
Birthday:
10-20-1902
Deathday:
03-22-1964 (61 years)
Birthplace:
Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Biography
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Addison Whitaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared in more than three hundred films and television series between 1933 and his death.
Addison Whitaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared in more than three hundred films and television series between 1933 and his death.
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Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Act like Narrator (voice)
event1936 star_border 6
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A behind-the-scenes look at the massive preparation in the production of Cosmopolitan's lavish musical comedy romance, 'Cain and Mabel."
The Walking Dead
Act like Prison Warden
event1936 star_border 6.2
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Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
Sealed Lips
Act like Chief Gary Benson
event1942 star_border 5.8
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There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!
Whispering Enemies
Act like Red Barrett
event1939
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Meet the man who stayed just inside the law with a brand new racket...
Crime Against Joe
Act like District Attorney Roy Kasden
event1956 star_border 5.8
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Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
Strange Confession
Act like Dr. Williams
event1945 star_border 6.8
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A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in the death of the scientist's son.
Flying Tigers
Act like R.T. Lindsay
event1942 star_border 6.2
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Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
Operation Eichmann
Act like The Stranger
event1961 star_border 6
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Drama about the life Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer responsible for the deaths of countless Jewish people during World War II.
Bewitched
Act like John Ellis
event1945 star_border 5.3
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A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Boys Town
Act like Judge
event1938 star_border 6.7
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Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Underground Agent
Act like George Martin
event1942
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In this espionage caper, a government spy must keep enemy agents from spying upon a defense plant. His work is made easier by his newest invention, a word scrambler which makes it difficult for the enemy agent.
A Guy Named Joe
Act like Maj. Corbett
event1943 star_border 6.5
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A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Act like George Benedict
event1940 star_border 5.1
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Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Betrayal from the East
Act like Captain Bates, G-2
event1945 star_border 5.8
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A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
A-Haunting We Will Go
Act like Attorney Malcolm Kilgore
event1942 star_border 6
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Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Friendly Enemies
Act like Inspector McCarthy
event1942 star_border 5.8
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During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.
Charlie Chan in Panama
Act like R.J. Godley
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
The Shanghai Cobra
Act like John Adams
event1945 star_border 5.7
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Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie Chan investigates.
Criminal Court
Act like District Attorney Gordon
event1946 star_border 5.3
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A lawyer who is planning to run for District Attorney accidentally kills a gangster who owns the nightclub where the attorney's girlfriend is a singer. Although he manages to cover up his involvement in the crime, his girlfriend discovers the body and is subsequently charged with the murder.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Act like Streeter - President of Radex
event1939 star_border 5.7
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Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Mighty Joe Young
Act like Attorney (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.3
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A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
Such Women Are Dangerous
Act like Delange
event1934
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An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly threatened.
Illegal
Act like Steve Harper
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.
When Gangland Strikes
Act like Mark Spurlock
event1956
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In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
Act like Lester Younger
event1942 star_border 5.2
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Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
Sheriff of Tombstone
Act like Mayor Luke Keeler
event1941 star_border 6.8
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The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Lone Cowboy
Act like Dobe Jones
event1933 star_border 3.5
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Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scooter longs to return to his home in Chicago especially after discovering Dobe is an embittered ranch hand hellbent on seeking revenge on his duplicitous wife Eleanor and the man she ran off with. Dobe is dogged in his pursuit until he unwittingly puts Scooter’s life in danger. Seeing the error of his ways the pair ride off together in search of a new adventure.
The Mad Ghoul
Act like Editor Gavigan
event1943 star_border 6
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A university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul as part of a plan to steal his lover.
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Act like Miitary Academy Commandant
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.
Flight Command
Act like Vice Admiral
event1940 star_border 5.4
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A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first day on the job, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyways but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Billy Gray is away, Drake has an affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Billy Gray's life turns things around.
The Lady Has Plans
Act like Paul Baker
event1942 star_border 5.3
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Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
Smart Blonde
Act like Fitz Mularkay
event1937 star_border 6.2
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Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Little Big Shot
Act like Hank Gibbs
event1935 star_border 6
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A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.
For Those Who Think Young
Act like Dean Watkins
event1964 star_border 5.2
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A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
They Made Her a Spy
Act like Senator Everett Brock
event1939 star_border 6
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When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.
