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When Gangland Strikes (1956)
Character: Walter Pritchard
In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
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Hell's Island (1955)
Character: Casino Drunk
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
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We're Not Married! (1952)
Character: Twitchell (uncredited)
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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They Rode West (1954)
Character: Dr. Gibson
A young cavalry doctor treats very sick Indians against orders, whom are forced to stay on unhealthy land, which could lead to a war.
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Massacre Canyon (1954)
Character: Phineas J. Canfield
A band of renegade Apaches attempts to steal a shipment of rifles being transported to Fort Collins.
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The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Character: Caldwell
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.
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Mystery Street (1950)
Character: Jim Black the Tattooist
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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It Should Happen to You (1954)
Character: Beckhard (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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The Fireball (1950)
Character: Bruno Crystal
Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
Character: Buck Monahan (uncredited)
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
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Alaska Seas (1954)
Character: Dad Jackson
A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business.
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Lili (1953)
Character: M. Corvier
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
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Artists and Models (1955)
Character: Mr. Trimm (uncredited)
A struggling painter begins taking inspiration from the dreams of his friend and roommate, a comic book fan who narrates an adventure story while he sleeps, but unbeknownst to the latter, the artist of his favorite comic book lives in the same building as they do with the model for her drawings.
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All the King's Men (1949)
Character: Tiny Duffy
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore classy society girl, and a too-clever-for-her-own-good political flack.
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Rails Into Laramie (1954)
Character: Frank Logan
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Forever, Darling (1956)
Character: Henry Opdyke
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. So into her life comes an angel, which only Susan can see, to tell her that there will be trouble ahead if they do not work out their problems. Lorenzo is developing insecticide #383 at Finlay Vega Chemical Co. and plans to test it on a camping trip that he takes with Susan, but the trip becomes an obstacle course for him.
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When I Grow Up (1951)
Character: Carp
Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.
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Carbine Williams (1952)
Character: Andrew White
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
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Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Character: Mike Hennighan
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
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All in a Night's Work (1961)
Character: Baker
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it. While negotiating a loan from the bank, Tony gets a call from a detective surrounding his uncle's death. It turns out Colonel Ryder died in his hotel room with a smile on his face and a young woman was seen fleeing his room wearing only a towel. Suspicious of this woman and afraid the magazine's wholesome image may be tarnished and their loan denied, Tony asks the detective to stick around and find her.
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The San Francisco Story (1952)
Character: Winfield Holbert (as Ralph E. Dumke)
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan, that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!
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Boots Malone (1952)
Character: Beckett
An agent for horse jockeys faces his greatest challenge.
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The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Character: Warren Gillie
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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Where Danger Lives (1950)
Character: Klauber
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
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The President's Lady (1953)
Character: Col. Stark
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Character: Police Chief Nick Grivett
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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Loving You (1957)
Character: Jim Tallman
Deke Rivers is a delivery man who is discovered by publicist Glenda Markle and country-western musician Tex Warner who want to promote the talented newcomer to fame and fortune, giving him every break he deserves. Romantic complications arise as Susan, another singer in the group, offers him devoted admiration as Glenda leads him on with promises of a golden future.
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Hurricane Smith (1952)
Character: Ben Hawkins
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
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Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
Character: Senator Gillespie (uncredited)
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
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The Law and the Lady (1951)
Character: James Horace Caighn
A former housemaid teams up with an English gentleman thief and works a confidence game to bilk the wealthy but their plans for a big job in California go awry.
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Elmer Gantry (1960)
Character: Salesman in Saloon (uncredited)
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
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Violent Saturday (1955)
Character: Hotel Desk Clerk
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
Character: Alesworth
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle is sent to investigate, saloon owner Hallie has to be a reluctant witness.
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The Mob (1951)
Character: Police Commissioner
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
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