Hara
Released: November 10, 1955
Type: Movie
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
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Track the Man Down
Title: Track the Man Down
Character: John Ford
Released: June 6, 1955
Type: Movie
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
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Playgirl
Title: Playgirl
Character: Ted Andrews
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the recriminations...and bullets...start to fly!
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Title: The Ford Television Theatre
Character: Frank Carson
Released: October 2, 1952
Type: TV
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
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Title: My Little Margie
Released: June 16, 1952
Type: TV
My Little Margie is an American situation comedy starring Gale Storm and Charles Farrell that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Payment on Demand
Title: Payment on Demand
Character: Robert Townsend
Released: February 3, 1951
Type: Movie
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.
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Title: The Bigelow Theatre
Released: December 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Bigelow Theatre is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network. This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show, a musical variety program which aired on NBC and CBS in the late 1940s.
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Trial Without Jury
Title: Trial Without Jury
Character: Jed Kilgore
Released: July 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.
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Western Pacific Agent
Title: Western Pacific Agent
Character: Rod Kendall
Released: April 10, 1950
Type: Movie
An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.
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Federal Agent at Large
Title: Federal Agent at Large
Character: Mark Reed, aka Nick Ravel
Released: March 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
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The Sickle or the Cross
Title: The Sickle or the Cross
Character: Rev. John Burnside
Released: July 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a spy who is his double, but who is instructed to come out for Communism. The spy is accepted in Burnside's home town, and he reports to local Communist headquarters, where James John, prominent local businessman but in reality a Red agent, has instructions to assist him in all details of his mission. He does a series of personal appearances and radio interviews and talk shows, using an anti-Communist approach.
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Half Past Midnight
Title: Half Past Midnight
Character: Wade Hamilton
Released: March 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
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Second Chance
Title: Second Chance
Character: Kendal Wolf
Released: July 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves battle investigators.
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The Crimson Key
Title: The Crimson Key
Character: Lawrence 'Larry' Morgan
Released: July 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
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Dangerous Millions
Title: Dangerous Millions
Character: Jack Clark
Released: November 27, 1946
Type: Movie
Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.
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Deadline for Murder
Title: Deadline for Murder
Character: Steve Millard
Released: June 28, 1946
Type: Movie
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
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Tangier
Title: Tangier
Character: Ramon
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
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Young Widow
Title: Young Widow
Character: Peter Waring
Released: March 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.
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Smooth as Silk
Title: Smooth as Silk
Character: Mark Fenton
Released: February 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree.
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The Daltons Ride Again
Title: The Daltons Ride Again
Character: Bob Dalton
Released: November 23, 1945
Type: Movie
The notorious Dalton Boys have decided to go straight and move to Argentina. Just before they leave, they learn of a friend whose land is about to be seized by a greedy land company. Before they can help, the man is killed by a company assassin. The brothers do manage to rescue his widow and head for the hills. There, they decide to revert back to outlaw life. Meanwhile, a newspaper publisher's daughter falls for one of the brothers.
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: Gary Corbett
Released: November 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Title: Roger Touhy, Gangster
Character: Steve Warren
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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Bomber's Moon
Title: Bomber's Moon
Character: Capt. Paul von Block
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
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Army Surgeon
Title: Army Surgeon
Character: Lt. Philip Harvey
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.
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Half Way to Shanghai
Title: Half Way to Shanghai
Character: Frederick Barton, [Screen Credit / Ads Name: Alexander Barton ]
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.
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Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Title: Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Character: Doc Holliday
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: John J. 'Johnny' Forbes
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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Gang Busters
Title: Gang Busters
Character: Det. Lt. Bannister
Released: March 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
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Frisco Lil
Title: Frisco Lil
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love with lawyer Brewster.
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Washington Melodrama
Title: Washington Melodrama
Character: Hal Thorne
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Richard Hughes
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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I'm Still Alive
Title: I'm Still Alive
Character: Steve Bennett
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Hollywood stuntman falls in love with a big name actress but still wants to pursue his risky career. The women gives him a choice-the stunts or her. He chooses the stunts and still manages to get her.
