
Birthday:
08-02-1897
Deathday:
07-12-1981 (83 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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Lynton Brent (2 August 1897 – 2 July 1981) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 240 films between 1930 and 1950.
Brent is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges short subjects such as A Ducking They Did Go and From Nurse to Worse.
In addition to his film career, Brent also wrote a number of literary works, notably Lesbian Gang. Though little recognized when first published in 1964, it has achieved notoriety among a niche queer audience in Peckham, England.
Lynton Brent (2 August 1897 – 2 July 1981) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 240 films between 1930 and 1950.
Brent is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges short subjects such as A Ducking They Did Go and From Nurse to Worse.
In addition to his film career, Brent also wrote a number of literary works, notably Lesbian Gang. Though little recognized when first published in 1964, it has achieved notoriety among a niche queer audience in Peckham, England.
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Streamline Express
event1935 star_border 4.7
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A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Mr. Wong, Detective
Act like Tommy
event1938 star_border 5.6
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A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Adventure's End
Act like Sailor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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Pacific pearl diver Duke Slade escapes angry natives by joining a whaler whose dying captain persuades him to marry his daughter who is already being wooed by the first mate.
Twentieth Century
Act like Train Secretary (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
The Bridge of Sighs
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
The Secret Six
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.8
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Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
The Lost Trail
Act like Hall (Mine Owner) (as Lynton W. Brent)
event1945
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Having briefly abandoned his standard "Nevada Jack McKenzie" characterization in Flame of the West, cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown was back as Nevada Jack in Monogram's The Lost Trail. Vowing to bring in a gang of stagecoach outlaws, Nevada redoubles his efforts when he learns that the owner of the stagecoach line is pretty Jane Burns (Jennifer Holt).
Bad Man of Deadwood
Act like Bert Snell
event1941 star_border 4.4
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Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Rollin' Plains
Act like Henchman Lope
event1938
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It's cattlemen versus sheepmen and Trigger Gargan appears to be the leader of the gang causing the trouble. But unknown to Ranger Tex Lawrence, the respected town citizen Barrow is the boss and is tipping off the gang as to the Ranger's activities.
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
Act like Henchman Pete
event1937
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Tex is after the gang that robbed a train of a gold shipment. He suspects Dorman is the culprit and is hiding their gold at his mine. When Stubby sees Dorman's henchman Stark cash in some gold nuggets, Tex tricks Dorman into moving the gold. He hopes to round them up with the help of the posse and the local Boy Scout Troop.
A Ducking They Did Go
Act like Blackie (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.3
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The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
Love Nest on Wheels
Act like The Bridegroom
event1937 star_border 6.2
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Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
Midnight Mary
Act like Court Photographer (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.9
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While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Ditto
Act like Bill
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
Pardon My Berth Marks
Act like Henchman
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Buster, a reporter, takes a train trip and winds up innocently involved with a gangster's wife.
The Spook Speaks
Act like Mordini, magician and spiritualist
event1940 star_border 5
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A magician hires Buster as a housekeeper while he's away.
General Nuisance
Act like Soldier
event1941 star_border 6.3
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A millionaire falls for an army nurse, who tells him she likes men in uniform. So he enlists at Camp Cluster. She still has no time for him, so he figures out how to get into the hospital and under her care.
Mooching Through Georgia
Act like Union Colonel
event1939 star_border 6
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Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Bridge Wives
Act like Reporter
event1932 star_border 6
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A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Rendezvous
Act like Decoder (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4.8
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A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Flight at Midnight
Act like Test Plane Pilot Ross (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4.5
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Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
Missing Girls
Act like Larry
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.
Big News
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 4.6
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A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Act like Pete
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Forbidden Trails
Act like Henchman Bill Tooley
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
Red River Valley
Act like Henchman Feld
event1941 star_border 7.7
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To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Marked Trails
Act like Henchman Tex
event1944 star_border 5.7
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This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him. His son, Bob Stevens and friend Parkford become U.S. Marshals and proceed to rid the town of the cut-throat gang that has been terrorizing the citizens. Bob goes undercover as an outlaw and works his way into the gang, while Hoot poses as a Dude who goes about making fiery speeches on behalf of law and order.
Guilty Parents
Act like Alfred Brent
event1934 star_border 4.8
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A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
Queenie of Hollywood
Act like Dennis's Assistant (uncredited)
event1931
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Three girls apply for maid jobs at a resort but are taken for royalty when a telegram about their dog Queenie is intercepted. Film producers vie to put them under contract but selling a script idea finally saves them when the bill comes due.
Hollywood Lights
Act like Film Director
event1932 star_border 1
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Hollywood Lights is a 1932 Comedy.
