Paul Cavanagh
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Paul Cavanagh (8 December 1888 – 15 March 1964) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1928 and 1959.
Cavanagh was born in Chislehurst, Kent, and attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Cavanagh studied law in England, earning a master of arts degree at Cambridge. A newspaper article published 17 June 1931, reported, "It is on record that Cavanagh won high honors in mathematics and history."
Cavanagh practised "for several years" before he changed professions. He went to Canada "for a year of sightseeing and wandering" before he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
After serving in World War I, he returned to Canada, where he practised law, including revising the statutes of Alberta, but eventually went back to England to practise law.
Cavanagh went onto the stage after a stroke of bad luck in 1924 caused him to lose his savings, and later he went into films.
In 1926, Cavanagh lost $22,000 in one evening on a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. An observer offered to provide a letter "to some of my theatrical acquaintances" in London, England. Those contacts led to Cavanagh's role in It Pays to Advertise.
Cavanagh first film contract and film came in 1929 with Paramount Pictures.
Cavanagh died In London from a heart attack in 1964, aged 75.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 9.658 |
| Birthday | 1888-12-07 |
| Place of Birth | Chislehurst, Kent [now in Bromley, London], England, UK |
| Also Known As | Paul Cavanaugh, Пол Кэвэна, |
1957
Interlude
5.5/4
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
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Interlude
1950
Hit Parade of 1951
6/1
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1951
Bride of the Gorilla
4.8/33
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1951
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
6.643/105
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1942
Captains of the Clouds
6.5/25
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1947
Humoresque
7.1/59
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1945
The House of Fear
6.842/98
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1944
The Scarlet Claw
6.891/92
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1953
Flame of Calcutta
0/0
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Flame of Calcutta
1945
The Woman in Green
6.425/127
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1954
Magnificent Obsession
6.814/113
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1933
The Sin of Nora Moran
5.7/21
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1937
A Romance in Flanders
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1939
Within the Law
6/5
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1946
The Verdict
6.5/43
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1937
Café Colette
0/0
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1957
The Man Who Turned to Stone
4.5/11
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1943
The Hard Way
6.6/19
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1956
Diane
5.722/9
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1932
Devil's Lottery
0/0
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Devil's Lottery
1953
House of Wax
6.9/332
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1941
Shadows on the Stairs
5.4/17
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1934
Tarzan and His Mate
6.578/134
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Tarzan and His Mate
1935
Goin' to Town
5.1/17
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1943
The Gorilla Man
5/4
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1932
A Bill of Divorcement
6.227/33
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1933
The Kennel Murder Case
6.181/47
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1942
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
5.1/19
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1931
Heartbreak
0/0
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1950
Hi-Jacked
4.8/6
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Hi-Jacked
1942
Pacific Rendezvous
6/1
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1943
Adventure in Iraq
5.3/3
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1950
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
4.8/7
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1931
Born to Love
5/5
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1946
Wife Wanted
6.5/1
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1931
Transgression
4/4
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1953
The Bandits of Corsica
5.8/3
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1955
The Purple Mask
5/5
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1955
The King's Thief
6.2/8
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1941
The Case of the Black Parrot
5.4/4
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1951
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
4/8
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1956
Blonde Bait
4.8/4
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1953
Port Sinister
4/1
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1947
Secret Beyond the Door
6.5/141
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1933
Tonight Is Ours
0/0
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1933
Curtain at Eight
5.8/6
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1958
In the Money
7/1
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
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1931
The Squaw Man
5.4/10
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The Squaw Man
1954
Khyber Patrol
7/2
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Khyber Patrol
1930
The Virtuous Sin
5/4
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
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The Virtuous Sin
1930
Grumpy
4/2
An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
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Grumpy
1953
The Mississippi Gambler
7.214/8
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamb...
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The Mississippi Gambler
1952
The Golden Hawk
5.1/7
A 17th-century French pirate (Sterling Hayden) sides with an English noblewoman (Rhonda Fleming) who's posing as a pirate.
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The Golden Hawk
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
5.4/4
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
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The Man in Half Moon Street
1944
Maisie Goes to Reno
6.2/6
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
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Maisie Goes to Reno
1954
The Law vs. Billy the Kid
4.3/3
Billy the Kid is forced to kill for the woman he loves, and is ultimately brought to justice by his old friend Pat Garrett.
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The Law vs. Billy the Kid
1955
The Scarlet Coat
6.3/7
An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor.
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The Scarlet Coat
1956
Francis in the Haunted House
5.1/7
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
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Francis in the Haunted House
1931
Unfaithful
0/0
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
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Unfaithful
1939
Reno
6/2
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Reno
1953
The All American
5/1
A family tragedy causes a college football quarterback to re-think his goals in life.
