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Isobel or the Trail's End (1920)
Character: Cpl. Bucky Smith
In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
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A Mother's Influence (1914)
Character: The Burglar
The son falls in love with his millionaire father's stenographer, against the parental wishes. To get rid of her influence over Wallace, Burton, Sr., discharges Madge. But the young man follows her and they are married. By so doing he separates himself from his father altogether.
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Another Chance (1914)
Character: N/A
Mason, discharged from jail, promises his wife to lead a new life. While searching for work, he rescues Curly, a newsboy, from the clutches of a tramp, who, in trying to steal the boy's secret hoard, beats him up badly. Mason leaves the now helpless boy in care of his wife, and resumes his search for work.
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Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
Character: Brill (uncredited)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.
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Mr. Bride (1932)
Character: Cpt. Wilson
Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.
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His Darker Self (1924)
Character: Bill Jackson
A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally a 5-reel feature (50min), now only 2 reel edit exists.
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Red Hot Romance (1922)
Character: Thomas Snow
After his father's death, Roland Stone learns that his will stipulates that he must go to the South American country of Bunkonia and sell life insurance.
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Seven Days (1925)
Character: Policeman
Jim Wilson is separated from his wife Bella, so when his maiden Aunt Selina -- who thoroughly disapproves of divorce -- comes to visit, Wilson is compelled to locate a temporary wife. His friend, Kit Eclair, is happy to fill in, but during a party, his home is quarantined for smallpox. To complicate matters, a burglar is hiding from a cop in Wilson's home, and wacky Anne Brown is busy trying to hold a seance.
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Sink or Swim (1920)
Character: George Washington Brown
A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)
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The Yankee Way (1917)
Character: George Washington Brown
Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share in a cattle concession. By chance, the girl from the restaurant is also bound for the Balkans. While on board, Dick undertakes to renew his acquaintance with this attractive foreigner, but encounters considerable resistance. In Lithuania, Dick meets with Count Vortsky, the Minister of Finance, who presses him to sell his cattle concession, hoping to clinch a coup attempt he is planning with the Bulgarian Ambassador. Somewhat suspicious, Dick agrees to announce his decision only in the presence of Princess Alexia, who turns out to be the girl from the restaurant.
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The Lucky Transfer (1915)
Character: Ford
Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work. Ford and Ransom, a couple of crooks, rob a store and among the things taken are a quantity of stamped envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed thereon.
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What Fools Men (1925)
Character: Business Rival
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
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Treachery Rides the Range (1936)
Character: Denver
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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A Yankee from the West (1915)
Character: Jim Dorsey, Milford's Pal
Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
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The Captain's Kid (1936)
Character: Bill Brown
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)
Character: Tom - Marvin's Campaign Worker
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
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We Are Not Alone (1939)
Character: Extra on Bench in Amusement Park
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Pete - a Logger (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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We Live Again (1934)
Character: Guard
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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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 Cherokee Strip (1937)
Character: Jury Foreman / Mr. Wellman
A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
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The Rainmaker (1926)
Character: Chocolate
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
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Heart of the North (1938)
Character: Post Customer (uncredited)
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Personal Maid's Secret (1935)
Character: Pedestrian
A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: Bar Patron (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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When a Man Loves (1927)
Character: A Convict Aboard the Boat (uncredited)
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Character: Stoneman's Servant
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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The Kid (1921)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
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The Big House (1930)
Character: Sandy
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
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They Drive by Night (1940)
Character: Man Outside Barney's (uncredited)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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The Goose and the Gander (1935)
Character: Jack the Baggage Man (uncredited)
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.
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Road to Paradise (1930)
Character: Jerry the Greek (uncredited)
Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
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Torrid Zone (1940)
Character: Passerby as Train Moves
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Policeman at Bowling Alley (uncredited)
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
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Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
Character: 'Snitch' McCarthy
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
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6 Day Bike Rider (1934)
Character: Lame Farmer (uncredited)
To get his girl back, that has fallen for a biker, a worker and one of his friends enter a six day race.
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Who's Your Father? (1918)
Character: Black Father (uncredited)
This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
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White Bondage (1937)
Character: Cal Daily
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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The FBI Story (1959)
Character: Chicago Passerby (uncredited)
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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Pay Me! (1917)
Character: 'Mac' Jepson
During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.
