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The Price of Freedom (1949)
Character: Thomas Vollmer
The son of a newspaper editor visits his uncle in Germany and learns how government control gradually took away the freedom of the people. He returns and influences his father to print news items which will lead the people of their community to see the world situation as it is instead of as they want to believe it is.
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One Way Out (1931)
Character: Police Sergeant on Bicycle (uncredited)
A man in the mythical Elyria tries to kill himself but a cop stops him from doing so. In Elyria, one needs a permit to commit suicide, so off the man goes to the Department of Suicides for a suicide permit, which he is granted.
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Citizen Kane Trailer (1940)
Character: himself/Jim Gettys
A self-contained promotional short in which Orson Welles introduces "Citizen Kane" through staged rehearsals and narration, without using footage from the film itself.
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The Trans-Atlantic Mystery (1932)
Character: Waite
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
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Words & Music (1931)
Character: Mr. Lambert (uncredited)
Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is difficult to get music publishers to consider new talent. Don sees Ruth having dinner at a night club and asks for her help.
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Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957)
Character: Harris Clayton
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.
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Main Street Today (1944)
Character: Otis Bird
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
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Highways by Night (1942)
Character: Ben Van Steel, Tommy's Uncle
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
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Night in Paradise (1946)
Character: Leonides
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
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Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
Character: Dr. Elijah Howe
A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.
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You're in the Navy Now (1951)
Character: Rear Adm. L. C. Tennant
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
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Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Character: Johan Bergesen
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.
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Salute to the Marines (1943)
Character: Col. John Mason
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
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The Big Street (1942)
Character: Professor B
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Character: Glen Robie
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Command Decision (1948)
Character: Maj. Desmond Lansing
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
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Roughly Speaking (1945)
Character: John Chase Randall
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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The Desert Song (1953)
Character: Gen. Birabeau
Shiek Yousseff, poses as a friend of the French while secretly plotting to overthrow them. Apposing Yousseff are the Riffs, whose secret leader, The Red Shadow, is Paul Bonnard, a professor who is studying the desert, and whose attacks on the supply trains intended for Yousseff keep the Riff villages in food. Foreign Legion General Birabeau arrives to conduct an investigation, accompanied by his daughter, Margot. Birabeau hires Bonnard to tutor her, and she is attracted to a Legionaire captain, Claud Fontaine. While the general, Bonnard and Fontaine pay a visit to Yousseff, an American newspaper man, Benji Kidd, discovers a secret way in and out of Yousseff's palace, with the aid of Azuri, a dancing girl in love with Bonnard. The latter is forced to resume his role as the Riffs leader, and kidnap Margot until he can convince her of Yousseff's treachery. But Yousseff's men attack the Riff camp and take Margot prisoner.
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The Heiress (1949)
Character: Jefferson Almond
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
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Trail Street (1947)
Character: Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
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Kill the Umpire (1950)
Character: Jonah Evans
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many jobs when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of his father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an umpire-training school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the championship play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved player is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill made the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather him, Bill's family - his daughters Lucy (Gloria Henry and Susan and his wife Betty - help Bill reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising encounters.
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The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)
Character: Fred Houlihan
A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Character: Jonathan Parker
The Kettles leave their ultra-modern home and return to the country looking for uranium. Ma and Tom's mother-in-law, Mrs. Parker, fight over whether their grandchild will be raised "hygiencially."
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The Fountainhead (1949)
Character: Roger Enright
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Character: Deckman West
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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Bad for Each Other (1953)
Character: Dan Reasonover
A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Character: Jim W. Gettys
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Viva la clase media (1980)
Character: N/A
Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.
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The Hitler Gang (1944)
Character: Cardinal von Faulhaber
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.
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Free For All (1949)
Character: A B Blair
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Francis (1950)
Character: Colonel Hooker
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named Francis speaks to him.
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Vengeance Valley (1951)
Character: Arch Strobie
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
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Column South (1953)
Character: Storey
In the weeks prior to the start of the Civil War, Confederate sympathizers hope to help their cause by inciting a Navajo war in the New Mexico Territory. Director Frederick de Cordova's 1953 western stars Audie Murphy, Robert Sterling, Joan Evans, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Palmer Lee, Jack Kelly, James Best, Bob Steele and Ralph Moody.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Character: Dr. Matt Beemish
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
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Paid in Full (1950)
Character: Dr. Fredericks
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
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Homecoming (1948)
Character: Lt. Col. Avery Silver
Self-absorbed Dr. Lee Johnson enlists with the Army medical corps during World War II, more out of a feeling that it's "the thing to do" rather than deep-seated patriotism. On his first day, he's put into place by 'Snapshot', a sassy and attractive nurse. Their initial antagonism blossoms into romance. Lee then finds himself torn with guilt over being unfaithful to his wife, Penny, who's waiting for him back home.
