John Ridgely
Birthday: 1909-09-06
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits. He appeared in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart film The Big Sleep as blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars and had a memorable role as a suffering heart patient in the film noir Nora Prentiss (1947). He appeared in a large number of other Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s. Freelancing after 1948, John Ridgely continued to essay general-purpose parts until he left films in 1953. Thereafter, he worked in summer-theater productions and television until his death from a heart attack at the age of 58 in 1968.
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against ...
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The Big Sleep
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
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Possessed
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th...
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Destination Tokyo
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Nancy Drew… Detective
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation to her alma mater suddenly disappears, N...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
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They Made Me a Criminal
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Nora Prentiss
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree...
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Brother Orchid
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, h...
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The Man I Love
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, ...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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Backfire
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Border Incident
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High Wall
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Danger Signal
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving...
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Air Force
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Hollywood Canteen
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
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Room for One More
Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innoce...
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The Big Shot
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Dangerously They Live
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents....
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Strange Alibi
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identit...
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Pride of the Marines
Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his...
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Northern Pursuit
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escape...
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The Patient in Room 18
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warn...
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Million Dollar Baby
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression....
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The Doughgirls
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu...
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Wings for the Eagle
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle....
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Luxury Liner
Capt. Jeremy Bradford has a particularly exciting luxury liner cruise in store when he's charged wit...
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God Is My Co-Pilot
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My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...
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Flight Angels
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a docto...
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Off Limits
Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has...
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Wings of the Navy
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on...
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The Lost Volcano
Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Non...
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Quiet, Please
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The Petty Girl
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Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night ...
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That Way with Women
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station....
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Secret Enemies
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Blondes at Work
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself a...
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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll....
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Torchy Gets Her Man
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwi...
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Private Detective
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a ...
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Knockout
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to ...
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He Couldn't Say No
A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marr...
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River's End
An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove h...
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Once More, My Darling
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical je...
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As You Were
In a train station, Army recruiting sergeant Ames attempts to enlist a group of young men with bland...
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Bullet Scars
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madi...
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Indianapolis Speedway
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...
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Saddle Tramp
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When ...
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White Banners
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana to...
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Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney....
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That's My Man
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he s...
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions....
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The Man Who Talked Too Much
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients a...
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Going Places
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargain...
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Fort Osage
Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territo...
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Sealed Verdict
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World W...
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Racket Busters
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket....
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Boy Meets Girl
Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be ...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...
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Command Decision
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing ne...
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Garden of the Moon
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...
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Naughty But Nice
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-to...
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Secret Service of the Air
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercove...
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Kid Nightingale
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...
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Smashing the Money Ring
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in ...
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Little Miss Thoroughbred
A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father....
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Streamline Express
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a ...
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King of the Underworld
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i...
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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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Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
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Dark Victory
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few...
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund....
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A Child Is Born
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward....
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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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The Return of Doctor X
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to c...
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The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...
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Service with the Colors
Service with the Colors is a 1940 American short drama film directed by B. Reeves Eason. This drama ...
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March On, Marines
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at ...
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Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from Ne...
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Pal, Canine Detective
Gary and his dog Pal are having fun working on make-believe crime cases, though Gary's father, a cit...
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Task Force
After learning the finer points of carrier aviation in the 1920s, career officer Jonathan Scott and ...
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The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chine...
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
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Trouble Makers
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at...
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When the Redskins Rode
A French spy flirts with an Indian chief's son amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va....
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Tucson
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccu...
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Saturday's Children
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet....
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No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
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The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions....
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Castle on the Hudson
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....
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They Drive by Night
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b...
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Torrid Zone
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl....
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'Til We Meet Again
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to Ame...
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Father Is A Prince
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaner...
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Navy Blues
On a layover in Hawaii two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to lay down bets that their ship will ...
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At the Stroke of Twelve
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "...
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A Place in the Sun
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy s...
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Thunder in God's Country
Hidden Valley has managed to retain its Old Western atmosphere, free of modern-day corruption, until...
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Forbidden Valley
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately,...
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The Cowboy Quarterback
Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runne...
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They Died with Their Boots On
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death...
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Beauty on Parade
Marian Medford Woodstock gave up a chance twenty years ago to compete for the Miss USA beauty title ...
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The Spy Ring
Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when ...
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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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Teddy the Rough Rider
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appoin...
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends c...
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On Trial
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wi...
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The Bill of Rights
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American ...
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Night Wind
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins ...
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On Dress Parade
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a mil...
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The Man Without a Country
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his...
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Slapsie Maxie's
In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Ma...
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Hard to Get
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill...
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Here Comes Happiness
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue ...
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her miss...
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Money and the Woman
An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him....
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Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
Skinnay Ennis leads his orchestra as they play "Three Little Words," "Let's Do It," and "Birth of th...
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen ...
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Invisible Stripes
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison....
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The Blue Veil
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse....
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Spills for Thrills
Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stu...
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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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Western Trails
In a remake of Dawn Trail, Bob Mason is wounded chasing the killers of his father. During his recove...
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South Sea Sinner
A tramp steamer lands sick crewman Jake Davis on rubber-growing island Oraka, from which voluptuous,...
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Proceed and Report
Ensign Murphy is ordered to his first duty in the U.S. Navy. He learns (often the hard way) the mean...
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The Congregation
Religious film starring a just starting out Peter Graves was produced by the Protestant Film Commiss...
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