Willard Parker

Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Actor)

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    The Earth Dies Screaming
    A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots. (imdb)
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    A Slight Case of Murder
    Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. (imdb)
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    Apache Drums
    A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches. (imdb)
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    You Gotta Stay Happy
    Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. Somehow, she persuades him to take her to California. Her fellow passengers include a chimpanzee, a corpse (in a coffin), an absconding embezzler, and two smoochy newlyweds. Can love be far behind? (imdb)
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    Hunt the Man Down
    Dishwasher 'Bill Jackson' thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers him as the 12-years-missing Richard Kinkaid, wanted for murder. Kinkaid half-convinces public defender Paul Bennett of his innocence; but Paul knows he'll never convince a jury without the 7 witnesses who've had 12 years to vanish. It develops that these prosperous young folks have gone down in the world. Paul and his father, a one-armed ex-cop, have a week to find them. (imdb)
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    The Mating of Millie
    Man tries to help a woman trap a husband so she can adopt a child, but he falls for her himself. (imdb)
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    Naked Gun
    Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later an American insurance man, Breen Mathews (Willard Parker) promises to deliver the Salazar fortune to the rightful heir after Luis Salazar, son of Don Pablo, is killed. Breen heads for Topaz, where he hopes to find the surviving heir, Teresa. (imdb)
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    The Great Jesse James Raid
    The famed outlaw is talked into saddeling up for one more bank robbery. (imdb)
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    Calamity Jane and Sam Bass
    How good luck with women and horses pushes Sam Bass toward outlawry. (imdb)
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    Relentless
    Described by one critic as a western version of The 39 Steps, Relentless stars Robert Young as a cowboy on the lam. Framed for murder, Young must find the one man who can clear him, while a posse dogs his trail. He briefly becomes an outlaw, hoping to make contact with his quarry by befriending the dregs of the west, notably mercenary saloon keeper Akim Tamiroff. Marguerite Chapman plays the love interest, while Barton MacLaine does his usual as the main heavy. (allrovi.com)
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    Slightly French
    A cinema director who is in an emotional and professional crisis thinks that he has discovered a French star when he meets an ordinary dancer. (imdb)
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    Young Jesse James
    In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops and their mother's arm is amputated after their home is bombed by Union people, so they go riding with Quantrill's Raiders and Cole Younger and Belle Starr. Jesse and Frank argue a lot and then Jesse marries Belle Starr, but true-history had long flown out the window by that time. Actually, history departed before the first reel was over. (imdb)
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    David Harding, Counterspy
    Based on the long-running radio program created by Philips H. Lord, the film opens with a radio commentator blasting the U. S. government for the manner in which a certain foreign power has obtained secret information during WWII. The commentator is brought to the secret headquarters of "David Harding, Counterspy" where he learns that the story was deliberately planted with the commentator to fool the enemy. (imdb)
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    The Vanquished
    A Southern States official returns home after the Civil War and has to see that in his village the law is in the hands of a few scrupoulos people. (imdb)
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    Air Patrol
    L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter. (imdb)
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    The Bandit Queen
    Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, aided by militia leader Dan Hinsdale. (imdb)
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    The Fighting Guardsman
    A band of Frenchmen start an uprising against the aristocracy in the days before the French Revolution. (imdb)
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    Bodyhold
    Tommy Jones, a well-built plumber, is invited to join a troupe of professional wrestlers, but is surprised to learn that the sport of exhibition wrestling is not on the up-and-up. (imdb)
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    Emergency Wedding
    In this remake of 1941's "You Belong to Me," a young millionaire, Peter J. Kirk, Jr., fails in all of his attempts to emulate his successful father. He meets and marries Dr. Heln Hunt, who refuses to give up her profession, which also makes Peter feel useless, while becoming jealous of the men she meets in her job. Finally, she is about to divorce him, but Peter has a plan that might save their marriage, and enable him to feel like a contributor to society. (imdb)
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    The Great Waltz
    The romantic and professional life of composer Johann Strauss Jr. provides the basis of this colorful remake of the 1938 version. Highlights include the location shots in Austria and the soundtrack. (allmovie.com)
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    Lone Texan
    After the Civil War, a Texan who served in the Union army comes back home to find himself ostracized by his neighbors for having fought against the Confederacy. On top of that, he finds that his younger brother is now the sheriff, and is ruling the town with an iron hand. (imdb)
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    The Magnificent Fraud
    In this lively programmer a con man hires a character actor to masqueraded as the recently assassinated dictator of a tiny Latin American country so he can bilk an arriving American ambassador out of his fortune. (allmovie.com)
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    The Zero Hour
    A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.
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    My True Story
    Ann Martin is a jewel thief recently released from prison, and is forced by a gang to take a job as a companion to an elderly recluse, Madame Rousseau, who has shut herself off from the world. The old woman owns an oil-of-myrrh which she doles out on an as-needed basis to the makers of "Temptation" perfume who have offered her fabulous sums of money to buy out her entire stock of myrrh.
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    The Wreck of the Hesperus
    John Macready, a seafaring captain, who has been beached for losing his ship, goes into the salvage-from-wrecked-vessels business with lovable old George Lockhart,and is leading the fight against the erection of a lighthouse that would tend to do damage to the salvage business. Macready's brother, Angus, dies in a shipwreck, and Macreday begins to suspect that his lovable old partner may be causing the ship wrecks by misdirecting the vessels.
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    What a Woman!
    A literary agent is pursued by the charming writer of a popular magazine while she attempts to sway one of her clients, a handsome but innocent college professor, to star in an upcoming movie based on his best-selling novel The Whirlwind.
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    Renegades
    Hannah Brockway, daughter of the leading citizen of Prairie Dog, prosperous insurance man Nathan Brockway, is engaged to be married to Dr. Sam Martin, but she meets and falls in love with Ben Dembrow, the youngest son of outlaw leader Kirk Dembrow. Ben, unwilling to lead the life of his father and two brothers, Frank and Cash, has taken a new name, and he and Hannah are married. But the suspicions of the townspeople hound him and he is tried for a crime he did not commit.
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    One Way to Love
    A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when one takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and another must write commercial jingles.
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    The Adventures of Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correct solution by purely deductive reasoning.
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