Frank Coghlan Jr.
Frank Coghlan, Jr. (1916–2009) was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator.
He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor appearing in early Our Gang comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in Adventures of Captain Marvel.
Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the US Navy from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4089 |
| Birthday | 1916-03-15 |
| Place of Birth | New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Also Known As | Francis Edward Coghlan Jr., Frank 'Junior' Coghlan, Frank Coghlan, Frank Coghlin, Junior Coghlan, Junior Coughlan, Junior Coughlin, |
1922
Bobbed Hair
10/1
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
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Bobbed Hair
1936
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
7.109/23
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncov...
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1925
The Great Circus Mystery
8/1
Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as...
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The Great Circus Mystery
1931
It Pays to Advertise
5.583/6
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with hi...
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It Pays to Advertise
1941
Adventures of Captain Marvel
6.387/31
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shaza...
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
1921
The Poverty of Riches
7/1
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family ri...
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The Poverty of Riches
1923
Little Old New York
6.5/13
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
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Little Old New York
1931
The Public Enemy
7.248/387
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...
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The Public Enemy
1926
The Skyrocket
10/1
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage....
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The Skyrocket
1926
Whispering Smith
9/1
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, ret...
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Whispering Smith
1932
The Last of the Mohicans
6.4/5
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights batt...
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The Last of the Mohicans
1934
Pardon My Pups
6/8
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead...
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Pardon My Pups
1934
Managed Money
5.333/6
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
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Managed Money
1932
Hell's House
5.293/29
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Hell's House
1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
0/0
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken...
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1936
Melody in May
8/1
Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small boardinghous...
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Melody in May
1933
Merrily Yours
5.667/6
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, whi...
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Merrily Yours
1933
What's to Do?
6.5/4
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his riva...
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What's to Do?
1935
Kentucky Blue Streak
7/2
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence. Now, Coughlin can ride his family's pride and jo...
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Kentucky Blue Streak
1991
The Republic Pictures Story
0/0
A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, director, stuntman, etc.
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The Republic Pictures Story
1936
The Little Red Schoolhouse
6.667/3
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
1936
Red Lights Ahead
5.6/5
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran studio Chesterfield. Former slapstick comedian An...
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Red Lights Ahead
1933
In the Money
5.667/3
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded o...
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In the Money
1935
Happiness C.O.D.
7.5/2
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
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Happiness C.O.D.
1941
Uncle Joe
7/3
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
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Uncle Joe
1928
Let 'Er Go Gallegher
7/3
Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a mysterious man with only four fingers on one hand....
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Let 'Er Go Gallegher
1939
Boys' Reformatory
5.25/4
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are und...
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Boys' Reformatory
1937
Blazing Barriers
10/1
Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're...
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Blazing Barriers
1938
Service de Luxe
6.5/10
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for i...
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Service de Luxe
1930
River's End
6.375/4
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reache...
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River's End
1923
The Spanish Dancer
5/3
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Mari...
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The Spanish Dancer
1927
Rubber Tires
6.333/6
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, th...
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Rubber Tires
1930
The Girl Said No
5.8/5
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plot...
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The Girl Said No
1927
The Yankee Clipper
6.667/6
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea.
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The Yankee Clipper
1933
Drum Taps
5.667/3
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the She...
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Drum Taps
1931
Penrod and Sam
7/2
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join...
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Penrod and Sam
1927
The Country Doctor
7.5/2
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.
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The Country Doctor
1939
Meet Dr. Christian
7/1
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve fund...
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Meet Dr. Christian
1928
Marked Money
10/1
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the...
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Marked Money
1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
6.667/9
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up wit...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
7.036/42
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
East Side of Heaven
7.357/7
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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East Side of Heaven
1939
The Flying Irishman
5/6
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight...
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The Flying Irishman
1939
It's a Wonderful World
6.447/47
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...
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It's a Wonderful World
1939
Second Fiddle
5.125/8
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Second Fiddle
1939
Gone with the Wind
7.9/4361
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruc...
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Gone with the Wind
1939
Day-time Wife
5.972/18
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.
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Day-time Wife
1926
Mike
10/1
A Modest Comedy Drama
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Mike
1939
Dust Be My Destiny
6.45/20
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter l...
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Dust Be My Destiny
1967
Valley of the Dolls
6.003/144
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a cel...
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Valley of the Dolls
1920
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
10/1
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he play...
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
1939
Here I Am a Stranger
7.333/3
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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Here I Am a Stranger
1940
Murder Over New York
6.194/18
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Murder Over New York
1940
The Fighting 69th
5.815/27
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove hi...
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The Fighting 69th
1929
Square Shoulders
8/1
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his...
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Square Shoulders
1927
Slide, Kelly, Slide
8/1
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
1940
Knute Rockne All American
6.204/27
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
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Knute Rockne All American
1940
Remedy for Riches
5.5/6
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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Remedy for Riches
1940
Love Thy Neighbor
7.333/3
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each oth...
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Love Thy Neighbor
1923
The Darling of New York
8/2
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandfather, is cared for by gangsters who hide their st...
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The Darling of New York
1923
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
6.772/197
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the c...
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
1936
Make Way for a Lady
5.5/6
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, G...
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Make Way for a Lady
1940
Free, Blonde and 21
8.5/2
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Free, Blonde and 21
1939
Scouts to the Rescue
10/1
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, le...
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Scouts to the Rescue
1993
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
0/0
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the box office — ahead of Gable and Cooper. Her...
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
1967
The Love-Ins
4.8/5
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie s...
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The Love-Ins
1940
Double Alibi
5.25/4
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
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Double Alibi
1969
The Love God?
5.952/21
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive fi...
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The Love God?
1968
The Shakiest Gun in the West
6.292/48
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny" Cu...
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
1939
Off the Record
6.4/5
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Off the Record
1926
Her Man o' War
7/1
During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, instead of being placed in a prisoner-of-war camp, he...
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Her Man o' War
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons'
10/1
Bobby Jones practices the fundamentals with a group of children in the wings.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons'
1935
Stranded
6/6
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1943
Corvette K-225
6.154/13
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
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Corvette K-225
1943
Presenting Lily Mars
6.417/12
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
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Presenting Lily Mars
1939
Ex-Champ
7.333/3
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Ex-Champ
1937
Let Them Live
8/1
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
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Let Them Live
1932
Man Wanted
5.333/12
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Man Wanted
1933
Racetrack
7/1
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie...
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Racetrack
1923
Cause for Divorce
3/3
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife longs for life in the city.
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Cause for Divorce
1932
Union Depot
6/17
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend S...
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Union Depot
1935
It Never Rains
0/0
When Junior's parents have their friends visit, they expect him to entertain their daughter. Expecting the worst, Junior pays his kid sister to be a p...
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It Never Rains
1927
A Harp in Hock
7/1
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, a...
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A Harp in Hock
1941
Out of the Fog
6.342/38
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather...
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Out of the Fog
1967
The Love-Ins
4.8/5
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie s...
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The Love-Ins
1941
Military Training
7/1
Training Film No. A-3: Poor Instruction, Rifle Litter, First Aid Demonstration, Bayonet Drill, Firing Range Instruction, Drill Squad, Charts and Instr...
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Military Training
1942
Lady in a Jam
5.615/13
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of...
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Lady in a Jam
1926
The Last Frontier
9/1
Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife, and his daughter, Beth, proceed toward Salin...
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The Last Frontier
1993
Cliffhangers: Adventures from the Thrill Factory
0/0
A documentary about the Republic serials of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, hosted by Leonard Maltin, and featuring interview segments with a serial writer,...
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