Dave O'Brien
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Dave O'Brien (born David Poole Fronabarger, May 31, 1912 – November 8, 1969) was an American film actor, director, and writer.
O'Brien was best known to movie audiences in the 1940s as the hero of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy short film series Pete Smith Specialties narrated by Pete Smith. O'Brien wrote and directed many of these subjects under the name David Barclay. He also appeared in many low-budget Westerns, often billed as Tex O'Brien. In 1942, O'Brien starred in the movie serial Captain Midnight.
Modern audiences perhaps best remember O'Brien as a frantic dope addict in the 1936 low-budget exploitation film Tell Your Children (better known under its reissue title, Reefer Madness).
As a writer for The Red Skelton Show, O'Brien shared an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1961 and shared a nomination for the same award in 1963.
O'Brien died, aged 57, of a heart attack while competing in a yachting race.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.754 |
Birthday | 1912-05-31 |
Place of Birth | Big Spring, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | David Poole Fronabarger, David Fronabarger, David O'Brien, Dave O'Brian, Dave Tex O'Brien, Dave 'Tex' O'Brien, Tex O'Brien, Tex Coe, David Barclay, Dave Barclay, |
1940
The Devil Bat
5.3/77
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He deci...
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The Devil Bat
1941
Spooks Run Wild
4.9/21
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Spooks Run Wild
1938
Tell Your Children
4.3/101
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entic...
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Tell Your Children
1942
Bowery at Midnight
5.103/29
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Pol...
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Bowery at Midnight
1932
The Sign of the Cross
6.122/37
After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old C...
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The Sign of the Cross
1956
The Kettles in the Ozarks
6.4/4
Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootlegger...
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The Kettles in the Ozarks
1941
Flying Wild
5.9/8
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting s...
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Flying Wild
1940
On the Spot
5.3/2
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into natio...
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On the Spot
1941
Forbidden Trails
5.4/7
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked sal...
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Forbidden Trails
1938
Frontier Scout
4.5/2
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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Frontier Scout
1939
Riders of the Sage
5/1
In an effort to get Jim Martin to sell his ranch, the Halsey brothers have kidnapped his son Tom. When Bob Burke goes after him alone, he gets help fr...
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Riders of the Sage
1938
Whirlwind Horseman
4/1
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one o...
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Whirlwind Horseman
1934
Wonder Bar
6.2/18
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and t...
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Wonder Bar
1939
Crashing Thru
6/1
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Crashing Thru
1945
Enemy of the Law
5/2
Charley Gray is about to be released from the state penitentiary after serving a long term for the robbery of a government gold shipment. The gold was...
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Enemy of the Law
1944
Gangsters of the Frontier
3.8/7
Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing...
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Gangsters of the Frontier
1945
The Phantom of 42nd Street
4.5/10
A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
1945
Frontier Fugitives
0/0
Ellen Williams' father has a valuable collection of furs and an outlaw gang is after them. Before he is killed, Williams hides a note revealing their...
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Frontier Fugitives
1931
Consolation Marriage
6.1/10
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
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Consolation Marriage
1942
Down Texas Way
0/1
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marsha...
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Down Texas Way
1945
The Man Who Walked Alone
5.5/3
A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car....
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The Man Who Walked Alone
1940
Queen of the Yukon
5/3
The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
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Queen of the Yukon
1942
Law and Order
6/0
Billy the Kid and his pals Jeff Travis and Fuzzy Jones are arrested and brought to Fort Culver, where Billy is amazed to discover that he and the post...
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Law and Order
1937
Brothers of the West
6/2
Tyler is a range detective whose brother stands accused of robbing a bank and murdering the bank president. To prove him innocent, Tyler must decipher...
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Brothers of the West
1938
Utah Trail
5/1
Tex and his sidekicks arrive to help out his friend Jeffers, a railroad owner, only to find that he has been killed. They quickly run into trouble wit...
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Utah Trail
1938
Where the Buffalo Roam
5/3
Tex returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed on Rogel and his men. He mak...
