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DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.

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Thru Different Eyes (1942)

A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case. ...

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That I May Live (1937)

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman. ...

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Slave Ship (1937)

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo. ...

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Fifty Roads to Town (1937)

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run. ...

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This Is My Affair (1937)

President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...

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We Who Are About to Die (1937)

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life. ...

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The Accusing Finger (1936)

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real kill ...

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Kelly the Second (1936)

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer. ...

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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and m ...

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Sins of Man (1936)

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing. ...

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Exclusive Story (1936)

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars. ...

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I Dream Too Much (1935)

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan ...

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge. ...

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The Daring Young Man (1935)

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero ...

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Front Page Woman (1935)

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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Village Tale (1935)

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy. ...

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Mary Jane's Pa (1935)

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone. ...

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A Dog of Flanders (1935)

Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter. ...

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Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector ...

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A Wicked Woman (1934)

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him. ...

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Secret of the Chateau (1934)

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible. ...

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The President Vanishes (1934)

The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex St ...

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Death on the Diamond (1934)

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the ...

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Take the Stand (1934)

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers. ...

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Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing. ...

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A Man's Game (1934)

During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme. ...

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Little Man, What Now? (1934)

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men. ...

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The Fighting Rookie (1934)

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and whiskey poured on his uniform. Gangster Louis Cantor (Mathew Betz) and his henchmen have used this ruse to get ...

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Massacre (1934)

Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights ...

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The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)

A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town. ...

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Police Car 17 (1933)

Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop. ...

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

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Golden Harvest (1933)

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by ...

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One Year Later (1933)

A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has so ...

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Made on Broadway (1933)

A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiter ...

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Strictly Personal (1933)

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promi ...

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Reform Girl (1933)

A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter. ...

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A Lady's Profession (1933)

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse. ...

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Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor. ...

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Ladies They Talk About (1933)

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot. ...

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On Your Guard (1933)

An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead. ...

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The Match King (1932)

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influen ...

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Silver Dollar (1932)

A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty. ...

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Central Park (1932)

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end. ...

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Movie Crazy (1932)

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood. ...

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Midnight Morals (1932)

A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship. ...

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By Whose Hand? (1932)

On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone's a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It's up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the ...

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Night Court (1932)

A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor. ...

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Dancers in the Dark (1932)

A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too. ...

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Arrowsmith (1931)

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. ...

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Trapped (1931)

The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine. ...

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A Dangerous Affair (1931)

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of rea ...

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Caught Plastered (1931)

Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook. ...

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The Squaw Man (1931)

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from ...

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Salvation Nell (1931)

Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out.... ...

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The Secret Six (1931)

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city f ...

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The Primrose Path (1931)

A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak. ...

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The Criminal Code (1931)

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffe ...

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