
Birthday:
01-26-1891
Deathday:
08-18-1973 (82 years)
Birthplace:
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
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The Far Country
Act like Miner (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.9
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During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work for a saloon owner to take her supplies into a newly booming but lawless Candian town.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Act like Drunk (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.2
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A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac.
Twentieth Century
Act like Marquee Man (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
The Talk of the Town
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.3
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Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Something to Sing About
Act like Cabbie (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 6.2
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James Cagney has a rare chance to show his song-and-dance-man roots in this low-budget tale of a New York bandleader struggling with a Hollywood studio boss.
She Done Him Wrong
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Murder on the Blackboard
Act like Diner Counterman (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
The Yellow Mountain
Act like (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 5.1
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A formula brawling-buddies western where one goes bad and then returns to the fold. Pete Menlo owns some gold claims in Nevada where he is joined by his old friend Andy Martin. Crooked mine-owner Bannon wants to merge their interests so they can create a monopoly but is turned down. Pete is interested in "Nevada" Wray, daughter of mine-owner "Jackpot" Wray, but she has eyes only for Andy. The rejected Pete joins forces with Bannon and they learn that, because of location, "Jackpot" Wray may be the owner of all the gold in the respective veins. Bannon and his men try to get rid of Andy.
Rails Into Laramie
Act like Cheyenne Bartender (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.3
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A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Any Number Can Play
Act like Prisoner
event1949 star_border 6.9
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When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
Storm Warning
Act like Townsman at Recreation Center (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Dressed to Kill
Act like Pub Patron (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.5
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A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
Way Out West
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
Dizzy Doctors
Act like Sleeping Patient (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.2
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The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
East Side, West Side
Act like Wino (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7
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A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Limelight
Act like Man in Music Hall Audience (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 7.9
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A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Tall Man Riding
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.6
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Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter, cowboy Larry Madden plans to oust Ordway from his ranch by having his claim to the land declared invalid. Ordway's daughter Corinna, believing Madden to be the cause of the family's recent misfortunes, is unaware that the local saloon owner also has designs upon the Ordway holdings.
Broken Lance
Act like Miner (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
Calamity Jane
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
Devil's Canyon
Act like Loafer (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 4.8
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An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Act like Arena Attendant (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.6
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In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
King Richard and the Crusaders
Act like Crusader (uncredited)
event1954 star_border 6.3
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Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
Les Miserables
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 5.4
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Flight for Freedom
Act like Cab Driver (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.
Sea Devils
Act like Coast Guard Seaman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.7
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Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Tulsa
Act like Moving Man (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.3
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It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
The Sea Wolf
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
O. Henry's Full House
Act like Man Being Booked (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.5
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Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
The Sheepman
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1958 star_border 6.7
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A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.
The Next Voice You Hear...
Act like Man in Church (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.7
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The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee.
Buccaneer's Girl
event1950 star_border 5.6
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A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
One Girl's Confession
event1953 star_border 6.1
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Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the money, then confesses to the crime, secure in the belief that she can dig up the loot upon her release from prison.
Foolish Hearts
Act like Al, the Bartender
event1935
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A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
Illegal
Act like Man in Drunk Tank (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.4
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A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
The Scarlet Coat
Act like Tony
event1955 star_border 6.4
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An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
The Unknown Man
event1951 star_border 4.8
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A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
The Little Shop of Horrors
Act like Man in Crowd Outside Shop (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 6.3
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Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.
Top Hat
Act like Lido Waiter (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.3
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Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
Danger Lights
Act like Hobo (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.9
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Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Frenchie
Act like Saloon Patron (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.7
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Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
Finishing School
Act like Cab Driver (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.2
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Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the director of the school and her mother oppose such a relationship.
Alias French Gertie
Act like Cabibe
event1930 star_border 5
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A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.
Men of Chance
Act like Tony - One of Johnny's Bookies
event1931 star_border 5.8
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A gambler falls for a fake countess.
The Son of Kong
Act like Sailor
event1933 star_border 5.4
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Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
The Life of the Party
Act like Waiter
event1937 star_border 5.2
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A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
Stars in My Crown
Act like Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.9
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Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister. In time, he has a family and many friends but also finds friction with a few of his parishioners.
