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Gobs and Gals (1952)
Character: Bertram
Two sailors (Robert Hutton) mail love letters from a remote weather station, enclosing photos of their chief (Cathy Downs).
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The Story of Lassie (1994)
Character: Self
Documentary about canine superstar Lassie, combining film clips, still photographs, home movies, archival footage and on-camera interviews with many figures involved with the Lassie films or television series.
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Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A retrospective on the career of Robert Mitchum through interviews with friends and co-workers, scenes from his films and the actor himself.
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Panic in the Streets (1950)
Character: Tommy Reed (uncredited)
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.
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The Last Wagon (1956)
Character: Billy
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
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The Cobweb (1955)
Character: Mark
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Character: Bartholomew Collins
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
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Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Character: Ricky Robinson
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
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For Heaven's Sake (1950)
Character: Joe Blake
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
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So Big (1953)
Character: Dirk, age 8
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.
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River of No Return (1954)
Character: Mark Calder
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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The Raid (1954)
Character: Larry Bishop
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie of the land, their leader spends a few days in the town and finds he is getting drawn into its life and especially into that of an attractive widow and her son.
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The Egyptian (1954)
Character: Thoth
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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The Strip (1951)
Character: Artie Ardrey
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.
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The Jackpot (1950)
Character: Tommy Lawrence
Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.
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Elopement (1951)
Character: Daniel Reagan
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
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Paula (1952)
Character: David Larson
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
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At Gunpoint (1955)
Character: Billy Wright
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
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