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Public Opinion (1935)
Character: Edward Keane
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Harmon of Michigan (1941)
Character: City Editor
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach.
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The Dummy Owner (1938)
Character: N/A
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record. At first, Leon is excited, but the arrangement soon creates difficulty for him. First, he knows nothing about horses except how to bet on them, and second, when his wife finds out, she is furious.
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So and Sew (1936)
Character: Jack Campbell
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.
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A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
Character: Partridge
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
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暗黒街の顔役 (1959)
Character: N/A
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
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Song of Revolt (1937)
Character: Mayor (uncredited)
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Heroes in Blue (1939)
Character: Moran
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
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A Fig Leaf for Eve (1944)
Character: Horace Sardham
A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair tonic fortune.
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The Symphony Murder Mystery (1932)
Character: Sergeant
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
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Whispering Smith Speaks (1935)
Character: Rebstock
O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
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South of Panama (1941)
Character: Colonel Stoddard
Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible.
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3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
Character: Gangster
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: Warden
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Frisco Kid (1935)
Character: Contractor (uncredited)
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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International Settlement (1938)
Character: Captain
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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Alcatraz Island (1937)
Character: Crandall (uncredited)
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
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The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Character: Mr. Manning, Bank Official (Uncredited)
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
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Slander House (1938)
Character: George Horton
Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.
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Union Pacific (1939)
Character: Man (uncredited)
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
Character: Turnkey
Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
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The Green Hornet (1940)
Character: Williams (uncredited)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942)
Character: Judge
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
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Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Character: Army Colonel
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!
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When Strangers Marry (1944)
Character: Middle-Aged Man
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
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The Cheat (1931)
Character: Defense Attorney
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she's spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes business deals that could make them rich. One night, on a hunch, she bets and loses big at a casino, and then she doubles her problems with more impulsive decisions. Hardy Livingstone, a wealthy Casanova just back from the Orient, makes a play for her. Elsa dallies with Hardy, but soon, his insistence and her dire financial affairs seem destined to lead to adultery. Who's the cheat?
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Twilight in the Sierras (1950)
Character: Judge Wiggins
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Character: Tom (Bldg. & Loan)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Character: FBI Agent (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
Character: Stiles (uncredited)
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.
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Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Character: Forsythe - Second Politician (uncredited)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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I Loved a Woman (1933)
Character: Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
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Gambling with Souls (1936)
Character: District Attorney
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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Jailbreak (1936)
Character: Attorney
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
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Night Editor (1946)
Character: Police Chief Burns (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Defense Attorney (uncredited)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Haunted Harbor (1944)
Character: Fredrick Vorhees [Ch. 1]
A sea captain about to be hanged for a murder he didn't commit is rescued from the gallows by two of his crewmen. They head for the island of Pulinan, where they believe the real murderer--the captain's former partner--is hiding so the captain can clear his name. As it turns out, their troubles are only beginning
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The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Character: District Attorney
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case and prove that the fatal shot was fired by the killer from across the street.
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If I'm Lucky (1946)
Character: Golfer (uncredited)
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
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A Stranger in Town (1943)
Character: Blaxton's Lawyer
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
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Midnight Limited (1940)
Character: Captain Harrigan
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assistant, Joan Marshall, are on his trail. But the Phantom strikes three more times and adds murder to his list. Val decides to use himself as bait, although Chief Harrigan and Joan beg him not to risk his life. But Val, disguised as a wealthy Canadian, boards the train for a rendezvous with a killer.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: Congressman (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Hellfire (1949)
Character: N/A
Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
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Who Done It? (1942)
Character: Man in drug store touting Juliet (uncredited)
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Autobuyography (1934)
Character: Mr. Lee
Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
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You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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My Wife's Relatives (1939)
Character: Jarvis
It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
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'G' Men (1935)
Character: Bank Teller (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Character: Henchman Stoneham (uncredited)
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Character: Chief Purser (uncredited)
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
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His Woman (1931)
Character: Crewman
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Rogues' Gallery (1944)
Character: Gentry
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
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Desirable (1934)
Character: First Playgoer
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
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Frontier Pony Express (1939)
Character: Senator Calhoun Lassister
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Dangerous (1935)
Character: Doctor
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Isolationist (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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Green Eyes (1934)
Character: Raynor
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
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Devil's Island (1939)
Character: Dr. Duval
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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The Face Behind the Mask (1938)
Character: Nicholas Fouquet (uncredited)
This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never identified, but who was forced to wear an iron mask for the length of his captivity, which ended only in his death. Several candidates for the identity of the man are investigated.
