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Charles Barton

Charles Barton

Charles Barton (May 25, 1902 – December 5, 1981) was a film and vaudeville actor and film director. He won an Oscar for best assistant director in 1933. His first film as a director was the Zane Grey feature Wagon Wheels.

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Swingin' Along (1961)

An amateur tunesmith and a con man pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest. ...

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Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, the frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games when the evil candy vendor, Harry Tupper, convinces Toby tha ...

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Zorro, the Avenger (1959)

Masked crusader Zorro and his father, Don Alejandro, face off against mysterious despot The Eagle in a fight for control of old Spanish California. ...

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Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker. ...

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The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an act of bravery.... ...

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The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (1959)

The story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet. ...

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Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

Bud and Lou are the owners of the amusement park Kiddieland. Bud, a compulsive gambler, gets in trouble with the mob, and Lou finds himself struggling to keep his adopted children. When Bud is forced to make a shady deal, Lou tries to arrange a deal with t ...

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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson. ...

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Double Crossbones (1951)

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 ca ...

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The Milkman (1950)

A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company. ...

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Free For All (1949)

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor. ...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). ...

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Africa Screams (1949)

When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels. ...

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Mexican Hayride (1948)

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter. ...

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10,000 Kids and a Cop (1948)

A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood policeman, visits the Foundation and discovers the juveniles who use ...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body. ...

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The Noose Hangs High (1948)

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up h ...

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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)

Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime. ...

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Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to fi ...

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White Tie and Tails (1946)

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress. ...

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The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Two ghosts, who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War, return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence. ...

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Smooth as Silk (1946)

An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree. ...

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Spellbound (1945)

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he ...

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Men in Her Diary (1945)

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of her time to her attractive older sister. But she does keep a diary that contains some fact and many fictio ...

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The Beautiful Cheat (1945)

The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the juvenile-delinquent mindset. Not surprisingly, he ends up taking a post-grad course in amour from the winsome ...

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Louisiana Hayride (1944)

A naïve farm girl is duped by con men who promise her movie stardom in exchange for her savings. ...

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Jam Session (1944)

A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career. ...

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Hey, Rookie (1944)

Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thin ...

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Beautiful But Broke (1944)

Theatrical agent Waldo Main is inducted into the army, and turns his now clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan. Dottie decides to organize an all-girl orchestra to fill the void caused by so many orchestra members being called to service du ...

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Is Everybody Happy? (1943)

This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. ...

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What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)

Musicians help a woman and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel. ...

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She Has What It Takes (1943)

Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother. ...

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Let's Have Fun (1943)

When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her. ...

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Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hi ...

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Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher. ...

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The Spirit of Stanford (1942)

Columbia's Spirit of Stanford is built around the talents of a real-life college football star, in this instance all-American quarterback Frankie Albert. ...

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Lucky Legs (1942)

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the round ...

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A Man's World (1942)

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious ...

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Parachute Nurse (1942)

Nurses parachuting. ...

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Hello, Annapolis (1942)

Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl. ...

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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! (1942)

Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and J ...

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Shut My Big Mouth (1942)

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west. ...

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Honolulu Lu (1941)

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen. ...

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Sing for Your Supper (1941)

Evelyn Palmer, a débutante society girl who also is a property landlord, becomes interested in the plight of one of her tenants, a struggling band-leader, to the extent she becomes a hostess in a dance club, incognito, where the band plays, and soon is th ...

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Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arriv ...

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Harmon of Michigan (1941)

A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football. Instead, he marries his college sweetheart (Anita Louise) and begins a career as a college football coach. ...

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The Richest Man in Town (1941)

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one. ...

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The Big Boss (1941)

Two brothers are separated after the death of their father. One grows up to be a politician, while the other gets involved in corruption. ...

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The Phantom Submarine (1940)

On the night before he sails in search of the steamship Arcadia's sunken gold, Paul Sinclair (Bruce Bennett)meets Madeliene Nielson (Anita Louise) in a San Francisco nightclub. On the second day at sea, Madeliene turns up as a stowaway. While diving and se ...

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Nobody's Children (1940)

A radio host broadcasts a show about children living in an orphanage. ...

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Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school. ...

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Out West with the Peppers (1940)

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But adjusting to a new home and community isn't easy for the brood. Third entry in the "Five Little Peppers" se ...

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Babies for Sale (1940)

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket. ...

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Island of Doomed Men (1940)

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner. ...

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Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill. ...

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My Son Is Guilty (1939)

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring. ...

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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew (1939)

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children. In this one the family inherits co-ownership in a copper mine. ...

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Behind Prison Gates (1939)

An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot. ...

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Born to the West (1937)

Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life. ...

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Thunder Trail (1937)

A wagon train is robbed by a gang of bandits who kill everyone but a pair of young brothers. Years later, the brothers join force to bring the bandits' leader to justice. ...

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Forlorn River (1937)

"Nevada" and "Weary" Pierce hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter, and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner. U. S. government horse-buyer David Ward is killed by Settler's men and Settler takes his papers and goes to the ranc ...

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The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)

Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment. ...

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Rose Bowl (1936)

Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American ...

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Murder with Pictures (1936)

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fi ...

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And Sudden Death (1936)

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving. ...

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Timothy's Quest (1936)

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, ...

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Nevada (1935)

A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas. ...

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The Last Outpost (1935)

During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level. ...

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Car 99 (1935)

A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distingui ...

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The Fighting Westerner (1935)

A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where a valuable radium strike may have been made. ...

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Wagon Wheels (1934)

A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch ...

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The Trumpet Blows (1934)

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the ...

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Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania. ...

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Movies Starring Charles Barton (2)

The Shaggy Dog Kids (2006)

Reminiscences by the kids from the original 1959 Disney film. ...

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Beau Geste (1939)

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a ...

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