
Birthday:
08-16-1898
Deathday:
12-11-1950 (52 years)
Birthplace:
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Angels' Alley
Act like Henchman 'Moose'
event1948 star_border 4
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Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Act like Lucky Leopold (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
At War with the Army
Act like Bartender
event1950 star_border 5.4
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Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.
Sing for Your Supper
Act like 'Bonzo'
event1941 star_border 6
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Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is the band's singer.
Strange Gamble
Act like Joe, the bartender
event1948
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Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
The Palm Beach Story
Act like Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club
event1942 star_border 7
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A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
The Sound of Laughter
Act like The Umpire
event1963 star_border 2
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A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
The Gangster
Act like Pool Player
event1947 star_border 4.8
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Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is the slumming society girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
Blonde Venus
Act like Restaurant Owner (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.8
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In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Lady Killer
event1933 star_border 6.7
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An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
Lady for a Night
Act like Horse Dealer (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.2
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Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
The Great McGinty
Act like Benny Felgman
event1940 star_border 6.9
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Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Jail House Blues
Act like Liverlip
event1942
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A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Spider Kane
event1933 star_border 5.8
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New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Slightly Scandalous
Act like Relative (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5
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Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in this musical comedy.
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
Act like Salos
event1944 star_border 6.4
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To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
The Lady Confesses
Act like Steve
event1945 star_border 4.4
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An estranged wife shows up after a nearly 7 years of disappearance -- thought to be dead, to prevent her husband from marrying his new love until someone kills her.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Act like Snug
event1935 star_border 6.5
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Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Strange Cargo
Act like Georges, a guard (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Secret Command
Act like Jack Shaw (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.8
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Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the shipyards where his brother, Jeff, is a foreman. Jeff still resents Sam for abandoning the family years ago and fears he may steal away Lea Damaron, his current girlfriend -- who is Sam's old flame. While Sam tries to sniff out Nazi saboteurs in the plant, he grows closer to Jill McGann, the agent tasked with pretending to be his wife.
One Run Elmer
Act like The Umpire
event1935 star_border 3.7
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Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
Palooka from Paducah
Act like Elmer Diltz
event1935 star_border 5.2
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A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
Storm Warning
Act like Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Mama Runs Wild
Act like Greengable
event1937
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Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank robbers after walking into the bank during the robbery and one of the robbers, in taking money from her purse, left his fingerprints on the purse. She is made an honorary police captain and, with her society sisters sets about "keeping lawlessness" out of the town. From that point on, life becomes miserable for her hen-pecked husband Calvin (Ernest Truex).
Fashion Model
Act like Grogan
event1945 star_border 3
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When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
A Lady's Profession
Act like The Colonel
event1933
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A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
The Big Shakedown
Act like Slim
event1934 star_border 5.6
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Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Missing Girls
Act like Harry Wilson
event1936 star_border 5
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A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Coroner Creek
Act like Bije
event1948 star_border 6.1
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A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
If I Had a Million
Act like Papadopoulos - Idylwood Cook (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
River Lady
Act like Bouncer
event1948 star_border 5
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In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.
Pursuit
Act like Jo-Jo
event1935 star_border 6
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"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Murder on the Campus
Act like Detective Sgt. Charlie Lorrimer
event1933 star_border 5.4
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A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Isle of Missing Men
Act like Prisoner
event1942 star_border 6.2
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A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Keystone Hotel
Act like Gangster Chief
event1935 star_border 8
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The Keystone Hotel hosts a very prestigious beauty contest. When the cross-eyed judge presents the first prize to an elderly cleaning woman, angry members of the audience respond by hurling custard pies. The Keystone Kops are summoned, and arrive just in time to get plastered with pastry.
Navy Secrets
Act like Nick Salado
event1939 star_border 5.2
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After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Alaska
Act like Nick
event1944 star_border 5
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A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Army Girl
Act like Bartender
event1938 star_border 6
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A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Black Gold
Act like Homer
event1936 star_border 5
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Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Marry the Girl
Act like Buster
event1937 star_border 5
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Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Pardon My Past
Act like Plainclothesman
event1945 star_border 6
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Eddie York (MacMurray) is mistaken for playboy Francis Pemberton and gets into trouble.
Her Forgotten Past
Act like Denman
event1933 star_border 6
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A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
The 13th Man
Act like Romeo Casanova
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
Double Exposure
Act like Mac
event1944 star_border 5.5
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In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Act like Sergeant (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6
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Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.
Laughing at Life
Act like Smith
event1933 star_border 6
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Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Women Won't Tell
Act like Gregory Howard
event1932
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A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.
