
Birthday:
09-06-1888
Deathday:
04-15-1963 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Dayton, Washington, USA
Biography
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Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent era.
With the arrival of sound, he became a character actor, appearing in scores of productions for virtually every studio, in which he was mostly unbilled, while those credits in which he was listed reflected at least nine stage names, most frequently Edward Hearn, but also Guy E. Hearn, Ed Hearn, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearne, and Edward Hearne.
Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent era.
With the arrival of sound, he became a character actor, appearing in scores of productions for virtually every studio, in which he was mostly unbilled, while those credits in which he was listed reflected at least nine stage names, most frequently Edward Hearn, but also Guy E. Hearn, Ed Hearn, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearne, and Edward Hearne.
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The Thin Man
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 7.5
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A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Love Crazy
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Go West
Act like Man at Saloon Door (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.5
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Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
A Star Is Born
Act like Sanitarium Attendant (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.1
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Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Think It Over
event1938 star_border 6.5
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A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
The Bridge of Sighs
Act like Police Clerk (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
The Donovan Affair
Act like Nelson
event1929 star_border 6
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Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
The Big Hop
Act like Pilot
event1928
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Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
The Whirlpool of Destiny
Act like Davidson
event1916
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George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite horse, Mr. Bell turns him out, and George becomes a grain salesman in St. Louis. Meanwhile, Polly Martin lives with her father Bill, an ex-businessman who has sunk to day-labor because of his addiction to alcohol. Bill frequently abuses Polly, and when he falls to his death from a high girder, Polly becomes a nurse in the Salvation Army in St. Louis. George falls in love with Polly after he saves her from the advances of a drunk, but she will not marry him because of his wild past.
The Local Bad Man
Act like Ben Murdock
event1932 star_border 8
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The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
Lawless Love
Act like Freddie Montgomery
event1918
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Vaudeville artist LaBelle Geraldine and her dancing partner, Freddie Montgomery, are stranded in Arizona when their troupe breaks up. In order to raise money, Geraldine orders Freddie to impersonate masked bandit Black Jim so that she may turn him in and collect the $2,000 reward. When the real Black Jim holds up her coach, Geraldine, believing that he is Freddie, boldly pulls out her gun, whereupon the bandit shoots her in the wrist and takes her to his cabin. Later Freddie, too, is captured, but when members of the gang insult Geraldine, he refuses to protect her. Gradually Black Jim falls in love with her, and she comes to admire him so deeply that instead of seizing a chance to escape one night, she returns to warn him of the gang's plot to kill him.
The Unknown Ranger
Act like Jim Wright
event1936
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Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is looking for men when the actual rustler is a horse.
Perils of the Rail
Act like Jack Hathaway
event1926 star_border 6
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A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.
Springtime in the Rockies
Act like Jed Thorpe
event1937 star_border 6.5
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Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Act like Trooper (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
A Way in the Wilderness
Act like Prisoner (uncredited)
event1940
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This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
Ned McCobb's Daughter
Act like Butterworth
event1928
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Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his bootlegger brother to use the house as a hiding place for his liquor.
The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Act like Mal MacGregor
event1936 star_border 6
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A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Act like The Stranger
event1926
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In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Act like Fred Warren
event1926
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Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimately, one of those who gave their lives.
Winner Take All
Act like Jack Hamilton
event1924
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Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Cecil Manners. Blair finds out that his next fight is fixed and he pulls out. When Dunham spreads a rumor that he is yellow, Blair decides to return west.
Fighting With Kit Carson
Act like Morgan
event1933 star_border 6
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In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
Storm Warning
Act like Mr. Rainey (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
The Turmoil
Act like Roscoe Sheridan
event1924
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Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown. Realizing his mistake, he begins to insure the happiness of the third son, Bibbs, by bringing him together with Mary, the girl he loves.
Conquest of Cochise
Act like Gen. Gadsden (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.1
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A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
Springfield Rifle
Act like Calhoun (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6
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Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
The President's Mystery
Act like Meeting Moderator (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.3
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The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Black Gold
Act like Oilman Lease Holder (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5
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Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Saratoga Trunk
Act like Man with Lantern (uncredited)
event1945 star_border 5.7
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An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Act like Marine Officer (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5
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Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
Raton Pass
Act like Treadwell - Lawyer (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 4.8
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Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
Behind the Green Lights
Act like Detective Brewster
event1935
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A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
The Flirt
Act like Richard Lindley
event1922
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Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
Forsaking All Others
Act like Party Guest (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.4
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A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Hide-Out
Act like Coach Latham
event1930
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A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.
