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Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs (1945)
Character: Chief Flight Instructor
In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircraft at an airfield. He also illustrates proper take-off procedure and many of the common mistakes made during both these activities. The dangers of getting too close to other planes whose engines are running are also show. A young cadet named McDribble is presented with evidence of his failures to follow procedure and given punishment duty.
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Navy Bound (1951)
Character: Seaman 'Warthog' Novak
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
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Honeymoon Ahead (1945)
Character: Spike
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
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Spies and Guys (1953)
Character: Sergeant
Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is involved, don't go well and they are captured and about to be executed. The girl drops her cape to reveal she is scantily clad (the high point), the enemy is confused and she and Joe escape.
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Stop, Look and Love (1939)
Character: Pete
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
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Wife to Spare (1947)
Character: (Uncredited)
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
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Slippy McGee (1948)
Character: Red
A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
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Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly (1945)
Character: Chief Flight Instructor
This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing the parachute, but Mac, a trainee who thinks he has all the answers already, fails to pay attention and finds himself in deep trouble. Lt. Taylor, another instructor, shows a more attentive pilot trainee through the process of inspection of the plane and engine. But for every step this trainee learns well, Mac is elsewhere showing what can happen when one doesn't pay attention.
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Torture Money (1937)
Character: Little Davie Barkell (uncredited)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
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Calypso Joe (1957)
Character: N/A
Juile, an airline hostess, has her mind made up to marry South American millionaire Rico Vargas, in spite of the efforts made by her former boyfriend, Lee Darling, a television star, to win her back. Rico's sister, Astra, makes a play for Lee, who only responds to make Julie jealous. As the plane bearing Juile and others (includng all the credited musicians and bands) is about to depart, Herb Jefferies smuggles Lee on board so he can have a chance to dissuade Julie.
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Black Friday (1940)
Character: Bellhop
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)
Character: House Manager
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
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The Great Man Votes (1939)
Character: Tri-County Distribution Truck Driver
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
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No Time for Love (1943)
Character: N/A
Upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.
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Manpower (1941)
Character: Lineman (uncredited)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Little Big Shot (1935)
Character: Doré's Henchman
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
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The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Character: McDermott
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
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Panic on the Air (1936)
Character: Marvin Danker
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.
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Jalopy (1953)
Character: Red, the mechanic
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
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Bachelor Mother (1939)
Character: Dance Floor Gatekeeper (uncredited)
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
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Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Character: Max
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
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Powder Town (1942)
Character: Joe the Cab Driver (uncredited)
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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The Girl Habit (1931)
Character: Hood
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
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The Long Night (1947)
Character: Mac - Bartender (uncredited)
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.
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Hers to Hold (1943)
Character: Smiley, the Foreman
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
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The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)
Character: Chief Crazy Horse
Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.
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Two in Revolt (1936)
Character: Andy
A dog and a horse become unlikely allies when they attempt to thwart a crooked gambler from rigging a race.
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Down Mexico Way (1941)
Character: Flood
Like 1940's Melody Ranch, the 1941 Gene Autry vehicle Down Mexico Way was designed as a "special", to be promoted separately from Autry's regular B-western series as an A-picture attraction. The story gets under way when a pair of con artists, Gibson (Sidney Blackmer) and Allen (Joe Sawyer), breeze into the town of Sage City claiming to be movie producers. The two scoundrels promise to film a movie in the little burg on the condition that the townsfolk pony up the necessary production fees.
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Out of the Fog (1941)
Character: N/A
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.
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God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
Character: Sgt. Altonen (uncredited)
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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Air Force (1943)
Character: Butch - Demolition Squad Corporal (uncredited)
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
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The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Character: Sgt. Kriven
Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz and his hometown girlfriend Janet discuss their future plans.
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Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Character: N/A
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
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The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Character: Joe Quig
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
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Let's Live a Little (1948)
Character: Cabbie
A harried, overworked advertising executive is being pursued romantically by one of his clients, a successful perfume magnate ... and his former fiancée. The latest client of the agency is a psychiatrist and author of a new book. When the executive goes over to discuss the ad campaign, the psychiatrist turns out to be a woman. But what does he really need? Romance? Or analysis?
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Swing Fever (1943)
Character: Burly Attentant (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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The Gunfighter (1950)
Character: Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Joe Duglatz (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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The Steel Fist (1952)
Character: Nicholas
In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
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Bombardier (1943)
Character: Little Boy
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Character: Frank Richman
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Night of Nights (1939)
Character: Muggins
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Manhattan Heartbeat (1940)
Character: Mechanic
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
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Moonlight and Cactus (1944)
Character: Slugger
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
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Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Character: Concessionaire
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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Free For All (1949)
Character: McGuinness
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Turnabout (1940)
Character: Masseur
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Double Alibi (1940)
Character: Joe - Counterman
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Big Town Girl (1937)
Character: Marty
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Character: John Zero "Dynamite" Bacchuss
While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
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Larceny with Music (1943)
Character: Cab Driver
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages to pass off a young singer as the heir to a fortune and gets her booked at the club.
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It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Character: Newspaper Man at Ferry Landing (uncredited)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
Character: Pete
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
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The Big Guy (1939)
Character: Williams
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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The Power of the Whistler (1945)
Character: Joe Blainey, Elite Bakery Truck Driver
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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Submarine Patrol (1938)
Character: Orderly in Maitland's Office
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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The Phantom Thief (1946)
Character: Eddie Alexander, Chauffeur
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.
