Eddie Laughton

Eddie Laughton

Born: June 20, 1903
Died: March 21, 1952
in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Eddie Laughton...

The Lost Weekend
Title: The Lost Weekend
Character: Mr. Brophy (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
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The Affairs of Susan
Title: The Affairs of Susan
Character: Bartender at Bright Dollar (Uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a picture of a gay party girl and and the third describes a serious intellectual.
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Sagebrush Heroes
Title: Sagebrush Heroes
Character: Henchman Layton
Released: February 1, 1945
Type: Movie
This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a radio show with Jimmy Wakely (Jimmy Wakely) and his Saddle Pals, and are in town for a rodeo. Reporter Connie Pearson (Constance Worth) persuades them to visit Marty Jones (Elvin Fields), a fatherless boy, who has been sent to a boy's home after stealing Steve's wallet, ran by Tom Goodwin (Forrest Taylor.) Marty tells Steve that the home is a phony and is a front for cattle rustlers. Steve passes the information on to Connie, who doesn't believe him, so he and Jimmy wire the ranch for sound. They are caught and Goodwin turns them over to Sheriff Barnes (Edmund Cobb), and then plans to skip the country
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Open Season for Saps
Title: Open Season for Saps
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.
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Defective Detectives
Title: Defective Detectives
Character: Photographer
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
El and Harry are two office cleaners turned detectives who are assigned to chase a gangster, but they end up catching the husband and wife they are supposed to protect from him.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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The Racket Man
Title: The Racket Man
Character: Henchman Chuck
Released: January 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.
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Ghosts on the Loose
Title: Ghosts on the Loose
Character: Wedding Usher (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1943
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
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Murder in Times Square
Title: Murder in Times Square
Character: Younger Detective
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
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Power of the Press
Title: Power of the Press
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
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His Wedding Scare
Title: His Wedding Scare
Character: Niagara Falls Hotel Desk Clerk
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
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They Stooge to Conga
Title: They Stooge to Conga
Character: Radio Quiz Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
Title: The Boogie Man Will Get You
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: October 22, 1942
Type: Movie
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: George, end barber [script name only: Felix]
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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Vengeance of the West
Title: Vengeance of the West
Character: Henchman
Released: August 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen. She receives help from a sympathetic lawman and from a masked rider known as "the Black Shadow" whose whip-scarred back is evidence of his own grudge against the townsmen.
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Parachute Nurse
Title: Parachute Nurse
Character: Sgt. Laughton
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Nurses parachuting.
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Atlantic Convoy
Title: Atlantic Convoy
Character: Radio Operator
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
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Tireman, Spare My Tires
Title: Tireman, Spare My Tires
Character: Man at Road Block
Released: June 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Harry picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a runaway heiress. Under threat, Harry agrees to help her hide by pretending to be husband and wife.
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Submarine Raider
Title: Submarine Raider
Character: Shannon
Released: June 4, 1942
Type: Movie
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
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Meet the Stewarts
Title: Meet the Stewarts
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Ranger Davidson
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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Cactus Makes Perfect
Title: Cactus Makes Perfect
Character: Gold Mine 'Salesman' (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
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What's the Matador?
Title: What's the Matador?
Character: Telegraph Clerk / Bullring Attendant (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Hank
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Alias Boston Blackie
Title: Alias Boston Blackie
Character: Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison. He takes a girl with him who has a brother already in prison. She has visited the prison twice in the month, so is not suppose to visit again. However when the group is completed the girl is included as well as Inspector Farrady. One of the clowns in the show is kidnapped and replaced by a con who wants to get even with two ex-partners. Boston Blackie figures out that a con has replaced one of his clowns but is unable to stop him. Blackie's clothes are stolen and a murder is committed. Of course, the Inspector immediately suspects Blackie of being involved. Now it is Blackie's job to find the killer, exonerate himself and help the girl free her brother.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Guard
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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Lawless Plainsmen
Title: Lawless Plainsmen
Character: Cowhand Murph
Released: March 17, 1942
Type: Movie
In this western, a ranch foreman and the bosses son go to a saloon to slake their thirst and find themselves in the midst of a battle started by the feisty saloon owner's wicked ex-husband who loots the safe in the ensuing scuffle.
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Bullets for Bandits
Title: Bullets for Bandits
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In a saloon shooting, a cowboy thinks he killed Prince Katey, a man he closely resembles. Cannonball arrives and thinking the cowboy to be Katey, gets him to return to the Katey ranch where the mother is in trouble. She thinks her missing son has returned and even though the Sheriff is chasing him, he decides to take up the mother's fight against the man who is trying to throw her off the ranch.
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Honolulu Lu
Title: Honolulu Lu
Character: Sailor
Released: December 11, 1941
Type: Movie
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
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She's Oil Mine
Title: She's Oil Mine
Character: Clementi, Elsie's suitor; also voice of radio announcer
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Buster fights a duel over a girl.
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Three Girls About Town
Title: Three Girls About Town
Character: Magician
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
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Harmon of Michigan
Title: Harmon of Michigan
Character: Game Spectator Razzing Harmon
Released: September 11, 1941
Type: Movie
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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Mystery Ship
Title: Mystery Ship
Character: Turillo
Released: September 3, 1941
Type: Movie
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
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I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Title: I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
Character: Brisson
Released: August 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.
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The Son of Davy Crockett
Title: The Son of Davy Crockett
Character: Election Official
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their area made part of the United States. A greedy land baron, however, wants the property as his own.
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Hands Across the Rockies
Title: Hands Across the Rockies
Character: Court Clerk
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickock and Cannonball help two young people in love and bring the murderer of Cannonball's father to justice.
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Outlaws of the Panhandle
Title: Outlaws of the Panhandle
Character: Henchman Chad
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Outlaws of the Pandhandle was the last of Charles Starrett's "formula" westerns for Columbia: hereafter, Starrett would be seen only in the guise of frontier medico Steven Monroe or masked do-gooder The Durango Kid. For the moment, however, the star is cast as Jim Endicott, bound and determined to put an end to the underhanded activities of gin-mill operator Faro Jack Vaughn (Norman Willis). The villain's strategy is to get the local cowpunchers tanked up on rotgut that they'll prove to be easy pickings for a gang of rustlers-and will be unable to complete work on a railroad spur which will bypass the outlaws' hideaway.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Steward (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Across the Sierras
