- published: 30 Nov 2015
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The common noun or verb spot has many meanings in English.
Otherwise, Spot or SPOT may refer to:
Actors: Jeff Warren (editor), Ron White (actor), Tyrone Benskin (actor), Michael Hogan (actor), Clark Johnson (actor), Ho Chow (actor), Ardon Bess (actor), John McCarthy (composer), George Harris (actor), Rino Romano (actor), Peter Williams (actor), Johanna Weinstein (miscellaneous crew), J.D. Nicholsen (actor), Michelle Moffat (actress), Judith Scott (actress),
Plot: In Toronto's Jamaican community, a young Black finds a job with a hard guy who lends money to destitute people. His job is to collect outstanding debts. One of the debtors is his own cousin and doesn't seem to care about paying back, apparently unaware of what it may cost him...
Keywords: canada, immigration, independent-film, jamaica, racism, reggae, toronto-ontario-canadaActors: Jack Gardner (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Jack Baxley (actor), John Bagni (actor), Ed Cassidy (actor), Noble 'Kid' Chissel (actor), Roy Darmour (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Blake Edwards (actor), Alexander Granach (actor),
Plot: Republic, never a company to not try getting ahead of the curve and with writers who could remember the 1930's social conscience WW I vets-returning-home films, made this in mid-1944 (a full year before the end of WW II) as a don't-let-it-happen-again sermon. The semi-prologue opening finds Father Jim Donnelly before a post-war planning board in Washington and, as Priests quite often did in 1930 and 1940's films, tells his point-making story in flashback of how WW I vet Eddie Ballinger, shaken by battle experiences anyway, returns home to a job that is no longer there for him and finds "No Help Wanted" signs standing in his way of making an honest living. Despite the pleas from his mother and his sweetheart Lucy Manners, Eddie starts hauling booze for bootlegger Tim Oberta and takes up with entertainer Lola, who eventually betrays him, mainly because she is a one-name character and that's what one-name characters are there for... especially in a movie with the lead playing his 1944 version of Jimmy Cagney in a 1933 Warner's film. Father Jim makes his don't-repeat-the-past point in less than an hour as the hearing committee had also seen and heard the story before.
Keywords: veteranActors: George Irving (actor), Gordon Jones (actor), Lynton Brent (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Willie Fung (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Harry Harvey (actor), James Dime (actor), Russell Hicks (actor), Al Hill (actor), Lloyd Ingraham (actor), John Kelly (actor),
Plot: A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from his uncle, whom he hasn't seen for years. He decides to use some of his new-found wealth to fund a clean-up crusade against the gangster element in town. What he doesn't know is that his uncle was the head of the crime syndicate, and those gangsters want to get their hands on his $2 million.
Keywords: crusade, deception, druggist, editor, extortion, family-relationships, gambling, gangster, hoax, husband-wife-relationship