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Fangs of the Wild (1954)
Character: Jim Summers
A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.
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Giving Thanks Always (1953)
Character: Carl
During the many challenges in preparing for Thanksgiving holiday festivities, Anna and other family members forget the real meaning of the day. That is, until Rev. Martin remind them of the blessings God has given through salvation in Christ and assurance of eternal life in heaven.
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Heritage of Anger (1956)
Character: Sidney Lennox
Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.
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Jungle Mystery (1932)
Character: Jack Morgan
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.
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Born to Gamble (1935)
Character: Dan 'Ace' Cartwright / Henry Mathews
A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.
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All That I Have (1951)
Character: Attorney Palmer
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to God." His nephews bring him to court to determine his mental competence in the hopes of stopping him from disposing of all his money.
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House of Danger (1934)
Character: Don Phillips
To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie? (1940)
Character: Bob Dunbar
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
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The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
Character: Dr. Franz Edlemann (archive footage)
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
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Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
Character: Lyn Durland
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: Frederick Keller
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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Forced Landing (1935)
Character: Farraday
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot. Unfortunately, something goes wrong during the trip and the pilots must land the plane in the Arizona desert during a terrible storm. There all of the passengers and crew find cramped accommodations in a lonely farmhouse where murder, mystery and mayhem occur.
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The Golden West (1932)
Character: Calvin Brown
Lovers David Lunch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers son, he escapes to the West. He marries and when his boy is two he and his wife are killed by Indians who take the boy. Twenty years later the boy is now the Indian chief. Betty's daughter is nearby and the two are destined to meet.
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Murder with Pictures (1936)
Character: Nate Girard
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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F-Man (1936)
Character: Mr. Shaw
Johnny Dime has aspiration of becoming a "G-Man" , gums up the work of Rogan, an actual government agent is his pursuit of Public Enemy No. 1. Dimes ambitious goal is to improve his "F" rating to a "G". His sweetheart, Evelyn hopes to not get shot in the process.
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Mark of the Gorilla (1950)
Character: Professor Brandt
Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.
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Tarawa Beachhead (1958)
Character: Gen. Nathan Keller
A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama.
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
Character: Lugal
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
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House of Dracula (1945)
Character: Dr. Franz Edelmann
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
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Idaho (1943)
Character: Bob Stevens
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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They Rode West (1954)
Character: Col. Ethan Waters
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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The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Character: J. Stanley McMasters
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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Easy Money (1936)
Character: Dan Adams
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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I'll Tell the World (1934)
Character: Prince Michael
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Character: Dr. Frank Norton
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police.
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Sirocco (1951)
Character: Emir Hassan
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
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Okay, America! (1932)
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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The Three Musketeers (1935)
Character: Aramis
In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and Aramis — and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
Character: Hearn
Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers as soon as looks at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock’s ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Character: Dr. Walters
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
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The Couch (1962)
Character: Dr. W.L. Janz, M.D.
A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.
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Sunset Serenade (1942)
Character: Gregg Jackson
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
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When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Character: Holden
A waitress destined for a better life falls in love with a handsome stranger, only to find that he is already married.
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Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Character: Carl Cutler
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Them! (1954)
Character: Brig. Gen. Robert O'Brien
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their existence, an FBI agent and, eventually, the US Army to eradicate the menace, before it spreads across the continent — and the world.
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Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Character: Captain Allen
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
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State Penitentiary (1950)
Character: Richard Evans
A man wrongly accused of a crime must decide between getting involved in a prison break, or remaining in jail until his wife can prove his innocence.
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Canyon Passage (1946)
Character: Jack Lestrade
In 1850s Oregon, a businessman is torn between his love of two very different women and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
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Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
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O.S.S. (1946)
Character: Field
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John Martin as spy Philippe Martine (Alan Ladd) along with Miss Ellen Rogers posing as her college roommate, Madame Elaine Duprez (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Robert Bouchet, Tech Sgt., A.U.S. as Albert Bernardito (Richard Benedict) to acquire secret Nazi plans. After nearly getting caught they succeed and get new identities. However they discover a secret that could change the war and risk their lives to get the information back to London before it jeopardizes their lives.
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Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Character: Igor Braun
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?
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Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
Character: George Harland
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.
