George Periolat

George Periolat

Born: February 5, 1874
Died: February 20, 1940
in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Movies for George Periolat...

One Splendid Hour
Title: One Splendid Hour
Released: May 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Fatal Warning
Title: The Fatal Warning
Character: William Rogers
Released: February 15, 1929
Type: Movie
When a bank executive disappears, he is accused of stealing a fortune from the bank. But his daughter and her criminologist friend set out to find her father and clear his name.
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Night Watch
Title: Night Watch
Released: September 9, 1928
Type: Movie
Night Watch is a 1928 American drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Billie Dove, Paul Lukas, and Donald Reed. It was an adaptation of the dramatic 1921 play In the Night Watch, written by Michael Morton. The film is set almost entirely on a French warship at the beginning of the First World War.
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Fangs of Destiny
Title: Fangs of Destiny
Character: Colonel Shelby
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dynamite -- Universal's answer to Warner Bros.' canine star Rin Tin Tin -- and his owner Jerry Matthews (Edmund Cobb) come to the aid of a beleaguered rancher in this typical low-budget "doggie melodrama" set in the West.
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Through Thick and Thin
Title: Through Thick and Thin
Character: James Morris
Released: September 29, 1927
Type: Movie
An undercover agent tracks a gang of drug smugglers to their headquarters in Mexico, a nightclub, where he manages to get a job as a bouncer. There he meets and falls for a pretty young woman, whose father happens to be the man the agent suspects of heading the gang.
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The Prairie King
Title: The Prairie King
Character: Ramon Fernandez
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Andy Barden, Edna Jordan, and Dan Murdock are the three claimants to the valuable mine of the late Abner Ferrige. Edna takes possession but Murdock gets her to leave and while the three are away his men take possession. But when the Lawyer arrives to announce that Ferrige never filed, everyone rushes off to be the first at the claims office.
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Butterflies in the Rain
Title: Butterflies in the Rain
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Tina, who is from an aristocratic English family, believes in the new freedom for women and is an ardent follower of a group of pseudo-bohemians. While riding through the neighboring estate of John Humphries, a wealthy commoner resented by the Carteret family, she is retrieved from a fall by John and blames him for the accident. The following day, she invites him to dinner, pretending repentance, but taking pleasure in ridiculing his old-fashioned dignity.
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The Volga Boatman
Title: The Volga Boatman
Character: Prince Nikita's Servant
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
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Fighting Youth
Title: Fighting Youth
Character: Judge Manley
Released: July 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Dick Covington is a society athlete who is quick with his fists. His fiancée, Jean Manley, hates his fighting and convinces him to stop. But then his rival tricks him into accepting an offer to fight Murdering Mooney at a charity show. At first Jean is chagrined, but when the rival insults her, she is anxious for Covington to beat his opponent.
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Any Woman
Title: Any Woman
Character: Robert Cartwright
Released: May 4, 1925
Type: Movie
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner.
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The Red Lily
Title: The Red Lily
Character: Papa Bouchard
Released: September 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
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Lovers' Lane
Title: Lovers' Lane
Character: Dr. Stone
Released: August 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent film comedy drama...
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The Yankee Consul
Title: The Yankee Consul
Character: Don Rafael Desschado
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!
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Rosita
Title: Rosita
Character: Rosita's Father
Released: September 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
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The Tiger's Claw
Title: The Tiger's Claw
Character: Henry Frazer Halehurst
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
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The Young Rajah
Title: The Young Rajah
Character: General Devi Das Gadi
Released: November 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Marquis of Guevera
Released: August 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Doña Sol and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.
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Gay and Devilish
Title: Gay and Devilish
Character: Nethercote
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
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Shattered Idols
Title: Shattered Idols
Character: The High Priest
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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A Parisian Scandal
Title: A Parisian Scandal
Released: December 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Without social or romantic interests, young Basil Hammond goes to Paris to study paleontology and to bring back a report to his guardian on the manners and moral character of her granddaughter, Liane. At first he is disgusted by her attempts to vamp him, but eventually, he falls in love with her.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Don Luis Baldarama
Released: July 4, 1921
Type: Movie
At the harvest fiesta, Don Luis Baldarama, owner of one of California's great ranchos, expects to announce the betrothal of his son, Audre, to Isabella Chavez, the daughter of a neighboring don named Miguel Chavez. However, Audre plans to elope with Erolinda Vargas, the daughter of the ranch superintendent. When Audre confesses to Isabella that he loves another, she joyfully admits that she loves someone else, also. Audre and Erolina slip away during a feast and meet at a cabin, but they are surprised by Selistino Vargas, who, believing that his daughter has been dishonored, shoots Audre.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Gov. Alvarado
Released: December 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
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Life's Twist
Title: Life's Twist
Character: Mr. Boyd Chester
Released: August 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires. Discovering this on her wedding night, Mrs. De Koven, because of her love for her husband and her wounded pride, elects to live her life alone, seeing her husband only when formalities demand.