Our Daily Bread
Act like Louie
event1934 star_border 6.8
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John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Colleen
Act like Schuyler
event1936 star_border 5.3
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Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
Slightly Honorable
Act like Inspector Melvyn Fromm
event1939 star_border 5.1
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A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
God's Country and the Woman
Act like Gaskett
event1937 star_border 4.2
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Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
The Saxon Charm
Act like Abel Richman
event1948 star_border 4.3
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In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Inside Information
Act like Gerald Banford
event1939
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A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
Forbidden Passage
Act like Frank J. Maxwell
event1941 star_border 6.3
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This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Act like Harris
event1960 star_border 6.7
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In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Act like Gus Jordan
event1942 star_border 7
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Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
Mystery Broadcast
Act like Bill Burton
event1943 star_border 6.2
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A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
Frisco Kid
Act like William Coleman
event1935 star_border 6.8
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After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Act like District Attorney
event1943 star_border 5.4
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A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
Song of the Saddle
Act like Frank Wilson Sr.
event1936 star_border 7
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Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Divorce
Act like Plummer
event1945 star_border 5
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A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
Act like Frank Locke
event1936 star_border 6.8
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Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
Secret Enemies
Act like C.G. Travers
event1942 star_border 5.2
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FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Riot Squad
Act like Diamonds Jareck
event1933 star_border 4.5
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The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
Sweet Music
Act like Mr. Thomas
event1935 star_border 5.7
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A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.
The Tiger Woman
Act like Mr. White
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures
Dance Charlie Dance
Act like Gordon Fox
event1937 star_border 6
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A stage-struck small-towner is tricked in backing a bad straight play, but it turns out to be a unintentional comedy hit. Problems arise, when he is sued for plagiarism.
The Man from Dakota
Act like Confederate Provost Marshal
event1940 star_border 5.3
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A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
The Gambler Wore a Gun
Act like Doc Devlin
event1961 star_border 5
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The professional gambler Case Silverthorn wants to quit and retire to a small ranch in Marlpine he bought recently. On the way there he saves the Sheriff's life, who got into an ambush. However another man is dead, Will Donovan, from whom he bought the ranch! Neither the Sheriff nor Donovan's children know about the sale. So Case has to switch back to his former profession, while he tries to clarify the situation. He comes across a group of cattle thieves.
High Society
Act like Sam Cosgrove
event1955 star_border 5
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Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out of his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
Gunsight Ridge
Act like Sheriff Tom Jones
event1957 star_border 6
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An undercover agent takes the job of sheriff in order to find the men responsible for a series of stagecoach robberies.
Public Enemy's Wife
Act like Warden Williams
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
The Chicago Kid
Act like The Warden
event1945
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The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the elder Ferrill dies behind bars. Vowing revenge on Society, Joe aligns himself with a bunch of gangsters. He intends to use his mob connections to get even with auditor John Mitchell, the man whose testimony sent Joe's dad to the Big House. But Joe hasn't counted on falling in love with Mitchell's pretty daughter Chris.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1983 star_border 6.5
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Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Lady on a Train
event1945 star_border 6.5
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While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Road Gang
Act like Parmenter
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Where Are Your Children?
Act like Halstead
event1943 star_border 4
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Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training. She accepts an invitation to go on a ride to San Diego with her friends Herb (Neyle Morrow), Opal (Evelyn Eaton)and Jerry (Jimmy Zahner) but doesn't know the car has been stolen.
A Lost Lady
Act like State Attorney (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.1
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A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
A Night of Adventure
Act like District Attorney Branson
event1944 star_border 4.9
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A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
Accidents Will Happen
Act like Blair Thurston
event1938 star_border 6
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A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
They All Come Out
Act like Warden - Atlanta
event1939 star_border 5.6
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A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?
Strange Glory
Act like Senator
event1938 star_border 4
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During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the Tennessee River. This proved to be a vital action for the North in its push south...
Bad Lands
Act like Rayburn
event1939 star_border 3.7
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A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.
Dinky
Act like District Attorney
event1935 star_border 6.7
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A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
The Broken Star
Act like Marshal Wayne Forrester
event1956 star_border 6.4
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A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Act like Ed Eberhart
event1939 star_border 5
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An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
The White Cockatoo
Act like David Lorn
event1935 star_border 5.3
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In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of an American girl, Sue Tally. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Moon Over Burma
Act like Art Bryan
event1940 star_border 5
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The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
The Master Key
Act like Gerhard Doenitz / Garret Donahue
event1945
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Before the outbreak of WWII, Nazi sympathizers plot to undermine America.
