Tommy Bupp

Tommy Bupp

Born: February 10, 1924
Died: December 24, 1983
in Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Movies for Tommy Bupp...

Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Doc Stonebraker's Boy (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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Naval Academy
Title: Naval Academy
Character: Joey Martin
Released: June 5, 1941
Type: Movie
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Title: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Character: Raggedy Andy (voice)
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: Timothy as a Child
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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Brother Rat and a Baby
Title: Brother Rat and a Baby
Character: Boy with News of Baby
Released: January 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
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Emergency Squad
Title: Emergency Squad
Character: Jimmy
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other emergencies where lives are at stake. Slade Wiley, an unscrupulous tunnel builder, finds that his low bid on the Newford Tunnel project is causing him to lose a lot of money, and has underworld leader Nick Burton set off blasts to frighten the stockholders into selling their shares at a low price so he can buy up the stock. Betty is investigating the deal when Wiley and Burton take her on a "tour trip" to the tunnel.
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Title: Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Character: Tommy Perkins
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Cheering Boy (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Indianapolis Speedway
Title: Indianapolis Speedway
Character: Haskill's Son
Released: August 5, 1939
Type: Movie
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Urchin (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Mystery Plane
Title: Mystery Plane
Character: Tommy (as a child)
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An American pilot with a top-secret invention is kidnapped by foreign agents.
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Fisherman's Wharf
Title: Fisherman's Wharf
Character: Rudolph
Released: February 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph, and takes over. Poor Toma gets his feelings hurt and the idea he "isn't wanted" and runs away
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Nancy Drew… Detective
Title: Nancy Drew… Detective
Character: Spud Murphy (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1938
Type: Movie
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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Hey! Hey! USA
Title: Hey! Hey! USA
Character: Bertie Schultz
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
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My Bill
Title: My Bill
Character: Football Player Who Beats It (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1938
Type: Movie
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Reformatory
Title: Reformatory
Character: Fibber Regan
Released: June 20, 1938
Type: Movie
A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
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The Devil's Party
Title: The Devil's Party
Character: Young Jerry
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Hunted Men
Title: Hunted Men
Character: G-Men Club Treasurer
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Jimmy Davis
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Character: Schoolboy
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
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Tovarich
Title: Tovarich
Character: Urchin Stealing Groceries
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
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Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Title: Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Character: Buzzy Willis, Boy Scout
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
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Alcatraz Island
Title: Alcatraz Island
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Mouse
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Boy
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Marry the Girl
Title: Marry the Girl
Character: Stuttering child
Released: July 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Boy on Ship (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Dangerous Holiday
Title: Dangerous Holiday
Character: Hollywood Child Actor
Released: June 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.
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The Cherokee Strip
Title: The Cherokee Strip
Character: Barty Walton
Released: May 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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Hittin' the Trail
Title: Hittin' the Trail
Character: Billy Reed
Released: April 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When he swaps horses with the Tombstone Kid — a wrongly accused man on the run from the law — singing cowboy Tex Randall gets arrested by the local sheriff in a case of mistaken identity.
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Child
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Little Boy (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Plough and the Stars
Title: The Plough and the Stars
Character: Young Boy (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Irish Boy (Uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Roarin' Lead
Title: Roarin' Lead
Character: Bobby
Released: December 9, 1936
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers fight cattle rustlers.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Tommy
Released: November 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
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The Longest Night
Title: The Longest Night
Character: Albert Wilson
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Jimmy Dugan
Released: September 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Pinhead is ridiculed by the other boys on the way to the fishing hole.
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Piccadilly Jim
Title: Piccadilly Jim
Character: Ogden Pett
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
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Pepper
Title: Pepper
Character: Jimmy
Released: August 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Young Pepper Jolly enters the life of sour old millionaire John Wilkes. She convinces him to take her gang to Coney Island and prevents his daughter from marrying a phony aristocrat.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Little Boy
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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These Three
Title: These Three
Character: Boy on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doctor Joe Cardin, who begins a relationship with Karen, and a prominent woman whose granddaughter, Mary, later enrolls in the new school. Mary soon reveals herself to be a spiteful child and tells a scandalous lie about Martha and Joe that threatens to destroy the lives of all involved.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: First Newsboy
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Roarin' Guns
Title: Roarin' Guns
Character: Buddy Morgan
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Tim Corwin- an agent for the Cattlemen's Association- is assigned to look into a range war between settlers and powerful cattle baron Walton.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Street Boy
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Broken Toys
Title: Broken Toys
Character: Sailor Doll (voice)
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A sailor doll, thrown into a toy dump, rallies the demoralized dolls that were already there.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Character: Wilbur (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Character: Shocky
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town.
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Arizona Bad Man
Title: Arizona Bad Man
Character: Dave Dunston
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The daughter of a notorious cattle thief falls for a stranger at a dance. The stranger is really a lawman who is after her father.
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It's a Gift
Title: It's a Gift
Character: Norman Bissonette
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Title: A Girl of the Limberlost
Character: Billy
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Boy (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Chained
Title: Chained
Character: Boy Fishing on Dock (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.
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The Man from Hell
Title: The Man from Hell
Character: Timmy McCarrol
Released: August 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
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Murder on the Blackboard
Title: Murder on the Blackboard
Character: School boy (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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The Rawhide Terror
Title: The Rawhide Terror
Character: Jimmy Brent
Released: March 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens. Everyone is after the Rawhide Terror and the two brothers are destined to meet again.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
Title: Hi'–Neighbor!
Character: Our Gang Member
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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Little Men
Title: Little Men
Character: Tommy Bangs
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.