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The Brain Busters (1936)
Character: Vince
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
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The Grass Is Always Greener (1950)
Character: Cooky
Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)
Character: N/A
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
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Water Rustlers (1939)
Character: Mike - the cook
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
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What the Country Needs (1941)
Character: Political Speaker / Singer
Martha Tilton & Jimmie Dodd performing "What This Country Needs" in this soundie film from the 1941.
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A Royal Flush (1930)
Character: N/A
A maid masquerades as a countess in order to help her lion-hunting mistress.
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Registered Nurse (1934)
Character: Jerry
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
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Down to the Sea (1936)
Character: Hector
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive.
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Girls' Town (1942)
Character: Dimitri
A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
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The Lady or the Tiger? (1942)
Character: The King
Author Frank R. Stockton, often asked the question, finally decides to divulge the untold ending of his story, The Lady or the Tiger?
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Gallant Lady (1942)
Character: Baldy
A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
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Bowery Bombshell (1946)
Character: Street Cleaner
Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's (Bernard Gorcey) Malt Shop. Sidewalk photographer Cathy Smith (Teala Loring) snaps a pictures of three bank robbers as they are fleeing a robbery but when the Bowery Boys and Cathy realize that Sach is also in the photograph, they break into the photo lab to destroy the negative, which might make the police think Sach was involved in the robbery.
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Scratch-As-Catch-Can (1931)
Character: N/A
Scratch-As-Catch-Can is a 1932 American short comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 5th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Comedy).
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Ma's Pride and Joy (1932)
Character: Sidney Goldblatt
This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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The Headleys at Home (1938)
Character: Vince Bergson
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
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International Burlesque (1950)
Character: Comedian
“I just tell ’em, I don’t explain ’em,” Red Skelton used to say. But even Freud couldn’t explain International Burlesque, an Arkay Enterprises pic which bounces around more than spit on a hot griddle!
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The Quiet Gun (1957)
Character: Undertaker
A mild mannered sheriff must fight both a hired gun and local anti-Indian bigotry in a small frontier town.
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
Character: Performer
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.
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Captain Calamity (1936)
Character: Burp
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
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Yankee Doodle Home (1939)
Character: Song Writer
Nick and Vince, a song writing team, are fired from their jobs at a publishing house when a foreign producer arrives looking for "hot" numbers. Vince dons a disguise and poses as a foreign producer and listens to all of the company's song. He chooses the ones written by he and his partner, and they are given their jobs back when they return later. Songs include "I'm a Very, Very Private Secretary" and The Great American Home."
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No Ransom (1934)
Character: Bullet
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
Character: Clipper - 3rd Robber
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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Foreign Agent (1942)
Character: Silly Drunk at Bar
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Yellow Cargo (1936)
Character: Speedy 'Bulbs' Callahan
An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
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The Big Show-Off (1945)
Character: Voice Student
A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).
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Sunset Murder Case (1938)
Character: Barney
Small-time showgirl poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
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Fast Workers (1933)
Character: Spike
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not. So far, Gunner hasn't failed. But one night, while Gunner is in jail, Bucker meets Mary, a tough dame with a line. He falls for her, and she falls for his money. But Mary is already a gal pal of Gunner, and no two know about the third one. The trouble starts when the triangle is revealed too late.
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Stardust on the Sage (1942)
Character: Haskins
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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Knock on Any Door (1949)
Character: Carl Swanson - Bartender (uncredited)
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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I Cover Big Town (1947)
Character: Louis Murkil
One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned to the police beat. Her paper, "The Illustrated Press", following its usual policy of socially-correct muckraking by crusading editor Steve Wilson, is putting heat on the chief of police. But Lorelei believes the chief is qualified to do the job. She and managing editor Steve Wilson, who, in the film series, is wrong more often than right, discover a corpse and then proceed to help the police solve the crime.
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Crimson Romance (1934)
Character: The Courier
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
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The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Character: Sandy, photographer
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
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Girl on the Run (1958)
Character: Janitor
A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.
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Thirty Day Princess (1934)
Character: Count Nicholeus
A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.
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Heritage of the Desert (1932)
Character: Windy
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
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Puddin' Head (1941)
Character: Broken Teapot Man
On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the wrong survey to the builders...
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A Dangerous Game (1941)
Character: Ephriam
Detectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at an isolated mentally-ill hospital, where the patients range from slightly daffy to criminally insane, and they don't know which is which. A gang is out to steal a fortune inherited by one of the patients and, before Dick and Andy solve the case, several patients are transferred to the cemetery. And 'tiddlie-winks" are indeed involved.
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Flesh (1932)
Character: Waiter
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
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Jungle Woman (1944)
Character: Curley (archive footage / uncredited)
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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She Loves Me Not (1934)
Character: Baldy Schultz
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
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High Powered (1945)
Character: Short Bald Man at Dance
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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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Character: Charley
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Loaded Pistols (1948)
Character: Sam Gardner
A singing cowboy clears a boy accused of murder by finding the real killer.
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Sunset Pass (1933)
Character: Windy
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.
