Charles Lang
Also Known As: Charles G. Lang Jr., Charles Lang Jr.
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: February 15, 1915
Deathday: November 20, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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He Walked by Night
Overview: Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Overview: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-10
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Easy Living
Overview: A football halfback has a heart condition, a nagging wife and a team secretary who loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-08
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Truck Busters
Overview: An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-28
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Crime by Night
Overview: A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Overview: Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-03
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One Crowded Night
Overview: The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-09
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Secret Enemies
Overview: FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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The Last Ride
Overview: A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-07
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Wildcat Bus
Overview: A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Killer Shark
Overview: A college student takes a break and goes out to sea with his father, the captain of a shark-hunting boat. When his inexperience results in an accident in which his father and a crewman are badly injured, he tries to make up for it by rounding up another crew and going back out on the hunt. However, things don't turn out quite the way he planned.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-19
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
Overview: In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They end up writing a hit and getting a recording contract. The trouble is, the composer's works are never played without another band member doctoring them up to make them swingier. Fortunately, the composer isn't too averse to the changes as he has just won the heart of the beauty who sings his revamped songs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-03
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Hit the Road
Overview: Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Overview: The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-17
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Keep 'Em Flying
Overview: When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Bombay Clipper
Overview: Someone has absconded with $4,000,000 worth of diamonds, and that someone may very well be a passenger on the Bombay Clipper.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-11
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Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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The Wolf Hunters
Overview: A Canadian Mountie follows a fugitive to a small fur-trapping community. Most of the action is handled by Chinook, a handsome German Shepherd.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Blades of the Musketeers
Overview: In 1625 France, D'Artagnan joins the king's musketeers, meets three new friends - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - among them and, together, the four quickly find themselves embroiled in court intrigue with Prime Minister Richelieu attempting to sabotage the congenial relationship existing between France and England. Originally produced as a 60-minute episode of THE MAGNAVOX THEATER on CBS as THE THREE MUSKETEERS. This has the distinction of being the first movie specifically made for TV. Later retitled and released theatrically.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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Night Wind
Overview: A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Air Force
Overview: The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Genres: Action Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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The Great Jewel Robber
Overview: Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-15
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San Antonio Rose
Overview: San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-20
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Guadalcanal Diary
Overview: Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-27
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Strictly in the Groove
Overview: College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-20
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