Edward Martindel

Edward Martindel

Born: July 7, 1876
Died: May 4, 1955
in Hamilton, Ohio, USA

Movies for Edward Martindel...

The Girl Who Came Back
Title: The Girl Who Came Back
Character: Chester Madison
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.
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Two Heads on a Pillow
Title: Two Heads on a Pillow
Character: Judge Benjamin Gorman
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
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By Appointment Only
Title: By Appointment Only
Character: Judge Barry Phelps
Released: July 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Major Jamison
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Mr. Jonathan Day
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Ames (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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Blonde Crazy
Title: Blonde Crazy
Character: Jeweler (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
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The Gay Diplomat
Title: The Gay Diplomat
Character: Ambassador
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
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High Stakes
Title: High Stakes
Character: Richard Lennon
Released: August 18, 1931
Type: Movie
High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
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Divorce Among Friends
Title: Divorce Among Friends
Character: Tom
Released: December 13, 1930
Type: Movie
George Morris constantly lies to his wife, Helen, to hide his escapades. As he is about to leave his wife, some guests arrives, including Paul Wilcox, who is in love with Helen. By the end of the party, however, George and Helen have reconciled yet again. Soon after, George meets Joan Whitley and loses a lighter which his wife has given him; Whitley drives off with it. When Helen throws a party, Joan, who is an old friend of Helen, arrives. When Helen introduces Joan to George, they pretend not to know each other. George pleads with Joan to return his lighter. She agrees to meet him later in the library and if he is nice to her she will give him back the lighter.
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Check and Double Check
Title: Check and Double Check
Character: John Blair
Released: October 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.
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Rain or Shine
Title: Rain or Shine
Character: Mr. Conway
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
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Golden Dawn
Title: Golden Dawn
Character: Col. Judson
Released: June 14, 1930
Type: Movie
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
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Song of the West
Title: Song of the West
Character: Colonel
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Captain Stanton, who because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo, has been cited for a court martial. As a scout, he is sent to escort a wagon train which is under military escort. It turns out that this escort is his own former regiment. When he meet Davolo, there is another fight and between Stanton and Davolo in which Davolo is killed.
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Mamba
Title: Mamba
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
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Second Choice
Title: Second Choice
Character: Herbert Satterlee
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Vallery Grove is in love with Don Warren but her mother opposes the match because he is poor and has no social standing. Don decides to terminate his engagement to Vallery after attending a party where he meets a spoiled rich girl who is interested in him.
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The Aviator
Title: The Aviator
Character: Gordon
Released: December 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a bogus flyer.
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Footlights and Fools
Title: Footlights and Fools
Character: Chandler Cunnungham
Released: November 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
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Modern Love
Title: Modern Love
Character: Andre Weston
Released: July 21, 1929
Type: Movie
In order to keep her job, a young dress designer must keep her recent marriage a secret from her boss. An important client arrives from Paris and her boss decides to hold a dinner party for the man at the girl's house. When her husband finds out that the client wants to take her back to Paris so she can "study," he comes up with a plan to stop it, and it begins with his being the "server" at the dinner party.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: General Bierbeau
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a lovely, sassy French girl, is soon to be married at the fort to Birabeau's right-hand man, Captain Fontaine. Birabeau's son Pierre, in reality the Red Shadow, loves Margot, but pretends to be a milksop to preserve his secret identity. Margot tells Pierre that she secretly yearns to be swept into the arms of some bold, dashing sheik, perhaps even the Red Shadow himself. Pierre, as the Red Shadow, kidnaps Margot and declares his love for her.
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Hardboiled Rose
Title: Hardboiled Rose
Character: Jefferson Duhamel
Released: March 30, 1929
Type: Movie
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her feet and takes her away from it all.
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Why Be Good?
Title: Why Be Good?
Character: Winthrop Peabody Sr.
Released: February 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
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The Devil's Apple Tree
Title: The Devil's Apple Tree
Released: February 20, 1929
Type: Movie
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Dr. Morgan
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very inexperienced.
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The Singing Fool
Title: The Singing Fool
Character: Louis Marcus
Released: September 29, 1928
Type: Movie
After years of hopeful struggle, waiter and aspiring singer-songwriter Al Stone is on his way. He gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows big-time producer Louis Marcus and gold-digging showgirl Molly, whom Al fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way.
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We Americans
Title: We Americans
Character: Mr. Bradleigh
Released: May 6, 1928
Type: Movie
We Americans was based on the Broadway play of the same name. Returning to the "melting pot" themes that he handled so well, director Edward H. Sloman concentrates on the trials and tribulations of three first-generation American families: The Jewish Levines, the German Schmidts and the Italian Albertinis.
