Charles Middleton — Actor (15)
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The Pretender (1947)
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W. Lee Wilder actor: Albert Dekker / Catherine Craig …
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
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Stand-In (1937)
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Tay Garnett actor: Leslie Howard / Joan Blondell …
other title: Ed ora... sposiamoci! / Mr. Dodd geht nach Hollywood …
An east coast efficiency expert, who stakes his reputation on his ability to turn around a financially troubled Hollywood studio, receives some help from a former child star who now works as a stand-in for the studio.
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This Day and Age (1933)
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Cecil B. DeMille actor: Charles Bickford / Richard Cromwell …
other title: La nuova ora / Revolution der Jugend …
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
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The Black Raven (1943)
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Sam Newfield actor: George Zucco / Wanda McKay …
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.