
Birthday:
08-26-1891
Deathday:
04-23-1969 (77 years)
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
Stanley Andrews was an American actor perhaps best known as the voice of Daddy Warbucks on the radio program Little Orphan Annie and later as "The Old Ranger", the first host of the syndicated western anthology television series, Death Valley Days.
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Blondie's Big Deal
Act like Mr. Forsythe
event1949 star_border 6.2
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Dagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before he can give it to his boss Radcliffe. To show off his invention, Dagwood paints Radcliffe's house with it and is disgraced when the house burns down!
Blonde Dynamite
Act like Mr. Jennings
event1950 star_border 5
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While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients.
Two Flags West
Act like Col. Hoffman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.2
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A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
The Princess and the Pirate
Act like Captain of the 'Mary Ann'
event1944 star_border 6.7
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Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.
Easy Living
Act like Police Captain Jackson (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Scared to Death
Act like Pathologist
event1947 star_border 4.2
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A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Act like James Cedar (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Foolproof
Act like Coroner's Inquest Judge (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime. Part of the Crime Does Not Pay series
Panhandle
Act like Tyler
event1948 star_border 5.8
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An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
Framed
Act like (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.4
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Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Superman and the Mole-Men
Act like The Sheriff
event1951 star_border 5.3
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Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Act like Colonel
event1938 star_border 6.6
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Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Savage Fury
Act like Emperor Mena(archive footage)
event1956
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Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
The Paleface
Act like Commissioner Emerson
event1948 star_border 6.1
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Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
Peter Ibbetson
Act like Judge (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.9
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When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary ā but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
God's Country
Act like Howard King
event1946 star_border 6
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Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce, kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley, the niece of Sandy McTavish who runs the trading post. Lee learns the reason why this is good trapping country is because the timber barons across the lake are ruthlessly cutting the trees and driving the animals across the river. The trappers appeal to him to take a petition to the Governor which would prohibit the timber people from coming to their side of the lake. At first, because he is a wanted man, he refuses but does so later for the sake of the people even though he knows it will lead to his arrest.
Silver Canyon
Act like Major Weatherly (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7
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At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie.
Crash Dive
Act like Shipwrecked Captain (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Brigham Young
Act like Hyrum Smith
event1940 star_border 4.4
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Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
The Nevadan
Act like Deputy Morgan (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.
Spawn of the North
Act like Partridge
event1938 star_border 5.6
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Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.
Time Out for Rhythm
Act like James Anderson
event1941 star_border 6.2
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A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
The Murder Man
Act like Police Commissioner (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.
Alias Mary Dow
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.2
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A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
Does Christ Live in Your Home?
event1951
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A 1950's family man is out of work and looking for a job discovers that putting God first in your life is what matters most.
Flight for Freedom
Act like Prosperous Gent (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of the U.S. Navy, who want to send her on a spy mission.
Southwest Passage
Act like Constable Bartlett
event1954 star_border 5.4
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As the Cavalry tests the viability of bringing camels to US deserts, a surveyor, Arab drivers, and fugitive bank robbers confront Apaches and thirst. Originally filmed in 3-D
Tough Assignment
Act like Chief Investigator Patterson
event1949 star_border 6
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A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers.
Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Star in the Dust
Act like Ben Smith
event1956 star_border 4.5
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The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown. At the casino, betting is 8 to 3 he won't make it. The cattlemen are set to rescue Sam; the farmers hope to lynch him before he can be rescued; and Hall schemes for escape with his girl Nellie. But Sheriff Jorden is most concerned with finding out who hired Hall: a leading suspect is the sheriff's future brother-in-law.
The Steel Cage
Act like Roy, Head Guard, segment "The Hostages"
event1954
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Drama set in San Quentin prison.
Streets of Ghost Town
Act like Dusty Creek Sheriff
event1950
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The Durango Kid and his sidekick look for stolen gold with a history.
Reap the Wild Wind
Act like Turnkey (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.