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Once in a Lifetime (1932)
Character: Lawrence Vail
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
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Yellow Dust (1936)
Character: Jack Hanway
After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.
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Nagana (1933)
Character: Dr. Roy Stark
A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.
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The San Francisco Story (1952)
Character: Capt. Jim Martin
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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Revenue Agent (1950)
Character: Sam Bellows
Accountant Augustis King discovers that his wife, Marfhe, is having an affair with his boss Sam Bellows. He telephones Internal Revenue Bureau that he can give evidence of a large tax-evasion racket. Before IRS-agent Steve Daniels arrives, King is murdered by a henchman of Bellows and his partner, Ernie Medford. Daniels discovers that Bellows and Medford are smuggling gold bullion from their mine in Mexico, and sell and bank the money under assumed names. they hide the bullion in a compartment welded to the bottom of a car.
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Life Returns (1935)
Character: Dr. John Kendrick
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Barnard
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Hands Across the Border (1944)
Character: Brock Danvers
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
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Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Character: Frank Faber
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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Motor Patrol (1950)
Character: Lt. Dearborn
A cop poses as a member of a stolen-car ring to capture the men responsible for the murder of his fiancee's brother.
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Lorna Doone (1951)
Character: Counsellor Doone
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
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Bombay Mail (1934)
Character: John Hawley
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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New York Confidential (1955)
Character: Johnny Achilles
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
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Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Character: Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham
Peg and her father live a simple life in an Irish fishing village. One day Sir Gerald arrives at the village to tell Pat that Peg is heir to estate of her grandfather, who hated Pat. The upshot of the will is that she must go to England for 3 years to learn to be a lady and that Pat can never see her again.
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There Goes the Groom (1937)
Character: Dr. Joel Becker
After striking it rich in Alaskan gold, a young man returns to marry his fiancé only to be snubbed. Her sister, however, is worth considering, until he learns about her gold-digging family.
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The Family Secret (1951)
Character: Judge Williams
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.
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Grand Exit (1935)
Character: John Grayson
A Stumped insurance company is forced to re-hire the most expensive, most big-headed, but best arson investigator to solve a string of major losses.
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In Love with Life (1934)
Character: Prof. John Applegate
Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum, and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them. He meets a young boy, Laury and his mother, Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them. He gets a job-prospect letter, as a private tutor, and applies at once. His employer is Mr. Morley, a surly, sour, mean-tempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson, who turns out to be Laury. Sharon, Morleys daughter had eloped against her father's wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laury's birth.
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Kelly and Me (1957)
Character: Walter Van Runkle
Failing vaudeville performer, Len, is taken under the wing of the German Shepherd wonder dog, Kelly, and a new act is born. Len hopes all his dreams are coming true when he finds himself in Hollywood ... but Kelly is the one in demand on the big screen.
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One Too Many (1950)
Character: Dr. Foster
A once-famous concert pianist has had her career ruined by her alcoholism. Her husband and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous try to help her recover.
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Radio Patrol (1932)
Character: Carl Hughes
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
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Sealed Cargo (1951)
Character: Cmdr. James McLean
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.
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The Creeper (1948)
Character: Dr. Jim Borden
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
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Lonelyhearts (1959)
Character: Mr. Lassiter
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
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The Crosby Case (1934)
Character: Francis Scott Graham
Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.
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Three on the Trail (1936)
Character: Pecos Kane
An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
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You Can't Buy Luck (1937)
Character: Joe Baldwin
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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I Can't Escape (1934)
Character: Steve Nichols, alias Steve Cummings
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock scam.
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The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
Character: Stanley Stanfield
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
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Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Character: Dr. Matt Higgins
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
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A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Character: Guy Polli
A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?
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Heroes of the West (1932)
Character: Tom Crosby
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
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The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
Character: Jeffrey 'Jeff' Powell
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Go West, Young Lady (1941)
Character: Tom Hannegan
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outlaws.
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Appointment in Berlin (1943)
Character: Rudolph Von Preissing
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Outside the Law (1956)
Character: Chief Agent Alec Conrad
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
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Flight from Glory (1937)
Character: Ellis
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
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Hills of Utah (1951)
Character: Jayda McQueen
A singing doctor on horseback heals a feud between cattlemen and copper miners.
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Counsellor at Law (1933)
Character: John P. Tedesco
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
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