Hail the Conquering Hero
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7
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Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
Trocadero
Act like Bullfrog
event1944 star_border 5.4
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A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other commentator, is searching for a story for a Sunday column carried by newspaper from coast to coast. Hanging out in Hollywood's famed Trocadero restaurant and night-spot, he gets his story when "Troc" owner and band-leader Eddie LeBaron, relates to him the sage of the famed screenland nitery. And hears plenty of music furnished by four of the top name-bands in the land, including that of Bob Chester, who formed his own swing band in 1935 after being top saxophonist with the bands of Ben Pollack and Ben Bernie. Singer Ida James and the Chester band led off with "Shoo Shoo Baby" in their screen debut.
We're in the Money
Act like Big Doorman (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
Black Market Babies
event1945 star_border 5
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Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Lawyer Man
Act like Waiting Client (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.8
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Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
The Yellow Cab Man
Act like Police Sergeant (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.3
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Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.
Neptune's Daughter
Act like Henchman #1 (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.8
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Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.
If I'm Lucky
Act like Mug in Leather Jacket (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.5
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Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Act like Cook
event1932 star_border 5
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On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
His Night Out
Act like Beef
event1935
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When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Casablanca
Act like Bouncer at Rick's (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 8.2
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In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Notorious But Nice
Act like T.A. ''Tuffy'' Kraft
event1933 star_border 5.5
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A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
6 Hours to Live
Act like Blucher
event1932 star_border 5
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A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
Tarnished Lady
Act like Tony the Waiter
event1931 star_border 4.7
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Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
Enemies of the Law
Act like Tony Catello
event1931
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The Lady cop Florence Vinton goes undercover to get the goods on rival gangsters Eddie Swan and Larry Marsh. Just at the point in which Florence looks like she's going to be rubbed out, Swan and Marsh shoot each other down.
The Affairs of Cellini
Act like Steward (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 4.9
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The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
While Paris Sleeps
Act like Baker
event1932 star_border 5.8
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To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Murder, My Sweet
Act like New Boss at "Florian's" (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7.2
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After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Havana Widows
Act like Burly Star Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
The Checkered Coat
Act like Bartender
event1948 star_border 6.5
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A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doctor provides the patient with a letter that explains his problem, he inadvertently implicates himself in the crimes.
The Devil's in Love
Act like Colonel on Military Court
event1933 star_border 6
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
New Faces of 1937
Act like Joe Guzzola
event1937 star_border 4
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A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
The Jackie Robinson Story
Act like Brooklyn Fan in Stands (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.4
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Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Mummy's Boys
Act like Hotel Manager
event1936 star_border 4.7
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Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient Egyptian "curse."
The Big Broadcast
Act like Basso
event1932 star_border 7.1
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The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career.
Juarez
Act like Soldier Collecting Signatures (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Professor Beware
Act like Lemonade Stand Man
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Behold My Wife!
Act like Detective
event1934 star_border 7
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After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and lands up at a saloon, where he is shot by an Indian, Pete. Pete's girlfriend, Tonita nurses Michael's wound and falls in love with him. Michael realizes this, proposes marriage to Tonita - a perfect revenge for his prejudice family. They marry and he takes her to New York, in full Indian dress hoping to embarrass the family.
Rangers of Fortune
Act like Townsman
event1940 star_border 5
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An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
Sky Bandits
Act like Uncle Dinwiddie
event1940 star_border 5
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Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts electrical impulses, and Morgan and his gang of crooks has brought in Prof. Lewis to increase the ray's range, telling him he's helping the government develop this new weapon. Speavy spills the beans to Prof. Lewis and his daughter Madeleine,and Morgan threatens to implicate them in his crimes unless they cooperate. Morgan kills Speavy when he tries to warn Renfrew, but when Madeleine stows away on board the doomed plane Renfrew is piloting, will the crooks be able to make Prof. Lewis use the power ray to bring the plane down?
Belle of the Yukon
Act like Man at Craps Table (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.7
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Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
My Dear Secretary
Act like Crap Table Croupier (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.9
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A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
The Bells of St. Mary's
Act like Pedestrian Pulling Bogardus from Under Truck (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.8
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Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their differing methods often lead to good-natured disagreements.
I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
Act like Roundhouse
event1940 star_border 6
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In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
Scarlet Street
Act like Derelict Saving Cross (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.6
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Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Take It Big
Act like Workman (uncredited)
event1944
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Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch. He immediately begins running things, at it's quite a while before his error is discovered. By the time he shows up at his own ranch, he's up to his ears in unpaid debts-which naturally requires a fund-raising musical show as a bail-out. Harriet Hilliard handles the romantic portion of the proceedings, occasionally dueting with her real-life husband, bandleader Ozzie Nelson.
