Fred Kohler

Fred Kohler

Born: April 18, 1888
Died: October 28, 1938
in Dubuque, Iowa, USA
From Wikipedia

Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor known for his playing heavies.

Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. He lost part of his right hand in a mining accident during this time. Eventually he was able to join a touring company, and worked steadily in show business for several years. America's budding film industry drew a 20-something Kohler to Hollywood, where he made his start in silent films. His first role was in the 1911 short The Code of Honor, and he had an uncredited role in Cecil B. DeMille's feature film Joan the Woman (1917), but a steady stream of parts did not begin until The Tiger's Trail (1919).

Kohler's stern features earned him a niche playing villains. His role as Bauman in The Iron Horse (1924) is a notable example. With the advent of the talkies, Kohler reprised many of his silent roles in remakes with sound, particularly in Westerns based on novels by Zane Grey.

At the beginning of the sound era, he appeared in the Allan Dwan film Tide of Empire (1929) alongside Renée Adorée and Tom Keene. Kohler died of a heart attack on October 28, 1938 at age 50. He was buried in an unmarked grave at Inglewood Park Cemetery in South Los Angeles community of Inglewood, California. His son Fred Kohler, Jr. (1911–1993) was also an actor in many western films.

Movies for Fred Kohler...

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Title: Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 9, 1994
Type: Movie
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
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Lawless Valley
Title: Lawless Valley
Character: Tom Marsh
Released: November 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After doing time for a crime he didn't commit, a cowboy tries to find the men who framed him.
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Billy The Kid Returns
Title: Billy The Kid Returns
Character: Matson
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
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Painted Desert
Title: Painted Desert
Character: Hugh Fawcett
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.
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Blockade
Title: Blockade
Character: Pietro
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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Gangs of New York
Title: Gangs of New York
Character: Kruger
Released: May 23, 1938
Type: Movie
An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.
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Forbidden Valley
Title: Forbidden Valley
Character: Matt Rogan
Released: February 13, 1938
Type: Movie
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains. He brings his boy with him. In those lonely hills lives a sad, but wealthy young woman. Love blossoms between the son and the girl as the son struggles to clear his father's name and bring the real villains to justice.
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The Buccaneer
Title: The Buccaneer
Character: Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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Daughter of Shanghai
Title: Daughter of Shanghai
Character: Captain Gulner
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Curly-haired Convict
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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The Plainsman
Title: The Plainsman
Character: Jake - A Teamster
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.
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The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Character: Jess Higgins
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
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The Vigilantes Are Coming
Title: The Vigilantes Are Coming
Character: General Jason Burr
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks who are plotting to take over California and turn it into a Russian colony.
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For the Service
Title: For the Service
Character: Bruce Howard
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
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Heart of the West
Title: Heart of the West
Character: Barton
Released: February 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Problems come in the form of one of Hopalong Cassidy's neighbors, but the matter is settled when Hoppy roots out the troublemaker.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Shanghai Duck
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Deem Dorn
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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Men of Action
Title: Men of Action
Character: Thorenson
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
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Hard Rock Harrigan
Title: Hard Rock Harrigan
Character: Black Jack Riley
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around a rivalry between sand-hog "Hard Rock" Harrigan (O'Brien) and his foreman Black Jack Riley. At the center of their conflict is their mutual affection for heroine "Andy" Anderson (Irene Hervey). But when the chips are down and Riley is trapped in a tunnel cave-in, it is Harrigan who comes to the rescue.
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Lightning Triggers
Title: Lightning Triggers
Character: Bull Thompson
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Reb Russell (Reb Russell), undercover agent for the Cattleman's Protective Association, goes into the stronghold hideout of rustler chief Bull Thompson (Fred Kohler) posing as an outlaw. He falls in love with Marion, Bull's step-daughter. Juan (Dick Botiller), a gang member once jailed by Reb, reveals Reb's true identity, but he will be given his and Marion's freedom to leavy the valley if he can beat Thompson in a fight. He does, but Butch Greer (Jack Rockwell), a gang member trying to take over from Thompson leads the gang after the pair, after first revealing to Thompson that Reb is Thompson's own son, whom he last saw as a baby when Thompson, then known as Big Bill Russell,was forced to flee the law. Thompson and loyal gang member Blackie (Edmund Cobb), who was once helped by Reb, go after the gang in an effort to help Reb and Marion escape.
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Border Brigands
Title: Border Brigands
Character: Captain Conyda
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Buck Gonzales
Released: April 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.
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Mississippi
Title: Mississippi
Character: Captain Blackie (as Captain Blackie Jr.)
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
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Times Square Lady
Title: Times Square Lady
Character: "Dutch" Meyers
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir and seize control.
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Horses' Collars
Title: Horses' Collars
