Paul E. Burns

Paul E. Burns

Born: January 25, 1881
Died: May 17, 1967
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Paul E. Burns...

Barefoot in the Park
Title: Barefoot in the Park
Character: Bum in Park (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1967
Type: Movie
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate behavior on a double date causes conflict, and the young couple considers divorce.
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Stage to Thunder Rock
Title: Stage to Thunder Rock
Character: Joe Withers
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
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Bristle Face
Title: Bristle Face
Character: Bailiff
Released: January 26, 1964
Type: Movie
In the rolling, wooded hills of Tennessee in the 1920s, a 14-year-old orphan, Jace, comes to town with his hound dog and tries to teach him to hunt. Bristle Face is unskilled, but he shows remarkable ability in tracking down foxes. Jace stays with a kindly shopkeeper who defends the boy and Bristle Face against the sheriff whom they have angered.
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Mooncussers
Title: Mooncussers
Character: Mose
Released: December 2, 1962
Type: Movie
A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea. The ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
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Pocketful of Miracles
Title: Pocketful of Miracles
Character: Mallethead (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Fimbria (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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Guns of the Timberland
Title: Guns of the Timberland
Character: Bill Burroughs
Released: February 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Logger Jim Hadley and his lumberjack crew are looking for new forest to cut. They locate a prime prospect outside the town of Deep Wells. The residents of Deep Wells led by Laura Riley are opposed to the felling of the trees, believing that losing them would cause mudslides during the heavy rains. Conflict between the town's residents and the loggers is inevitable.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Janitor
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Face of a Fugitive
Title: Face of a Fugitive
Character: Jake the Barber
Released: May 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A man who was falsly accused for murder escapes the sheriffs and starts a new life in a town at the border of the States to Mexico. But he cannot settle in peace as his chasers are trying to find him.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Fred Waller
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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Gunman's Walk
Title: Gunman's Walk
Character: Cook
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.
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Domino Kid
Title: Domino Kid
Released: October 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Proprietor
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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Title: Alcoa Theatre
Character: Papa Saintene
Released: September 30, 1957
Type: TV
Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre. In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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The Hired Man
Title: The Hired Man
Character: Knute Matthews
Released: September 10, 1957
Type: Movie
The LA County sheriff's department is on the hunt for a man who approaches his victims as a prospective used car buyer. Directed by Don Siegel for the "Code 3" TV series.
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Love Me Tender
Title: Love Me Tender
Character: Jethro (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1956
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until the Feds come looking for it.
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The Proud Ones
Title: The Proud Ones
Character: Billy Smith (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1956
Type: Movie
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild cattle drovers isn't enough, a crooked casino operator from Ryan's past comes to town. An early scuffle in the casino leaves Ryan with vision problems that interfere with his duties. Jeffrey Hunter who came to town with a cattle drive encounters Ryan, who killed Hunter's father when Hunter was young. Feelings of animosity soon change as Hunter begins to sense Ryan is telling the truth about his father. What follows is a plot that continues to thicken to the inevitable showdown.
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Stranger at My Door
Title: Stranger at My Door
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't the preservation of his family's safety. Hollis reasons that, with time, patience and a lot of faith, he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. But Clay's criminal tendencies may run deeper than the preacher had imagined
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Fury at Gunsight Pass
Title: Fury at Gunsight Pass
Character: Squint
Released: February 15, 1956
Type: Movie
An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
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Glory
Title: Glory
Character: Squeaky Bob
Released: January 11, 1956
Type: Movie
A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
Title: The Man with the Golden Arm
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
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The Desperate Hours
Title: The Desperate Hours
Character: Chef at Al's Dining Room
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Furrier Assistant
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Fisherman
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Proprietor
Released: October 2, 1955
Type: TV
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Title: Cheyenne
Character: Marty
Released: September 20, 1955
Type: TV
Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Character: Dooley Dolan (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
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Lay That Rifle Down
Title: Lay That Rifle Down
Character: Mr. Gribble
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.
