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Creation (1931)
Character: Ned Hallet
A lost submarine discovers a secret island where dinosaurs still live. The film, 20 minutes long, was scrapped by RKO. Approximately 4 minutes survived.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
Character: Pete Scardoni
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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Sweepstake Annie (1935)
Character: Hobart - Screenwriter (uncredited)
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
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Cheating Blondes (1933)
Character: Lawson Rolt
A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.
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Headin' Home (1920)
Character: John Tobin (as Ralph Harolds)
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
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Million Dollar Baby (1934)
Character: Mac
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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Jewels of Brandenburg (1947)
Character: Koslic
A former secret agent is sent to retrieve a priceless collection of stolen jewels from a Lisbon nightclub owner who worked both sides during World War II.
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Lucky Devils (1941)
Character: R. W. Ritter
Lucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not risking their lives coverning the Hot Spots of the world, Dick (Arlen) and Andy (Devine) busy themselves romancing Norma (Dorothy Lovett) and Gwendy (Janet Shaw), respectively.
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Behind Locked Doors (1948)
Character: Fred Hopps
Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
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Dixiana (1930)
Character: Royal Montague
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
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Sealed Lips (1942)
Character: Lips Haggarty
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
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Hook, Line and Sinker (1930)
Character: John Blackwell aka Buffalo Blackie
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.
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The Phantom Speaks (1945)
Character: Frankie Teal
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
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Human Cargo (1936)
Character: Tony Sculla
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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The Rookie Cop (1939)
Character: Joey Anderman, Roadhouse Owner
A rookie cop tries to prove his friend is innocent of a robbery, despite the police commissioner's objection to his use of a trained German Shepherd dog named Ace.
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Woman Wanted (1935)
Character: Monk Shelby (uncredited)
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
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She Loves Me Not (1934)
Character: J. B. Marshall
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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Smart Money (1931)
Character: Sleepy Sam
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
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The Witching Hour (1934)
Character: Frank Hardmuth
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
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A Man Betrayed (1936)
Character: Tony Maroc
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tries to make things right for the stockholders, but gets framed.
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Sin Town (1942)
Character: 'Kentucky'Jones
Two con artists arrive in a western boom town that they think is ripe for the pickings, only to get swindled themselves.
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Her Husband Lies (1937)
Character: Steve Burdick
J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie, a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight, Spade sends him $10,000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan, Spade gives it to her. Later, when Steve Burdick, the woman's supposed husband, brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade, Spade's hit man, Trigger, kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling, Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne, telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.
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Silk Hat Kid (1935)
Character: Lefty Phillips
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to protect him from chiseling gangsters operating an extortion-racket. But Eddie meets and falls in love with Laura Grant, Tim's sweetheart, and complications quickly arise.
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The Accusing Finger (1936)
Character: Lean, Angry Convict
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Great God Gold (1935)
Character: Frank Nitto
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance. He meets his match and downfall when his path crosses with a reporter, Phil Stuart; a girl, Marcia Harper, and a man-with-a-gun from a family he ruined.
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Check and Double Check (1930)
Character: Ralph Crawford
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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Hollywood Speaks (1932)
Character: Carp
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
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The Sea Wolf (1941)
Character: N/A
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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Safe in Hell (1931)
Character: Piet van Saal
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.
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Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Character: Dr. Sonderborg
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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Young Desire (1930)
Character: Blackie
A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
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Framed (1930)
Character: Chuck Gaines
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
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I'm No Angel (1933)
Character: Slick Wiley
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Stolen Harmony (1935)
Character: Dude Williams (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
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Picture Snatcher (1933)
Character: Jerry the Mug
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
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Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941)
Character: Blake, Bank Robber
When the showboat hits town, two men use the parade as a distraction to rob the bank. Their accomplice is Pop, the clown from the showboat. He leaves the money on the boat and tells his daughter Patsy to bring it to him at a later stop on the river. Gene's investigation of a bank robbery takes him to the showboat where he becomes a performer. Gene and Frog try to find the money while helping Patsy and her father.
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Broadway (1942)
Character: Dolph
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
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A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Character: Croupier
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Horror Island (1941)
Character: Rod Grady
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
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The Stork Pays Off (1941)
Character: 'Stud' Rocco
Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.
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15 Maiden Lane (1936)
Character: Tony
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
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Raiders of the Desert (1941)
Character: Sheik Talifer
Two American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in the fighting in a brutal civil war
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He Was Her Man (1934)
Character: Frank 'Red' Deering
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
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The Crimson Key (1947)
Character: Gunman
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
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The Secret Witness (1931)
Character: Lewis Leroy
A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
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Alexander Hamilton (1931)
Character: James Reynolds
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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Our Relations (1936)
Character: Gangster Boss
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Rags to Riches (1941)
Character: Slip Conlan
A framed cabby rounds up fur thieves and saves his opera-singer girlfriend.
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations.
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Backlash (1947)
Character: X-Ray Technician
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
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Baby Take a Bow (1934)
Character: Trigger Stone
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
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One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Character: Moxie McGrath
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
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My Marriage (1936)
Character: Jones
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
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Are These Our Children? (1931)
Character: Prosecutor
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
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The Perfect Clue (1935)
Character: Sid Barkley
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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Officer O'Brien (1930)
Character: Mike Patello
Bill O'Brien is promoted to lieutenant in the police department for his arrest of Mike Patello, gang leader and racketeer, for murder. Ruth Dale, who loves Bill, is concerned when her brother, Johnny, who witnessed the murder, proposes to testify against the racketeer. Meanwhile, Captain Antrim informs Bill that his father has just been released from prison and does not know his son is a policeman. On the way from prison, O'Brien (J. P.) meets Limo, a former cockney pal who recognizes Bill and keeps J. P. from seeing his son; later, J. P. arrives intoxicated and is enraged, forcing Bill to knock him unconscious. J. P. is arrested for robbery but returns the loot to save his son from disgrace; Johnny is killed before testifying against Patello, who is released but confronted by J. P., who proves his guilt and, when he struggles with the police, kills him. Bill plans to resign, but confident of Ruth's love, he decides to remain on the force.
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Winner Take All (1932)
Character: Legs Davis, Diamond Ring Seller
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
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Night Flight (1933)
Character: Pilot
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Song and Dance Man (1936)
Character: Crosby
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Gang Busters (1942)
Character: Halliger
Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.
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Desperate (1947)
Character: Walt's Doctor (uncredited)
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
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Babe Comes Home (1927)
Character: Baseball Fan (uncredited)
A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Character: Hendrickson
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Killer Shark (1950)
Character: Slattery
A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
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The Expert (1932)
Character: Jim Crowley
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Alaska Patrol (1949)
Character: Steele
Spotted after he microfilms secret U.S. Navy documents, foreign agent Rattick is killed when he tries to make a getaway. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are assigned to investigate and determine who is behind the spy syndicate for which Rattick worked. They bring in the services of Agent Tom Norman, who bears a strong resemblance to Rattick.
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A New Kind of Love (1963)
Character: French Waiter (uncredited)
A down-and-out reporter and a fashion designer fall in love in Paris.
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The Tip-Off (1931)
Character: Nick Vatelli
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
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Hazard (1948)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail.
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Night Nurse (1931)
Character: Dr. Milton Ranger
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
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Baby Face Morgan (1942)
Character: Joe Torelli
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
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