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My Brother Talks to Horses (1947)
Character: Schuyler (uncredited)
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
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X Marks the Spot (1942)
Character: Waiter at Diner
A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.
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East Side Kids (1940)
Character: Whisper
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
Character: Man in Manhole
A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town.
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Now I'll Tell (1934)
Character: Peppo
A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by which he loves most.
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Mule Train (1950)
Character: Joe - Barber
A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a job for a singing marshal.
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Little Miss Broadway (1947)
Character: Mack Truck
Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway characters and take possession of a Long Island mansion owned by an incarcerated thief so Judy doesn't find out the truth. Judy arrives with her fiancé and his father, who tries to sell worthless stock to Judy's family. They give him $200,000, part of the stashed loot they found belonging to the home-owner thief.
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The Woman I Love (1937)
Character: Mathieu
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Brute Force (1947)
Character: Muggsy
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Kid Dynamite (1943)
Character: Klinkhammer
The East Side boxing champion Muggs answers a challenge to a fight against the West Side champ but just before the match he is kidnapped. His friend Danny Lyons takes his place and wins the fight, only to have Mugs believe that Danny was responsible for his kidnapping.
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Overland Mail (1939)
Character: Porchy
Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang of outlaws. The primary town of the mail route is also being used as a hideout and base of operations for a gang of counterfeiters led by Joe Polini. Jack and an undercover federal agent, Duke Evans, round up the counterfeiters and turn Polini over to the Indian Chief as the killer of the brave.
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The Singing Cowgirl (1938)
Character: Kewpie
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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The Death Kiss (1932)
Character: Officer Gulliver
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
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I Cover Chinatown (1936)
Character: Puss McGaffey, the Bus Driver
A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.
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Scarface (1932)
Character: Angelo
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
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Black Fury (1935)
Character: Kubanda
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Hell in the Heavens (1934)
Character: Ace McGurk
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
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The Secret Bride (1934)
Character: Drunk in Diner
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, they decide to keep their marriage secret. The political intrigue becomes more involved, and no one is quite what they seem. Soon Sheldon and Ruth must decide between saving the governor's career and an innocent person's life.
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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Character: Burlesk Comedian (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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The Virginian (1946)
Character: Baldy
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
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Kentucky Jubilee (1951)
Character: Mugsy
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947)
Character: Russell
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
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I Live My Life (1935)
Character: Clerk
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Kay's 2nd Taxi Driver
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
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Border Treasure (1950)
Character: Pokey
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Chuck aka 'Brains'
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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The 9th Guest (1934)
Character: William Jones
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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High Wall (1947)
Character: Henry Cronner
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
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Kansas City Princess (1934)
Character: Quincy - Dynamite's Henchman
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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Riffraff (1936)
Character: Lew
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Petticoat Larceny (1943)
Character: Stogie
An 11 year old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Character: Assistant Cook (uncredited)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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The Girl in 419 (1933)
Character: Otto Hoffer
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
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The Rookie (1959)
Character: Pentagon janitor
A manic young radio network employee enlists in the army at the end of WWII and finds himself the only new recruit at basic training camp. Military comedy.
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Gas House Kids Go West (1947)
Character: Steve
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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Madame Spy (1934)
Character: Peter
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.
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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Character: George (uncredited)
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
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The Phantom Plainsmen (1942)
Character: N/A
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Captain Marvin herding horses which he sells to Kurt Redman. Marvin will not sell any horses to any army, but the boys find out that Redman is a German agent shipping the horses directly to the Third Reich. When Marvin tries to stop Redman, his son Tad, who is studying medicine in Germany, is arrested and held hostage. Marvin must fire the boys as the sneaky German agents take over the ranch, but the boys will not give up their attempt to stop them.
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Man of the Forest (1933)
Character: Little
Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to retrieve his daughter, Beasley kills him and makes the Sheriff arrest Dale for the murder.
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Sensation Hunters (1945)
Character: Agent
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Big Town Scandal (1948)
Character: Louie Snead
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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The Night Mayor (1932)
Character: Louis Mossbaum, Tailor
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night life, sports, the theater, and an actress, Knapp. When scandal rocks his administration, Tracy has his girl friend marry Dillaway, a writer friend, so that the press will leave him alone.
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Wide Open (1930)
Character: Dvorak
An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.
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Queen of Broadway (1942)
Character: Schultz
There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of Broadway. Instead, this sentimental B-picture is the story of a gambler (Rochelle Hudson), who tries to clean up her act and adopt an orphan (Donald Mayo).
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Ride 'em, Cowgirl (1939)
Character: Dan Haggerty
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from gambling as the means to his ultimate success. Government investigator Oliver Shea and his assistant, Dan Haggerty, start a fight in Doyle's place when they see Rickson being cheated and are invited to the Bar-X where Oliver and Helen Rickson, Rufe's daughter, discover interest in each other and Dan finds himself pursued by Bell, the ranch cook. Sheriff Larson brings the prize money for the $5,000 race of the Rodeo Association, and that night it is stolen.