Wells Fargo
Act like Minor Role
event1937 star_border 5.1
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In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Midnight Taxi
Act like Gas Station Attendant
event1937 star_border 5
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A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
The Man Who Found Himself
Act like Mechanic
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.
Gridiron Flash
Act like Convict Football Player
event1934 star_border 3.3
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A college football team recruits a tough convict.
We're Only Human
Act like Berger's Second Messenger
event1935 star_border 6.5
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A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.
Please Murder Me
Act like Trail Spectator (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6
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A lawyer tries to exact justice on a woman he defended in court -- a woman whom he found out was guilty after getting her off.
Music Is Magic
Act like Joe - Stagehand (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4
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An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
The Defense Rests
Act like Henchman
event1934 star_border 7
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A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
His Family Tree
Act like Frank - Mayor's Henchman-Kidnapper
event1935 star_border 4.5
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A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Public Wedding
Act like Reporter in Police Captain's Office
event1937 star_border 5.7
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The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
The Virginian
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.
Men with Wings
Act like Mechanic
event1938 star_border 6
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Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight. Back home in Underwood, Maryland, however, his uncle Hiram F. Jenkins, owner and editor of the local newspaper, refuses to print the story. Nicholas quits and continues to work on his own airplane, with the devoted help of his little daughter Peggy. Peggy is actually the first in her family to fly when her friends, Patrick Falconer and Scott Barnes, induce her to get inside a large kite they have made, and run with it in a field until she is airborne. The kite is caught in a tree, however, and Peggy gets a black eye. Later, Nicholas dies when his experimental airplane crashes, leaving his wife and children alone. By Peggy's adulthood, planes are capable of flying at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and speeds of nearly 100 m.p.h. Peggy continues her father's obsession with flight by helping Scott and Pat to build a plane.
Without Orders
Act like Radio Reporter
event1936 star_border 6
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At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
Carrie
Act like Beer-Drinking Stagehand (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6.4
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Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
Three Who Loved
Act like Phil's Convict Cellmate
event1931 star_border 5.4
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A bank teller's love life falls apart when he's accused of embezzling.
Pacific Liner
Act like Crew Member (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.2
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The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse. Chief Engineer 'Crusher" McKay also has his eyes on Ann, and this brings an immediate conflict between the two men. When an epidemic breaks out below decks, Craig tells McKay the engine-and-fire rooms must be put under quarantine, but all of Craig's efforts to keep the disease from spreading are opposed by McKay.
Everything’s Rosie
Act like Dr. Powers' Friend
event1931 star_border 4
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A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Devil's Squadron
Act like Cab Driver
event1936 star_border 6
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In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
Mandrake the Magician
Act like Gas Station Hitman
event1939 star_border 5.6
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Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Act like Frank (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
Union Pacific
Act like Irishman (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?
Five Came Back
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.3
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Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off course. Crashing into jungles known to be inhabited by head hunters, pilots Bill and Joe race against time to fix the engines and attempt a take off. The situation brings out the best and worst in the stranded dozen as they create a makeshift runway and prepare to escape before the natives attack. But damage to the plane and low fuel reserves means that only 5 people can be carried to safety.
Golden Boy
Act like Fight Spectator Rapidly Chewing Gum
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 — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
In Name Only
Act like Bartender (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7
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A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Stage to Chino
Act like Prospector (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 4.8
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To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
Holiday Affair
Act like Bum in Park (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, who's actually a comparison shopper sent by another store. Steve lets her go, which gets him fired. They spend the afternoon together, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, when he finds out, but delights her young son Timmy, who quickly takes to Steve.
Father Was a Fullback
Act like Assistant Football Coach
event1949 star_border 6
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Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Act like Beggar (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.3
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Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
The Good Bad Egg
Act like Wedding Guest (uncredited)
event1947
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In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
A Hit with a Miss
Act like Spectator (uncredited)
event1945
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Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
Men Without Souls
Act like Pete (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.
I Married a Witch
event1942 star_border 6.8
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A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
Fury
Act like Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7.5
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Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
The Day the Bookies Wept
Act like Racetrack Betting Teller (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
You Can't Buy Luck
Act like DeJarno (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4.5
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When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Winchester '73
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.3
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Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Fixer Dugan
Act like Truck Driver
event1939 star_border 6.5
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Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas.