Fighting Fools
Act like Boxing Commissioner
event1949 star_border 5
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The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Shine On Harvest Moon
Act like 'Pa' Jackson
event1938 star_border 6
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A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.
Colt .45
Act like Sheriff
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Dawn at Socorro
Act like Old Man Ferris
event1954 star_border 7.2
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Brett Wade, gambler, gunslinger, and classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight with the Ferris clan; the doctor finds signs of tuberculosis. En route to Colorado for his health, Brett stops in Socorro, New Mexico along with Ferris gunfighter Jimmy Rapp. Sheriff Couthen fears another shootout, but what Brett has in mind is saving waif-with-a-past Rannah Hayes from a life as one of Dick Braden's saloon girls.
The Twinkle In God's Eye
Act like Sheriff
event1955 star_border 7
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A new parson arrives in the mining town of Lodestone and attempts to build a church. Western.
Frontier Gambler
Act like Philo Dewey
event1956 star_border 6
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A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".
Tucson Raiders
Act like Governor York
event1944
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In Elliot's initial appearance as Red Ryder, he finds himself framed for murder. Little Beaver then foils the crooked Sheriff's attempt to have Red killed escaping jail. When Hannah Rogers gives the Sheriff a note, Red sees her give him a signal. Gabby lifts the note and Red decodes it. The Duchess then gets a confession from Hannah enabling Red to set out after the outlaws.
Wild Brian Kent
Act like Tony Baxter
event1936
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Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.
Treasure of Ruby Hills
Act like Marshal Garvey
event1955 star_border 4
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Ranchers battle one another over water rights. Western.
Happy Go Lucky
Act like Capt. Matzdorf
event1936 star_border 5
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A singer in Shanghai looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive.
Borrowed Hero
Act like Taylor
event1941 star_border 4
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A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
It Happened Tomorrow
event1944 star_border 6.7
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A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Little Old New York
Act like Patrol Captain
event1940 star_border 4
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Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
Prairie Moon
Act like Frank Welch
event1938
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Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
She's Dangerous
Act like Franklin Webb
event1937 star_border 5
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A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.
Easy Come, Easy Go
Act like Detective
event1947
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Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.
John Meade's Woman
Act like Westley
event1937
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"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her in for a hot meal and sends her roses the next day. John is engaged to penniless society beauty Caroline Haig, who is in love with Rodney Bentley and is marrying John for his money. A jovial millionaire without a conscience, John orders his long-time employee, Tim Mathews, to report to Chicago from the lumber mills and announces he is leaving the lumber business for wheat. Although Tim insists they reforest their lumber lands, John ignores his plea. For laughs, John invites Teddy and Tim to his engagement party at Caroline's wealthy friend's estate. Teddy, realizing John is engaged to a woman who does not love him, drowns her tears in liquor and embarrasses Caroline.
Wake Up and Dream
Act like Conductor
event1946 star_border 6.5
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Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
All the King's Horses
Act like Count Batthy
event1935 star_border 6
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A Hollywood actor visits a mythical country where he looks like the king and confuses the queen.
The Lone Ranger
Act like Captain Smith aka Colonel Jeffries
event1938
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In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first actions, he captures and assumes the identity of Texas' new Finance Commissioner, Colonel Marcus Jeffries, after having the real man murdered. When a contingent of Texas Rangers enters the territory, Snead, one of Smith's men, leads them into an ambush by Smith's "troopers". The Rangers are apparently wiped out, although one injured survivor is left. The survivor, nursed back to health by Tonto, swears to avenge the massacre and defeat "Colonel Jeffries" and his men.
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Act like Marshal Ken Slattery
event1951 star_border 5
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Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.
Union Pacific
Act like Dr. Harkness (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Brimstone
Act like Edward Winslow
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Penitentiary
Act like Prison Captain Dorn (uncredited)
event1938
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The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
The Mysterious Rider
Act like William Bellounds
event1938 star_border 6
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Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
Dangerous Crossing
Act like Ship's Pilot (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.1
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A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husbandās existence.
