Wheaton Chambers
James Wheaton Chambers was named after his maternal grandfather, James Wheaton Smith. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but grew up in Freehold, New Jersey. he eventually made his way to Hollywood in the late 1920s. Shortening his name to Wheaton Chambers, he would go on to appear in over 200 film and television productions during a career that spanned roughly three decades.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.293 |
Birthday | 1887-10-13 |
Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Also Known As | James Wheaton Chambers, |
1943
Black Hills Express
6/1
A man framed for a series of Wells' Fargo stage robberies and a comical sheriff's deputy join forces to uncover the real robbers, unaware that a U.S....
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Black Hills Express
1966
D-Day on Mars
3/1
This is a shortened version of the 1945 Republic serial "The Purple Monster Strikes," which was released to television in 1966.
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D-Day on Mars
1951
The Prowler
6.8/81
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who st...
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The Prowler
1948
Panhandle
5.8/10
An ex-gunfighter woos two women while avenging his brother, victim of a crooked gambler.
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Panhandle
1945
Hitchhike to Happiness
5/1
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believ...
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Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
Apology for Murder
4.8/12
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit h...
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Apology for Murder
1951
The Well
7/15
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing bette...
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The Well
1946
The Flying Serpent
4.6/16
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving...
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The Flying Serpent
1943
Phantom of the Opera
6.2/189
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful...
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Phantom of the Opera
1948
Three Daring Daughters
5.7/6
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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Three Daring Daughters
1949
The Undercover Man
6.2/36
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal t...
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The Undercover Man
1946
Valley of the Zombies
5.167/15
A woman falls under the hypnotic spell of a resurrected madman.
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Valley of the Zombies
1953
Law and Order
4.8/12
Frame Johnson's attempt to settle down in Tombstone is interrupted when a mob tries to mete out some frontier justice.
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Law and Order
1938
Mr. Wong, Detective
5.5/23
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two sub...
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Mr. Wong, Detective
1952
The Duel at Silver Creek
6.9/34
When a gang of ruthless claim jumpers brutally murders his miner father, a gunman known as the Silver Kid joins forces with the local marshal to free...
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The Duel at Silver Creek
1941
The Devil Commands
6.1/32
A scientist kills innocent victims in his efforts to communicate with his late wife.
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The Devil Commands
1951
The Unknown Man
4.8/13
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Unknown Man
1940
Adventures of Red Ryder
5.5/2
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
1948
Song of the Drifter
0/0
Jimmy joins Cannonball on a visit to the widow Fennamore, Cannonball's old girlfriend, at Firehole. Engineer Colton is killed by henchman Smoky Morgan...
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Song of the Drifter
1956
The Fastest Gun Alive
6.8/56
Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want...
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The Fastest Gun Alive
1937
The Man Who Found Himself
7/1
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it...
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The Man Who Found Himself
1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
6.3/3
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling tra...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1949
Not Wanted
6.8/27
After a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap...
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Not Wanted
1939
Union Pacific
6.5/69
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp...
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Union Pacific
1939
Invitation to Happiness
0/0
An egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.
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Invitation to Happiness
1950
The Magnificent Yankee
5.4/7
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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The Magnificent Yankee
1946
Big Town
4.8/5
A newspaper editor goes on an anti-crime crusade, but gets carried away.
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Big Town
1939
Slightly Honorable
5.1/8
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Slightly Honorable
1949
Caught
6.5/85
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, vio...
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Caught
1953
Slaves of Babylon
4.7/3
The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shephe...
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Slaves of Babylon
1940
Drums of Fu Manchu
6.1/5
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the worl...
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Drums of Fu Manchu
1937
Midnight Court
4.8/3
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Midnight Court
1949
All the King's Men
6.9/210
A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore clas...
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All the King's Men
1945
The Southerner
6.6/56
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle d...
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The Southerner
1955
East of Eden
7.555/736
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath...
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East of Eden
1950
Between Midnight and Dawn
5.8/26
Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are att...
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Between Midnight and Dawn
1945
Mildred Pierce
7.601/386
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Mildred Pierce
1947
Monsieur Verdoux
7.7/414
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo...
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Monsieur Verdoux
1940
His Girl Friday
7.4/818
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wi...
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His Girl Friday
1941
Secrets of the Lone Wolf
6.3/3
Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.
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Secrets of the Lone Wolf
1947
The Invisible Wall
5.4/7
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was suppos...
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The Invisible Wall
1947
The Sea of Grass
6.2/26
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
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The Sea of Grass
1948
The Pirate
6.4/90
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and...