Black Market Babies
event1945 star_border 5
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Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
Saintly Sinners
Act like Monsignor
event1962 star_border 3
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Directed by Jean Yarbrough Ex-con Joseph Braden (Ron Hagerthy) has his car temporarily stolen by a pair of bank robbers who hide their loot in the vehicle's spare tire. After the car is repossessed, it's sold to the kindly Rev. Daniel Sheridan (Don Beddoe), who immediately sets out on a fishing trip. Not knowing that his new automobile was recently used in a heist, Father Dan gets the surprise of his life when he's suddenly stopped by a police officer.
Sutter's Gold
Act like James Marshall
event1936
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Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
My Favorite Blonde
Act like Herbert Wilson
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Exile Express
Act like Purnell
event1939 star_border 5
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A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
The Case of the Howling Dog
Act like Judge Markham
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.
Smart Guy
Act like District Attorney Ben Carter
event1943 star_border 5
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A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.
Prison Nurse
Act like Warden Benson
event1938 star_border 5.1
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A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
The Black Doll
Act like A.H. Mallison
event1938 star_border 5.3
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Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
The Flight That Disappeared
Act like The Future-being Advocate
event1961 star_border 5.4
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A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.
The St. Louis Kid
Act like Mr. Brown
event1934 star_border 5.8
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Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Step by Step
Act like James Blackton
event1946 star_border 6.2
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Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Fort Yuma
Act like Gen. Crook
event1955 star_border 5.2
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Apaches plan to attack a fort by wearing uniforms plundered from a cavalry officer's (Peter Graves) supply column.
Twelve Crowded Hours
Act like Berquist
event1939 star_border 5.2
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An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Fury at Gunsight Pass
Act like Charles Hanford
event1956 star_border 6
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An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.
The Law in Her Hands
Act like William McGuire
event1936 star_border 5
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A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
Romance of Louisiana
Act like James Monroe / Radio Actor in Studio
event1937 star_border 6
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A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
Society Doctor
Act like Harrigan
event1935 star_border 6.3
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Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
A Dog of Flanders
Act like Herden
event1935 star_border 7
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Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Last of the Badmen
Act like Dillon
event1957 star_border 5.7
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Chicago detectives in the 1880s head west to find the killers of their colleague.
The Fastest Gun Alive
event1956 star_border 6.8
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Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when he's drunk. All citizens swear to keep his secret and support him to give up his guns forever -- but a boy tells the story to a gang of wanted criminals. Their leader threatens to burn down the whole town, if he doesn't duel him.
Ready, Willing and Able
Act like Edward McNeil
event1937 star_border 5.2
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Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
Queen Esther
Act like Haman
event1948 star_border 5
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A Jewish woman, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
Secret Agent of Japan
Act like Remsen
event1942 star_border 4.5
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World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
Texas
Act like Matt Lashan
event1941 star_border 6.5
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Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.
Tell No Tales
Act like Jim Hollis (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.3
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A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
Draegerman Courage
Act like John McNally
event1937 star_border 6.5
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After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.
Alias Mary Dow
Act like Martin
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.
Here Comes the Band
Act like Colonel Wallace
event1935 star_border 5
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In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Love Is on the Air
Act like E.E. Nichols
event1937 star_border 5
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A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
'G' Men
Act like Bruce J. Gregory
event1935 star_border 6.6
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James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Freckles
Act like Jack Carter
event1935
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A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.
Gentlemen Are Born
Act like Martinson
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn that the piece of paper the diploma is written on is worth about eighteen-dollars-a-week in the job-market...for the lucky ones. Some of them fare even worse.
Eight Bells
Act like Tracey
event1935 star_border 6
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A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
Thunder Afloat
Act like Admiral Ross
event1939 star_border 5.9
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A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
Act like Detective
event1939 star_border 5.5
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The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Her Husband's Secretary
Act like Steven Garron
event1937 star_border 5
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A businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.
The Singing Marine
Act like Mr. Fowler
event1937 star_border 4
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Bob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and they pitch in to send him to New York to compete in an amateur contest. Success in the contest, however, sets him up for trouble in romance, in his career, and with the Corps.
Espionage Agent
Act like Bruce Corvall
event1939 star_border 5.9
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When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
A Dream Comes True
Act like Narrator
event1935 star_border 5.5
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A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Act like District Attorney
event1942 star_border 2
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An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that her father is secretly the mob's leader.
Wagon Wheels West
Act like Frank Wilson Sr. (edited from "Song of the Saddle") (archive footage)
event1943 star_border 4
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In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.
