Eddie Acuff
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eddie Acuff (June 3, 1908 – December 17, 1956) was an American actor. His best-known recurring role is that of Mr. Beasley, the postman, in the Blondie movie series that starred Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake. Acuff was born Edward DeKalb Acuff in Caruthersville, Missouri. His maternal uncle was a performer on 19th century showboats along the Mississippi River. Before beginning his Hollywood film career in 1934, Acuff performed in Broadway theatre in the early-1930s. His Broadway credits include Jayhawker (1934), Yellow Jack (1934), John Brown (1934), Growing Pains (1933), Heat Lightning (1933), and The Dark Hours (1932). He was seen in three film serials — as Curly in Jungle Girl, as Red Kelly, in Daredevils of the West, and as Spud Warner in Chick Carter Detective. On December 17, 1956, Acuff died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Roaring Twenties
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They Died with Their Boots On
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They Drive by Night
as Driver in Cafe (uncredited)Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
as Wells Fargo Cowboy (uncredited)Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a...
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The Petrified Forest
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Guadalcanal Diary
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The Walking Dead
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Lady in the Lake
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In This Our Life
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Back in Circulation
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Black Bart
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Hellzapoppin'
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It Happened Tomorrow
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Hollywood Hotel
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Without Love
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Belle of the Yukon
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The Bank Dick
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One Night in the Tropics
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Black Legion
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Slightly Dangerous
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Breakdowns of 1938
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
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Fall In
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Johnny Allegro
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The Jungle Captive
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Flowing Gold
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Can't Help Singing
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
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Castle on the Hudson
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Bride by Mistake
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They Won't Forget
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It's a Date
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Spring Parade
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The Flying Serpent
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
as Lowery - a ReporterSecond serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Girl Trouble
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Cafe Hostess
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The Cowboy and the Lady
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On Dress Parade
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Miss Grant Takes Richmond
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Days of Jesse James
as Train Conductor (uncredited)Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers....
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Espionage Agent
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Exposed
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The Wagons Roll at Night
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Miracles for Sale
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Jungle Girl
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The Go-Getter
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Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
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Headin' for God's Country
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Four Daughters
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The Bamboo Blonde
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Mr. District Attorney
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The Phantom Creeps
as MacA mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
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Blind Alley
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Pardon My Sarong
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Wings of the Navy
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The Golden Arrow
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Buck Privates Come Home
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The Invisible Menace
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Missing Witnesses
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
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Bad Man of Deadwood
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Calling Dr. Gillespie
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Society Smugglers
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Lost Angel
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
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Shipmates Forever
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Flame of Barbary Coast
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She Loved a Fireman
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Law of the Underworld
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The Boys from Syracuse
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Charlie Chan in Panama
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The Hidden Eye
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Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant
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What's Cookin'?
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Smashing the Rackets
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Blondie Goes Latin
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The Mysterious Miss X
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Meet Dr. Christian
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Talent Scout
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Bells of San Angelo
as Bus DriverGridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage...
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The Chaser
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Blondie Meets the Boss
as Pots and Pans Peddler (uncredited)Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods...
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Rags to Riches
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
as Spudsy DrakePerry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a...
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Dutiful but Dumb
as Headquarters Guard - Right of Door (uncredited)The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent...
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Clifford Genet, Window CleanerJimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his...
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
as Taxi Driver #1 (uncredited)Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and...
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Guns of the Pecos
as Jeff CarterA singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Here Comes Happiness
as BillJessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a...
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The Border Legion
as Ticket AgentWanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by...
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Meet Me on Broadway
as Waiter (uncredited)Stuffy amateur director Eddie Dolan decides to mount a show for the well-connected patrons of a...
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Too Busy to Work
as Stage ManagerThe Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to...
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Colleen
as (uncredited)Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees
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The Phantom Creeps
as MacNot a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released...
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On Stage Everybody
as George (uncredited)Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Boulder Dam
as Ed HarperFate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man...
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Buck Benny Rides Again
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Blondie's Secret
as MailmanDagwood prepares for a long-delayed vacation with the family. His boss Mr. Radcliffe has...
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Blondie's Big Deal
as MailmanDagwood accidentally discovers a non-flammable paint. Bad guys Dillon and Stack steal it before...
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The Law in Her Hands
as Eddie O'MalleyA female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.
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Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me!
as Counter Man (uncredited)In this musical, a sharp witted press agent teams up with an unemployed chorine and dubs her...
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Leave It to Blondie
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Rough Riders' Round-up
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Ladies in Distress
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Next Time I Marry
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Miss Pacific Fleet
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Fly-By-Night
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Crash Donovan
as AlabamA California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
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Blonde Alibi
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Bad Men of Missouri
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Chick Carter, Detective
as Spud WarnerDetective Chick Carter (Lyle Talbot)finds himself on his most exciting case when Sherry Martin...
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Suddenly It's Spring
as Man Retrieving Pajamas from PeterA WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
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Stop, You're Killing Me
as Cab DriverA gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case...
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The Traitor Within
as TommyIn this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who...
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Money and the Woman
as Mr. Jones (uncredited)An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.
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She Gets Her Man
as Boze, the PhotographerThe corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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Leather Gloves
as DukeA fallen prizefighter must choose between two women from vastly different walks of life.
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Shooting High
as Andy CarsonA movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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Persons in Hiding
as Collins (uncredited)During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree.
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Between Two Women
as OrderlyA young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.
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Laughing at Trouble
as Jamie BradfordA man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper...
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Wake Up and Dream
as Bus DriverAided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
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Blondie in the Dough
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Mississippi Gambler
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She's in the Army
as PeteA socialite joins the Womens Ambulance Corps as both a publicity stunt and to win a bet with a...
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South of Dixie
as Jay HatcherTo save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bill "Brains' Watson creates a colorful...
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Slippy McGee
as CharlieA safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Sam StarrRobin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane....
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Love Is on the Air
as 'Dunk' GloverA newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Let's Make a Million
as uncreditedA wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.
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Flight at Midnight
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A Very Young Lady
as Sheriff Bill Stone (uncredited)A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on...
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The Singing Marine
as SamBob Brent, a young Marine from Arkansas, impresses his comrades with his singing ability, and...
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I Found Stella Parish
as DimmieA blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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Rhythm of the Saddle
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Life with Blondie
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How to Watch Football
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Blondie's Holiday
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Jailbreak
as Sig PattonA reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Youth Takes a Fling
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Two Bright Boys
as WashburnA young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Honeymoon Ahead
as ConnorsWhen the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
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Girls of the Road
as Bartley, Bus Driver (Uncredited)A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and...
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Sailor's Lady
as GuideSailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby...
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What Price Vengeance
as Tex McGirkA cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to...
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Blondie's Big Moment
as Mailman (uncredited)Blondie decides she wants to be a star and nearly turns her household upside down in this entry...
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Blondie's Reward
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The Timber Trail
as Telegraph OperatorMonte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph,...
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Daredevils of the West
as Red KellyA gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through...
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Her Lucky Night
as ChauffeurIn this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with...
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Bandits of Dark Canyon
as FaradayAs prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes...
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The Cowboy Quarterback
as PilotFootball scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field...
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The Outer Gate
as ToddBob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds...
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