
Birthday:
07-16-1880
Deathday:
07-30-1959 (79 years)
Birthplace:
San Francisco, California, USA
Biography
Heinie Conklin (born Charles John Conklin; July 16, 1880 – July 30, 1959) was an American actor and comedian whose career began in the silent film era.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Act like Self (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5
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A promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral suit in his "land yacht", a custom-built bus he occasionally lived in during the period.
Tall, Dark and Gruesome
Act like Expressman (uncredited)
event1948
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A crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to a mountain cabin Hugh has rented.
The Man Upstairs
Act like Mose (as Charles Conklin)
event1926
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The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
She Sighed by the Seaside
Act like 2nd Suitor
event1921
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Lifeguard Ben Turpin tries to keep order at the beach, where tennis players James Finlayson and Charles Conklin vie for the affection of Marie Prevost and get involved in antics including fishing and a wild boat ride in this Mack Sennett two-reeler. Roughly only half of the film still exists.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Street Cleaner (uncredited)
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.
Punchy Cowpunchers
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.3
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It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
Soup to Nuts
Act like Ted's Checkers Opponent (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.8
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Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
Who's Your Father?
Act like Comedy Bit (uncredited)
event1918
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This comedy starts with the rescue by a cowboy's dog of a baby that is floating down a gorge toward a cataract in a tiny crib. The cowboy takes the foundling to his cabin. Then the cowboy finds himself not only beset with the troubles of feeding an infant, but also is the object of a spinster who, by claiming the baby, hopes to compromise the cowboy
Horseman of the Plains
Act like Snowshoe
event1928
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Tom Mix plays a cowboy coming to the aid of a rancher who's on the verge of foreclosure. Falling in love with Sally Blane, the rancher's pretty daughter, our hero vows to win an important cross-country race.
His Wedding Scare
Act like Fireman
event1943
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El and his new bride go on their honeymoon; no matter where they go, they keep running into her former husbands.
The Set-Up
Act like Fight Spectator (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.3
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Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Tiger Rose
Act like Gus
event1929
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A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Uncivil Warriors
Act like Confederate Sentry (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.1
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Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Half Shot Shooters
Act like Officer (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.8
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The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
His Merry Mix-Up
event1917
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A summer hotel is a magnet for young marrieds as well as other couples looking to rekindle the spark. Charley Chicken Lover, the hotel proprietor, finds himself smitten with one of the newlywed brides as does another guest despite the presence of his wife and a merry chase of crossed signals and misunderstandings commences!
Drums of the Desert
Act like Hi-Lo
event1927
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John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
Wedding Present
event1936 star_border 6.5
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Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.
Can't Help Singing
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.1
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With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
Pest Man Wins
Act like Party Guest (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 4.5
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The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
Hula-La-La
Act like King (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 4.7
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The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
Wife to Spare
Act like (Uncredited)
event1947
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Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
Hiss and Yell
Act like Delivery Man (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 3
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Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").
Booty and the Beast
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.8
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The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
Fling in the Ring
Act like Watson’s Manager
event1955 star_border 5.8
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The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.
Musty Musketeers
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.5
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Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
Pals and Gals
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.5
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
Broadway Bill
Act like Bettor on Broadway Bill (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.1
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Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Enter Arsène Lupin
Act like Airport Employee (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Stone Age Romeos
Act like Milkman (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.5
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The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
The Peppery Salt
Act like The Cabbie
event1936
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Andy, proprietor of an oceanside lunch counter, tangles with a gang of kidnappers.
The Reckless Age
event1924 star_border 5
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Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.
Broken Lance
Act like Man in Courtroom Hall (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
The Murder Man
Act like Warden's Secretary (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.9
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Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
The Marriage Circus
Act like Laundry Deliveryman
event1925
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The Marriage Circus is a 1925 silent comedy short.
Riding High
Act like Bettor on Broadway Bill (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Act like Milkman (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5
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Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
A Trick of Hearts
Act like Blackface Comic
event1928
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In this comedy-western, based on the life of Henry Irving Dodge, our cowboy hero keeps his tongue firmly planted in his cheek as he goes up against a town run by such women as newly elected sheriff, Carrie Patience. Hoping to restore some masculinity to the sheriff's office, Gibson stages a series of fake hold-ups but is soon upstaged by a real crook
The Air Circus
Act like Jerry McSwiggin
event1928
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Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
The Best Years of Our Lives
Act like Customer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 7.8
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It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
Busy Buddies
Act like Egg Customer (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6.5
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The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Wallpaper Hanger (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.
