James Blaine
Know for: Acting
Born: 1897-03-28
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Skin Trade (2017)
The huge warehouse is cold and the studs are masked. Cheating wives are brought to Skin Trade to confess to their sins and fantasies.
Exposed (1938)
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.
Flaming Frontiers (1938)
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton...
Gangs Inc. (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...
The Women Men Marry (1937)
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
Man from Montana (1941)
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
The Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
A nurse's younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of...
Tell No Tales (1939)
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
Charter Pilot (1940)
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too...
Devil's Island (1939)
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
The Oregon Trail (1939)
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under...
Blackwell's Island (1939)
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Within the Law (1939)
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful...
Let Us Live (1939)
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...
Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Kid Nightingale (1939)
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...
Sergeant Madden (1939)
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...
Man-Made Monster (1941)
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
Postal Inspector (1936)
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
The Blue Bird (1940)
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
Love on a Budget (1938)
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...
The Green Hornet (1940)
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick...
Everybody's Baby (1939)
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Oklahoma Frontier (1939)
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws...
Winners of the West (1940)
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from...
Gateway (1938)
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...
Nothing But the Truth (1941)
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning...
Sea Raiders (1941)
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Johnny Apollo (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...
Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...
Cafe Hostess (1940)
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
Juvenile Court (1938)
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...
Fighting Bill Fargo (1941)
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his...
Remember the Day (1941)
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...
The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a...
The Gay Falcon (1941)
Having forsaken the detective business for the safer confines of personal insurance, Gay Laurence is compelled to return to his sleuthing ways. Along...
Mannequin (1938)
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...
Dark Dreams 23: Devoted (2016)
Even if she could afford a carefree life - she was often alone. Then it could happen that she imagined strange things.
Parnell (1937)
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the...