Leather Gloves
Act like Mr. Hubbard
event1948
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A fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
All the Brothers Were Valiant
Act like Matthew Shore's Father (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.9
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In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Strange Alibi
Act like Lt. Pagle
event1941 star_border 6.6
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An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
Craig's Wife
Act like Police Officer Davis (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.3
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Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
High, Wide and Handsome
Act like Lem Moulton
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.
Wild Geese Calling
Act like Delaney
event1941 star_border 5.8
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In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Act like Sheriff (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.3
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Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Act like Mr. Murphy (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7
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An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
Play Girl
Act like Joseph Shawhan
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
I'll Give a Million
Act like Yacht Captain
event1938 star_border 5.7
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After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Madame X
Act like Gendarme Testifying in Court
event1937 star_border 6.2
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An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
The Man Who Found Himself
Act like Insp. Grey
event1937 star_border 7
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Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
Blondie
Act like Mr. Hicks (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.1
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Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Woman Wanted
Act like Jury Foreman (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the process. Tony and Ann are pursued by the police and by Smiley Gordon, a mob boss who engineered Ann's escape thinking that she can lead him to a $250,000 stash.
Sutter's Gold
Act like Senator Rand
event1936
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Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
The Devil Is a Sissy
Act like Doctor
event1936 star_border 6.9
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A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
The Texas Rangers
Act like Marshal Gorey (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 5.7
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It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Cocoanut Grove
Act like Truant Officer
event1938
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Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Homicide Bureau
Act like Police Commissioner
event1939 star_border 6
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After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
State of the Union
Act like Senator (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.7
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An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Men Without Names
Act like Jim, the Fingerprint Man
event1935 star_border 6
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A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
Stolen Harmony
Act like Patrol Chief (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6
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Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Adventures of Frank and Jesse James
Act like Jim Powell [Ch.1]
event1948 star_border 6
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Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who killed her father are trying to drive her out of the mine so they can take it over.
Pirates of the Skies
event1939
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Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
Devil's Playground
Act like Salvage Boat Commander
event1937 star_border 6
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A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Three Comrades
Act like Officer giving toast (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.2
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A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
White Fang
Act like Sgt. Drake
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.
Golden Boy
Act like Driscoll, Fight Official
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter ā much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Beau Geste
Act like Maris
event1939 star_border 7
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When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in the scorching Sahara. Now the brothers must fight for their lives as they plot mutiny against tyranny and defend a desert fortress against a brutal enemy.
Coast Guard
Act like Comdr. Hooker
event1939 star_border 5
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Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp steamer skipper, in a daring rescue at sea. Speed flies the injured man back to the base hospital, where the two officers later visit him. There Ray meets Nancy Bliss, Bliss' grand-daughter, and falls in love with her. Speed meets her at a dance and urges Ray to propose before some other guy does. Ray is assigned to flood rescue duty, and Speed and Nancy start going out together and discover they are in love.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Act like Senator Hodges (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.9
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After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
The Texas Rangers
Act like Henchman (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.4
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Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
The Call of the Savage
Act like Emperor Mena
event1935 star_border 5
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Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Charlie McCarthy, Detective
Act like Freight Captain
event1939 star_border 6
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Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob. When the editor is killed, both reporter Banning and mobster Tony Garcia are suspected.
The Housekeeper's Daughter
Act like Police Captain
event1939 star_border 3.5
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A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Kentucky
Act like Presiding Judge
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
The Lady Objects
Act like Baker
event1938 star_border 5.5
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A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off the ground. They separate, and the man begins making extra money by singing in a nightclub. When he is unjustly accused of murder, it is up to his estranged wife to defend him in court.
King of the Royal Mounted
Act like Tom Merritt Sr.
event1940 star_border 6
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The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Act like Colonel
event1940 star_border 4
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A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
My Dear Secretary
Act like Mr. McNally - Publisher (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.9
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A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.