Monkey Business
Act like House Painter (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.
When Damon Fell for Pythias
Act like Pythias
event1917
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The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are spared.
The Lady Gambles
Act like Joe - Gambler (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6
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When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
Feel My Pulse
Act like Her Patient
event1928 star_border 6
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A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Little Miss Broadway
Act like Band Member
event1938 star_border 6.6
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An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Mickey's Champs
event1930
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Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.
Smoky
Act like Man Watching Parade (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.2
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Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her ranch, but the head cowhand is doubtful about Clint and fears that since he refuses to talk about himself, he must have some dreadful secret in his past. Clint and Smoky become close to each other, weathering the hardships of Western life and the suspicions of others together, until one day, Smoky tragically vanishes. Will Clint ever see him again?
Dumb Dicks
Act like Dopey
event1932
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Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
Fig Leaves
Act like Eddie McSwiggen
event1926 star_border 5.8
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Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
Neptune's Daughter
Act like Groom (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.
Sally, Irene and Mary
Act like Snack Vendor
event1938 star_border 6
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Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.9
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Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Act like Legion Member (uncredited)
event1939
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Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
A Connecticut Yankee
Act like Sneezing Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 6
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Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
She Wrote a Play and Played It
Act like The Hero
event1916 star_border 5
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Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writing a play to be bothered with lovers. When a wandering director arrives in town, learns of her play and agrees to produce it for her, with the author in the leading role, she is delighted. But the play proves a frost.
Hearts and Flowers
Act like Guest with Pea Shooter
event1919 star_border 5.2
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A flirtatious hotel orchestra leader provokes conflict.
The Perfect Snob
Act like Baggage Man (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
I Don't Remember
Act like Cop
event1935 star_border 2
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Amnesiac can't find the other half of his winning sweepstakes ticket.
Gunmen from Laredo
event1959 star_border 4.7
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A framed Texas rancher escapes from prison for a showdown with a saloonkeeper.
Movie Maniacs
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.5
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The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Out West
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Act like Prussian Guard Drill Leader
event1919 star_border 5.3
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Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.
The Day of Faith
Act like Yegg Darby
event1923
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Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
Wet and Warmer
Act like Bellboy
event1920
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Silent comedy featuring the Chaplin-esque Heinie Conklin. The ill-fated Virginia Rappe appears as a hotel guest.
Find Your Man
Act like Lumberjack
event1924 star_border 10
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Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
Below the Line
Act like Deputy Sheriff
event1925 star_border 10
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Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
The Night Cry
Act like Tony
event1926
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A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
Trailing the Killer
Act like Windy
event1932 star_border 4
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While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar (Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion. But the makers also pointed out that Caesar "is the most intelligent dog actor since Rin-Tin-Tin" which probably lured a few Rin-Tin-Tin fans with a show-me attitude. Caesar prowls around the woods of the Northwest, dispatches a rattlesnake, visits his she-wolf mate and their pups, pauses to watch the dainty habits of a raccoon personally washing every morsel of food before eating it---and that raccoon had enough food to use up several minutes of running time---and then saves sheepherder Pierre (Francis McDonald)) from getting eaten by one mean mountain lion. Rin-Tin-Tin he ain't, but then who was?
Spook Louder
Act like Devil Costume Spy
event1943 star_border 6.5
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The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
Night Parade
Act like Heinie
event1929 star_border 3.5
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Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Side Street
Act like Drunk at Parth (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 5
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Three New York Irish brothers cross paths as policeman, doctor and bootlegger.
Red Hot Tires
Act like Coachman
event1925
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The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
Hogan's Alley
Act like The Stranger's Friend
event1925
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Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
Man Of The People
Act like Hot Clam Harry Foster (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
Traveling Husbands
Act like Al - Room Service Waiter
event1931 star_border 4
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A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Lilly Turner
Act like Diner Counterman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.6
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One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Hollywood Cavalcade
Act like Keystone Cop
event1939 star_border 5.1
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Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Tell No Tales
Act like Tramp Comic (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Music Is Magic
Act like Bus Passenger (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4
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An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
So This Is Washington
Act like Steve Reynolds - Station Agent (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 4.8
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Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
The Personality Kid
Act like Health Lecture Heckler
event1934 star_border 4.2
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An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
A Double Life
Act like Second Bartender (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.
