Rin-Tin-Tin

Rin-Tin-Tin

Born: September 1, 1918
Died: August 10, 1932
in Flirey, France
Rin-Tin-Tin was a German Shepherd Dog rescued from France at the end of World War One, brought back to America, raised and trained by Lee Duncan.

Movies for Rin-Tin-Tin...

100 Years at the Movies
Title: 100 Years at the Movies
Released: April 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.
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Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Title: Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Rin-Tin-Tin (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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The Lightning Warrior
Title: The Lightning Warrior
Character: Rinty
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
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Rough Waters
Title: Rough Waters
Character: Rinty
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
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The Man Hunter
Title: The Man Hunter
Character: Rinty
Released: May 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa.
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On the Border
Title: On the Border
Character: Rinty
Released: March 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
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The Lone Defender
Title: The Lone Defender
Character: Rinty
Released: March 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Scotty
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: 'Chinese Fantasty' Presenter
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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Frozen River
Title: Frozen River
Character: Lobo
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the elements to rescue heroine Jane from the villains, a gang of cutthroats and thieves.
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The Million Dollar Collar
Title: The Million Dollar Collar
Character: Rinty
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.
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Land of the Silver Fox
Title: Land of the Silver Fox
Character: Rinty
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
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Rinty of the Desert
Title: Rinty of the Desert
Character: Rinty
Released: April 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Rinty rescues heroine June and hero Pat from all manner of desert dangers, both natural and man-made. The film's high point of tension finds the canine star rescuing Nye from a deep pit.
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A Race for Life
Title: A Race for Life
Character: Rinty
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea. Their devotion to one another is proven beyond doubt when Danny is threatened by kidnappers.
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A Dog of the Regiment
Title: A Dog of the Regiment
Character: Rinty
Released: October 29, 1927
Type: Movie
During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.
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Jaws of Steel
Title: Jaws of Steel
Character: Rinty
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine. Thus, the human characters spend most of their time hunting down the dog in hopes of collecting a huge bounty.
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Tracked by the Police
Title: Tracked by the Police
Character: Satan
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
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Hills of Kentucky
Title: Hills of Kentucky
Character: The Grey Ghost
Released: February 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"
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While London Sleeps
Title: While London Sleeps
Character: Rinty
Released: November 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse district of London.
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A Hero of the Big Snows
Title: A Hero of the Big Snows
Character: Rinty (as Rin-Tin-Tin)
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Rin Tin Tin drama!
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The Night Cry
Title: The Night Cry
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: February 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
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Clash of the Wolves
Title: Clash of the Wolves
Character: Lobo - Leader of the Wolf Pack
Released: November 17, 1925
Type: Movie
A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girlfriend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However, the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
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Below the Line
Title: Below the Line
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.
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Tracked in the Snow Country
Title: Tracked in the Snow Country
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: July 13, 1925
Type: Movie
When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
Title: The Lighthouse by the Sea
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: December 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is going blind they will remove him, and a gang of liquor-smugglers is trying to destroy the lighthouse so they can land their illegal cargo on shore without being spotted.
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Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Rin-Tin-Tin
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
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Find Your Man
Title: Find Your Man
Character: Buddy, a dog
Released: September 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a warm welcome, he finds his sweetheart, Caroline Blair, missing.
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Shadows of the North
Title: Shadows of the North
Character: King, the dog
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edison Marshall
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Where the North Begins
Title: Where the North Begins
Character: The Dog
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.
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My Dad
Title: My Dad
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: July 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Tom's father, Barry, lives at a lonely trading post up north and is constantly in fear the post's factor, who has threatened to turn him in to the Mounted Police for a murder committed many years before.
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The Man from Hell's River
Title: The Man from Hell's River
Character: Rin Tin Tin
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Adventure of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police