Regis Toomey — Actor (48)
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Framed (1930) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Framed
director: George Archainbaud actor: Evelyn Brent / Regis Toomey …
Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
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Murder on the Blackboard (1934) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Murder on the Blackboard
director: George Archainbaud actor: Edna May Oliver / James Gleason …
other title: El crimen de la pizarra / El crimen en la pizarra
There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone looks suspicious as Piper and Miss Withers continue their battle of the sexes.
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The Human Jungle (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Human Jungle
director: Joseph M. Newman actor: Gary Merrill / Jan Sterling …
other title: Giungla Umana / Immer jagte er Blondinen
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
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Magic Town (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Magic Town
director: William A. Wellman actor: James Stewart / Jane Wyman …
other title: La città magica / Lille by hvad nu? …
Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.
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The Last Sunset (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Last Sunset
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Rock Hudson / Kirk Douglas …
other title: L'occhio caldo del cielo / O Último Pôr-Do-Sol …
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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Alibi (1929) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Alibi
director: Roland West actor: Chester Morris / Eleanor Griffith …
other title: Ronda nocturna
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
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Dark Mountain (1944) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Dark Mountain
director: William Berke actor: Robert Lowery / Ellen Drew …
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.
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The Invisible Menace (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Invisible Menace
director: John Farrow actor: Boris Karloff / Marie Wilson …
Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers, who sets out to get a confession from Jevries even though there are plenty of other suspects.
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It Happens Every Thursday (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
It Happens Every Thursday
director: Joseph Pevney actor: Loretta Young / John Forsythe …
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.
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One Frightened Night (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
One Frightened Night
director: Christy Cabanne actor: Charley Grapewin / Lucien Littlefield …
other title: Notte gialla
Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight. When his long-lost granddaughter suddenly arrives, Whyte changes his mind and proclaims that she will receive his entire fortune. A second lady appears at the estate, claiming that she is actually Whyte's granddaughter, Doris Waverly, and the first woman is found murdered in her room! With each guest possessing a motive, the mystery of the killer's identity briskly unfolds through a stirring series of surprises.