Three Pests in a Mess
Act like Devil (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6
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The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
A Star Is Born
Act like Benefit Comedy Team Member (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 7.1
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A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Man of a Thousand Faces
Act like Audience Extra (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.7
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The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.
Mountain Justice
Act like Juror at Ruth's Trial
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
Maybe It's Love
Act like Second Complaining Husband (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
Let Freedom Ring
Act like Rancher (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
White Fang
Act like Man with Magic Lantern
event1936 star_border 6
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A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Charlie Chan in Reno
Act like Policeman
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There are many others at the hotel who wanted the victim out of the way. Charlie comes from his home in Honolulu to solve the murder.
Invitation to Happiness
Act like Joe, the Cook (uncredited)
event1939
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An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
Frontier Marshal
Act like Drunk
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Act like First Taxicab Driver
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
Christmas Holiday
Act like Juryman
event1944 star_border 6.3
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Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
Sailor's Holiday
event1944
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In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
Professor Beware
Act like Billboard Painter
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.
Meet Dr. Christian
Act like Patient in Waiting Room
event1939
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The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve funds for a new hospital.
Sergeant Madden
Act like Drunk
event1939 star_border 6
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Mooching Through Georgia
Act like Union Soldier
event1939 star_border 6
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Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Act like Undetermined Secondary Role
event1933 star_border 7.4
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A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
Hard Boiled
Act like Bill Grimes
event1926
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Tom Mix plays an Eastern dandy who finds himself banished to a Western ranch in this silent Western
Pier 23
Act like Counter Man (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Pier 23 was one of three hour-long mysteries produced by Lippert Productions for both TV and theatrical release. Each of the three films was evenly divided into two half-hour "episodes," and each starred Hugh Beaumont as San Francisco-based amateur sleuth Dennis O'Brien. In Pier 23, O'Brien first tackles the case of a wrestler who has died of a suspicious heart attack after refusing to lose a match. He then agrees to help a priest talk an escaped criminal into returning to prison.
Aim, Fire, Scoot
Act like Soldier in Drill Line (uncredited)
event1952
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Joe and his sergeant fall for the same girl.
Army Daze
Act like Soldier in Drill Line (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1956
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Joe is drafted into the army of Starvania, and falls in love with Olga, a beautiful Starvanian WAC, but Joe's sergeant also has his eyes on Olga. But Joe wins her hand when he captures two spies in the Colonel's office.
A Hit with a Miss
Act like Referee (uncredited)
event1945
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Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
Bride and Gloom
Act like Garage Mechanic (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.
Mr. Noisy
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1946
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This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
Off Again, On Again
Act like Man Going Hunting (uncredited)
event1945
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Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Act like Elvis - Groundskeeper (uncredited)
event1944
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After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
The Heckler
Act like Baseball Spectator with Toupee
event1940 star_border 5
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An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
Two Girls on Broadway
Act like Man with Seal (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
You're Not So Tough
Act like Store Proprietor
event1940 star_border 4.3
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The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Act like American Legionnaire at Dance (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
Modern Times
Act like Assembly Line Worker Next to Big Bill (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 8.3
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A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Pistol Packin' Nitwits
Act like Barfly
event1945
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Harry and his pal protect a pretty saloonkeeper from a gang of thugs.
Woman in Hiding
Act like Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.2
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As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
The Gold Rush
Act like Prospector (uncredited)
event1925 star_border 8
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A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
Here Comes Mr. Zerk
Act like Neighbor
event1943
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Harry, a famous scientist, is mistaken for an escaped lunatic.
Clash of the Wolves
Act like Alkali Bill
event1925 star_border 6.3
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A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girlfriend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However, the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
Tenth Avenue Angel
Act like Fourth of July Dignitary on Dais (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.1
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Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and keep Steve out of trouble.
It Happened in Flatbush
Act like Team Trainer (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 4.8
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A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Love on a Budget
Act like Small Furniture Mover
event1938
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This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
The Green Hornet
Act like Watchman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
The Dancing Millionaire
Act like Squared Circle Waiter
event1934
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The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
Innocently Guilty
Act like Janitor
event1950
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Bert becomes innocently involved with his boss' wife.
