Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore) was an American film and television actor. He served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Flying Corps during World War I. After the war, he went to the oilfields of Texas and Oklahoma and found work as a tool boy. He was thereafter a messenger and sporting editor of a newspaper before going to Los Angeles to act in films, but no producer wanted him. He was a delivery boy for a film laboratory when the motorcycle which he was riding landed him a broken leg outside the Paramount Pictures lot. A sympathetic film director gave him his start as an extra. He appeared at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. His first important film role was in Vengeance of the Deep. He took time out from his Hollywood career to teach as a United States Army Air Forces flight instructor in World War II. Arlen is best known for his role as a pilot in the Academy Award-winning Wings with Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Gary Cooper, El Brendel, and his second wife, Jobyna Ralston, whom he married in 1927. He was among the more famous residents of the celebrity enclave, Toluca Lake, California. He married New York socialite, Margaret Kinsella, in 1946. In 1939, Universal teamed him with Andy Devine for a series of 14 B-pictures, mostly action-comedies with heavy reliance on stock footage from larger-scale films. They are informally known as the "Aces of Action" series, which is how the stars were billed in the trailers. When Arlen left the studio in 1941, the series continued with Devine teamed with a variety of other actors. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Arlen was active in television, having guest starred in several anthology series, including Playhouse 90, The Loretta Young Show, The 20th Century Fox Hour, and in three episodes of the series about clergymen, Crossroads. In 1960, Arlen was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6755 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry. In 1968, he appeared on Petticoat Junction playing himself. The episode was called "Wings" and it was in direct reference to the 1927 silent movie Wings. Arlen appeared in westerns, such as Lawman, Branded, Bat Masterson, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wagon Train, and Yancy Derringer, and in such drama/adventure programs as Ripcord, Whirlybirds, Perry Mason, The New Breed, Coronado 9, and Michael Shayne.
Warlock
as BaconA band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the...
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Wings
as David ArmstrongTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps...
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Alice in Wonderland
as Cheshire CatIn Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called...
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Island of Lost Souls
as Edward ParkerAn obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself...
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The Mountain
as C. W. RivialSelfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a...
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Johnny Reno
as Ned DugganThe townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal...
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Beggars of Life
as The Boy (Jim)After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young...
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The Crawling Hand
as Lee BarrengerAfter an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed,...
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Old Ironsides
as Seaman (uncredited)An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old...
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The Human Duplicators
as National IntelligenceAn alien is dispatched from a faraway galaxy to take over the Earth by "duplicating" humans and...
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Tiger Shark
as Pipes BoleyA Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
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Identity Unknown
as Johnny MarchA soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he...
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Aerial Gunner
as Jon DavisOld rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Silent Film Star 2A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a...
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The Best Man
as Sen. Oscar AndersonThe other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has...
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Black Spurs
as PeteA dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to...
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Law of the Lawless
as Ben the BartenderA former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil...
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Thunderbolt
as Bob MoranA criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed...
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Hostile Guns
as Sheriff TravisUS Marshal Gid McCool leads a wagon train of convicted felons to Huntsville prison. The only...
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Minesweeper
as Richard HoustonA naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War...
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Silver City
as Charles StorrsHaving masterminded the hold up of his company office, a mining engineer is barred from the...
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The Lady and the Monster
as Dr. Patrick CoryA millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only...
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Kansas Raiders
as Union CaptainOutraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join...
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Timber Queen
as Russell EvansRuss Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of...
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Apache Uprising
as Captain GannonVarious stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join...
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Artists & Models
as Alan TownsendAn ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
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The Four Feathers
as Lt. Harry FavershamAn Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice...
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Waco
as Billy KellyPreacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly,...
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Hurricane Smith
as BrundageSouth Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
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Buckskin
as TownsmanA Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
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Hollywood: The Selznick Years
as 'Four Feathers' (archive footage) (uncredited)Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O....
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The Phantom Speaks
as Matt FraserThe spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its...
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The Bounty Killer
as Matthew RidgewayWillie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its...
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The Man from Montreal
as Clark ManningThe Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series....
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Hollywood
as Richard ArlenAngela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa....
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Buffalo Bill Rides Again
as Buffalo BillProduced by Jack Schwartz for low-budget company Screen Guild, this mild Western starring the...
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Flaming Feather
as Showdown CalhounA mysterious outlaw known as the Sidewinder, phantom leader of renegade Ute Indians, terrorizes...
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Ladies of the Mob
as RedA dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform...
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Town Tamer
as Doctor KentA gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to...