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Dangerously They Live (1941)
Character: Miller, Psychopathic Ward Guard (uncredited)
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
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Women's Prison (1955)
Character: N/A
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
Character: Blue Swan Waiter (uncredited)
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
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Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Character: Bus Driver
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Character: Wiseguy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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Up Goes Maisie (1946)
Character: Mitch O'Hara
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
Character: Gus
Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, However, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime. This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. Can they make it back to England in time ?
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High Tension (1936)
Character: Chuck
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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My Favorite Spy (1942)
Character: Kay's 1st 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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Affectionately Yours (1941)
Character: Blair
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
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Jail Busters (1955)
Character: Kitchen Trustee Gus
Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.
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Gasoline Alley (1951)
Character: Giffin
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
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Saboteur (1942)
Character: Truck Driver
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
Character: Joe, Reporter (uncredited)
Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).
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My Favorite Wife (1940)
Character: Yosemite Bartender (uncredited)
Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.
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Hands Across the Table (1935)
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
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Gallant Bess (1946)
Character: Johnny
Marshall Thompson stars in this MGM drama about a young soldier's devotion to a horse he rescues during WWII. (Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.)
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I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
Character: Nails
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
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On the Town (1949)
Character: Cab Company Owner (uncredited)
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
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The Public Menace (1935)
Character: Stiglitz (uncredited)
1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.
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Married Bachelor (1941)
Character: Sleeper
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
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Sergeant York (1941)
Character: But! Boy (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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The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
Character: Hotel Bell Captain (uncredited)
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
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They Were Expendable (1945)
Character: 'Slug' Mahan T.M. 1c
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
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Lost Continent (1951)
Character: Air Police Sergeant
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
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Here Come the Marines (1952)
Character: Corporal Stacey
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted. During a drill that he is putting the rest of the gang through, they find a soldier left for dead on the side of the road. Slip discovers a playing card next to the marine and traces it to Jolly Joe Johnson's gambling house. They suspect that the gambling house is cheating and set out to uncover the proof.
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Mug Town (1942)
Character: Shorty
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
Character: Gym Attendant (uncredited)
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
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Murder Without Tears (1953)
Character: Jim, the Bartender
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
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Vice Squad (1953)
Character: Cop (uncredited)
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.
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Highway Dragnet (1954)
Character: Ice Cream Truck Driver
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.
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Sleep, My Love (1948)
Character: Bar Patron at The Maples
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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23 1/2 Hours Leave (1937)
Character: Sgt. Schultz
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.
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The Big Shot (1942)
Character: Quinto, a Convict
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Corvette K-225 (1943)
Character: Jones
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
Character: Joe, Bartender at Three O'Clock Club (uncredited)
Pretty Melinda Howard has been abroad singing with a musical troupe. She decides to return home to surprise her mother whom she thinks is a successful Broadway star with a mansion in Manhattan. She doesn't know that her mother is actually a burnt-out cabaret singer with a love for whiskey. When she arrives at the mansion, she is taken in by the two servants who are friends of her mother's. The house actually belongs to Adolph Hubbell, a kind-hearted Broadway producer who also gets drawn into the charade. Hubbell takes a shine to Melinda and agrees to star her in his next show. Melinda also finds romance with a handsome hoofer who's also in the show. All is going well for Melinda except that she wants to see her mother who keeps putting off their reunion.
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The Jazz Singer (1953)
Character: Taxi Driver
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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The Jazz Singer (1953)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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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Baby Face Nelson (1957)
Character: Alex – Bank Guard
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).
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Tricky Dicks (1953)
Character: The Thrill Killer
The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
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Tanganyika (1954)
Character: Paul Duffy
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
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Sea Devils (1937)
Character: Seaman Brown
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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East of the River (1940)
Character: Dink Rogers, Blackjack Player (uncredited)
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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King of the Underworld (1939)
Character: Eddie
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Character: Eddie (uncredited)
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Character: Hobo, Frogeyes
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
Character: Driver
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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The Gangster (1947)
Character: Eddie
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
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Something for the Boys (1944)
Character: Army Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
The oddly-assorted Hart cousins: revue singer Blossom, con man Harry, and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!), inherit southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place to a hotel for army wives; but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene...
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Next Time I Marry (1938)
Character: Joe
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
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Let's Go Navy! (1951)
Character: Sailor with Nuramo tattoo
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
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The Big Mouth (1967)
Character: Ed - Motorcycle Officer (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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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Character: Diner in Teresina’s Cafe (uncredited)
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.
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Behind Southern Lines (1952)
Character: Sergeant
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Lucky Partners (1940)
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
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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Jungle Gents (1954)
Character: Max Lomax
When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
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Another Thin Man (1939)
Character: Larry (uncredited)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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The Big Tip Off (1955)
Character: Dan Curry - Gambler
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
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You Can't Buy Luck (1937)
Character: Spike Connors
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Character: Jim - Taxicab Driver (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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Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
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The Gay Sisters (1942)
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.
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The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Character: Fletcher's Mechanic (uncredited)
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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The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Character: Cowboy at Ranch (uncredited)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Lady Be Careful (1936)
Character: Mattie
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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Escape by Night (1937)
Character: Horace 'Red' Graham
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
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Tail Spin (1939)
Character: Albuquerque Mechanic (Uncredited)
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.
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After the Thin Man (1936)
Character: The Kid (uncredited)
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Sailor's Lady (1940)
Character: Sailor
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
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The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
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Security Risk (1954)
Character: Mike
An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
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Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Character: Taxi Driver
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
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Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Character: Pickup Driver with Red (uncredited)
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Army Bound (1952)
Character: Military Police Sergeant
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
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