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Selmer Jackson (May 7, 1888 - March 30, 1971) was an American stage, film and television actor who appeared in nearly 400 films between 1921 and 1963.
Total trailers found: 287
01 February 1946
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart.
11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
14 May 1937
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
31 May 1946
A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written a steamy bestseller under an assumed name.
15 December 1939
G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US.
16 October 1939
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.
16 August 1936
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
07 June 1942
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr.
06 February 1938
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.
29 January 1943
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
03 October 1929
George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager.
29 November 1937
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel).
08 November 1939
Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school.
04 December 1936
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
02 June 1945
After the death of shipping magnate William Reardon, his young partner, Steve Walker, becomes executor and manager of his shipyards, in accordance with his will.
02 June 1939
A rookie cop and his girlfriend's uncle, a police captain, disagree on the methods that should be used to catch criminals.
27 July 1948
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
09 September 1938
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
31 May 1935
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
19 April 1940
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release.
12 July 1940
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
27 January 1937
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
26 December 1933
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
14 February 1936
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler.
03 February 1933
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
24 February 1934
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
17 July 1949
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar.
26 April 1940
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school.
01 January 1984
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
19 April 1939
A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.
02 March 1938
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
11 January 1940
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family.
08 July 1938
Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
10 November 1941
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
16 December 1946
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
19 June 1940
David Cook and twin brother Tom are poles apart in disposition and traits. When their father dies, Tom goes to New Mexico to live with his Uncle Hardtack while David remains behind to care for their mother.
13 July 1935
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
24 December 1950
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
23 July 1943
Honeymoon Lodge is a musical variation on the old Awful Truth plotline. Divorce-bound Bob and Carol Sterling (David Bruce, June Vincent) make a last-ditch attempt to avoid their legal breakup by restaging their mountain-resort honeymoon.
05 September 1945
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets.
02 May 1952
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
06 January 1939
The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of ship's physician in order to be near Ann Grayson, the ship's nurse.
07 April 1939
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr.
14 January 1935
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures.
04 September 1942
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
23 November 1951
Two sets of parents frantically race to stop their eloping children's wedding.
20 May 1933
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary.
18 April 1947
A shell-shocked young GI mistakenly believes he is dying, and a young artist takes it upon herself to prove to him that he's not.
24 January 1951
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
21 February 1950
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
18 January 1937
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman.
24 November 1949
The plot finds Steve/Durango attempting to capture ex-Civil War guerilla fighter Miller who may be the man who's been going around knocking down telegraph wires.
14 May 1950
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it.
12 October 1946
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.
13 March 1942
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge.
27 November 1943
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
13 June 1948
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
13 June 1941
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
