Joe Gray

Acting
1912-05-05
Brooklyn - New York - USA

Biography

Joe Gray was born on May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is known for his work on Flesh and Fury (1952), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Miracle Kid (1941). He died on March 15, 1971 in Mexico.

Known For & Full Filmography60 Titles

#1Some Like It Hot

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Mobster at Banquet (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
ComedyRomanceCrime

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

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#2Breakfast at Tiffany's

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Party Guest (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
ComedyRomanceDrama

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

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#3Rio Bravo

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Card Player (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
WesternDrama

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

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#4The War of the Worlds

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Looter (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Sci-FiAction

The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.

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#5Ocean's Eleven

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Pit Boss (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
CrimeComedyThriller

Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

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#6Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Bodyguard (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ActionSci-Fi

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

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#7The Comancheros

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Minor Role (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Western

Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros.

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#85 Card Stud

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Cowhand (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
WesternMystery

After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.

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#9Guys and Dolls

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Spectator at Hot Box Club (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ComedyCrimeRomance

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!

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#10Ace in the Hole

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Minor Role (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
Drama

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

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#11Sweet Smell of Success

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Patron at 21 (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
Drama

New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. Hunsecker strongly disapproves of the romance and recruits publicist Sidney Falco to find a way to split the couple, no matter how ruthless the method.

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#12The Young Lions

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Soldier (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
WarDramaAction

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.

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#13Robin and the 7 Hoods

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Hood (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
ComedyCrime

Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.

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#14Kid Galahad

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Trainer (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaMusic

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

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#15Some Came Running

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Man (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.

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#16The Silencers

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyActionAdventure

Matt Helm is called out of retirement to stop the evil Big O organization who plan to explode an atomic bomb over Alamagordo, NM, and start WW III.

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#17Pocketful of Miracles

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Pool Player (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.

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#18A Star Is Born

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as Garcia (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
DramaRomance

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

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#19Beau Geste

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Legionnaire (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
AdventureDramaWar

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.

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#20Body and Soul

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Cornerman (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Drama

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.

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#21G.I. Blues

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Soldier (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
MusicComedyRomance

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture, a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But when the friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.

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#22Murderers' Row

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Guard (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. However it's just faked for his latest top-secret mission: He shall find Dr. Solaris, inventor of the Helium laser beam, powerful enough to destroy a whole continent. It seems Dr. Solaris has been kidnapped by a criminal organization. The trace leads to the Cote D'Azur.

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#23Scared Stiff

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Longshoreman (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyHorror

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

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#24Champion

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Championship Fight Opponent (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Drama

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

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#25The Street with No Name

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Boxer (Uncredited)

6.4 / 10
CrimeThriller

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

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#26I Married a Monster from Outer Space

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Alien (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.

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#27Pardners

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Rodeo cowboy (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
ComedyWestern

Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang.

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#28Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ComedyRomance

In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married off.

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#29The Ambushers

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Man (uncredited)

5.1 / 10
ActionComedy

When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.

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#30Golden Boy

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Fighter

6.5 / 10
DramaRomance

Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.

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#31You and Me

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Red (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeRomanceComedy

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

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#32Iron Man

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Minor Role (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.

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#33Flesh and Fury

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Cliff

6.6 / 10
Drama

Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.

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#34The Accused

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Abe Comar (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaThriller

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

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#35Hollywood or Bust

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Gambler

6.2 / 10
Comedy

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...

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#36Each Dawn I Die

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Prisoner (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

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#37The Joker is Wild

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Fighter (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
Drama

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

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#38Who's Minding the Store?

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Herman (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?

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#39Casanova's Big Night

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Court Guard (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyAdventure

Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.

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#40Who Was That Lady?

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Undetermined Role (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ComedyRomance

In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.

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#41The Great Impostor

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Federal Prison Inmate (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ComedyDrama

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.

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#42For Those Who Think Young

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Club Guest (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

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#43City for Conquest

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Cannonball Wales (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
RomanceDramaCrime

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

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#44Off Limits

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Dix (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted.

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#45Christmas Eve

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Minor Role (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

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#46The Big Wheel

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Race Car Driver (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
ActionDramaRomance

The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.

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#47At War with the Army

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Soldier (uncredited)

5.3 / 10
ComedyWar

Two former nightclub partners are now enlisted in the Army. Sergeant Puccinelli ranks above his former partner, Private First Class Korwin. Puccinelli is desperately trying to get transferred from his dull job to active duty overseas. Meanwhile, all Korwin wants is a pass to see his wife and new baby.

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#48It Had to Be You

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Prizefighter (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
RomanceComedyFantasy

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

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#49Fighter Squadron

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Flyer with Dice (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ActionDramaWar

During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

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#50Riding High

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Johnny (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Comedy

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

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#51The Square Jungle

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
Drama

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

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#52Glory Alley

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Fighter (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
DramaMusic

A New Orleans boxer leaves the ring to fight his inner demons.

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#53Summertree

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Man with Dog in Park (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

All-American boy Jerry is drafted to serve in the Vietnam War just as things begin to go well for him. His decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's tragic conclusion.

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#54Rhubarb

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Baseball Player (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
ComedyFamily

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money and a pro baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons. When the team protests, publicist Eric Yeager convinces them Rhubarb is good luck. But Eric's fiancée Polly seems to be allergic to cats, and the team's success may mean new hazards for Rhubarb.

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#55How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Cab Driver (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
RomanceComedy

Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

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#56711 Ocean Drive

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Boxer (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Crime

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.

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#57The Jackie Robinson Story

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Dalby (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaFamily

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

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#58Sorrowful Jones

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

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#59Sally and Saint Anne

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as Crunch

8.7 / 10
Comedy

An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.

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#60The Miracle Kid

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Killer Kane

5.5 / 10
Comedy

A young boxer finds his life turned upside down when he meets with sudden success in the ring.

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