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Three Guys Named Mike (1951)
Character: Dr. Matthew Hardy
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
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Flying Cadets (1941)
Character: 'Pinkie' Taylor, FAA inspector
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
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Man From Headquarters (1942)
Character: Managing Editor Marvin
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: Stockbroker (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Arson, Inc. (1949)
Character: Detective
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
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Night Into Morning (1951)
Character: Dr. Huntington
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
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The Enforcer (1951)
Character: N/A
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
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The Wayward Girl (1957)
Character: Parole Agent
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
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Mystery Street (1950)
Character: Detective Kilrain (uncredited)
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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Grand Central Murder (1942)
Character: Detective Strom (uncredited)
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
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The Male Animal (1942)
Character: Editor (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
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Batman (1943)
Character: Sam Fletcher
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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Side Street (1950)
Character: Policeman
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Reporter at Train (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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The Last Horseman (1944)
Character: Cash Watson
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
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The Bigamist (1953)
Character: Judge
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Meet Me at the Fair (1953)
Character: Mr. Spooner
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
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Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
Character: Ship's Doctor (uncredited)
With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
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The Paleface (1948)
Character: Village gossip
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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Cage of Evil (1960)
Character: Insp. Daniel A. Melrose
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her boyfriend and make off with her and the loot, they start down a treacherous path full of dark surprises.
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
Character: Doctor (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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Backlash (1956)
Character: Colonel Welnick (uncredited)
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.
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Honky Tonk (1941)
Character: Dist. Atty. Kendall
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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Arizona Terrors (1942)
Character: Madden, the Counterfeiter
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics. A pair of horse sellers pitch in to help a customer, his daughter, and the other "tenant" ranchers after being roughed up by toll collectors when they refuse to pay the assessed toll.
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The Lone Prairie (1942)
Character: N/A
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
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False Faces (1943)
Character: Assistant District Attorney Stewart
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
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Showdown at Abilene (1956)
Character: Frank Scovie
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.
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The Prowler (1951)
Character: Bud Crocker
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
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Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
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The Eternal Sea (1955)
Character: Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
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Murder in the Big House (1942)
Character: Prison Doctor
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
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Young at Heart (1954)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
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The Lineup (1958)
Character: Norm Thompson
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
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Spy Ship (1942)
Character: Ernie Haskell
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
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The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Character: Dr. Swanson
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Terror at Midnight (1956)
Character: Capt. Allyson
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
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Pretty Baby (1950)
Character: Simmons (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Adam's Rib (1949)
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
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Borrowed Hero (1941)
Character: City Editor
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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The Man Who Died Twice (1958)
Character: Chief Sloane
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
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Lady in the Death House (1944)
Character: Richard Snell
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
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Dial 1119 (1950)
Character: Frank
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution, intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
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Devil's Canyon (1953)
Character: Grocer (uncredited)
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
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Flood Tide (1958)
Character: John Brighton
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.
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A Strange Adventure (1956)
Character: Insurance Company Representative
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
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Time Table (1956)
Character: Train Conductor
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
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Father Steps Out (1941)
Character: City Editor Macy
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
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Alaska (1944)
Character: Kallan
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
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The Unknown Man (1951)
Character: Dr. Palmer
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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Without Warning! (1952)
Character: Fred Saunders
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears
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Seven Sweethearts (1942)
Character: City Editor (uncredited)
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
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