Willard Robertson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Willard Robertson (January 1, 1886 – April 5, 1948) was an American actor and writer. He appeared in 147 films between 1924 and 1948. He was born in Runnels, Texas and died in Hollywood, California. Willard Robertson first worked as a lawyer in Texas, but he left his profession for a sudden interest in acting. He appeared on Broadway in 16 plays between 1907 and 1930. Robertson played supporting roles in many Hollywood films from 1930 until the year he died, typically portraying men of authority such as doctors, elected officials, military officers, and also lawyers. He played Jackie Cooper's stern but loving father in the oscar-winning drama Skippy (1931) and its sequel Sooky (1931). Robertson also portrayed a flamboyant lawyer in Remember the Night (1940) and the straight sheriff in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). Willard Robertson was also a notable writer of numerous plays, two of them were adapted into films. He also wrote the novel Moon Tide (1940) which was turned into Archie Mayo's drama thriller Moontide (1942) starring Jean Gabin and Ida Lupino.
Remember the Night
as Francis X. O'LearyUnexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist...
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Prison Board ChairmanA World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of...
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Union Pacific
as Oakes AmesOne of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad...
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The Ox-Bow Incident
as Sheriff RisleyA posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between...
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Doctor X
as Detective O'HalloranA wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
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Jesse James
as ClarkeAfter railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...
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Air Force
as Colonel at Hickam FieldThe crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...
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Texas
as Rancher WilsonTwo Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up....
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The Gorgeous Hussy
as Secretary InghamIt's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...
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My Favorite Brunette
as Prison WardenRonnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private...
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The Last of the Mohicans
as Captain WinthropThe story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and...
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The Monster and the Girl
as Lieutenant StricklandAfter a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an...
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The Virginian
as uncreditedArriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible...
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Each Dawn I Die
as LangA corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism...
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My Little Chickadee
as Uncle JohnWhile on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a...
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Lady Killer
as Detective ConroyAn ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes...
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You and Me
as DaytonMr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled...
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Sitting Pretty
as Mr. AshcroftTacey and Harry King are a suburban couple with three sons and a serious need of a babysitter....
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North West Mounted Police
as Supt. HarringtonTexas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him)...
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If I Had a Million
as Fred - Glidden Associate (uncredited)An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to...
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Wild Boys of the Road
as Captain of DetectivesAt the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when...
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Juke Girl
as Mister JustDuring the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess...
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Along Came Jones
as Luke PackardAn easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it...
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Wake Island
as uncreditedIn late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries...
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Castle on the Hudson
as RaganA hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
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Death on the Diamond
as CatoPop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off...
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Supernatural
as Prison WardenAfter her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When fake psychic...
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Winterset
as Policeman in the SquareA man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly...
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To Each His Own
as Dr. HuntDuring World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant...
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Gangs of New York
as Inspector SullivanAn undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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The Broken Wing
as Sylvester CrossIn a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio...
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Dark Hazard
as Bill 'Billy' FallenJim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His...
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Operator 13
as Captain ChanningAmerican Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...
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Call Her Savage
as Pete SpringerA high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....
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The Famous Ferguson Case
as SheriffA foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by...
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I Wanted Wings
as Judge AdvocateTold in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the...
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Dante's Inferno
as Inspector HarrisA carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
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Female
as Department Head (Uncredited)Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world...
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Brigham Young
as Heber KimballBased on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to...
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Three Godfathers
as Reverend McLaneIn a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the...
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Background to Danger
as 'Mac' McNamaraAn American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Wanted: Jane Turner
as Walter DaviesInvestigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
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This Is My Affair
as George AndrewsPresident McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very...
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Here Comes the Navy
as Executive OfficerA cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.
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Roman Scandals
as Warren Finley CooperA kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls...
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Dan HastingsA circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling...
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Nine Girls
as Capt. BrooksOne of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to...
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Fury at Furnace Creek
as Gen. LeadsThe Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who...
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Tugboat Annie
as Red SevernTugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her...
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Lucky Cisco Kid
as Judge McQuadeCisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be...
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Heat Lightning
as Everett MarshallA lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
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Men with Wings
as Col. HadleyReporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,...
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Skippy
as Herbert SkinnerSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and...
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No Time for Love
as uncreditedUpper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel...
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Guilty as Hell
as Police Sgt. AlcockRichard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his...
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Kentucky
as Bob SlocumYoung lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky...
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Dangerous Waters
as Bill MacKeechieWhile a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having...
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Deep Valley
as Sheriff AkersA shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a...