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Over the Wall (1938)
Character: Pinball Proprietor
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Character: Brother Rayne (uncredited)
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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The Best Bad Man (1925)
Character: Sam
Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent (Cyril Chadwick) is forcing Peggy Swain (Clara Bow) and her dad (Frank Beal) off their neighboring ranch. When decent-minded Nichols demands that the agent cease harassing the farmers, the nasty villain blows up the nearby dam, flooding the valley.
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The Million Dollar Handicap (1925)
Character: Tom
After buying the filly Dixie following a strong finish Southern horse breeder John Porter discovers she has been doped for the contest. When he is paralyzed from a fall from Dixie his son, Alan, embezzles money from the bank to save the family finances. Because of his love for Alan's sister Alis, George Mortimer takes the blame for the crime, losing his job. Disguised as a boy, Alis enters Dixie in a race and rides the horse to victory and all ends happily.
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Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
Character: Truck Driver
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Character: Big Shot Kelly, Gangster
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Character: Accident Spectator
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
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A Day's Pleasure (1919)
Character: Large Husband on Boat
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
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'G' Men (1935)
Character: Agent (uncredited)
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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California Straight Ahead (1925)
Character: Sambo
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
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One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Character: Fireman Angus (uncredited)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
Character: Convict 18701 in Print Shop (uncredited)
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Shoulder Arms (1918)
Character: Dumb German Wood-Cutter
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Character: Tony - Investigator (uncredited)
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
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Boom Town (1940)
Character: Man in Saloon (uncredited)
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
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The Half-Breed (1916)
Character: Curson
In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
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Romance Road (1938)
Character: N/A
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police sergeant must mediate a land rights dispute between an advancing railroad construction gang and French Canadian trappers in the rugged Northwest Territory of Canada.
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Devil's Island (1939)
Character: Emil
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
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She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Character: Dance Contest Spectator
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Quicksands (1923)
Character: Sgt. Johnson
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
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He Couldn't Say No (1938)
Character: Mover Bringing Statues
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.
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Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Character: Ham
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
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Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Character: Carpetbagger #2 in Montage
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Character: Man in Sing-along Audience (uncredited)
Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Character: Witness (uncredited)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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The Chief (1933)
Character: Blink, a Henchman
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Smart Blonde (1937)
Character: Janitor with Hose (uncredited)
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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The Valiant (1929)
Character: Tom the Printer (uncredited)
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
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Soft Boiled (1923)
Character: The Butler
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns to curb his violent temper. Tom is put on a 30-day trial and must resist all temptation to get mad or fight back no matter how provoked. And he is easily provoked, especially when called a lavender sissy-boy.
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The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Character: Waffle Shop Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Dr. Socrates (1935)
Character: Clem - a Townsman
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
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On Time (1924)
Character: Casanova Clay
A scientist attempts to transplant a gorilla's brain into a man.
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The Americano (1916)
Character: Hartod Armitage White - aka Whitey
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana. Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives...
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Midnight Court (1937)
Character: Tough Vagrant
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: Stagehand
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Sergeant York (1941)
Character: Turkey Shoot Participant (uncredited)
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
Character: Brother
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
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Parachute Jumper (1933)
Character: Marine Recruiter (uncredited)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Character: Convict in Yard (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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A Dog's Life (1918)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
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Road Gang (1936)
Character: Bull - Guard at Blackfoot (uncredited)
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter (1939)
Character: Milt, Second Deputy Sheriff
When a close friend of the Drew family is accused of murder in a rural community, Nancy, aided by boyfriend Ted, helps her lawyer father expose the real killers.
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Wild and Woolly (1917)
Character: Casey, Engineer (Uncredited)
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
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Strong Boy (1929)
Character: Baggage Master
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
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The Vice Squad (1931)
Character: Night Court Attendant
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Character: Barker (uncredited)
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a lion tamer when he manages to subdue the big cat. While acclimating to carnival life, Matt begins a romance with Nick's sister, Mary, causing tension between Matt and Nick. The latter must also juggle his stormy relationship with glamorous circus star Flo Lorraine.
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Room for One More (1952)
Character: N/A
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.
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The Chaplin Revue (1959)
Character: Various (archive footage)
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".
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My Bill (1938)
Character: Onlooker (uncredited)
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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Trailin' West (1936)
Character: Livery Stable Proprietor (uncredited)
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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Westbound (1959)
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
As the Civil War spills our nation’s blood, Capt. John Hayes (Randolph Scott) fights on a vital but little-known battlefront. He aims to ship gold to Union banks through a small Colorado town, defying Southern sympathizers who aim to stop him at any cost.
