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That I May Live (1937)
Character: N/A
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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The Country Beyond (1936)
Character: Cpl. Robert King
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
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Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Character: Johnny Adams
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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For Love or Money (1939)
Character: Ted Frazier
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours. The bookkeepers are given 36 hours to get all of the money back by their infuriated boss.
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Who's Guilty? (1946)
Character: N/A
Feature version of the 1945 American serial film of the same name, composed for export only, never seen in the USA and now evidently a long-lost film.
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The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936)
Character: Dr. Michael Forbes
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
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Calling All Marines (1939)
Character: Sgt. Marvin Fox
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome home Judy's brother, Marine Sergeant Marvin Fox.
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Step Lively, Jeeves! (1937)
Character: Gerry Townsend
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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Car 99 (1935)
Character: Trooper Blatzky
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
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Twilight on the Trail (1941)
Character: Henchman Drake
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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Dimples (1936)
Character: Allen Drew
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit.
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The Phantom Creeps (1949)
Character: Capt. Bob West
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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East Side of Heaven (1939)
Character: Cyrus Barrett Jr.
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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The Phantom Rider (1946)
Character: Dr. Jim Sterling
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
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Reunion (1936)
Character: Tony Luke
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous.
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What a Man! (1944)
Character: Steve Jackson
Henry Burrows, timid, white-collar worker for the firm of Rankin and Phillips, returns to his bachelor apartment to discover Joan Rankin, whom he does not know, hiding there. She feigns illness, Henry goes for a doctor and returns to find that a gangster has been murdered on his doorstep and the police think he is implicated. They inform him that the gangster's moll, Constance, has escaped. Henry thinks they are talking about Joan.
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Born Reckless (1937)
Character: Lee Martin
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Sunset in Wyoming (1941)
Character: Larry Drew
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
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Blonde Alibi (1946)
Character: Detective (Uncredited)
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
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One Million B.C. (1940)
Character: Mountain Guide
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
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The Gladiator (1938)
Character: Tom Dixon
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
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A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Character: Ensign Copley
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
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Rebel City (1953)
Character: Capt. Ramsey
Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
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Convict's Code (1939)
Character: Dave Tyler
On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.
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The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Character: Capt. Bob West
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Dragnet (1947)
Character: Police Lt. Ricco
Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Anne Hogan, an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.
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Stand by for Action (1942)
Character: Hank Nels (uncredited)
U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, and is now Junior Aide to Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas.
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Angel's Holiday (1937)
Character: Nick Moore
Lively June, teen-aged daughter of mystery writer Waldo Everett, who calls her "Angel," becomes involved in intrigue centering on movie star Pauline Kaye and her companion Stivers. Reporter Nick Moore, once sweet on Pauline, is convinced that her sudden disappearance is a publicity stunt, which is true -- until gangster Bat Regan decides to get involved.
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Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Character: Ronnie Brewster
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.
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Niagara Falls (1941)
Character: Hotel Guest (uncredited)
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
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Find the Blackmailer (1943)
Character: Mark Harper
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
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Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Character: Jimmie Wilson
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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Blonde Comet (1941)
Character: Jim Flynn
A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.
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Gang Bullets (1938)
Character: John Carter
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Country Girl (1954)
Character: Paul Unger
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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Yanks Ahoy (1943)
Character: Lt. Reeves
Sergeants flirt with a nurse aboard ship and go fishing for a Japanese Sub.
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Federal Agent at Large (1950)
Character: Harry Monahan
A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)
Character: Marty Weston
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Wanted by the Police (1938)
Character: Policeman Mike O'Leary
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Character: Gordon Chase
Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chan's in a web of blackmail and murder.
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Shoot to Kill (1947)
Character: 'Dixie' Logan aka Judge Joel Conroy (as Douglas Blackley)
A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.
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Two for Tonight (1935)
Character: College Boy
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
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College Scandal (1935)
Character: Dan Courtridge
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
Character: RCMP Sgt. King
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her father. An evil lawyer plans to keep the mine for himself.
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Stagecoach Express (1942)
Character: Griff Williams
Ellen has the contract for the South West Stage Line through the panhandle. Her father had the run for years and Haney, who runs the office, worked for him. But Ellen does not know that Haney is in league with Elkins and they want the stage line so they can rob the gold shipments. All they need do is stop the stage and end her contract, but that is not easy with Dave driving for Ellen.
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Wild Weed (1949)
Character: Lt. Mason
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
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