John Dilson
Birthday: 1891-02-18
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography: John Dilson (February 18, 1891 – June 1, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1934 and 1944.
Movies
Manpower
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and ...
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The Secret Seven
Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a s...
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Phantom of Chinatown
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Bent...
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Easy Living
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bou...
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Think It Over
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money....
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North of Shanghai
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the S...
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Doctors Don't Tell
Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for night...
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and ...
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Flying G-Men
Four flying G-Men protect America against enemy spies; one of the four assumes the identity of The B...
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Gun to Gun
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve R...
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The Monster and the Girl
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized c...
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Girls Under 21
Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some ...
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They Meet Again
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement c...
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The President's Mystery
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Fra...
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Marked Men
A man accused of planning a prison break turns the tables on escaped cons by leading the group into ...
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Women in Prison
The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she ...
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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery ...
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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame On...
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Scandal Sheet
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son....
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Johnny Eager
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....
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Who Killed Gail Preston?
A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects....
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Three of a Kind
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama ...
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The Drag-Net
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss...
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabo...
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Happiness C.O.D.
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get mon...
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad...
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Racketeers of the Range
A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent mea...
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Gang Bullets
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities im...
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Wildcat
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person wh...
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The Wagons Roll at Night
An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt V...
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A Man's Game
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy ...
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Pioneers of the West
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Or...
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The Leather Pushers
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspi...
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The Girl Who Came Back
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the memb...
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Every Night at Eight
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphon...
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The Man with Nine Lives
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an e...
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Midnight Taxi
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit...
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I'll Tell the World
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo...
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Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....
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Woman Wanted
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into anoth...
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Love Is on the Air
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves....
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Tarnished Angel
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist o...
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Stand Up and Fight
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....
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They Made Me a Criminal
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk....
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Cheers of the Crowd
To draw attention to a popular show, a publicity expert hires a former carnival character, not knowi...
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a...
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It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...
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Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of h...
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In Name Only
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive...
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The Man They Could Not Hang
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unj...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...
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Stage to Chino
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the ...
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Bad Little Angel
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town....
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Man-Made Monster
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding....
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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You, the People
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "...
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King of the Royal Mounted
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paral...
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Danger Ahead
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold sh...
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Drums of Fu Manchu
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a...
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The Big Premiere
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the fe...
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Fixer Dugan
Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kan...
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The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers qu...
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Thundering Frontier
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thund...
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Sunset in Wyoming
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won...
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The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m...
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Five Little Peppers at Home
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their c...
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Jesse James at Bay
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for t...
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Music in My Heart
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical....
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Legion of the Lawless
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way...
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Brother Rat and a Baby
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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Father Steps Out
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an...
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Trouble in Sundown
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John a...
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Money to Loan
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks ab...
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Easy Money
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean ...
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All by Myself
Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, ...
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The Lady from Cheyenne
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde...
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Dark Command
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact th...
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Happy Land
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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This Land Is Mine
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn bet...
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My Love Came Back
Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arran...
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Gallant Sons
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to fin...
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City for Conquest
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...
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I Love You Again
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and love...
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No, No, Nanette
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy fr...
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Millionaires in Prison
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton wa...
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Madame Spy
Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister who travels by his si...
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Beyond the Sacramento
Bill learns that two con artists whom he has dealt with before are at it again. Crowley runs the sal...
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible....
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Hold That Woman!
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or ...
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The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...
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Women Without Names
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of ...
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Weather Wizards
Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to ...
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The Mayor of 44th Street
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the sa...
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And Sudden Death
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the tw...
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his fa...
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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...
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The Shadow Strikes
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an ...
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The Deadly Game
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed a...
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Across the Sierras
Elliott is hunted by Curtis who has spent six years behind bars because of his testimony. After knoc...
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Sabotage
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to ...
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Queen of Broadway
There are no queens and very little Broadway (except for an opening establishing shot) in Queen of B...
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Cyclone on Horseback
Whopper, Stan Bradford, and Smokey are delivering a herd of pack horses to telegraph lineman Jeff Co...
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Sabotage Squad
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts t...
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The Great Gildersleeve
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nep...
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King of the Cowboys
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russel...
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Idaho
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for...
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy ...
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual pro...
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The Leopard Man
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders....
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S.O.S Tidal Wave
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand a...
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New York Town
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City s...
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Over My Dead Body
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s...
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The Great Mr. Nobody
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....
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Obliging Young Lady
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divor...
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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A Woman is the Judge
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woma...
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A Clean Sweep
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living...
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Beautiful But Broke
Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to h...
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dim...
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Around the World
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on...
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Borrowing Trouble
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a l...
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So's Your Uncle
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p...
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The Public Pays
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is bro...
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Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...
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Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challe...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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Princess O'Rourke
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....
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A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect ...
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The Chaser
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him,...
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Glamour for Sale
A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls....
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the d...
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Special Agent
A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster'...
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Private Affairs
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love...
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Whistling in the Dark
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenou...
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Drunk Driving
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too m...
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Great Guy
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold t...
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She Has What It Takes
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a rec...
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You Can't Escape Forever
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpi...
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For Me and My Gal
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI....
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Fly By Night
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t...
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1-2-3-Go!
While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When...
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The Westerner
A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business....
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Wives Never Know
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. ...
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The Face Behind the Mask
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of...
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Death from a Distance
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of t...
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Unfinished Rainbows
Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbo...
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Too Hot to Handle
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi...
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