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Land Beyond the Law (1937)
Character: First Town Loafer (uncredited)
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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The Immigrant (1917)
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
An European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.
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Big Boy (1930)
Character: Tucker
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Mr. Crane (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Character: Bus Passenger
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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The White Angel (1936)
Character: Man 'Cooking' Shirts (uncredited)
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Stagehand Carrying Poles / Passerby Outside Hotel (uncredited)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Talkative Sign Painter (uncredited)
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
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King of Hockey (1936)
Character: Penalty Timekeeper
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Sunnyside (1919)
Character: Boss (uncredited)
An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Character: Guard (uncredited)
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
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Once a Doctor (1937)
Character: Policeman at Accident
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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King of the Underworld (1939)
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Character: Police Chief I.M. Keene
Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.
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The Professor (1919)
Character: Man in Flophouse (uncredited)
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies his troops and once he has made sure his beloved fleas are settled for the night, the professor prepares to sleep the sleep of the just man. Unfortunately he accidentally knocks the box off his bed and the fleas have the time of their lives pestering Bosco's neighbors. To get the escapees back in their box again, the trainer resorts to... his whip! All is back to normal one more time. But not for long, as a stray dog enters the flophouse and very unwisely opens the box, thus creating new havoc.
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The Bond (1918)
Character: Industry
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally.
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Pretty Baby (1950)
Character: N/A
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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Battle Cry (1955)
Character: Arcade Proprietor (uncredited)
The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
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Nancy Drew… Detective (1938)
Character: Brennan, the Gate Guard (uncredited)
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
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City for Conquest (1940)
Character: Man on Fire Escape (uncredited)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
Character: Husky Bus Passenger (uncredited)
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Missing Witnesses (1937)
Character: Arrival at Grand Central Station (uncredited)
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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Battling Butler (1926)
Character: Battling Butler's Trainer
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
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The Personality Kid (1934)
Character: White's Trainer
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Character: N/A
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Character: Racetrack Official
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Stranded (1935)
Character: Immigrant (uncredited)
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Varsity Show (1937)
Character: Stagehand
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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American Pluck (1925)
Character: Jefferson Lee
Blaze Derringer is a Texas cattle baron's son. He goes to a cabaret on his birthday, helps a pretty young woman and her guardian avoid a raid, but gets tossed from college for bad behavior. His disgusted father dispatches him to seek his fortune. Blaze jumps a freight, befriends a fake British duke and a sporting African-American, and is offered a prize fight in Galveston. He wins, but may have killed his opponent, so he takes the offer of the woman from the cabaret to accompany her to Begonia, where she's a princess about to be crowned. A court minister, the dastardly Count Verensky, has plans to share the throne and her affections. Can the plucky American help the Europeans sort things out?
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A Night at the Ritz (1935)
Character: Café Patron (uncredited)
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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The Circus Clown (1934)
Character: Man in Audience
A man who wants to join the circus against the wishes of his ex-circus clown father.
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Northern Pursuit (1943)
Character: Guest at Inn (uncredited)
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Character: Fred - Detective
A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.
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The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
Character: Onlooker in Crowd (uncredited)
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Daughters Courageous (1939)
Character: Man Watching Pool Shot (uncredited)
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937)
Character: Yacht Club Attendant Watchman (uncredited)
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Illegal (1955)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Across the Pacific (1926)
Character: Tom
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
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The Heart Buster (1924)
Character: George
Rose Hillyer, the sweetheart of cowboy Tod Walton, is about to marry Edward Gordon a slick con-man and a bigamist. Tod has proof of Gordon's bad deeds but it is late in arriving and he has to resort to many tricks to keep the marriage from happening... including kidnapping the minister.
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Early to Bed (1936)
Character: Joe
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Character: Work Farm Guard (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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Nora Prentiss (1947)
Character: Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
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Women in the Wind (1939)
Character: Cleveland Spectator (uncredited)
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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The Singing Kid (1936)
Character: Stagehand (uncredited)
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Secrets of the Night (1924)
Character: Thomas Jefferson White
Robert Andrews hosts a large party and there stages his own murder, to keep bank examiner Alfred Austin from examining the records of his bank.
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Blondie Johnson (1933)
Character: Swede (uncredited)
A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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Blazing Sixes (1937)
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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Sooky (1931)
Character: Officer Duncan
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
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