Barton MacLane — Actor (47)
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The Adventurous Blonde (1937) IMDb TMDB
The Adventurous Blonde
director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Blondes at Work (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondes at Work
director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Red Light (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Red Light
director: Roy Del Ruth actor: George Raft / Virginia Mayo …
other title: Luce rossa / Luz roja …
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess. He pays fellow prisoner Rocky, who gets out a week before Nick, to murder Jess... who, dying, tells revenge-minded Johnny that he'd written a clue "in the Bible." Frustrated, Johnny obsessively searches for the missing Gideon Bible from Jess's hotel room.
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San Quentin (1937) IMDb TMDB Skybridge
San Quentin
director: Lloyd Bacon actor: Pat O'Brien / Humphrey Bogart …
other title: La Révolte
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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'G' Men (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
'G' Men
director: William Keighley actor: James Cagney / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: La pattuglia dei senza paura / Der FBI-Agent …
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Silver River (1948) IMDb TMDB
Silver River
director: Raoul Walsh actor: Errol Flynn / Ann Sheridan …
other title: Sul fiume d'argento / Der Herr der Silberminen …
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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You and Me (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
You and Me
director: Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / George Raft …
other title: Du und ich / Casier judiciaire
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Case of the Curious Bride
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Warren William / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: El caso de la novia curiosa
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder.