Joseph Allen
Also Known As: Joe Allen Jr., Joseph A. Allen Jr., Joseph Allen Jr., Allen Brook, Joseph Alfred Allen Jr.
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: March 30, 1918
Deathday: November 09, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Mountain Rhythm
Overview: The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-08
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The Desperate Women
Overview: The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Valley of Head Hunters
Overview: Bad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-29
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Dangerous Money
Overview: A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-12
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Road to the Big House
Overview: A bank clerk gets sent to prison after he robs his own bank. Live becomes even more difficult behind bars when he starts getting pressured to reveal where he hid the money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-13
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The Mantrap
Overview: Henry Stephenson stars as a retired Scotland Yard detective. He is regarded as an icon because he has written volumes of books on the art of detection. While Stephenson is being honoured for his past successes, he senses modern detectives, particularly the current District Attorney, look at him and his methods as outdated. This spurs the old man out of retirement to prove himself to the know-it-all modern detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-13
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Big Town Scandal
Overview: A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-27
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Big Town After Dark
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-12
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Lucky Night
Overview: Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-05
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Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-23
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It Happened in Flatbush
Overview: A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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My Son, The Hero
Overview: Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-05
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Cannibal Attack
Overview: Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Night Before the Divorce
Overview: Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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All Women Have Secrets
Overview: When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Gunfighters of the Northwest
Overview: Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for creating trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-14
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Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Overview: A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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Death of a Champion
Overview: Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclopedias...and does it well as he possesses a photographic memory that amazes the rubes. The Champion, in the title, is a Great Dane who has won the title at the Rubeville State Fair, and it isn't long before the Champion turns up dead, which is because somebody---motive unknown at the moment---has killed the Champion. This is repeated at other shows along the way and Quade's bright young assistant, "Small Fry", fancies himself as an amateur detective, and starts nosing around into the mystery and drags Quade along with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-24
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The League of Frightened Men
Overview: Nero Wolfe agrees to investigate a series of murders that seem to be tied in with a past Harvard hazing prank that went awry.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-25
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