Fred Church

Fred Church

Born: October 17, 1889
Died: January 7, 1983
in Boone, Iowa, USA

Movies for Fred Church...

Border Guns
Title: Border Guns
Character: Buck Morgan
Released: February 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he becomes friends and rivals with the chief smuggler.
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So This Is Arizona
Title: So This Is Arizona
Character: Jake McKeever
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An Arizona Ranger's investigation results in his having to arrest the brother of the girl he loves.
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Flying Lariats
Title: Flying Lariats
Character: Tex Johnson
Released: July 25, 1931
Type: Movie
There is trouble between the Dunbar brothers when Wally proposes to Bonnie on his brother's behalf only to have her accept him. Their feud is interrupted when they have to go after a con man who has cheated the bank out of $5000 by using a gold brick. With the outlaw captured, Wally now tries to get his brother and Bonnie together.
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The Apache Kid's Escape
Title: The Apache Kid's Escape
Character: Ted Conway
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.
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South of Sonora
Title: South of Sonora
Character: Henchman
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
Bill Tracy is a Cattleman's Protective Association agent. Working undercover on his way to Sonora, a town dominated by rustlers, saves Betty Carter from a situation, but her rancher father, believing Blackie's suggestion that Bill is a rustler, forbids her to see him. Bill and his pal Heinie Schmaltz rescue each other from rustlers' various plots and ambushes and eventually discover that Blackie, Carter's foreman, is the leader of the rustlers.
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The Ranch of the Hoodoos
Title: The Ranch of the Hoodoos
Character: Fred
Released: September 2, 1926
Type: Movie
The Ranch of the Hoodoos
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The Lost Express
Title: The Lost Express
Character: Arthur Standish
Released: July 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
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Chalk Marks
Title: Chalk Marks
Character: The Stranger
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Herbert Thompson, wanting to attain wealth and social status, marries Ann Morton, who comes from a rich and prominent family, throwing over pretty young Angelina Kilboure, who really loves him. Years later Herbert has become the local District Attorney and has two children, Bert and Virginia. One night Bert, a patron at a seedy roadhouse, defends his sister's honor from a ruffian and winds up killing the man. Angelina persuades Herbert to leave his post as D.A. to defend his son in his murder trial. Herbert wins the case, but it turns out to have unexpected consequences.
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The Fighting Kid
Title: The Fighting Kid
Released: November 22, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Son-of-a-Gun
Title: The Son-of-a-Gun
Character: Buck Saunders
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
A young man is lured into a cardgame by a crooked dealer. He is about to lose all the money that was given to him to get medicine for his mother when a local cowboy comes to his rescue.
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Red Blood and Yellow
Title: Red Blood and Yellow
Character: Lightning Curley
Released: February 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Red Blood and Yellow is a 1919 Western
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Shootin' Mad
Title: Shootin' Mad
Released: October 20, 1918
Type: Movie
A settler and his daughter are trying to homestead a plot of land. They are tricked out of the land by a crooked saloon owner, who then shoots the father and makes a play for the daughter. A local cowboy comes to her rescue.
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Beans
Title: Beans
Released: September 16, 1918
Type: Movie
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Cossé-Brissac
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
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The Clever Mrs. Carfax
Title: The Clever Mrs. Carfax
Character: Billy Wise
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
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Southern Justice
Title: Southern Justice
Character: Ray Preston
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Three old men -- Judge Moran (George Hernandez), Roger Appleby (Jack Curtis) and Caleb Talbot (Jean Hersholt) -- are the caretakers of a young boy, Daws Anthony (Elwood Bredell). When Ray Preston (Fred Church) comes to the small Southern town where they all reside, he stirs up a load of trouble.
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The Phantom's Secret
Title: The Phantom's Secret
Character: Frank Van Dyke
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
At the death of Count de Beaulieu, his daughter Jeanne learns that her father had been the arch-criminal known as The Phantom. The only other person who knew her father's identity was his lieutenant, Franz Leroux, who now demands that Jeanne marry him in return for his silence.
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The Honeymoon Surprise
Title: The Honeymoon Surprise
Character: Fred Brandon
Released: January 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will.
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The End of the Rainbow
Title: The End of the Rainbow
Released: October 30, 1916
Type: Movie
The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.
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A Romance of Billy Goat Hill
Title: A Romance of Billy Goat Hill
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In a Southern town, Don Morley is apparently the sole witness to a gunfight during which his friend, Lee Dillingham, badly wounds Sheely. To avoid testifying against Lee, Don leaves town, but after he is gone, Lee double-crosses Don and blames him for the shooting. Then, Don's sweetheart, Miss Lady, heartbroken to learn that Don is a criminal, marries the elderly Professor Querrington. To take her mind off her mundane marriage, Miss Lady befriends a mute boy and pays for an operation that restores his speech. The professor dies, and soon after Don, unaware of his alleged guilt, returns to town to find himself charged with Lee's crime.
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The Girl of Lost Lake
Title: The Girl of Lost Lake
Character: Dave Bean
Released: August 28, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Secret of the Swamp
Title: The Secret of the Swamp
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
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It Happened in Honolulu
Title: It Happened in Honolulu
Character: Clarence Velie
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.
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The Wrong Door
Title: The Wrong Door
Character: Herne
Released: February 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Young industrial tycoon Philip Borden is smitten by musical-comedy star Miss Frou Frou, who in daily life is Fern Hardy, the foster daughter of a repentant thief who is pressured into robbing Borden's company. When Hardy, Fern's father, tries to make Bates, the leader of his criminal gang, return the stolen money, Bates beats and incarcerates Hardy.
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The Road to Paradise
Title: The Road to Paradise
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Oliver Corblay aka The Desert Rat (as Mr. Church)
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
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Universal Ike and the School Belle
Title: Universal Ike and the School Belle
Character: Freddie
Released: April 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Ike and a pretty new schoolteacher help a young runaway boy by making sure he goes to school.
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What Came to Bar Q
Title: What Came to Bar Q
Character: Fred Church
Released: January 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Charles Clemens, a ranch owner, sends a letter to Fred Church, his foreman, informing him that his son and daughter are coming to spend their vacation on the ranch. Church and the boys meet the stage, and to their amazement and secret joy, find that the boy is very effeminate. What the boys do to Clarence is a scream, hut his sister, who is more of a boy than he is, gets even with them for hazing her brother, and the boys are forced to take off their hats to her.
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A Night on the Road
Title: A Night on the Road
Character: John Duncan
Released: January 22, 1914
Type: Movie
A knight of the grip has many inconveniences to contend with, and not only that, but often his very life is in danger. Such is the case with John Duncan, a traveling man, who was obliged to remain overnight at a small inn located in the far west. The hotel-keeper, an unscrupulous Italian, with the help of two ruffians, schemes to steal Duncan's money and do away with him.
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Broncho Billy-Guardian
Title: Broncho Billy-Guardian
Released: January 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy hears a child scream and rushes on the scene in time to prevent Jim Haley, a big brute of a man, from beating his little daughter, Josie, with a horse whip. Later, Haley and Pedro, a half-breed, are caught rustling cattle and are given the customary treatment, but not before Haley writes a note to Josie, stating that the boys will take care of her. The boys send Josie east to school and ten years later, when she returns a young lady, they all fall in love with her.
