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Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
Character: Little Fox
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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Roaring Roads (1935)
Character: Jerry (uncredited)
Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart.
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Exclusive (1937)
Character: Lollipop
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.
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A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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King of the Texas Rangers (1941)
Character: Cole
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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The House Across the Bay (1940)
Character: Jerry - Slant's Henchman
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Ben - Henchman with Wires (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Character: Pauly (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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Special Agent (1935)
Character: Carston's Henchman (uncredited)
A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
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Arise, My Love (1940)
Character: Uniformed Italian Correspondent (uncredited)
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
Character: Gossiper (uncredited)
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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Women Are Trouble (1936)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Character: Gangster in Court (uncredited)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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Coast Guard (1939)
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
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Sinner Take All (1936)
Character: Penny's Henchman (uncredited)
A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: Boze (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Missing Girls (1936)
Character: Frank Jackson
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Character: Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Convict (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Men Without Souls (1940)
Character: Paul (uncredited)
A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
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The Glass Key (1942)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Character: Lescardi (uncredited)
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
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King of Hockey (1936)
Character: Loogan, Nick's Associate
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Character: Eddie
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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King of the Underworld (1939)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Dr. Broadway (1942)
Character: Marty
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Character: Chick
Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
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Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Character: Extra Leaving Theater (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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