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Invitation (1952)
Character: Warren Pritchard
A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.
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The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)
Character: Emil Blanchard
The grandson of Edmond Dantes was cheated out of his fortune and falsely imprisoned, only to escape and wreak vengeance on his betrayers by assuming the guise of the Count of Monte Cristo. Just like grandpa, the younger Dantes is framed by a trio of connivers and shipped off to Devil's Island. Escaping with a fellow convict, political radical Bombelles, Dantes adopts the bearded guise of an elderly man in order to destroy his enemies and reclaim his birthright.
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Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
Character: Gordon Stewart
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ships. He embarks upon a long, hellish sea voyage under the tyrannical rule of Captain Francis Thompson (Howard Da Silva), assisted by his first mate, Amazeen (William Bendix). One of his crewmates is Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Brian Donlevy).
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Up Goes Maisie (1946)
Character: Mr. Floyd Henderickson
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Young Man with Ideas (1952)
Character: Edmund Jethrow
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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The Racket (1951)
Character: Mortimer Welsh
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
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Madame Curie (1943)
Character: Lecturer (voice) (uncredited)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Good Sam (1948)
Character: Rev. Daniels
Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things they need--like a house.
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The Seventh Cross (1944)
Character: Wallau
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler attempts an escape to freedom in Holland.
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Summer Stock (1950)
Character: Jasper G. Wingait
To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she falls in love with the director, Joe, who happens to be her sister's fiance.
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Crack-Up (1946)
Character: Dr. Lowell
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
Character: Johnny Adair
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
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Dreamboat (1952)
Character: Timothy Stone
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have been resurrected and are being aired on TV. He sets out to demand this cease. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans.
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The Red Stallion (1947)
Character: Perry Barton
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
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Never Say Goodbye (1956)
Character: Dr. Bailey
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.
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The Miracle on 34th Street (1955)
Character: Judge Harper
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real thing.
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Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Character: Snodgrass
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.
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The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Character: Alfred Metcalfe
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Character: Mr. Milton
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1952)
Character: Jonathan Parker
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.
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It Happens Every Spring (1949)
Character: Alfred Greenleaf
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Character: District Attorney Adair
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
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Spoilers of the Forest (1957)
Character: Eric Warren
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) sends out his foreman Boyd Caldwell (Rod Cameron) to persuade her to sell. Instead, Caldwell falls in love with the girl, vowing to protect her trees from the eco-unfriendly Warren. Republic's wide-screen Naturama process is shown to good advantage throughout Spoilers of the Forest.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Character: Jack Amberson
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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The Man from Colorado (1948)
Character: Big Ed Carter
Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
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The Kid from Left Field (1953)
Character: Fred F. Whacker
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
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Texas Lady (1955)
Character: Mica Ralston (rancher)
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to assume control of her late father's newspaper. Her first major print crusade is aimed at gambler Chris Mooney (Barry Sullivan), whom Prudence holds responsible for her dad's suicide. She then takes aim at a couple of crooked cattle barons (Ray Collins and Walter Sande), who'd like nothing better than to put Prudence out of the way for keeps.
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A Double Life (1947)
Character: Victor Donlan
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
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Badman's Territory (1946)
Character: Colonel Farewell / Narrator
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
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I Want You (1951)
Character: Judge Kenneth Turner
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
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The Human Comedy (1943)
Character: Mr. Macauley
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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See Here, Private Hargrove (1944)
Character: Brodie S. Griffith
Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.
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For the Love of Mary (1948)
Character: Harvey Elwood
Young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
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Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
Character: Grover Kendall
Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
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Athena (1954)
Character: Mr. Tremaine
A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
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The Hidden Eye (1945)
Character: Phillip Treadway
A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.
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Crime Doctor (1943)
Character: Dr. John Carey
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
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I'll Give My Life (1960)
Character: John Bradford
This story opens with John Bradford throwing a graduation party for his son, Jim, who has just earned a degree in engineering. John has planned to make his son a partner in his engineering firm for many years. However, Jim has decided to enter the ministry.
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Can't Help Singing (1944)
Character: Senator Frost
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Reunion in Reno (1951)
Character: Judge Thomas Kneeland
A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.
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Rose Marie (1954)
Character: Insp. Appleby
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
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Boys' Ranch (1946)
Character: Davis Banton
A juvenile delinquent is sent to a rehabilitation ranch, but he immediately proves to be a troublemaker.
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Hideout (1949)
Character: Arthur Burdett, alias Philip J. Fogarty
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.
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