Don 'Red' Barry
Birthday: 1912-01-11
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Biography: Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. After four years of playing villains and henchmen at various studios, Barry got the role that changed his image: Red Ryder in the Republic Pictures serial Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). Although he had appeared in westerns for two years or so, this was the one that kept him there. He acquired the nickname "Red" from his association with the Red Ryder character. After the success of "Red Ryder" Barry starred in a string of westerns for Republic. Studio chief Herbert J. Yates got the idea that Barry could be Republic's version of James Cagney, as he was short and had the same scrappy, feisty nature that Cagney had. Unfortunately, while Barry could in fact be a good actor when he wanted to be -- as he showed in the World War II drama The Purple Heart (1944) -- his "feistiness", combative nature and oversized ego caused him to alienate many of the casts and crews he worked with at Republic (ace serial director William Witney detested him, calling him "the midget", and director John English worked with him once and refused to ever work with him again). Barry made a series of westerns at Republic throughout the 1940s, but by 1950 his career had pretty much come to a halt, and he was reduced to making cheaper and cheaper pictures for bottom-of-the-barrel companies like Lippert and Screen Guild. Barry continued to work and still appeared in westerns up through the 1970s, but they were often in small supporting roles, sometimes unbilled. In 1980 he committed suicide by shooting himself.
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Frankenstein 1970
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Warlock
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
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From Noon Till Three
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Lightnin' in the Forest
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Boss Nigger
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Seven Men from Now
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Orca
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The Crash of Flight 401
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Dead End
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Flying Down to Rio
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I'll Cry Tomorrow
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The Magnificent Stranger
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault....
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Blazing Stewardesses
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The Purple Heart
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Walk on the Wild Side
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Only Angels Have Wings
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Hooper
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Johnny Got His Gun
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Shalako
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Starsky & Hutch
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The Last Crooked Mile
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War Party
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Rio Lobo
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Apache Uprising
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Donovan's Kid
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Train to Alcatraz
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Tough Assignment
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Think It Over
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Gun Duel in Durango
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The Duke of West Point
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Sinners in Paradise
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The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assist...
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The Twinkle In God's Eye
A reverend goes West to a town where the Indians killed his priest-father and burned his church but ...
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One Man's Law
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Carson City Cyclone
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Born Reckless
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Iron Angel
A seasoned Sargent with a sorry unit, led by an angry 1st Lt., to take out an enemy hold for a convo...
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California Joe
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Days of Jesse James
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The Chicago Kid
The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live...
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Convict Stage
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Saleslady
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Train To Tombstone
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Saga of Death Valley
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Buckstone County Prison
The Hell Hole of North Carolina. In 1957, the people of North Carolina feared two things - the mount...
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features....
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The Big Operator
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. Th...
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Jesse James' Women
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The Plainsman and the Lady
Film about the early days of the Pony Express and the crooked businessman who opposed it....
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Adventures of Red Ryder
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Panama Patrol
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Junior Bonner
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Hostile Guns
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When's Your Birthday?
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The Crowd Roars
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That's My Gal
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Remember Pearl Harbor
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The Woman I Love
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Hunters Are for Killing
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Back Roads
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
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Town Tamer
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Ocean's Eleven
Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night....
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Night Waitress
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Fort Courageous
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Young Dr. Kildare
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Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....
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Red Tomahawk
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I Shot Billy the Kid
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Navy Blue and Gold
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training....
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Calling Dr. Kildare
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Wyoming Outlaw
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Arizona Terrors
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation....
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Death Valley Outlaws
Ambushed by the Vigilantes, a dying friend gets Johnny who was only passing through to take up the f...
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Dead Man's Gulch
When the Pony Express disbands, riders Tennessee and Johnny head for Adobe Wells. Tennessee becomes ...
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Jesse James, Jr.
Though Don "Red" Barry is the star of Jesse James, Jr., he plays a character named Johnny Barrett. T...
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Canyon City
A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the town...
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Untamed Heiress
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton...
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Bandolero!
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, in...