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Summer School Teachers (1974)
Character: Principal Adams
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches an all-female football team, stuffy chemistry teacher Sally Hanson manages to loosen up after she falls hard for a surly juvenile delinquent student, and pert and liberated photography instructor Denise Carter becomes involved with both a two-faced male chauvinist jerk and a more decent and understanding guy.
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Crazy Mama (1975)
Character: Homer
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
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Scandal Sheet (1931)
Character: Barrett, Convict Reporter
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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The Jazz Singer (1953)
Character: Bartender
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.
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Dancing Feet (1936)
Character: Willoughby
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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Tiger Shark (1932)
Character: Fishbone
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
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Tornado (1943)
Character: Alvin
The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.
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Boots of Destiny (1937)
Character: Acey Ducey- Sidekick
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
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Exile Express (1939)
Character: Deputy Constable
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Sixpack Annie (1975)
Character: Bartender
A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.
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Deputy Marshal (1949)
Character: Hotel Clerk
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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The Family Jewels (1965)
Character: Automobile Owner at Gas Station
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Character: 'Scissors'
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
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The Big Cage (1933)
Character: Soupmeat
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
Character: Henchman 'Gimp'
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
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No Leave, No Love (1946)
Character: Ben
A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he falls in love with a woman at the hotel at which he is staying.
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Streamline Express (1935)
Character: Mr. Jones
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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The Big Mouth (1967)
Character: Man at Telephone Booth (uncredited)
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets a special girl.
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Outlaw Queen (1957)
Character: Gamler
Christina, the daughter of a Greek-immigrant family who does not share their belief that a woman's place is with her husband at the fireside, is a trick-shot artist. With her Uncle Jim, a strolling troubadour, and his sidekick Andy, a mandolin player, heads west to make her fortune.
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Blonde Comet (1941)
Character: Curly
A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.
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Horse Feathers (1932)
Character: Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
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Made on Broadway (1933)
Character: Snitz Lepedis
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
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Charade (1953)
Character: Berg
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware that the man is a murderer. "Duel at Dawn" is set in 1880s Austria. Two military officers fight a duel, with the survivor free to claim the heart of their shared love interest. "The Midas Touch" is a romance story of sorts. Jonah Watson is a successful American businessman, but is disgruntled with his life. He emigrates to England to start a new life, and works as a common servant. But he falls in love with a cockney maid who dreams of marrying into wealth.
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Klondike Fury (1942)
Character: Alaska
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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Springfield Rifle (1952)
Character: Cook (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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Side Show (1931)
Character: The Great Santini
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Character: Card Game Kibitzer (uncredited)
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Seven Sinners (1940)
Character: Bartender
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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Carson City (1952)
Character: Henry
Mine owner William Sharon keeps having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits. Sharon hires banker Charles Crocker, who happens to have connections in the Central Pacific Railroad, to build a spur line from Virginia City to Carson City, so that the gold can be shipped by railroad. Silent Jeff Kincaid is the railroad engineer. However there is opposition to the railroad, chiefly from another mine owner, Big Jack Davis.
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Paper Bullets (1941)
Character: Scribbler, a Petty Forger
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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The Killers (1946)
Character: Charleston
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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Rackety Rax (1932)
Character: 'Dutch'
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Character: Curly
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Tony
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Bank Alarm (1937)
Character: Clarence "Bulb" Callahan
A federal agent learns the gangsters he's been investigating have kidnapped his sister.
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Character: Janitor
In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Character: Fairground Fortune Teller
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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Baby Face Morgan (1942)
Character: Lefty Lewis
When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living in the country with his mother. Rogers has naïve Edward brought to the city and installs him as the head of Acme Protective Agency. Good-hearted Eddy assumes his company provides insurance, rather than extortion-- But don't be too hard on the guy, he still doesn't know he's Baby Face Morgan, the most feared gangster in the city!
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Princess O'Hara (1935)
Character: Fingers
When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race.
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Young and Beautiful (1934)
Character: Sammy
Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie star in the world. But in doing so, he forgets that women want to be attended to for themselves, not as objects of fame.
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Shoot to Kill (1947)
Character: Charlie Gill
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Character: Oscar
A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.
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Jungle Man (1941)
Character: Buckthorn 'Buck' the Guide
An expedition sets out to darkest Africa to find the fabled City of the Dead, and must battle thick jungle, hostile natives, wild animals and a deadly epidemic.
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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Character: Singing Waiter (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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The Trespasser (1947)
Character: Bartender
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.
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Boys of the City (1940)
Character: Simp
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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The Crooked Web (1955)
Character: Ed - Stan's Partner in Drive-In (uncredited)
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…
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Thunder in the Pines (1948)
Character: Bernard, the Bartender
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
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River Gang (1945)
Character: Organ Grinder
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
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Heroes of the Saddle (1940)
Character: Night Watchman
A fast-paced, enjoyable entry in the long-running Three Mesqueteers Western series, Heroes of the Saddle featured the three cowboy pals promising to look after Peggy Bell, the little daughter of mortally wounded rodeo champ Montana. Legal technicalities, however, halt the adoption proceeding and Stony, Rusty, and Rico can only watch as the little girl is placed in the county orphanage.
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