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Where the Buffalo Roam
1938
The Singing Cowgirl
5/1
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually...
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The Singing Cowgirl
1936
The Black Coin
6/1
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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The Black Coin
1939
Daughter of the Tong
5/4
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
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Daughter of the Tong
1933
One Man's Journey
7.1/10
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his so...
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One Man's Journey
1940
Phantom Rancher
3.5/4
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
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Phantom Rancher
1939
Flaming Lead
4/1
Cowhand Ken Clark is stranded in Chicago, and temporarily takes a job as a sharp-shooter entertainer in a night club, with the intention of getting en...
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Flaming Lead
1942
Captain Midnight
5/2
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator de...
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Captain Midnight
1930
Good News
5/1
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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Good News
1953
T.V. of Tomorrow
6.289/19
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of co...
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T.V. of Tomorrow
1939
Buried Alive
4.6/5
A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, an...
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Buried Alive
1939
Water Rustlers
4/1
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. Th...
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Water Rustlers
1935
Woman Wanted
6.3/7
Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Bax...
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Woman Wanted
1931
Flying High
4.8/4
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Flying High
1933
College Humor
5.6/6
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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College Humor
1939
On Your Toes
3.9/4
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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On Your Toes
1932
Roar of the Dragon
6.3/3
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the g...
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Roar of the Dragon
1939
Code of the Cactus
5.5/4
A story of cattle rustling and double identities.
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Code of the Cactus
1939
Outlaws' Paradise
0/0
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
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Outlaws' Paradise
1939
Undercover Agent
4.8/3
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
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Undercover Agent
1939
Wyoming Outlaw
5.8/9
Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.
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Wyoming Outlaw
1939
New Frontier
5.5/20
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be wort...
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New Frontier
1939
The Fighting Renegade
5.7/3
El Puma, a Mexican desert guide, escorts an archaeological expedition headed by Professor Lucius Lloyd through the Indian badlands of Mexico. Marian,...
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The Fighting Renegade
1939
The Arizona Kid
5.8/5
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to t...
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The Arizona Kid
1939
Mutiny in the Big House
4.4/5
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Mutiny in the Big House
1939
Fighting Mad
4/2
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger and Leon capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issu...
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Fighting Mad
1941
Double Trouble
0/0
Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidenta...
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Double Trouble
1940
Danger Ahead
0/0
The Royal Mounties are called in when one of the armored cars owned by Maxwell, containing a gold shipment, disappears with driver George Hill suspect...
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Danger Ahead
1940
Murder on the Yukon
3.5/2
Unknown to Joan Manning, her trading post partner Weathers is operating a counterfeiting ring. When miner Jim Smithers brings his gold dust in, Weathe...
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Murder on the Yukon
1940
Yukon Flight
3.9/7
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect...
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Yukon Flight
1940
Sky Bandits
5/5
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devis...
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Sky Bandits
1939
Texas Wildcats
0/0
Lightning Bill Carson and sidekick Magpie are after Burrows, the man that killed a friend of theirs. Burrows is after the Arden ranch and his gang are...
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Texas Wildcats
1939
Rollin' Westward
5/3
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
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Rollin' Westward
1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
4/2
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysteriou...
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1953
Things We Can Do Without
8/1
A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble tha...
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Things We Can Do Without
1934
Search for Beauty
5.9/9
Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictu...
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Search for Beauty
1940
East Side Kids
7/5
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...
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East Side Kids
1940
That Gang of Mine
5.6/12
A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The m...
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That Gang of Mine
1940
Boys of the City
5.4/10
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Boys of the City
1942
Prisoner of Japan
4.3/3
An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.
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Prisoner of Japan
1942
The Rangers Take Over
6/1
Jim Steele spots Pete Dawson taking horses over the Mexico-Texas border, but Dawson has an alibi. A new group of recruits arrives at the Ranger statio...
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The Rangers Take Over
1942
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
6.8/9
The East Side Kids find a young girl in the apartment of a man who has just been murdered. Believing her to be innocent, they hide her in their clubho...