Belle of the Yukon
Act like Frank (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 4.7
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Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
The Lost Weekend
Act like Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.6
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Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last - one way or another.
The Crime of Helen Stanley
Act like Property Man (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5
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An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Act like Sailor Outside Blinking Skull (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 5.4
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Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Trustee (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.
Inherit the Wind
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 7.7
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Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
The Joker is Wild
Act like Florist Truck Driver (uncredited)
event1957 star_border 8.1
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A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
The Daring Young Man
Act like Taxicab Driver
event1935
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The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Sailor's Luck
Act like Target Shooting Booth Attendant
event1933 star_border 5
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U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
The Shadow
Act like Henchman
event1940 star_border 6.5
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The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
High Stakes
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 1
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High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
The Woman in the Window
Act like Charlie the Garage Helper (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 7.4
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A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Rio Bravo
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 7.8
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A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Brigham Young
Act like Man in Newspaper Office / Agitator
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 Lady from Cheyenne
Act like Saloon Waiter
event1941 star_border 5.2
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Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Santa Fe Trail
Act like Train Passenger (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.7
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As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Virginia City
Act like Prisoner at Libby Prison (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.1
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Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
The Square Jungle
event1955 star_border 6
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Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
Cockeyed Cavaliers
Act like Bell Ringer
event1934 star_border 6
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Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
Christmas in July
Act like Cabbie Listening to Radio (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.9
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An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
Three Little Beers
Act like Golfer (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.6
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The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Act like Counterman
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Act like Laborer in Manhole (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 4.7
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Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Act like Counterman at Gym (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 7.2
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The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Adam's Rib
Act like Juror (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 7.1
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A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Dance, Girl, Dance
Act like Man Booing Judy (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.4
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Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.
Kitty Foyle
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
You'll Find Out
Act like Cabbie (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.4
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The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
Tom Brown's School Days
Act like School Porter
event1940 star_border 7.2
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When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy's preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
No, No, Nanette
Act like Taxi Driver
event1940 star_border 6
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Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Primrose Path
Act like Taxi Driver (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Lucky Partners
Act like Bus Driver (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Millionaires in Prison
Act like Convict Chef Dominick (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
Swing Time
event1936 star_border 6.8
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Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 6.6
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Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Wake of the Red Witch
Act like Seaman
event1948 star_border 5.5
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Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
The Girl in 419
Act like Henchman in Car
event1933 star_border 4.3
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A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
What a Life
Act like Complaining Prisoner at Show
event1930
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A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
Carnival
Act like Barker
event1935
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"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Stick to Your Guns
Act like Long Ben's Bartender
event1941 star_border 5
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Buck Peters arranges for Hoppy, California, Johnny and other cowboys to go to the aid of friends whose cattle are being rustled. Hoppy and California locate the rustlers' hideout and join the gang by posing as outlaws themselves, but must find a way to let the rest of the posse know where they are.
Lost Canyon
Act like Wants a Match
event1942 star_border 5
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Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Curtain Call
Act like Stagehand
event1940 star_border 7.3
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Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.
Bad Men of Missouri
Act like Barfly
event1941 star_border 5.6
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The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Western Union
Act like Work Seeker
event1941 star_border 6
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When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
American Empire
Act like Riverboat Crewman
event1942 star_border 3.8
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Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
In Old California
Act like Loudmouthed Oaf (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.1
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Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
They Died with Their Boots On
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.6
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The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Honky Tonk
Act like Man #2 Agreeing with Candy
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Great Day in the Morning
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1956 star_border 5.9
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After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundamental choices when, with the start of the Civil War, he becomes one of a Confederate minority in a strongly Unionist town.
Suicide Fleet
Act like Angry Townsman (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 4.3
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Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.
Powder Town
Act like Beer Drinker at Bar (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 3.7
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Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Woman of the Year
Act like Mug (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.9
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Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Men Of America
Act like Louie
event1932 star_border 4
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Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
Chicago After Midnight
Act like Frank
event1928
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Chicago After Midnight (1928)
Heart of the Rio Grande
Act like Alice's Cabbie (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 8
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As foreman of a dude ranch, Gene has two problems. One is a guest, the spoiled daughter of a millioniare, and the other is the disgruntled ex-foreman that Gene replaced, now just a ranch hand. Gene eventually gets the daughter straightened out but has to fire the ex-foreman and this leads to trouble when he returns intent on revenge.
