Fred Burns

Fred Burns

Born: April 22, 1878
Died: July 18, 1955
in Fort Keogh, Montana, USA

Movies for Fred Burns...

Boss of Rawhide
Title: Boss of Rawhide
Character: Townsman
Released: November 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Texas Rangers Tex Wyatt, Jim Steele and Panhandle Perkins are sent to the district of Rawhide to investigate the killings of several ranchers. Tex enters the town posing as a tramp while the other two Rangers join a troupe of itinerant minstrels.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Rescott
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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A Lady Takes a Chance
Title: A Lady Takes a Chance
Character: Team Driver
Released: August 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
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Wagon Tracks West
Title: Wagon Tracks West
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Buckboard Driver
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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Song of Texas
Title: Song of Texas
Character: Race Official
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
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Riders of the Rio Grande
Title: Riders of the Rio Grande
Character: Townsman
Released: May 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.
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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Title: Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Character: Man at Church Service
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Ed
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Clem Buffington
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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The Lone Prairie
Title: The Lone Prairie
Released: October 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
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Sunset Serenade
Title: Sunset Serenade
Character: Langdon
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Rancher
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: Jim Prentiss
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Westerner
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Rancher
Released: February 17, 1942
Type: Movie
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Rancher Harry
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Cattle Rancher
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Homesteader
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Colorado Jack Breen
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Nevada City
Title: Nevada City
Character: Railroad Worker
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Mine Owner
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Rancher Pa Whipple
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Title: Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Character: Rancher Wyatt
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain Bradley Craven (Forrest Taylor) is determined to stop the election process that would allow the region to join the Union. Tex and Slim join a rancher and his daughter to stop Craven, with fearless Tex going undercover to ensure that justice is served.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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Doomed Caravan
Title: Doomed Caravan
Character: Luke
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Miner
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Thundering Frontier
Title: Thundering Frontier
Character: Hank Loomis
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
After a handful of non-formula westerns, Charles Starrett returned to the mixture as before in Thundering Frontier. Starrett plays Jim Fillmore, kind to old ladies, small animals and heroine Norma Belknap (Iris Meredith). In contrast, the villains are kind to no one, least of all struggling building contractor Square Deal Scottie (Alex Callam), whose projects are continually targeted for demolition and his payroll is forever being stolen at gunpoint. A good 25 percent of the film's running time is given over to Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, whose C&W croonings are pleasant but a bit much. One of the film's few surprises is that Starrett's perennial screen sparring partner Dick Curtis isn't one of the bad guys.
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Three Men from Texas
Title: Three Men from Texas
Character: Rancher
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Mr. Waddell
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Under Texas Skies
Title: Under Texas Skies
Character: Stage Driver
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Sheriff Jeff Harkins
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Title: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
Character: Allen
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.
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The Ranger and the Lady
Title: The Ranger and the Lady
Character: Winslow
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Cattleman Jackson
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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Rocky Mountain Rangers
Title: Rocky Mountain Rangers
Character: Shotgun Rider
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
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Texas Stagecoach
Title: Texas Stagecoach
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The Kinkaids and the Harpers both run stage lines and are friendly competitors. Appleby is after the stage line and convinces the two owners to build a spur line to the same town. Then he has both projects sabotaged pitting the friends against each other and running them out of money.
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Gaucho Serenade
Title: Gaucho Serenade
Character: Cowhand
Released: May 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
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Young Buffalo Bill
Title: Young Buffalo Bill
Character: Stage Driver
Released: April 11, 1940
Type: Movie
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Muncie Sheriff
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Saga of Death Valley
Title: Saga of Death Valley
Character: Wilson
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Melton - Volunteer
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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In Old Monterey
Title: In Old Monterey
Character: Fred
Released: August 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
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New Frontier
Title: New Frontier
Character: Fiddle Player
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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Wall Street Cowboy
Title: Wall Street Cowboy
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
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In Old Caliente
Title: In Old Caliente
Character: Settler Wagon Master
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Marshal in St. Jo
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Southward Ho!
Title: Southward Ho!
