Joseph Crehan

Joseph Crehan

July 14, 1883

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Crehan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in Union Pacific and They Died With Their B…

Known For

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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

1939 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

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Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

1944 · 1h 27m · Movie

A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

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Bullets or Ballots

Bullets or Ballots

1936 · 1h 22m · Movie

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

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Brother Orchid

Brother Orchid

1940 · 1h 28m · Movie

After retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and his former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

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The Return of Doctor X

The Return of Doctor X

1939 · 1h 3m · Movie

A hotshot reporter and a young doctor team up to investigate a series of grisly murders and a mysterious sample of synthetic blood.

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Alexander's Ragtime Band

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938 · 1h 46m · Movie

This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.

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Cain and Mabel

Cain and Mabel

1936 · 1h 30m · Movie

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

1947 · 1h 5m · Movie

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

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Hit the Ice

Hit the Ice

1943 · 1h 22m · Movie

Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

1945 · 1h 1m · Movie

Police detective Dick Tracy must identify and apprehend a serial killer known as Splitface.

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Manpower

Manpower

1941 · 1h 44m · Movie

Two friends, who are members of a road crew employed by a Los Angeles power company, battle the elements to restore electrical power, and trade punches over the same woman.

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12
Silver River

Silver River

1948 · 1h 50m · Movie

After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.

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Texas

Texas

1941 · 1h 33m · Movie

Two young men head west in search of fortune and adventure.

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14
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

1946 · 1h 2m · Movie

Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him.

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Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money

1946 · 1h 6m · Movie

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.

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Gold Diggers of 1937

Gold Diggers of 1937

1936 · 1h 41m · Movie

When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life.

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Special Agent

Special Agent

1935 · 1h 16m · Movie

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates wit...

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Black Fury

Black Fury

1935 · 1h 34m · Movie

An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.

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Highway Dragnet

Highway Dragnet

1954 · 1h 11m · Movie

Wrongly accused of killing a bar-girl he was seen with earlier, a Korean War vet flees from the police in the company of a woman photographer and her young female model.

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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

1941 · 1h 41m · Movie

Andy is all set to graduate from high school when he flunks his English exam--despite the fact that the Judge went through the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

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21
Frisco Kid

Frisco Kid

1935 · 1h 17m · Movie

After a roustabout sailer avoids being shanghaied in 1852 San Francisco, his audacity helps him to arise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.

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The Courtship of Andy Hardy

The Courtship of Andy Hardy

1942 · 1h 35m · Movie

While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

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23
Music in My Heart

Music in My Heart

1940 · 1h 10m · Movie

Rita Hayworth co-stars with famed recording artist Tony Martin in this musical comedy featuring the music of Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra. Following various comic misunderstandings, the two meet and fall for each other, but...

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24
O.S.S.

O.S.S.

1946 · 1h 48m · Movie

During WW2, the O.S.S. sends teams of spies and saboteurs into Nazi-occupied France.

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25
Stranded

Stranded

1935 · 1h 12m · Movie

A construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Bright Lights

Bright Lights

1935 · 1h 22m · Movie

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out to do something strange (e.g. being a chor...

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27
Guns of the Pecos

Guns of the Pecos

1936 · 56m · Movie

Texas Ranger Steve Ainslee heads to Pecos City where a corrupt judge rules and his outlaws rustle cattle.

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Doctors Don't Tell

Doctors Don't Tell

1941 · 1h 5m · Movie

A naive young doctor, in a misguided effort to impress a young woman, finds himself in over his head when a gangster client demands plastic surgery to achieve the perfect disguise.

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Here's Flash Casey

Here's Flash Casey

1938 · 58m · Movie

Flash Casey, after working his way through college by taking pictures, finds the newspaper world harder to break into than he had expected.

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The Tougher They Come

The Tougher They Come

1950 · 1h 9m · Movie

Lumberjack Joe MacKinley (Preston Foster) inherits a valuable tract of forestland which is coveted by a large lumber company. He and his new bride, Helen (Kay Buckley), start a logging operation but quickly run into trouble becaus...

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