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The Story of the Old Gun
Title: The Story of the Old Gun
Character: The Former Sheriff
Released: January 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Raymond Beahan, a young chap from the city, pays a visit to his uncle, John Purcell, the sheriff. The day after he arrives, he dresses up in his uncle's hat, cartridge belt, chaps, etc., and is about to take an old gun from the wall to put in his belt when his uncle asks him not to take the gun, as he prizes it very highly. He then tells the boy the story of how the gun came into his possession. The story is so vivid to the boy, that when his uncle leaves him to round up some bandits, and he is left alone in the cabin, he falls asleep and dreams the same story his uncle has just related to him, only HE is the hero.
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The Hills of Peace
Title: The Hills of Peace
Character: Fred Church
Released: January 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Being in ill health, Fred Church goes west. Arriving there, he goes into partnership with Carl Stockdale. A few days after they strike pay dirt, Fred is taken with a paroxysm of coughing and Stockdale sends him back to the cabin to rest up. Realizing that the end is near, he writes a letter to his mother and sister, telling them he is going into the valley and not to worry if they do not hear from him, that his partner will send them his share every week.
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A Snakeville Courtship
Title: A Snakeville Courtship
Character: Rawhide Bill
Released: December 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Jeremiah Green receives a letter from his niece, stating that she is coming west, and is in the market for a husband. The news scatters fast throughout the western town, and when the fair Sophie arrives, her callers are numerous. One look at the three-hundred-pound debutante is enough to convince the men that they are not eligible for the marriage certificate, especially if Sophie is to be the bride.
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Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed
Title: Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed
Released: December 20, 1913
Type: Movie
A poor man, the father of a young child, wants his offspring to have a Christmas such as every child is deserving of. He is penniless. For the love of his child he commits burglary.
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The Three Gamblers
Title: The Three Gamblers
Released: December 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Herbert Corrington, a would-be gambler and agent for an express company, not satisfied with the necessities of life, tries his luck at roulette, appropriating the express company's money. Robert, the son, is fast traveling in the footsteps of his father. The Sheriff in the next county is sent for a large package of money in Corrington's possession to be delivered to the Blue Ledge Mine for the payroll. Corrington gambles a thousand dollars of this money and loses. Broncho Billy, a professional gambler, loans Corrington the money necessary to replace the funds he had maliciously taken. Corrington gives the gambler a note payable in thirty days or his home as collateral in case of default.
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Broncho Billy's Squareness
Title: Broncho Billy's Squareness
Character: Earl Briggs
Released: December 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Earl Briggs, a ranchman, and Carl Underwood, a sheriff, are in love with Grace Woodward. Earl is the favored suitor and in time Grace becomes engaged to hire. Sometime later the stage is held up by Broncho Billy, a notorious outlaw. A fierce battle ensues in the woods between the posse and the bandit, in which Broncho Billy is wounded
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A Romance of the Hills
Title: A Romance of the Hills
Character: Caleb Breen
Released: December 4, 1913
Type: Movie
Caleb Breen and Lucy Oliver are sweethearts and intend to marry just as soon as Breen strikes gold. Will Drummond arrives at Hillsdale, where he visits Henry McLean, a wealthy ranchman. Ruth, the ranchman's daughter, is engaged to Drummond. The stranger from the east meets Lucy one fine October morning, and the two become quite chummy.
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Sophie's Hero
Title: Sophie's Hero
Character: Rawhide Bill
Released: November 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike dons a bearskin to chase away his rivals.
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The Cowboy Samaritan
Title: The Cowboy Samaritan
Character: Hank Bender
Released: November 20, 1913
Type: Movie
John Landers is sent to the drug store by his bedridden wife for some medicine. The druggist refuses him credit. Returning home his wife presents him with a letter from her brother in which he enclosed a check for fifty dollars. Landers is induced by Whiskey Bill Tate to gamble his money, which he does and loses.
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The New Schoolmarm of Green River
Title: The New Schoolmarm of Green River
Character: The Mailman
Released: November 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Harry Keenan is in love with the pretty young school teacher of Green River, but his attentions disturb her. One day when the man is annoying her beyond all endurance, Fred Church comes to the rescue and sends Keenan about his business. The school teacher and Church immediately fall in love with each other. Some time later Keenan shoots and robs Church. The girl has arranged to meet her sweetheart at a turn of the Green River road and when he does not appear she goes in search of him. When she comes upon him lying injured in the road, he is just barely able to tell her what has happened.
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The Doctor's Duty
Title: The Doctor's Duty
Character: The Man
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Dr. Roland White falls in love with Marguerite, the daughter of the postmaster in a small western town. He asks her to marry him, but she refuses, as she is already engaged to Fred Church, the express messenger. Some time later, after the proposal, the doctor receives an invitation to the wedding of Church and Marguerite, which shatters what little hope he had of ever winning the girl. A few days before the marriage is to take place. Church is held up and shot by bandits, and taken, in a serious condition, to Dr. White's home.
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The Kid Sheriff
Title: The Kid Sheriff
Character: The Surveyor
Released: October 23, 1913
Type: Movie
Reno Bill, a desperado, discovers the sheriff and the express agent in the act of holding up the stage. The next day Reno Bill is captured by Fred Church and his young assistant, when they find him annoying a pretty young girl. They take him to jail and when the bandit sees the sheriff and agent he contemptuously tells Church of their treachery.
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Alkali Ike and the Wildman
Title: Alkali Ike and the Wildman
Character: The Wildman
Released: October 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike and the Wildman
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The Struggle
Title: The Struggle
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 4, 1913
Type: Movie
Dr. Sharp and his wife, Gretchen, live happily together in a little western town until the advent of the doctor's brother, Fred, who comes from the east to spend his vacation near his brother. He meets the doctor's wife and immediately falls in love, but visits her only when he knows his brother is away. The doctor learning of Fred's visits, shoots him. He repents, however, when he sees his brother's serious condition and does all he can to restore him.
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Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Title: Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Character: The Sheriff
Released: September 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Through a kindly act Broncho Billy earns the deep gratitute of Marion Rivers, who presents him with a Bible. Not long afterwards, she comes upon him as he is about to hold up the stage, but at sight of the girl he is overwhelmed with shame and taking out the little Bible promises her that he will live honorably. In the meantime, Marion's father holds up the stage at another point, and one of the stagecoach drivers, mounting a bareback pony, rides off for the sheriff. Broncho Billy sees Rivers get away with the money, and when he hears the sheriff and his men coming, for Marion's sake he goes to warn her father. To shield him, he takes the bags of money and rides away with the men after him. He leaves the money at the mile post with a note saying: "SAheriff, I'm through with Bear County, this stick-up was my last", and rides across the border. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
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Broncho Billy's Conscience
Title: Broncho Billy's Conscience
Character: Tom Warner
Released: September 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, ranch foreman, finds Tom Warner has squatted on a section of Stockdale's ranch. He complains to the owner, who tells him to oust Warner. The squatter, however, refuses to go. Shortly afterward, the ranch owner is shot. Broncho Billy, to get even with Warner, secretly arranges things so that his rival is accused and finally hanged on circumstantial evidence. The following fall, Broncho Billy proposes to Marguerite, but visions of the dead man haunt him...
