Irving Bacon — Actor (25)
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It Started with Eve (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
It Started with Eve
director: Henry Koster actor: Deanna Durbin / Charles Laughton …
other title: La prima è stata Eva / Die ewige Eva …
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
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Hidden Guns (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hidden Guns
director: Albert C. Gannaway actor: Bruce Bennett / Richard Arlen …
other title: El asesino oculto / L'imboscata selvaggia
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
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Union Depot (1932) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Union Depot
director: Alfred E. Green actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Joan Blondell …
other title: Gentleman für einen Tag / Caballero por un día
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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Rio (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Rio
director: John Brahm actor: Basil Rathbone / Victor McLaglen …
other title: Inferno dei tropici / Noches en Río …
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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Internes Can't Take Money (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Internes Can't Take Money
director: Alfred Santell actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La figlia perduta / La Loi du milieu …
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
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Moonrise (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Moonrise
director: Frank Borzage actor: Dane Clark / Gail Russell …
other title: La luna sorge / Erbe des Henkers …
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s girlfriend, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
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Manhandled (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Manhandled
director: Lewis R. Foster actor: Dorothy Lamour / Sterling Hayden …
other title: La traccia del serpente / La maltratada …
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
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The Saturday Night Kid (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Saturday Night Kid
director: A. Edward Sutherland actor: Clara Bow / Jean Arthur …
other title: Lui, lei, l'altra / La chica de la noche del sábado
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role.
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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.
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True Confession (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
True Confession
director: Wesley Ruggles actor: Carole Lombard / Fred MacMurray …
other title: La moglie bugiarda / La folle confession …
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.