Jack Curtis

Jack Curtis

Born: May 27, 1880
Died: March 16, 1956
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Jack Curtis...

Rails Into Laramie
Title: Rails Into Laramie
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1954
Type: Movie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Frenchie
Title: Frenchie
Character: Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Frenchie Fontaine sells her successful business in New Orleans to come West. Her reason? Find the men who killed her father, Frank Dawson. But she only knows one of the two who did and she's determined to find out the other.
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Winchester '73
Title: Winchester '73
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
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Comanche Territory
Title: Comanche Territory
Released: May 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Silver has been found on comanche territory and the government accomplished a peaceful agreement with the indians. When James 'Jim' Bowie comes into the scene he finds the white settlers living near by planning to attack the indians although they know about that agreement and the beautiful Katie seems to play a leading role in this intrigue.
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Buccaneer's Girl
Title: Buccaneer's Girl
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
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Pinky
Title: Pinky
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
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The Lady Gambles
Title: The Lady Gambles
Character: Casino Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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3 Godfathers
Title: 3 Godfathers
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1948
Type: Movie
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
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The Exile
Title: The Exile
Character: Card Player (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1947
Type: Movie
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Title: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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The Egg and I
Title: The Egg and I
Character: Reveler at Country Dance (Uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1947
Type: Movie
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and holding off nosy neighbors and a recalcitrant pig, Bob makes plans for crops and livestock. The couple's bliss is shaken by a visit from a beautiful farm owner, who seems to want more from Bob than just managing her property.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Edmund
Released: December 8, 1946
Type: Movie
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Pub Patron (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1946
Type: Movie
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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Billy the Kid Trapped
Title: Billy the Kid Trapped
Character: Blacksmith
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
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Among the Living
Title: Among the Living
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Miss Polly
Title: Miss Polly
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.
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How Green Was My Valley
Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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Citizen Kane
Title: Citizen Kane
Character: Boss Printer (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Captain Caution
Title: Captain Caution
Character: Sailor
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
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Stagecoach
Title: Stagecoach
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
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Son of Frankenstein
Title: Son of Frankenstein
Character: Actor (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Minor Role
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Sepoy (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Posse Member
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Sins of Man
Title: Sins of Man
Character: Bum
Released: June 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Pioneer
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: Captain (uncredited)
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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Lawless Range
Title: Lawless Range
Character: Marshall
Released: November 4, 1935
Type: Movie
John Middleton is investigating cattle rustling when he is captured and tossed into a cave with Emmett, a rancher who disappeared earlier. They help each other escape and learn that a local banker is trying to scare everyone away to grab up some secret gold mines.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Railroad Man
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Westward Ho
Title: Westward Ho
Character: Ballard (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw gangs. Meanwhile, John is ever on the lookout for the gang that murdered his parents As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon When Ballard and his men attack the Wyatt wagon train, they kill all except two young brothers. Twelve years later one brother John has organized a vigilante group. The other brother Jim is now part of Ballard's gang and the two are destined to meet again
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Baby Face
Title: Baby Face
Character: Speakeasy Customer (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Prison Guard (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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The Woman from Monte Carlo
Title: The Woman from Monte Carlo
Character: Boatswain
Released: January 9, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
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The Range Feud
Title: The Range Feud
Character: Charlie the Bartender
Released: October 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
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The Love Trader
Title: The Love Trader
Character: Sailor
Released: September 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: First Mate
Released: September 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Under a Texas Moon
Title: Under a Texas Moon
Character: Buck Johnson
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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Mammy
Title: Mammy
Character: Sheriff Tremble
Released: March 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love with an actress in the troupe (Lois Moran), but she loves another. One of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it is assumed thanks to several plot convolutions that Jolson is guilty of the deed.
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Hold Everything
Title: Hold Everything
Character: Murph Levy
Released: March 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Performer in 'The Pirate' Number (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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The Phantom in the House
Title: The Phantom in the House
Character: Biffer Bill
Released: October 20, 1929
Type: Movie
A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.
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Scarlet Seas
Title: Scarlet Seas
Character: Toomey
Released: January 12, 1928
Type: Movie
A sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
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Find the King
Title: Find the King
Character: Dynamite Dawson
Released: November 5, 1927
Type: Movie
In this two-reel comedy, Edward Everett Horton is the pampered scion of a family, raised by a couple of prissy aunts. He does card tricks. Through various machinations, he winds up running a saloon out west, where he charms one of the two tough guys in town by taking away his tie and fixing a bow tie to him; the other, Jack Curtis, he bests at poker "for keeps!" and wins the heart of local good girl Violet Bird.
