Frank Sully

Frank Sully

Birthday: 1908-06-17

Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Biography: Francis Thomas Sullivan, aka Frank Sully, was an American character actor. Beefy and square-jawed, he was usually cast as rustic types or dumb heavies. He was a regular feature in Three Stooges shorts. Sully started his career as a comedian in vaudeville and appeared on Broadway from the late 1920s. He is known for the films The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The More the Merrier (1943) and Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

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The Grapes of Wrath
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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Theodora Goes Wild
Theodora Goes Wild

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little...

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Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted....

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My Sister Eileen
My Sister Eileen

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. ...

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Silver Lode
Silver Lode

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by ...

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Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder
Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder

Two singers step in to help an aspiring actress whose grandmother opposes her bid to launch a show-b...

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Thousands Cheer
Thousands Cheer

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the ...

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Blondie's Hero
Blondie's Hero

Dagwood enters the Army Reserve and Blondie visits only to discover that he has caused all sorts of ...

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With a Song in My Heart
With a Song in My Heart

Jane Froman, an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross, whom she ...

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Pardon My Backfire
Pardon My Backfire

The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convi...

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A Close Call for Boston Blackie
A Close Call for Boston Blackie

Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out...

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Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree....

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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track dow...

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Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at ...

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Boston Blackie and the Law
Boston Blackie and the Law

Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape...

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Trapped by Boston Blackie
Trapped by Boston Blackie

Blackie is the natural suspect when an expensive pearl necklace is stolen while he is supposed to be...

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Nice Girl?
Nice Girl?

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built ...

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Talk About a Lady
Talk About a Lady

A country girl, wanting to break into show-business, comes to New York City and, by her actions, man...

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Two Girls and a Sailor
Two Girls and a Sailor

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous s...

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Secret Command
Secret Command

Sam Gallagher returns home to Los Angeles as an undercover spy for the Navy, getting a job at the sh...

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Along Came Jones
Along Came Jones

An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul...

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Bad for Each Other
Bad for Each Other

A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping t...

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Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt

A criminal psychologist investigates the murder of a veteran with amnesia....

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Young People
Young People

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are un...

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The Phantom Thief
The Phantom Thief

Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy...

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Pitchin' in the Kitchen
Pitchin' in the Kitchen

While his wife works at a defense plant, Hugh stays home and tries to do the housework....

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The Night of Nights
The Night of Nights

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...

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No Room for the Groom
No Room for the Groom

A young GI elopes to Las Vegas with his housekeeper’s daughter, but delays to their wedding night ar...

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Fling in the Ring
Fling in the Ring

The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to ...

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Night Stage to Galveston
Night Stage to Galveston

A former Texas Ranger teams up with some of his old colleagues to rid the state of corruption in the...

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Trapped
Trapped

Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he ...

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Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's bo...

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Frontier Gambler
Frontier Gambler

A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beau...

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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where sh...

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Inside the Law
Inside the Law

A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage....

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Apache Ambush
Apache Ambush

Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mex...

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Seminole Uprising
Seminole Uprising

An angry Seminole chief wages war after his tribe is relocated from Florida to the American West....

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Renegades
Renegades

The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son....

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Hold That Co-ed
Hold That Co-ed

An egotistical politician believes he can win votes by turning a small college's hapless football sq...

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All Through the Night
All Through the Night

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship....

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There's Something About a Soldier
There's Something About a Soldier

Five officer candidates fight to prove their mettle during training....

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The More the Merrier
The More the Merrier

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C....

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Let's Go Collegiate
Let's Go Collegiate

Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing...

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A Merry Mix-Up
A Merry Mix-Up

The stooges appear in triplicate as three sets of triplets who were separated a long time ago. Their...

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Cross-Country Romance
Cross-Country Romance

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco....

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One Way to Love
One Way to Love

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when he takes a job with his bride-to-be's fathe...

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Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but...

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Bachelor Daze
Bachelor Daze

Slim and Ezra are roommates and are wondering why they are still single. Ezra tells Slim that the l...

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Private Nurse
Private Nurse

In this brief B programmer, a nurse is hired to care for a widower's daughter who is unaware that he...

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The Doctor Takes a Wife
The Doctor Takes a Wife

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage ...

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Youth Takes a Fling
Youth Takes a Fling

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to Ne...

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Radio Patrol
Radio Patrol

About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting...

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Live, Love and Learn
Live, Love and Learn

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get mar...

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They Gave Him a Gun
They Gave Him a Gun

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use....

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Sorority House
Sorority House

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join....

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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man

Jonathan Peckinpaw feels he's failed in his patriotic duty when he's rejected by the army, but he se...

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I Love a Bandleader
I Love a Bandleader

A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance w...

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Dangerous Business
Dangerous Business

Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims h...

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Start Cheering
Start Cheering

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e...

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The Great Man Votes
The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to...

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Man in the Saddle
Man in the Saddle

A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires ...

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Caravan
Caravan

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, H...

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Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a ...

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Second Fiddle
Second Fiddle

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...

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Gypsy
Gypsy

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge b...

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Jungle Moon Men
Jungle Moon Men

Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "...

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Battle of Rogue River
Battle of Rogue River

In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be ...