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Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Title: Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Character: Gang Leader
Released: July 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Evelyn and Irene Courteny, through the helplessness of their father, who is a cripple, are given charge of the general store and post office. A large bag of gold with registered letters, etc., are delivered by the mail carrier on day. Dick Lee, a notorious outlaw, sees the delivery of the valuable bag. That night, with a gang, Lee breaks into the post office and would have carried off the treasure, had not Evelyn escaped through a back window, mounted her horse, and rode away. One of the men sees her, however, and the three go in pursuit. Irene is quick to inform Broncho Billy, and the latter arrives just in time to save Evelyn from the hands of the bandits. The three are captured. Broncho Billy falls in love with Irene and the two are left to plan their future happiness. (Moving Picture World synopsis)
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Broncho Billy's Strategy
Title: Broncho Billy's Strategy
Released: June 28, 1913
Type: Movie
Juan, a greaser, tries to influence Tom Morgan to steal some money from his wife. Juan finally persuades Morgan. The money Morgan gambles and loses. A week later, Juan discovers the express agent placing two bags of gold in the safe. Juan induces Morgan to help him rob the office.
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Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Title: Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Character: Rawhide Bill
Released: June 21, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny.
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Broncho Billy's Capture
Title: Broncho Billy's Capture
Character: Juan Yukas
Released: June 6, 1913
Type: Movie
Juan Yukas, a greaser, schemes with his sweetheart, Evelyn, to hold up the stage and rob the driver of the express box. Broncho Billy is infatuated with Evelyn, The coach is held up. Broncho Billy captures Juan and takes him to Evelyn's shack, to get a drink of water. Evelyn betrays herself. Although he loves her, his duty compels Broncho Billy to take Evelyn prisoner.
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The Last Shot
Title: The Last Shot
Character: Tom Clay
Released: June 5, 1913
Type: Movie
Lee Clay is convicted by the jury and sent to prison for ten years. Tom, the son, swears revenge and determines to kill his brother-in-law for testifying against his father. Helen, the wife of Tom, goes to warn her brother. In trying to save him from her now maddened husband, she is killed. Clay and his brother-in-law end the feud over the lifeless form of Helen.
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Broncho Billy and the Express Rider
Title: Broncho Billy and the Express Rider
Character: Ralph Spaulding, the Express Rider
Released: May 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, in love with Bessie Hendricks, the daughter of the ranch owner for whom he is working, discovers to his sorrow that the pretty girl is in love with Ralph Spaulding, the pony express rider. Heartsore, Broncho Billy enters a saloon and proceeds to get intoxicated.
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Broncho Billy's Reason
Title: Broncho Billy's Reason
Released: April 12, 1913
Type: Movie
The infant love of a son for his mother, prompted Broncho Billy to secure money by fair means or foul to save her home. In the first place he sold his gun for almost nothing and gambled the receipts which he lost. That night, when all was still, Broncho Billy stole twelve horses
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Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Title: Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Character: Fred Church
Released: March 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, suffering from a fever, collapses on the doorstep of a ranchman's home. John Harding, returning from his work, carries Broncho Billy into the house and places him on the bed. A doctor is summoned. A few weeks later, Broncho Billy now fully recovered thanks Harding and his wife for their kind treatment and returns to town where he is greeted with a welcome hand by everyone. Two or three days later Fred Church, hiding behind a tree opposite to Harding's home, sees the latter leave. Church forces his attentions on Mrs. Harding. Returning to his home Harding is informed by his wife of what had happened during his absence.
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Broncho Billy's Sister
Title: Broncho Billy's Sister
Character: Fred Church
Released: March 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy's sister, Geraldine, is in love with Fred Church, a worthless sort. Broncho Billy discovers Fred Church, the lover, in the town saloon filling himself full of liquor. Church requests Broncho Billy to drink with him, but the latter refuses emphatically. A little later Geraldine confesses her love for Church to her brother.
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The Influence on Broncho Billy
Title: The Influence on Broncho Billy
Released: March 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Jim Hendricks receives a letter from his daughter in the east stating that she is on her way and will arrive with her little girl that day. The stagecoach carrying her from the railroad station, some miles from her father's home, meets with an accident. While repairing the vehicle of ancient times, Bessie Hendricks' young daughter, canters off into the woods in search of wild flowers. Bessie runs after her. Having captured the young rascal and returning to the road Bessie discovers the coach has gone on its journey.
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Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Title: Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Character: Dr. Brush
Released: February 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, haying disturbed the laws of the state, is thrown into jail. The warden hands the outlaw a cup of water and a piece of stale bread. The latter grabs the warden's hand, pulls it through the bars and threatens the former with a broken arm unless he unlocks the door. Broncho Billy, having gained his freedom, takes to the woods.
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The Making of Broncho Billy
Title: The Making of Broncho Billy
Released: February 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy runs into trouble in a bar when he gets into a confrontation with a bully. Since the bully has a gun and Billy doesn't, he's forced to endure the bully's humiliating tactics until he manages to get away. He determines to find himself a gun, learn how to use it and then go back and find the bully for a little payback.
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Broncho Billy's Gun Play
Title: Broncho Billy's Gun Play
Character: Hawk Eye
Released: January 25, 1913
Type: Movie
The sheriff of Sioux County, Arizona, is notified to locate the bandits' rendezvous. Carl Waters, the sheriff, scouts the country and finally locates them. Returning to the town saloon and dance hall Waters, who is smitten with the fair Caroline Heston, proposes to her. She promises to give her answer the following day.
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Broncho Billy's Brother
Title: Broncho Billy's Brother
Character: Dick, Broncho Billy's Brother
Released: January 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy's brother, Dick, is madly in love with Nellie Parsons. Jack Dupont, a mining engineer from the east sees pretty Miss Parsons and becomes infatuated with her. Not waiting for an introduction, Dupont follows and introduces himself. A few days later, Dupont proposes and is accepted. Nellie returns the engagement ring to Dick.
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Alkali Ike's Motorcycle
Title: Alkali Ike's Motorcycle
Released: December 14, 1912
Type: Movie
One night all the boys of the Seven Up Ranch are invited to the house to meet Bud Simpson's niece from Lizardhead. After hours of brushing up his dusty best clothes, Alkali Ike finally rigs himself out and, with a freshly washed rubber collar roped about his neck, chases into the ranch house where he finds the lovely Sophie seated at the organ, surrounded by the boys, who are industriously screeching their heads off in an endeavor to sing. Alkali Ike vainly attempts to elbow his way through and get a sight of the fair Sophie, but in vain, and is finally thrown out of the house by the boys. But his wooing is not in vain, and the next morning a motorcyclist arrives at the ranch and stops for a while. Alkali immediately sees possibilities in the machine, buys it outright, and invites Sophie to take a spin with him along the trail.
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The Prospector
Title: The Prospector
Character: Jim Clayton
Released: December 12, 1912
Type: Movie
On his way to file a claim, a lone prospector stops overnight with a settler and his family. The miner little suspects that his host plots to steal the gold. But the settler’s daughter overhears the plan and warns the visitor just in time. The couple escapes with the woman’s younger sister. In store-bought finery suggesting new wealth, they return to the scene of the attempted crime and make peace with the settler. “We’ll work the mine together,” promises the prospector.
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Western Girls
Title: Western Girls
Released: December 3, 1912
Type: Movie
Netty Parker and her sister, Mildred, two brave western girls, are instrumental in capturing two notorious outlaws in the cleverest of ways. Returning from town early one evening, they discover two bandits who have held up the afternoon stage, laughing over the division of the loot.
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Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Title: Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Character: Manuel, The Mexican Man with the Guitar
Released: November 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho marries a Mexican girl at the earnest entreaty of her dying father. Later a Mexican singer wins her love and, to get Broncho out of the way, she has him arrested and jailed on the charge of having assaulted her. In a frenzy of rage, Broncho secures the sheriff's revolver, escapes from jail and tracks the pair at his shack.
