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The Peppery Salt (1936)
Character: The Haberdasher
Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
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Stage Frights (1935)
Character: N/A
Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
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A Dog's Best Friend (1959)
Character: Motel Proprietor (uncredited)
A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Character: Gym Spectator with Cigar (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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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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Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
Character: Radioman Doyle
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Invisible Invaders (1959)
Character: Car Crash Victim
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately. Sequestered in an impregnable laboratory trying to find the aliens' weakness, Penner, his daughter, a no-nonsense army major and a squeamish scientist are attacked from outside by the aliens, who have occupied the bodies of the recently deceased.
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Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
Character: Assistant Cameraman (uncredited)
The baron's grandson rents the family castle to a TV crew to fund his atomic revival of the family monster.
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Racket Busters (1938)
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Character: Nightclub Patron (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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Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Character: Usher (uncredited)
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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Daredevils of the Red Circle (1939)
Character: Steve
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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Blind Date (1934)
Character: Patron
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
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The Toast of New York (1937)
Character: Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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The Catered Affair (1956)
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
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The Tin Star (1957)
Character: Sam Hodges
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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Atlantic City (1944)
Character: Ed Gallagher
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
Character: Kenny (uncredited)
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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The Hard Way (1943)
Character: Theatrical Agent (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Noose for a Gunman (1960)
Character: Shotgun Guard (uncredited)
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
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Gun Fight (1961)
Character: Jake (as Jack Kenny)
Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
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Beyond the Forest (1949)
Character: N/A
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
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House of Wax (1953)
Character: Lodger (uncredited)
A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.
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The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
Character: Bartender
The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
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Fall In (1942)
Character: Cigar Store Customer
An Army sergeant's photographic memory puts him in conflict with a Nazi spy.
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Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
Character: Laughing Art Student (uncredited)
The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
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Dangerous Blondes (1943)
Character: Motor Officer Kelly (uncredited)
Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.
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When the Clock Strikes (1961)
Character: Cafe Proprietor
A condemned criminal's acquaintances gather at a remote lodge on the eve of his execution to search for hidden money.
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Jackass Mail (1942)
Character: Train Conductor
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Brother Orchid (1940)
Character: Acquaintance (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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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Heckler (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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Vice Raid (1959)
Character: Mob Boss Leo Dempsey
A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
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In Old Monterey (1939)
Character: Sergeant with Cigar
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
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Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Character: Headwaiter (uncredited)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Women's Prison (1955)
Character: N/A
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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The Joker is Wild (1957)
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
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A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Character: Cab Driver (uncredited)
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Up in Daisy's Penthouse (1953)
Character: Chopper
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
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Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Character: Telephone Bet Taker (Uncredited)
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Crime Wave (1953)
Character: Lefty (uncredited)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
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Guns Girls and Gangsters (1959)
Character: Armored Car Guard (uncredited)
Chuck Wheeler gets out of the Pen and sets up an elaborate heist of Vegas casino money travelling by armored truck. He enlists the help of shady club owner Joe Darren and his ex-cellmate's wife, Vi. Vi's husband Mike is a trigger happy and jealous hothead and will not grant her a divorce. Mike escapes from prison right before the armored truck job goes into motion and promises trouble as he tries to locate his associates and his wandering wife.
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Chicago Syndicate (1955)
Character: Crowd Member at Murder Scene (uncredited)
An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.
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The Big Noise (1936)
Character: Schmidt's Henchman (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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The Gang's All Here (1941)
Character: Henchman Dink
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
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Hell's Kitchen (1939)
Character: Pants - a Henchman (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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New York Confidential (1955)
Character: N/A
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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Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Character: Man in Office (Uncredited)
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
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Uncivil Warriors (1935)
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
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I Take This Woman (1940)
Character: Clinic Well-Wisher with Cigar (uncredited)
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
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Riding Shotgun (1954)
Character: Sam (uncredited)
When a stagecoach guard tries to warn a town of an imminent raid by a band of outlaws, the people mistake him for one of the gang.
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The Country Girl (1954)
Character: Actor in Play (uncredited)
An actor on the skids is given one more chance to regain his stardom, as well as his self-respect, yet his alcoholism may prevent that from happening.
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Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
Character: Lug (uncredited)
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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The Payoff (1942)
Character: Gambling House Cashier (uncredited)
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
Character: Ward
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Character: Shabby Man (uncredited)
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
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Movie Maniacs (1936)
Character: Studio Employee (uncredited)
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
Character: Barker (uncredited)
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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You're a Sweetheart (1937)
Character: Pete (uncredited)
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
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Battle Stations (1956)
Character: N/A
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.
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Punch Drunks (1934)
Character: K.O. Cornerman (uncredited)
Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
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Adventure (1945)
Character: Man in Library (uncredited)
A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
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