Character: Doctor
Released: March 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: First Stage Driver
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Title: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
Character: Cavalry Officer Long
Released: February 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
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Sunset Trail
Title: Sunset Trail
Character: Trail Patrol Member
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
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In Old Mexico
Title: In Old Mexico
Character: Henchman
Released: September 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Escaped criminal "The Fox" hates Hoppy and a Rurales colonel for imprisoning him and lures Cassidy to Mexico in order to exact his vengeance.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: Rankin, leader of mob to blow up dam
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Rancher Harris
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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Trailing Trouble
Title: Trailing Trouble
Character: Sheriff Jake Jones
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
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Empty Holsters
Title: Empty Holsters
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Juror
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Stagecoach Driver
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Gunsmoke Ranch
Title: Gunsmoke Ranch
Character: Livery Stable Owner
Released: May 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Hank Ferguson
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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The Fugitive Sheriff
Title: The Fugitive Sheriff
Character: Courthouse Deputy (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Character: Rancher
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
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Too Much Beef
Title: Too Much Beef
Character: Judge
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Someone is adding beef to Rocky Brown's herds and changing the brands to make it look like he is rustling. Then he is framed for murder and jailed. Johnny Argyle who has been sent to investigate believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it and starts with hides that have been rebranded.
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Custer's Last Stand
Title: Custer's Last Stand
Character: Wagon Driver
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
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The Law of 45's
Title: The Law of 45's
Character: Sheriff Tom
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and Stoney arrive and things begin to change.
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The Brand of Hate
Title: The Brand of Hate
Character: Fiddle Player
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling cattle and then kill Rod's father with Joe's gun. The Sheriff and Rod think they did it and are after proof.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Townsman
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Jaws of Justice
Title: Jaws of Justice
Character: Man at Dance
Released: December 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Seeker Dean has found the gold he has been looking for for 15 years. Heading for the Government office, Boone Jackson kills him. Kickabout finds a cryptogram as to the gold's location and Sergeant Kinkaid solves the puzzle. But Jackson learns of the gold's location and to get it, he sets out to dynamite the dam that would flood the entire communuty.
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War of the Range
Title: War of the Range
Character: Sheriff Ben Barlow
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against son when Tom Bradley sides with a newly arrived nester family. Then after stealing Duke Bradley's money, Warren frames Duke's son Tom for the theft.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Barfly
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Trailing North
Title: Trailing North
Character: Ranger Jim Powers
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.
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The Dude Bandit
Title: The Dude Bandit
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: April 5, 1933
Type: Movie
After Burton kills Dad Mason and makes it look like a suicide, Ace Cooper arrives to investigate. He poses as a coward during the day but at night he becomes the daring Dude Bandit.
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Title: Ride Him, Cowboy
Character: Vigilante Member (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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Texas Tornado
Title: Texas Tornado
Character: Sheriff
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.
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Freighters of Destiny
Title: Freighters of Destiny
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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The Arizona Terror
Title: The Arizona Terror
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Station Agent
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
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Branded
Title: Branded
Character: Prestonville Sheriff
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on the scene.
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Law of the Rio Grande
Title: Law of the Rio Grande
Character: First Sheriff
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in trouble again.
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The Sunrise Trail
Title: The Sunrise Trail
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
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Fighting Thru
Title: Fighting Thru
Character: Sheriff Miles Clay
Released: December 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
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The Apache Kid's Escape
Title: The Apache Kid's Escape
Character: 1st Sheriff
Released: November 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A former outlaw eludes the authorities by masquerading as a cowboy.
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Headin' North
Title: Headin' North
Character: U. S. Marshal Harrison
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.
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Men Without Law
Title: Men Without Law
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: October 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Sheriff Hank Bates
Released: May 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Buck Allen, The Cheyenne Kid, has been accused of holding up the payroll car of the Cody Dam Construction Company, and is being pursued by U.S. Marshal Utah Kane and Sheriff Hank Bates but they lose him.
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The Mounted Stranger
Title: The Mounted Stranger
Character: Steve Gary
Released: February 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.
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Parade of the West
Title: Parade of the West
Character: Copeland
Released: January 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear with Copeland's Wild West Show to ride a horse called "Mankiller." Dude, Copeland's righthand man, resents Bud's attentions to Mary, one of the performers, and when they fight it out, Bud is the victor. In revenge Dude loosens the cinch on the horse.....
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Rio Rita
Title: Rio Rita
Character: Wilkins
Released: September 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
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The California Mail
Title: The California Mail
Character: John Harrison
Released: April 7, 1929
Type: Movie
During the darkest hour of the American Civil War, the Union desperately needs gold to keep its armies in the field and its credit good. Federal Agent Bob Scott is therefore instructed to clean out the bandit gangs that have been stopping the vital California gold shipments.
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Tide of Empire
Title: Tide of Empire
Character: Vigilante
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
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Set Free
Title: Set Free
Character: Hale
Released: March 6, 1927
Type: Movie
"Side Show" Saunders gains the respect of shopowner Holly Farrell and the townsfolk when he gives up entertaining with his trick horse and dog and goes to work in the general store.