Trail of the Vigilantes
Act like Bartender
event1940
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A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
The Westerner
Act like Man at Ticket Window (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
More Pay - Less Work
Act like Janitor
event1926
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Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
The Square Jungle
event1955 star_border 6
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Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
Man Hunt
Act like Pete (uncredited)
event1936
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A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Mug (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Flowing Gold
Act like Man Waiting for Job (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Sing, You Sinners
Act like Lunch Counter Proprietor (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.
Jeanne Eagels
Act like Joe, Carnival Employee (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.
Phantom of Chinatown
Act like Detective in Refrigerator
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.
Li'l Abner
Act like Bachelor, Sadies Hawkins Day Race
event1940 star_border 5.9
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Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
The Courageous Dr. Christian
Act like Pinball Addict
event1940 star_border 5.4
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A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Act like Ed the Plumber
event1940 star_border 5
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A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
The Keyhole
Act like Mr. Smith - Man Exiting Room 410 (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 4.9
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A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
Movie Pests
Act like Man Whose Hat Gets Sat On (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.6
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This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
Second Chorus
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.8
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Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.
Young Ironsides
Act like House Detective
event1932
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Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.
A Fool and His Money
Act like Citizen
event1925
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John Smart (William Haines), a hack writer, inherits a fortune from a distant relative and buys a castle in Laupheim. He pursues what appears to be a ghost of a beautiful woman but he learns that the so-called ghost is the estranged wife, Countess von Pless (Madge Bellamy), of the castle's previous owner, the cruel Count von Pless (Stuart Holmes). A romance blossoms despite the efforts of Count von Pless to convict Smart of obstructing justice.
Cimarron
Act like (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.6
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When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
Rhythm on the Range
Act like Automobile Driver
event1936 star_border 4
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Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
Iron Man
Act like Prizefight Second (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.8
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Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
You're a Sweetheart
Act like Game Player (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4
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A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
The Bowery
Act like Pug (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.1
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"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Act like Street Cleaner (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.9
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Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.
Show of Shows
Act like Ice Man in 'What Became of the Floradora Boys' Number (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 5.5
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Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
The Perils of Pauline
Act like Studio Cop
event1947 star_border 6.2
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Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Act like Theater Vendor (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
Our Leading Citizen
Act like Porter
event1939
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Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Seven Sinners
Act like Scarlet Fever Sanders
event1925 star_border 6
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Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be members of the household when locked in by a well meaning police officer.
The Chief
Act like Man Dropping Coin in Hat
event1933 star_border 3
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The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Steamboat Round the Bend
Act like Jailbird
event1935 star_border 7.6
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A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Lady from Louisiana
Act like Lottery Winner
event1941 star_border 5.3
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Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.
Honky Tonk
Act like Dental Patient
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Big Town Czar
Act like Thompson
event1939
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When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren. His younger brother Danny quits college and forces Phil to make him part of the gang. The overly-ambitious Danny fixes a prize-fight on which rival gang-leader Mike Luger loses heavily and, thinking that Phil has double-crossed him, sends gunmen out to kill Phil. They kill Danny instead and the frightened Phil flees to a country hideout. His chief lieutenant, Sid Travis, sets a trap for Phil when he returns.
What Price Hollywood?
Act like Car Owner (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Over My Dead Body
Act like Juror
event1942
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Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.
Baby Face
Act like Speakeasy Waiter (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 7.3
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A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Stage Frights
event1935
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Two bumbling detectives help a stage actress who has been receiving threatening letters.
High School
Act like Junk Man
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Private Detective 62
Act like Bartender (Uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6
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A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.
Million Dollar Legs
Act like Secret Emissary #2 (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.6
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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
I Wake Up Screaming
Act like Pedestrian newspaper buyer (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.9
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A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
The Girl in the Pullman
Act like Old Black Joe
event1927
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Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.
Double Cross
Act like Miggs
event1941 star_border 4.8
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A disgraced cop aims to reclaim his honor by nailing a corrupt crime boss.
Step Forward
Act like The Automobile Salesman
event1922
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The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Act like Soldier
event1942 star_border 3.5
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Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
Act like Workman
event1943 star_border 5.7
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Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Crazy House
Act like Keystone Kop
event1943 star_border 5
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Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
The Good Old Soak
Act like Bit Role
event1937
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A small town drunk beats a teetotal banker guilty of a shady transaction.