Eskimo
Act like Captain's Mate (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.5
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The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
The Miracle Baby
Act like Hal Norton
event1923
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Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
Clearing the Range
Act like Jim Fremont
event1931 star_border 4.2
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A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
The Fightin' Redhead
Act like Jim Dalton
event1928
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Red Hepner and his sidekick Sidewinder Steve go in search of an outlaw
The Vanishing Legion
Act like Jed Williams
event1931 star_border 9
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A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
The Galloping Ghost
Act like Clay College Coach Harlow
event1931 star_border 2
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A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
The Mystery Squadron
Act like Sheriff
event1933 star_border 6
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Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
A Hero on Horseback
Act like Harvey Grey
event1927
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A chronic gambler whose addiction has lost him his ranch. On the verge of total bustitude, he discovers that a gold mine, of which he is part-owner, has finally paid off. Once his debts are settled, his first move is to buy out the local banker who'd foreclosed on him.
In Old Santa Fe
Act like Outlaw (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5
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Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.
Bulldog Courage
Act like Henchman Clayton
event1935 star_border 4.7
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A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
The Miracle Rider
Act like Emil Janss
event1935 star_border 4.3
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In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
The Light of Western Stars
Act like Al Hammond
event1918
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A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
The Sign of the Claw
Act like Robert Conway
event1926
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A police dog and his cop track a gang of bank robbers, one of which is the dog's former abusive owner.
Mad Holiday
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Court Attendant (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
The Outlaw's Daughter
Act like Jim King
event1925
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Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.
Ladies' Man
Act like Maitre D'
event1931 star_border 4.3
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A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Act like Man at Dance (uncredited)
event1936
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A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
Gangs of Chicago
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.
As No Man Has Loved
Act like Lt. Philip Nolan
event1925
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Also known as The Man Without a Country
Mystery Mountain
Act like Lake
event1934
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Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
The Rainbow Trail
Act like Jim Lassiter
event1932
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The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Idle Wives
Act like Richard
event1916 star_border 5
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Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
A Wonderful Life
event1950
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Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
The Avenger
Act like Captain Paul Lake
event1931 star_border 5.8
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Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
The Last of the Mohicans
Act like Munro
event1932 star_border 6
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Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
Bad Girl
Act like Male Nurse (uncredited)
event1931 star_border 5.9
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A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
One Night at Susie's
Act like Policeman (Uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.8
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A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
I'm No Angel
Act like Court Clerk (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.4
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The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
Broadminded
Act like Man at Fire Escape Window
event1931 star_border 3.7
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Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
All Dolled Up
Act like James Montgomery Johnson
event1921 star_border 5.5
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The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prevent a million-dollar robbery of the same woman. With the man of her dreams, who helped her foil the robberies, she is "adopted" by Eva.
It Happened in Hollywood
Act like Cop
event1937 star_border 6.1
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A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Red River Valley
Act like Sheriff Ed
event1936 star_border 5
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Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Act like Forest Ranger
event1939 star_border 3.7
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A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Act like Precinct Night Sergeant (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.6
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Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Smashing the Money Ring
Act like Guard Muldoon (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5
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T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Exclusive
Act like Policeman
event1937 star_border 6
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When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
Devil's Playground
Act like Surgeon
event1937 star_border 6
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A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
Eleanor's Catch
Act like 'Red' McGuire
event1916 star_border 5.9
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ELEANOR'S CATCH is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne’er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women’s equality in the workforce.
Stand Up and Fight
Act like Joe, Arnold's Henchman
event1939 star_border 5.8
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A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Avenging Waters
Act like Foreman Jim
event1936 star_border 6
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Mortimer builds a fence for the cattle brought by Ken Morley. To retaliate, Slater who wants access to the land, builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. When Ken confronts Slater, he is captured. Then lightning destroys the dam and Ken, imprisoned in a shack, is in the path of the oncoming water.