Adventure in Sahara
Act like Col. Rancreux
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancƩe, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
It's a Wonderful Life
Act like Mr. Welch (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 8.3
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A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
North to the Klondike
Act like Tom Allen
event1942 star_border 6.8
top_panel_open
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
Keep 'Em Sailing
Act like Mitchell (uncredited)
event1942
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An FBI agent goes undercover to investigate the sabotage of American cargo ships.
The Adventures of a Rookie
Act like Gen. Ames (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7
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Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
The Virginian
Act like Rancher (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.1
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Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot with her. To add to his troubles, the Virginian finds that his old pal Steve is mixed up with black-hatted Trampas and his rustlers...then finds himself at the head of a posse after said rustlers; and Molly hates the violent side of frontier life.
Dangerously Yours
Act like Houston, the Customs Inspector
event1937 star_border 6
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A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Attorney to Kirby at Arraignment (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
The Ox-Bow Incident
Act like Bartlett (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.7
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A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.
Killer Dill
Act like Mr. Jones - Underwear Customer (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5
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Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.
The Blue Bird
Act like Wilhelm
event1940 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
The Green Hornet
Act like Police Commissioner
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.
When G-Men Step In
Act like Preston
event1938 star_border 6
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Having paid for the education and legal training of his younger brother, Bruce, with the idea that he would become a lawyer and join his business, Frederick Garth, a racketeer posing as an honest businessman, is dismayed when he learns that Bruce has become a G-Man instead.
Perilous Waters
Act like Capt. Porter
event1948
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Because of his virulent crusade against gambling, Dana Ferris has been targeted for extermination by the Mob, and Willie Hunter is the hit man who's been hired to do the job.
The Three Outlaws
Act like Railroad President
event1956 star_border 5.5
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Ready to quit their life of crime, the three "most-wanted" outlaws in the West---Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Bill Carver ---perform their final job by robbing and stealing a train and fleeing across the border. In a South American town they begin their life of respectability by purchasing a ranch and depositing their stolen fortune in the local bank, and throwing a big fiesta to entertain the locals, including Colonel Aguilar and his beautiful daughter Rita.
The Postman Didn't Ring
Act like Stanley Andrews
event1942
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Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients.
Desire
Act like Customs Inspector (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
The Sea of Grass
Act like Bill the Sheriff (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.3
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On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Colorado
Act like Col. Gibbons
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
The Mark of Zorro
Act like Commanding Officer (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7.1
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Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
Kit Carson
Act like Larkin
event1940 star_border 6.1
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Frontiersman Kit Carson fights off Indian attacks on the trail to California.
Saddle Legion
Act like Chief John Layton
event1951 star_border 6.3
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A cattle inspector runs a rustling ring on the side.
The Westerner
Act like Sheriff (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.
Best Man Wins
Act like Sheriff Dingle
event1948 star_border 7
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Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
Last of the Wild Horses
Act like Rancher Pete Ferguson
event1948 star_border 2.6
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A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
In Old Colorado
Act like George Davidson
event1941 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
The Dead Don't Dream
Act like Jesse Williams
event1948
top_panel_open
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds the bride-to-be in distress over her uncle, who has suddenly disappeared from the inn. Then Hoppy finds the uncle's body in the shaft of his nearby mine...
Road to Rio
Act like Capt. Harmon
event1947 star_border 6.7
top_panel_open
Scat Sweeney and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away onboard a ship bound for Rio, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
The Fuller Brush Man
Act like Det. Ferguson (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.8
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Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancƩe gives him one last chance to make good when he becomes a Fuller Brush man. His awkward attempts at sales are further complicated when one of his customers is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Chronicle Publisher (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.
Here's to Romance
Act like Father
event1935
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Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegƩes", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.
Strange Cargo
Act like Constable (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
The Son of Monte Cristo
Act like Turnkey
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil General Gurko. Edmond, the son of Monte Cristo, dons many disguises to come to the aid of the Duchess.
It's in the Air
Act like Investigator (uncredited)
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.
