Charles R. Moore Trailers
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Charles R. Moore (April 23, 1893, Chicago, Illinois - July 20, 1947, Los Angeles, California) was an African-American actor who appeared in over 100 films in his acting career, and was sometimes credited as Charles Moore or Charlie Moore Moore played small parts such as servants, bootblacks, elevator operators, menial laborers, and, especially, railroad porters and Red Caps. Film buffs may remember him in Meet John Doe where he played the City Hall janitor trying to smoke a cigar while washing the floor on the Christmas Eve that John Doe has threatened to jump off the building. Moore was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in six of Sturges' films. In Sullivan's Travels, Moore had a memorable moment as the chef who is propelled headfirst through the roof of the land yacht during the chase scene. Moore was also a dancer, but that skill was not often called for in his film appearances.
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29 July 1938
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt.
06 May 1938
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
24 June 1941
The irrepressible Donald Barry is twice falsely accused of murder in this typical low-budget but well-mounted Republic Western.
02 October 1940
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
03 March 1938
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
11 November 1938
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson.
03 January 1941
Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row.
15 June 1934
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
19 March 1939
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander.
14 March 1941
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
20 October 1943
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
07 February 1941
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
29 December 1938
G-Men in Washington break up a powerful spy ring and capture the ringleaders.
04 March 1933
Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who has gone missing on her wedding night.
24 April 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills.
04 May 1934
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
29 November 1940
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes.
25 October 1940
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves.
24 December 1943
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics.
03 December 1938
A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.
12 April 1935
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
13 May 1946
Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes.
03 May 1939
When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his sweetheart Susan Warren.
15 May 1939
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
30 November 1941
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand.
19 April 1940
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat.
30 October 1942
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her, but runs afoul of her father when she discovers that her mischief might have found her true love.
29 August 1941
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
19 December 1936
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
27 October 1936
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
10 November 1934
A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs.
21 February 1931
An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
17 October 1941
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land.
01 August 1940
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud.
28 August 1942
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J.
14 September 1942
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl.
01 September 1935
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
15 November 1938
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt.
23 June 1943
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie.
04 April 1947
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.
09 August 1944
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure.
08 July 1932
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
14 July 1940
A singing cowboy and his sidekick encounter misunderstandings and rodeo havoc as they try and save a man and daughter from con men.
13 February 1947
A WAC officer returns from the war to find her husband wants a divorce.
16 June 1934
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".
21 September 1931
Beach Pajamas is a 1931 Comedy short
17 November 1936
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die.
30 December 1938
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
01 May 1936
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
24 July 1936
Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000 if he can cash it in without getting apprehended.
07 September 1935
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
26 May 1933
Newlyweds experience marital problems when the wife's highly successful job as an attorney overshadows her husband's stagnant career.
02 November 1940
Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
28 December 1929
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
28 June 1940
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
15 May 1931
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
17 December 1922
Melodramatic thriller, presented in 9.5mm format
05 April 1930
A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
10 March 1933
Gunner and Bucker are friends who work as riveters. Whenever Bucker gets the urge to marry, which is often, Gunner will hit on his girl to see if she is true or not.
