Hobart Cavanaugh — Actor (19)
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The Kansan (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Kansan
director: George Archainbaud actor: Richard Dix / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Der Sheriff von Kansas / Le Cavalier du Kansas …
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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The Magnificent Dope (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Magnificent Dope
director: Walter Lang actor: Henry Fonda / Lynn Bari …
other title: Le Nigaud magnifique / Así vivo yo
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
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Best Man Wins (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Best Man Wins
director: John Sturges actor: Edgar Buchanan / Anna Lee …
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
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Kismet (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Kismet
director: William Dieterle actor: Ronald Colman / Marlene Dietrich …
other title: El príncipe mendigo
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Jimmy the Gent (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Jimmy the Gent
director: Michael Curtiz actor: James Cagney / Bette Davis …
other title: Ein feiner Herr / A la caza de herederos
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.
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Night Key (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Night Key
director: Lloyd Corrigan actor: Boris Karloff / Warren Hull …
other title: La chiave misteriosa / Alerte la nuit
The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.
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Private Detective 62 (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Private Detective 62
director: Michael Curtiz actor: William Powell / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: Der Detektiv und die Spielerin / Private Detective
A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at a low-rent detective agency. He soon gets involved with a woman with ties to a crooked gambling club owner, who is a client of his agency.