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Sea Racketeers (1937)
Character: Henchman Turk
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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The Radio Murder Mystery (1933)
Character: Pat the detective
This short, introduced and closed by Louis Sobol, features Richard Gordon as ‘Sherlock Holmes of the air.’ Not long after one broadcast explaining in a story how a murder was committed an actual murder is committed using the same technique. The police then call Gordon in to help solve the crime. The rest of this short with an ‘all-star cast’ (as the title card announces) includes Jack Fulton, Alice Joy and Peggy Healy. The latter 3 singers, however, do not participate in the plot of the 21 minute short, but provide musical interludes to it.
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Grounds for Murder (1930)
Character: N/A
A husband becomes infuriated when his wife and household staff abandon him as a result of their fixation with murder trials.
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So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)
Character: Prison Warden (uncredited)
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
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In the Dough (1933)
Character: Cop
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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Salt Water Daffy (1933)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures (1947)
Character: Anthony Anguish (uncredited)
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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What Price Pants (1931)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Smith, informing him that he's about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Dale intercepts the letter, and offers Smith a partnership in the pants factory...
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While the Cat's Away (1936)
Character: Superintendent (uncredited)
Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
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So You Want to Be an Actor (1949)
Character: Mr. Sherbert
Joe McDoakes, unemployed thespian, makes all the casting calls,reads all of the trade papers, sees agents and tries out for casting directors and producers
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Rhythm Inn (1951)
Character: Pete Harris
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
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Quiet, Please (1939)
Character: Tony (uncredited)
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
Character: Gilhooley
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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The Policy Girl (1934)
Character: Radio Station Usher
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
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Kissing Time (1933)
Character: Corporal (uncredited)
An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.
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Torpedo Alley (1953)
Character: Charles Hedley
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Commander Heywood for the affection of Navy nurse Lt Susan Peabody. Heywood gets a new sub command at the outbreak of the Korean war and Bingham is assigned to his sub.
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No Place for a Lady (1943)
Character: Hal, truck driver-henchman
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
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Fort Defiance (1951)
Character: Jed Brown, Stagecoach Driver
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to the cowardice of Tallon. Thinking Tallon dead, another man who lost a brother at the same battle arrives to kill Tallon's blind brother. Tallon arrives to find Shelby and his brother fleeing. Then they are attacked by Indians and Shelby and Tallon must now fight together postponing the inevitable showdown.
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They Made Me a Killer (1946)
Character: Patrolman Roach
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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Torpedo Boat (1942)
Character: Hector Bobry
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title). Their copacetic business relationship is strained when nightclub singer Grace Holman (Jean Parker), having been jilted by Skimmer, marries Tommy on the rebound.
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Missing Women (1951)
Character: Sam (man at ballpark)
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
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The Patient in Room 18 (1938)
Character: Detective Donahue
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
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Minesweeper (1943)
Character: Seaman Cox
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.
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Sioux City Sue (1946)
Character: Big Gulliver
A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: Driver in Cafe (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Heiress (1949)
Character: Captain of the Castle Queen (uncredited)
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
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Blonde Inspiration (1941)
Character: Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Champion (1949)
Character: Hammond
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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River of No Return (1954)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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Blondes at Work (1938)
Character: Detective Ed Healy (uncredited)
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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High Powered (1945)
Character: Sheriff
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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High Explosive (1943)
Character: Squinchy Andrews
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go to work hauling nitro. "Buzz" makes a play for Connie Baker (Jean Parker), Mike's secretary and girlfriend, and also for Doris Lynch (Barbara Lynn), fiancée of Connie's younger brother, Jimmy ('Rand Brooks'), and gets Jimmy to replace him on a dangerous nitro haul and Jimmy, of course, has an accident and gets killed. But "Buzz" finds a way to redeem himself. The hard way.
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Take It or Leave It (1944)
Character: Taxi Driver
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Up In Smoke (1957)
Character: Sam
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
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Wildcat (1942)
Character: 'Grits' O'Malley
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
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Rancho Notorious (1952)
Character: Politician (uncredited)
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.
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Meet the Stewarts (1942)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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My Pal Trigger (1946)
Character: Auctioneer Al
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.
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Wilson (1944)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.
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Rogue River (1951)
Character: Max Bonner
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once framed on a bank robbery charge, unleashes innumerable family skeletons. Ownie is obliged to solve the long-ago bank job himself, and in so doing he discovers that his "faithful" girl friend Judy was in on the scheme.
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Mystery of the Riverboat (1944)
Character: Sawyer, the garage owner [Chs. 5, 10]
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
Character: Second Night Guard (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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The Big Country (1958)
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, and the rough and lawless Hannasseys over a valuable patch of land.
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Linda, Be Good (1947)
Character: Nunnally LaVitte
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
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Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Character: Store Clerk (uncredited)
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
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French Leave (1948)
Character: Skipper Muldoon
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon (Ralph Sanford) to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.
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Sea Tiger (1952)
Character: Fat Harry, Innkeeper
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Japanese freighter left lying in anchor in a New Guinea cove at the end of WW II.
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Web of Danger (1947)
Character: Peterson, 2nd Crew Foreman
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly quarreling over small and minor matter, especially when it comes to Peg Mallory, whom both men are romancing and Peg enjoys the attention. Thed work is suspended when a worker is killed, but a flood is approaching and the valley citizens are in dire straits unless the bridge is completed - in a hurry.
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Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
Character: Sailor Chasing Dagwood (uncredited)
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Kentucky Jubilee (1951)
Character: Steve Frome
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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Father's Wild Game (1950)
Character: First Policeman
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Mr. Ormulu
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
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Lucky Legs (1942)
Character: Bartender
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
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Men of the Timberland (1941)
Character: Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry inspector, demands a postponement, MacGrgeor refuses and sends his henchman, Jean Collet, to obtain the services of the famous "bull-of-the-woods" Andy Jensen and his partner "Lucky." Kay arrives and gives her permission to cut the timber, defying Dick. Dick, with his two assistants, Withers and "Tex," begins a survey of the timber stand. When Dick and Tex finally reveal MacGrgeor as a crook, Collet is sent to kill "Tex" and obtain the reports. A fight ensues and "Lucky" is killed by one of Collet's flying knives. Kay then admits that Dick is right and helps him trap Collet. Dick and Andy force a confession from Collet and MacGregor is exposed.
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Rhubarb (1951)
Character: Eddie - Brooklyn Police Chief (uncredited)
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.
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A Night for Crime (1943)
Character: Det. Hoffman
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Character: Truck Driver in Accident (uncredited)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Who's a Dummy? (1941)
Character: N/A
Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leon a tale of a love triangle that sets Leon's imagination on fire. He follows his wife and discovers her rehearsing a love scene with an actor, and he thinks it is real. He is leaving when he hears a pistol shot and rushes back, to discover his wife stuffing a dummy in a hamper, but he thinks it is a real body. To protect his wife, Leon steals the hamper, and is almost lynched by a crowd who also thinks the hamper contains a real body.
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Kid Nightingale (1939)
Character: First Drunk at Soxey's (uncredited)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Danger Zone (1951)
Character: Larry Dunlap
A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945)
Character: Charlie Sargent
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
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It's a Joke, Son! (1947)
Character: Knifey
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.
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Let's Live Again (1948)
Character: Policeman
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
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I Live on Danger (1942)
Character: Angie Moss
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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Down in San Diego (1941)
Character: Man (uncredited)
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Character: George H. Gibbons (uncredited)
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Character: Burly Policeman (uncredited)
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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Copacabana (1947)
Character: Liggett
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl, and the men who have fallen for the different performers.
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The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Character: Norman Riley (uncredited)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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East of the River (1940)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
Character: Maxie Wilder
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Never Say Goodbye (1946)
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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If I Were King (1938)
Character: Cook
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Alaska Highway (1943)
Character: Frosty Gimble
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormsby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Coswell, the daughter of road engineer Blair Caswell.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
Character: Mike, Police Detective Sergeant
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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The Oregon Trail (1959)
Character: John Decker
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in soldiers disguised as settlers in order to strengthen American claims to the Territory.
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Carolina Moon (1940)
Character: Foreman Nelson
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Character: Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
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Springfield Rifle (1952)
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Gaucho Serenade (1940)
Character: Motorcycle Cop
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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That Brennan Girl (1946)
Character: Fatso (uncredited)
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a wild crowd and learns gets her "street smarts" first from her mother, who wants everyone to think they are sisters, and then from Denny Reagan, an older man. He starts teaching her his tricks of the trade and she falls right in line with his crooked ways. Then one night she meets Martin J. 'Mart' Neilson, a tall, handsome, honest farmer boy who's a sailor and they fall in love. While he's away fighting the war, she discovers she's pregnant.
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Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
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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Dodge City (1939)
Character: Brawler (uncredited)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Four Mothers (1941)
Character: Bill (uncredited)
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Hi-Jacked (1950)
Character: Stephen Clark
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
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The Glass Menagerie (1950)
Character: Mendoza
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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Easter Parade (1948)
Character: Hotel Detective (uncredited)
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Character: Recording Studio Doorman (uncredited)
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
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Beginning of the End (1957)
Character: Man with Red Cross Representative [extra]
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
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The Forty-Niners (1954)
Character: Bartender Joe
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.
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Submarine Alert (1943)
Character: Agent Freddie Grayson
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio. Radio engineer Lew Deerhold, a resident alien without a job to pay for his adorable little ward Gina's life-saving operation, falls prey to the spy ring, and is swept up in a maelstrom of deceit and danger.
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Footsteps in the Night (1957)
Character: Bartender (Uncredited)
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Union Station (1950)
Character: Detective Fay
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
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Shotgun (1955)
Character: Chris
a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they follow the trail into Apache territory.
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Aerial Gunner (1943)
Character: Pvt. Barclay - Target-Tow Operator
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Character: Pudgy - Court Policeman (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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