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Big Dame Hunting (1932)
Character: N/A
A drunken husband tries to sneak in but his wife catches him... and that means trouble!
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Public Opinion (1935)
Character: Postman
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Small Town Boy (1937)
Character: The Judge
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
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To Heir Is Human (1944)
Character: A. Raven Sparrow
Harry finds out he is the missing heir to an estate, and is summoned to an old, spooky mansion to collect his inheritance.
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One Nutty Night (1930)
Character: N/A
Two correspondence school detectives attempt to apprehend a maniac on the loose and get him back to the asylum.
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Radio Kisses (1930)
Character: N/A
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.
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Ellis Island (1936)
Character: Farmer
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
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Two-Fisted (1935)
Character: Attendant
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem. They decide to train him for a big match, and in the process find themselves involved in romance, shady characters and a possible kidnapping.
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Hit and Rum (1935)
Character: Impostor
Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.
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Cooks and Crooks (1942)
Character: Edgar's Client
A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.
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Under The Cock-eyed Moon (1930)
Character: Alkali Ike
Horace and Chester search for peace and quiet in the Arizona desert, with Lizzy, their personalized jalopy. Arriving in a small town they befriend two girls, a crack-pot prospector, and attract the ire of a dangerous outlaw.
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Queenie of Hollywood (1931)
Character: Hotel Manager
Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
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The Fuller Gush Man (1934)
Character: Father
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
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The Stagecoach Race (1936)
Character: Rocky O'Brien
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Winds of the Wasteland', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Winds of the Wasteland' down to a 22 minute short version. The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
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Rainbow on the River (1936)
Character: Cabman (uncredited)
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Ship Cafe (1935)
Character: Lunch Wagon Man (uncredited)
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Vanity Street (1932)
Character: Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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Sweet Spirits of the Nighter (1941)
Character: Grave Robber
Officers Brendel and Kennedy are dispatched to a house where scientists are conducting experiments to revive the dead.
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Death from a Distance (1935)
Character: Det. Regan
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
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The Devil Plays (1931)
Character: Sgt. Snyder
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
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Barnum Was Right (1929)
Character: Harrison
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
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Main Street Today (1944)
Character: Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
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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Star Reporter (1939)
Character: Janitor
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
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The Plot Thickens (1936)
Character: Cassidy - Policeman
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
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Fixing a Stew (1934)
Character: Man at Leon's house (as Lew Kelley)
Leon Erroll drinks too much, in the opinion of his mother-in-law, Dot Farley. So she arranges for everyone around him to talk in non-sequiturs until he decides to sober up permanently.
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Hard to Handle (1933)
Character: Hash-Slinger (uncredited)
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.
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Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous (1937)
Character: Jeff
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.
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The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Character: Coroner (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: Tony Gonzales (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Character: The Hermit
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.
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The Branded Sombrero (1928)
Character: Lane Hallett
A cowboy promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert, that he will return the cattle that Maggert rustled from the local ranchers.
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Wild Brian Kent (1936)
Character: Bill - ranchhand
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
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Western Gold (1937)
Character: Storekeeper Ezra
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood friend Foster. When all others refuse to take out the next gold shipment due to the killings, Bill volunteers. Jeannie, afraid for his safety, tells Foster of Bill's secret route not knowing Foster is the leader of the outlaw gang.
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The Spellbinder (1939)
Character: Turnkey (Uncredited)
Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Character: Doc Brooks
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Taxi, Mister (1943)
Character: Burlesque Comic
The owner (William Bendix) of a cab company tries to foil a racketeer.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
Character: Townsman Sam (uncredited)
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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The Woman Racket (1930)
Character: Tish
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
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Fixer Dugan (1939)
Character: Sheriff #1
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
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Wanted: Jane Turner (1936)
Character: Mike - Plainclothesman (uncredited)
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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The Miracle Man (1932)
Character: N/A
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Lady Luck (1936)
Character: Detective James Riley
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
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Man from Music Mountain (1938)
Character: Bowdie Bill
Scanlon is pulling off a land swindle by selling lots in a ghost town claiming the power company is bringing in a line. As a bonus he throws in shares in a worthless gold mine. Gene is on to Scanlon and tries to get him to buy back the deeds by salting the mine with gold. But when a new vein is really discovered Gene has to stop the sales but is trapped in the mine by Scanlon's men.
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Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
Character: Rocky O'Brien
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.
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In Old California (1942)
Character: Forty-Niner
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Road Agent (1941)
Character: Luke
Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies
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The Mad Ghoul (1943)
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
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Young People (1940)
Character: Farmer
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
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The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
Character: Police Inspector Lewis Trainey
When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
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They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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The Westerner (1940)
Character: Ticket Man (uncredited)
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Something Simple (1934)
Character: Nut Doctor
Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.
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In Person (1935)
Character: Mountain Man
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
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Scandal for Sale (1932)
Character: Compositor
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Society Fever (1935)
Character: Hanly
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
Character: Police Sgt. Olsen
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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State Trooper (1933)
Character: Graber
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter, June. It appears that some highly-placed employee has sold out to the opposition refinery people, and much sabotage and havoc is being caused.
