Frank Austin

Frank Austin

Born: October 8, 1877
Died: May 13, 1954
in Mound City, Missouri, USA

Movies for Frank Austin...

Arizona Territory
Title: Arizona Territory
Character: Jud - The Assayer
Released: July 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Prospector Jeff Malloy rescues Doris Devlin, owner of a trading post, from an ambush planned by her uncle, Kilburn, who is trying to scare her out of the territory so that he can continue his counterfeiting operations.
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Title: Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Character: Mr. Beaton, an Attorney
Released: December 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father." She visits McManus in his studio office and tries to persuade him to stop drawing the syndicated comic-strip. He tells her he will...in 1959. Maggie, not getting any younger, retains counsel and takes McManus to court.
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Christmas Holiday
Title: Christmas Holiday
Character: Juryman
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery.
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Sleepy Lagoon
Title: Sleepy Lagoon
Character: Wolf Man (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.
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Fired Wife
Title: Fired Wife
Character: Bartender
Released: September 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
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Batman
Title: Batman
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Private Snuffy Smith
Title: Private Snuffy Smith
Character: Saul - Cindy's Father
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Chauffeur (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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Swamp Water
Title: Swamp Water
Character: Fred Ulm
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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All That Money Can Buy
Title: All That Money Can Buy
Character: Spectator (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
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Twilight on the Trail
Title: Twilight on the Trail
Character: Steve Farley, old prospector
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny come to the ranch of a friend and his daughter, disguised as dude detectives from the east, to investigate the disappearances, without a trace, of several herds of cattle.
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Riders of Death Valley
Title: Riders of Death Valley
Character: Chuckawalla Charlie Morgan [Ch. 1]
Released: July 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
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Spring Parade
Title: Spring Parade
Character: Customer
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Townsman
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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Cafe Hostess
Title: Cafe Hostess
Character: Peddler
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl meets a sailor and they fall in love, but the club’s owner doesn’t want the girl to leave.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Inventor (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Arkansas Traveler
Title: The Arkansas Traveler
Character: Pessimistic Hobo
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Toothless Miner
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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True Confession
Title: True Confession
Character: Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.
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Young Dynamite
Title: Young Dynamite
Character: Endenberry / Doc Clark
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
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Song of Revolt
Title: Song of Revolt
Character: Listener at Baron's (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Townsman at Church Meeting
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Farmer at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: George Rankin (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Settler-Miner in Bar
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Railroad Attendant
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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It's A Small World
Title: It's A Small World
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
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Another Wild Idea
Title: Another Wild Idea
Character: Betty's Father
Released: June 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Winton's Valet (Uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Yoo-Hoo
Title: Yoo-Hoo
Character: Orphan's Home owner
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Tenant Farmer (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Extra! Extra!
Title: Extra! Extra!
Released: April 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Frank McHugh appears with Mae Busch, Jerry Mandy and others in this prohibition-time RKO Pathe short directed by Harry Sweet.
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Sealskins
Title: Sealskins
Character: Boarding House Manager (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Higgins - the Butler
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
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The Range Feud
Title: The Range Feud
Character: Jed Biggers
Released: October 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
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Bad Girl
Title: Bad Girl
Character: Upstairs Tenement Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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Haunted at Midnight
Title: Haunted at Midnight
Character: Butler Franz
Released: May 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
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Night of Goblins
Title: Night of Goblins
Character: Butler
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Title: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Character: Butler (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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Hotter Than Hot
Title: Hotter Than Hot
Released: August 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.
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The Drifter
Title: The Drifter
Character: Seth Martin
Released: March 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western starring Tom Mix, Bernard Bolden, Dorothy Dwan, Barney Furey, Albert J. Smith, and Ernest Wilson. Also, note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Ruby Lips
Title: Ruby Lips
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Ruby Lips is a comedy short
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Cotton
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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Court-Martial
Title: Court-Martial
Character: President Lincoln
Released: August 12, 1928
Type: Movie
During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, he falls in love with her, does not bring her in, and is facing a court-martial.
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The Desert Bride
Title: The Desert Bride
Character: Beggar
Released: March 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: Jor Saunders
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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Almost Human
Title: Almost Human
Character: Jim Bowen
Released: March 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Twelfth release in the 'Fearless, the Dog Detective' series.
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Code of the Northwest
Title: Code of the Northwest
Character: Sandy McKenna
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
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Sea Horses
Title: Sea Horses
Character: Cheadle
Released: February 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau and Allan Simpson. The film was released on February 22, 1926, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film.
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Hoodoo Ranch
Title: Hoodoo Ranch
Released: January 21, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Circus Cyclone
Title: The Circus Cyclone
Character: Joe Dokes
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Steve Brant, an ex-pugilist who owns a small circus, makes crude advances toward Doraldina, a lovely equestrienne; and when she resists him, he angrily beats her horse.
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Riding for Life
Title: Riding for Life
Character: Sandy McPherson
Released: July 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Hearing his brother the Express Clerk is in trouble, Bob Williams rides to the Express Office only to find the safe open, his brother and the money missing, and himself accused of the robbery. To clear himself he trails and finds the outlaws engaging them in a fight. But during the melee, the gang leader double-crosses his men and sneaks away with the money and Bob now has to catch him.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Steve Prater
Released: May 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Prospector Jack Remsen has hit a mother lode of hard luck: He can't pay the mortgage on his mine, and the skinflint repossessing it demands Jack's beloved horse as an additional penalty. When Jack angrily rides off on his own horse, he's branded a thief and hunted by the law. Although a wanted man, Jack remains in the territory because of his promise to look after the daughter of his late mining partner. The young beauty Jack thinks is his partner's daughter is actually the daughter of Jack's bitter enemy, the skinflint!
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Rigo
Released: March 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Friar
Released: October 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!