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The Desert Bride
Title: The Desert Bride
Character: Col. Sorelle
Released: March 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
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The Garden of Eden
Title: The Garden of Eden
Character: Colonel Dupont
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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In Old Kentucky
Title: In Old Kentucky
Character: Mr. Brierly
Released: November 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Young Brierly struggles to save his father, Major Brierly, from the clutches of alcohol after the Great War. At the same time, he prepares Major Brierly's horse, which served bravely with the Major at the front, for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Woman Who Did Not Care
Title: The Woman Who Did Not Care
Character: Franklin Payne
Released: July 5, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a boarding house keeper, Iris Carroll (Tashman) is subjected to the unwanted advances of her mother's boarders. When mom dies, Iris kicks over the traces, moves out of town, buys a gorgeous wardrobe and sets about to "get even" with the entire male population.
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Lonesome Ladies
Title: Lonesome Ladies
Character: Motley Hunter
Released: July 3, 1927
Type: Movie
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Lovers
Title: Lovers
Character: Don Julian
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Felicia. Society gossips in Madrid find the situation increasingly scandalous.
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Children of Divorce
Title: Children of Divorce
Character: Tom Larrabee
Released: April 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
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Fashions for Women
Title: Fashions for Women
Character: Duke of Arles
Released: March 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Celeste de Givray is renowned throughout Europe as the most beautiful and best-dressed model in all Paris. Her press agent DuPont concocts an attention-getting publicity scheme by having Celeste undergo cosmetic surgery, then unveiling her "new" face at a posh fashion show. But thanks to a delay in the surgery, DuPont is forced to hired a substitute for Celeste, a look-alike American girl named Lulu Dooley
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Venus of Venice
Title: Venus of Venice
Character: Journalist
Released: March 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A slick caper movie about a petty thief falls for a wealthy American artist.
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Everybody's Acting
Title: Everybody's Acting
Character: Peter O'Brien
Released: October 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love with Ted, the millionaire son of a rich widow, but she thinks he is only a tax-cab driver. His mother objects to the romance and looks into Doris' past. She learns that her father had murdered, in a fit of jealousy, her mother, and tells Doris what she has found out. The four actors who had raised her had never told her how she happened to become an orphan. They persuade Ted's mother to send him on a voyage to the Orient in order to get him away from Doris. But they neglected to tell the mother they had also booked passage for Doris on the same ship.
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You'd Be Surprised
Title: You'd Be Surprised
Character: Mr. White - District Attorney
Released: September 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
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The Duchess of Buffalo
Title: The Duchess of Buffalo
Character: Grand Duke Gregory Alexandrovich
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
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Tony Runs Wild
Title: Tony Runs Wild
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: April 18, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Grant saves Grace Percival from being tromped by a herd of stampeding horses,led by Tony, and they become friends. Grace tells Slade, a renegade who has been trying to capture Tony, the leader of the wild horses, that Tom has promised to capture Tony for her. Not if Slade has anything to say about he isn't.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan
Character: Lord Augustus Lorton
Released: December 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
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Compromise
Title: Compromise
Character: Commodore Smithson
Released: October 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Compromise is a silent film drama produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Alan Crosland. The film is now thought to be a lost film.
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The Sporting Venus
Title: The Sporting Venus
Character: Sir Alfred Grayle
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
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The Dixie Handicap
Title: The Dixie Handicap
Character: Mr. Bosworth
Released: December 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Tale of a man and his horse.
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Love's Whirlpool
Title: Love's Whirlpool
Character: Richard Milton
Released: March 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.
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Lovebound
Title: Lovebound
Character: Stephen Barker
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mobley to fall in love with his cute little employee and he proposes. Besse doesn't reveal that her father has a criminal past which he has since renounced.
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The White Flower
Title: The White Flower
Character: John Markham
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
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Clarence
Title: Clarence
Character: Mr. Wheeler
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Clarence Smith is an ex-soldier who is hired for odd jobs by Mr. Wheeler primarily because he has overheard a family argument. And the Wheeler household is going through quite a bit of turmoil -- Mrs. Wheeler feels neglected by her husband and is jealous of Violet Pinney, the governess. Daughter Cora is planning to elope with her father's secretary, Hubert Stem. Son Bobby, meanwhile, has been making passes at the maid.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Wiley
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
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Nice People
Title: Nice People
Character: Hubert Gloucester
Released: July 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.
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The Ordeal
Title: The Ordeal
Character: Sir Francis Maynard
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Sybil marries George Bruce, an alcoholic 20 years her senior, In order to provide for her crippled sister, Helen, and her brother, Geoffrey. Bruce becomes jealous of Sybil's attentions to young physician Robert Acton, and when Bruce suffers a heart attack and calls for digitalis, Sybil allows the vial to break and he dies.