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Apache
Title: Apache
Character: General Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Adams
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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Title: Annie Oakley
Character: Telegrapher
Released: January 9, 1954
Type: TV
Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
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Girls in the Night
Title: Girls in the Night
Character: Blind Minosa
Released: January 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
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Toughest Man in Arizona
Title: Toughest Man in Arizona
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Marshal Landry captures outlaw Girard and bringing him in finds a woman and two children, the only survivors of an Indian attack. Later, transferring the prisoner his brothers free him. Then a stage is robbed of a silver shipment by Girard and his brothers. Examining telegrams gets Landry a confession from Girard's girlfriend. The telegraph line has been tapped and the telegrapher is the supposedly dead husband of the woman he brough in. Now knowing Girard's location he sets out after him.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Lu Song
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Son of Paleface
Title: Son of Paleface
Character: Ebenezer Hawkins
Released: July 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Flaming Feather
Title: Flaming Feather
Released: February 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
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Silver City
Title: Silver City
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Having masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the industry. He then sets up shop as an assayer, scheming to acquire a rich silver mine lease from its operators.
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Warpath
Title: Warpath
Character: Bum
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
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The Big Gusher
Title: The Big Gusher
Character: Cappy Groves
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Hoping to strike it rich, four people--two best buddies, a blonde waitress and a cheerful oldtimer--pool their resources so they can drill for oil. A Columbia Pictures B-film from 1951.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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Santa Fe
Title: Santa Fe
Character: Uncle Dick Wootton
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Frank Hauser
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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Frenchie
Title: Frenchie
Character: Rednose
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Chain Gang
Title: Chain Gang
Character: Dr. Evans (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
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Sunset in the West
Title: Sunset in the West
Character: Telegrapher Blinky Adams
Released: September 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
Title: The Fuller Brush Girl
Character: Pop (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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Summer Stock
Title: Summer Stock
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1950
Type: Movie
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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It's a Small World
Title: It's a Small World
Character: Italian Truck Farmer
Released: June 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Harry Musk is one in a million. That means that he's the one out of a million children who is perfectly proportioned but will never grow larger than a typical six-year-old. Adult, pint-sized Harry longs to be part of the big world.
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Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Title: Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.
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The Woman on Pier 13
Title: The Woman on Pier 13
Character: J.T. Arnold
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
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Armored Car Robbery
Title: Armored Car Robbery
Character: Mr. Kelly - Valley Auto Court Manager (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1950
Type: Movie
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.
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No Sad Songs for Me
Title: No Sad Songs for Me
Character: Florist (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.
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The Good Humor Man
Title: The Good Humor Man
Character: Mr. Watkins (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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Young Man with a Horn
Title: Young Man with a Horn
Character: First Pawnbroker (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so Rick becomes a star musician, but a troubled marriage and the desire to play pure jazz instead of commercial swing songs cause him problems.
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Tarnished
Title: Tarnished
Character: Sam Haines
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
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Montana
Title: Montana
Character: Tecumseh Burke
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
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The Grass Is Always Greener
Title: The Grass Is Always Greener
Character: Granny
Released: January 7, 1950
Type: Movie
Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.
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The Reckless Moment
Title: The Reckless Moment
Character: Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Chinatown at Midnight
Title: Chinatown at Midnight
Released: November 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a lady friend who operates an antique shop gets mixed up in a twisted murder plot.
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Mary Ryan, Detective
Title: Mary Ryan, Detective
Character: Collins
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
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Lust for Gold
Title: Lust for Gold
Character: Bill Bates
Released: June 10, 1949
Type: Movie
A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
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Johnny Allegro
Title: Johnny Allegro
Character: Gray
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Treasury Department officials recruit a florist (Raft) to lead them to a wanted criminal (Macready); but once he gets too close, he finds he's the hunted.
