
Birthday:
10-19-1885
Deathday:
07-25-1941 (55 years)
Birthplace:
Bethel, Illinois, USA
Biography
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Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.
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Scarface
Act like Mr. Garston, publisher
event1932 star_border 7.4
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In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Under Suspicion
Act like Frank Rogers
event1937
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Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on their minds.
A Shriek in the Night
Act like Inspector Russell
event1933 star_border 5.1
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Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.
My Wife's Relatives
Act like Mr. Ellis
event1939
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It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.
Grand Hotel
Act like Zinnowitz
event1932 star_border 6.9
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Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Name the Woman
Act like Forbes
event1934
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Directed by Albert S. Rogell. With Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson.
Alibi
Act like Sgt. Pete Manning
event1929 star_border 5.9
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Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
Doctors Don't Tell
event1941 star_border 4.9
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Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
Five Star Final
Act like Robert French
event1931 star_border 6.6
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Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
The Locked Door
Act like Police Officer
event1929 star_border 5.9
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On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
The Unwritten Law
Act like Stephen McBain
event1932
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A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
The Trespasser
Act like Hector Ferguson
event1929 star_border 6.7
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A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
The Winning Ticket
Act like Mr. Powers
event1935 star_border 3.5
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A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
Bachelor Apartment
Act like Herbert 'Herb' Carraway
event1931 star_border 6.2
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A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
The Casino Murder Case
Act like Markham
event1935 star_border 6.5
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When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
A Night at the Opera
Act like Mayor (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.4
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The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
The Furies
Act like District Attorney
event1930
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Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by Bedlow, her husband's lawyer. At a dinner party given by Smith, a columnist, she announces that her husband has at last granted her freedom; but Owen McDonald, her childhood sweetheart, whom she still loves, is disappointed to learn that she is not asking for alimony or a settlement. When her young son, Alan, announces that his father has been murdered, he accuses his mother of trying to shield McDonald, whom he suspects of the crime. Fifi goes to Bedlow for aid, and learning that she no longer loves McDonald, he agrees to help; but Bedlow locks her in the apartment, then confesses his love for her and admits to the murder of her husband. Dr. Cummings and Alan come to her aid; and returning to the drawing room, they find that Bedlow has leaped to his death. Fifi finds happiness at last with the doctor.
Emma
Act like Haskins
event1932 star_border 6.5
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After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Behind the Green Lights
Act like Detective Lt. Jim Kennedy
event1935
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A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
Dance, Fools, Dance
Act like Parker
event1931 star_border 6.4
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When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
Come On, Rangers
Act like Senator Harvey
event1938 star_border 6
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A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.
The Roadhouse Murder
Act like Inspector William Agnew
event1932 star_border 3.8
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After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news.
The Mystery Squadron
Act like Lafe Johnson
event1933 star_border 6
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Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
The Public Defender
Act like John Kirk
event1931 star_border 6
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A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Pick-up
Act like Prosecuting Attorney
event1933 star_border 4.8
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The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Ladies Crave Excitement
Act like Amos Starke
event1935 star_border 4.5
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Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Road to Paradise
Act like Updike
event1930 star_border 6.2
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Loretta Young plays dual roles in this 1930 crime drama about a young thief planning to steal jewels from a wealthy socialite.
Midnight Alibi
Act like Wilson
event1934 star_border 6
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An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
Murder with Pictures
Act like Editor
event1936 star_border 5.1
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Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Painted Faces
Act like Foreman of Jury
event1929 star_border 4.8
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After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone juror holding out against conviction and pleading for his innocence and acquittal.
Night of Mystery
Act like John F. X. Markham
event1937
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One of a series of movies based on the character Philo Vance
The Witching Hour
Act like District Attorney Robinson
event1934 star_border 5.3
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Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
The Gay Diplomat
Act like Colonel George Gorin
event1931 star_border 4
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Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
The Return of Sophie Lang
Act like Thomas Chadwick
event1936 star_border 6
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In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take an ocean trip to the US, taking Sophie with her. She also takes along a $200,000 diamond, which she locks up in the ship's safe. Of course, the diamond is soon stolen from the safe. A reporter also happens to be aboard the ship, and he has had his suspicions about who Sophie really is. Sophie has to find the real thief and recover the jewel before the ship docks in New York, because an investigation could reveal her true identity.
Crimson Romance
Act like Franklyn Pierce
event1934 star_border 6
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After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
Common Clay
Act like Richard Fullerton
event1930
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Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with the Fullerton's handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain recognition for her child, the Fullerton family treats her as a blackmailer. But a surprise awaits them all.
Traveling Husbands
Act like J.C. Wilson
event1931 star_border 4
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A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Grand Ole Opry
Act like Attorney General
event1940 star_border 7
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Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Up for Murder
Act like William Winter
event1931 star_border 3.5
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Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor.
The Chief
Act like Al Morgan
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.
Murder Goes to College
Act like Arthur L. McShean
event1937 star_border 3
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The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the numbers-racket” with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean’s office.
False Faces
Act like Jefferson Howe
event1932 star_border 4.3
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The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
The Hell Cat
Act like Butler
event1934 star_border 6
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Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Death Flies East
Act like Dr. Landers
event1935 star_border 5
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Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of John Robinson Gordon (Nagel), who is transporting a revolutionary munitions formula to Washington, D.C. Another passenger, Baker (Robert Allen), complains of having been poisoned and leaves the plane during a stopover in Dallas. Back in the air, Gordon's bodyguard, Lieutenant O'Brien (Fred Kelsey), suffers the same fate, but this time the poison proves fatal. The plane returns to Dallas, where Police Captain Barrie (William B. Davidson) accused poor Evelyn of the crime. Happily, Gordon can prove otherwise and the real culprit is unmasked.
