John Litel — Actor (51)
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Cass Timberlane (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cass Timberlane
director: George Sidney actor: Spencer Tracy / Lana Turner …
other title: Il giudice Timberlane / Fesseln der Liebe …
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
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It All Came True (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
It All Came True
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ann Sheridan …
other title: Ein Nachtclub für Sarah Jane / Rendez-vous à minuit
After crooked nightclub owner murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
You Can't Get Away with Murder
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gale Page …
other title: La bolgia dei vivi / Le Châtiment …
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nancy Drew... Reporter
director: William Clemens actor: Bonita Granville / John Litel …
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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San Antonio (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
San Antonio
director: David Butler actor: Errol Flynn / Alexis Smith …
other title: Duello a S. Antonio / Ein Mann der Tat
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gold Is Where You Find It
director: Michael Curtiz actor: George Brent / Olivia de Havilland …
other title: Occidente in fiamme / Goldene Erde Kalifornien …
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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Kid Glove Killer (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Kid Glove Killer
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Van Heflin / Marsha Hunt …
other title: Delitto al microscopio / Der Gentleman-Killer …
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
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Double Jeopardy (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Double Jeopardy
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Rod Cameron / Gale Robbins …
other title: Doble chantaje
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.
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The Madonna's Secret (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Madonna's Secret
director: Wilhelm Thiele actor: Francis Lederer / Gail Patrick …
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who has come to New York to escape a controversy surrounding his work. The trouble stems when the model he has used in all his work is found floating dead in the Seine.
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Montana Belle (1952) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Montana Belle
director: Allan Dwan actor: Jane Russell / George Brent …
other title: La regina dei desperados / Die Schönste von Montana …
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls for her. So do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who's enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons. Discord among the gang and Bradfield's ambivalence complicates things, as Belle demonstrates her prowess with shootin' irons and horses, and as a surprisingly racy saloon entertainer.