Character: Double Deal Decker
Released: January 10, 1935
Type: Movie
The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet and then from a safe meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Sawtelle
Released: December 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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The Man from Hell
Title: The Man from Hell
Character: Mayor Anse McCloud
Released: August 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
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Little Man, What Now?
Title: Little Man, What Now?
Character: Karl Goebbler
Released: June 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
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Half a Sinner
Title: Half a Sinner
Character: Brick
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
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The Last Round-up
Title: The Last Round-up
Character: Sam Gulden
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Cleve is actually out-heroed by the film's nominal villain, outlaw leader Jack Kells (Monte Blue). It is Kells who brings about the story's happy ending, sacrificing his own life to ensure the blissful future of young lovers Cleve and Joan Randall (Barbara Fritchie).
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Honor of the Range
Title: Honor of the Range
Character: Rawhide
Released: April 15, 1934
Type: Movie
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
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Queen Christina
Title: Queen Christina
Character: Member of the Court at Abdication (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
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The Wolf Dog
Title: The Wolf Dog
Character: Joe Stevens
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
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Ship of Wanted Men
Title: Ship of Wanted Men
Character: Chuck Young
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Sebastian, who jumped off a yacht after apparently murdering her lecherous host. To remain on the Island, Sebastian is told that she must pay $5,000 to head honcho Fred Kohler -- and if she hasn't got the money, it is implied, there are other methods of collection.
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Deluge
Title: Deluge
Character: Jepson
Released: August 17, 1933
Type: Movie
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Title: The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Character: Wolf Morgan
Released: July 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a burning building. Rescued by his horse Tarzan, he convinces Banty to help bring in the gang.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Munther
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Western comedy.
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The Constant Woman
Title: The Constant Woman
Character: Speakeasy Bouncer
Released: March 12, 1933
Type: Movie
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....
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Wild Horse Mesa
Title: Wild Horse Mesa
Character: Rand
Released: November 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Silas Jennings
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Fourth Horseman
Title: The Fourth Horseman
Character: Honest Ben Jones
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly O'Rourke. Enter horse wrangler Tom Mason, who smells a rat and does his best to unmask Jones as the crook he knows him to be. Molly at first falls for Jones' scheme, but confronts him when a general feeling of lawlessness sets in. The villain, alas, has an ace up his sleeve: Molly owes back taxes on her property, which is ripe for a takeover.
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The Texas Bad Man
Title: The Texas Bad Man
Character: Gore Hampton
Released: June 29, 1932
Type: Movie
The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of the gang gets him in and he learns Keefe is the boss. When it's time for the big bank robbery Keefe puts Tom in charge but secretly tells a henchman to kill him during the holdup.
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The Rider of Death Valley
Title: The Rider of Death Valley
Character: Lew Grant
Released: April 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An accident with a runaway horse carrying supplies leaves them stranded in the desert with very little water.
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Carnival Boat
Title: Carnival Boat
Character: Hack Logan
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Buck is a hard working lumberjack, but likes to have fun. Buck's father is the foreman and wants Buck to take over when he retires. Buck is in love with Honey, a show-girl on the carnival boat, but she won't live in a lumberjack camp.
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X Marks the Spot
Title: X Marks the Spot
Character: Edward P. Riggs
Released: December 13, 1931
Type: Movie
The story begins in 1923 where after an accident, a newspaper reporter needs to raise $5,000 to pay for an operation, otherwise his young sister will be crippled for life. The desperate reporter is finally able to get the cash from a shady acquaintance, Riggs. Eight years later in New York, circumstances conspire to place the reporter as the number one suspect in the murder of a showgirl. With no witness or alibi, the reporter devises a plan to smoke out the real culprit. A meeting is arranged under the cover of night and to the surprise of both men, the murderer is Riggs. Out of gratitude for past generosity to his sister, the reporter agrees not to expose Riggs, however unwittingly leads the police to him! Riggs is found guilty, and a dramatic scene in the courthouse ensues.
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Corsair
Title: Corsair
Character: Big John
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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Woman Hungry
Title: Woman Hungry
Character: Kampen
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
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Fighting Caravans
Title: Fighting Caravans
Character: Lee Murdock
Released: February 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
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Other Men's Women
Title: Other Men's Women
Character: Haley
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
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The Lash
Title: The Lash
Character: Peter Harkness
Released: December 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.
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The Right of Way
Title: The Right of Way
Character: Joseph Portugais
Released: December 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
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Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Title: Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5
Character: Fred Kohler
Released: December 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
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A Soldier's Plaything
