Niles Welch

Niles Welch

Born: July 28, 1888
Died: November 21, 1976
in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Movies for Niles Welch...

Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
Title: Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Rey Scott received an Honorary Academy Award for this documentary "For his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions."
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Boy in Court
Title: Boy in Court
Character: Narrator
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to reform school, the judge takes an interest in him and assigns a probation officer to try to steer Johnny away from a life of crime.
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Empty Saddles
Title: Empty Saddles
Character: Jasper Kade
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.
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What Becomes of the Children?
Title: What Becomes of the Children?
Character: Thomas Scott
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
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To Mary - with Love
Title: To Mary - with Love
Character: Secretary
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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For the Service
Title: For the Service
Character: Parson (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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Foolproof
Title: Foolproof
Character: John Harwood
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime. Part of the Crime Does Not Pay series
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The Singing Vagabond
Title: The Singing Vagabond
Character: Judge Forsythe Lane
Released: December 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
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The Ivory-Handled Gun
Title: The Ivory-Handled Gun
Character: Pat Moore as a Young Man
Released: November 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Film Director (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Examiner (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Safety Engineer (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Riding Wild
Title: Riding Wild
Character: Clay Stevens
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
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Air Hawks
Title: Air Hawks
Character: "Marconi"
Released: May 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: Rev. Timothy Tucker
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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The Miracle Rider
Title: The Miracle Rider
Character: Metzger
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
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Tomorrow's Youth
Title: Tomorrow's Youth
Character: Mr. Hall's Attorney
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
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Cross Streets
Title: Cross Streets
Character: Jerry Clement
Released: July 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
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This Side of Heaven
Title: This Side of Heaven
Character: Druggist (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
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Let's Fall in Love
Title: Let's Fall in Love
Character: Archie Frost
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
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The Wolf Dog
Title: The Wolf Dog
Character: Mason
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
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The Lone Avenger
Title: The Lone Avenger
Character: Martin Carter
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: John Foster
Released: January 30, 1933
Type: Movie
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Houseman - Banker
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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Silver Dollar
Title: Silver Dollar
Character: William Jennings Bryan
Released: December 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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A Scarlet Week-End
Title: A Scarlet Week-End
Character: The Wife's Former Fiancee
Released: November 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.
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Come On, Tarzan
Title: Come On, Tarzan
Character: Steve Frazier
Released: September 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
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McKenna of the Mounted
Title: McKenna of the Mounted
Character: Morgan
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
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Cornered
Title: Cornered
Character: Moody Pierson
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
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Border Devils
Title: Border Devils
Character: Tom Hope
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity. He and his pal Squint Saunders then try to join the gang. But they get captured and Jim is told he can join up only if he kills his friend.
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Cross-Examination
Title: Cross-Examination
Character: Warren Slade
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Willets
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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Manhattan Parade
Title: Manhattan Parade
Character: Frank Harriman
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Sam Crandall
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Roy Fenton
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
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Carry on, Sergeant!
Title: Carry on, Sergeant!
Character: Donald Cameron
Released: November 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
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In Borrowed Plumes
Title: In Borrowed Plumes
Character: Philip Dean
Released: February 10, 1926
Type: Movie
In Borrowed Plumes is a silent comedy
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Ermine and Rhinestones
Title: Ermine and Rhinestones
Character: Billy Kershaw
Released: October 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Long Island socialite Billy Kershaw (Niles Welch) is engaged to wealthy Peggy Rice (Ruth Stonehouse), but she prefers to "play the field" with other men. When Billy tires of Peggy's randy behavior and returns to his ex-sweetheart Minette (Edna Murphy), the suddenly possessive Peggy heads to Minette's home, hoping to bribe the girl into giving up the boy. At that very moment, one of Minette's jealous ex-boyfriends breaks into her house, ties and gags the poor girl, and turns on the gas. Library of Congress holds a complete negative.
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A Little Girl in a Big City
Title: A Little Girl in a Big City
Character: Jack McGuire
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating.
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Lying Wives
Title: Lying Wives
Released: June 13, 1925
Type: Movie
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Dangerous Pleasure
Title: Dangerous Pleasure
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
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Wine of Youth
Title: Wine of Youth
Character: Robert (1897 prologue)
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also a play about love and marriage.
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The Whispered Name
Title: The Whispered Name
Character: John Manning
Released: January 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: Dumbbell - aka Ralph Connor
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Phillip Rowland
Released: May 5, 1922
Type: Movie
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Reckless Youth
Title: Reckless Youth
Character: John Carmen
Released: March 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive.
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Why Announce Your Marriage?
Title: Why Announce Your Marriage?
Released: January 20, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Way of a Maid
Title: The Way of a Maid
Character: Thomas Lawlor
Released: November 30, 1921
Type: Movie
A silent film comedy.
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The Cup of Life
Title: The Cup of Life
Character: Roy Bradley or Warren Bradford
Released: August 7, 1921
Type: Movie
Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Title: The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Character: David Raine
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
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The Winning Girl
Title: The Winning Girl
Character: Stanley Templeton
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
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The Face in the Dark
Title: The Face in the Dark
Character: Richard Grant
Released: April 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent to work when her sweetheart, Richard Grant, is accused of robbing a bank. Her father, now a bank examiner, works in collusion with two thieves who are acquainted with a master criminal known only as "the Face in the Dark." When the evidence implicates her father in the robbery, Jane confronts him, and although Richard is released from jail, Ridgeway escapes. The two crooks lead him to the Face in the Dark, but as the two men are shaking hands, the place is raided by Secret Service agents who arrest the mysterious criminal and congratulate Ridgeway for his fine detective work. Jane is happily reunited with her sweetheart and her father.
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Title: The Secret of the Storm Country
Character: Frederick Graves
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
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The Gulf Between
Title: The Gulf Between
Character: Richard Farrell
Released: September 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A young woman, who is the daughter of a sea captain, falls in love with a man from a rich family who does not approve of her.
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One of Many
Title: One of Many
Character: Harold Templeton
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The home of Mrs. Bryson and her two daughters is happy except for the poverty that prevents the girls from sending their sick mother away to the mountains. Both help to support the household, but it is Shirley who feels the responsibility of her mother's approaching death and her worry is evident to all about her. She is employed in a manicure shop frequented by wealthy men and meets Wilfred Templeton, who invites her to dine with him. He questions her about her dejected air and she tells him of her mother's illness. This is Templeton's opportunity, and he asks her to make a bargain with him. He will give her all the money she needs and in return she is to live with him in an apartment which he will establish for her.
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The Crucial Test
Title: The Crucial Test
Character: Vance Holden
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
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The Kiss of Hate
Title: The Kiss of Hate
Character: Paul Turgeneff
Released: April 3, 1916
Type: Movie
When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of Valogda, there was rejoicing among the oppressed race whose home was in the Ghetto.
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A Yellow Streak
Title: A Yellow Streak
Character: Tom Austin
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin . This Marvin does so that he can win Dale's wife Virginia away from the discredited broker. Dispirited and disillusioned, Dale heads to the West for a fresh start in life. Unfortunately, he soon develops the reputation as a coward, but he manages to dispel this by becoming a notorious outlaw, reasoning that highway robbery is not all that different from Wall Street chicanery.
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Emmy of Stork's Nest
Title: Emmy of Stork's Nest
Character: Benton Cabot
Released: October 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.