Hollywood Luck
event1932
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Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Cookoo Cavaliers
Act like Pedro Ruiz (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.2
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The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girls' hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.
Idle Roomers
event1931
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Idle Roomers is a 1931 Comedy short.
Love on a Bet
Act like Reporter
event1936 star_border 7
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An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Photographer in Hospital (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
As the Crows Fly
event1933
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First entry in the Educational Pictures Moran and Mack series.
The Texas Kid
Act like Jess
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Marshals Nevada and Sandy are after Scully and his gang who have been robbing stage-coaches. The Texas Kid is part of the gang and Sandy thinks he is bad but Nevada knows him and thinks he may be good.
Partners of the Trail
Act like Lem
event1944 star_border 3.5
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A United States marshal uncovers a plot to steal the valuable gold-laden property of ranchers.
Public Opinion
Act like Courtroom Sketch Artist
event1935
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A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
New News
Act like Reporter
event1937
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Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.
The Vice Squad
Act like Court Clerk (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7
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A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
Adventures of Red Ryder
Act like Len Clark
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
Utah Trail
Act like Henchman Cheyenne
event1938 star_border 5
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Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble with an outlaw gang in their attempt to find the mysterious ghost train that supposedly runs on Jeffer's line.
Exposed
Act like Reporter
event1938 star_border 5
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A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Riders of Pasco Basin
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 2
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Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
Air Devils
Act like Radio Operator
event1938 star_border 3
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Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
Mystery Mountain
Act like Mathews, Telegrapher
event1934
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Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
Gangs Inc.
Act like 2nd Bailiff (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.2
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Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
I Don't Remember
Act like Joe, Sweepstakes Manager
event1935 star_border 2
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Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Men of Chance
Act like One of Johnny's Bookies
event1931 star_border 5.8
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A gambler falls for a fake countess.
Brilliant Marriage
Act like Blaine
event1936 star_border 4.5
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When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birth, her world is turned upside down.
Forty Naughty Girls
Act like Ticket Taker
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
The Intruder
Act like Ship's Officer Purser Jamison
event1933 star_border 4.2
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A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
Frontier Town
Act like Henchman Grayson
event1938 star_border 5
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Regan is passing off counterfeit money at rodeos betting on his man Denby. When Tex appears and wins all the events, Regan has him accused of murder. As Tex looks for the counterfeiters, his pals Stubby and Pee Wee keep the Sheriff off his trail.
Special Investigator
Act like Roulette Croupier
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Behind The Headlines
Act like Disgusted Reporter
event1937 star_border 6.2
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A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Every Night at Eight
Act like Mail Sorter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
Wall Street Cowboy
Act like Henchman in New York
event1939 star_border 6.5
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When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
Dancing Feet
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1936 star_border 5.2
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Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
Scandal Sheet
Act like Reporter
event1931
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Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Border Cafe
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.3
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The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Act like Mechanic (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Almost a Gentleman
Act like Bystander
event1939 star_border 6
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Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Boys' Reformatory
Act like Mike's Henchman
event1939 star_border 5.5
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A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Coast Guard
Act like Radio Operator (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Days of Jesse James
Act like Bank Teller (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Sued for Libel
Act like Joey, Reporter at Trial (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.4
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A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
Money Squawks
Act like Man in Back Seat of Sheriff's Car (uncredited)
event1940
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Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
Bride and Gloom
Act like Bill (uncredited)
event1947
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
One Thrilling Night
Act like Joe Richmond
event1942 star_border 5.2
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A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
Confidential
Act like FBI Agent Connors
event1935 star_border 5.6
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A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Portia on Trial
Act like Reporter
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
The Day the Bookies Wept
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
Nothing But Pleasure
Act like Sheriff at Cozy Auto Court
event1940 star_border 5.8
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To save money, Buster and his wife decide to drive to Detroit to buy a new car, then drive it home.
Mysterious Doctor Satan
Act like Scarlett
event1940 star_border 5
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A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Act like Helpful Driver
event1936 star_border 4
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A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
Smartest Girl in Town
Act like Photographer
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
Music in My Heart
Act like Assistant to City Editor (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.1
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A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
It's All in Your Mind
Act like Danny
event1938 star_border 1
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Wilbur Crane is a meek, mild-mannered bookkeeper who no longer finds his wife, Martha, attractive and sets out for a little fling among the fast crowd while looking for love in all the wrong places. Dorothy, a gold-digger first class, and her business-manager friend, Danny, oblige him. Through camera angles,"art" photos, some semi-nudity, special camera-effects (by Ray Mercer), and strange interludes in Wilbur's mind, and off-screen voices, long-time poverty-row b-western director Bernard B. Ray embarks on the exploitation trail.
