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Millions in the Air (1935)
Character: Eddie Warren
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
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The Destructors (1968)
Character: Ernest Bushnell
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football (1960)
Character: Mayor Wood
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disneyland Bowl, and get to enjoy a visit to the park.
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The Man Who Returned to Life (1942)
Character: David Hampton Jameson
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Prison Farm (1938)
Character: Dr. Roi Conrad
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
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What a Life (1939)
Character: Mr. Nelson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
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Car 99 (1935)
Character: Trooper Carney
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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Mountain Music (1937)
Character: Ardinger Burnside
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
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Isle of Missing Men (1942)
Character: Merrill Hammond
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
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Buck and the Preacher (1972)
Character: George
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Three Girls About Town (1941)
Character: Tommy Hopkins
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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The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
Character: Blake Randolph
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
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Penitentiary (1938)
Character: William Jordan
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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Submarine Raider (1942)
Character: Commander Chris Warren
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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Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Character: Captain Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
Character: Capt. Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
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The Man from Dakota (1940)
Character: Oliver Clark
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
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Love from a Stranger (1947)
Character: Nigel Lawrence
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
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I, Jane Doe (1948)
Character: William Hilton
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
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Border Flight (1936)
Character: Lt. Dan Conlon
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
Character: Paul Darnley
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
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The Unknown Terror (1957)
Character: Dan Matthews
A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants.
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Greg Sherman
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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Psycho Sisters (1974)
Character: Dr. Thomas
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family begin to suspect the younger woman's motives.
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Lost Horizon (1937)
Character: George Conway
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Models Inc. (1952)
Character: John Stafford
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
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The Invisible Woman (1940)
Character: Richard Russell
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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Easy to Take (1936)
Character: Rodney Garfield
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
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The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Character: George Kittredge
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
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Experiment Alcatraz (1950)
Character: Dr. Ross Williams
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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Make Haste to Live (1954)
Character: Josh Blake
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
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Disputed Passage (1939)
Character: John Wesley Beaven
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
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The Undying Monster (1942)
Character: Oliver Hammond
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
Character: Capt. Hugh C. Drummond
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
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Green Hell (1940)
Character: Hal Scott
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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Soak the Rich (1936)
Character: Kenneth 'Buzz' Jones
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
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Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Character: Frederic Osborne Junior
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
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Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
Character: John Keefe
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
Character: Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Character: Jim Kingston aka Pecos Kid
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Hitting a New High (1937)
Character: Jimmy James
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
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Annapolis Farewell (1935)
Character: Duncan Haley
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
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Tight Shoes (1941)
Character: Jimmy Rupert
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
Character: Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
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Touchdown, Army (1938)
Character: Cadet Brandon Culpepper
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Character: Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Character: Captain Hugh C. Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
Character: John Howard
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
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The High and the Mighty (1954)
Character: Howard Rice
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Destination Inner Space (1966)
Character: Dr. James
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
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13 Hours by Air (1936)
Character: Freddie Scott
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
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The Mad Doctor (1940)
Character: Gil Sawyer
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
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