Parachute Jumper
Act like Canadian Airport Contact (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.1
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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.
The Blue Bird
Act like Royal Forester
event1940 star_border 5.7
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Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Having Wonderful Crime
Act like Suspect (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.3
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Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.
One Way Passage
Act like Honolulu Bartender (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 7.2
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A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
The Truth About Murder
Act like Steve (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5
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A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife.
Too Tough to Kill
Act like Dave Shane
event1935
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A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.
All American Chump
Act like Al
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
Act like Captain
event1942 star_border 6.8
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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.
Forged Passport
Act like Riley
event1939 star_border 5
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Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Killer Dill
Act like McGowan - House Detective
event1947 star_border 5
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Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
When Strangers Marry
Act like Newsstand Owner
event1944 star_border 6.1
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A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
There Goes Kelly
Act like Detective Delaney
event1945
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Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
Timber Queen
Act like Wenzel (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.7
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Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an order in for a huge shipment of lumber. Russ and his friend Squirrel volunteer to help her cut the timber for the shipment, along with her friends Smacksie Golden and his girlfriend Lil Boggs, who are not used to doing physical labor. Russ pilots the plane to deliver the lumber before the company falls to a slimy businessman.
Student Tour
Act like Wong Loo - War Lord
event1934 star_border 5
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A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
Christmas in July
Act like Large Juror (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Act like Dance Hall Bouncer (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 4.7
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Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Tin Pan Alley
Act like Dumb Guy
event1940 star_border 5
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Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Dance, Girl, Dance
Act like Palais Royale Manager (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Broadway Musketeers
Act like Milt
event1938 star_border 4.3
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Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a nightclub performer.
Three Faces West
Act like Bartender
event1940 star_border 5.4
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Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
When You're in Love
Act like News Photographer
event1937 star_border 6.7
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An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings "Minnie the Moocher" in one scene.
Redhead from Manhattan
Act like Truck Driver
event1943 star_border 4.7
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Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of her Broadway-star twin sister Elaine, who's having problems with her marriage and needs to make a getaway. Neither Elaine's husband or Rita's saxophone-player boyfriend are aware of the switch.
Crime Doctor
Act like Convict
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
La Conga Nights
Act like Moving Man
event1940 star_border 7.5
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In this comedy, actor Hugh Herbert plays six different roles. Only one of the roles is a man. The story centers around a dizzy music lover, who has grown rich through real estate deals. Also figuring in the story are a cab driver/performer, and a down-on-her-luck, aspiring singer. They meet when she hails his cab as she skips out on her former boarding house because she cannot pay rent.
Bagdad
Act like Drunk Blackrobe
event1949 star_border 5.6
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An Arab sheik's daughter (Maureen O'Hara) avenges his death, blamed on Hassan (Paul Christian) and his Black Riders.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Act like Miner
event1947 star_border 6.2
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Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Hellfire
Act like Cheyenne Bartender
event1949 star_border 5.8
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Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. Frustrated in his attempts to get donations, Zeb attempts to capture fugitive Doll Brown in order to obtain the reward. But he finds that there's more to Doll than meets the eye. When his old friend Bucky McLean shows up gunning for Doll, Zeb sees a chance to redeem them all... one way or another.
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Act like Honest John
event1951
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Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer.
The Woman of the Town
Act like Waddy Kerns
event1943 star_border 6
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Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
Colt Comrades
Act like Sam the Bartender
event1943 star_border 5.6
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Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
The Kansan
Act like Bartender
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Scarlet Dawn
Act like Sergeant Illya (Uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Roadblock
Act like Mike the Bartender (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.8
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An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Buccaneer's Girl
Act like Kryl
event1950 star_border 5.6
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A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Slave Ship
Act like Bartender
event1937 star_border 4.8
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Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Cart Driver (Uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1975 star_border 5.7
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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Brooklyn Orchid
Act like Policeman
event1942 star_border 6
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Two taxi-fleet operators rescue a girl and she follows them to a mountain resort.
The Undie-World
Act like Palermo - the Chief
event1934 star_border 9
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A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as a musician.
Mr. District Attorney
Act like Detective in Café
event1941 star_border 6.2
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An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
My Favorite Spy
Act like Tough Waiter at Kelly's
event1942 star_border 5.2
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The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
The Little Giant
Act like Butch
event1933 star_border 6.8
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Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Diplomaniacs
Act like Luke
event1933 star_border 7
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Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks for a shave, several Indians of the Oopadoop nation also enter, hearing the usual barbershop banter about foreign debts, they force them to be ambassadors of their nation at the Peace conference in Geneva. Ammunition industry executive Winkelreid is scheming to prevent their mission becoming an success, but the vamp Dolores aboard the ship fails, falling in love with Nilly, and so does Fifi, the toughest person of the world in Paris, falling for Glub. Although Winkelreid is able to steal their secret papers, Nilly and Glub don't give up after being reminded by constant observation of their Indians and enter the Peace conference, which turns out to be a battlefield...