Title: Across the Sierras
Character: Ed - Man with Noose
Released: February 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knocking out several baddies and putting up with the zany antics of his sidekick Taylor, Elliott guns down his antagonist, but Luana Walters, the girl he almost marries, will not abide a gunslinger so Elliott is compelled to ride off alone into the sunset once more.
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Thundering Frontier
Title: Thundering Frontier
Character: Clem (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind to old ladies, small animals and heroine Norma Belknap (Iris Meredith). In contrast, the villains are kind to no one, least of all struggling building contractor Square Deal Scottie (Alex Callam), whose projects are continually targeted for demolition and his payroll is forever being stolen at gunpoint. A good 25 percent of the film's running time is given over to Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, whose C&W croonings are pleasant but a bit much. One of the film's few surprises is that Starrett's perennial screen sparring partner Dick Curtis isn't one of the bad guys.
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Beyond the Sacramento
Title: Beyond the Sacramento
Character: Townsman
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the saloon and Adams the newspaper and both are highly respected by the citizens. Bill has foiled their schemes before and this time he breaks into Adams' office and resets the front page saying Adams confesses to be a fugitive criminal. When the citizens gather the next day the end is near for Adams and Crowley.
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Title: The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Character: Measles
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
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West of Abilene
Title: West of Abilene
Character: Poke
Released: October 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
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Cold Turkey
Title: Cold Turkey
Character: Harry's Co-worker
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
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Glamour for Sale
Title: Glamour for Sale
Character: Freddie Walker (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.
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Before I Hang
Title: Before I Hang
Character: Guard
Released: September 17, 1940
Type: Movie
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
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Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Title: Five Little Peppers in Trouble
Character: Mrs. Wilcox's Chauffeur
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.
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The Secret Seven
Title: The Secret Seven
Character: Henchman Bishop
Released: August 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.
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The Lady in Question
Title: The Lady in Question
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
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Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Title: Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: July 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Footsy
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Henchman
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Out West with the Peppers
Title: Out West with the Peppers
Character: Lumberjack
Released: June 30, 1940
Type: Movie
When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" series of four films.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Character: Police Guard
Released: May 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Workman
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Island of Doomed Men
Title: Island of Doomed Men
Character: Borgo - Parolee (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Men Without Souls
Title: Men Without Souls
Character: Lefty
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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The Man from Tumbleweeds
Title: The Man from Tumbleweeds
Character: Banker Jackson
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Title: The Doctor Takes a Wife
Character: Photographer
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
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A Plumbing We Will Go
Title: A Plumbing We Will Go
Character: The Prosecutor
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.
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Blazing Six Shooters
Title: Blazing Six Shooters
Character: Henchman
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bender cooks up a scheme to gain control of both ranches so that he may have a clear field to the silver lode.
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Money Squawks
Title: Money Squawks
Character: Robber (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Pardon My Berth Marks
Title: Pardon My Berth Marks
Character: Train Passenger
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
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Bullets for Rustlers
Title: Bullets for Rustlers
Character: Shorty - Bartender
Released: March 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Steve Beaumont, an operative for the Cattleman's Protective Association, is assigned the difficult task of breaking up a murderous gang of rustlers led by Ed Brock and Strang. He takes Sheriff Webb, Judge Baxter, and rancher Ann Houston into his confidence, and works his way into the rustler stronghold and confidence by "turning rustler" himself.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Jack Pendy (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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You Nazty Spy!
Title: You Nazty Spy!
Character: Vance Rippemup (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
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Nothing But Pleasure
Title: Nothing But Pleasure
Character: Gangster at Cozy Auto Court
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Henchman
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Hal Lunny
Released: October 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
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Good Girls Go to Paris
Title: Good Girls Go to Paris
Character: Railroad Pullman Passenger (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.
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Pest from the West
Title: Pest from the West
Character: Deck Hand (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1939
Type: Movie
A millionaire vacationing in Mexico falls for a local girl and sets out to win her.
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Mandrake the Magician
Title: Mandrake the Magician
Character: Kidnapping Henchman
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: Bystander
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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We Want Our Mummy
Title: We Want Our Mummy
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
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My Son Is a Criminal
Title: My Son Is a Criminal
Character: Walt Fraser
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his footsteps, flat though they may be. Instead, the younger Halloran opts for the easy road of crime.
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Flying G-Men
Title: Flying G-Men
Character: Hall
Released: January 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The Black Falcon, to befuddle the saboteurs even further.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Mustached Henchman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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North of Shanghai
Title: North of Shanghai
Character: Sam
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Berger
Released: August 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.
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Special Inspector
Title: Special Inspector
Character: Henchman, posing as David Foster
Released: February 14, 1938
Type: Movie
U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Bank Robber
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Cash and Carry
Title: Cash and Carry
Character: Bank Teller (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Reporter
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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New News
Title: New News
Character: Party Guest
Released: April 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
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Sailor Maid
Title: Sailor Maid
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
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Slippery Silks
Title: Slippery Silks
Character: Manager of 'Madame de France' (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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Gambling with Souls
Title: Gambling with Souls
Character: Nick
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Grip (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.