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
1954
Ain't It Aggravatin'
6/1
This comedic short looks at human foibles that lead to major aggravations.
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Ain't It Aggravatin'
1950
Did'ja Know?
7/1
This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father?; How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year?; Why do...
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Did'ja Know?
1941
The Gunman From Bodie
7/1
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is...
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The Gunman From Bodie
1943
Trail of Terror
0/0
Texas Ranger O'Brien has an outlaw twin brother. When his sibling is killed, O'Brien assumes his identity in order to infiltrate a gang of stagecoach...
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Trail of Terror
1937
Rough Riding Rhythm
0/0
When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have jus...
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Rough Riding Rhythm
1940
The Cowboy from Sundown
0/0
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, S...
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The Cowboy from Sundown
1941
Billy the Kid Wanted
5.7/4
Billy the Kid and his pal Jeff help their friend Fuzzy Jones escape from jail, and the trio heads for Paradise Valley, where they find the Paradise La...
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Billy the Kid Wanted
1944
Guns of the Law
5/4
The Texas Rangers take on a shyster who is trying to bilk a family of their money after he learns that an oil company thinks their land may contain th...
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Guns of the Law
1934
Student Tour
5/2
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Student Tour
1934
Gift of Gab
1/1
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
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Gift of Gab
1933
Sitting Pretty
9/3
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon propriete...
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Sitting Pretty
1934
Tomorrow's Children
5.2/6
Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoh...
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Tomorrow's Children
1933
College Coach
4.3/9
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a g...
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College Coach
1940
Son of the Navy
5.5/4
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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Son of the Navy
1940
Isle Of Destiny
5/6
A pretty socialite / pilot runs into gun smugglers when she lands her plane on a Pacific island.
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Isle Of Destiny
1940
Hold That Woman!
5/1
A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--reposses...
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Hold That Woman!
1946
I Love My Husband, But!
0/0
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a wife endures the trials of being married to a husband with traits that drive her crazy.
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I Love My Husband, But!
1944
Movie Pests
5.6/8
This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.
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Movie Pests
1946
Sure Cures
5/4
This comedic Pete Smith Specialty short examines the folly of using "home remedies" for various ills.
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Sure Cures
1955
The Fall Guy
6/1
In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and upo...
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The Fall Guy
1946
Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
0/0
A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and siz...
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Equestrian Quiz: What's Your I.Q.? No. 11
1934
We're Rich Again
4/2
A polo-playing grandmother and her broke brood get back in the money with a Wall Street bet.
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We're Rich Again
1935
Doubting Thomas
7/1
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides t...
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Doubting Thomas
1932
Is My Face Red?
4.8/4
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets most of...
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Is My Face Red?
1933
Pick-up
4.3/3
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, sh...
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Pick-up
1941
The Texas Marshal
0/0
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke tea...
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The Texas Marshal
1936
The Girl on the Front Page
0/0
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.
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The Girl on the Front Page
1943
Bad Men of Thunder Gap
0/0
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 rang...
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
1946
Studio Visit
3.5/2
This humorous Pete Smith Specialty short looks around various studios on a film lot.
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Studio Visit
1943
Border Buckaroos
0/0
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...
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Border Buckaroos
1943
Boss of Rawhide
5.5/2
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex ent...
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Boss of Rawhide
1941
The Spider Returns
8.7/3
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
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The Spider Returns
1942
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
4.5/2
Knowing the Army is arriving to establish a post. Doc Hagan and his gang and the crooked Sheriff are trying to drive the ranchers off the land. When t...
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Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
1940
Gun Code
0/0
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be foole...
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Gun Code
1941
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
4/2
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
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Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1942
Sheriff of Sage Valley
5.6/5
Billy and his pals, on the run from the law again, travel to Sage Valley where Billy is made Sheriff. The local outlaw gang is run by Kansas Ed who cl...
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Sheriff of Sage Valley
1943
Fighting Valley
0/0
Someone has been stealing ore from a valuable smelting mine. One of the independent mine-owners victimized by the crooks is pretty Joan Manning, makin...