True to Life
Act like Man on Street (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6
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A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
The Unfaithful
Act like Streetcar Passenger
event1947 star_border 6
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Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
The Jury's Secret
Act like Shabby Man
event1938 star_border 3
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A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
The Mighty Treve
Act like Rancher at Auction
event1937 star_border 6
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Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Whispering Wires
Act like Jasper, the Butler
event1926
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A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
She Couldn't Take It
Act like Waiter
event1935 star_border 4.5
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The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
Pickup on South Street
Act like Subway Passenger (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 7.4
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In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Ham and Eggs at the Front
Act like Eggs (as Charlie Conklin)
event1927
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Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Act like Card Player (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 3
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Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
The Gunfighter
Act like Townsman at Funeral (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.3
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The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Act like Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 7.8
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When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Lost in a Harem
Act like Native in Café (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 5.5
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Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
The Wet Parade
Act like Drunk (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.8
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The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
It Pays to Exercise
Act like The Bailiff
event1918
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short subject comedy - fun at the gym!
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Act like Studio Guard
event1955 star_border 6.1
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Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
Double Wedding
Act like Hot Dog Vendor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.5
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A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Riders of Destiny
Act like Elmer - Henchman
event1933 star_border 5.2
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James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers. Government agent Sandy Saunders arrives undercover to investigate Kincaid's land swindle scheme, and win the heart of one of his victims, Fay Denton.
A Boy and His Dog
Act like Townsman at Meeting (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.4
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11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck comes through the fence and becomes stuck, Davy removes the collar. Even though the boy tells him to stay in his owner's yard, the dog follows him home.
The Passionate Plumber
Act like Hunter with Rifle at Duel (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6
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Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J. McCracken and through the high society contacts he has made through Patricia, Elmer hopes to find financing for his latest invention, a pistol with a range-finding light. Comic complications ensue when Elmer's effort to interest a military leader is misconstrued as an assassination attempt.
Escape in the Fog
Act like Accident Witness (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.2
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A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.
The Adventures of Martin Eden
event1942 star_border 6
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Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
The Chance of a Lifetime
Act like Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
Cadet Girl
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1941
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A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Act like Pete
event1950
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A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
The Circus
Act like Clown (uncredited)
event1928 star_border 7.9
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Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
Jungle Woman
Act like Inquest Juror (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.9
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Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
A Hatful of Rain
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 6.8
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A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.
Flaming Feather
event1952 star_border 5.8
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A mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes the people of the Arizona Territory in the 1870s. When rancher Tex McCloud has his place burned out, he vows to find and kill the Sidewinder.
A Shadowed Shadow
Act like Pete the Prowler
event1916 star_border 5
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A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
The Fighting Edge
event1926
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Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
Beware of Widows
Act like Captain
event1927
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The handsome Dr. John Waller specializes in the ailments of women, or more specifically, wealthy widows.
Jail Birds of Paradise
Act like Prisoner
event1934
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While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise" Considered a Lost Film.
Hold That Lion!
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7
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The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
Stella Dallas
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.9
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After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
Broken Arrow
Act like Townsman
event1950 star_border 6.7
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Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to protect themselves, or out of retaliation for white atrocities.
Law of the Sea
Act like Fireman
event1931 star_border 5.5
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A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.
Law of the North
Act like Jailbird
event1932
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Hanley shoots a man and then frames Bill Roberts. Being the Judge he then holds court planning to hang Bill but Bill's friends effect his escape. Andy tries to lead Hanley astray by misleading him as to Bill's location. But Bill changes plans and Hanley catches up with him and this leads to the showdown.
She Loved Him Plenty
event1918 star_border 5
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“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Les Misérables
Act like Drunk at Inn
event1935 star_border 7.2
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Roaring Lions at Home
event1924
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A little girl visits the circus and loses her dog there, and in error brings home a lion cub. The mother lioness trails her missing cub to the girl's home.
The Sap
Act like Wienie Duke
event1926
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Barry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when World War I breaks out, and accidentally captures a nest of German snipers, and is decorated for bravery. He returns home as a hero but Vance, the town bully, challenges him to a fight but Barry refuses and the townsmen mock him and consider him a coward. His girlfriend Janet is none too impressed, either. He heads for the tall timber with suicide as his intent.
Me and My Gal
Act like Bank Robbery Accomplice (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
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