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Broncho Billy's Heart
Title: Broncho Billy's Heart
Character: Jim Davis
Released: November 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Silas Jordan, a settler, finds that his horse is not able to pull the heavy load demanded, and discovers the well-fed broncho of Jim Davis, a ranchman, staked out near the trail. Jordan deliberately takes the broncho, hitches it to his wagon and drives on.
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An Indian's Friendship
Title: An Indian's Friendship
Character: Yellow Wolf
Released: November 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho is instrumental in saving Yellow Wolf, an Indian, from the wrath of Dan Runnion, a surly cowpuncher, and Runnion swears revenge. His chance comes when he sees a notice from the county sheriff advising that cattle rustlers are at work and for ranchmen to watch their stock.
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The Ranch Girl's Trial
Title: The Ranch Girl's Trial
Character: Big Moose
Released: October 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Pepita, proprietress of the town dance hall, is loved by Big Moose, an Indian. Jake Harding, a worthless cowpuncher, also pretends love for Pepita in order to get an occasional drink of free whiskey. Big Moose swears to kill Harding, and is only prevented from carrying out his treat by Pepita.
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The Tomboy on Bar Z
Title: The Tomboy on Bar Z
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.
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Alkali Ike Stung!
Title: Alkali Ike Stung!
Released: October 8, 1912
Type: Movie
This time Alkali Ike is dissatisfied with his boarding house and, when the buxom Sophie, a two-hundred-pound widow arrives in town, buys out Tony's place and nails up cards announcing that it will be opened on the following Tuesday as a first-class boarding house, Alkali is the first to see it, rushes back and begins to lay plans for switching at once.
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An Indian Sunbeam
Title: An Indian Sunbeam
Character: Bob's Friend
Released: September 28, 1912
Type: Movie
The accidental overturning of their "prairie schooner" kills a settler and his wife and leaves their little baby girl, Sunbeam, alone in the world. Discovered by Big Wolf, an Indian brave from a nearby tribe, Sunbeam is adopted and brought up as one of their number.
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Alkali Ike's Pants
Title: Alkali Ike's Pants
Character: Coyote Simpson
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Coyote Simpson and "Alkali" Ike both love the buxom Sophie, pride of Buckskin, Ariz. Coyote has a long curling mustache that is his one pride and joy, but Sophie objects to it when he kisses her and orders him to trim it down.
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The Ranchman's Trust
Title: The Ranchman's Trust
Character: Elliott Stapleton
Released: September 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Boulder, a ranchman, receives a letter one morning, from his old friend and chum, George Stapleton, a New Yorker, saying his son Elliott, is coming out to the ranch to pull himself together and to take good care of the boy, above all to keep liquor from him. Next day Elliott arrives and immediately falls in love with Boulder's pretty daughter, Sue. She returns his love and thus arouses the insane jealousy of Bill Dunham, the ranch foreman. A month passes and Bill, discovering that Elliott's weakness is drink, manages to smuggle a bottle of liquor into his room, thinking the young fellow will disgrace himself.
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Broncho Billy for Sheriff
Title: Broncho Billy for Sheriff
Released: August 31, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Dunn, county sheriff, is asked to withdraw his name as a candidate for re-election because the boys think he has proved himself incapable in office. Dunn is a tighter, rushes to town, declares he will be in the campaign in spite of all opposition, and has the town placarded with notices urging the boys to vote for him. .Meanwhile, the judges have a hard time to find a man with the nerve to run against Dunn. Broncho Billy, a ranchman, is urged to become a candidate and agrees. Cleaning his gun thoroughly, Broncho sits down to eat dinner. Word of Broncho's becoming his rival reaches Dunn's ears and he immediately rides to the ranch house.
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Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Title: Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Released: August 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike receives some good news one morning in the form of an invitation from the boys of a nearby town to attend a masquerade ball with his best girl. Much elated. Alkali calls on Sophie and she gladly agrees to go. Alkali now goes to the town postmistress, secures the address of a costume firm and writes for a costume. It arrives in the nature of a Mephisto garb, horns, tail and all.
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Broncho Billy's Escapade
Title: Broncho Billy's Escapade
Released: August 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Vedah Morley is drawing a pail of water at the well one morning, when Broncho Billy approaches, lifts his sombrero respectfully, and asks for a drink. Struck by the simple charm of the girl, Broncho watches until she enters her shack nearby, then goes on down the trail, unconscious of the fact that Vedab is gazing after him from the window.
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Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up
Title: Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up
Character: The Doctor
Released: August 12, 1912
Type: Movie
A girl helps Broncho Billy to hide when the sheriff comes looking for him. When a while later he finds her and her mother unconscious, he holds up a stagecoach to bring them to a doctor. The sheriff, still on Billy's track, shoots him in front of the doctor's practice.
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Broncho Billy's Pal
Title: Broncho Billy's Pal
Character: Quick-Draw Kelly
Released: July 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom Shelby and Broncho Billy, partners on a small cattle ranch, and life-long pals, are stalwart young fellows and true sons of the west. Tom falls in love with Vedah Craig, daughter of the county sheriff, proudly tells Broncho of her, shows him the ring, goes to the Craig house, and puts the ring on Vedah's finger with the consent of her father. Rushing back to the ranch house Tom tells Broncho the good news and Broncho congratulates him warmly. That night a dance is held in the town hall. At the height of the merriment Quick-Draw Kelly, a notorious gun-man, and all-around ruffian, enters the hall with leveled gun and boisterously orders them all out. Fearing his deadly gun the hall is quickly cleared, then the enraged punchers summon Sheriff Craig, who is severely wounded in the arm by Kelly. The ruffian escapes and Craig now endeavors to send deputies after him, but all are afraid of Kelly's quick shooting and refuse to go in pursuit.
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The Smuggler's Daughter
Title: The Smuggler's Daughter
Character: Sheriff
Released: July 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Silas Gregg lives with his pretty daughter, Vedah, in the western hills, unknown to the girl. Gregg is the leader of a band of smugglers, who have their rendezvous in his barn. Vedah is loved by Brant Graham, a sturdy young Hillman, and to insure his future, Graham gets the sheriff to appoint him a deputy, receives his badge, pins it inside his sleeve and is ordered to be on the watch for smugglers, who are continually getting goods across the Mexican border, Graham promises and leaves. Later he goes to Gregg's shack, puts the ring on Vedah's finger and asks to see her father, to gain his consent. Finding he has gone down to the barn they start in search for him. In passing the barn Graham suddenly discovers Gregg and his gang sorting over their goods inside.
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Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Title: Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Released: July 5, 1912
Type: Movie
While looking for work, Broncho Billy meets a girl and falls in love with her. Broncho is then accused of horse theft by a jealous lover of the girl. At the moment that he is to be hanged, Broncho’s beloved girl comes to his rescue.
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On the Cactus Trail
Title: On the Cactus Trail
Character: Dan Clayton
Released: July 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Dan Clayton, a young easterner, is engaged to pretty Vedah Powers. Desirous of making his fortune Clayton goes west and becomes a prospector. After six months he has almost forgotten Vedah, and his letters are far and few between. Patiently Vedah waits each day for the postman, and her heart is almost breaking when no word comes from Dan. Meanwhile, Dan gets into bad company, takes to drinking, meets a Mexican girl, and marries her. His money gives out and he writes Vedah that he has met with an accident while prospecting and asks her to send him some money. Unable to stand the torturing suspense longer, Vedah boards the next train, and starts west to find Dan.