Young Buffalo Bill
Act like Army Supply Sergeant
event1940 star_border 3.8
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It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
Junior G-Men of the Air
Act like Sergeant
event1942 star_border 6
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A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
Overland to Deadwood
Act like Henchman Clipper
event1942
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Cash Quinlan, owner of the Hauling Company, is the leader behind a gang of raiders who have been robbing stagecoaches between Mesquite and Deadwood. He hopes by doing so to drive his competitors out of business so that he can get the railroad franchise for himself.....
Waterfront Lady
Act like Croupier
event1935 star_border 5.5
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When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Phantom of Chinatown
Act like Radio News Broadcaster
event1940 star_border 6.1
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In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses and dies. His last words "Eternal Fire" are the only clue Chinese detective Jimmy Wong and Captain Street of the police department have to work on.
Son of the Navy
Act like Ticket Clerk
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
Stranger on the Third Floor
Act like Cabdriver at Nick's (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Act like Telephone Serviceman
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Stage Door
event1937 star_border 7
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The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls from disparate backgrounds brought together in a theatrical hostel. Centres particularly on the conflict and growing friendship between Terry Randall, a rich girl confident in her talent and ability to make it to the top on the stage, and Jean Maitland, a world weary and cynical trouper who has taken the hard knocks of the ruthless and over-populated world of the Broadway apprentice.
Redhead from Manhattan
Act like Musician
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.
Afraid to Talk
Act like Wade's Secretary
event1932 star_border 6
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Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Act like Ranch hand
event1943 star_border 6
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When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
Raiders of the West
Act like Morton - Gambler
event1942
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In this western, a frontier detective disguised as an entertainer performs for the leader of an outlaw gang. At the same time, he learns the whereabouts of the outlaws' hideout. Unfortunately, his true identity is revealed and he must escape if he is to bring the gang to justice.
Trail Riders
Act like Henchman Jeff Rand
event1942 star_border 6
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In the 18th entry of Monogram's 24 "Range Buster" films, the bank of Gila Springs is robbed by Ace Alton and his gang, and Sheriff Frank Hammond, son of Marshal Jim Hammond, is killed. The Marshal sends for the Range Busters, Dusty King, Davy Sharpe and Alibi Terhune, to come and restore order to the town. Ed Cole, head of the local vigilantes, and secretly the head of the outlaws, promptly orders the trio out of town. They visit an old friend, Rancher Mike Rand and his daughter Mary. Mary's brother Jeff has unwittingly become a gang member, and carries out Cole's orders by taking a shot at Davy, but the latter makes him a prisoner during a subsequent fight in the town café. Jeff confesses to Cole's involvement, and the Range Busters, with the help of town banker Harrison, set a trap for Cole and his outlaw vigilantes.
The Pioneers
Act like Henchman Jingo
event1941
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A frontiersman leads a group of pioneers to their destination in the Old West and then helps them settle it.
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Act like Dirk Larkin
event1942
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Tom Cameron must prove himself innocent after he is wrongfully charged with the murder of a prison guard.
The Stranger From Pecos
Act like Deputy Joe (as L.W. Brent)
event1943
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Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Act like Sheriff
event1943
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In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to prevent the building of the road.
Six Gun Gospel
Act like Henchman Steve (as L.W. Brent)
event1943 star_border 4.5
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U.S. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown once again goes undercover in this Nevada Mckenzie series entry from Great Westerns Prod./Monogram. Masquerading as a parson and a drifter, Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton) and Nevada Jack McKenzie (Mack Brown) come to the aid of the beleaguered residents of Goldville, a small ranching community being terrorized by greedy saloon keeper Ace Benton (Kenneth MacDonald) and his gang of cutthroats. Unbeknownst to the citizenry, the railroad is planning to build tracks through town and Benton is attempting to secure the land by scaring off the settlers.
Army Girl
Act like Soldier
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.
Valley Of Vengeance
Act like David Carr
event1944 star_border 5
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Billy Carson arrives in King City looking for two men and kills them both. Caught by the Marshal he tells his story.
Raiders of the Border
Act like Davis - Henchman
event1944
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Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton return to the screen as saddle pals Nevada and Sandy in Monogram's Pals of the Border. In this one, our heroes are US marshals, hot on the trail of cattle rustlers.