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The All American
1935
Without Regret
0/0
In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is de...
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Without Regret
1954
Casanova's Big Night
6.1/16
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little susp...
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Casanova's Big Night
1950
The Second Face
6.8/4
A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has trans...
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The Second Face
1930
Strictly Unconventional
3.5/2
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and deci...
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Strictly Unconventional
1947
Ivy
6.8/23
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roge...
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Ivy
1935
Splendor
6.3/6
When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointment in his choice obvious. Facing bankruptcy and t...
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Splendor
1931
Always Goodbye
0/0
Stranded and broke after her erstwhile boyfriend leaves her, A onetime London heiress joins a con man to bilk a millionaire at his Italian villa. Litt...
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Always Goodbye
1955
The Prodigal
4/7
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...
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The Prodigal
1959
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
5.9/24
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later...
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The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1953
The Desert Rats
6.272/90
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p...
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The Desert Rats
1930
The Devil to Pay!
6/18
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting...
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The Devil to Pay!
1957
God Is My Partner
5/1
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
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God Is My Partner
1934
Menace
6.5/2
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
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Menace
1957
She Devil
5.5/17
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
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She Devil
1952
Plymouth Adventure
5.5/19
During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William Bra...
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Plymouth Adventure
1954
The Raid
6.5/29
A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob the banks and set fire to the small town of Saint Albans in Vermont. To get the lie...
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The Raid
1936
Champagne Charlie
4.8/4
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
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Champagne Charlie
1934
One Exciting Adventure
0/0
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
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One Exciting Adventure
1939
The Under-Pup
6/2
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...
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The Under-Pup
1932
The Crash
5.2/4
Linda Gault is a luxury loving wife who casually seduces other men while getting investment tips from one of her lovers.
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The Crash
1994
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
0/0
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and tele...
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1940
I Take This Woman
6.2/7
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic i...
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I Take This Woman
1935
Thunder in the Night
5.5/2
Officer Karl Torok's best friend, Count Alvinczy, is elected president of the Hungarian cabinet. Meanwhile, Alvinczy's wife, Madalaine, receives a mes...
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Thunder in the Night
1951
The Strange Door
6.1/28
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
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The Strange Door
1941
Passage from Hong Kong
0/0
In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.
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Passage from Hong Kong
1948
The Black Arrow
5.2/9
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is...
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The Black Arrow
1942
Eagle Squadron
0/0
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Eagle Squadron
1930
The Storm
5/1
Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becom...
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The Storm
1941
Maisie Was a Lady
6.8/4
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds...
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Maisie Was a Lady
1950
The Iroquois Trail
5.8/4
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
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The Iroquois Trail
1950
Blades of the Musketeers
0/0
In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quick...
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Blades of the Musketeers
1951
Tales of Robin Hood
5/1
The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the fe...
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Tales of Robin Hood
1947
Dishonored Lady
5.7/22
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depres...
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Dishonored Lady
1936
Crime Over London
6/1
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Crime Over London
1949
Madame Bovary
6.7/47
A frivolous country girl married to a naïve small-town doctor goes down the path of destruction when she grows tired of her limited social status.
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Madame Bovary
1953
Charade
5.5/4
This is an anthology film with three stories. In "Portrait of a Murderer", a female artist draws sketches of a mysterious neighbor. She is unaware tha...
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Charade
1951
All That I Have
5/1
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to...
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All That I Have
1954
The Iron Glove
4/2
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.
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The Iron Glove
1934
The Notorious Sophie Lang
6/4
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police det...
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The Notorious Sophie Lang
1944
Marriage Is a Private Affair
5.2/3
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. With...
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Marriage Is a Private Affair
1928
Tesha
0/0
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but...
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Tesha
1929
The Runaway Princess
0/0
A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.
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The Runaway Princess
1951
Hollywood Story
6.6/23
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot...
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Hollywood Story
1946
Night and Day
5.7/32
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee...
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Night and Day
1953
A Tale of Two Cities
0/0
A dramatization originally for TV on the Plymouth Playhouse. A retelling of the Charles Dickens story.
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A Tale of Two Cities
1945
Club Havana
5.7/6
A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
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Club Havana
1948
You Gotta Stay Happy
6.4/11
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel...
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You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
The Babe Ruth Story
5.8/8
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Babe Ruth Story
1934
Shoot the Works
5/1
The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to su...
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Shoot the Works
1956
Mobs, Inc.
4/1
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con art...
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Mobs, Inc.
1956
Mobs Incorporated
0/0
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1951
The Highwayman
0/0
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