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Purnell Pratt

Purnell Pratt

Purnell Pratt (October 20, 1885 – July 25, 1941) was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1914 and 1941. He was born in Bethel, Illinois and died in Hollywood, California.

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Doctors Don't Tell (1941)

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics. ...

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Ringside Maisie (1941)

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him ...

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Pot o' Gold (1941)

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly ...

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Grand Ole Opry (1940)

Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians. ...

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Colorado Sunset (1939)

When his well-meaning sidekick (Smiley Burnette) buys a cow farm instead of a cattle ranch, singing cowpoke Gene Autry prepares to embrace the dairy business. But with a corrupt association bent on driving up milk prices, it's up to newly elected Sheriff G ...

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My Wife's Relatives (1939)

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy c ...

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Come On, Rangers (1938)

A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot. ...

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Rosalie (1937)

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom. ...

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Under Suspicion (1937)

Jack Holt stars as Robert Bailey, a Henry Ford-like auto industrialist who decides to give his millions away to various charitable causes. Naturally, this arouses hostility amongst Bailey's friends, relatives and associates, some of whom have murder on the ...

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High, Wide and Handsome (1937)

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, ...

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Night of Mystery (1937)

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family. ...

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King of Gamblers (1937)

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyon ...

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Murder Goes to College (1937)

The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to "beat the numbers-racket" with applied mathematics. One of the professors, Tom Barry is murdered in the Dean's office. ...

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Join the Marines (1937)

New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow. ...

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The Plainsman (1936)

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner. ...

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Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their ...

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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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Wives Never Know (1936)

The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. Hugh Ramsay, author of the bestselling book, "Marriage—The Living Death". ...

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Lady Be Careful (1936)

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful. The plot remains substantially the same, as an amorous sailor named Dynamite (Lew Ayres) bets his pals that h ...

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Let's Make a Million (1936)

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket. ...

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Straight from the Shoulder (1936)

A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son. ...

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Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to de ...

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The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)

In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady who is also a jewel collector. One day her employer decides to take ...

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Dancing Feet (1936)

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance ha ...

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Magnificent Obsession (1935)

A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death. ...

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Frisco Waterfront (1935)

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his ...

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A Night at the Opera (1935)

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. ...

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$1,000 a Minute (1935)

Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours. ...

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It's in the Air (1935)

Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing bo ...

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Waterfront Lady (1935)

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner. ...

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Red Salute (1935)

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and taken to Mexico--hoping that she will forget her "Red" boyfriend--by a young, handsome soldier named Jeff ...

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Diamond Jim (1935)

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady. ...

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Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures. ...

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The Casino Murder Case (1935)

After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer. ...

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Behind the Green Lights (1935)

A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer). ...

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Death Flies East (1935)

Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice) is a nurse convicted of poisoning a patient. Out on parole, Evelyn decides to fly to Sing-Sing and confront death row inmate who accused her of the deed in the first place. On board the airliner, Evelyn makes the acquaintance of ...

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Rendezvous at Midnight (1935)

There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed. ...

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The Winning Ticket (1935)

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife. ...

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The Band Plays On (1934)

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars. ...

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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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Crimson Romance (1934)

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Al ...

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Name the Woman (1934)

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine. ...

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Midnight Alibi (1934)

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father. ...

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The Hell Cat (1934)

Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw ...

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The Witching Hour (1934)

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield ...

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School for Girls (1934)

After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the managemen ...

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Lazy River (1934)

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring. ...

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The Mystery Squadron (1933)

Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam. ...

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Son of a Sailor (1933)

A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane. ...

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The Chief (1933)

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians. ...

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The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)

A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women. ...

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Love, Honor and Oh, Baby! (1933)

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer. ...

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Midshipman Jack (1933)

Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. ...

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Headline Shooter (1933)

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot. ...

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A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residen ...

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I Cover the Waterfront (1933)

An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter. ...

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Pick-up (1933)

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together. ...

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The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter. ...

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The Unwritten Law (1932)

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician. ...

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Red Haired Alibi (1932)

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster. ...

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False Faces (1932)

The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dub ...

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Grand Hotel (1932)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache. ...

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Skyscraper Souls (1932)

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his b ...

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The Roadhouse Murder (1932)

After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. ...

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The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwa ...

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Scarface (1932)

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life. ...

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Emma (1932)

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father. ...

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Ladies of the Big House (1931)

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit. ...

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The Secret Witness (1931)

A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder. ...

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Five Star Final (1931)

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved. ...

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The Spider (1931)

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When ...

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The Gay Diplomat (1931)

Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance. ...

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Traveling Husbands (1931)

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit. ...

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The Public Defender (1931)

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds. ...

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Up for Murder (1931)

Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, who is also the paper's society editor. ...

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The Public Enemy (1931)

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and riva ...

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Bachelor Apartment (1931)

A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews. ...

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Beyond Victory (1931)

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind. ...

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The Prodigal (1931)

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family. ...

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Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, her naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people. ...

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