Robert Barrat — Actor (27)
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Double Crossbones (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Double Crossbones
director: Charles Barton actor: Donald O'Connor / Helena Carter …
other title: I filibustieri delle Antille / Sørøvernes skræk …
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty Ben. They avoid being killed by faking a case of the pox, which causes the panicked captain and crew to desert the ship. The two find themselves alone, and when a lucky cannon shot hits a mast on a British ship, they find themselves mistaken for pirates. They sail to Tortuga, where they recruit such notorious corsairs as Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonney, and Blackbeard to lay siege to Chaleston and expose the villain Elden.
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Conspiracy (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Conspiracy
director: Lew Landers actor: Allan Lane / Robert Barrat …
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Johnny Come Lately (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Johnny Come Lately
director: William K. Howard actor: James Cagney / Grace George …
other title: Johnny arrivò in ritardo / Johnny le vagabond …
Cagney is a human dynamo as a drifter who helps save ailing Grace George from losing her newspaper. The pace is fast, and audiences of all ages will be pleased. The supporting cast, have all the small-town characterizations down pat -- with Margaret Hamilton a standout. Cagney himself, had genuine affection for this film, and listed it among his top five movie-making experiences at a retrospective the year before he died. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, in 2013.
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The Mayor of Hell (1933) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Mayor of Hell
director: Archie Mayo actor: James Cagney / Madge Evans …
other title: Le Bataillon des sans-amour / Por el mal camino
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Fog Over Frisco (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fog Over Frisco
director: William Dieterle actor: Bette Davis / Donald Woods …
other title: Nebbia a San Francisco / Nebel über Frisco …
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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The Dragon Murder Case (1934) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Dragon Murder Case
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Warren William / Margaret Lindsay …
other title: La víctima del dragón
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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The Kennel Murder Case (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Kennel Murder Case
director: Michael Curtiz actor: William Powell / Mary Astor …
other title: Il pugnale cinese / Le Mystère de la chambre close …
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
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Sunset Pass (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sunset Pass
director: William Berke actor: James Warren / Nan Leslie …
A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him. But he is rescued and reformed by his sister, and an undercover agent for the express company.
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Gambling Lady (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gambling Lady
director: Archie Mayo actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: L'ultima carta / Franc jeu …
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks out," leaving tough-minded daughter Lady Lee to earn a living the only way she knows. She soon becomes a success gambling among the rich, but, falling out with the syndicate, she considers the marriage proposal of blueblood Garry Madison. Can such a match work despite snobbery and old associations?
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The Murder Man (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Murder Man
director: Tim Whelan actor: Spencer Tracy / Virginia Bruce …
other title: Ultime notizie / Der Mann für Mord …
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When Henry Mander is investigated for the murder of his shady business partner, Grey is one step ahead of the police to the extent that he often dictates his story in advance of its actual occurrence. He leads the police through an 'open and shut' case resulting in Mander being tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Columnist Mary Shannon is in love with Steve but she sees him struggle greatly with his last story before Mander's execution. When she starts typing out the story from his recorded dictation, she realizes why.
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Union Pacific (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Union Pacific
director: Cecil B. DeMille actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Joel McCrea …
other title: La via dei giganti / Pacific Express …
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Just Before Dawn (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Just Before Dawn
director: William Castle actor: Warner Baxter / Adele Roberts …
other title: Il caso Foster
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was
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Secret of the Blue Room (1933) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Secret of the Blue Room
director: Kurt Neumann actor: Lionel Atwill / Gloria Stuart …
According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
director: Edward Ludwig actor: Charles Ruggles / Ann Dvorak …
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!