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Fighting Valley
1943
The Return of the Rangers
0/0
The Texas Rangers round up rustlers by masquerading as the same. Trouble ensues when while in disguise one of the Rangers is accused of a killing.
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The Return of the Rangers
1944
The Pinto Bandit
0/0
A masked desperado wants to disrupt the mail service between two frontier communities.
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The Pinto Bandit
1943
West of Texas
0/0
Rangers Tex Wyatt and Jim Steele arrive in Gabe's Crossing, NM, to capture Bent Yeager, a rancher accused of sabotaging the progress of the railroad.
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West of Texas
1944
Brand of the Devil
5/1
Jolley is the leader of the Devil's Brand gang of rustlers. When Molly Dawson sends for the Texas Rangers, Tex, Jim, and Panhandle arrive pretending n...
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Brand of the Devil
1944
Dead or Alive
5.3/3
The Rangers are after Yackey and his gang. Posing as an outlaw, Dave arrives as Panhandle's prisoner and works his way into the gang. Tex arrives and...
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Dead or Alive
1944
Gunsmoke Mesa
1/1
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Gunsmoke Mesa
1944
Outlaw Roundup
0/0
Ranger Tex Wyatt introduces himself as the notorious bandit Spade Norton. Crooked saloon owner Red Hayden believes him until the real Spade turns up a...
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Outlaw Roundup
1944
The Whispering Skull
6.5/2
Rangers Tex Haines and Dave Wyatt track a killer known as the Whispering Skull. In the wake of the Skull's slaughter, a band of thieves takes advantag...
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The Whispering Skull
1944
Spook Town
0/0
Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim St...
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Spook Town
1945
Flaming Bullets
5/1
Bullets fly as the Texas rangers fight an outlaw gang.
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Flaming Bullets
1945
Marked for Murder
4.2/5
In this western, the Texas Rangers must stop a range war between sheepherders and cattle ranchers from erupting.
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Marked for Murder
1945
Three in the Saddle
0/0
Peggy Barlou is a young rancher who refuses to sell her spread to greedy stage-line proprietor John Rankin. Tex Haines, meanwhile, is accused of killi...
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Three in the Saddle
1938
Starlight Over Texas
0/0
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing...
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Starlight Over Texas
1956
The Desperados Are in Town
0/0
In this western, a young man tries to walk the straight and narrow, but he is impeded by his past. The trouble begins when the young fellow flees his...
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The Desperados Are in Town
1941
Murder by Invitation
5.1/8
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard...
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Murder by Invitation
1937
Lightnin' Crandall
3/1
Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.
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Lightnin' Crandall
1930
The Dawn Patrol
6.5/22
World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons a...
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The Dawn Patrol
1947
I Love My Wife BUT!
7.5/2
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.
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I Love My Wife BUT!
1950
A Wife's Life
6/1
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short, average housewife Mrs. George T. Hardnose's day is recalled.
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A Wife's Life
1948
I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
7.3/3
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their son-in-l...
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I Love My Mother-In-Law But...
1953
Cash Stashers
6/1
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places.
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Cash Stashers
1952
I Love Children, But!
0/0
A Pete Smith specialty.
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I Love Children, But!
1955
The Man Around the House
0/0
A humorous look at some typical housework troubles that may arise. A Pete Smith Specialty short.
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The Man Around the House
1955
Just What I Needed
0/0
Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.
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Just What I Needed
1932
Rasputin and the Empress
5/9
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
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Rasputin and the Empress
1950
Wrong Way Butch
5.8/5
This Pete Smith Specialty short was produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor. Using humor, it shows what can happen when tools and ma...
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Wrong Way Butch
1948
You Can't Win
3.7/7
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
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You Can't Win
1954
Do Someone a Favor!
0/0
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a friendly do-gooder's good deeds backfire.
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Do Someone a Favor!
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
6.8/33
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1948
Just Suppose
0/0
An off-camera narrator takes us through various scenarios of "just suppose". First we watch what would happen if a private detective behaved at home a...