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Submarine Alert
as Lewis J. 'Lee' DeerholdNazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to...
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She Made Her Bed
as Wild Bill Smith"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally...
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The Virginian
as Steven 'Steve'A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he...
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Sex and the College Girl
as Charles DevonThis early 1960s film depicts the trivial pursuits and relationships of two college age girls on...
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The Last Time I Saw Archie
as Col. Edwin MartinTwo Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.
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Danger On Wheels
as "Lucky" Larry TaylorDuring a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. ...
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The Leather Pushers
as Dick 'Kid' RobertsA shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an...
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Murder in Greenwich Village
as Steve Havens Jackson Jr.A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In...
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The Return of Wildfire
as Dobe WilliamsIn this above-average western, a villainous land grabber attempts to force horse ranchers to...
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Storm Over Lisbon
as John CraigA nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.
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The Blood Ship
as John ShreveA disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is...
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Caught
as Lt. Tom ColtonCalamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint...
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The Sea God
as Phillip 'Pink' BarkerThe Sea God is an early sound melodrama about two men vying for Fay Wray and wealth in the South...
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Men of the Timberland
as Dick O'HaraTim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast...
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Hidden Guns
as Sheriff Ward YoungThe outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what...
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Fort Utah
as Sam TylerAn ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to...
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Red Tomahawk
as Deadwood TelegrapherAfter Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The...
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Young Fury
as Sheriff JenkinsA group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff...
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The French Key
as Himself (uncredited)Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but...
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To the Shores of Hell
as Brig. Gen. F.W. RamsgateA Marine officer leads a rescue mission through the Vietnamese jungle to rescue his brother, a...
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The Young and the Brave
as Col. Ralph HolbeinA drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make...
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Legion of Lost Flyers
as Gene 'Loop' GillanA group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of...
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Three-Cornered Moon
as Dr. Alan StevensElizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie,...
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Three Live Ghosts
as William 'Bill' Jones, an alias of William FosterThree WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the...
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She's a Sheik
as Capt. ColtonThe daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of...
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The Man I Love
as Joe "Dum-Dum" BrooksWellman’s first all-talkie, scripted by Herman Mankiewicz, with arrogant boxer Richard Arlen ...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Dan MatthewsDan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...
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The Devil's Pipeline
as Dick TalbotA secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and...
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A Whale of a Tale
as Mr. MonahanYoung Joey wants to be an animal trainer so badly that he sneaks into off-limits areas of...
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Dangerous Curves
as Larry LeeA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he...
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Devil's Point
as John 'Captain' MartinA Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
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Paramount on Parade
as Hunter (Dream Girl)This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...
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The All-American
as Gary KingThe story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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Ready for Love
as Julian BarrowIn this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small...
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Lucky Devils
as Dick McManusLucky Devils casts the mismatched duo as a pair of intrepid newsreel cameramen. When they're not...
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Accomplice
as Simon LashA private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy...
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That's My Baby!
as Tim JonesA love triangle occurs between the publisher's daughter Betty Moody. comic book artist Tim...
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College Humor
as MondrakeA college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful...
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Call of The Yukon
as Gaston RogersAdventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people...
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Guilty as Hell
as Frank C. MarshRichard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his...
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Wildcat
as Johnny MaverickWildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the...
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Raymie
as Chris GarberRaymie, an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant...
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The Lawyer's Secret
as Joe HartSailor Joe Hart, who is spending his shore leave at a gambling joint, sells his gun to young...
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Forced Landing
as Dan KendallOn faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military...
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The Mine with the Iron Door
as Bob HarveyHaving acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred...
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
as Harvey HowellBonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer...
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The Santa Fe Trail
as Stan HollisterA sheepman tries to hire Indians as herders. Though the Indians are blamed for farmers' losses,...
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Sabre Jet
as Gen. Robert E 'Bob' HaleThe story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of...
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Alaska Highway
as Woody OrmsbyPop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska...
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Golden Harvest
as Walt MartinA play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....
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The Light of Western Stars
as Dick BaileyA friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who...
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Only Saps Work
as Larry PayneRubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work....
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Feel My Pulse
as Her ProblemA rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a...
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Grand Canyon
as Mike AdamsA film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule...
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Wayward
as David FrostStory of a mother's antagonism to her son's wife. Based on the novel "Wild Beauty" by Mateel...
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The Big Bonanza
as Capt. Jed KiltonHaving been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed...
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
as Capt. Robert LawrenceStory deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny...