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Tulsa
Title: Tulsa
Character: Tooley (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1949
Type: Movie
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
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Hideout
Title: Hideout
Character: Pops, the janitor
Released: March 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Mr. Abbey
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.
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Ladies of the Chorus
Title: Ladies of the Chorus
Character: Mr. Craig
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.
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Whispering Smith
Title: Whispering Smith
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Smith is an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him. He also seems to have an interest in Murray's wife (and vice versa).
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Belle Starr's Daughter
Title: Belle Starr's Daughter
Character: Clearwater Doctor
Released: November 13, 1948
Type: Movie
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find her killer.
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Rusty Leads the Way
Title: Rusty Leads the Way
Character: Postman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.
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Black Eagle
Title: Black Eagle
Character: Hank Daniels
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
Black Eagle is based on The Passing of Black Eagle, a short story by O. Henry. William Bishop stars as Jason Bond, who stays out of trouble by the simple expedient of avoiding other people. Unfortunately, the plot dictates that Bond must come into contact with several characters, all of whom end up fleecing our hero in one way or another. Even so, Jason manages to enjoy a brief romance with pretty Ginny Long (Virginia Patton) before returning to his life of carefree vagabondage. A very minor film, The Black Eagle makes the most of its excellent supporting cast, including Gordon Jones, Trevor Bardette, Will Wright and stuntman extraordinaire Richard Talmadge.
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Hollow Triumph
Title: Hollow Triumph
Character: Clerk
Released: August 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
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Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Len Briggs (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A man wrongly accused of murder tracks the true culprit across the desert.
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Adventures in Silverado
Title: Adventures in Silverado
Character: Sam Perkins
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western based on Stevenson's The Silverado Squatters is a dandy, high-spirited adventure yarn.
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Madonna of the Desert
Title: Madonna of the Desert
Character: Hank Davenport
Released: February 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous power to ward off evil, and Monica, after a narrow escape from injury while trying to steal the statue, is converted to Joe's faith and refuses to go through with the robbery. Nick has no such intentions.
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Rudolph Zeiss
Released: February 4, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
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Unconquered
Title: Unconquered
Character: Dan McCoy
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Professor Ordson
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Smoky River Serenade
Title: Smoky River Serenade
Character: Pop Robinson
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
The ramshackle Smoky River Ranch is all that stands in the way of a developer and a big real-estate deal, but the old man who owns the ranch won't sell it, because he has to take care of some down-and-out theater people to honor his dead son's memory. Frustrated, the developer sends in a pretty young girl to try to trick the old man into selling the ranch.
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Desperate
Title: Desperate
Character: Uncle Jan
Released: June 20, 1947
Type: Movie
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: The Night Watchman
Released: February 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.
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The Pilgrim Lady
Title: The Pilgrim Lady
Character: Oscar
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Dennis Carter, the head of a detective agency, and his secretary, Henrietta Rankin, get involved in the murder of a scandal-peddling, blackmailing radio commentator, and evidence point toward Henrietta. Dennis sets out to clear her and also find the real culprits.
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My Dog Shep
Title: My Dog Shep
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.
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Shadowed
Title: Shadowed
Character: Lefty
Released: September 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Fred J. Johnson (Lloyd Corrigan) scores a hole-in-one but his next drive, using the lucky, initialed golf ball, soars out of bounds and lands near a spot where some counterfeiters are burying a murder victim. Then begins a series of events in which he is hounded and threatened by the killers. The consequences of his not reporting what he saw to the police lead to a climax in which is daughter is held hostage by the crooks.