Broadway Serenade
Act like Frank (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.2
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A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Let Us Live
Act like Detective Carson (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.8
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When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Union Pacific
Act like Sergeant (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Another Thin Man
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.1
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Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Thunder Afloat
Act like Fisherman (uncredited)
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.
Dr. Broadway
Act like Jim, policeman
event1942 star_border 5
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A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
Nazi Agent
Act like Reporter (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.6
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Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
Professor Beware
Act like Cop
event1938 star_border 6.1
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Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Act like Deputy
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.
Sergeant Madden
Act like Guard in Jail
event1939 star_border 6
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
Looser Than Loose
Act like Gillstrom's Assistant
event1930 star_border 4
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Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
Gang Bullets
Act like Detective Craig (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.7
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A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
Fast and Furious
Act like Turnkey (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.1
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Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Bad Little Angel
Act like Fireman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 4.9
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A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Road Agent
Act like Sheriff Quillin
event1952 star_border 5.5
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Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito rob Brand to recover only their overcharge, but accidentally end up with all of Brand's money......
Winners Of The Wilderness
Act like Gen. George Washington
event1927 star_border 7.5
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During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Stolen Sweets
Act like Ship's Captain
event1934 star_border 3.3
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Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
Confidential
Act like Insp. Stone
event1935 star_border 5.6
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A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
The Preview Murder Mystery
Act like Officer (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6
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Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders themselves.
A Failure at Fifty
Act like Partner (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 4.5
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The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
You, the People
Act like Policeman
event1940 star_border 5.7
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This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
Women in Hiding
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 7
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In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
Two Girls on Broadway
Act like Doorman (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Rollin' Westward
Act like Poker Player
event1939 star_border 5
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A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
Local Boy Makes Good
Act like Relay Caller
event1931 star_border 6
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John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
The Desperadoes
Act like Armed Townsman
event1943 star_border 5.7
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Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Act like Cyril Dennison
event1920
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Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
My Old Kentucky Home
Act like (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
Emma
Act like Haskins' Assistant (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Son of a Sailor
Act like Admiral
event1933 star_border 5
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A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Act like Patrol Cop
event1940 star_border 6.2
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Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
The General
Act like Union Officer (uncredited)
event1926 star_border 8
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During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Chasing Trouble
Act like Callahan's Boss
event1940 star_border 5
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A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
High Tension
Act like Businessman
event1936 star_border 5.4
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Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Edison, the Man
Act like Broker
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.
Below the Deadline
Act like Peters (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.2
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After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Money to Loan
Act like Police Captain
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.
Santa Fe Trail
Act like Abolitionist in Armory (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.7
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As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
Dark Command
Act like Jury Foreman
event1940 star_border 6.3
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When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
My Little Chickadee
Act like Barfly Drinking Panther (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.
Deadwood Dick
Act like Tom Sharp
event1940 star_border 6
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Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Adventures of Red Ryder
Act like Colonel Lang
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
Pistol Harvest
Act like Terry Moran
event1951 star_border 5.2
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Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, they set about to track down the genuine killer.
The Old Wyoming Trail
Act like Hammond (as Eddie Hearn)
event1937
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In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
Paris Interlude
Act like Reporter
event1934 star_border 3.5
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Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
Little Nellie Kelly
Act like Second Court Clerk (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.
New Moon
Act like Bondsman
event1940 star_border 6.8
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A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
Son of the Navy
Act like Desk Sgt. Flaherty
event1940 star_border 5.5
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A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
Remedy for Riches
Act like Police Patrolman-Driver
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
I Love You Again
Act like Observer of Man Overboard
event1940 star_border 7.2
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Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Florian
Act like Policeman
event1940 star_border 1
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Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Phantom Raiders
Act like Officer on the Orchid
event1940 star_border 6.1
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In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Sky Murder
Act like Man in Monrose's Office
event1940 star_border 6.3
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This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
Sporting Blood
Act like Bank Guard
event1940 star_border 4.3
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Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Wolf of New York
Act like Cop
event1940 star_border 7
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A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Act like Cutter Captain
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
The Green Archer
Act like Cop
event1940 star_border 5.9
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The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
The Harvester
Act like Dr. Harmon
event1927
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The Harvester is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by James Leo Meehan and starring Orville Caldwell, Natalie Kingston and Will Walling. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel of the same name by Gene Stratton-Porter, which was later remade as a sound film in 1936.