How to Be a Detective
Act like McNulty (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Diamond Frontier
Act like Kohler
event1940
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Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
The Talk of the Town
Act like Irate Man at Burned Mill (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.3
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Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
The Big Game
Act like Seeley - a Gambler
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
The Toast of New York
Act like Beef Dooley
event1937 star_border 5.8
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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.
$1,000 a Touchdown
Act like Cab Driver (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 2
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A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Coney Island
Act like Man in Carnival Crowd
event1943 star_border 5.3
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Set at the turn of the century, smooth talking con man Eddie Johnson weasels his way into a job at friend and rival Joe Rocco's Coney Island night spot. Eddie meets the club's star attraction (and Joe's love interest), Kate Farley, a brash singer with a penchant for flashy clothes. Eddie and Kate argue as he tries to soften her image. Eventually, Kate becomes the toast of Coney Island and the two fall in love. Joe then tries to sabotage their marriage plans.
The Wife of Monte Cristo
Act like Townsman
event1946 star_border 5.8
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In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
Grand Slam
Act like Restaurant Patron
event1933 star_border 3.7
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A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.
Stairway to Light
Act like Head Keeper (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6.5
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
No Place for a Lady
Act like Air Raid Warden on street
event1943 star_border 6
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A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Act like Butcher (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.3
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Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Bride by Mistake
Act like Ship Builder
event1944 star_border 6.1
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The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Act like Fighter
event1948 star_border 6
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Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
Bureau of Missing Persons
Act like Waterfront Diner Wanting Salt (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.6
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Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Father of the Bride
Act like Moving Man with Lamp (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7
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Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
The Ghost Ship
Act like Boats
event1943 star_border 6.3
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Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die mysteriously, Tom starts doubting Stone's authority.
Always Together
Act like Street Cleaner (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.7
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An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly tycoon recovers from his illness and decides he wants his money back. Comedy most notable for its numerous unbilled cameos by Warner Bros. actors.
Dishonored Lady
Act like Jim, Doorman
event1947 star_border 5.7
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Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
Dangerous Waters
Act like Chips
event1936 star_border 3
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While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Hollywood and Vine
Act like Soda Fountain Customer
event1945 star_border 4.4
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A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on. However, she does become a star of sorts — as the owner of a dog who DOES become a movie star.
Swing Parade of 1946
Act like Process Server
event1946 star_border 4.2
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A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Two Sisters from Boston
Act like Bouncer at The Golden Rooster (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6
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Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.
The Missing Lady
Act like Harry
event1946 star_border 4.8
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While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Michigan Kid
Act like Bartender
event1947 star_border 6
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A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
The Seventh Victim
Act like Subway Conductor (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.4
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After young Mary Gibson discovers that her older sister Jacqueline has disappeared, she leaves her boarding school and heads to New York City to track down her sibling. But Mary gets drawn deeper into the mystery.
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Act like King Louis (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
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A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's
High Powered
Act like Doorman at Dance
event1945
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Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
Soldiers of the Storm
Act like Chuck Bailey
event1933
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Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
Sensation Hunters
Act like Stony, Bartender at Paradise Club
event1945 star_border 4.7
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A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Rubber Racketeers
Act like Larkin
event1942 star_border 4.3
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Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in effect the black market tire business is booming. Gillen's mob sets up car lots around town where they peddle stolen tires and "new" tires milled in the gangster's factories from cheap faulty materials. People begin to die in crashes as the defective tires fail. Bill Barry leads his fellow defense plant workers on a crusade to uncover the source of the black market rubber and bring the guilty to justice. Although clearly intended to warn the public about black market tire smuggling, Rubber Racketeers holds it own as a saga of mobsters versus an irate public.
Test Pilot
Act like Man on Roller Coaster
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
I Walk Alone
Act like Heinz (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.6
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Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
The Big Street
Act like Truck Driver (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Radio Patrol
Act like Little Erny
event1932
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A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
Let's Live Again
Act like Policeman
event1948 star_border 5
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The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
Detective Kitty O'Day
Act like Building Watchman (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.8
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Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
Come Live with Me
Act like Chef at Diner (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Law and Order
Act like Ed Deal (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 4
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A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
Murder on a Bridle Path
Act like Turkish Bath Attendant (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5
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When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Act like Tony (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 2
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The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).
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