The Lone Wolf Strikes
Act like Stanley Young
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
Cherokee Strip
Act like Ned Strawn
event1940 star_border 4.5
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Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy Barrett (Victor Jory), who is actually the leader of all local criminal activities.
Bells of Rosarita
Act like Slim Phillips
event1945 star_border 5.5
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Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
Dragonwyck
Act like Head Farmer (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.6
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For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Air Force
Act like Maj. Daniels
event1943 star_border 6.4
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The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Act like Priest (uncredited)
event1944 star_border 6
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Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Man With Two Lives
Act like Lt. Detective George Bradley
event1942 star_border 5.3
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A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted gangster, who embarks on a vengeful crime wave.
Wine, Women and Horses
Act like Gambler
event1937 star_border 4
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An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
Beyond the Law
Act like Morgan
event1934
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Beyond the Law is a 1934 American film of crime, directed by D. Ross Lederman, starring Tim McCoy.
Arizona
Act like Capt. Hunter
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
The Eagle's Brood
Act like Big Henry
event1935 star_border 5
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When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.
The Great Lie
Act like Mr. Talbot
event1941 star_border 6.8
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After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Gangs of Chicago
Act like Evans
event1940 star_border 5.3
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A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Ball of Fire
Act like District Attorney
event1941 star_border 7.4
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A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Monsieur Verdoux
Act like Bank Manager (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.7
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The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Trailin' West
Act like Curley Thorne
event1936
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A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
Jailbreak
Act like Dan Varner
event1936 star_border 6.4
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A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
White Bondage
Act like Kip Gillis
event1937 star_border 6
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A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Man Hunt
Act like Mel Purdue
event1936
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A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
Edison, the Man
Act like Mr. Johnson
event1940 star_border 6.6
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In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
Valley of the Giants
Act like Hewitt
event1938 star_border 6
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A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
Mutiny in the Arctic
Act like Ferguson
event1941
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A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off the others and claim the radium for themselves.
The Millerson Case
Act like Dr. Wickersham
event1947 star_border 5.5
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While on vacation, a criminal psychologist investigates a murder during a typhoid epidemic.
Reaching from Heaven
Act like Max Bradley
event1948
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Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and congregation members, who help him regain his self-confidence and also to accept the death of his wife as she was about to embark from Europe, as a displaced person, to join him in America.
Front Page Woman
Act like District Attorney
event1935 star_border 5.8
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Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Top Sergeant
Act like Col. Gray
event1942 star_border 6
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An army sergeant recognises a young recruit as the man responsible for his brother's death, while attempting a robbery.
Alcatraz Island
Act like Fred MacLane
event1937 star_border 4.9
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A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Money to Loan
Act like District Attorney Norman Kennedy
event1939 star_border 6.5
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The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
Grissly's Millions
Act like Henry Adams
event1945 star_border 6
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An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
The Deerslayer
Act like Mr. Hutter
event1943 star_border 7
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Deerslayer, a white man who was brought up by the Mohicans, helps his old tribe when the Hurons steal Princess Wah Tah, the betrothed of his friend Jingo-Good. His friends, the Hutters, are a white family living on an ark in the middle of a lake. The Hurons attack them and Deerslayer enlists the aid of scout Harry March, who is escorting sixty-five brides to the near-by settlement. Deerslayer and Harry are both in love with Judith Hutter, who is secretly in love with Harry. The Hurons succeed in capturing her father and Harry, where-upon Judith's sister Hetty, playing on an Indian superstition never to harm an insane person, feigns madness and makes an escape. Hutter, Judith, Hetty and Princess Wah-Tah return to the ark, where they ate attacked by the waiting Hurons and Hetty is killed. Deerslayer, Harry and the settlement men arrive to time to drive the Hurons away.
War Dogs
Act like William Freeman
event1942 star_border 5.4
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A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.
Wyoming
Act like Kincaid
event1940 star_border 5.9
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With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
My Little Chickadee
Act like Judge (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Bordertown Trail
Act like Fontaine
event1944
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The election to determine if Texas will become a state is near and men opposed are running contraband across the border. Sunset and Frog are Border Patrolmen and have an agent that tips them off by carrier pigeon. The Army arrives and the commander is Sunset's brother. When the agent is found out and murdered, his fake replacement then leads the soldiers astray.