Anything for a Thrill
Act like Collins
event1937 star_border 2
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Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
It Can't Last Forever
Act like Federal Man
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
Silly Billies
Act like Mark - Martin's Brother
event1936 star_border 8
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The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Diamond Jim
Act like Job Applicant
event1935 star_border 6
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A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Jackass Mail
Act like Miner
event1942 star_border 7
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An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
The Shadow of the Eagle
Act like Colonel Nathan Gregory
event1932 star_border 5.1
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The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Juvenile Court
Act like Cop in PAL Office (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5
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Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
The Lost Express
Act like Francis Murphy
event1917
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A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators and the authorities try to determine where it is and who took it.
Golden Harvest
Act like Pierce (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5
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A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
The Omaha Trail
Act like Man without Oxen to Sell
event1942 star_border 7
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The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Northwest Rangers
Act like Gambler
event1942 star_border 6
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Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
Sabotage Squad
Act like Dynamite Truck Driver
event1942 star_border 6
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A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
Honky Tonk
Act like Poker Player on Train
event1941 star_border 6.4
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Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Don Winslow of the Navy
Act like Lead Henchman at Mill [Ch. 5]
event1942
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A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Act like Mr. Hearn - Office Worker (uncredited)
event1931
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Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.
The Man Behind The Gun
Act like Major Nichols (uncredited)
event1953 star_border 5.7
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This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
Her Defiance
Act like Frank Warren
event1916 star_border 6.2
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A woman is deserted by her wealthy young lover.
Pacific Blackout
Act like Sergeant
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Life Begins with Love
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5
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A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
I Was Framed
Act like Policeman
event1942 star_border 4
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A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
The Bachelor Girl
Act like Campbell
event1929
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Joyce (Jacqueline Logan), a beautiful and efficient secretary, does her best to take in hand and reform shiftless stock clerk Jimmy (William Colllier, Jr.), with whom she is in love. Despite her tireless efforts, he continues on his downward path. They separate, only to meet a couple of years later, at which point he vows to make himself worthy of her.
King of the Pecos
Act like Eli Jackson
event1936 star_border 5.4
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Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.
Reno
Act like Tom Hodge
event1930
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A film by George Crone
The Man from Tia Juana
Act like Larry Kerwin
event1917
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Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais star in this 'American Girl' short. A courageous young woman must clear her boyfriend after he is framed for a hold-up.
Fighting Thru
Act like Lennie Lenihan
event1934
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Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men. They hire on at the Lund ranch and when her cattle are rustled and she is kidnaped they follow the trail, It's Lenahan and his gang and Reb soon finds himself a prisoner.
Holt of the Secret Service
Act like Agent Jim Layton
event1941 star_border 6
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A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.
Jim Hood's Ghost
event1926
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Jim Hood's sister comes to town and the bad men don't like it.
The Rainmakers
Act like Farmer
event1935 star_border 6
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Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Penrod and Sam
Act like 2nd G-Man
event1937 star_border 6
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A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
The Accusing Finger
Act like Bailiff
event1936 star_border 4.7
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A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Her Soul's Inspiration
Act like Silent Bob
event1917
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A girl who loves dancing more than anything must prove her identity in order to keep her inheritance.
The Mighty Treve
Act like Second Dog Show Judge
event1937 star_border 6
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Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Act like Hank
event1951 star_border 5.7
top_panel_open
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Treason
Act like Danick Rysson
event1917
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The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by Pettrus Baariot, the telegraph operator, who then succeeds in sending a message that saves the Stratiria forces from defeat. For his heroism, Pettrus is promised a promotion, but after his recovery from his severe wounds, he is humiliated through the treachery of Danick Rysson, a government official who desires to marry Floria Natarre, Pettrus' beloved. Bitter, Pettrus listens to the overtures of one of the enemy and steals the new telegraph code.
Her Bitter Cup
Act like Walter Burke
event1916
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Rethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry.