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Little Eva Ascends
Title: Little Eva Ascends
Character: Mr. Wilson
Released: January 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Little Eva Ascends is a 1922 silent comedy
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A Daughter of Luxury
Title: A Daughter of Luxury
Character: Loftus Walford
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
When a lawsuit deprives a rich woman, Mary Fenton, of her wealth, she decides to impersonate another woman, Mary Cosgrove. The situation becomes sticky when Cosgroge turns up and demands Fenton be arrested.
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Hail the Woman
Title: Hail the Woman
Character: Wyndham Gray
Released: November 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, rather than determine whether the stories are true, he bans her from his house. Her brother David, a pusillanimous reprobate, has secretly married and fathered, then abandoned, a child. Judith takes care of the child and finds a way to restore her family through the love for the babe.
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The Call of the North
Title: The Call of the North
Character: Graham Stewart
Released: November 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. He's also a jealous and vindictive man, and because he believes that Graham Stewart (Edward Martindel) has slept with his wife, he sends him into the Northwoods to die. Stewart's son, who grows up with the name Ned Trent (Jack Holt), swears revenge.
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Greater Than Love
Title: Greater Than Love
Character: Frank Norwood
Released: July 17, 1921
Type: Movie
Grace Merrill works as a shill in a gambling hall. Her five roommates are even less honestly employed. One of them, Elsie Brown commits suicide because her main squeeze, Frank Norwood has left her. Elsie's small town mother comes to the city and meets Elsie's roommates. But Mother Brown's faith and purity are so compelling that the ladies of the night reform. Grace, in fact, gives up her affair with a married man -- even though she really loves him -- to go live with Mrs. Brown in the country.
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Ducks and Drakes
Title: Ducks and Drakes
Character: Dick Chiltern
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich young woman overspends from her parents' savings and ruthlessly vamps on young men that she calls up randomly on the telephone. When her fiancée and his friends get word of this, they hatch a plan to teach her a valuable lesson.
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Unseen Forces
Title: Unseen Forces
Character: Robert Brunton
Released: November 29, 1920
Type: Movie
In the film, Breamer’s character, Miriam Holt (“the girl who sees around corners”), proves her psychic powers by locating children who went missing during the war. Her childhood love Clyde Brunton (Conrad Nagel) is unhappily married to a social climber, but Miriam’s ability to commune with the spirits of the dead (“those we love are always with us”) finds a way to resolve the problem.
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You Never Can Tell
Title: You Never Can Tell
Character: William Vaughn
Released: September 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.
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A Rich Man's Plaything
Title: A Rich Man's Plaything
Character: 'Iron' Lloyd
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Marie Grandon may have seen more of the world than any nice girl ever would, but her motives remain pure. Marie labors in a New England oyster cannery and dreams of someday crushing the slumlords who prey upon the poor. While on a cruise, "Iron" Lloyd, a millionaire financier and tenement owner, decides to visit the town where Marie lives. Under the name Strange, he gets in a fight and is injured. While recuperating, he meets Marie and she tells him of her dream. Lloyd is intrigued by this and decides to test her. He has his lawyer transfer a huge sum of money to her and makes it look like she inherited it from a distant relative. Marie takes the money, goes to New York, and does exactly what she had planned. Her main target happens to be Lloyd. His business rival, Ogden Deneau, even aligns with her, pretending interest in her cause, but really wanting to ruin Lloyd. Marie, however, had dealings with Deneau a long time ago and plans to crush him too.
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Extravagance
Title: Extravagance
Character: Robert Mackay
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Raised in the lap of luxury, Norma Russell is ill-prepared for her father's financial reverses. In exchange for a $25,000 loan, Norma's dad promises her hand in marriage to bank president Howard Dundore.
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The Devil at His Elbow
Title: The Devil at His Elbow
Character: Franklin Darrow
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Eternal Question
Title: The Eternal Question
Character: Allen Tait
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the streets, dress her appropriately, and within three months have her accepted into society.
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The Scarlet Woman
Title: The Scarlet Woman
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Foundling
Title: The Foundling
Character: David King
Released: January 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage passes her niece off as Molly.
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The Foundling
Title: The Foundling
Character: David King (as Edward Martindale)
Released: August 1, 1915
Type: Movie
This 1915 film was completed in August and reviewed by trade papers, but was destroyed by fire in a studio accident. It was immediately remade with a different director and a slightly different cast and release on 2 January 1916, only 6 days after the scheduled release date for the destroyed version.