Rustlers
Act like Frank Abbott
event1949 star_border 5.3
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A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher Frank Abbott turns over to the gang to get his cattle back. Unfortunately drifters Dick McBride and Chito Rafferty are accused of being in the gang when they are found with the money, which they have actually won at the casino of saloon owner Brad Carew, a member of the gang. Dick and Chito break out of jail and hunt down the fleeing Carew in hopes of finding out who the true leader of the gang is.
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Act like George Benedict
event1941 star_border 5.3
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All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
Northwest Passage
Act like Lieutenant Crofton
event1940 star_border 6.3
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Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
The Hoodlum Saint
Act like Reverend Miller
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.
If You Knew Susie
Act like Senator Making Speech (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 7.5
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In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.
Gateway
Act like Inspector
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Little Nellie Kelly
Act like Naturalization Judge (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6
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Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
Pony Express Days
Act like Tipton Walton
event1940 star_border 6
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In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.
That Certain Age
Act like Newspaper Man (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
Island of Doomed Men
Act like Jackson (#46) (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.4
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An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
The Mummy's Curse
Act like Maj. Pat Walsh
event1944 star_border 5.5
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After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
Geronimo
Act like Frederick Allison
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.
Let’s Be Ritzy
Act like Lt. Spaulding
event1934
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Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not.
Babbitt
Act like District Attorney
event1934 star_border 6
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Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Are These Our Parents?
Act like Clint Davis
event1944
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A mother's preference for partying, boozing and running around with an assortment of sleazy characters results in her neglecting her nubile teenage daughter, who subsequently finds herself mixed up with horny teenage boys, scuzzy nightclub owners and murder.
Inherit the Wind
Act like Townsman (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.
Lulu Belle
Act like Police Commissioner John Dixon
event1948 star_border 4.6
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Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.
The Fighting Seabees
Act like Capt. Joyce
event1944 star_border 6.2
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Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Crime Doctor
Act like Prison Warden
event1943 star_border 6.2
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Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Amos, Shepherd of Tekoa
Act like Zebion
event1947
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The prophet Amos spoke in the name of the Lord during the oppressive rule of King Jeroboam II. Joab, a wealthy minister's son is mistaken for a poor man's son and taken away to be tortured.
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Act like Capt. Weightman
event1950 star_border 4.9
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It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout is Davy Crockett, nephew of his more famous namesake. There is spy amongst them informing the Indians. They survive the first Indian attack and then push on. They have a choice of two passes through the mountains. Learing of the pass to be defended by the Indians, they head for the other. But upon ariving, the Indians attack. Somehow they have been informed.
The Last Installment
Act like Warden
event1945 star_border 5
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In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster - unaware that his hero met a tragic end.
Secrets of a Sorority Girl
Act like John Hamilton
event1945
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In this crime drama, a sorority girl is photographed hanging around with known criminals in illicit gambling dens. The resulting pictures are then used to blackmail her father, a district attorney.
Back in the Saddle
Act like Duke Winston
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Gene returns from the East with new ranch owner Tom Bennett to find everyone's cattle dying. Blaine has reopened the copper mine and the waste is poisoning the water supply. While Gene is away Tom confronts the miners and a man is killed in the ensuing gunfight. Now Gene not only has the dying cattle problem but his ranch owner is in jail.
Men of Texas
Act like Silas Hurlbert
event1942
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A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.
Cowboy Serenade
Act like Asa Lock
event1942 star_border 5
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Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up losing the cattle in a crooked poker game, however, and Gene and his sidekick Frog set out to find the cheating gamblers. It soon becomes clear that the leader of the gamblers is none other than Asa Lock, the dastardly father of Gene's romantic interest Stephanie.
The Raiders
Act like Huntingdon Lawford
event1963 star_border 4.5
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Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane help a Texas rancher against the railroad.
Raiders of Ghost City
Act like Colonel Sewell
event1944 star_border 6
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During the latter stages of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel (Lionel Atwill), raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande, California. Can they be brought to justice?
The Royal Mounted Rides Again
Act like Jackson Decker
event1945 star_border 5.8
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In time-honored fashion, a couple of supporting players -- George Dolenz and Bill Kennedy -- found themselves elevated to starring roles in this minor Universal serial. They played Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers investigating the murder of a miner. The story, of course, was less important than speed and action, which directors Ray Taylor and Lewis D. Collins delivered in typical slap-dash Universal style. Starlet Daun Kennedy did not make much of an impression as the imperiled leading lady, and former star Robert Armstrong (of King Kong fame) was wasted in a subordinate role. Rondo Hatton, a non-actor whose grotesque appearance (caused by acromegaly, the so-called "Elephant Man" disease) was tastelessly exploited by Universal in the '40s, appeared as one of the outlaws.
