The Bells of St. Mary's 1945  N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Ruth Donnelly, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Minerva Urecal, Martha Sleeper, Rhys Williams, Una O'Connor, Matt McHugh
The sequel to "Going My Way" stars Bing Crosby as the affable priest who bumps heads with the Mother Superior over the raising of the students of St. Mary's school. The film won only one Oscar (Best Sound Recording) but was nominated for all the biggies (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, and Director).
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Black Fury 1935  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen, J. Carrol Naish, Vince Barnett, Henry O'Neill, Ward Bond, Akim Tamiroff
An immigrant coal miner, Joe Radek (Paul Muni), becomes embroiled in battles between unionists and those who oppose labor protection.
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British Agent 1934  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Philip Reed, Irving Pichel, Halliwell Hobbes, J. Carrol Naish, Cesar Romero
In the days before the Russian Revolution, a Scot, Stephen Locke (Leslie Howard), is smitten by Russian agent Elena (Kay Francis).
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Cheers for Miss Bishop 1941  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Martha Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Gargan, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer, Dorothy Peterson, Mary Anderson, Donald Douglas, Marsha Hunt, John Archer, Rosemary DeCamp, John Arledge, Jack Mulhall
Although she has missed chances for true love, Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) has devoted her life to her profession as a teacher in the Midwest and has inspired many of her students. Now, after 50 years of teaching, her successful students return to honor Miss Bishop.
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The Crowd Roars 1938 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lionel Stander, Jane Wyman, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton, Don "Red" Barry, Isabel Jewell
Robert Taylor stars as a choirboy who grows up to become a light-heavyweight contender and finds that he cannot escape the influence of the mob.
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The Devil's Party 1938  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ray McCarey
Cast: Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, Paul Kelly, Beatrice Roberts, Frank Jenks, John Gallaudet, Samuel S. Hinds, Joe Downing, Arthur Hoyt, Edward Gargan, Bill Elliott, Scotty Beckett
Four NYC boys made a pact that they would always meet once a year to renew their friendship, Their plans were changed when one of them accidentally set fire to a warehouse and another one took the blame and was sent to reform school. Now Marty (Victor McLaglen)–who had taken the blame–is a professional gambler and owns a nightclub. They are reunited when two of them (William Gargan and John Gallaudet), now policemen, investigate a murder at Marty's club. After one is killed during the investigation, the fourth friend (Paul Kelly), now a priest, sees that justice is served.
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Dynamite 1949 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Action
Director: William H. Pine
Cast: William Gargan, Virginia Welles, Richard Crane, Irving Bacon, Douglass Dumbrille, Mary Newton, Frank Ferguson, Edward Gargan
Gunner and Johnny (William Gargan and Richard Crane), both dynamite experts, work for Jake (Irving Bacon) who runs a dynamite contracting business. Gunner is jealous of the new ideas that Johnny brings to the company and is not happy about the fact that Johnny is interested in Jake's daughter, Mary (Virginia Welles), in whom Gunner is also interested. The explosions are many, climaxing with Johnny being trapped in a tunnel with dynamite about to go off. Will Gunner come to the rescue?
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Four Frightened People 1934 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo, Tetsu Komai, Nella Walker, Chris-Pin Martin, Ethel Griffies, Joe De La Cruz
Abandoning ship because of an outbreak of the bubonic plague, survivors row ashore in lifeboats and then must pass the test of survival on a jungle island.
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I Wake Up Screaming 1942 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Hot Spot
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Laird Cregar, William Gargan, Alan Mowbray, Allyn Joslyn, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Morris Ankrum, Cyril Ring, Charles(2) Lane, Frank Orth, Gregory Gaye
During intense questioning in the murder investigation of model Vicky Lynn (Carole Landis), promoter Frankie Christopher (Victor Mature) recalls through flashbacks events prior to her murder. At the same time, police are questioning Vicky's sister Jill (Betty Grable) and, through flashbacks, tie in what Frankie has described. Evidence mounts pointing to Frankie as the murderer–until Frankie reveals one last clue that leads to the real killer who has been there throughout the investigation.
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 Keep 'Em Flying 1941 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce, Dick Foran, William Gargan, Truman Bradley, Doris Lloyd, William B. Davidson, James Seay
Adjusting to Air Corps training is not always easy, but it is even more difficult for Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran) who is saddled with Blackie Benson (Bud Abbott) and Heathcliff (Lou Costello) as his helpers. Martha Raye shines in her roles of twin sisters Gloria and Barbara Phelps.
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Man Hunt 1936  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Charles "Chic" Sale, William Gargan, Dick Purcell, Olin Howland, Addison Richards, George E. Stone, Maude Eburne, Milton Kibbee, Russell Simpson, Eddie Shubert, Anita Kerry, Nick Copeland, Kenneth Harlan
Schoolteacher Jane Carpenter (Marguerite Churchill) is bored with her dull, small town, so she tries to spice up the classroom with tales of Old West outlaws. When bank robber Frank Kingman (Ricardo Cortez) escapes and hides in the school, Jane helps him. As the town's newspaper and citizens become interested in the case, Jane discovers that outlaw life is not so glamorous.
