Roscoe Ates
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Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily was featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.848 |
Birthday | 1895-01-19 |
Place of Birth | Grange, Mississippi, USA |
Also Known As | Roscoe Blevel Ates, Rosco Ates, |
1942
The Palm Beach Story
7/179
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and...
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The Palm Beach Story
1933
Alice in Wonderland
6/52
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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Alice in Wonderland
1930
City Girl
7.388/94
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm...
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City Girl
1931
The Champ
7/49
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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The Champ
1948
Inner Sanctum
5/26
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Inner Sanctum
1944
Can't Help Singing
5.1/7
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has hi...
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Can't Help Singing
1933
What! No Beer?
5.5/8
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
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What! No Beer?
1935
The People's Enemy
6/1
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became ri...
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The People's Enemy
1934
Merry Wives of Reno
4.8/5
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Merry Wives of Reno
1941
Birth of the Blues
5.3/7
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...
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Birth of the Blues
1939
Three Texas Steers
5.2/10
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly...
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Three Texas Steers
1937
God's Country and the Woman
4.2/4
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and...
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God's Country and the Woman
1940
Chad Hanna
6/2
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
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Chad Hanna
1932
The Roadhouse Murder
3.3/3
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Lin...
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The Roadhouse Murder
1947
Black Hills
0/0
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby's robbery attempt, Kirby forces t...
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Black Hills
1931
The Great Lover
5.3/3
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
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The Great Lover
1930
Billy the Kid
4.2/11
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garr...
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Billy the Kid
1934
Dizzy & Daffy
0/0
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Dizzy & Daffy
1931
The Big Shot
0/0
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
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The Big Shot
1934
Woman in the Dark
5.786/14
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is dis...
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Woman in the Dark
1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
0/0
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure th...
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
0/0
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure th...
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1947
Wild Country
5.8/5
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear one...
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Wild Country
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6/5
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1940
I Want a Divorce
0/0
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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I Want a Divorce
1931
Too Many Cooks
2.5/1
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
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Too Many Cooks
1946
Tumbleweed Trail
0/0
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order...
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Tumbleweed Trail
1948
The Tioga Kid
5/2
Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into Joe Morino and his gang of rustlers at the same ti...
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The Tioga Kid
1946
Colorado Serenade
0/0
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job a...
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Colorado Serenade
1946
Driftin' River
0/0
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed to the ranch of J.C. Morgan (Shirley Patterson to...
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Driftin' River
1932
Young Bride
3/2
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Young Bride
1956
Come Next Spring
6/6
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-o...
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Come Next Spring
1931
Reducing
4/4
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
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Reducing
1932
Ladies of the Jury
6.4/8
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her r...
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Ladies of the Jury
1952
The Blazing Forest
6/1
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada...
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The Blazing Forest
1933
Scarlet River
4.5/4
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
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Scarlet River
1935
On the Wagon
0/0
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
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On the Wagon
1931
Politics
6.3/5
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Politics
1941
I'll Sell My Life
6/1
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
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I'll Sell My Life
1948
The Hawk of Powder River
5.5/2
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Carlson) who's been targeted for murder by a notoriou...
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The Hawk of Powder River
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
6.5/31
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...
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Ziegfeld Girl
1931
Cimarron
5.5/117
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa...
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Cimarron
1939
Gone with the Wind
7.958/3919
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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Gone with the Wind
1940
You're Next!
0/0
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
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You're Next!
1940
Untamed
4.3/3
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...
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Untamed
1941
Reg'lar Fellers
4.3/7
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go...
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Reg'lar Fellers
1932
Hold 'Em Jail
6.7/3
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
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Hold 'Em Jail
1930
Check and Double Check
5.3/6
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fan...
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Check and Double Check
1940
Captain Caution
5.3/7
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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Captain Caution
1933
The Cheyenne Kid
0/1
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on...
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The Cheyenne Kid
1946
Down Missouri Way
0/0
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a mov...
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Down Missouri Way
1934
She Made Her Bed
3.5/2
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man...
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She Made Her Bed
1938
Riders of the Black Hills
0/0
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Li...
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Riders of the Black Hills
1932
Renegades of the West
5.5/2
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
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Renegades of the West
1940
The Cowboy from Sundown
0/0
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, S...
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The Cowboy from Sundown
1961
The Silent Call
9/2
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at his...
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The Silent Call
1961
The Ladies Man
6.3/115
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is...
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The Ladies Man
1948
Tornado Range
0/0
Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the following year by Eagle-Lion. Cast as a troublesh...
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Tornado Range
1947
Shadow Valley
0/0
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters. This time, the star plays...
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Shadow Valley
1933
King Kong
7.594/1418
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darro...
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King Kong
1930
Love in the Rough
4.333/3
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
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Love in the Rough
1930
Those Three French Girls
4/5
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
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Those Three French Girls
1948
Thunder in the Pines
5/2
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
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Thunder in the Pines
1950
Hills of Oklahoma
0/0
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined he...
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Hills of Oklahoma
1946
Stars Over Texas
5.5/2
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with sidekicks Soapy (Roscoe Ates) and Waco (Lee Bennett...
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Stars Over Texas
1940
Rancho Grande
0/0
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
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Rancho Grande
1941
Robin Hood of the Pecos
5/1
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many d...
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
1946
Wild West
0/0
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop t...
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Wild West
1948
The Westward Trail
0/0
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his sister's name to the deed and sells it to Larson....
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The Westward Trail
1947
Range Beyond the Blue
0/0
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take it...
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Range Beyond the Blue
1947
West to Glory
0/0
Two con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez diamond from Don Lopez. With the drought, Lopez has sold a...
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West to Glory
1933
Golden Harvest
5/1
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market...
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Golden Harvest
1948
Check Your Guns
0/0
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
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Check Your Guns
1941
Bad Men of Missouri
5.6/5
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin...
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Bad Men of Missouri
1953
Those Redheads from Seattle
5.3/11
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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Those Redheads from Seattle
1930
Soup to Nuts
5.8/8
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for...
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Soup to Nuts
1934
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
3.5/2
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstai...
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
1935
Why Pay Rent?
0/0
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of st...
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Why Pay Rent?
1955
Lucy Gallant
7/6
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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Lucy Gallant
1930
The Big House
6.6/37
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning...
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The Big House
1933
The Past of Mary Holmes
0/0
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her e...
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The Past of Mary Holmes
1932
Come on Danger!
0/0
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An...
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Come on Danger!
1941
She Knew All the Answers
6.3/3
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's br...
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She Knew All the Answers
1931
A Free Soul
6.2/38
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically invo...
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A Free Soul
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
1933
Signing 'em Up
0/0
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
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Signing 'em Up
1932
The Rainbow Trail
0/0
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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The Rainbow Trail
1932
Freaks
7.812/1136
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for...
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Freaks
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
6.2/28
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where,...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1941
One Foot in Heaven
6.6/17
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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One Foot in Heaven
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
0/0
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1933
Lucky Devils
6.3/3
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Lucky Devils
1958
The Sheepman
6.7/50
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with...
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The Sheepman
1944
The Great Moment
5.8/19
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and...
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The Great Moment
1957
The Big Caper
6.2/20
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
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The Big Caper
1932
Sham Poo, the Magician
0/0
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud...
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Sham Poo, the Magician
1953
The Stranger Wore a Gun
5.5/28
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs int...
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