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Through Thick and Thin
Title: Through Thick and Thin
Character: 'Red' Grimley
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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Jaws of Steel
Title: Jaws of Steel
Character: Thomas Grant Taylor
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer canine. Thus, the human characters spend most of their time hunting down the dog in hopes of collecting a huge bounty.
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Lucky Fool
Title: Lucky Fool
Character: Anthony's Cellmate
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Texas Streak
Title: The Texas Streak
Character: Jiggs
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
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The Wedding Song
Title: The Wedding Song
Character: George Pappadoulos
Released: November 29, 1925
Type: Movie
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents.
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Durand of the Bad Lands
Title: Durand of the Bad Lands
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem Allison and his henchman Pete Garson.
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Title: Baree, Son of Kazan
Character: Bush McTaggart
Released: April 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Wolfdog pup, Baree, is nursed back to health by a trapper's daughter after being caught in one of the traps.
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The Shadow on the Wall
Title: The Shadow on the Wall
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: McTeague Sr. (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Wolverstone
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
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Romeo and Juliet
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Character: Betty's Father
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Hod Stoat
Released: December 9, 1923
Type: Movie
After obtaining a divorce from his second wife Emily, Roy Tappan marries Dora Carson, who has just divorced her husband. Left poor with two children, Emily marries Walter Heath, a former suitor, then discovers that she cannot live with her new husband because the divorce is not legal in her home state. Tappan and his new wife soon run out of money, each having thought the other was wealthy. His aunt promises to support him in exchange for his two children. He kidnaps the children and hides them from Emily in his aunt's home. After Emily and Walter find them, they go to Yellowstone Park, where they are considered legally married. Tappan follows and is killed after a fight with Walter when a boiling geyser throws him into the air and throws him onto the rocks below.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Bill Nolan
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Soft Boiled
Title: Soft Boiled
Character: The Ranch Foreman
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns to curb his violent temper. Tom is put on a 30-day trial and must resist all temptation to get mad or fight back no matter how provoked. And he is easily provoked, especially when called a lavender sissy-boy.
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Canyon of the Fools
Title: Canyon of the Fools
Character: Maricopia
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
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Dangerous Trails
Title: Dangerous Trails
Character: Wang
Released: January 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A mounted police inspector battles not only a gang of opium smugglers but also a haughty society belle
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: McKinstry
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: 'Borax' O'Rourke
Released: October 2, 1922
Type: Movie
Harley P. Hennage, town gambler, takes under his protection Dana Corbaly when her widowed mother dies. He becomes suspicious of the motives of Bob McGraw, a young engineer who has come to town to investigate the mining claim of Dana's father, John Corbaly. But events reveal that he is only the tool of Corbaly's former partner, capitalist T. Morgan Carey.
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His Back Against the Wall
Title: His Back Against the Wall
Character: Lew Shaler
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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Western Speed
Title: Western Speed
Character: Spunk Lemm
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
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Flower of the North
Title: Flower of the North
Character: Blake
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Two men, Philip Whittemore (Henry B. Walthall) and Thorpe (Harry Northrup) both go to the Northwest to gain the right-of-way for their railroad company from D'Arcambal (Emmett King). Whittemore arrives first and D'Arcambal refuses to meet with him until he saves his daughter, Jeanne (Pauline Starke) from going over the rapids. Then Thorpe arrives and tries to use force by kidnapping Jeanne and insisting that he is her father.
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The Sea Lion
Title: The Sea Lion
Character: Bentley
Released: December 4, 1921
Type: Movie
When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and takes out his anger, resentment and frustrations on all those around him, leading to tensions with his crew that come up to the point of mutiny.
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The Big Punch
Title: The Big Punch
Character: Jed
Released: February 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for 2 years. There he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
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The Torrent
Title: The Torrent
Character: Red Galvin
Released: January 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Velma is unhappily married to Sam Patton, a millionaire roué. Aboard his yacht bound for the South Seas, Sam pays more attention to his guests than to his wife, and she flees when he attempts to force liquor on her. A sudden paralytic stroke renders him helpless, and she believes him dead. A storm comes up, and Velma is washed ashore on a desert isle. She is later joined by Lieut. Paul Mack, whose hydroplane has run out of fuel. They fall in love, but their idyll is broken when they are captured by a band of moonshiners.
