Jack Kenney

Jack Kenney

Born: December 5, 1902
Died: January 27, 1961
in Vladimir, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Movies for Jack Kenney...

When the Clock Strikes
Title: When the Clock Strikes
Character: Cafe Proprietor
Released: June 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
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The Gambler Wore a Gun
Title: The Gambler Wore a Gun
Character: Bartender
Released: May 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
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Gun Fight
Title: Gun Fight
Character: Jake (as Jack Kenny)
Released: April 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Title: Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Character: Shabby Man (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
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Noose for a Gunman
Title: Noose for a Gunman
Character: Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
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A Dog's Best Friend
Title: A Dog's Best Friend
Character: Motel Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1959
Type: Movie
A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
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Vice Raid
Title: Vice Raid
Character: Mob Boss Leo Dempsey
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
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Invisible Invaders
Title: Invisible Invaders
Character: Car Crash Victim
Released: May 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
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Guns, Girls and Gangsters
Title: Guns, Girls and Gangsters
Character: Armored Car Guard (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
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The Tin Star
Title: The Tin Star
Character: Sam Hodges
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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The Joker Is Wild
Title: The Joker Is Wild
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe's demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.
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Chicago Confidential
Title: Chicago Confidential
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Title: Somebody Up There Likes Me
Character: Reformatory Guard (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
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The Catered Affair
Title: The Catered Affair
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
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Battle Stations
Title: Battle Stations
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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Chicago Syndicate
Title: Chicago Syndicate
Character: Crowd Member at Murder Scene (Uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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New York Confidential
Title: New York Confidential
Released: February 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Women's Prison
Title: Women's Prison
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Crime Wave
Title: Crime Wave
Character: Lefty (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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House of Wax
Title: House of Wax
Character: Lodger (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1953
Type: Movie
A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
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Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Title: Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Character: Chopper
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
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Title: Death Valley Days
Character: Contest Judge
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
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Beyond the Forest
Title: Beyond the Forest
Released: October 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Adventure
Title: Adventure
Character: Man in Library (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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Atlantic City
Title: Atlantic City
Character: Ed Gallagher
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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Sleepy Lagoon
Title: Sleepy Lagoon
Character: Lug (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Heckler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Theatrical Agent (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Payoff
Title: The Payoff
Character: Gambling House Cashier (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
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Fall In
Title: Fall In
Character: Cigar Store Customer
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Title: 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Character: Kenny (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Bowery at Midnight
Title: Bowery at Midnight
Character: Usher (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Train Conductor
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Maisie Gets Her Man
Title: Maisie Gets Her Man
Character: Man in Office (Uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Title: A Tragedy at Midnight
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1942
Type: Movie
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Police Lt. Berke
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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The Gang's All Here
Title: The Gang's All Here
Character: Henchman Dink
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Acquaintance (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Clinic Well-Wisher with Cigar (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Ward
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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In Old Monterey
Title: In Old Monterey
Character: Sergeant with Cigar
Released: August 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
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Hell's Kitchen
Title: Hell's Kitchen
Character: Pants - a Henchman (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Wyoming Outlaw
Title: Wyoming Outlaw
Character: Radioman Doyle
Released: June 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Steve
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Gym Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Barker (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Racket Busters
Title: Racket Busters
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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You're a Sweetheart
Title: You're a Sweetheart
Character: Pete (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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The Big Noise
Title: The Big Noise
Character: Schmidt's Henchman (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1936
Type: Movie
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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The Peppery Salt
Title: The Peppery Salt
Character: The Haberdasher
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Studio Employee (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.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Telephone Bet Taker (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Stage Frights
Title: Stage Frights
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
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Uncivil Warriors
Title: Uncivil Warriors
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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Pop Goes the Easel
Title: Pop Goes the Easel
Character: Laughing Art Student (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Guard
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Patron
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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Punch Drunks
Title: Punch Drunks
Character: K.O. Cornerman (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Movie Set Crewman
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.