Badlands of Dakota
Act like Gen. George Custer
event1941 star_border 5.9
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In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.
They Died with Their Boots On
Act like Adjutant (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.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Act like Mr. Benedict
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.
The Deerslayer
event1957 star_border 5.4
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After The Deerslayer, a white man reared by the Mohicans, and his blood brother Chingachgook, a Mohican chief, save trader Harry Marsh from the hostile Huron Indians, they learn that the Hurons will attack Old Tom Hutter and his two daughters, Hetty and Judith, who live on a floating raft fort on the river.
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Act like Col. Ford
event1958 star_border 5.6
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Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
Adventures of the Flying Cadets
Act like A.J. 'Jack' Hill [Ch. 1]
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Four youthful cadets are implicated in a series of murders, and must attempt to clear themselves of suspicion.
Frontier Uprising
Act like Cmdr. Kimball
event1961 star_border 4.8
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Not having heard that war has erupted between the U.S. and Mexico, a wagon train heads west, only to find itself threatened by the Mexicans who have teamed up with hostile Indians.
Call Northside 777
Act like State Commissioner John Albertson (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 6.6
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In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.
Men of Boys Town
Act like The Judge
event1941 star_border 6.1
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Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.
The Ten Commandments
Act like Fan Bearer
event1956 star_border 7.8
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Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Barbary Coast Gent
Act like Wade Gamelin
event1944 star_border 4.6
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Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Breakdowns of 1938
Act like Warden (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Mystery of the White Room
Act like Dr. Finley Morton
event1939
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A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.
Ceiling Zero
Act like Fred Adams
event1936 star_border 5.6
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War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Act like Thomas
event1942 star_border 6.3
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In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Off the Record
Act like Brand
event1939 star_border 6
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After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Mokey
Act like Judge
event1942 star_border 5
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A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.
The Oregon Trail
Act like President James Polk (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 5.3
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In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sending in soldiers disguised as settlers in order to strengthen American claims to the Territory.
Dive Bomber
Act like Surgeon (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 6.3
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A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Design for Scandal
Act like Divorce Lawyer (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.2
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A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Western Union
Act like Captain Harlow
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.
Anthony Adverse
Act like Capt. Matanaza
event1936 star_border 5.7
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Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
The Devil's Party
Act like Inspector Bresnahan
event1938 star_border 5.5
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Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
Men in Her Diary
Act like Attorney Cavanagh
event1945
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Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictional entries. One such is read by the wife of her boss who promptly sues for a divorce. Virginia Grey stars in a musical produced by Hall and sings (possibly dubbed) "Makin' a Million" and "Keep Your Chin Up." No spoiler to add that Ryan gets a boyfriend and Hall and Allbritton are reunited before this one runs it course.
Henry, the Rainmaker
Act like Steve Richards
event1949
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The first of Monogram's "Father" series was Henry, the Rainmaker, assembled in a fast seven days. Henry Latham is an average family man who is galvanized into entering a mayoral race over the issue of garbage disposal. When incumbent mayor Colton solves this issue himself, Henry turns his attentions to the current water shortage. His efforts to become a rainmaker prove cataclysmic, to say the least.
Marriage Is a Private Affair
Act like Col. H.W. Ryder
event1944 star_border 5.2
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Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
Headin' for God's Country
Act like District Commissioner
event1943
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In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
The Petrified Forest
Act like Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 7
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Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Act like Colonel
event1942 star_border 4.8
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Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
Oklahoma Outlaws
Act like Judge John Walton
event1943 star_border 5
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In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Corvette K-225
Act like Cmdr. Rowland
event1943 star_border 6.2
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The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Her First Beau
Act like Dr. Tom Wood
event1941 star_border 5
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15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication. Chuck, resentful, continues to work on his glider over his father's objections. His father wants it destroyed but Elmer Tuttle, their hired man, hides it.
Main Street Today
Act like Fred Baker
event1944 star_border 6.2
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This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
Public Deb No. 1
Act like Sanford
event1940 star_border 4.2
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When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Destroyer
Act like Ship Building Foreman
event1943 star_border 6.6
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Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Coach
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Danger Signal
Act like Police Inspector
event1945 star_border 5.8
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After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Pacific Rendezvous
Act like Gordon Trisby
event1942 star_border 6
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A code expert working for Naval Intelligence is assigned to decode enemy messages despite his desire for active duty.