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The Overland Stage
Title: The Overland Stage
Character: Butterfield
Released: January 31, 1927
Type: Movie
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
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The Unknown Cavalier
Title: The Unknown Cavalier
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community.....
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Haunted Range
Title: Haunted Range
Character: Charlie Titus
Released: January 11, 1926
Type: Movie
The hero must solve the murder of his benefactor within six months in order to inherit a valuable ranch.
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The Grey Vulture
Title: The Grey Vulture
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Fired from his job for shirking his duties, the 'Knight of the Plains' Bart Miller stumbles across a would-be stagecoach robbery and he rescues damsel in distress Betty Taylor. He takes Betty and her pretty girlfriends to the ranch of her father Bill Taylor. Meanwhile Taylor's foreman Luke Hatton is plotting to rustle his boss' herd with the aid of the corrupt lawyer Harkness.
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The Demon Rider
Title: The Demon Rider
Character: Sheriff Jim Lane
Released: November 2, 1925
Type: Movie
A ranch foreman captures a notorious gang of gold thieves. He ties them up and leaves them for a pursuing posse while he goes out to find the gold they stole. When the posse arrives, the gang's leader convinces them that the foreman is actually the gold thief, and the posse sets out in pursuit of him.
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The Desert Secret
Title: The Desert Secret
Released: May 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Bud Lawler has struck gold with his friend. The friend is an alcoholic and talks them into trouble.
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Cyclone Jones
Title: Cyclone Jones
Character: Jack Thompson
Released: September 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Young cowboy Cyclone Jones falls for pretty Sylvia Billings, who with her sheep-rancher father has just come to town. However, his pursuit of Sylvia runs into some roadblocks, mainly the hostility of the local cattle ranchers to "sheepmen" like her father, whose sheep they believe ravage the range and leave it unusable for their cattle to graze on and who are determined to drive the new arrivals out of town.
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Ruth of the Rockies
Title: Ruth of the Rockies
Character: Burton
Released: August 29, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the thief.
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Bound in Morocco
Title: Bound in Morocco
Character: Bandit Chief
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost film. George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Frank Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his harem. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
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The Fighting Trail
Title: The Fighting Trail
Released: September 10, 1917
Type: Movie
silent western
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The Hero of the Hour
Title: The Hero of the Hour
Character: Foreman
Released: April 23, 1917
Type: Movie
Billy Brooks, who exhibits an effeminate personality, leaves his Wall Street magnate father and goes on the road as a perfume salesman. In an effort to cure his son of his womanly ways, Brooks, Sr. wires Nebeker, an old rancher friend, to kidnap Billy from the train and "make a man of him."
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: Brian Oakley
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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The Good Bad Man
Title: The Good Bad Man
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 21, 1916
Type: Movie
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
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Sold for Marriage
Title: Sold for Marriage
Character: A Policeman
Released: April 15, 1916
Type: Movie
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Marfa.
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Ben Blair
Title: Ben Blair
Character: Tom Blair
Released: March 9, 1916
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Rankin is murdered, the older Ben sets out to seek vengeance.
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Jordan Is a Hard Road
Title: Jordan Is a Hard Road
Character: McMahon Man
Released: December 19, 1915
Type: Movie
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.
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Martyrs of the Alamo
Title: Martyrs of the Alamo
Character: Captain Dickinson
Released: November 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
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How Hazel Got Even
Title: How Hazel Got Even
Released: February 14, 1915
Type: Movie
Hazel, a cashier in a restaurant, is engaged to Patsy, a bus driver. Patsy earns some extra money by going in on preliminary bouts at the Athletic Club pugilistic exhibitions, and gains a local reputation as a boxer. When a big fighter is suddenly taken ill on the eve of a public contest, Patsy substitutes, wins the match, and suddenly finds himself in line for a bout with the champion of the world. On receipt of an offer for a long tour, he gets a swelled head and repudiates Hazel, who is forced to go back to work in the restaurant. She plans to get even with Patsy.
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The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Klansman
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
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His Lesson
Title: His Lesson
Released: January 5, 1915
Type: Movie
This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.