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Biography of a Bachelor Girl
as Grigsby, the Process ServerEveryweek Newsmagazine editor Richard Kurt pursues famous free-spirited portrait artist Marion...
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The Rider of Death Valley
as Bill JoyceRigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The...
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He Was Her Man
as Police CaptainA safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job...
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The Go-Getter
as Matt PeaselyA Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Another Language
as Harry HallamA newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
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Gallant Journey
as Zachary MontgomeryDirector William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this...
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That Girl from Paris
as Immigration Officer (uncredited)Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping...
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I'll Tell the World
as HardwickLee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the...
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The Secret Bride
as Representative GrosvenorBefore Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can...
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Upperworld
as Police Captain ReynoldsA railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go...
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Frisco Jenny
as Police Capt. TomJenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906)....
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Tom Brown of Culver
as Capt. WhiteBoy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
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Behind the Mask
as Capt. E.J. HawkesA Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
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Main Street Lawyer
as John RalstonStory of a lawyer, gangster and a floozy.
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Two Alone
as George MarshallMazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works....
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Murder in the Private Car
as HanksRuth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a...
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Heritage of the Desert
as Henchman NebraskaJohn Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick...
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Men of the Timberland
as Tim MacGregorTim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast...
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The Man Who Lived Twice
as Police Insp. LoganA hardened criminal is transformed into a responsible member of society after he undergoes...
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Housewife
as Judge Edwin A. MatthewsNan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of...
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Wild Girl
as Red PeteSalomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small...
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Renegades
as Nathan BrockwayThe daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
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Mills of the Gods
as ThomasFay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by...
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Central Airport
as Havana Airport ManagerAviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for...
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The Cisco Kid
as Enos HankinsThe Cisco Kid rides again! This time, he robs a bank to save pretty widow Sally Benton and her...
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Park Avenue Logger
as Ben MortonMillioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of...
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I Married a Doctor
as Guy PollockCity girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the...
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Torchy Gets Her Man
as Charles GilbertA notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to...
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Let's Talk It Over
as Dr. PrestonA young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress;...
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John Meade's Woman
as Man"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where...
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East of Fifth Avenue
as Dr. MorganA kindly, elderly couple who run a New York City boarding house form the steady center around...
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Oil for the Lamps of China
as SpeakerAn American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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Exclusive
as Mr. FranklinWhen Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City...
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Graft
as E. T. ScudderCub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot...
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His Night Out
as J.J. TrentWhen a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he...
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Sooky
as Herbert SkinnerSkippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne,...
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Okay, America!
as Bit RoleA gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
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Transient Lady
as Ed GoringA senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows...
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Ever in My Heart
as Kennel CaretakerWorld War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
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Island in the Sky
as Walter RhodesA secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district...
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Destination Unknown
as Joe ShanoA group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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Roaring Timber
as HarriganJim Sherwood , toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment...
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Elinor Norton
as Ranch ForemanA romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a...
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Silence
as Phil PowersA gray-haired convict, within the shadows of the gallows, tells his story to the prison chaplain...
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The Old Homestead
as Uncle JedA New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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Have a Heart
as Mr. SchauberSally (Jean Parker) is engaged to be married, loves dancing and kids. But her life is ruined...
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The Texas Bad Man
as Millard KeefeThe Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the...
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Range War
as Buck CollinsBuck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from...
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Virtue
as Detective MacKenzieGiven a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon...
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The Last of the Duanes
as Texas Ranger CaptainBuck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law....
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Two Bright Boys
as ClaytonA young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Whirlpool
as Judge Jim MorrisonAn ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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Laddie
as Mr. John StantonA romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by...
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The Night of January 16th
as Inspector DoneganAccused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking...
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Gambling Lady
as District AttorneyA businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike...
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Steady Company
as Pop HenleyTruck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June...
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One Is Guilty
as Wells DeverouxPolice Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that...
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Straight from the Heart
as District AttorneyIn this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to...
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Larceny on the Air
as Inspector 'Mac' McDonaldA doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose...
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Million Dollar Baby
as uncreditedA husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest...
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Hot Water
as Dr. EnfieldThe Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous...
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The Gay Caballero
as Major Lawrence BlountFootball star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and...
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Fair Warning
as Tex CalderThis George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom...
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Daughters of the Night
as Prof. WoodburyAfter being disinherited by their wealthy father for their wild and irresponsible ways, two...
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Perilous Holiday
as GraemeA tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil...
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The First Baby
as Dr. ClarkeWhen a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as...
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Shanghaied Love
as NewmanCaptain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats...
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