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Broncho Billy and the Indian Maid
Title: Broncho Billy and the Indian Maid
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 29, 1912
Type: Movie
Bart McGrew, a rascally schemer, endeavors to secure an old Indian chief's signature to a deed that will give him thousands of acres of valuable land owned by the tribe. Laughing Fawn, the chief's beautiful daughter, suspects Bart of treachery and takes her father away before he signs.
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A Moonshiner's Heart
Title: A Moonshiner's Heart
Character: Ross Chalmers - Revenue Officer
Released: June 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Seth Stevens and his pretty daughter Vedah, live in their rough hill-shack. Stevens conducts an illicit "still" in an abandoned shanty, and the "moonshine" whiskey is concealed in loads of hay and sold in the nearby town. One of the moonshiners is Tom Jackson, who loves Vedah. Stevens encourages Tom's attentions, but Vedah declares that she does not love the young moonshiner and his heart is broken in consequence.
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Western Hearts
Title: Western Hearts
Released: June 14, 1912
Type: Movie
Seth Perkins, a prospector, has two daughters. Mabel and Vedah. Vedah is a cripple, and the town doctor writes her father it will be necessary to operate to cure her and the expense will be one hundred dollars. Perkins has no such sum and is in despair.
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On El Monte Ranch
Title: On El Monte Ranch
Released: June 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Dave Trent is employed on the Big C ranch and lives with his sister, Mary, a charming girl. Jim Andrews, foreman of the ranch, loves Mary, and one morning calls to put the engagement ring on her finger.
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Broncho Billy's Bible
Title: Broncho Billy's Bible
Character: Quick-Draw Kelly
Released: June 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and his pal, after robbing the stagecoach, divide the loot and part company. Among the valuables in his share. Broncho finds a well-worn Bible and, after skimming over the pages with a grim smile, he puts it in an inside pocket and rides into town.
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The Desert Sweetheart
Title: The Desert Sweetheart
Character: Wells
Released: May 25, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Morris, a young prospector, plans a trip into the great desert to search for gold. Before he leaves, Morris places an engagement ring on the finger of Mary, his sweetheart, and she promises to await his return.
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The Sheriff and His Man
Title: The Sheriff and His Man
Character: Mexican
Released: May 18, 1912
Type: Movie
The Arizona Kid, a notorious outlaw, makes his escape from jail by sawing the bars from the cell window. Next morning this is discovered and reward notices are scattered broadcast offering $1,000 reward for his apprehension and giving his picture for identification.
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The Dead Man's Claim
Title: The Dead Man's Claim
Character: Durkin's Partner, Black
Released: May 11, 1912
Type: Movie
An aged miner finds a rich gold claim, stakes it out, fills a sack with samples of the gold ore and starts back across the desert to file his claim. His water gives out, and, after days of torture, he at last falls in a clump of sagebrush. In a nearby cabin Jim Durkin and Black, his partner, are about to sit down to supper when faint cries are heard.
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Broncho Billy and the Bandits
Title: Broncho Billy and the Bandits
Character: The Arizona Kid
Released: May 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Matthews, express agent in Red Rock, Arizona, and his daughter Alice, are watching anxiously over the bedside of Mrs. Matthews, who is very ill. An express box of money is now left by the stage and Matthews is ordered to guard it overnight. The "Arizona Kid," a notorious bandit, who has followed the stage and watched while they left the box, now gallops back to the rendezvous of his pals, tells them of the easy chance to rob the office and they start at once. Meanwhile Alice has sent her father for a doctor and is all alone with her sick mother.
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Alkali Ike's Boarding House
Title: Alkali Ike's Boarding House
Released: April 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Bridget, the cook on the Hard-Up Ranch, is some eat specialist on everything but soup. This, the boys declare, is bad, and select "Alkali" as the martyr to so inform her. "Alkali" does the test he can, but is bombarded out of the kitchen by the irate Bridget, who proceeds to drive the boys to the shelter of the hayloft for protection.
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Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
Title: Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
Released: March 26, 1912
Type: Movie
When rancher Arthur Mackley welcomes his daughter (Florence Perkes) to his ranch for a visit, all of the cowboys compete for her affections.
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A Ranch Widower's Daughters
Title: A Ranch Widower's Daughters
Character: Curley Brown
Released: March 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Perkins, a ranchman, has a bevy of pretty daughters, ranging in age from five years up to twenty. Perkins will not permit any love making between the girls and the cowboys, the most ardent of whom is "Alkali" Ike. "Alkali" likes Jennie, and the other boys each have their individual sweetheart.
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The Ranch Girl's Mistake
Title: The Ranch Girl's Mistake
Released: March 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Pretty Nan Morgan is admired by all the boys in Lariat and likes them, every one, but her heart belongs to Broncho Billy, who proudly announces to the boys one day that he wants to introduce them "to the future Mrs. Broncho." Matters glide along smoothly until about the time Broncho is thinking of putting the ring on Nan's finger.
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The Prospector's Legacy
Title: The Prospector's Legacy
Released: February 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A western prospector, who has been unusually lucky, prepares to return east to his wife. The suspicious actions of a gypsy horse-trader, whom he has seen loitering near his cabin, prompts him to take his gold to the bank, but on the way he is thrown from his horse and suffers fatal injuries. A young man and woman come on the scene and are given the gold, after they promise the dying man to send a portion of it to his wife. Later, the gypsy, learning who got the gold, attacks the mother of the young people and escapes with the treasure.
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The Deputy and the Girl
Title: The Deputy and the Girl
Released: February 10, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Black has a daughter, Edna, who is engaged to marry Frank Shaw. One evening Jim and Frank leave the cabin together and later lay in wait for the stage-coach, soon due. After the robbery they separate in order to throw the posse off the trail. Jim is finally trailed down by the sheriff and posse and surrenders, while a deputy is sent to Jim's house, where it is suspected Shaw has retreated. The deputy is met at the door by Edna, who gives the deputy her word of honor that Shaw is not in the house.
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Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Title: Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Released: February 2, 1912
Type: Movie
"Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress" (1912, 14 minutes) is a comedy-drama about yet another girl from the East who doesn't need to be protected from the local dangers. Broncho Billy plays a passive role, and even takes a bullet when a jealous villain tries to eliminate him from the new teacher's dance card. Filmed in the wilds of Fairfax, California and at Essanay Studios in San Rafael.
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The Oath of His Office
Title: The Oath of His Office
Released: January 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Bob Graham gains the consent of Grace Allen to marry before he leaves for the fall round-up. Bob takes with him a locket given him by Grace as a token of remembrance. Jed Brown, who has also loved Grace, goes with the punchers across the range and when opportunity offers steals the locket and forges a note which he returns and gives to Grace, making her believe that Bob has jilted her. Womanlike, she turns her affections to Jed and they are married. Bob learns of the trick and makes a solemn vow someday to get even.
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A Child of the West
Title: A Child of the West
Released: January 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Riley is to be arrested for horse stealing and when the sheriff knocks at the door of Jim's shack, he asks his little girl Nellie to go and tell the man he is not at home. Nellie tries to persuade the big sheriff that her father is out, but to no avail, for Jim is arrested and taken away, while he promises his little girl he will soon return.
