William Gargan
William Gargan, born William Dennis Gargan July 17, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA and died February 17, 1979 aged 73 on a flight between New York and San Diego.
He was an American motion picture, television and radio actor. Gargan played character roles in many Hollywood productions, including two appearances as detective Ellery Queen, but was best known for his role as Detective Martin Kane in the 1949-51 radio-television series, Martin Kane, Private Eye, sponsored by U.S. Tobacco. He also appeared as a private detective in the NBC radio show Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, which ran from 1951 to 1955.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.634 |
| Birthday | 1905-07-17 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | William Dennis Gargan, Bill Gargan, |
1955
Man on the Ledge
0/0
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk th...
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Man on the Ledge
1946
Strange Impersonation
6/18
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her a...
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Strange Impersonation
1946
Hot Cargo
0/0
Two discharged service men go to the redwood country in northern California to visit the family of a buddy killed in the war. There, they find the fam...
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Hot Cargo
1941
I Wake Up Screaming
6.801/68
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip co...
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I Wake Up Screaming
1945
Midnight Manhunt
4.5/11
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
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Midnight Manhunt
1945
The Bells of St. Mary's
6.824/131
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to...
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The Bells of St. Mary's
1942
Sealed Lips
5.8/5
There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself....
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Sealed Lips
1946
Night Editor
5.5/21
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
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Night Editor
1933
The Story of Temple Drake
6.5/36
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violenc...
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The Story of Temple Drake
1939
Within the Law
6/5
A wrongly convicted woman studies law and seeks her revenge.
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Within the Law
1936
The Milky Way
6.278/18
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in...
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The Milky Way
1932
Rain
6.8/46
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it in...
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Rain
1935
Broadway Gondolier
5.4/5
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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Broadway Gondolier
1934
Four Frightened People
5.9/13
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave t...
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Four Frightened People
1946
Behind Green Lights
5.6/22
An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a...
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Behind Green Lights
1942
Who Done It?
6.9/35
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder wh...
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Who Done It?
1942
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
5.7/3
A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.
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A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942
A Close Call for Ellery Queen
5.2/3
Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.
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A Close Call for Ellery Queen
1942
Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
5.5/3
Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.
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Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
1944
The Canterville Ghost
6.615/39
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.
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The Canterville Ghost
1933
Lucky Devils
6.3/3
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Lucky Devils
1940
Star Dust
4.7/3
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Star Dust
1937
You Only Live Once
7.1/166
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is fr...
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You Only Live Once
1940
Double Alibi
4.5/2
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Double Alibi
1935
Don't Bet on Blondes
5/4
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his da...
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Don't Bet on Blondes
1935
Black Fury
6.325/20
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
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Black Fury
1933
Night Flight
5.842/19
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Night Flight
1940
They Knew What They Wanted
5.4/6
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accept...
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They Knew What They Wanted
1956
Miracle in the Rain
6.7/11
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
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Miracle in the Rain
1946
Till the End of Time
6.7/16
Three former marines have a hard time readjusting to civilian life. Perry can't deal with the loss of the use of his legs. William is in trouble with...
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Till the End of Time
1932
The Animal Kingdom
5.7/19
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, To...
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The Animal Kingdom
1948
Waterfront at Midnight
4/1
Hoping to put the cuffs on criminal mastermind Socks Barstow, detective Mike Hanrohan is stymied by the fact that his younger brother Denny has joined...
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Waterfront at Midnight
1933
Emergency Call
5.8/5
A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.
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Emergency Call
1946
Murder in the Music Hall
4.6/4
An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.
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Murder in the Music Hall
1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop
5.9/14
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only op...
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
1940
Turnabout
6/11
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Turnabout
1935
Bright Lights
4.5/4
Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.
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Bright Lights
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.2/4
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade
1934
British Agent
5.4/15
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
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British Agent
1939
The House of Fear
6.5/2
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...
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The House of Fear
1942
Destination Unknown
6/1
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Destination Unknown
1939
Three Sons
3.2/2
A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.
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Three Sons
1942
Miss Annie Rooney
6.4/7
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her fam...