Drifting Along
Act like Henchman Joe
event1946
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Monogram added several songs and a barn dance to this otherwise standard Johnny Mack Brown hay burner, in which the veteran cowboy star comes to the aid of a beleaguered female rancher. Just "drifting along," Steve Garner (Mack Brown) obtains the job of foreman on a spread belonging to pretty Pat McBride (Lynne Carver). Unbeknownst to Pat, local banker Jack Dailey (Douglas Fowley) not only holds the mortgage on the ranch but is also the man responsible for the death of Pat's father. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/drifting-along-v90041#OtPRR6jLd1ubhlQv.99
The Haunted Mine
Act like Skyball
event1946
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U.S. Marshals "Nevada Jack" McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins, working undercover, investigate a plot to rob a widow and her daughter of a mine which they know to be filled with gold-laden ore, but the widow believes it has played out. A hermit, hanging around the mine and killing, impartially, anyone who enters the mine, impedes the investigation somewhat.
The Rangers Take Over
Act like Block Nelson
event1942 star_border 6
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Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger station, among them Tex Wyatt, the son of Ranger Captain John Wyatt, whom he hasn't seen for many years. Captain Wyatt tells Tex that he is in the Rangers strictly on his own merit and there will be no favors played. He assigns Tex to pick up Dawson's trail, but orders that no arrest be made without proof.
Man from Cheyenne
Act like Henchman
event1942 star_border 7.5
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Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
South of Santa Fe
Act like Henchman Muggsy
event1942 star_border 5.2
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To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
Sunset Serenade
Act like Antlers Hotel Clerk
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
The Gunman From Bodie
Act like Red
event1941 star_border 7
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The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
Riders of the West
Act like Henchman Roy
event1942 star_border 4
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Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Act like Henchman
event1942 star_border 5.6
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Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who closely resembles Billy. Ed captures Billy and changing clothes with him, now plans to run the town as Sheriff.
Calling All Curs
Act like Dognapper Duke (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.1
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The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford . When two men posing as reporters kidnap the poodle, the boys frantically try track them down.
Nutty But Nice
Act like Spike - Kidnapper (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.4
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The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
Dizzy Detectives
Act like Mike - Crook (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.3
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The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.
King of the Cowboys
Act like Car Wreck Henchman
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Man from Music Mountain
Act like Henchman
event1943 star_border 5
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Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
Idaho
Act like Payroll Truck Guard
event1943 star_border 5.7
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A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Convicted Woman
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 3.7
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A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Cheyenne Roundup
Act like Deputy Jake
event1943 star_border 4
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Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
Roar of the Press
Act like Reporter with Mustache
event1941 star_border 5.6
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While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Man Hunt
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1933
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A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
The Soldier and the Lady
Act like Sailor (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.
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Act like New York Teletype Operator
event1939 star_border 5.7
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A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
The Big Game
Act like Broadcaster
event1936 star_border 5.8
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A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
Panama Lady
Act like The Masher (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.6
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A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Batman
Act like Intended Lockwood Pilot
event1943 star_border 6.4
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Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Destroyer
Act like Doctor
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Act like Lansdale
event1936 star_border 5.8
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When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
The Chaser
Act like Attendant
event1938 star_border 6
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A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Bachelor Bait
Act like Photographer (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Boots and Saddles
Act like Neale Henchman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4
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Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from England, Autry convinces him not to sell the ranch but to raise horses for the Army. When both Autry's and Neale's bids are the same, the Colonel calls for a race to decide the winner. But that night Neale has Autry's stable burned.
Newly Rich
Act like (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 3
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Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Navy Secrets
Act like Short Sailor with Stamp
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.
Murder in Times Square
Act like Audience Member
event1943 star_border 4.6
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An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Black Eyes and Blues
Act like Strangler's Manager
event1941
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Roscoe's wife decides to divorce him and heads for Reno.
Spaceship to the Unknown
Act like Transcontinental airplane pilot (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1966 star_border 6
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A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Our Daily Bread
Act like Bully (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Penthouse
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.7
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Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
The Mad Miss Manton
Act like Clerk (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.4
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When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
Great Guy
Act like Reporter (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Calling All Doctors
Act like Dr. Martin
event1937
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Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
The Thirteenth Guest
Act like Prisoner (Uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.2
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Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.
West Bound Limited
Act like Second Operator (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6
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Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.
Stagecoach Buckaroo
event1942 star_border 5
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Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
She Married Her Boss
Act like Assistant Window Dresser
event1935 star_border 7
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A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
I'll Love You Always
Act like Laertes
event1935 star_border 3
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Nora Clegg, an actress, marries Carl Brent, an unemployed young engineer, whose estimation of his worth and ability keeps him from getting a job. He finally acquires a position that will require him to go to Russia for a period of time, while Nora goes back to the stage during his absence. But he loses out on the job at the last minute, and rather than tell Nora he has failed again, he steals a roll of money from his prospective employer to buy some things for Nora and go out and have a good time before, she things, his departure. His departure is to jail rather than Russia and he hides the truth from Nora by having an acquaintance mail his letters from Russia. He then finds out that Nora is pregnant.
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