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Broncho Billy's Adventure
Title: Broncho Billy's Adventure
Character: Tavern Owner's Daughter's Sweetheart
Released: December 30, 1911
Type: Movie
Fairfax, California, is the location used for this film, one of the earliest Broncho Billy films. Anderson includes his usual mix of comedy and drama as Broncho Billy gets caught in the middle of a family dispute between a jealous hotel owner and his daughter when she flirts with her boyfriend, a cowboy her father dislikes.
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Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Title: Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Released: December 23, 1911
Type: Movie
It's Christmas, and a young woman is on her way to celebrate the holidays with her parents. A group of drunk cowboys startle her horses making her wagon, with the woman on it, speed off. By chance Broncho Billy saves her life and the grateful girl invites him over for Christmas dinner. Little does he know that the young lady is the Sheriff's daughter…
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Papa's Letter
Title: Papa's Letter
Character: Papa
Released: December 5, 1911
Type: Movie
Papa's Letter is a 1911 silent drama.
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The Forester's Plea
Title: The Forester's Plea
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Henry Carter, a forester, has but one falling, that of drink. Despite his efforts to cure himself of his terrible habit, temptation is always stronger than his will, and Agnes, his daughter, is in despair. Finally persuaded to take treatment at a sanitarium by Rev. Small, Carter decides to give it a trial.
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A Western Redemption
Title: A Western Redemption
Character: Deputy
Released: October 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Perkins, a Chicago youth, is arrested, charged with being one of the carbarn bandits, to whom is attributed a series of bold robberies. The disgraced parents also suffer for their son's crimes, the elder Perkins being thrown out of a job, and they are forced to leave their rented cottage, on account of the bad character of their son.
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The Stage Driver's Daughter
Title: The Stage Driver's Daughter
Released: October 14, 1911
Type: Movie
Old Jim Lacey and his daughter operate a stagecoach in the west. One day, Alice, the girl, meets Tom Percival, a prospector, green from the east, and they fall in love. A few weeks later Tom writes Alice that he has struck it rich and for her to accompany her father on the stagecoach that day and she can ride with him to the claim office.
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Town Hall, Tonight
Title: Town Hall, Tonight
Released: October 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Two wandering thespians, whose one lone trunk bears the legend "Schulz Brothers, in Vaudeville," are hitting the grit back to New York. They are sore and tired when they reach "Snakeville." They decide to stop overnight, and if fortune favors them to give a performance and gets enough money to ride back to Broadway. Thereat they bill the town and make ready for the performance at the Town Hall that evening. Their efforts to please the critical Snakeville audience are futile and before they have rendered their first selection the audience bowls them off the stage and all leave. Furthermore the management in the box office has decamped to the "Red Eye" saloon with all the proceeds of the performance and they are in as bad a fix as before.
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The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
Title: The Strike at the Little Jonny Mine
Released: September 30, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Jim Logan, a miner at the "Little Jonny" mine, is in financial straits owing to the long illness of his wife. Other misfortunes follow when Jim learns of the discontent of other miners and their grumbling at the present wage scale they are receiving. It is finally decided to make demands to the mine owners
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A Western Girl's Sacrifice
Title: A Western Girl's Sacrifice
Released: September 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Harry Farman and Eloise Wendell are engaged to be married. Harry is a wealthy young fellow and Eloise is a society girl, and both find pleasure in their clubs and other such luxuries that the city affords the fashionable, wealthy set. Eloise, who has rode a hobby of philanthropy is engaged with her club and other clubs, who are holding a tag day, the funds to go to the children of the poor. Eloise, with another friend, invades a saloon in a fashionable hotel, and are invited to have a drink by two men seated at a table. Eloise, in fun, lifts the glass to her lips when Farman enters. The match is broken off and the next day Farman, with a friend, goes west.
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The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Title: The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Released: July 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Upon the death of her father, Ann Newton is made the heiress of an extensive and valuable ranch in Arizona, when she is visited by the officials of the S.W. Railroad Company, who, seeking to extend the tracks of their company, find it necessary to buy a portion of the ranch. Ann refuses to part with the ranch at any price
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Forgiven in Death
Title: Forgiven in Death
Character: An Indian
Released: June 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Ned and Jack, two western boys, are both in love with the pretty daughter of their employer, who, liking both, is unsettled as to which of them she will accept. She finally decides upon Jack and not desiring to hurt Ned's feelings, proposes to her father that she and Jack be married secretly.
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The Lucky Card
Title: The Lucky Card
Character: A Mexican
Released: May 27, 1911
Type: Movie
George Maxwell, a young cowboy, rescues a fever-stricken Mexican prospector and carrying him to an inn in the vicinity like a good Samaritan, pays the innkeeper a sum of money to care for the stricken man until he recovers.
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Alkali Ike's Auto
Title: Alkali Ike's Auto
Released: May 19, 1911
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike and Mustang Pete are both wooing the same woman. Ike hopes to take her for a horseback ride, but she chooses instead to go with Pete, who has a horse and carriage. Ike trades his horses for an automobile, hoping to win her over that way, but things do not work out as planned.
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The Bunco Game at Lizardhead
Title: The Bunco Game at Lizardhead
Released: May 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Jake Walters and his wife, Millie, arrive at Lizardhead, Arizona. They have learned that Mrs. Riley, proprietress of the hotel, has advertised for a waitress and Millie is sent to take the position. Millie is pretty and soon has all the village swains breaking their necks to gain her favor. From "Stump" Willetts to "Lank" Henderson, every cowboy within a radius of ten miles of Lizardhead is led to believe that he is the pretty lady's choice.
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The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Title: The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Released: April 22, 1911
Type: Movie
Rev. Warren Addington, the pastor of an eastern evangelical church, is left a will wherein is given the location of a valuable mine in Montana, unknown to any other living person. He takes only one man into his confidence, Jack Beardsley, a westerner and a seemingly trustworthy man, who is familiar with the country.
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Across the Plains
Title: Across the Plains
Released: April 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Jennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California, from a little Kansas farm, traveling in a prairie schooner. At the last settlement visited by the two, the old man, who has a weakness for drink, purchases several bottles of whiskey, which he begins drinking when they have made camp for the night. A lone cowboy calls upon them and finds the old man in a jovial mood and cautions him to beware of the hostile tribe of Indians, through whose country they are now traveling.
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The Sheriff's Chum
Title: The Sheriff's Chum
Character: Prisoner
Released: April 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Two young men of a western town, Will Phelps and George Arden, are in love with the same girl, the belle of the village. Having been pals from boyhood they decide to let the girl choose between them and to abide by her decision without argument or malice. Jessie chooses Phelps, and Arden, although deeply hurt by her decision, presses the hands of both and wishes them happiness. Several years elapse during which time Jessie and Will are married and the latter has become sheriff of the county. It is then that Arden returns and the two men are apparently happy in being together again.
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The Faithful Indian
Title: The Faithful Indian
Released: March 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Will Talbot, a miner, is severely injured in an explosion of dynamite on his claim and his life is saved through the aid of his faithful Indian servant. The Indian carries him to their shack and rides to town for the doctor. When the latter arrives he finds that Talbot has not only suffered severe face burns, but seems to have also lost all knowledge of his identity, a species of insanity occasionally the result of a violent shock.
