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Dealers in Death (1934)
Character: Narrator
This documentary film is a pacifistic polemic that presents the argument that the world's largest munitions works, principally those in Europe, work in conjunction with one another, even when their countries are wartime enemies. These munitions works, in the interest of making money, manipulate wartime conditions to prolong wars.
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Clippers at War (1945)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The history of how Pan American World Airways served the Allied cause during the Second World War, especially in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters.
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Davy Crockett Goes to Congress (1955)
Character: Andrew Jackson
The second of five programs about Davy Crockett involves him being bored with life, so he and Georgie plan to resettle their families and file their claims. In town, Davy wins a gunfight against the town bully, Big Foot Mason, and, as a result, he becomes the town lawman.
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The Story of Ruth (1960)
Character: Shammah
Ruth is one of two Moabite women who marry the sons of Elimelech and Naomi. When Elimelech and sons Mahlon and Chillion die, leaving Naomi a widow with two widowed daughters-in-law, Naomi decides to return to Israel. One daughter-in-law, Orpah, bids her goodbye. Daughter-in-law Ruth however says she will not desert her.
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Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
Character: Tuan Michael
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
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Diane (1956)
Character: Chamberlain
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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The Doctor and the Girl (1949)
Character: Dr. Francis I. Garard
Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.
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Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Character: Prof. A.R. Kraal
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
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Pinky (1949)
Character: Judge Walker
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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Broken Arrow (1950)
Character: General Oliver
Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
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Carrie (1952)
Character: Mr. Fitzgerald
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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The Cocoanuts (1929)
Character: Detective Hennessy
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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Come to the Stable (1949)
Character: The Bishop
Two nuns arrive unannounced in the small New England town of Bethlehem, where they recruit various townspeople to help them build a children's hospital.
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People Will Talk (1951)
Character: Dean Lyman Brockwell
Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
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The Last Hurrah (1958)
Character: The Episcopal Bishop
In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
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Colorado Territory (1949)
Character: Dave Rickard ('The Old Man')
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.
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Half Angel (1951)
Character: Dr. Jackson
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day. She does not reveal her name and he cannot figure out where they have met, but they spend several hours together until she gets away before John notices.
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High Lonesome (1950)
Character: 'Horse' Davis
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
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Gambling House (1950)
Character: Judge Ravinek
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
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Jubal (1956)
Character: Shem Hoktor
Jubal Troop is a cowboy who is found in a weakened condition, without a horse. He is given shelter at Shep Horgan's large ranch, where he quickly makes an enemy in foreman Pinky, a cattleman who accuses Jubal of carrying the smell of sheep.
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Boots Malone (1952)
Character: Preacher Cole
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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One Way Street (1950)
Character: Father Moreno
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
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The Scarf (1951)
Character: Cyrus Barrington
A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
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The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Character: The Reverend (Jefferson Military Academy)
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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My Forbidden Past (1951)
Character: Dean Cazzley
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1943)
Character: Narrator
A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Character: Judge Jonathan David Hancock
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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The Violent Men (1955)
Character: Tex Hinkleman
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
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Raton Pass (1951)
Character: Pierre Challon
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
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Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Character: Gen. / President Andrew Jackson
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russel fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and the last stand at the Alamo.
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The Shanghai Story (1954)
Character: Rev. Hollingsworth
Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the spy hiding among them.
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