Joseph Crehan — Actor (27)
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April Showers (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
April Showers
director: James V. Kern actor: Jack Carson / Ann Sothern …
other title: Olvida tus pesares / Cavalcade d'avril
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
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Gang Bullets (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gang Bullets
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Anne Nagel / Robert Kent …
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Born Reckless (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Born Reckless
director: Malcolm St. Clair actor: Rochelle Hudson / Brian Donlevy …
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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I Love a Mystery (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I Love a Mystery
director: Henry Levin actor: Jim Bannon / Nina Foch …
other title: Le campane suonano all'alba / Los misterios del oriente
In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
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Mystery Broadcast (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mystery Broadcast
director: George Sherman actor: Ruth Terry / Frank Albertson …
other title: La dama del velo
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
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Night Spot (1938) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Night Spot
director: Christy Cabanne actor: Harry Parke / Allan Lane …
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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Special Agent (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Special Agent
director: William Keighley actor: Bette Davis / George Brent …
other title: Il grande nemico / Spezial-Agent
A federal tax agent goes undercover as a reporter and, working with a mobster's pretty bookkeeper, infiltrates a crime ring to catch the racketeer. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped.
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Front Page Woman (1935) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Front Page Woman
director: Michael Curtiz actor: Bette Davis / George Brent …
other title: Miss Repórter / Die Frau auf Seite 1 …
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Homicide for Three (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Homicide for Three
director: George Blair actor: Warren Douglas / Audrey Long …
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
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Bullets or Ballots (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bullets or Ballots
director: William Keighley actor: Edward G. Robinson / Joan Blondell …
other title: Le belve della città / Guerra ao Crime …
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Girls Can Play (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Girls Can Play
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Charles Quigley / Julie Bishop …
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
director: William Clemens actor: Donald Woods / Ann Dvorak …
other title: La vittima sommersa
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Sealed Lips (1942) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sealed Lips
director: George Waggner actor: William Gargan / June Clyde …
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. For another, he always seems to be hiding something. Detective Lee suspects that something's amiss, and he's probably right!