Title: A Soldier's Plaything
Character: Hank
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A pair of hapless half-wits get into continuous mischief during the occupation of Germany after WW I.
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An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Title: An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: H.W. Stack
Released: April 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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Under a Texas Moon
Title: Under a Texas Moon
Character: Bad Man
Released: April 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
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Roadhouse Nights
Title: Roadhouse Nights
Character: Sam Horner
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: 'Wild Bill' Kearney
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
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Say It with Songs
Title: Say It with Songs
Character: Fred, Joe's Cellmate
Released: August 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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Broadway Babies
Title: Broadway Babies
Character: Perc Gessant
Released: June 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
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River of Romance
Title: River of Romance
Character: Captain Blackie
Released: June 28, 1929
Type: Movie
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
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Thunderbolt
Title: Thunderbolt
Character: 'Bad Al' Friedberg
Released: June 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
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Stairs of Sand
Title: Stairs of Sand
Character: Boss Stone
Released: June 8, 1929
Type: Movie
An outlaw with a Heart of Gold sacrificing his own life for the happiness of two young people in love.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Duffy Thompson
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
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Tide of Empire
Title: Tide of Empire
Character: Cannon
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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The Dummy
Title: The Dummy
Character: Joe Cooper
Released: March 9, 1929
Type: Movie
The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the person who kidnapped Peggy Meredith, the daughter of wealthy Agnes and Trumbull Meredith.
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The Leatherneck
Title: The Leatherneck
Character: Heckla
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
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The Case of Lena Smith
Title: The Case of Lena Smith
Released: January 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.
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The Spieler
Title: The Spieler
Character: Red Moon
Released: December 20, 1928
Type: Movie
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
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Sal of Singapore
Title: Sal of Singapore
Character: Captain Sunday
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
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The Vanishing Pioneer
Title: The Vanishing Pioneer
Character: Sheriff Murdock
Released: June 23, 1928
Type: Movie
A western settlement of pioneer descendants is threatened with the loss of its water supply through the encroachments of nearby townspeople.
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The Drag Net
Title: The Drag Net
Character: 'Gabby' Steve
Released: May 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.
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Chinatown Charlie
Title: Chinatown Charlie
Character: Monk
Released: April 15, 1928
Type: Movie
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Winter
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.
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The Gay Defender
Title: The Gay Defender
Character: Jake Hamby
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt politicians out of Spanish California.
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The City Gone Wild
Title: The City Gone Wild
Character: Gunner Gallagher
Released: November 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.
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Open Range
Title: Open Range
Character: Sam Hardman
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
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Shootin' Irons
Title: Shootin' Irons
Character: Dick Hardman
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit
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The Way of All Flesh
Title: The Way of All Flesh
Character: The Tough
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
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The Rough Riders
Title: The Rough Riders
Character: Sergeant Stanton
Released: September 30, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
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The Loves of Carmen
Title: The Loves of Carmen
Character: Gypsy Chief
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Character: 'Buck' Mulligan
Released: August 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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The Blood Ship
Title: The Blood Ship
Character: First Mate Fitz
Released: July 18, 1927
Type: Movie
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.
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Old Ironsides
Title: Old Ironsides
Character: Second Mate (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1926
Type: Movie
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Joe Leseur
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
In the Canadian mountains an orphan girl, Valencia, is left in the care of the abusive Hawkins family. A fugitive outlaw, Roger McKay, stumbles onto the property and immediately falls in love with Valencia. When Mr. Hawkins is killed by his long-suffering spouse, Roger assumes that Valencia committed the murder and confesses to the crime to protect her.
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The Ice Flood
Title: The Ice Flood
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp, filled with brawny he-men who spend their time drinking, gambling and brawling when not cutting timber. Once there, Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against "Dum-Dum" Pete, the toughest man in those parts. Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camp's mascot, a crippled young boy, and saves his sweetheart, Marie O'Nei, that daughter of a rival lumber company, from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an ice-break flood.
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The Prairie Pirate
Title: The Prairie Pirate
Character: Aguilar - the Bandit
Released: October 10, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself trapped by a bandit gang. Rather than be raped by the gang, she commits suicide. When her brother finds out what happened, he turns to a life of banditry, hoping to find the gang responsible for his sister's death.