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An Unwilling Hero
Title: An Unwilling Hero
Character: Boston Harry
Released: January 8, 1921
Type: Movie
As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl by making it available for her to marry her boyfriend.
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Seeds of Vengeance
Title: Seeds of Vengeance
Character: Kip Ryerson
Released: August 19, 1920
Type: Movie
In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, after Kip's wife, Martha, seeks refuge at the Crees's home for herself and her stepdaughter, Eileen. Cree makes his young son, David, promise to avenge his death once he has grown into manhood. As David Cree runs for help, Alderson recants and instructs Martha Ryerson to release his son from his promise. However, to eliminate her brutal spouse, Martha Ryerson remains silent, and George Hedrick, the local storekeeper, leads a crowd to drive Kip out of town. Hedrick later announces Kip's death, relieving David of his obligation to his father. Years pass, and David, now an adult, is engaged to Mary Reddin. When Kip Ryerson returns to town, David's mother demands that he keep his promise to avenge his father.
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Title: The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Character: Brokaw
Released: May 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
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Desert Love
Title: Desert Love
Character: The Wolf
Released: April 20, 1920
Type: Movie
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind a list of the men responsible for his murder. Twenty-five years later, his son, Buck Marston has grown up and followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a sheriff.
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The Speed Maniac
Title: The Speed Maniac
Character: Red Morgan
Released: October 10, 1919
Type: Movie
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But he's barely off the ferryboat before he gets waylaid by a little newsboy and the boy's pugilist father, "Knockout" McClusky.
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Man's Desire
Title: Man's Desire
Character: Bull Larkin
Released: July 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
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The Coming of the Law
Title: The Coming of the Law
Character: Judge Graney
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Kent Hollis has arrived in Dry Bottom, New Mexico to settle the affairs of his dead father. But when he discovers that the town is at the mercy of "Big Bill" Dunlavey and his crew, he decides to stick it out at dad's old ranch for a spell.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Character: Asher Blodgett
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
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Hell-Roarin' Reform
Title: Hell-Roarin' Reform
Character: Baxter
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Tom Mix plays Tim, a goodhearted cowpuncher who, while riding down a trail, gets robbed of the money he was carrying for the Belgian Babies' Milk Fund.
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Treat 'Em Rough
Title: Treat 'Em Rough
Character: John Stafford
Released: January 5, 1919
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Tom Mix was cast as Ned Ferguson, a sure-shot frontiersman with a nose for trouble.
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Mr. Logan, U.S.A.
Title: Mr. Logan, U.S.A.
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, German spies were even capable of infiltrating a Tom Mix Western!
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Marked Cards
Title: Marked Cards
Character: Pat Shannon
Released: July 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin, refuses to sanction the marriage. Heartbroken, Ted takes up drinking and gambling with "Poker" LeMoyne and Don Jackson, while Ellen attends a finishing school hoping to improve herself. While trying to elude her chaperone, Ellen unwittingly dashes into a man's hotel room, and from the window, she witnesses Don and "Poker" playing cards, while Ted lies unconscious from too much drink. When the two gamblers quarrel, Don kills "Poker," but Ted is accused of the crime.
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Until They Get Me
Title: Until They Get Me
Character: Kirby
Released: December 2, 1917
Type: Movie
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted Police, who allows him to say a last farewell to his wife. After visiting his wife's deathbed, Kirby eludes Selwyn and becomes a fugitive from the police. Each year he returns to visit his son and, during one of his sojourns, meets Margy, a little farmhouse servant who has run away from her life of drudgery.
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Broadway Arizona
Title: Broadway Arizona
Character: Jack Boggs
Released: September 30, 1917
Type: Movie
While on vacation in New York, millionaire cattle rancher John Keyes falls in love with musical comedy star Fritzi Carlyle. Recognizing the opportunity for a great story, Fritzi's press agent encourages her to accept the Westerner's proposal of marriage, only to deny it the next day in a wave of newspaper publicity. Disheartened, Keyes returns to Arizona and Fritzi continues performing until she suffers a nervous breakdown. Reading of Fritzi's misfortune, Keyes returns East, kidnaps Fritzi and takes her to Arizona. There, the change of climate performs wonders and she recovers quickly. Meanwhile, her stage manager sends detectives after her, and when they arrive in Arizona ready to arrest Keyes for kidnapping, Fritzi explains that the whole adventure was an elaborate publicity stunt and announces that she and her Arizona cowboy are going to be married.
