Marc Lawrence — Actor (44)
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Counsel for Crime (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Counsel for Crime
director: John Brahm actor: Otto Kruger / Douglass Montgomery …
other title: The Man Behind the Law / L'Avocat du diable
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underhanded methods loses him the love of his sweetheart Anne (Nana Bryant), who subsequently marries a powerful senator (Thurston Hall). What Mellon doesn't know is that Anne has borne him a son, whom the senator has adopted. Reaching adulthood, Paul (Douglass Montgomery) opts for a legal career himself, taking a clerical job with his own father's firm. In typical "B"-picture, Mellon is charged with murdering one of his more odious clients -- and Paul is appointed prosecuting attorney in the case.
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Honor Thy Father (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Honor Thy Father
director: Paul Wendkos actor: Joseph Bologna / Brenda Vaccaro …
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
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Goin' Coconuts (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Goin' Coconuts
director: Howard Morris actor: Donny Osmond / Marie Osmond …
The toothsome singing duo, Donny and Marie Osmond, head for Hawaii in this comedy. The trouble begins when Marie acquires a lovely necklace without realizing that it is coveted by a group of thieves. An enigmatic woman is also after the necklace. Mayhem, music, and sibling rivalry ensue.
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Out of the Storm (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Out of the Storm
director: R.G. Springsteen actor: Jimmy Lydon / Lois Collier …
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
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Think First (1939) IMDb TMDB
Think First
director: Roy Rowland actor: Marc Lawrence / Laraine Day …
Episode 24 of the Crime Does Not Pay series. Margie Smith (Laraine Day) works as a waitress at a drive in restaurant. She likes to date and look nice but on her salary, she can't keep up with everyone else. However, a friend shows her that stealing is easy, cool and lets you dress like success. At first, it works out just fine, but remember--this is a Crime Does Not Pay film and you KNOW she'll soon get caught and prosecuted.
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Don't Fence Me In (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Don't Fence Me In
director: John English actor: Roy Rogers / Trigger …
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
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'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
'Neath Brooklyn Bridge
director: Wallace Fox actor: Leo Gorcey / Bobby Jordan …
other title: Neath Brooklyn Bridge / 尼斯布鲁克林大桥
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 clubhouse while they try to find the real killer. The killer, however, used a baseball bat as his murder weapon, and the bat has the fingerprints of one of the gang on it.
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Lady Scarface (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Lady Scarface
director: Frank Woodruff actor: Dennis O'Keefe / Judith Anderson …
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
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Adventure in Sahara (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Adventure in Sahara
director: D. Ross Lederman actor: Paul Kelly / C. Henry Gordon …
other title: 撒哈拉大冒险 / La Penitencia del Capitán Savat
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
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Hot Stuff (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hot Stuff
director: Dom DeLuise actor: Dom DeLuise / Suzanne Pleshette …
other title: Heisse Ware / Materia caliente …
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.