Ralph Sanford
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Ralph Sanford (May 21, 1899 – June 20, 1963) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 200 films between 1930 and 1960, mostly bit parts or supporting roles. Sanford frequently appeared in Westerns and often portrayed "tough guys". He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in Los Angeles, California.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.235 |
| Birthday | 1899-05-20 |
| Place of Birth | Springfield, Massachusetts, USA |
| Also Known As | Ralph Dayton Sanford, |
1930
Grounds for Murder
0/0
A husband becomes infuriated when his wife and household staff abandon him as a result of their fixation with murder trials.
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Grounds for Murder
1951
Rogue River
0/0
The story of Ownie Rodgers, the nephew of crooked Oregon police chief Joe Dandridge. A $70,000 windfall, bequeathed to Dandridge by a man he'd once fr...
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Rogue River
1953
Count the Hours!
5.5/11
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
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Count the Hours!
1941
Who's a Dummy?
0/0
Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leo...
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Who's a Dummy?
1950
Union Station
6.3/42
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try...
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Union Station
1946
They Made Me a Killer
5.6/10
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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They Made Me a Killer
1952
Rancho Notorious
6.471/104
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from...
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Rancho Notorious
1951
Danger Zone
4.2/9
A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.
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Danger Zone
1951
Missing Women
6.2/6
A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.
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Missing Women
1943
Submarine Alert
4.6/8
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Go...
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Submarine Alert
1946
Sioux City Sue
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A Hollywood scout averts disaster for a singing cowboy she has misled.
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Sioux City Sue
1950
So You Want to Move
0/0
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
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So You Want to Move
1945
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
6.7/6
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1933
In the Dough
7/1
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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In the Dough
1944
Wilson
5.5/23
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...
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Wilson
1943
Minesweeper
5/9
A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is...
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Minesweeper
1954
River of No Return
6.7/439
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
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River of No Return
1950
Hi-Jacked
4.8/6
A parolee, working for a trucking line, struggles to clear his name after being accused of involvement with hijackers.
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Hi-Jacked
1941
Men of the Timberland
0/0
Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich début...
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Men of the Timberland
1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
5.6/25
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers.
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Cattle Queen of Montana
1952
Springfield Rifle
5.9/32
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...
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Springfield Rifle
1951
Rhythm Inn
2/1
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's fema...
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Rhythm Inn
1941
No Hands on the Clock
4.9/7
A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.
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No Hands on the Clock
1939
Quiet, Please
6/1
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
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Quiet, Please
1933
Kissing Time
6.4/4
An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.
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Kissing Time
1947
It's a Joke, Son!
6.9/8
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merke...
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It's a Joke, Son!
1945
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
4.8/4
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1931
What Price Pants
5/3
The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a...
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What Price Pants
1951
Fort Defiance
6.3/10
It's just after the Civil War and Ben Shelby arrives looking for Johnny Tallon whom he plans to kill. Shelby was the only survivor of a battle due to...
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Fort Defiance
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
7.776/643
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
1939
Undercover Agent
4.8/3
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Undercover Agent
1937
Sea Racketeers
0/0
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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Sea Racketeers
1942
I Live on Danger
5.7/6
A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
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I Live on Danger
1942
Wildcat
6/1
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the o...
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Wildcat
1938
The Patient in Room 18
5.1/6
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles d...
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The Patient in Room 18
1951
Kentucky Jubilee
5.5/2
A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped.
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Kentucky Jubilee
1943
Aerial Gunner
4.4/5
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
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Aerial Gunner
1943
A Night for Crime
3.9/8
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth...
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A Night for Crime
1939
Smashing the Money Ring
5/3
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Smashing the Money Ring
1943
Alaska Highway
5/2
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two...
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Alaska Highway
1938
Girls on Probation
5.9/8
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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Girls on Probation
1939
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
6.7/17
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step a...
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
Dodge City
6.9/94
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Dodge City
1939
Kid Nightingale
5.5/3
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Kid Nightingale
1945
High Powered
0/0
Tim takes a job as a lowly chipper because he has been afraid to go high ever since a bad fall in which he was injured and another workman was killed.
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High Powered
1940
Carolina Moon
5/1
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
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Carolina Moon
1946
That Brennan Girl
5.3/10
Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...
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That Brennan Girl
1949
In the Good Old Summertime
6.5/35
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
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In the Good Old Summertime
1958
The Big Country
7.606/345
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between his future father-in-law, Major Terrill, a...
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The Big Country
1947
Linda, Be Good
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A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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Linda, Be Good
1953
I Was a Burlesque Queen
1/1
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
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I Was a Burlesque Queen
1939
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
6/4
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1948
French Leave
0/0
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi...
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French Leave
1945
There Goes Kelly
0/1
Musical turned murder mystery set at a radio station.
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There Goes Kelly
1936
While the Cat's Away
0/0
Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
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While the Cat's Away
1940
Gaucho Serenade
0/1
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's hor...