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Mr. Opp
Title: Mr. Opp
Character: John Mathews
Released: August 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.
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Southern Justice
Title: Southern Justice
Character: Roger Appleby
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Three old men -- Judge Moran (George Hernandez), Roger Appleby (Jack Curtis) and Caleb Talbot (Jean Hersholt) -- are the caretakers of a young boy, Daws Anthony (Elwood Bredell). When Ray Preston (Fred Church) comes to the small Southern town where they all reside, he stirs up a load of trouble.
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Mutiny
Title: Mutiny
Character: Aaron Whitaker
Released: March 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Although Esther Whitaker is in love with Caleb Tilden, her sea captain father demands that she marry his first mate. However, Esther's grandfather encourages her and Caleb to marry in secret. After Grandfather Whitaker's death, Esther discovers she is pregnant. The captain, believing that she has disgraced the family, beats Caleb to death (at least that's what he assumes) and drags his daughter along on the ship. Afraid of the consequences, the captain refuses to go home and eventually the crew mutinies.
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God's Crucible
Title: God's Crucible
Character: Oracle Jack
Released: January 22, 1917
Type: Movie
Having worked himself out of grinding poverty, grouchy millionaire Lorenzo Todd adopts a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude concerning the rest of Mankind. The only people Todd truly cares about is his son Warren and his boyhood chum Dudley Phillips. Eventually, however, the old sourpuss manages to alienate these two people as well. T
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The End of the Rainbow
Title: The End of the Rainbow
Released: October 30, 1916
Type: Movie
The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.
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The Girl of Lost Lake
Title: The Girl of Lost Lake
Character: Abner Clark
Released: August 28, 1916
Type: Movie
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The Way of the World
Title: The Way of the World
Character: Peter Sturton
Released: July 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Gubernatorial candidate Walter Croyden is in love with Beatrice, but he acts obnoxiously when he drinks, so she flees to Europe to re-evaluate the relationship.
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It Happened in Honolulu
Title: It Happened in Honolulu
Character: Detective Boggs
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Story of a pretty girl whose ambitious mother wants to marry her off to an English nobleman. The girl, however, loves a plain American, the son of a wholesale fish dealer. The girl's ineffectual father likes the young American too, but his wife overrides him and the family heads for Honolulu, where the matriarch hopes her daughter will wed the nobleman.
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The Iron Hand
Title: The Iron Hand
Character: Connors
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that, if raised in an respectable environment, the child will grow into a model citizen. Twenty years later, Roy comes back to live with Tim, and is appalled at his unscrupulous methods of conducting business. Then, he falls in love with Enid Winslow, the daughter of a social reformer who is running for office against Tim. Largely due to Roy's financial support, Winslow wins the election, but, holding a grudge against Tim and anyone connected to him, he refuses to let Enid marry Roy.
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Two Men of Sandy Bar
Title: Two Men of Sandy Bar
Character: Pritchard
Released: April 3, 1916
Type: Movie
John Oakhurst, a gentleman gambler, befriends Sandy Morton, who has dissipated his birthright through gambling and excessive drinking and dropped from his father's sight. Although Oakhurst soon takes Sandy's place in the affections of his father, he boards a train heading West and meets Pritchard, an alcoholic, and his wife, the Duchess. Pritchard is wanted by the law and Oakhurst helps him to escape detectives who are on his trail.
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The Yaqui
Title: The Yaqui
Character: Martinez
Released: March 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In Mexico, a poor Yaqui Indian loses his family through the actions of a racist Mexican officer named Martinez.
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Secret Love
Title: Secret Love
Character: Don Lowrie
Released: January 31, 1916
Type: Movie
In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs the mine and likes conditions just as they are. As a result, he quickly learns to detest the crusading Fergus, even to the point of trying to murder him.
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The Long Chance
Title: The Long Chance
Character: Eatinghouse Oscar
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Harley Hennage, a gambler, loves Marie but remains silent when he realizes that she is in love with Oliver Corblay, a prospector. After Corblay and Marie marry, Harley moves to the distant town of San Pasqual and does not see his old sweetheart until her husband is killed while staking a claim in the desert.
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The Cry of the First Born
Title: The Cry of the First Born
Character: Captain Fenwick
Released: September 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Owing to his father's illness, Cecil Crenwell is sent to inspect the family rice plantation in Hawaii. While there he falls in love with Hawai'ian girl Uana and wins her away from her native beau Kau.