The Spider
Act like Inspector Riley
event1931 star_border 6
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Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
Ladies of the Big House
Act like John Hartman
event1931 star_border 6
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A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Wedding Present
Act like Howard Van Dorn
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.
Paid
Act like Edward Gilder
event1930 star_border 6.8
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Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
High, Wide and Handsome
Act like Col. Blake
event1937 star_border 6.3
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The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
Red Haired Alibi
Act like Regan
event1932 star_border 4.6
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A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
Pot o' Gold
Act like Thompson (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
The Plainsman
Act like Capt. Wood
event1936 star_border 6.3
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Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
The Bands Plays On
Act like Judge Bone
event1934 star_border 8.5
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A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Lazy River
Act like Mr. Lodge - Attorney
event1934 star_border 7
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Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
Lawful Larceny
Act like Judge Perry
event1930 star_border 5.7
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When Marion Corsey's husband, Andrew, is conned out of a small fortune by Vivian Hepburn, she dedicates herself to recovering the money.
Rendezvous at Midnight
Act like The Mayor - Hamilton
event1935
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There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
Dancing Feet
Act like Silas P. Jones
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.
The Secret Witness
Act like Capt. McGowan
event1931 star_border 3
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A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
The Gorilla
Act like The Stranger
event1930
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A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape. (lost film)
The Famous Ferguson Case
Act like George M. Ferguson
event1932 star_border 6
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A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
On With the Show!
Act like Sam Bloom
event1929 star_border 5
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With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
The Prodigal
Act like Rodman Farraday
event1931 star_border 3.3
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An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Midshipman Jack
Act like Commandant. Rogers
event1933 star_border 6
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Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Hollywood Boulevard
Act like Mr. Steinman
event1936 star_border 2.5
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With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Son of a Sailor
Act like Captain Briggs
event1933 star_border 5
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A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Red Salute
Act like Gen. Van Allen
event1935 star_border 5.8
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The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff who, while somewhat of a goof-up, the general believes is still better for her.
$1,000 a Minute
Act like Charlie, the Editor
event1935 star_border 5.5
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Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
I Cover the Waterfront
Act like John Phelps
event1933 star_border 5.1
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An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
King of Gamblers
Act like Strohm
event1937 star_border 7
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Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Waterfront Lady
Act like D.A. Shaw
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.
It's in the Air
Act like Horace McNab
event1935 star_border 5
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Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Beyond Victory
event1931
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Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Rosalie
Act like Ship Captain (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.
Skyscraper Souls
Act like Harrington Brewster
event1932 star_border 5.6
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After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
Fast Life
Act like Berton Hall
event1929
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A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Is Everybody Happy?
Act like Stage Manager
event1929
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It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube.
Diamond Jim
Act like Physician
event1935 star_border 6
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A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
The Silver Horde
Act like Wayne Wayland
event1930 star_border 5.3
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A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Midnight Lovers
Act like Wibley
event1926 star_border 6
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During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
Headline Shooter
Act like Eddie Edmunds, City Editor (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Join the Marines
Act like Col. J. B. Denbrough
event1937 star_border 3
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New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
Lady Be Careful
Act like Father
event1936 star_border 4.5
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Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that he can "thaw" icy beauty-contest winner Billie (Mary Carlisle). What follows is a series of misunderstandings, arguments and reconciliations, all wrapped up in a happy-ever-after conclusion.
Frisco Waterfront
Act like Dr. Stevens
event1935
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As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.
A Wicked Woman
Act like Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5
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A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Act like John Bland
event1917 star_border 4.4
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A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.
Magnificent Obsession
Act like Hastings, Merrick's Attorney
event1935 star_border 7.4
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A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Wives Never Know
Act like Higgins
event1936
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Homer Bigelow has an ideal marriage, with a wife who loves him very much as does he in return. Hilarity ensues when, his wife and him take "marital advice" from an old school friend, who thinks marriage is a farce.
The Public Enemy
Act like Officer Powers (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 7.2
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Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
The Billion Dollar Scandal
Act like Senate Committee Chairman
event1933
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An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
Ringside Maisie
Act like Dr. Taylor
event1941 star_border 7
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Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
Sinners' Holiday
Act like Detective Sikes
event1930 star_border 5.8
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Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.
The Lady Who Lied
Act like Ahmed
event1925
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During a carnival in Venice, Horace Pierpont, a wealthy American (Lewis Stone), falls in love with Fay Kennion (Virginia Valli). Their romance is derailed when she goes over to his apartment and finds the vampy Fifi (Nita Naldi) there. Fay goes down to Algiers, where she marries a former sweetheart, Dr. Alan Mortimer (Edward Earle).
School for Girls
Act like Inspector Jameson
event1934 star_border 6
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After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Let's Make a Million
Act like Gilbert
event1936
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A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
Puttin' on the Ritz
Act like George Barnes
event1930 star_border 5.2
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A vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are.
Straight from the Shoulder
Act like James McBride
event1936 star_border 4.5
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A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Colorado Sunset
Act like Mr. Hall
event1939
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When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff Gene to clean up the mess. Country music icon Patsy Montana sings "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart," while radio crooners the Texas Rangers perform alongside Autry.
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Act like Doctor
event1933 star_border 4.5
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A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
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