Hi-Yo Silver
Act like Captain Smith / Colonel Jeffries
event1940
top_panel_open
Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."
Maryland
Act like Dr. John Trimble
event1940 star_border 6.2
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A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.
Johnny Apollo
Act like Welfare Secretary
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Trail of the Yukon
Act like Rogers
event1949 star_border 6
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When the local Banker jumps the Blaine's claim, they have men rob the bank to retrieve their money. When the men try to double-cross the Blains, a gunfight erupts and Jim Blaine gets away with the money. Mountie Bob McDonald gets Jim Blaine to return the money. Bob thinks the Banker was really behind the robbery and now uses the money to try and lure him into a trap.
Brothers in the Saddle
Act like Sheriff Oakley
event1949 star_border 5
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When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.
Geronimo
Act like Colombus Delano
event1939 star_border 5
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The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Trigger, Jr.
Act like Rancher Wilkins
event1950 star_border 4.6
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Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.
Rock Island Trail
Act like Businessman
event1950 star_border 6
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A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Robin Hood Of Texas
Act like Mr. Hamby - Saddle Shop Owner
event1947
top_panel_open
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them to the others.
Faces in the Fog
Act like Iverson, Juror
event1944 star_border 3
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Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and socializing have on the children....
Atlantic City
Act like Rogers
event1944 star_border 5
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In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracting big enterprises and big shows, but brings him little success in personal relationships. Full of nostalgic songs and acts, some with the original artists. Reissued in 1950 as "Atlantic City Honeymoon".
Diamond Jim
Act like Gambler
event1935 star_border 6
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A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
The Arizona Cowboy
Act like Jim Davenport
event1950
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A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.
Under Mexicali Stars
Act like Race Announcer
event1950
top_panel_open
Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.
Juvenile Court
Act like Mayor (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Hotel Imperial
Act like Col. Paloff (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Utah Wagon Train
Act like Sheriff
event1951 star_border 5
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Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble. The uncle has been hired to lead a modern-day band of adventurers on a wagon train retracing the route taken by their ancestors 100 years ago. Before Rex can talk to his uncle, the uncle is murdered, and Rex sets out to find the killer and the motive by taking his uncle's place as the leader of the wagon train.
Salt Lake Raiders
Act like Chief Marshal
event1950 star_border 6
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A man is sent to jail for murder escapes while being transferred, Rocky is sent to bring him in. When he catches him in a ghost town the man claims to be innocent and was trying to clear himself by finding the stolen money that was never recoveded at the time of the killing. But then they find themselves prisoners of an outlaw gang that is also after the money.
Short Grass
Act like Pete Lynch
event1950 star_border 6
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Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now heās back. And the bad blood stirred up by his return and the violence caused by a cattlemanās grab for all the good grasslands mean Steve must strap on his sidearms again. Rod Cameron -- who became a marquee draw with a pair of espionage serials in the 1940s and went on to establish himself as a popular cowboy star -- makes Steve a hero to reckon with in Short Grass, one of the actorās 10 films with busy shoot-āem-up director Lesley Selander. Johnny Mack Brown, a sagebrush stalwart in his own right, plays the marshal who allies with Steve. Adding to the Western pedigree is costar Cathy Downs, who plays the title role in the iconic My Darling Clementine. Buffs will note other familiar faces, including Alan Hale, Jr., well remembered as the skipper who takes a āthree-hour tourā to Gilliganās Island.
Across the Badlands
Act like Sheriff Crocker
event1950
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Charles Starrett once more hits the trail as "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Across the Badlands. By now, the formula was a well-oiled machine: Starrett becomes a lawman, is challenged by the local criminal element, and ultimately goes beyond the law as the masked Durango.
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Act like Sheriff Grasset
event1950
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Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprits. And once again, he dons his Durango Kid disguise, whereupon stunt-double Jock Mahoney swings into action. Outcasts of Black Mesa is distinguished by the presence of a relative newcomer to the film game, leading lady Martha Hyer.
