Don Costello
Also Known As: Eldon Lawrence Costello
Biography: A Broadway stage actor, Costello entered films in 1935 and in 1939 was put under contract with MGM. Known for his wicked sense of humor, Costello often times played the role of a menace or a tough guy. Date of Death 24 October 1945, Hollywood, California
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Birthday: September 05, 1901
Deathday: October 24, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Another Thin Man
Overview: Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Overview: Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Air Raid Wardens
Overview: Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs bent on blowing up the local magnesium plant.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-04
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The Blue Dahlia
Overview: Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-16
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The Red Dragon
Overview: Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-01
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Overview: Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-07
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Texas Masquerade
Overview: A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-08
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Mystery Man
Overview: Hoppy's ranch is threatened by rustlers. Hoppy and the gang oblige as usual.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-31
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Along Came Jones
Overview: An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-19
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Whistling in the Dark
Overview: Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Crime Doctor
Overview: Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-22
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A Night to Remember
Overview: A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-10
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Unholy Partners
Overview: A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-01
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Sleepers West
Overview: Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-14
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Just Off Broadway
Overview: Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-28
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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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I'll Wait for You
Overview: A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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Murder on the Waterfront
Overview: A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-18
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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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Ride on Vaquero
Overview: The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-18
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Last of the Duanes
Overview: Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Crime of the Century
Overview: Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a group of people trying to conceal the death of the president of a large corporation so they can profit financially. With the aid of the dead man's daughter, Audrey Brandon, Hank exposes the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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Hot News Margie
Overview: Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Joe Smith, American
Overview: Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-01
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The Whistler
Overview: A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-30
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Great Stagecoach Robbery
Overview: In this western, Red Ryder tries to be a good example for a young man who idolizes his father, an outlaw. The boy wants to follow in his father's footsteps when the hero intervenes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-15
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Marshal of Laredo
Overview: Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-06
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Sundown Jim
Overview: US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local criminal element, which he does with determination.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Overview: A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-19
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Incendiary Blonde
Overview: Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-25
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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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Follow That Woman
Overview: A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-14
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Here Come the Co-eds
Overview: Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-02
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