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Spies and Guys
Spies and Guys

Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is...

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Fury
Fury

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

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Spring Parade
Spring Parade

In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card...

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Domino Kid
Domino Kid

A rancher vows revenge on the five men responsible for his father's death....

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The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a yo...

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Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father t...

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Throw a Saddle on a Star
Throw a Saddle on a Star

The "star" in the title of this low-budget singing Western was Dynamite, a wild stallion captured by...

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Parachute Nurse
Parachute Nurse

Nurses parachuting....

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Laugh Your Blues Away
Laugh Your Blues Away

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her s...

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The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th

Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...

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Life Begins in College
Life Begins in College

When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th...

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The Good Humor Man
The Good Humor Man

Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Mar...

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Pat and Mike
Pat and Mike

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf ...

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Ain't It Aggravatin'
Ain't It Aggravatin'

This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations....

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Power of the Press
Power of the Press

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to ...

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The Ghost That Walks Alone
The Ghost That Walks Alone

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite....

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Captains Courageous
Captains Courageous

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transat...

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Gun Smugglers
Gun Smugglers

A young boy threatens to follow in his outlaw brother's footsteps....

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The Return of Frank James
The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....

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Friendly Persuasion
Friendly Persuasion

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to vio...

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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage

Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement...

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White Bondage
White Bondage

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated....

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Mary Burns, Fugitive
Mary Burns, Fugitive

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangs...

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Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

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City for Conquest
City for Conquest

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and strug...

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Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden....

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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiance...

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He Stayed for Breakfast
He Stayed for Breakfast

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker ...

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Two Yanks in Trinidad
Two Yanks in Trinidad

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy),...

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Women Without Names
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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Murder at the Vanities
Murder at the Vanities

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vaniti...

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Rhythm on the Range
Rhythm on the Range

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as...

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Good Luck, Mr. Yates

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home ...

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Lucky Legs
Lucky Legs

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Pro...

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Out of the Depths
Out of the Depths

Told in flashback, Out of the Depths strives to explain why its four male protagonists are bobbing a...

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Escape to Glory
Escape to Glory

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Esca...

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Rockabilly Baby
Rockabilly Baby

The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springville with her two teenage children Jimmy and Cath...

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Northern Patrol
Northern Patrol

Northern Patrol was the last entry in Monogram/Allied Artists' off-and-on "Northwest Mountie" series...

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The Desperados Are in Town
The Desperados Are in Town

In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. T...

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Beauty on Parade
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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Last of the Desperados
Last of the Desperados

After killing Billy the Kid, Sheriff Pat Garrett is relentlessly dogged by members of the Kid's gang...

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The Reformer and the Redhead
The Reformer and the Redhead

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper....

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Golden Hoofs
Golden Hoofs

A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol...

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The Buckskin Lady
The Buckskin Lady

Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Ang...

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Dangerous Blondes
Dangerous Blondes

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes ra...

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She Knew All the Answers
She Knew All the Answers

A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro...

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Wild Harvest
Wild Harvest

Joe is the head of an itinerant combine crew, working the harvests against rival crew boss Alperson....

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Sleepytime Gal
Sleepytime Gal

Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure ...

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The Romance Of Robert Burns
The Romance Of Robert Burns

The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and court...

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Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch

Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight count...

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Rings on Her Fingers
Rings on Her Fingers

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful cl...

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Young Man with Ideas
Young Man with Ideas

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children....

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The Tall Target
The Tall Target

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...

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Black Legion
Black Legion

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining ...

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Murder in Times Square
Murder in Times Square

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom....

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A Fool and His Honey
A Fool and His Honey

Wally suspects Eddie of having more than a friendly interest in Wally's wife, and his suspicions, he...

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The Gentleman Misbehaves
The Gentleman Misbehaves

After his first attempt to obtain cash fails, a Broadway producer turns to a gambler to raise money ...

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Daughter of Shanghai
Daughter of Shanghai

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring....

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It's Great to Be Young
It's Great to Be Young

Ricky Malone, Spud Winters and some other returning G.I.'s are trying to break into show business by...

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A Man's World
A Man's World

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, wome...

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Rhubarb
Rhubarb

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...

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One Dangerous Night
One Dangerous Night

Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing three s...

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So You Want to Be Pretty
So You Want to Be Pretty

In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better....

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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennywo...

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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance

A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey...

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Blondie's Reward
Blondie's Reward

After bungling a real-estate transaction, Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) is demoted to office boy by...

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You Can't Run Away from It
You Can't Run Away from It

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career....

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The Female Animal
The Female Animal

Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursu...

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The Naked Street
The Naked Street

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimid...

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Women's Prison
Women's Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....

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Let's Make It Legal
Let's Make It Legal

A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much....

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The Boogie Man Will Get You
The Boogie Man Will Get You

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and ...

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Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia

A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers se...

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Criminals of the Air
Criminals of the Air

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez i...

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Man from God's Country
Man from God's Country

Dan Beattie gives up his lawman job to move further west and rejoin his old war buddy Curt Warren in...

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Blunder Boys
Blunder Boys

The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the...

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Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into ...

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