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Nurse Marjorie
Title: Nurse Marjorie
Character: Andrew Danbury
Released: April 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
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Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Title: Judy of Rogues' Harbor
Character: Peter Kingsland
Released: February 29, 1920
Type: Movie
Judy, an orphaned waif, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive.
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A Sporting Chance
Title: A Sporting Chance
Character: Edward Craig
Released: June 28, 1919
Type: Movie
John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.
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Put up Your Hands
Title: Put up Your Hands
Character: Peter Barton
Released: March 16, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Amazing Impostor
Title: The Amazing Impostor
Character: Henry Hope
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Rich young Joan Hope is ashamed of how her father made his money--as a chewing gum magnate. While taking a train trip, she meets the Countess of Crex, a member of the Russian nobility--who is, in reality, a jewel thief.
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
Title: The Eyes of Julia Deep
Character: Timothy Black
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.
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The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
Title: The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
Character: Charles Eldridge / Joseph Sayles
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Minter), overseas after a quarrel with his family. She yearns to return home, but he has disowned his past. After his death, Rhoda ventures to America on her own. She nearly becomes destitute for a lack of money but happens upon some questionable fortune as she takes on the chores of Rosy Taylor after inadvertently finding an envelope with money in it. Rosy had been hired as a housekeeper (thus the money), but has passed away before actually showing up for employment.
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Social Briars
Title: Social Briars
Character: Peter Andrews
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
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Beauty and the Rogue
Title: Beauty and the Rogue
Character: Thomas Lee
Released: January 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and eventually sells a brooch to her boyfriend, Richard, who unknowingly gives it to her as a present.
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The Mate of the Sally Ann
Title: The Mate of the Sally Ann
Character: Captain Ward
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A crusty old sea captain, who hates society, lives in the hulk of his ship with his granddaughter whom he prevents from meeting people.
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The Gentle Intruder
Title: The Gentle Intruder
Character: Sylvia's Uncle
Released: February 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Mary Miles Minter is Sylvia, the niece of a man who leaves her a fortune. The money is in the hands of his lawyer, Baxter, who uses it to support his ambitious wife and daughter. Sylvia comes to Baxter's home and it's obvious she's not wanted there. Arnold, Baxter's son, is wasting his life away with drinking and nightclubbing, but Sylvia sweetly influences him to straighten up.
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The Gilded Youth
Title: The Gilded Youth
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
Pinky Cochrane is one of a trio of starving artists: the other two are Sam Wellbridge and Mac MacTavish. When one of their favorite models dies, the three heroes take charge of the woman's infant son Victor. Once the boy has grown to manhood, his three foster fathers decide to choose a likely wife for their "shared" son.
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The Valley of Decision
Title: The Valley of Decision
Character: Dr. Brainard
Released: December 4, 1916
Type: Movie
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Life's Harmony
Title: Life's Harmony
Character: Josiah Pringle
Released: February 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Josiah Pringle, a benevolent old musician, who ekes out his livelihood by giving music lessons, after playing the organ for twenty years in the church of a little New England hamlet, must make way for a younger man, Gordon Howard, who comes from Boston. Faith Pringle, adopted by Josiah and his aged sister, Letitia, is leader of the choir, and when Pringle is replaced, she refuses to sing, but relents at Pringle's gentle insistence.
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The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
Title: The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
Character: Dale - Verna's Father
Released: January 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Langdon, a revenue officer in search of smugglers operating along the coast of Santa Cruz Island, Cal., meets Verna. the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and they fall deeply in love.
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The Dancer
Title: The Dancer
Character: Mr. Madden - Johnny's Father
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Johnny Madden travels to the city and falls in love with Capella. His mother is heartbroken that her son has flown the nest and that the woman he has flown to is a common actress. She had always intended that he would marry their neighbor, Daisy Brown. Mrs. Madden begins secretly putting the screws to Capella to make her abandon Johnny so that he will come back to the farm and Daisy.
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The Road to Paradise
Title: The Road to Paradise
Character: Prince Vladislav
Released: December 6, 1915
Type: Movie
Third episode in the New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke series of 2-reel shorts.
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The Diamond from the Sky
Title: The Diamond from the Sky
Released: May 3, 1915
Type: Movie
This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
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The Stool Pigeon
Title: The Stool Pigeon
Character: Oswald Trumble
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Walter Jason, a young man from the country, comes to the big city to find a position, but fails to do so. Oswald Trumble, so known to society, though in reality a master crook, strolls through the park, his mind busy with a scheme to steal the jewels of Mrs. Crosby Moore, a leader of society, whose forthcoming fancy-dress ball is the talk of the town. As Trumble approaches the bench where Jason is seated, the young man arises, shows exhaustion and then slowly continues on his way. Struck with Jason's clean-cut appearance, Trumble follows the young man, trails him to the river, and prevents him from committing suicide.