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Just Suppose
1952
Reducing
2/1
Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...
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Reducing
1947
Have You Ever Wondered?
0/0
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, answers are sought regarding some things people may have wondered about.
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Have You Ever Wondered?
1942
Victory Quiz
6/1
A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.
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Victory Quiz
1942
Calling All Pa's
6/1
In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
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Calling All Pa's
1944
Safety Sleuth
0/0
Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.
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Safety Sleuth
1942
King of the Stallions
6/1
Both Indians and cowboys are after a beautiful stallion, the leader of a pack of wild horses.
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King of the Stallions
1946
Treasures from Trash
8/1
This short film presents an unusual Beverly Hills store called the Patio Shop, where trash is turned into art.
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Treasures from Trash
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3/3
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1935
Ship Cafe
0/0
The singing stoker and the vamp.
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Ship Cafe
1932
70,000 Witnesses
4.3/3
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and...
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70,000 Witnesses
1943
Seventh Column
0/0
This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
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Seventh Column
1936
Wanted - A Master
6.2/5
A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadli...
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Wanted - A Master
1953
Kiss Me Kate
6.5/81
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a gre...
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Kiss Me Kate
1935
No More Ladies
5.143/7
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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No More Ladies
1944
Sportsman's Memories
0/0
Filmmaker Pete Smith is very protective of the trophies and other mementos associated with his films that are located in his office at the studio, but...
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Sportsman's Memories
1954
Tennessee Champ
5.8/5
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
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Tennessee Champ
1942
The Yanks Are Coming
4.5/6
A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchang...
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The Yanks Are Coming
1935
Welcome Home
0/0
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build...
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Welcome Home
1937
Million Dollar Racket
6/1
Millionaire Larry Duane is posing as his own chauffeur while touring the West and meets Molly Hennessey. They have a small romance until it is ended w...
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Million Dollar Racket
1938
Song of the Buckaroo
0/0
An outlaw on the run assumes the identity of a dead man. When in his new identity he finds himself elected the mayor of a small town, he decides to go...
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Song of the Buckaroo
1949
Those Good Old Days
0/0
Life in mid-century America is humorously compared to life at the turn of the century. Subject covered are keeping accurate time, proposing marriage,...
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Those Good Old Days
1938
Man's Country
0/0
An undercover Texas Ranger runs into trouble when he learns that the murderer he's trailing has a twin brother.
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Man's Country
1947
Neighbor Pests
0/0
Narrator Pete Smith talks about the different kinds of neighbors that can be pests, and how to deal with them.
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Neighbor Pests
1938
The Secret of Treasure Island
4/2
A variety of people are searching for a long-hidden treasure somewhere on an island. Chapters: 1. The Isle of Fear, 2. The Ghost Talks, 3. The Phan...
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The Secret of Treasure Island
1948
Let's Cogitate
0/0
Short film covering a variety of topics that folks may have wondered about.
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Let's Cogitate
2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
6/2
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
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42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
1938
Gun Packer
0/0
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-co...
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Gun Packer
1939
Drifting Westward
0/0
Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the thir...
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Drifting Westward
1932
Hot Saturday
6.6/17
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious wom...
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Hot Saturday
1941
The Deadly Game
6/1
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Was...
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The Deadly Game
1938
Born to Be Wild
7/1
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep...
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Born to Be Wild
1939
Trigger Smith
0/0
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother.
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Trigger Smith
1941
Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
0/0
Rancher Timothy Wade is ambushed by a masked man riding a pinto horse. His young son, Buzzy Wade and the loyal ranch foreman, Dude Bates, are mystifie...
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Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
1954
Out for Fun
0/0
A tense businessman seeks to find a relaxing pastime but proves himself inept at golf, duck-hunting, and model plane building.
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Out for Fun
1944
Tahiti Nights
0/0
Islanders make arrangements for an American bandleader to marry a princess.
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Tahiti Nights
1942
Carry Harry
0/1
After getting into a compromising situation with a woman and her angry boyfriend, Harry uses a fire escape to hide in a friend's apartment, but finds...
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