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Raiders of the Desert
as Dick ManningTwo American leave a ship where they had stowed away, in a Middle Eastern port and wind up in...
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Straight, Place and Show
as Denny PaineThe Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling...
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Let 'em Have It
as Mal StevensLet 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False...
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Manhattan Cocktail
as Fred TildenNancy Carroll stars in Manhattan Cocktail as Babs, a college coed who dreams of becoming a...
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Power Dive
as Brad FarrellThe story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary...
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Come On, Marines!
as Lucky Davis"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a...
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Wrecking Crew
as Matt CarneyFollows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a...
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Dangerous Paradise
as HeystHeyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma....
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The Blazing Forest
as Joe MorganEstranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired...
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Touchdown!
as Dan CurtisFootball coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
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Mutiny in the Arctic
as Dick BarclayA pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain...
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Helldorado
as Art RyanArthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her...
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A Dangerous Game
as Dick WilliamsDetectives Dick Williams and Andy McAllister find themselves trying to solve several crimes at...
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Flying Blind
as Jim ClarkA spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner...
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The Day of the Trumpet
as Sgt. Jim HeislerAn American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell...
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Rogue's Gallery
as Man in ClubA private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
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Behind the Front
as Percy BrownDuring World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit,...
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No Time to Marry
as Perry BrownIn this lightweight comedy, two news reporters who are engaged to be married endure romantic...
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The Sky's the Limit
as GrimesA family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.
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The Secret Call
as Tom BlakeThe Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.)...
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Missing Daughters
as Wally KingThe Missing Daughters of the title are innocent young girls who've been led astray by seedy...
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The Great Barrier
as HickeyThe building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Sky Bride
as Bert 'Speed' CondonBarnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their...
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You'd Be Surprised
as PhotographerA diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-4
as Self (uncredited)Hollywood on Parade was a series of short subjects produced by Paramount Pictures between 1932...
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Tropic Fury
as Dan BurtonAn investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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Burning Up
as Lou LarriganRacecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in...
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Speed to Spare
as Cliff JordanStunt driver Cliff Jordan takes a job with his old pal Jerry McGee, branch manager of an express...
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Song of the Eagle
as Bill HoffmanThis drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control...
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The Conquering Horde
as Dan McMastersNot long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union...
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Secret Valley
as Lee RogersRancher entertains girl in Nevada to get a divorce. Then her gangster husband shows up.
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In the Name of Love
as Dumas DufrayneNaturalized American Raoul Melnotte travels from Chicago to his native France in search of his...
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A Letter From Bataan
as Pvt. John W. LewisAn American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
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Figures Don't Lie
as Bob BleweFigures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one...
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Gun Smoke
as Brad FarleyFollowing a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of...
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Torpedo Boat
as Skinner BarnesRichard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a...
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The Border Legion
as Jim CleveCowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of...
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Black Diamonds
as Walter NortonA reporter on a visit to his hometown hears of dangerous conditions at the local coal mine, and...
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Hot Steel
as Frank StewartMatt Morrison gets his old college chum Frank Stewart a job at the steel foundry where he works....
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Rolled Stockings
as Ralph TreadwayThough billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus...
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Sally in Our Alley
as Jimmie AdamsSally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker,...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as SelfA promotional film featuring movie stars at play. Includes Buster Keaton in a Napoleonic admiral...
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as Tony PelassierA man (Richard Arlen) wants answers when he gets out of prison after spending seven years for a...
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Under the Tonto Rim
as Edd DenmeadeGold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder....
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The Enchanted Hill
as Link HalliwellBased on a Peter B. Kyne novel, The Enchanted Hill featureds a triangle romance between Jack...
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Perry Mason
as Dr. HarrisonThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Matinee Theater
as uncreditedMatinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...
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Climax!
as NeversClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
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The Lucy Show
as RichardThe Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's...
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Bat Masterson
as John MinorBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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Bat Masterson
as Sheriff Dan RaineyBat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...
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Petticoat Junction
as SelfThe Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Damon Ring, Sr.Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
as SelfThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...
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This Is Your Life
as SelfThis Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...
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Your Show of Shows
as uncreditedYour Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United...
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Branded
as uncreditedBranded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...
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The 20th Century Fox Hour
as uncreditedThe 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...
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Lock-Up
as uncreditedLock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and...
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The New Breed
as WillitsThe New Breed is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from October 3, 1961 to June...
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Letter to Loretta
as Christopher WaringLetter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...
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Yancy Derringer
as General Hugh MorganYancy Derringer is an American Western series
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Coronado 9
as uncreditedDan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
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