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Shouldn't have taken the bait in Shane
(George Stevens; 1953)

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Genetically mutated through demonic breeding in The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman; 1963)

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On the wrong side of the Process of Elimination in The Maltese Falcon.
(1941; John Huston)

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Spilling a few too many beans in I Wake Up Screaming. (Bruce Humberstone; 1941)

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Getting the short end of the drumstick in Phantom Lady (1944; Robert Siodmak)

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We get the lowdown on the local curse in Point Dune from town drunk Charlie (presumably his last name is "Exposition") before he shuffles away to be cannibalized off-screen in Willard Huyck's Messiah of Evil (1973).

(Thanks to davidly for the heads-up on this one, and a link to the film at archive.org.)

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In this case literally, as an elevator operator in Love Crazy (Jack Conway; 1941), and without a screen credit!

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It's not just dames that are poison in The Big Sleep.
(Howard Hawks; 1946)

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Livery operator Elisha Cook Jr. probably isn't going to be collecting those stable fees from Tom Horn. (William Wiard; 1980)

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Elisha Cook Jr. feels the pain of working for Olsen & Johnson in Hellzapoppin.
(H.C. Potter; 1942).

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Cuckolded and driven to murder by Marie Windsor in The Killing
(Stanley Kubrick; 1956)

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Fed to the lions by Michael Gough in Black Zoo
(Robert Gordon; 1963)

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Wrongly convicted of murder in Stranger On The Third Floor
(Boris Ingster; 1940)