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Speed Demon (1932)
Character: Catfish Jones
A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets him intoxicated before the race and he wrecks the boat. Now he has to make good and show he has the right stuff.
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Too Many Parents (1936)
Character: Phillip Stewart
Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
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Along Came Youth (1930)
Character: Neetsfoot Boy (uncredited)
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.
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The Perfect Tribute (1935)
Character: Boy, Soldier's Brother (uncredited)
The day after his Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln meets a wounded Confederate soldier in a hospital. The blinded rebel, not knowing his visitor's identity, regales him with memorized lines from the speech.
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Stardust on the Sage (1942)
Character: Curly
A singing cowboy (Gene Autry) and his partner (Bill Henry) thwart a foreman who wants their mine.
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Down on the Farm (1938)
Character: Roger Jones
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Shiver My Timbers (1931)
Character: Georgie
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
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Man Hunt (1936)
Character: Jackie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Four Sons (1940)
Character: Fritz Bern
Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.
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Hot Water (1937)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Racing Luck (1935)
Character: Jimmy Curtis
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name, Dan runs into many difficulties and incidents, including a blazing barn filled with valuable horses, before he is able to gather the needed evidence against the guilty man.
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Beloved (1934)
Character: Eric, as a Boy
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Fireman, Save My Child (1932)
Character: Team Mascot
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
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Every Saturday Night (1936)
Character: Roger Evers
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
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Educating Father (1936)
Character: Roger Jones
Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.
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Off to the Races (1937)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.
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Too Busy to Work (1939)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
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The Chief (1933)
Character: Boy at Circus
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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The Human Side (1934)
Character: Tom Sheldon
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
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The Plainsman (1936)
Character: A Boy
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Star Witness (1931)
Character: Donny Leeds
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
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Remember the Day (1941)
Character: Bill Tower
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
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Everybody's Baby (1939)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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Diamond Jim (1935)
Character: Sullivan (the Boy)
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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A Trip to Paris (1938)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.
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Union Depot (1932)
Character: Eight-Year-Old Boy (uncredited)
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Big Business (1937)
Character: Roger Jones
A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.
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Back to Nature (1936)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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Lady Behave! (1937)
Character: Henry "Hank" Cormack
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
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Petticoat Politics (1941)
Character: Sidney Higgins
Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.
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Song of the Saddle (1936)
Character: Little Frankie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Safety in Numbers (1938)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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The Deadline (1931)
Character: Jimmy
On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn off a wanted poster with some handwriting on it.
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Love on a Budget (1938)
Character: Roger Jones
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Borrowing Trouble (1937)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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On Their Own (1940)
Character: Roger Jones
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
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Golden Gloves (1940)
Character: Joey Parker
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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Young as You Feel (1940)
Character: Roger Jones
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.
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The Glass Key (1935)
Character: Boy (uncredited)
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
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Boy Friend (1939)
Character: Billy Bradley
A cop pretends to be a crook in order to catch a gang of outlaws. The bad guys run a night club as a front. The cop's sister helps him by singing there; otherwise, she's busy making love to a military cadet.
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Quick Millions (1939)
Character: Roger Jones
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Character: Skip Rogers
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
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Dinky (1935)
Character: Jojo
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
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Mountain Moonlight (1941)
Character: Johnny Weaver
A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted inside is an old metal box containing a promissory note, dated 15 Dec 1777, stating that one of their ancestors loaned $50,000 to the US government. The township chip in money to send the Weavers to Washington, DC to attempt to reclaim the money.
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Handle with Care (1932)
Character: Charlie
Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they can't understand why grown-ups kiss...and other complications.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Character: Roger Jones
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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