Tom Kennedy — Actor (18)
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The Pretender (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Pretender
director: 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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The Hat Box Mystery (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Hat Box Mystery
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Tom Neal / Pamela Blake …
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentally hidden in the box and the woman is killed. Susan is charged with murder, but Russ and his less-than-useful associate, Harvard, get on the case.
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The Girl in the Case (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Girl in the Case
director: William Berke actor: Edmund Lowe / Janis Carter …
William Warner is a lawyer who is famous for his skill at opening any kind of lock, making him a valuable commodity. William is unknowingly enlisted by German spies who want him to open a chest containing a secret formula. This leads to a madcap adventure involving spies, the police and lots of picked locks!
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The Adventurous Blonde (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Adventurous Blonde
director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …
The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.
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Blondes at Work (1938) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondes at Work
director: Frank McDonald actor: Glenda Farrell / Barton MacLane …
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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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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It Pays to Advertise (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
It Pays to Advertise
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Norman Foster / Carole Lombard …
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
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Flowing Gold (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Flowing Gold
director: Alfred E. Green actor: John Garfield / Frances Farmer …
other title: Das Ultimatum für Bohrturm L 9 / L'Or coule
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.