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The Outlaw and the Child
Title: The Outlaw and the Child
Released: February 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Dan Warrington, an outlaw, is captured by the sheriff, after the former had held up a stagecoach, and is sent to jail. After the sheriff has placed his captive under guard he goes home and is welcomed by his little daughter, a child of five. Not long after the sheriff is notified of the escape of Warrington
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The Two Reformations
Title: The Two Reformations
Released: January 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Frank McLain loses his position in the east, and resolves to go west to prospect for gold. Arrangements are made that he leave his wife at home, and send for her later, as soon as he has found a position. Frank's prospecting proves a failure, and he is without funds, when his plight is made more severe by receiving a letter from Alice, his wife.
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The Count and the Cowboys
Title: The Count and the Cowboys
Released: January 7, 1911
Type: Movie
The scene is laid in the West and presents a French count, in immaculate attire, suddenly dropped among the cowboys. Following an altercation he offers to fight a duel, but when the results of a scheme arranged by the cowboys to show his opponent killing duelists by wholesale are seen, he breaks away and barely succeeds in catching the stage on his way back to the effete East, while the cowboys make merry over their successful joke.
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The Bad Man's Christmas Gift
Title: The Bad Man's Christmas Gift
Released: December 24, 1910
Type: Movie
Andy Carson, puncher on the Lazy X ranch, is in love with Gladys, daughter of Col. Pierce, the ranch owner. Gladys likes the young puncher, but when Jack Brinsley, a young Eastern friend of her father, comes to spend Christmas at the ranch, she speedily transfers her affection to the Easterner.
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The Tenderfoot Messenger
Title: The Tenderfoot Messenger
Released: December 17, 1910
Type: Movie
A Western story turning upon the cleverness of Shorty Blair, an express messenger, who assumes to be a tenderfoot and outwits a gang of desperadoes that follow him for the package of money he carries.
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A Cowboy's Vindication
Title: A Cowboy's Vindication
Released: December 10, 1910
Type: Movie
A shot during a struggle, and Frank Morrison is branded with the mark of Cain, but by his own efforts the real murderer is discovered.
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Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Title: Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Released: December 3, 1910
Type: Movie
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present is a silent Western
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A Western Woman's Way
Title: A Western Woman's Way
Released: November 26, 1910
Type: Movie
A Western Woman's Way is a 1910 Western
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The Little Prospector
Title: The Little Prospector
Released: November 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike."
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The Marked Trail
Title: The Marked Trail
Released: November 12, 1910
Type: Movie
The Marked Trail is a Silent Western
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The Masquerade Cop
Title: The Masquerade Cop
Released: November 8, 1910
Type: Movie
The Masquerade Cop is a silent Comedy
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Pals of the Range
Title: Pals of the Range
Character: An Indian
Released: October 22, 1910
Type: Movie
The scene opens in the bunk house of the Lazy K Ranch, where we see Jack Hartley and his pal Jack Smythe. Hartley has just received a letter from the east, in which his mother asks him for money. Hartley is much depressed. He is broke and sees no immediate prospect of recouping his fortunes. Smythe, learning of Hartley's dilemma, offers his roll to his pal, who gratefully accepts it.
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The Bearded Bandit
Title: The Bearded Bandit
Released: October 8, 1910
Type: Movie
A stirring Western drama presenting as its principal character a man who is at once ranchman and bandit
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Patricia of the Plains
Title: Patricia of the Plains
Released: October 1, 1910
Type: Movie
Patricia Watkins and her father are proprietors of the Lariat Saloon and dance hall but because of his small size and his tendency to keep in a state of perpetual drunkenness the old man has little to do with the business. Patricia as a barmaid meets all the riffraff of humanity drifting across the plains to the west and the Lariat Saloon is noted far and wide, not so much for the quality of its poisons as for the pretty maid who always offers a smile with the drink.
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The Tout's Remembrance
Title: The Tout's Remembrance
Released: September 24, 1910
Type: Movie
"Bullets" Brown, the hero of our story, is a rare track tout, and a true type or this particular parasite.
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The Pony Express Rider
Title: The Pony Express Rider
Released: September 17, 1910
Type: Movie
"Pony" O'Brien, or Number 3 of the relay between two desert-bound western cities, draws his horse before his sweetheart's house and lingers somewhat longer with his packet of mail as he tells her the good news of a raise in salary which means they will soon be ready to marry.
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The Deputy's Love
Title: The Deputy's Love
Character: Passenger
Released: August 27, 1910
Type: Movie
Bob Dean, the deputy sheriff of Tonopah County, has fallen in love with Nance O'Brien, a bewitching little western maid, whose brother, as he supposes, works a claim on a neighboring hillside.
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Under Western Skies
Title: Under Western Skies
Character: A Cowboy
Released: August 6, 1910
Type: Movie
The girl gives herself to one of the men to escape a worse fate, though she separates from another lover to do it. Later she discovers in a dramatic way that her lover was a poltroon and turns to her husband for protection.
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The Desperado
Title: The Desperado
Character: Black Bart
Released: July 23, 1910
Type: Movie
"Black Bart," a western bad man, is much wanted by the county sheriff and a proclamation to this effect, offering a reward of $5,000 for the bad man's capture, has been posted.
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The Unknown Claim
Title: The Unknown Claim
Character: A Ranch Hand
Released: July 9, 1910
Type: Movie
Reuben Ellis and his daughter, Belle, are in hard financial straits. Burdened with debts and pressed by persistent creditors, the old man finds but one way to meet his obligations, and that is mortgaging the ranch. Belle tries to console him, but agrees that they must borrow money. Ellis rides into town and applies to a money-lender for a sum sufficient to meet his debts. Walker, the loan agent, agrees to ride out to the ranch and look it over, but after he has viewed the ramshackle buildings and pitiful collection of household furniture he shakes his head and says the place is not worth a cent.
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The Bad Man's Last Deed
Title: The Bad Man's Last Deed
Character: The Sheriff
Released: July 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Arizona Pete, typical bad man, is the hero of the story.
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The Forest Ranger
Title: The Forest Ranger
Released: June 25, 1910
Type: Movie
The scene opens in a backwoods hut, the home of Dave Barlow and his stepdaughter Anna. Barlow is one of a party of timber thieves who have been working stealthily and to good profit in the government forest reserves on which property they live.
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The Ranchman's Feud
Title: The Ranchman's Feud
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 11, 1910
Type: Movie
Hiram Matthews, a western ranchman, owns an apple orchard which borders on the property of Jesse Forsyth. The former and his wife are picking apples in the orchard from a tree, the branches of which droop over the fence of the Forsyth property. Forsyth and Matthews have never been on good terms and when the former, who has brooded long over supposed ills done him by Matthews, finds this latter and his wife trespassing on his property, he orders them off at the point of a shotgun.
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The Brother, Sister and the Cowpuncher
Title: The Brother, Sister and the Cowpuncher
Released: May 28, 1910
Type: Movie
Allan Ardmore and his sister, Edith, two young eastern people, pay a visit to their uncle's ranch in Arizona. Young Ardmore has suffered a physical breakdown and is seeking to regain his health. Albert Weston, his uncle, believes in the doctrine of "back to nature" and sees plainly that what the boy needs is fresh air and plenty of rough, hard work.
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The Little Doctor of the Foothills
Title: The Little Doctor of the Foothills
Released: May 21, 1910
Type: Movie
A humorous picture, depicting the experience of a pretty little woman doctor who goes to Arizona to practice her profession and whose presence so works upon the cowboys that they all require her aid almost instantly.