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At Dawn
Title: At Dawn
Released: December 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Sykes, an American engaged to a poor girl, goes to the Philippines as a teacher, and the girl stays behind to await their marriage. Sykes, after some time has passed, has succumbed to the tropic influences, and is living with a native girl, when one day he hears from the girl back home that she is coming to join him and that she will arrive at dawn next day. An aunt has died and left her a lot of money. Caring more for this coin that the girl, Sykes tries to get rid of the native girl, but she makes a row, and he in fear of losing his girl and her cash, poisons the native girl, who dies. He is about to get rid of the body when a young lieutenant of the U.S. Army shows up with his sergeant, inquiring the way to the trail of Indians, and becomes suspicious of Sykes' uneasiness and finds the dead girl.
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The Saving Grace
Title: The Saving Grace
Character: Mr. Shipton - the Minister
Released: November 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Molly Kite, the neglected child of a drunken father, rouses the sympathy of the minister, Mr. Shipton, who also teaches the school at Dead Tree. The minister-school-master persuades some of his parishioners to give the girl decent clothes, and he coaxes her into attending school. At first unruly and sullen, she gradually comes to feel that the minister is her best friend. One day she happens to see him meet a strange girl on the street. Apparently overjoyed, he kisses the stranger. Molly rushes into the house, tears off her new clothes, and vows she will never go to school again.
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Sierra Jim's Reformation
Title: Sierra Jim's Reformation
Character: The Sheriff
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Sierra Jim, wounded and desperate, flees from the sheriff and is given refuge in the cabin of a young girl, the sweetheart of the pony express rider.
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The Tavern of Tragedy
Title: The Tavern of Tragedy
Released: August 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs.
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Moonshine Molly
Title: Moonshine Molly
Character: Henry Boone - Molly's Father
Released: August 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing of a revenue officer, Uriah Hudson, whom she secretly suspects of having a hand in sending her father to prison, is her persistent suitor.
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Down by the Sounding Sea
Title: Down by the Sounding Sea
Character: The Old Beachcomber
Released: July 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Alice, an old beachcomber's daughter, and Bob, a young fisherman living on an island remote from the mainland, discover a man tied to a rough raft floating in the wreckage of a yacht along the shore. The man thus cast up by the sea is taken to the cabin of the old beachcomber, where he recovers.
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Home, Sweet Home
Title: Home, Sweet Home
Character: The Sheriff
Released: May 16, 1914
Type: Movie
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
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The Adopted Brother
Title: The Adopted Brother
Character: Outside Sheriff's Office
Released: August 29, 1913
Type: Movie
A Western action film about two men who escape from prison to take revenge on the person who betrayed them. Harry’s actions ensure that William and his friend get sent to prison. They escape, and want to take revenge on Harry. Harry's wife warns the sheriff, and as William and his friend are chasing Harry on horseback, they are shot by the sheriff.
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An Indian's Loyalty
Title: An Indian's Loyalty
Character: The Ranch Hand
Released: August 15, 1913
Type: Movie
Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
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During the Round-Up
Title: During the Round-Up
Character: The Foreman
Released: July 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were seeking. The girl's determination to recover the money at all costs resulted in a daring rescue on the part of the young foreman, who registered another triumph at the final round-up.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Character: Jack Manton - the Sheriff
Released: May 16, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic Western in which a notorious criminal who is in love with the fiancée of the sheriff digs his own sentence by reuniting the sheriff, whom he has wounded, with the girl.
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The Craven
Title: The Craven
Character: Tom Beckett - the Suitor
Released: April 18, 1912
Type: Movie
A short western about a cowardly sheriff who leaves it up to his wife to catch a murderer, and then takes the credit himself.
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How States Are Made
Title: How States Are Made
Character: Harvey Mattson - a Pioneer
Released: March 8, 1912
Type: Movie
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the unoccupied government lands were released for settlement, everyone who registered their names was given a fair and free chance to secure one of the sections of land, which was apportioned off in sections. The settlers were drawn up in a long line at a certain distance from the lands opened up, some of them on horseback and others in vehicles of all descriptions. At the firing of a cannon, everybody made a rush for the land. Harvey Mattson and his wife Annie, with their child, emigrate form Missouri in a prairie schooner. On their way they hear of the opening up of the Cherokee Strip. They hasten there and Harvey pitches camp, preparatory to entering his name. Their child is taken sick. Harvey goes for the doctor, and during his absence. Bill Slick, a good-looking ruffian, tries to force his attentions upon Annie. She repulses him. Harvey and the doctor arrive, and he "settles" Bill without ceremony. The ruffian, enraged, leaves.
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A Girl of the West
Title: A Girl of the West
Released: January 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A Western drama in which a gang steals John’s horse and then kidnaps Polly when she tries to warn the new buyer.