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One Night of Love (1934)
Character: Metropolitan Stage Director
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Colleen (1936)
Character: Mr. Edwards (uncredited)
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Character: Washington Official
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.
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A Night at the Opera (1935)
Character: Captain
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
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The Runaway Bride (1930)
Character: Policeman
Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
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Seventh Heaven (1937)
Character: Gendarme
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, and then marches away to war.
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The Sun Never Sets (1939)
Character: DNXY Radio Operator
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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Sea Raiders (1941)
Character: Elliott Carlton
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
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Winners of the West (1940)
Character: John Hartford
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.
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Stand Up and Fight (1939)
Character: Donnelly
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Kansas City Princess (1934)
Character: Plaza Garden Captain (uncredited)
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
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Let's Have Fun (1943)
Character: James Bradley
When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
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Key Witness (1947)
Character: Police Chief Crandall (uncredited)
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
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We Who Are About to Die (1937)
Character: Ed Stanley (uncredited)
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Voodoo Man (1944)
Character: (scenes deleted/never filmed) (uncredited)
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
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Stolen Heaven (1931)
Character: Detective Morgan
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
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Ann Carver's Profession (1933)
Character: Harrison
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
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Double Cross (1941)
Character: Commissioner Bob Trent (as Edmund Keane)
A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
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Housewife (1934)
Character: William Reynolds' Attorney
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
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Sergeant York (1941)
Character: Oscar of the Waldorf (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Character: Bank Manager
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam the country-side in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which they sell in the cities. Addie and her father love the care-free life, but Mrs. Fippany and Cecile want to settle down in New York City. As soon as the "chicken wagon family" reaches New York, Addie gets into mischief and a policeman, Matt Hibbard, helps her and falls in love with Cecile. He helps the family settle into a deserted firehouse which is up for public sale.
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A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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For the Service (1936)
Character: Captain Murphy
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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The Murder Man (1935)
Character: Joe - Editor (uncredited)
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Character: San Francisco Bar Patron (uncredited)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
Character: Judge Samuels
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
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Sister Kenny (1946)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
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Exclusive Story (1936)
Character: Al Brown (uncredited)
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Riders of the Timberline (1941)
Character: Preston Yates
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
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Mills of the Gods (1934)
Character: Morgan
Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
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The Firefly (1937)
Character: French Chief of Staff (uncredited)
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors, returns to Spain and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but the 2 nations are now at war...
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Border Brigands (1935)
Character: Inspector Jim Barry, RCMP
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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Ex-Champ (1939)
Character: Clerk
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Mr. Kaiser
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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California Mail (1936)
Character: Thompson
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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The Merry Frinks (1934)
Character: Truant Officer
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Madame X (1937)
Character: Gendarme at Villa
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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The Invisible Wall (1947)
Character: Marty Floyd
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
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Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Character: First Broker
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
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Naughty Marietta (1935)
Character: Major Bonnell (uncredited)
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
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It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Character: Jack Bell (uncredited)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Character: Ship Officer (uncredited)
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
Character: Mr. Richardson - Studio Manager (uncredited)
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
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Madame Bovary (1949)
Character: Presiding Judge (uncredited)
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
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Girl in Danger (1934)
Character: Thornton
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
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Once a Doctor (1937)
Character: Captain Littlejohn
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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Mummy's Boys (1936)
Character: Ship's Captain
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
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Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Character: Banker at Demo
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.
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California Joe (1943)
Character: Governor Glynn
During the Civil War, three American soldiers are sent, disguised as civilians, to California to gather evidence that Southern agents there are agitating for that state to join the Confederacy with the aid of California's governor.
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Headline Shooter (1933)
Character: Joe Burnett (uncredited)
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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South of Dixie (1944)
Character: Mr. Platt
To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous Josh Lee family and rightful poet laureate of Dixieland.