Parole!
Act like Dummy Watts
event1936 star_border 6
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Louis Friedlander-directed film
Those Who Dance
Act like Hood
event1930 star_border 6
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A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Danger Street
Act like Bull
event1928
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Rolly Sigsby, a society clubman bitterly weary of life, wanders into the middle of a gunfight between the organized gangs on the lower East side in the hope that he will be killed by a stray bullet.
Action in the North Atlantic
Act like Seaman (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 7.1
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Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
Duffy of San Quentin
Act like Convict
event1954 star_border 6
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San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
Mr. Lucky
Act like Slot Machine Workman (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.9
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A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
Hot Tip
Act like Racetrack Gambler
event1935 star_border 5
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An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Sailor Maid
event1937
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An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Act like Lunch Counter Patron
event1951 star_border 5.7
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Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Hoopla
Act like Barker
event1933 star_border 6
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A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.
Badman's Territory
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 5.8
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After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Reign of Terror
Act like Citizen (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.9
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The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
You May Be Next!
Act like Headwaiter (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 2.5
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Gangster tries to censor a crusading radio station by jamming its signal.
Scarface
Act like Hood (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 7.4
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In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Between Two Women
Act like Stagehand (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.9
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A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
Captain Kidd
Act like Ship's Sailor Waiter (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 6
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Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable merchant captain, offers his services to the King of England. Seeking a social position, Kidd also negotiates for Blayne's title and lands, provided he can prove Blayne was associated with piracy. Launched upon his royal mission, Kidd is unaware that Blayne's son Adam is among the crew, determined to clear his father's name.
She Had to Eat
Act like Gangster (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Act like Dock Worker (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.3
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Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
You Only Live Once
Act like Man Telling Eddie of Phone Call (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.1
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Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Mr. Soft Touch
Act like Gambler (Uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.8
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When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
A Lawless Street
Act like Fight Spectator (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 5.4
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A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.
Great Guy
Act like Party Guest (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.2
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A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Their Big Moment
Act like Pilot (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 4.5
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Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Sorrowful Jones
event1949 star_border 6.1
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A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
I Walk Alone
Act like Cab Driver (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.6
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Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
Winterset
Act like Witness to Paymaster's Murder (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.6
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A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.
Charlie Chan's Courage
Act like Prop Man
event1934 star_border 8
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Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
You'll Never Get Rich
Act like Soldier Messenger (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as the boyfriend of his object of affection.
Decision at Sundown
Act like Townsman
event1957 star_border 6.3
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A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.
Coroner Creek
Act like Bit (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.1
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A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
Barricade
Act like Miner (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.3
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Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.
The Man from the Alamo
event1953 star_border 6.5
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During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
The Phantom President
Act like Driver (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.5
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Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
Murder on a Bridle Path
Act like Horseman on Bridle Path (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5
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When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.
The Fireball
Act like Roller Derby Spectator (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Johnny Casar runs away from the orphanage to start a successful career as a roller skater and after setbacks learns to curb his ruthlessness and ambition.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Act like Cowboy (uncredited) (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.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Act like Barfly (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.9
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Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television.
The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.
The Tall Man
Act like Barfly Coming Out of Saloon (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.3
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The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.
Perry Mason
Act like Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 7.7
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The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Act like The Professor in Jail (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team in vaudeville, films, radio and television and achieved great success over four decades.
Dragnet
Act like Manager (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 6.4
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Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Trackdown
Act like Townsman (uncredited) (4 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.4
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Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
The Untouchables
Act like Spectator at Shooting (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.9
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Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Adventures of Superman
Act like Voter (uncredited) (1 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 Deputy
Act like Tannery Worker (uncredited) (1 ep.)
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The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Act like Sidewalk Patron (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.6
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer is the title used for two syndicated television series that followed the adventures of fictional private detective Mike Hammer. The gritty, crime fighting detective—created by American crime author Mickey Spillane—has also inspired several feature films and made-for-TV movies.
Alcoa Theatre
Act like Miner (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.2
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Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre.
In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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