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A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
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Freshman Love (1931)
Character: Jimmy
In this 100% fictional-plot short a fictional freshman, played by an actor named Don Tomkins), becomes smitten with and writes letters to a singer, Ruth Etting (Ruth Etting), on a fictional radio station. His fictional 1930s nerdy friends take her answering letters in return and torment him about no response. The fictional Ruth Etting (played by the real Ruth Etting) meets him and helps him turn the tables on his tormentors.
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Undercover Agent (1939)
Character: Slicker - Henchman
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Man From Headquarters (1942)
Character: Gang Leader Louis Padroni
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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The Go-Getter (1937)
Character: Macon Navigation Officer (uncredited)
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Character: Soldier at Renz's Arrest (uncredited)
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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The House Across the Bay (1940)
Character: Driver
Nightclub owner Steve Larwitt sees his empire of investments collapse as he faces tax evasion charges and attacks by rivals. Believing Steve will be safer in prison for one year, his wife, Brenda, testifies against him on advice from his lawyer, Slant Kolma, who is in love with her. After Steve receives 10 years in Alcatraz, Brenda moves to be near him and avoids advances of airplane builder Tim Nolan, who knows nothing about her past.
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Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Character: Reporter (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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The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)
Character: Lon King - Packers Player
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his girlfriend Maizie Williams. He gets tangled up with gamblers and Rusty's girl Evelyn Corey makes a play for him.
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Invisible Stripes (1939)
Character: Chauffeur Showing Off Car (uncredited)
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Character: Sergeant Reading Telegraph Copy (uncredited)
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Radio Patrol (1937)
Character: Harry Selkirk
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
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Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Character: 1st Protection Racket Thug
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
Character: Guard George Shelden (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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Brother Orchid (1940)
Character: Policeman #2 (uncredited)
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Topper (1937)
Character: N/A
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Ambush (1939)
Character: Motorcycle Officer Sam Moore
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary, recognizes the truck as one on which her brother Charles worked. Fleeing to her brother, she is trapped by the gang, composed of its master-mind, Gibbs, Sidney, a gunman, and Randall, a blackballed airplane pilot. Under threat of bodily harm to her brother, she lures truck-driver Tony Andrews to the hideout, and he is forced to help them in their escape attempt.
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Black Dragons (1942)
Character: Kearney
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Highway West (1941)
Character: Motorcop (uncredited)
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
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Castle on the Hudson (1940)
Character: Warden's Clerk (uncredited)
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Kid Galahad (1937)
Character: (uncredited)
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Character: Charlie, the Third Cab Driver (uncredited)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Marked Woman (1937)
Character: Reporter #3 (voice) (uncredited)
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Money and the Woman (1940)
Character: Detective Driving Car (uncredited)
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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King of Hockey (1936)
Character: Torchy Myers
Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Character: Gladstone Coach (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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Sergeant Murphy (1938)
Character: Sergeant Connors
An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter.
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King of the Underworld (1939)
Character: Second Policeman (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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Virginia City (1940)
Character: Union Sergeant (uncredited)
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Character: Sergeant
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
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The Daredevil Drivers (1938)
Character: Joe Bailey
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm (1937)
Character: Jed, the Apache Kid
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Character: Gate Guard (uncredited)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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The Game That Kills (1937)
Character: Bill Drake
Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.
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Freckles Comes Home (1942)
Character: Hymie
Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.
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Wings of the Navy (1939)
Character: Drilling Officer
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Character: Doctor (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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Counterfeit Lady (1936)
Character: Kit
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
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On Dress Parade (1939)
Character: Sergeant in the Trench (uncredited)
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.
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The Devil's Saddle Legion (1937)
Character: Butch
Tal is in a lot of trouble. Seems that his father has been murdered while he was in Montana and they put the blame on him. Also, he has been framed and sentenced to 10 years hard labor for another murder which he did not do. The crooks need convict labor to build the dam so they convict innocent people for a pool of cheap labor. But Karan believes that Tal, using the name Smith J. Brown, could not be a killer. Unknown to her, her step brother, Hub, is part of the gang.
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