Private Buckaroo
Act like Officer
event1942 star_border 4.9
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The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and songs.
Angel on My Shoulder
Act like Big Harry (uncredited)
event1946 star_border 6.4
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The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Our Wife
Act like Middle-Aged Man in Jerry's Stateroom (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 5.7
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A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.
Spellbound
Act like Police Captain (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.4
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When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Bullets or Ballots
Act like William Kennedy - Newsreel Narrator (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.6
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After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
China Clipper
Act like Mr. B.C. Hill
event1936 star_border 5.6
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An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
Black Legion
Act like Prosecuting Attorney
event1937 star_border 6.6
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When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Act like Second Doctor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.3
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A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
I'll Remember April
Act like Inspector Pat Malloy
event1945 star_border 4
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The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Adventures of Rusty
Act like Dr. Banning - Psychiatrist
event1945 star_border 6
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Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.
South to Karanga
Act like Edmund Daniels
event1940
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Passengers bound to an African copper mine at Karanga to quell a native uprising encounter murder and intrigue on the way.
Walk the Proud Land
Act like Gov. Safford
event1956 star_border 6.1
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Indian Agent sent to try new approach to peace with Apaches based on respect for automomy rather than submission to Army. Wins over reservation chiefs and the Indian widow (Bancroft) given to him as housekeeper. Through use of diplomacy and demonstrations of faith in Apache leaders, reservation is put on the road to automomy. Conflicts arise between Apache widow and Eastern wife but latter has a lot to learn.
Flight to Fame
Act like Colonel King
event1938 star_border 5
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An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Leave Her to Heaven
Act like Bedford (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 7.4
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A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Come Out Fighting
Act like Police Commissioner James Mitchell
event1945 star_border 7
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The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his ballet-loving son.
Girl from Havana
Act like Harrigan
event1940 star_border 5
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Rebels and a singer cause trouble for two U.S. oil-drillers in South America...
Everything But the Truth
Act like Roger Connolly
event1956 star_border 8.2
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Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison.
Home on the Range
Act like Beady
event1935
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Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.
The Man from Montreal
Act like Capt. Owens, R.C.M.P.
event1939 star_border 3.8
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The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The stars are cast respectively as fur trapper Clark Manning and constable Bones Blair, who carry on a friendly rivalry in the Canadian Northwest. Our heroes team up in the final reels to put the kibosh on a fur-smuggling racket, permitting Universal to plunge deeply into its stock-footage files. The leading ladies this time out are Anne Gwynne and Kay Sutton, their billing status indicating which one of the two ladies will land Clark Manning in the last scene. Incredibly, the Arlen-Devine series lasted for 14 films, none of them classics but all of them worthwhile Saturday-matinee fare.
Swing Shift Maisie
Act like Chief Investigator (Uncredited)
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
For Me and My Gal
Act like France Doctor (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
Moon Over Las Vegas
Act like Judge
event1944
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A beautiful woman goes to Las Vegas in a scheme to make her husbnd jealous, but once she gets there she becomes involved with another man.
The Big Street
Act like Dr. Mitchell (Uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Hot Money
Act like Forbes
event1936 star_border 4
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Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Act like Mr. McDowall (uncredited)
event1960 star_border 5.3
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An ambitious farm girl rushes into marriage with a rich man, almost destroying four lives in the process.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Act like Mr. Benedict
event1946 star_border 5.3
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Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone else.
I Wanted Wings
Act like Flight Surgeon
event1941 star_border 5.1
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Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and an auto mechanic. Love interest is supplied by a female photographer and a sultry blonde.
Ski Patrol
Act like James Burton - Speaker
event1940 star_border 3.7
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In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.
Handy Andy
Act like McKechnie (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 1
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A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
Mister Ed
(1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6.7
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Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
77 Sunset Strip
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.7
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Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.
Cheyenne
Act like Col. Danial H. Forrest (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5.8
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Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.
CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Trackdown
(5 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.
My Three Sons
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
Act like Consul (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 8.6
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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. It was the successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, and featured the same major cast members. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series.
Desilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas and Sun Valley, Idaho. CBS reran the show under the "Lucy-Desi" title during the summers of 1962-1967, after which it went into syndication.