Jacques of the Silver North
Act like Warren Sherman
event1919
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"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter of the owner of the trading post. When fugitive Joseph Treffery (Captain C.A. Van Auker) happens into town, Memory hides him from the police.
Fingers at the Window
Act like Citizen (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.4
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In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Daytime Wives
Act like Ben Branscom
event1923 star_border 5
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Ruth Holt is the efficient private secretary to young architect Elwood Adams. Her polar opposite is Adams' indolent, spendthrift wife Francine, faults which Adams, blinded by his love for her, doesn’t see. Looking to cause trouble, a lounge lizard acquaintance of Francine’s spreads gossip to make her jealous of Ruth. In a business crisis Adams introduces Ruth as his wife to banker Amos Martin but when Francine finds out she flies into a rage and denounces Ruth. After a series of complicated events Ruth reunites the Adams couple and marries the banker.
A Question of Honor
Act like Bill Shannon
event1922
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Wealthy Anne Wilmot vacationing along with her aunt Katherine at her fiancé Leon Morse's (Hull) Arizona mountain lodge discovers his plot to destroy a nearby hydroelectric engineering project in order to obtain the land for his railway. She thwarts the sabotage but find herself in a life and death struggle.
We Who Are Young
Act like Turnkey (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A man violates company policy by getting married.
Public Hero Number 1
Act like Policeman in Pursuing Car (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.2
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G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Page Miss Glory
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 6.3
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A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
The Great Jewel Robber
Act like Canadian Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 7.2
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Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
The Seekers
Act like John Mount
event1916
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The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.
Her Night of Nights
Act like Jerry Trimble
event1922
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Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
The Lure of Luxury
Act like John Coventry
event1918
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Dale Aldis and John Coventry, who were sweethearts as children, meet again after the death of Dale's mother and discover that they are still in love.
Penthouse
Act like Detective (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.7
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Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
The Painted Desert
Act like Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
event1931 star_border 5.1
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Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Naughty Marietta
Act like Mercenary Scout (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.1
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In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Streamline Express
Act like Mack - Purser
event1935 star_border 4.7
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A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
Down Home
Act like Chet Todd
event1920
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DOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of the town drunk. He was once a businessman and still owns a local farm, but Nancy now supports her father and herself with a mysterious job in a nearby town.
The Ghost Comes Home
Act like Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5
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Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
The Honor of Rameriz
Act like The Thief
event1921
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The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Over the Garden Wall
Act like Stanley Davis
event1919
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Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because of his idleness, they must all move to humbler quarters. Peggy adapts quickly to their new surrounding, while Frances misses the social life she once enjoyed. Their neighbors are well off, and Peggy begins a romance with their son, whom she thinks is the chauffeur. Meanwhile, Frances has become involved with a roguish character and plans to elope with him. Peggy saves her sister from imminent disgrace, but comes close to compromising herself instead. Peggy's sweetheart comes to her rescue and now his true identity is revealed to the very grateful girl.
The Spirit of the Lake
event1921
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The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Trouble at Midnight
Act like DeHoff
event1937 star_border 6
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Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
Hell's Heroes
Act like Frank Edwards (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 6.9
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Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. Remade as Three Godfathers (1936) and 3 Godfathers (1949).
The Lawful Cheater
Act like Roy Burns
event1925
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Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
The Drake Case
Act like Edmonds / Butler (as Eddie Hearn)
event1929 star_border 3.5
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Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
The Double Room Mystery
Act like Silver Joe
event1917
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William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.
Cross Country Cruise
Act like Bus Passenger (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6
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A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
Texas Tornado
Act like Fanner Durkin
event1932
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Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.
Swing Shift Maisie
Act like Plant Guard (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.
Spuds
Act like Captain Arthur
event1927
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In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
The Love Letter
event1923
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While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Act like Barney Craven
event1935 star_border 6.2
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Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
event1919
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After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
The Still Alarm
Act like Tom Brand
event1926
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Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl whose mother perished in a fire. Drina develops into a beautiful young lady and becomes a model at a modiste shop owned by Dunn and managed by Lucy. Dunn is attracted to Drina and plots to get her alone by giving her a drugged drink. An untimely fire interferes with his plans, leaving Drina drugged and trapped by flames in Dunn's room, where she is sleeping.
Fast Company
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 5.4
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Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
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