Michael Vallon
Also Known As: Rollo Dix
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 13, 1973
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The Dawn Express
Overview: A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Treasure of Monte Cristo
Overview: A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-27
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Rendezvous
Overview: A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Topeka
Overview: Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town. A hard-drinking, hard-living man, Elliot entertains thoughts of taking over the town himself for the benefit of his own gang. After several reels of soul-searching, Elliot decides to honor his promise to clean up the town for its decent citizens. Evidently director Thomas Carr rented a camera crane for this Allied Artists production, since the camera performs remarkable calisthenics, the kind not normally seen in a medium-budget western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-09
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Barbed Wire
Overview: A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-25
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The Silver Bullet
Overview: A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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Lightning Strikes West
Overview: When Butch Taggart escapes prison, the Marshal sends Lightning Morgan to find him and his hidden gold. He finds the map to the gold on Taggart's boot. Joe Laikon and his men are also after the gold and they overpower Morgan, get the map, and head for the treasure. But Morgan and Tod Grant are soon on their trail
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Snowfire
Overview: A little girl living on an isolated ranch claims to have formed a bond of friendship with a pure white, "wild" stallion. The horse is well known in the area, almost legendary, and supposedly vicious. Is she just making it up, or is she telling the truth? If it's real, isn't it dangerous for her with a "killer" horse? Or is the horse as vicious as he's been portrayed?
Genres: Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-18
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Death Rides the Range
Overview: A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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Two Gun Marshal
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
Overview: In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the members of a group of rebels. A Masked Cavalier, the niece, Lady Christianne, of the Marquis De Montableau, announces at a secret meeting of the Normandy underground leaders that the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo was willed to her and she will use it to finance their cause. Her uncle, the only one who can decipher the symbols on the sword of Monte Cristo, the key to the treasure, derides her stand against the Emperor. La Roche takes possession of the sword and has the Marquis put into the dungeon. Christianne, as the Masked Cavalier, regains the sword from La Roche, but Captain Renault apprehends her and returns to sword to La Roche.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-03
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Black Widow
Overview: A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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The Witness Vanishes
Overview: In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-22
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The Old Chisholm Trail
Overview: Dusty Gardner, and other Texas ranchers, are driving a herd of cattle to Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. Desperate need of water takes them to the Turner ranch, where Belle Turner demands exorbitant prices for the water. Dusty learns that Belle is also trying to oust Mary Lee and Montana Smith from the trading post Mary operates. The sheriff sides with Belle following a fight between the two women. Belle knows there is artesian springs under the land the trading post occupies and intends to get the property by any means.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Raiders of San Joaquin
Overview: In this western, two cowboys ride to the rescue of ranchers who are fighting to keep a land-grabber from taking their land and selling it to the railroad
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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Three Men from Texas
Overview: Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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The Lone Star Trail
Overview: Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two years in jail. Paroled, he can't wear a gun, but is aided by Marshal Fargo Steele. The gang is out to gain control of all of the valley land before a dam is constructed. When Blaze raises the money to pay off the taxes on his ranch, he finds it has been marked to incriminate him.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-06
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Drums of Fu Manchu
Overview: The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Overview: Tex Wyatt is blamed for a murder actually committed by Ransom and Holman, a couple of thieves. Tex manages to escape and is reunited with his two ranger pals Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins, both of whom are working undercover as performers in a medicine show.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-05
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Boss of Bullion City
Overview: A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Tuna Clipper
Overview: Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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Border Buckaroos
Overview: Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele, and Panhandle Perkins are en route to Boulder City to investigate the murder of rancher Dan Clark when they happen upon Trigger Farley, a gunslinger hired by Cole Melford, the chief suspects in Clark's murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-15
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The Spider Returns
Overview: The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Overview: It is now an accepted fact that the best of Johnny Mack Brown's Universal westerns were directed by the talented Joseph H. Lewis. Boss of Hangtown Mesa may not be in the same league as the Brown-Lewis classic Arizona Cyclone, but it comes awfully close. This time around, hero Steve Collins (Brown) comes to the aid of Betty Wilkins (Helen Deverell), who has taken over the telegraph-line business established by her uncle John (Henry Hall). The latter was murdered by outlaws who don't cotton to having the territory linked up electronically with the rest of the world.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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Six Gun Decision
Overview: A compilation of two episodes from the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series, Border City Election and Pony Express vs. Telegraph, edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Gunsmoke Mesa
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-01
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Trigger Trail
Overview: The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his town from being taken over by a villainous railroad financier.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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Rebel City
Overview: Wild Bill Elliot plays gambler Frank Graham, who heads to Kansas in search of his father's murderer. This being 1864, the local military presence is more preoccupied with keeping Southern sympathizers out of the state to worry about Graham's problems. Thus, our hero undertakes the task of exposing the killer himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-10
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Cheyenne Roundup
Overview: Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was released in mid-1943. Brown is herein cast in a dual role, as honest Gils Brandon and his less-than-honest brother Buck. Pursued by lawman Steve Rawlins (Tex Ritter), Buck tries to pass himself off as the upright Gils.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-12
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Ringside
Overview: Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-14
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Batman
Overview: Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Marshal of Gunsmoke
Overview: U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-22
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Appointment in Honduras
Overview: On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards
Genres: Adventure Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Tarnished
Overview: Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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The Steel Fist
Overview: In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-06
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Overview: Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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