The Beverly Hillbillies
Act like Mr. Lucas (2 ep.)
event1962 star_border 6.8
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Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Petticoat Junction
Act like Frank Newton (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 5.8
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The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
Perry Mason
Act like George Lansing (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.
Studio One
(1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 4.7
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An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Lassie
(1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 6.1
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Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.
Man with a Camera
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 4.6
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Man with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac (Bronson) is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton.
Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Act like Judge (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 7.7
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A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
87th Precinct
(1 ep.)
event1961 star_border 7.5
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87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5.3
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
Rawhide
Act like Jed Blaine (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.2
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The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
Dennis the Menace
Act like Stacy (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 6.5
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This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.
The Fugitive
Act like Connelley (1 ep.)
event1963 star_border 7.2
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Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
The Millionaire
Act like H. H. Hungerford (1 ep.)
event1955 star_border 5
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An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
The Virginian
Act like Morrison (1 ep.)
event1962 star_border 6.4
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The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
Yancy Derringer
Act like Judge Harper (1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5.6
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Yancy Derringer is an American Western series
Lux Video Theatre
Act like Michaels (1 ep.)
event1950 star_border 6
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Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
(1 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Act like Evanson (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.2
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
One Step Beyond
Act like Warden (1 ep.)
event1959 star_border 5.6
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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.
Climax!
Act like Papa (1 ep.)
event1954 star_border 3
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Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
Pete and Gladys
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.5
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Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.
The Donna Reed Show
(1 ep.)
event1958 star_border 6.1
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Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
Matinee Theater
(5 ep.)
event1955 star_border 4.6
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Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets.
Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled:
When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
The Philco Television Playhouse
(1 ep.)
event1948 star_border 6
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The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
(2 ep.)
event1956 star_border 3.7
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The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
Guestward, Ho!
(1 ep.)
event1960 star_border 4
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Guestward, Ho! is an American situation comedy which aired on the ABC network in the 1960-1961 television season, based on the 1956 book of the same title by Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.3
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The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Act like Doctor (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 Texan
(1 ep.)
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The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
Cimarron City
Act like Martin Kingsley (26 ep.)
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Cimarron City is an American Western television series, starring George Montgomery as Matt Rockford and John Smith as Lane Temple, that aired on NBC from October 11, 1958 until April 4, 1959. The name "Cimarron City" refers to a boom town in Logan County north of Oklahoma City. Rich in oil and gold, Cimarron City aspires to become the capital of the future state of Oklahoma, created in 1907.
Robert Montgomery Presents
(2 ep.)
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Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Act like Judge Lovett (1 ep.)
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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
Hey, Jeannie!
Act like Judge Larkin (1 ep.)
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Hey, Jeannie! is an American situation comedy starring Jeannie Carson as a young Scottish woman living in New York City. Twenty-six episodes aired on CBS from September 8, 1956 to May 4, 1957 in the Saturday slot following The Gale Storm Show and preceding the western series Gunsmoke. Six additional episodes aired in 1958 in syndication. Reruns of Hey, Jeannie! aired during the summer of 1960 under the title The Jeannie Carson Show.
Ben Jerrod
Act like John Abbott (65 ep.)
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Ben Jerrod is an American soap opera which ran from April 1, 1963 to June 28, 1963. The series is most notable for being the first soap to be regularly televised in color. The show debuted April 1, 1963, the same day as the long-running General Hospital and The Doctors.
Telephone Time
(1 ep.)
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Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.
State Trooper
(1 ep.)
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State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.
Frontier
(1 ep.)
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Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days.
Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
26 Men
(1 ep.)
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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.
Letter to Loretta
Act like Leonard Craigle (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.
Miami Undercover
(1 ep.)
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Jeff Thompson was a private investigator, who along with his sidekick Rocky, were hired by Miami hotel owners to fight crime in the city.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
(1 ep.)
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The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis.
The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Act like James Fitzgibbon (1 ep.)
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually pilot episodes of potential series programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the Emmy Award in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at spinning off a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as "Josephine Little", an American woman running an import-export shop in Hong Kong.
The series, produced at Desilu Studios, was directed by Stuart Rosenberg. The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite Jackie Cooper's military sitcom Hennesey on CBS and the second half of Gardner McKay's Adventures in Paradise on ABC.
The United States Steel Hour
Act like James Bellingham (1 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.8
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The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation.
Tales of Wells Fargo
Act like Gen. Lew Wallace (1 ep.)
event1957 star_border 6.3
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Jim Hardie helps Wells Fargo agents battle the bad guys.
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