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Miss Annie Rooney
1933
Headline Shooter
5.8/4
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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Headline Shooter
1935
Things Are Looking Up
6/1
Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
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Things Are Looking Up
1933
Sweepings
5.8/6
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the busine...
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Sweepings
1943
Harrigan's Kid
0/0
A former jockey teaches a newcomer the dirty tricks of the track.
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Harrigan's Kid
1935
Traveling Saleslady
5.9/6
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a...
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Traveling Saleslady
1939
Women in the Wind
6.8/4
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Women in the Wind
1934
Strictly Dynamite
5.3/3
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Strictly Dynamite
1948
The Argyle Secrets
6/12
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated...
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The Argyle Secrets
1943
Swing Fever
5/3
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
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Swing Fever
1939
The Housekeeper's Daughter
3.5/2
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
1935
A Night at the Ritz
3/1
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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A Night at the Ritz
1936
Navy Born
4.5/2
A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the resistance...
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Navy Born
1945
She Gets Her Man
3.7/3
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
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She Gets Her Man
1938
The Devil's Party
5.5/6
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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The Devil's Party
1942
The Mayor of 44th Street
4/2
In this drama, an ex-vaudevillian dancer opens up a dance band agency and help street kids at the same time by hiring them to help out. Unfortunately,...
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The Mayor of 44th Street
1939
The Adventures of Jane Arden
5.7/3
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is di...
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The Adventures of Jane Arden
1933
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
7/3
Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.
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Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
1940
Isle Of Destiny
5/6
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Isle Of Destiny
1938
Personal Secretary
0/0
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
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Personal Secretary
1930
Follow the Leader
5.2/3
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...
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Follow the Leader
1932
The Sport Parade
5.3/6
Two Dartmouth football players fall in love with the same girl following college graduation.
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The Sport Parade
1938
The Crowd Roars
6.5/6
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do...
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The Crowd Roars
1938
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
0/0
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
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The Crime of Doctor Hallet
1937
She Asked for It
6/1
Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends th...
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She Asked for It
1936
The Sky Parade
0/0
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
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The Sky Parade
1949
Dynamite
4/1
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at odds regarding safety precautions for their co-work...
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Dynamite
1937
Reported Missing
0/0
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.
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Reported Missing
1937
You're a Sweetheart
3.8/10
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...
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You're a Sweetheart
1936
Fury and the Woman
0/0
A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
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Fury and the Woman
1936
Alibi for Murder
5.5/1
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the d...
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Alibi for Murder
1940
Sporting Blood
4.3/3
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the bi...
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Sporting Blood
1932
The Misleading Lady
0/0
A scheming socialite meets her match in the out-of-touch wildlife explorer she ventures to ensnare.
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The Misleading Lady
1937
Wings Over Honolulu
5/1
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Wings Over Honolulu
1936
Man Hunt
0/0
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Man Hunt
1937
Some Blondes Are Dangerous
1/1
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-lovi...
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
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
1941
Keep 'Em Flying
5.9/18
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello,...
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Keep 'Em Flying
1942
Bombay Clipper
5.5/2
Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
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Bombay Clipper
1945
Song of the Sarong
5/1
An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.
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Song of the Sarong
1939
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
2/1
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their...
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1941
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
0/0
Hedda Hopper guides us through some of Hollywood's sights; the home of William S. Hart and a Kay Kyser recording-session being among them.
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1
1946
Swell Guy
0/0
Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.
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Swell Guy
1956
The Rawhide Years
5.5/13
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galen...
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The Rawhide Years
1934
The Hollywood Gad-About
4/1
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
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The Hollywood Gad-About
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
5/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
1937
Breezing Home
0/0
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
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Breezing Home
2003
Complicated Women
6.7/11
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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Complicated Women
1945
Follow That Woman
6/1
A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
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Follow That Woman
1936
Flying Hostess
0/0
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
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Flying Hostess
1937
Behind the Mike
0/0
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
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Behind the Mike
1936
Blackmailer
5/1
Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
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Blackmailer
1941
Flying Cadets
3/1
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
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