Sinister Journey
Act like Tom Smith
event1948 star_border 6
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Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.
Fargo
Act like Judge Bruce
event1952 star_border 6.5
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The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started by cattleman. Bill returns to the Fargo country to take his brother's place and is welcomed by law-abiding cattleman MacKenzie (Jack Ingram)) and his daughter Kathy (Phyllis Coates). The leader of the ruthless cattle interests are townsman Austin (Arthur Space) and his henchmen Red (Myron Healey), Link (Robert J. Wilke) and Albord (Terry Frost). Bill has the idea of putting up barbed wire to keep the herds from been driven over the land cultivated by the farmers. He, aided by Tad Sloan (Fuzzy Knight), produces the wire by make-shift methods, but it proves effective. The cattleman charge in court that the wire is dangerous to their herds but lose the case. Austin orders his men to seize Bill, bale him in strands of the wire, and throw him on the stage of the town hall during a fall festival. Bill doesn't take kindly to this and it precipitates open war.
Canyon City
Act like Johnson, Water Co. presidient
event1943
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A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
Man from the Black Hills
Act like Pop Fallon
event1952
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As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.
Waco
Act like Judge
event1952
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After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order to escape a lynch mob.
Kansas Territory
Act like Governor (as Stan Andrews)
event1952
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Wild Bill Elliott goes after his brother's murderer!
Thundering Caravans
Act like Henry Scott
event1952
top_panel_open
Marshal Rocky Lane is sent to help the Sheriff who is under attack from both the miners whose ore wagons are disappearing and the newspaper editor for not catching the outlaws. But the editor is actually the leader of the gang and with the election forthcoming, she has a plan to make the Sheriff look bad so her son will be elected Sheriff thereby making it easy for them to continue with their robberies.
Daredevils of the West
Act like Colonel Andrews
event1943
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A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
Stablemates
Act like Track Steward
event1938 star_border 4.5
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A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Code of the Lawless
Act like Chadwick Hilton, Sr.
event1945
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In this western, the hero fights the bad guys by impersonating the son of a rancher. The outlaws have been making the good landowners pay fake taxes. Not only does the good guy succeed in catching the bad guys, he also catches himself the postmistress.
Forbidden Valley
Act like Hoke Lanning
event1938 star_border 6
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In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
The Fleet's In
Act like Lt. Commander
event1942 star_border 7
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Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
Trail to Vengeance
Act like Sheriff Morgan
event1945
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A cowboy investigating his brother's murder finds himself going up against a banker who holds the deed to the cowboy's family ranch.
The Valiant Hombre
Act like Sheriff George Dodge
event1948
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The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the heroes learn that her brother disappeared soon after striking a major gold vein in his mine. In the end Cisco accosts the villain, saves the kidnapped miner and reunites him with his dog.
Northwest Stampede
Act like Bowles
event1948 star_border 2
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In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the story centers on a rodeo rider whose late father bequeathed him a ranch in Calgary, Canada. The rider really tries to settle down to ranching, but finds himself pining for the rodeo. His forewoman, also a former rodeo performer, thinks her employer is shirking his duties and needs to forget about broncos, and bull-riding and settle down. Meanwhile, the fellow also longs to catch the white stallion running wild. The dog helps out.
Valley of the Sun
Act like Major at Court Martial
event1942 star_border 5.8
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An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
West of Wyoming
Act like Simon Miller
event1950 star_border 6
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The Johnny Mack Brown West of Wyoming concerns the efforts by cattle baron Simon (Stanley Andrews) to prevent the opening up of the rang to homesteaders. Government agent Brown comes calling when Simon begins resorting to cold-blooded murder. The leading lady is Gail Davis, a few years shy of her Annie Oakley TV stardom. Surprisingly, West of Wyoming contains none of the comedy relief that had characterized earlier Johnny Mack Brown oaters.