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Men Against the Sky
Title: Men Against the Sky
Character: Martin Ames
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
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The Girl from Avenue A
Title: The Girl from Avenue A
Character: MacMillan Forrester
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
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Girl in 313
Title: Girl in 313
Character: Gregg Dunn
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: 'Chat' Chatsworth
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Phil Mayberry
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Escape to Paradise
Title: Escape to Paradise
Character: Richard Fleming
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
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Sued for Libel
Title: Sued for Libel
Character: Steve Lonegan
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
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Three Sons
Title: Three Sons
Character: Gene Pardway
Released: October 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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Five Came Back
Title: Five Came Back
Character: Joe
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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The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Title: The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Character: Bill Brown
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
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Four Girls in White
Title: Four Girls in White
Character: Robert 'Bob' Maitland
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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The Last Express
Title: The Last Express
Character: Duncan MacLain, Private Detective
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Walter Russell
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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Prescription for Romance
Title: Prescription for Romance
Character: Steve Macy
Released: December 12, 1937
Type: Movie
In this romance, a detective teams up with a count and travels to Budapest in search of an embezzler. While there, the two get involved with a female physician in whose house the criminal is concealed (the doctor doesn't know this). Soon the detective and the doctor are involved.
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A Girl with Ideas
Title: A Girl with Ideas
Character: Frank Barnes
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
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The Lady Fights Back
Title: The Lady Fights Back
Character: Owen Merrill
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
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Love in a Bungalow
Title: Love in a Bungalow
Character: Jeff Langan
Released: June 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A radio contest brings together a woman renting a bungalow, and her squatter. Version of Hi, Beautiful! (1944), both from the story "Be It Ever So Humble," by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Greg Chandler
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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When Love Is Young
Title: When Love Is Young
Character: Andy Russell
Released: March 26, 1937
Type: Movie
In this drama, a girl from a small town in Pennsylvania dreams of being a star while she goes to school. The trouble is, no one notices her. Later a mentor turns her into a successful Broadway entertainer. She returns to her former college to get sweet revenge.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Jerry Welch
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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The Sky Parade
Title: The Sky Parade
Character: Tommy Wade
Released: October 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Felipe Moreno
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
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Florida Special
Title: Florida Special
Character: Wally Tucker
Released: April 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
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My Marriage
Title: My Marriage
Character: John DeWitt Tyler III
Released: January 31, 1936
Type: Movie
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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Two-Fisted
Title: Two-Fisted
Character: Clint Blackburn
Released: October 3, 1935
Type: Movie
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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Without Regret
Title: Without Regret
Character: Steve Paradin
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is dead, she marries a wealthy man. Her new husband's ex-girlfriend, learning of the woman's past and that her first husband is indeed alive, threatens to expose the new wife as a bigamist.
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Smart Girl
Title: Smart Girl
Character: Nick Graham
Released: July 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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College Scandal
Title: College Scandal
Character: Seth Dunlap
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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The County Chairman
Title: The County Chairman
Character: Ben Harvey
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
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Limehouse Blues
Title: Limehouse Blues
Character: Eric Benton
Released: December 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seamy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a smoky nightclub. He falls for a low-class, white pickpocket, diminishing his pride in the Chinese half of his heritage and sparking the jealousy of the nightclub's moody star performer.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Bob Redding
Released: October 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
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Many Happy Returns
Title: Many Happy Returns
Character: Movie Actor (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Double Door
Title: Double Door
Character: Rip Van Brett
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.
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Death Takes a Holiday
Title: Death Takes a Holiday
Character: Corrado
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
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David Harum
Title: David Harum
Character: John Lennox
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
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Cradle Song
Title: Cradle Song
Character: Antonio
Released: November 19, 1933
Type: Movie
In a deeply cloistered convent, nun Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) raises a foundling to be Evelyn Venable. But at 17, what if, guided by a kindly doctor, she sees the world and finds love?
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White Woman
Title: White Woman
Character: David von Elst
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Kirk Lawrence
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Clink Peeples
Released: May 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
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The Story of Temple Drake
Title: The Story of Temple Drake
Character: First Jellybean (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
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A Lady's Profession
Title: A Lady's Profession
Character: Dick Garfield
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Wade Benton
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Russ
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: Bank Teller (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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Blonde Venus
Title: Blonde Venus
Character: Hiker (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
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The Night of June 13
Title: The Night of June 13
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John, and vows revenge on Trudie. John explains to Trudie Elna's condition and plan. Trudie, being good-hearted tells John that she'll move. One evening, John returns late from work to discover Elna dead. John burns Elna's suicide note to protect Trudie. This results in John being charged for murder and put on trial.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Military Policeman
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Greg Boleslavsky
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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Forgotten Commandments
Title: Forgotten Commandments
Character: Gregor
Released: May 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.
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One Hour with You
Title: One Hour with You
Character: Party Guest Greeted by Colette (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Dancers in the Dark
Title: Dancers in the Dark
Character: Saxophonist
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
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The False Madonna
Title: The False Madonna
Character: Footman
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
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The Road to Reno
Title: The Road to Reno
Character: Jackie's Admirer
Released: September 25, 1931
Type: Movie
Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.
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Born to Love
Title: Born to Love
Character: Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.