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Renegades
Title: Renegades
Character: Alkali Kid
Released: June 13, 1946
Type: Movie
The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
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The Devil's Mask
Title: The Devil's Mask
Character: Leon Hartman
Released: May 23, 1946
Type: Movie
A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
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Mysterious Intruder
Title: Mysterious Intruder
Character: Edward Stillwell
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
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The Hoodlum Saint
Title: The Hoodlum Saint
Character: Mr. Smith (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1946
Type: Movie
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
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Night Editor
Title: Night Editor
Character: Ole Strom
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Fallen Angel
Title: Fallen Angel
Character: News Vendor (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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Purity Squad
Title: Purity Squad
Character: Janitor John Billings (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1945
Type: Movie
This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.
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The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Title: The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Character: 'Latitude' Bucket
Released: October 23, 1945
Type: Movie
In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Small Man (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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The Southerner
Title: The Southerner
Character: Uncle Pete Tucker
Released: April 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
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Alaska
Title: Alaska
Character: Carter
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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Barbary Coast Gent
Title: Barbary Coast Gent
Character: Tim Shea
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Pelzer (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
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Dragon Seed
Title: Dragon Seed
Character: Shen - Neighbor
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Gardener-Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Simmons - Desk Clerk
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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Dixie Dugan
Title: Dixie Dugan
Character: Sign Painter
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Title: The Ox-Bow Incident
Character: Winder (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
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The Meanest Man in the World
Title: The Meanest Man in the World
Character: Farmer in Traffic Accident
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and tries to convince the world he's a ruthless heel. Suddenly he's the most popular lawyer in town -- but he could lose his fiancée.
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The Mummy's Tomb
Title: The Mummy's Tomb
Character: Jim, the Caretaker
Released: October 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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Timber!
Title: Timber!
Character: Pop Turner (as Paul Burns)
Released: August 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
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Tough as They Come
Title: Tough as They Come
Character: Phillips
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: General Store Clerk
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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The Mystery of Marie Roget
Title: The Mystery of Marie Roget
Character: Gardner
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Kidnapper
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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Swamp Water
Title: Swamp Water
Character: Tulle McKenzie
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Belle Starr
Title: Belle Starr
Character: Sergeant
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.
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Men of the Timberland
Title: Men of the Timberland
Character: Lucky
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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Western Union
Title: Western Union
Character: Stagecoach Depot Master
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
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Chad Hanna
Title: Chad Hanna
Character: Budlong
Released: December 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Character: Furniture Company Move
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Bitter Sweet
Title: Bitter Sweet
Character: Lathered Man (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Man with California Gold News
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Dance, Girl, Dance
Title: Dance, Girl, Dance
Character: Reporter Calling Elinor (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Young People
Title: Young People
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: First Hobo
Released: July 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by. Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man. But he can't go home again.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Guard on Ship
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Riding School Records Clerk
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Lillian Russell
Title: Lillian Russell
Character: Soldier
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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Little Orvie
Title: Little Orvie
Character: Angelo, Grocer
Released: March 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
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Broadway Melody of 1940
Title: Broadway Melody of 1940
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Title: The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Character: Jake
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Hank--Waiter
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Tavern Keeper
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Title: Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Character: Railroad Dispatcher
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Suspect
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Racetrack Taxi Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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The Spellbinder
Title: The Spellbinder
Character: Hotel Clerk (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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Undercover Doctor
Title: Undercover Doctor
Character: Mack Belton
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Dr. Bartley Morgan covers up his profitable illegalities with the respectable veneer of a posh, highly profitable private practice, he runs with his nurse Margaret Hopkins. The FBI agent Robert Anders has to catch on to Morgan's illicit activities.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Loafer (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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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Chump
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Return of the Cisco Kid
Title: The Return of the Cisco Kid
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: April 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
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The Saint Strikes Back
Title: The Saint Strikes Back
Character: Organ Grinder (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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Jesse James
Title: Jesse James
Character: Hank
Released: January 14, 1939
Type: Movie
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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Hell Harbor
Title: Hell Harbor
Character: Blinky
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Lovely Anita dreams of escaping the monotony of her island home and sailing to bustling Havana. But when her abusive father promises her to the greasy local merchant, Anita does everything in her power to make her dream a reality.