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The Milky Way 1936 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, George Barbier, Lionel Stander, William Gargan, Charles(1) Lane, Marjorie Gateson, Milburn Stone, Anthony Quinn
Harold Lloyd is very amusing in his role of the milkman who rises in the ranks to become a champion boxer–mostly due to his manager's wheeling and dealing. A young Anthony Quinn is seen fleetingly.
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Miracle in the Rain 1956 N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Peggie Castle, Fred Clark, Eileen Heckart, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Marcel Dalio, George Givot, Barbara Nichols, Halliwell Hobbes, Paul Picerni, Alan King, Arte Johnson, Minerva Urecal
During World War II, a New York City shoe company secretary, Ruth Wood (Jane Wyman), falls in love with and accepts the proposal from Army Pvt. Arthur Hugenon (Van Johnson) just before he is shipped overseas. Arthur is killed in the war, and Ruth nearly falls apart both mentally and physically–until she walks past St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a miracle occurs.
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Miss Annie Rooney 1942 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore, Peggy Ryan, Gloria Holden, June Lockhart, Selmer Jackson, Virginia Sale, Roland Dupree, Jonathan Hale
Annie Rooney (Shirley Temple) is a poor girl who falls in love with a wealthy youth, Marty (Dickie Moore). Shirley receives her first screen kiss.
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Night Flight 1933 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Frank Conroy, C. Henry Gordon, Leslie Fenton, Harry Beresford, Dorothy Burgess
This is the story behind the advent of "red-eye" flights. It involves an emergency flight that evolved into regular night flying.
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Rain 1932 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Beulah Bondi, Matt Moore, Kendall Lee, Walter Catlett, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Set in Pago Pago, this Somerset Maugham story is about prostitute Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) who must deal with the hypocritical Reverend Davidson (Walter Huston) when she is trapped in the area by a quarantine.
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The Rawhide Years 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy, William Demarest, William Gargan, Peter van Eyck, Minor Watson, Robert J. Wilke
Gambler Ben Matthews (Tony Curtis) is falsely accused of murder, is sentenced to prison, escapes, and sets out to clear his name.
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Strange Impersonation 1946 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler, Ruth Ford, H.B. Warner, Lyle Talbot, Mary Treen, Cay Forrester, Dick Scott, Forrest Taylor
Nora (Brenda Marshall) has told her fiance Stephen (William Gargan) that she is too busy with her scientific research to take time for marriage. She is in the process of inventing a new anesthesia and asks for help from her assistant Arline (Hillary Brooke) to inject her with the new drug. The drug is given. Too late, she learns that Arline has used the drug test to her advantage. She over-mixed the drugs before injecting Nora. While Nora is sleeping, Stephen returns and then leaves again. An explosion disfigures her face, and while Nora is fixing her face, Arline runs off with Stephen. Now, Nora schemes to get Stephen back and exact revenge on Arline. Nora experiences quite an adventure in the process, but, by story's end, she awakens and realizes that the whole experience was only a nightmare brought on by the anesthesia.
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Till the End of Time 1946 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Bill Williams, Tom Tully, Harry von Zell, William Gargan, Jean Porter, Ruth Nelson, Johnny Sands
When Cliff Harper (Guy Madison) returns home to face adjustment problems encountered by many servicemen following a war, he is helped by war-widow Pat Ruscom (Dorothy McGuire).
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Who Done It? 1942 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, Louise Allbritton, William Gargan, William Bendix, Mary Wickes, Don Porter, Thomas Gomez, Jerome Cowan
When a radio network's president is killed, Abbott and Costello pretend to be detectives out to solve the murder.
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You Only Live Once 1937 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Warren Hymer, Charles "Chic" Sale, Margaret Hamilton, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Jerome Cowan
Just when ex-con Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) and his fiancee Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) were on the verge of finding happiness, Eddie is arrested for a robbery in which he had no part. Months later, Eddie kills the prison chaplain and breaks out of prison; he and Joan are forced to run from the police.
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| 1. The Animal Kingdom (1932)
2. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
3. Black Fury (1935)
4. British Agent (1934)
5. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
6. The Crowd Roars (1938)
7. The Devil's Party (1938)
8. Dynamite (1949)
9. Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942)
10. Four Frightened People (1934)
11. I Wake Up Screaming (1942)
aka: Hot Spot
12. Keep 'Em Flying (1941)
13. Lucky Devils (1932)
14. Man Hunt (1936)
15. The Milky Way (1936)
16. Miracle in the Rain (1956)
17. Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
18. Night Flight (1933)
19. Rain (1932)
20. The Rawhide Years (1956)
21. Strange Impersonation (1946)
22. Till the End of Time (1946)
23. Who Done It? (1942)
24. You Only Live Once (1937)
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