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Gaucho Serenade
1953
Torpedo Alley
0/0
After carrier pilot Lt Bingham is rescued at sea by a submarine when he crashes, he applies for submarine duty. During training he competes with Comma...
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Torpedo Alley
1947
Copacabana
5.354/24
A talent agent sells his girlfriend to a nightclub – as two separate acts. The deception and constant costume changes are too much for his girl, and t...
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Copacabana
1956
Friendly Persuasion
6.6/114
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...
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Friendly Persuasion
1940
Dance, Girl, Dance
6.4/63
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career...
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Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
East of the River
5.7/7
Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
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East of the River
1940
They Drive by Night
6.9/106
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distri...
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They Drive by Night
1949
The Heiress
7.7/243
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or...
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The Heiress
1940
Cross-Country Romance
6.4/5
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Cross-Country Romance
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.5/95
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1949
Champion
6.624/89
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
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Champion
1950
The Glass Menagerie
5.6/17
An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
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The Glass Menagerie
1951
Let's Make It Legal
6.3/15
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
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Let's Make It Legal
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
7.1/57
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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The Damned Don't Cry
1946
Never Say Goodbye
6.1/14
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star...
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Never Say Goodbye
1947
Web of Danger
4.8/2
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly...
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Web of Danger
1942
Lucky Legs
0/0
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the...
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Lucky Legs
1957
Up In Smoke
6.3/3
The Bowery Boys: In order to be able to get the names of winning horses at the track, Sach agrees to sell his soul to the devil.
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Up In Smoke
1941
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
6/6
A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.
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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance
1946
My Pal Trigger
5.9/9
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by...
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My Pal Trigger
1941
Four Mothers
5.7/3
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Four Mothers
1941
Down in San Diego
5.5/2
A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at w...
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Down in San Diego
1942
Come on Danger
5.7/2
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
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Come on Danger
1957
Beginning of the End
3.7/35
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation...
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Beginning of the End
1944
Mystery of the Riverboat
6/1
A movie serial in 13 chapters: Some swampland becomes valuable, and various factions squabble over ownership of it.
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Mystery of the Riverboat
1954
The Forty-Niners
5.2/5
1849 California and the Gold Boom. Marshal Sam Nelson goes under cover to find out the identity of a trio of killers.
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The Forty-Niners
1955
Shotgun
5.2/18
a deputy U.S. Marshall pursue the gang of Ben Thompson after the murder of another marshall. Along with a bounty hunter and a half-breed woman they fo...
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Shotgun
1959
The Oregon Trail
5.3/17
In 1846, a reporter for the New York Herald joins a wagon train bound for the Oregon Territory. He hopes to confirm a rumor that President Polk is sen...
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The Oregon Trail
1941
Blonde Inspiration
5.4/6
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Blonde Inspiration
1944
Lost in a Harem
5.5/13
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Lost in a Harem
1942
Obliging Young Lady
5/2
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Obliging Young Lady
1944
Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
4/2
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
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Sweethearts of the U.S.A.
1940
Tear Gas Squad
4.8/6
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Tear Gas Squad
1944
Take It or Leave It
4/1
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Take It or Leave It
1933
Salt Water Daffy
5/1
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
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Salt Water Daffy
1957
Footsteps in the Night
5.3/8
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Footsteps in the Night
1950
So You Think You're Not Guilty
5.7/16
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickl...
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So You Think You're Not Guilty
1950
Appointment with Danger
5.5/28
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S...
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Appointment with Danger
1938
Blondes at Work
6.1/8
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in...
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Blondes at Work
1943
No Place for a Lady
6/1
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it...
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No Place for a Lady
1950
Father's Wild Game
0/0
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
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Father's Wild Game
1948
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
6/1
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
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Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
1938
If I Were King
6.8/9
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash...
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If I Were King
1947
So You Want to Be in Pictures
5.8/5
Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.
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So You Want to Be in Pictures
1943
High Explosive
6/1
Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto ca...
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High Explosive
1952
Sea Tiger
5/1
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned Ja...
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Sea Tiger
1946
Two Sisters from Boston
5.8/4
Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house...
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Two Sisters from Boston
1951
Rhubarb
5.5/7
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...
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Rhubarb
1941
Blondie Goes Latin
6.2/8
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleto...
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Blondie Goes Latin
1934
The Policy Girl
0/0
An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.
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The Policy Girl
1942
Torpedo Boat
6/1
Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the title)....
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Torpedo Boat
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
1942
Meet the Stewarts
6/2
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.
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Meet the Stewarts
1933
The Radio Murder Mystery
0/0
This short, introduced and closed by Louis Sobol, features Richard Gordon as ‘Sherlock Holmes of the air.’ Not long after one broadcast explaining in...
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The Radio Murder Mystery
1948
Let's Live Again
5/3
The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.
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