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Hot Money (1936)
Character: Pasquale Romenetti
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
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Monkey Stuff (1919)
Character: N/A
Two-reel comedy, directed by William S. Campbell staring noted orangutan actor, Joe Martin
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You, the People (1940)
Character: Precinct Official Letting Henchmen In
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Fighter's Paradise (1924)
Character: N/A
A young man who jerks sodas in a small-town ice cream parlor is at heart a coward. He is mistaken for Cyclone Carter, a famous pug, and forced into a fight. A fortuitous blow on the head changes him into a fighting demon, and he wins the admiration of the townspeople and the love of his girl.
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Carnival in Paris (1937)
Character: Museum Guard
In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
Character: Italian
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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Two Wise Maids (1937)
Character: Nicky Zackorackus
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
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North West Mounted Police (1940)
Character: The Crow
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Character: Mike - the Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.
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Women Are Trouble (1936)
Character: Escarel
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
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Love in the Rough (1930)
Character: Gardener
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
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Lost in a Harem (1944)
Character: Native (uncredited)
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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What's the Matador? (1942)
Character: Jose Sanchez
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Tortilla Flat (1942)
Character: Torrelli
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
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Blood and Sand (1941)
Character: Train Engineer (uncredited)
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Take a Chance (1918)
Character: N/A
It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.
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Kid Nightingale (1939)
Character: Strangler Colombo
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings.
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Here Come the Girls (1918)
Character: N/A
Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.
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Old Hutch (1936)
Character: Workman #1
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
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The Dutiful Dub (1919)
Character: N/A
Harold is a henpecked husband who suddenly makes a change of front and asserts himself, much to his wife's astonishment.
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Lady Be Careful (1936)
Character: Curio Dealer
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
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King of the Cowboys (1943)
Character: Joe the Café Owner
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Calling Philo Vance (1940)
Character: Capt. Lugo (uncredited)
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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Fireman Save My Child (1918)
Character: N/A
In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.
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Lady Scarface (1941)
Character: Big 'Sem' Semenoff
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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