The Last Bandit
Act like Jeff Baldwin
event1949 star_border 6
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About to marry Jim Plummer, Kate Foley runs off to Nevada when Ed Bagley convinces her a quick fortune can be made robbing gold shipments that are being transported by the railroad. In Bannock City she meets reformed-bandit Frank Plummer, posing as Frank Norris, brother of Jim Plummer, who has being going straight and working as an express shipment guard. Jim also shows up and plans a robbery by stealing a train and hiding it in an abandoned tunnel. The two brothers are on opposite sides of the law with the now-reformed Kate caught in the middle.
El Paso Stampede
Act like Marshal Zeke Banning
event1953 star_border 5
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The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Act like Capt. Sloane
event1942 star_border 5.8
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This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Act like James Willet (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.5
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Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as much time as possible with his pretty teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation.
Convicted Woman
Act like Prosecutor (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 3.7
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A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Appointment in Honduras
Act like Capt. McTaggart
event1953 star_border 5.7
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On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Dead Men Tell
Act like Insp. Vessey
event1941 star_border 6.3
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When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
Florida Special
Act like Armstrong, the Railroad President
event1936 star_border 6
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A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.
The Power of God
Act like Edward Hale
event1942
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As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young couple and a shiftless man find the way to righteousness.
The Buccaneer
Act like Collector of the Port
event1938 star_border 6.4
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French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Docks of New Orleans
Act like Theodore Von Scherbe
event1948 star_border 5.9
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Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.
Montana Belle
Act like Marshal Combs
event1952 star_border 5.9
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Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Discord among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicates things, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons and horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer.
Captain Kidd's Treasure
Act like Captain William Kidd (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".
Jinx Money
Act like Mr. Morgan, Bank President (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 4.7
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A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
Mr. Blabbermouth!
event1942 star_border 4.4
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Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.
Bombardier
Act like Congressman
event1943 star_border 5.4
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A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
True to Life
Act like Frank (Bakery Foreman) (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.
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Act like George, Policeman
event1939 star_border 2
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Lady Scarface
Act like Police Captain L. Andrews
event1941 star_border 5.1
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A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Cheyenne Cowboy
Act like Ace Harmon
event1949
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Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.
She Couldn't Take It
Act like Attorney Wyndersham
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.
3 Kids and a Queen
Act like Federal Man
event1935 star_border 6
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An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Private Worlds
Act like Dr. Barnes
event1935 star_border 5.9
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At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.
Road to Utopia
Act like Joe - Official at Ship (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
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While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself. Duke, Chester, the thugs, Ace and his henchman chase each other all over the countrysideāfor the map.
You May Be Next!
Act like Naval Commander (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 2.5
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Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Where Danger Lives
Act like Dr. Matthews (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.3
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A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
The Major and the Minor
Act like Conductor #1 (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
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Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
The Man from Colorado
Act like Roger MacDonald (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.8
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Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Talk About a Stranger
Act like Mr. Wetzell
event1952 star_border 6.1
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Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Between Two Women
Act like Slipper Room Patron (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.9
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A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Blossoms On Broadway
Act like Chairman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4
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A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Dangerous Waters
Act like Steamship Company Agent (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 3
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While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Adventure
Act like Bit Part (unconfirmed)
event1945 star_border 6.2
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A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Riding High
Act like Reynolds
event1943 star_border 4
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No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
The Lemon Drop Kid
Act like Judge Wilkinson (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Meet John Doe
Act like Weston
event1941 star_border 7.3
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As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
People Will Talk
Act like Willis McBride
event1935 star_border 3
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Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
So You Won't Talk?
Act like Press Foreman
event1940 star_border 5
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A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders
Act like Anderson
event1953 star_border 6
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A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
Alibi for Murder
Act like Earl Quillan (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish heād stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perryās studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Michigan Kid
Act like Sheriff of Rawhide
event1947 star_border 6
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A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Let's Make a Million
Act like Cliff Spaulding
event1936
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A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
California
Act like Willoughby (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.5
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"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
Escape from Devil's Island
Act like Steve Harrington
event1935 star_border 6
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Two men escape from the French penal colony but not from their jealousy over a woman.