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Winds of Chance
Title: Winds of Chance
Character: Joe McCaskey
Released: August 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Henchman Tom Metzger (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Follansbee
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Story of a trader who uncovers a scheme to blame the Indians for a Buffalo massacre.
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Dick Turpin
Title: Dick Turpin
Character: Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
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Fighting Fury
Title: Fighting Fury
Character: 'Two-finger' Larkin
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.
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The Iron Horse
Title: The Iron Horse
Character: Bauman
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Auctioneer at New Orleans slave market
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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The Red Warning
Title: The Red Warning
Character: Tom Jeffries
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After rustlers stole his cattle, Ainslee went off in search of a lost mine and fell victim to a killer. Before he kicks the bucket, Ainslee hands Haver a poke of gold dust to pay off the mortgage on the ranch.
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North of Hudson Bay
Title: North of Hudson Bay
Character: Armand LeMoir
Released: November 18, 1923
Type: Movie
On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian trading post, Dane learns that his brother has been murdered and his partner sentenced to death as the killer.
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Hell's Hole
Title: Hell's Hole
Character: Prisoner
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a saloon. The conductor throws them off when he discovers they have no tickets, and the two men swear revenge.
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Shadows of the North
Title: Shadows of the North
Character: Ray Brent
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Edison Marshall
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The Eleventh Hour
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Barbara's Uncle
Released: July 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
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The Flame of Life
Title: The Flame of Life
Character: Spring
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's wrath when he fires him for smoking in the mine. Bent on vengeance, Lowrie is beaten when he picks a fight with Fergus, then defiantly smokes in a mine tunnel. There is an explosion, Joan rescues Fergus, and their love triumphs over their class barriers. −
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Three Who Paid
Title: Three Who Paid
Character: Jim Quade
Released: January 7, 1923
Type: Movie
Three Who Paid is a 1923 American silent Western melodrama film directed by Colin Campbell, and starring Dustin Farnum, with Bessie Love and Frank Campeau. The film was based on the 1922 short story by George Owen Baxter,
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Without Compromise
Title: Without Compromise
Character: Cass Blake
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
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Perils of the Yukon
Title: Perils of the Yukon
Character: Capt. Whipple
Released: July 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; 6. Menace of Death; 7. Trapped by Fire; 8. Hurled into Space; 9. The Gold Rush; 10. Valley of Death; 11. A Race for Life; 12. The Path of Doom; 13. Martial Law; 14. Trail of Vengeance; 15. The Final Reckoning.
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Trimmed
Title: Trimmed
Character: Young Bill Young
Released: July 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Returning from service in the A. E. F., Dale Garland is given a rousing reception by his townsmen. County political boss Nebo Slayter persuades the community to nominate Dale for sheriff--thinking he can be easily manipulated--against John Millard, the incumbent, who refuses political compromises. Dale easily wins and pledges to give the citizens an honest deal. Millard's daughter, Alice, who is Dale's childhood sweetheart, learns of Slayter's dishonest schemes and sees his men murder a moonshiner for whom they had been furnishing protection.
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His Back Against the Wall
Title: His Back Against the Wall
Character: Arizona Pete
Released: May 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
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Yellow Men and Gold
Title: Yellow Men and Gold
Character: Craven
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
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A Daughter of the Law
Title: A Daughter of the Law
Character: George Stacey
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Jevons' foreman (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
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The Stampede
Title: The Stampede
Character: Steve Norton
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Easterner Robert Wagner has been lured West by the Government's announcement of new land grants. As he prepares for the approaching land rush he make the acquaintance of Westerner Jim Henderson and his wild daughter, Tex. Tex is a true daughter of the frontier unhampered by conventions or skirts and while she finds herself smitten with Wagner, he however is hampered by his New England sensibilities and can't abide a woman that behaves as Tex does. It takes a truly grim turn of events before Tex can prove herself to this reserved New Englander.
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Partners of the Tide
Title: Partners of the Tide
Character: First Mate
Released: March 20, 1921
Type: Movie
The Allen spinsters adopt Bradley Nickerson, who grows up with Gussie Baker, the little girl next door. Fifteen years later he is first mate of the Thomas Doane, owned by Granny Baker. A plot to sink the ship is averted by Bradley and a sailor, but ultimately the ship is sabotaged.
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Cyclone Bliss
Title: Cyclone Bliss
Released: January 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
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Polly of the Storm Country
Title: Polly of the Storm Country
Released: April 4, 1920
Type: Movie
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
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Behind the Door
Title: Behind the Door
Released: December 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.
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Soldiers of Fortune
Title: Soldiers of Fortune
Character: McWilliams
Released: November 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
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The Tiger's Trail
Title: The Tiger's Trail
Character: 'Bull' Shotwell
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.