Frank Hall Crane

Frank Hall Crane

Born: January 1, 1873
Died: September 1, 1948
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Frank Hall Crane...

Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Mr. William Jones (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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The Speed Reporter
Title: The Speed Reporter
Character: Roger Renfrew
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.
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Give Us This Night
Title: Give Us This Night
Character: Stage Doorman
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
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Step on It
Title: Step on It
Character: Doctor Greene (as Frank Crane)
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
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If You Could Only Cook
Title: If You Could Only Cook
Character: Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Clerk
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Title: 'Neath the Arizona Skies
Character: Express Agent (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1934
Type: Movie
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
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Mystery Ranch
Title: Mystery Ranch
Character: Percy Jenkins
Released: April 12, 1934
Type: Movie
The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.
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Out of Singapore
Title: Out of Singapore
Character: Capt. Carroll
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
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Mason of the Mounted
Title: Mason of the Mounted
Character: Frank
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
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My Old Dutch
Title: My Old Dutch
Character: James Vrayford
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint and sturdy tradesmen - her humble vegetable peddlers
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Little Wildcat
Title: Little Wildcat
Character: Jack Wilding
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
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A Girl's Desire
Title: A Girl's Desire
Character: 'Lord' Cecil Dysart
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
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Men and Women
Title: Men and Women
Character: Ned Seabury
Released: August 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent.
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Classmates
Title: Classmates
Character: Clay
Released: February 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Bert Stafford, who is in love with Sylvia Randolph, his mother's ward, despises Duncan Irving, a poor boy who is the object of Sylvia's affections.
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Cinderella
Title: Cinderella
Released: December 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
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David Copperfield
Title: David Copperfield
Released: October 17, 1911
Type: Movie
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Released: July 31, 1911
Type: Movie
According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats. The citizens tried every way to abate the plague, but without result. Finally a mysterious stranger appeared in the town and offered for the sum of 1000 guilders to clear the place of vermin.
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Released: June 29, 1911
Type: Movie
Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protected valley, becoming outlaws and highwaymen.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: The Old Curiosity Shop
Released: January 29, 1911
Type: Movie
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Title: The Vicar of Wakefield
Released: December 26, 1910
Type: Movie
Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of film language and cinematic techniques over the ensuing eight year period.
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar Room
Released: November 4, 1910
Type: Movie
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The Two Roses
Title: The Two Roses
Character: Tony Prolo
Released: July 7, 1910
Type: Movie
Released on June 7, 1910, THE TWO ROSES was Thanhouser's 16th release and was advertised as "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little Italy." The film featured Marie Eline (Tony, an Italian boy), Frank H. Crane (Tony Prolo, young Tony's father), and Anna Rosemond (Tony Prolo's wife). In this film Marie Eline was billed as "The Thanhouser Kid" for the first time.
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The Girl of the Northern Woods
Title: The Girl of the Northern Woods
Character: Will Harding, a Surveyor
Released: June 2, 1910
Type: Movie
This picture tells the story of Lucy Dane, a Canadian lumberman's daughter, and of Will Harding's love for her. Will is a worthy young surveyor and Lucy feels honored to have his love, and returns it. Jose, a half-breed trapper, adores Lucy and necessarily dislikes Will, whom he correctly counts his successful rival. More, he bears Will a grudge for responding to Lucy's cries for help when he forced his attentions on her in a lonely neck of the woods.
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The Winter's Tale
Title: The Winter's Tale
Character: Polixenes
Released: May 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away, the child is raised by Bohemian shepherds. The Winter's Tale was the first of six Shakespeare adaptations from Thanhouser, and was the 13th or 14th title from the studio in its first nine weeks of releases.
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Daddy's Double
Title: Daddy's Double
Character: Daddy
Released: April 4, 1910
Type: Movie
This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
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The Actor's Children
Title: The Actor's Children
Character: The Actor
Released: March 14, 1910
Type: Movie
When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him a substantial amount of money. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
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Jane Eyre
Title: Jane Eyre
Released: January 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Directed by Theodore Marston.
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Ten Nights in a Barroom
Title: Ten Nights in a Barroom
Released: June 9, 1909
Type: Movie
This story is based upon the celebrated drama of that title