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The Cowpuncher's Ward
Title: The Cowpuncher's Ward
Released: May 14, 1910
Type: Movie
'Red' Bowman is a worthless renegade, an alleged rustler, to whom fate has been unduly kind to allow him to escape so long the honest judgment and double earned punishment. His daughter, a curly-headed ragged little sunbeam, keeps house for him as best she can, accepting with model fortitude her brutal father's blows and lashings. When he beats her too mercilessly she runs away, if she can, to hide until his anger cools. One day he is interrupted in his amusement of "lickin' the kid" by a group of stern, determined cowboys, who threaten to lynch him if he dares whip the little girl again. 'Red' slinks away and postpones the lashing for another time. That night, he and a pal, another black-hearted scoundrel, make a raid on a bunch of cattle, but are caught in the act.
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A Vein of Gold
Title: A Vein of Gold
Released: April 30, 1910
Type: Movie
Convict No. 999, lonely in his prison cell, is handed a letter one morning from his mother. The letter states that the enfeebled old lady is ill and without food or money. The convict's heart saddens as he recalls his life of crime and that he is responsible for the poor old mother's want. He prays for the opportunity to redeem himself.
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The Mistaken Bandit
Title: The Mistaken Bandit
Released: April 16, 1910
Type: Movie
Jim Thaw runs an isolated general store in California. He occupies a position as agent for the Great Eastern Express Company, which in the west is a day job. One day the stage drives up and deposits a money box with Thaw with instructions from the general manager of the Great Eastern that it is to be held with him over night, adding that he must keep a careful watch as it is reported that Buck Brady, an outlaw, has been seen skulking in the vicinity of Thaw's store.
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The Bad Man and the Preacher
Title: The Bad Man and the Preacher
Released: April 16, 1910
Type: Movie
"Snake" Williams, typical bad man, and a little group of cowboys are found loitering lazily about the Snakeville, Ariz. barroom, when the noon-day stage coach out of Phoenix rumbles around pike and deposits one lone passenger. Interest is immediately aroused and as the stage coach pulls out, Snake, the constant bully, sidles up to the newly arrived stranger to inquire the latter's business, explaining at the same time that although the town has no mayor or reception committee, he will be pleased to do the honors.
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The Ranger's Bride
Title: The Ranger's Bride
Released: April 9, 1910
Type: Movie
The story concerns Bill Dunham, a droll cow-puncher, who finds that home without a wife may have its advantages, "but durned few," and a good woman who can sew on buttons and make flapjacks is worth more than much silver and gold and the liberties of single blessedness.
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The Flower of the Ranch
Title: The Flower of the Ranch
Released: April 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Frank Wendell, a ranchman, also the sheriff of his county, is about to leave home on the rounds of duty one morning when a buckboard drives up to the house, and a gentleman, whose careful grooming and style of dress signifies a man from back east, alights and presents Wendell with a note from a former friend of the ranchman, introducing Mr. Frederick Church, who desires to spend a few weeks on Wendell's ranch for the purpose of bettering his health. Unsuspecting the true character of the stalwart Easterner. Wendell welcomes him and, with the big hospitality of the Western householder, tells him to make himself at home. A month goes by and with its passing a tragedy. Wendell returns home one evening to find the Easterner and his wife and child gone.
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The Girl and the Fugitive
Title: The Girl and the Fugitive
Character: A Cowboy
Released: March 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Minnie Harding, a Western maiden, is preparing for a hard washing day. Sam, the negro helper, is assisting her with the wash, carrying water and filling the tub. While he is making his third trip to the well, a cowboy rides up to the cottage and asks Minnie for a drink. She goes to get it and the cowboy, taking advantage of her hospitality, makes love to her. Minnie repulses him and the cowboy becomes insulting. When Sam returns he finds Minnie struggling in the arms of the cowboy, but being a coward himself, he runs out to the road to see if other help cannot be secured. Ross White, another cowboy, is cantering by when Sam sees him and tells him that Minnie has been insulted by a strange cowboy.
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Method in His Madness
Title: Method in His Madness
Character: Pedestrian at Second Bar / Third Bartender
Released: March 16, 1910
Type: Movie
A doddering old gentleman, out for his morning's constitutional, suffers an attack of epilepsy in front of a saloon in the country town. Pedestrians run to his rescue and the barkeeper of the saloon brings out a good jolt of whiskey to revive the stricken one. A tramp who has noted the accident, has also mentally noted the glass of whiskey, and being thirsty for a drink himself, he turns away, a brilliant scheme revolving in his mind. A few minutes later the tramp in passing another saloon is seen to fall and go into violent contortions. A crowd gathers and the saloonkeeper comes out with the dose of whiskey. "Weary" is delighted, and meeting an old tramp friend of his, puts him wise to the little game.
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The Mexican's Faith
Title: The Mexican's Faith
Character: Scoundrel's Accomplice
Released: February 26, 1910
Type: Movie
Tony Perez, a Mexican cowpuncher, is driven from the ranch where he is employed for some misdemeanor or other, and after vainly endeavoring to find work, tries the gate of Dan Farman's ranch, "The Mosquito," and applies for a job. His hard luck story rings true and old Dan, who is of a charitable turn, puts the Mexican to work.
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The Cowboy and the Squaw
Title: The Cowboy and the Squaw
Character: The Bartender
Released: February 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Tom Ripley, a cowpuncher from the Circle A ranch, wins the hatred of Jim Simpson, another cowpuncher, when he defends Lightfeather, a pretty squaw, from the insults of Simpson.
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The Outlaw's Sacrifice
Title: The Outlaw's Sacrifice
Character: Walt Malone
Released: January 29, 1910
Type: Movie
Matt Malone, a highwayman and night rider who has long baffled the police authorities, loves Nona McMahon, posing with her as a cowboy from up country.
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Won by a Hold-Up
Title: Won by a Hold-Up
Character: Bill
Released: January 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Bill Smith, a cowpuncher, is in love with Nell Parsons, daughter of Jon Parsons, a gruff old rancher. Bill wins Nell as far as she is concerned, but he must first ask father. When Bill broaches the subject to the old man, the father kicks him off the premises. All subsequent meetings are frustrated.
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The Heart of a Cowboy
Title: The Heart of a Cowboy
Released: December 25, 1909
Type: Movie
Two handsome young Americans, cowboys of the "Bar O" ranch, fall in love with Kitty Blair, the pretty daughter of a neighboring ranchman.
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The Spanish Girl
Title: The Spanish Girl
Character: Pedro Mayos
Released: December 18, 1909
Type: Movie
The story concerns Lola Gonzales, a Spanish dancing girl, who falls in love with "Bud" Wilson, foreman of the Circle A ranch.
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The Ranchman's Rival
Title: The Ranchman's Rival
Character: The Mexican
Released: December 11, 1909
Type: Movie
The Ranchman's Rival is a silent Western
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His Reformation
Title: His Reformation
Released: December 4, 1909
Type: Movie
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Released: November 20, 1909
Type: Movie
Charles Shea, the handsome young foreman of the Bar Z ranch, has won the love of the winsome daughter of his employer, John Graham. Alice and he are engaged to be married when a telegram announcing the death of his father and the request that he immediately return East, is handed Shea. Promising to return immediately the estate is settled. Shea bids Alice good-bye and leaves for the East. A year passes and no word from Charley. The girl is in despair and. though every cowpuncher on the place loves her madly, she refuses each one in turn, declaring that she will wait for Charley, whom she is sure will return soon.
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Tag Day
Title: Tag Day
Released: February 19, 1909
Type: Movie
The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various charitable purposes is the basis for this Comedy short.