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The Pirate
1946
The Crimson Ghost
5/10
A criminal mastermind known as The Crimson Ghost is out to steal a device called the Cyclotrode, which can short-circuit all electrical current on the...
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The Crimson Ghost
1949
The Great Sinner
6.7/20
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.
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The Great Sinner
1948
The Three Musketeers
6.7/135
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.
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The Three Musketeers
1943
This Land Is Mine
7/59
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and c...
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This Land Is Mine
1935
The Florentine Dagger
5.7/3
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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The Florentine Dagger
1940
Foreign Correspondent
7/381
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...
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Foreign Correspondent
1941
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
5.7/3
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1940
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
5.6/18
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmos...
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1939
Geronimo
5/4
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud betwee...
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Geronimo
1946
The Last Crooked Mile
4.7/9
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
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The Last Crooked Mile
1944
The Fighting Seabees
6.2/46
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Na...
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The Fighting Seabees
1945
Marshal of Laredo
0/0
Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Lared...
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Marshal of Laredo
1947
The Wild Frontier
0/0
Outlaws are in control of the land so the town of Clayton City writes the governor for an honest marshal. That marshal is Frank Lane, who brings his s...
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The Wild Frontier
1946
Stagecoach to Denver
5.8/3
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the surv...
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Stagecoach to Denver
1950
Peggy
4.7/3
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in...
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Peggy
1952
Wagons West
6/1
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.
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Wagons West
1946
The El Paso Kid
0/0
In this Western, an outlaw tries to escape from a gang of robbers after they refuse to assist a gang member wounded during a stagecoach caper. He and...
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The El Paso Kid
1947
Gun Talk
0/0
In this western, a hero prevents a stagecoach robbery and wins the respect and confidence of a mine owner and a pretty woman who is going west to see...
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Gun Talk
1947
On the Old Spanish Trail
5.2/5
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
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On the Old Spanish Trail
1947
Son of Zorro
6/1
A man returning home after having fought in the Civil War discovers that corrupt politicians have taken over the county and are terrorizing and shakin...
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Son of Zorro
1949
Deputy Marshal
6.8/4
A lawman takes on gangsters attempting to steal property wanted for a railroad.
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Deputy Marshal
1946
Lost City of the Jungle
6.2/3
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for W...
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Lost City of the Jungle
1942
The Wife Takes a Flyer
4.5/4
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as t...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
1956
The Peacemaker
3.7/3
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranc...
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The Peacemaker
1947
Sarge Goes to College
4/2
A Marine Sergeant, wounded in overseas service, requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends to the Captain and Colonel that "Sarge" be...
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Sarge Goes to College
1944
The Falcon in Mexico
5.3/8
The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.
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The Falcon in Mexico
1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still
7.5/1092
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1942
The Power of God
0/0
As the elderly man visiting his wife's grave remembers how a renewed faith in Christianity help a shady businessman, a juvenile delinquent a young cou...
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The Power of God
1946
Undercurrent
5.8/47
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant...
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Undercurrent
1950
The Secret Fury
5.3/15
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen d...
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The Secret Fury
1945
River Gang
0/0
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
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River Gang
1950
Three Secrets
6.4/15
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted a...
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Three Secrets
1950
Walk Softly, Stranger
5/26
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Walk Softly, Stranger
1952
Young Man with Ideas
4.5/7
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
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Young Man with Ideas
1947
Body and Soul
6.7/100
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, in...
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Body and Soul
1947
Always Together
6.7/3
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...
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Always Together
1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
5.7/25
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1946
The Time of Their Lives
6.9/42
Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George...
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The Time of Their Lives
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
1948
Romance on the High Seas
6.8/28
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...
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Romance on the High Seas
1945
The Brighton Strangler
5.9/10
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was...
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The Brighton Strangler
1943
The Seventh Victim
6.4/125
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with he...
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The Seventh Victim
1943
Swing Shift Maisie
6.5/3
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Bre...
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Swing Shift Maisie
1954
The Miami Story
4.9/8
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council hire a former Miami gangster, gone straight, to h...
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The Miami Story
1945
Strange Confession
6.8/22
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in th...
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Strange Confession
1946
Lady in the Lake
6/95
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fro...
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Lady in the Lake
1958
The Notorious Mr. Monks
0/0
A drunken driver, his wife and a hitchhiker equals murder.
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The Notorious Mr. Monks
1951
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
4/8
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his f...
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1948
Four Faces West
5.6/19
Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him hi...
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Four Faces West
1950
The Baron of Arizona
6.7/54
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical eviden...
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