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His Heart His Hand and His Sword
Title: His Heart His Hand and His Sword
Character: Adolph Chambret
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
O'Rourke, soldier of fortune and hero of many wars, finds himself in Paris without funds. In a spirit of recklessness, he pawns a valuable watch given him by a grateful republic for services rendered. With the proceeds he enters a prominent Parisian restaurant to dine. There he attracts the attention of the Princess de Grandlieu, her husband, the Prince, and her legal advisor, M. Adolph Chambret. While there an incident occurs which earns the hatred of her advisor, who is in love with her.
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The Sandhill Lovers
Title: The Sandhill Lovers
Character: Hardy, the Rustler
Released: June 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however.
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Samson
Title: Samson
Character: Manoah
Released: April 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Samson, an Israelite whose enormous strength is legendary, falls in love with Zorah, a Philistine, and marries her, overcoming his father Manoah's objections.
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Sealed Orders
Title: Sealed Orders
Released: March 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow.
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Rory o' the Bogs
Title: Rory o' the Bogs
Released: December 22, 1913
Type: Movie
At the death of Burke, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, Rory, a baby in arms. The child is in the keeping of his uncle. Sir Everett, who had a son of Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped.
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The Restless Spirit
Title: The Restless Spirit
Character: The Wife's Father
Released: October 27, 1913
Type: Movie
The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.
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A Foreign Spy
Title: A Foreign Spy
Released: July 10, 1913
Type: Movie
The army engineer and his daughter are deeply interested in each other, but, of course, the will of the father predominates. As a result the girl experiences many heart aches, because it does seem as though she is about to lose her sweetheart because he is not an army man. The issue is brought to a climax by the presence of a spy in the father's home. Plans for the border fortifications are stolen and the impending disgrace and ruin drive the officer to the verge of despair, from which he is rescued by the daughter and her sweetheart, who rescue the plans, and apprehend the spy.
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Man's Calling
Title: Man's Calling
Character: The Man's Father
Released: November 11, 1912
Type: Movie
A man is supposed to become a priest. However, he has other plans.
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Cupid Through Padlocks
Title: Cupid Through Padlocks
Character: Old Bob Langfall
Released: June 5, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Bob Langfall guarded two pretty daughters carefully. When Jim and Charley Bradley met them by accident, old Bob showed them the butt of his gun and bade them adieu. But Jim and Charley had a widowed mother, and old Bob was a widower.
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The Mother of the Ranch
Title: The Mother of the Ranch
Character: The Ranchman
Released: September 14, 1911
Type: Movie
James Collins leaves his dear old mother and goes West, where he becomes connected with the Bar Diamond Outfit. He finds the life of a cowboy arduous and the pay meager. The possibilities of owning a herd of his own by blotting brands or branding calves, occurs to him, as it has to many others, who desire quick results from very little effort. Six months later, he is a full-fledged cattle thief, branding cattle, under his own registered brand, while ostensibly an honest cowboy in the employ of the Bar Diamond Ranch. He writes his mother of his success and she, never dreaming of the hazardous occupation her son is following, plans to join him in the West.
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Three Million Dollars
Title: Three Million Dollars
Character: Joseph Close
Released: September 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Mr. Joseph Close, ranch man, with his wife and daughter, visit the town for supplies. The daughter makes a hit with the storekeeper and it is with difficulty that the ranch man induces his daughter to leave. They return home, and the ranch man finds a letter in his mail box from Wm. Schrider, Attorney-at-Law, informing him that his brother is dead, and has left the sum of three million dollars to his daughter, on condition that she produce an official certificate of her marriage one month from the date of her uncle's death.
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The Sheepman's Daughter
Title: The Sheepman's Daughter
Character: Richard Mead
Released: June 1, 1911
Type: Movie
Richard Mead was a sheepherder who lived with his daughter in a hut in the mountains. He was hated by the cattlemen and was ordered to quit the range. Returning to his home he tells his daughter what has happened, and prepares to protect himself.
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The Ranchman's Vengeance
Title: The Ranchman's Vengeance
Character: Manuelito
Released: May 14, 1911
Type: Movie
Lorenz Pedro, a Mexican half-breed, owns a small sheep ranch, and lives happily with his wife Marie and little daughter Lois. One exceedingly hot afternoon, Tom Flint, riding across the ranch looking for work is overcome by the heat, and Pedro, acting the part of a good Samaritan, takes him to his home, where Marie, through careful nursing, soon has him quite himself again. Pedro is out daily with his flock, leaving Marie and Flint together, offering an opportunity which Flint ungratefully takes advantage of, resulting in his completely winning Marie's love. Manuelito, Marie's father, is suspicious and comes upon them while Flint is declaring his love.