Millie's Daughter
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 1
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An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle.
The Return of Wildfire
Act like Pop Marlowe
event1948
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In this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to sell their ranches so he can become king of the horse market. One stubborn rancher refuses to relent and his killed. His two surviving sisters then continue the fight. They are soon assisted by a passing drifter who ends up falling for one of them. In the end a gunfight between the good and bad guys ensues.
Goin' to Town
Act like Engineer
event1935 star_border 5.2
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Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the menāand the men love herābut her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on doesāso she obliges.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Act like Sheriff Collinshaw
event1935 star_border 5
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Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
Nevada
Act like Cawthorne
event1935 star_border 3
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A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
Drift Fence
Act like Clay Jackson
event1936 star_border 4
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Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula, paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise.
Tyrant of the Sea
Act like Officer (uncredited)
event1950
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In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
Keep Your Powder Dry
Act like Colonel Greeting Cadets (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.9
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A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
Vengeance Valley
Act like Mead Calhoun
event1951 star_border 5.3
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A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
Mule Train
Act like Chalmers (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5
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A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a job for a singing marshal.
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Act like Coffeyville Sheriff (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kills a man. Now wanted for murder, he becomes the leader of the Doolin gang. He eventually leaves the gang and tries to start a new life under a new name, but the old gang members appear and his true identity becomes known. Once again he becomes an outlaw trying to escape from the law.
Mississippi
Act like Gambler (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.7
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A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceƩ's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
General Electric Theater
Act like Judge Mathews (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6
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General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
The Adventures of Champion
Act like Colonel Jesse Putnam (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.3
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The Adventures of Champion follow a wild stallion named Champion, who remarkably becomes friends with a young boy named Ricky North.The show followed the boy and the horse as they went on crazy adventures in the Southern West during the late 1800s.
The Gene Autry Show
(1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 4.2
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The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
(1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 6.6
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
The Real McCoys
(1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 5.6
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The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963.
The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.
Adventures of Superman
Act like Sam Garvin (3 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.7
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Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!"
Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
(1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6.9
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
(1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 4.5
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
The Lone Ranger
Act like Dave Engels (1 ep.)
event1949 star_border 6.6
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The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
Racket Squad
(2 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6
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Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department.
The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
Buffalo Bill Jr.
(6 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5
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Buffalo Bill, Jr. is an American Western television series starring Dickie Jones that aired in syndication from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956.
Cavalcade of America
(2 ep.)
event1952 star_border 3.5
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Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
The Adventures of Kit Carson
(2 ep.)
event1951 star_border 5.3
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The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.
26 Men
(2 ep.)
event1957 star_border 4.2
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26 Men is a syndicated American western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members. Russell Hayden was the producer of the series and the co-composer of the theme song. The series aired between October 15, 1957 and June 30, 1959, for a total of 78 episodes.
The Man Behind the Badge
(1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.5
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The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian.
In its first season, The Man Behind the Badge aired on Sundays at 9:30 p.m. EST opposite ABC's Jukebox Jury.
Hopalong Cassidy
(1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 5.2
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Hopalong Cassidy was television's first western program. The series aired on NBC and stared William Boyd as the cowboy Hopalong Cassidy.
Letter to Loretta
Act like Uncle Ben (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 6.2
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Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes.
Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
Maverick
Act like Sheriff Galt (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.8
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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Death Valley Days
Act like Old Ranger (296 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.4
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Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975.
The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.
Four Star Playhouse
Act like John (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 6.1
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Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.
Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino.
The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
Annie Oakley
Act like Pop Hackett (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 5.2
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Annie Oakley was an American Western television series that fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication, for a total of 81 black and white episodes, each 25 minutes long. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1965.
The Ford Television Theatre
Act like Grimes (1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 7
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This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
Chevron Theatre
(1 ep.)
event1952 star_border 10
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