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Calling All Marines
Gang members Blackie Cross and Snooker try to pick up Judy Fox and her friend Pat as they welcome ho...
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Days of Old Cheyenne
Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the string-...
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Fugitive from Sonora
In this western, a paroled desperado and his twin, a preacher, wander about the Old West to bring "s...
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A Missouri Outlaw
Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of croo...
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The Apache Kid
Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson...
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Goldie and the Boxer
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship w...
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Undercover with the KKK
The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux K...
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off ...
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Walk Like a Dragon
California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese w...
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The Swarm
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisibl...
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The Man from the Rio Grande
The suspicious death of Henry King during a hunting trip with his brother John leaves the inheritanc...
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Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
A turn-of-the-century investigator named Kate Bliss goes to the wide-open spaces of the wild west to...
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Stagecoach Express
Ellen has the contract for the South West Stage Line through the panhandle. Her father had the run f...
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Alvarez Kelly
In 1864, during the American Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with catt...
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Madonna of the Desert
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a...
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Red Desert
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a de...
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My Buddy
A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable t...
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The West Side Kid
Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her tim...
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The Traitor Within
In this drama, a truck driver begins wooing a young woman who still lives with her father who consta...
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Jack Pot
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking....
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Fort Utah
An ex-gunfighter goes up against a man who is trying to stir up trouble with the Indians to enrich h...
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The Phantom Cowboy
Stan Borden with the help of the stooge Sheriff is out to get the Toreno ranch. Kicking the peons of...
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A Cry For Justice
Due to hasty investigations and questionable methods of two police sergeants, two hoodlums are convi...
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Border Rangers
Don Barry stars as Texas Ranger Bob Standish, sworn to avenge his brother's death in Border Rangers....
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Gunfire
Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his fam...
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The Cyclone Kid
A young doctor rejects his older outlaw brother Johnny who put him through medical school by dubious...
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Ghost Valley Raiders
Donald Barry, not yet Donald "Red" Barry, heads the cast of the Republic western Ghost Valley Raider...
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Texas Terrors
A lawyer by training, Bob Millburne (Don "Red" Barry) believes in relying on the legal system to exa...
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The Tulsa Kid
A protegee of notorious outlaw Montana (Beery), young Tom Benton decides to stay on the good side of...
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Black Hills Express
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces...
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Outlaws of Pine Ridge
Director William Witney puts his distinctive stamp on the Don "Red" Barry western Outlaws of Pine Ri...
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Wyoming Wildcat
A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted ...
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The Sombrero Kid
A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Som...
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The Sundown Kid
A Pinkerton agent masquerades as a criminal in order to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters that is ...
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Frontier Vengeance
Jim Sanders (Don 'Red' Barry), young cowboy, returns to his hometown for a reunion with his boyhood ...
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Two Gun Sheriff
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impe...
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Desert Bandit
Bantam-weight western star Don "Red" Barry certainly deserved his designation as "The Cowboy Cagney"...
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Kansas Cyclone
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but wel...
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Bells of Rosarita
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy ...
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Outlaws of Santa Fe
After bank robber Bob Hackett (Don "Red" Barry) learns that his real father was a marshal, he reform...
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The Dalton Gang
Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navaj...
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Square Dance Jubilee
Two talent scouts for a New York-based country music TV show called "Square Dance Jubilee" are sent ...
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Buffalo Gun
In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten ...
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Law of the Lawless
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War ...
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Incident on a Dark Street
A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring....
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Hot Lead & Cold Feet
Twin brothers -- one rough and tough, the other a city-bred milquetoast -- compete for their father'...
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Ringside
Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He need...
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Whiffs
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after...
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Sailor's Lady
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose...
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China Doll
American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner...
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Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
The Bixby family has turned cattle rustling into their occupation, which the neighbours have had eno...
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The Eyes of Charles Sand
A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave....
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Punch and Jody
When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his ...
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Partners in Crime
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750...
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Hustle
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is i...
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Twilight of Honor
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of a murder that he has already confessed to. He asks his m...
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One More Train to Rob
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in ...
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