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Female (1933)
Character: Department Head (Uncredited)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
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The Judge Steps Out (1947)
Character: Judge (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
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Love on a Budget (1938)
Character: Bank Manager
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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I Take This Woman (1940)
Character: Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Virginia City (1940)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Time Out for Romance (1937)
Character: Stanhope
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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The Traitor Within (1942)
Character: Davis
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who constantly brags how he, not the town mayor, was responsible for catching a regiment of Germans during WW I. Unfortunately, no one in town takes him seriously. Later the daughter meets a German immigrant who confirms her father's claim. She then convinces her boy friend to use this information to blackmail the mayor into giving him a new truck and some extra amenities lest he tell the truth.
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Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
Character: Adam Thorne
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Gaul
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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I Am Suzanne! (1933)
Character: Theatre Manager
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
Character: Frank B. Wilson
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: District Attorney (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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One Exciting Adventure (1934)
Character: Hotel Manager
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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Fast and Loose (1930)
Character: Maitre d'
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
Character: Domack
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
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Man With Two Lives (1942)
Character: Dr. Richard Clark
A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
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Josette (1938)
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943)
Character: Hon. George Hill [Chs. 8-12]
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
Character: American Consul
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Character: Surveyor General Miller
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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The Invisible Menace (1938)
Character: Officer at Dolman's Hearing
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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Out California Way (1946)
Character: E.J. Pearson
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse, "Pardner" into films. Monte sings a song and "Pardner" does some tricks and a casting director notices. Monte gets a singing-cowboy role and the horse gets a bit, but there is an accidental explosion, engineered by western star Rod Mason, who is jealous of Monte, and the horse is badly scared and blows his lines.
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Undercover Maisie (1947)
Character: Police Chief (Uncredited)
Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.
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Dangerously Yours (1937)
Character: Bronson
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
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A Lost Lady (1934)
Character: The Murderer (uncredited)
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
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Marie Antoinette (1938)
Character: General (uncredited)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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The Devil-Doll (1936)
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Character: Prison Yard Captain (uncredited)
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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Page Miss Glory (1935)
Character: Advertising Man (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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The Escape (1939)
Character: Captain of Detectives
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
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Stranded (1935)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Hollywood Round-Up (1937)
Character: Lew Wallace
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Henderson
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
Character: Dr. Fredericks
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
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One Mysterious Night (1944)
Character: Police Commissioner Howard (Uncredited)
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone. Along with his assistant, "The Runt", Blackie focuses his investigation on the hotel manager, George Daley, and his sister, Eileen. Through disguises and ruses, Blackie and the Runt try to trick their way to discovering the thieves.
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Wells Fargo (1937)
Character: Salmon P. Chase - Secretary of the Treasury
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Man of Iron (1935)
Character: Mortgage Man
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
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Her First Beau (1941)
Character: Mr. Wharton
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
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Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Character: Stock Broker
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
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The Payoff (1935)
Character: Frank (uncredited)
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
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Wings of the Navy (1939)
Character: Psychology Examiner
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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One Year Later (1933)
Character: Grant
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
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You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Character: Backstage Reporter (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Border G-Man (1938)
Character: Colonel Christie
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
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Trail to San Antone (1947)
Character: Sheriff Jones
Gene Autry is back near the saddle, trying to help out a crippled jockey. Gene is certain that the jockey can ride in the Big Race if the lad can regain his self-confidence. Meanwhile, Gene and comical sidekick Sterling Holloway have another problem on their hands: A rogue stallion has "kidnapped" Gene's prize mare. Piloting a plane, Autry seeks out and locates the stallion.
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Character: Lecturer
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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The Good Humor Man (1950)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
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Fashion Model (1945)
Character: Jacques Duval
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
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The Invisible Monster (1950)
Character: Warren Madison
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibility chemical and plans to build a mercenary army of invisible men.
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The Golden Fleecing (1940)
Character: Barney aka Derby Hat (uncredited)
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Shipmates Forever (1935)
Character: Piane Doctor (uncredited)
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Man at Race Track
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: Agent Potter (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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The Drag-Net (1936)
Character: Arthur Hill
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.
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The Californian (1937)
Character: Marshal Morse
Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.
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Havana Widows (1933)
Character: El Havana Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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I Demand Payment (1938)
Character: District Attorney
A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion racket, then finds herself becoming involved with the doctor who has saved her life and become attracted to her.
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