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I'm No Angel (1933)
Character: Joe - Animal Keeper (uncredited)
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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20 Mule Team (1940)
Character: 1st Man
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Paradise Express (1937)
Character: Tom Wilson
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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The Border Legion (1940)
Character: Miner
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Saga of Death Valley (1939)
Character: Meredith
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Miner
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Stage Mother (1933)
Character: Jake, Stagehand
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.
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Lady for a Day (1933)
Character: Reception Guest Harry the Horse (uncredited)
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Bartender
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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If I Had a Million (1932)
Character: Prison Barber (uncredited)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Heaven on Earth (1931)
Character: Andy
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
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Three Texas Steers (1939)
Character: Postman
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
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Footlight Glamour (1943)
Character: Carpool rider
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
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Tough Kid (1938)
Character: Regan - Policeman
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a gambling syndicate and is put on the spot to throw the fight.
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The Overland Express (1938)
Character: Fred Greeley
It's 1861 and Buck gets the business men of Sacramento to establish the Pony express. Hawley runs the stage line over the same route and has the U. S. mail contract. When it looks like the Pony Express will be awarded the mail contract, he gives guns to the Indians and has them attack both the riders and the stations.
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King for a Night (1933)
Character: Milk Wagon Driver
A prizefighter is convicted of a murder that was actually committed by his sister.
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Shall We Dance (1937)
Character: Policeman at Jail (uncredited)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
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Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
Character: Settler
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Laughter in Hell (1933)
Character: Mileaway
In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.
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Devil's Squadron (1936)
Character: Night Watchman
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
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Virtue (1932)
Character: Magistrate
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.
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The Devil Horse (1932)
Character: The Boy's Father [Chs. 1 & 12] (as Lou Kelley)
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Crazy House (1943)
Character: Policeman
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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The Nitwits (1935)
Character: J. Gabriel Hazel
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Crash Donovan (1936)
Character: Janitor (uncredited)
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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True Confession (1937)
Character: Court Captain (uncredited)
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Character: Diner Cook (uncredited)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Make a Wish (1937)
Character: Mailman
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Mailman
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Forlorn River (1937)
Character: Sheriff Jim Henry Warner
"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranch of Blaine and asks for the horses Ward was to buy, promising payment from the government later. He also takes an interest in Ina Blaine, much to the resentment of her sweetheart Ben Ide. "Nevada" and "Weary" are hired for the horse round-up but Setter has them and Ben arrested on a fake charge.
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Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
Character: Thad Madison
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Corbin when intercepted by smooth-talking Cobb Wayne, who is in a deadly competition with Corbin.
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The Gay Falcon (1941)
Character: Elmer, Jailer (uncredited)
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along with sidekick Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, he agrees to look into a series of home party robberies that have victimized socialite Maxine Wood. The duo gets more than they bargained for when a murder is committed at Wood's home, but Lawrence still finds time to romance the damsel.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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Spook Louder (1943)
Character: Prof. J. O. Dunkfeather
The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
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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It Happened Out West (1937)
Character: Diner Counterman
Bank employee assigned to tell Arizona rancher her property is no good gets suspicious when her foreman agrees. Turns out his banker boss and the foreman know there's silver on that property.
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The Nuisance (1933)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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All Over Town (1937)
Character: Martin
Two vaudevillian comedians try to stage a show in a theatre that has a reputation for being being haunted.
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One in a Million (1935)
Character: Store Detective Rourke
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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Panama Patrol (1939)
Character: Captain Lacey
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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Born to Be Wild (1938)
Character: Reilly, Diner Counterman
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company vice-president, surprisingly asks them to carry a load of merchandise to Arrowhead and offers a $1000 bonus. He tells them it is a load of lettuce. Several miles out of Los Angelese, they are stopped by a mob of lettuce-farm workers on strike. When the first crate is tossed off the truck, it explodes and the two pals learn their merchandise is a cargo of dynamite. The workers let them proceed and they crash into a car driven by Mary Stevens, whom they had met at a restaurant. She and her dog, "Butch" (played by a Credited dog named Stooge), join them and they deliver their cargo, and learn unscrupulous real-estate operators have jammed the locks on the dam in order to ruin the ranchers and farmers and take over their property.
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Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
Character: Jailer
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Babies for Sale (1940)
Character: The Kingsley's Gardener
A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.
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The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.
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The Great Train Robbery (1941)
Character: Dad Halliday
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
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Border Cafe (1937)
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
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The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
Character: Los Angeles Judge
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
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Parole Girl (1933)
Character: Prison Warden
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
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Take the Stand (1934)
Character: Medical Examiner (uncredited)
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
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Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Character: Mr. Crane (uncredited)
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Character: First Riverboat Pilot (uncredited)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery (1935)
Character: Victor Martin
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
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Thunder Afloat (1939)
Character: Sailor (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
Character: Railroad Man at Lunch Counter (uncredited)
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and his family in Palm Springs.
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Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
Character: Station Agent
Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
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Strange People (1933)
Character: Smith - the Insurance Agent
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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Lawless Valley (1938)
Character: Fresno
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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Three of a Kind (1936)
Character: Police Sgt. Cogarty
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
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The Little Foxes (1941)
Character: Train Companion (uncredited)
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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So's Your Uncle (1943)
Character: Doorman
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
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Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Character: Adolph Berg
Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
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