Ed Brady

Ed Brady

Born: December 5, 1889
Died: March 31, 1942
in New York City, New York, USA
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Ed Brady (December 6, 1889 – March 31, 1942) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 350 films between 1911 and 1942.

Movies for Ed Brady...

Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: Man in Stage Office (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Miner in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Angry Citizen in Lynch Mob
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Valley of the Sun
Title: Valley of the Sun
Character: Soldier at Hitching Rail
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Ace - Waiter
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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The Gunman From Bodie
Title: The Gunman From Bodie
Character: Crane, Wyatt's clerk
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
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Wide Open Town
Title: Wide Open Town
Character: Man Reading Poster
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Fugitive Valley
Title: Fugitive Valley
Character: Doctor Steve
Released: July 30, 1941
Type: Movie
The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
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Gangs of Sonora
Title: Gangs of Sonora
Released: July 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Vagrant #2 (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Pot o' Gold
Title: Pot o' Gold
Character: Fruit & Vegetable Vendor (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
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Sign of the Wolf
Title: Sign of the Wolf
Character: Jules
Released: March 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.
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Wyoming Wildcat
Title: Wyoming Wildcat
Character: Timmons
Released: January 6, 1941
Type: Movie
A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted man once again.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Gambler
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Li'l Abner
Title: Li'l Abner
Character: Townsman
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Trapper
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Wagon Train
Title: Wagon Train
Character: Sam - Storekeeper
Released: October 4, 1940
Type: Movie
In his first starring Western for RKO, young Tim Holt must not only carry on his father's freight business but also hunt down his murderer. A certain Matt Gardner wants to corner the freight business to Pecos and persuades young Zack Sibley's wagon master to switch sides. Zack also earns the enmity of Gardner's son Coe, who takes umbrage to the youngster's flirtation with pretty Helen Lee. It all comes to a head during a food shortage in Pecos, a near-disaster that persuades the wagon master to switch sides once again. When the dust settles, Zack learns that old man Gardner is actually Carl Anderson, the man who murdered his father.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Deputy on Train
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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The Range Busters
Title: The Range Busters
Character: Long-haired Cowhand
Released: August 22, 1940
Type: Movie
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Rancher Ed Madison
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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20 Mule Team
Title: 20 Mule Team
Character: Barfly at Table
Released: May 3, 1940
Type: Movie
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
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Saps at Sea
Title: Saps at Sea
Character: Store Dresser
Released: April 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem ensues.
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Forty Little Mothers
Title: Forty Little Mothers
Character: Job Seeker
Released: April 26, 1940
Type: Movie
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers having a family; and the girls in the school resent his replacing a handsome and popular teacher, and do everything in their power to get him fired.
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Shooting High
Title: Shooting High
Character: Mort Carson
Released: April 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Juror
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Character: Raft Steerer (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
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The Cheyenne Kid
Title: The Cheyenne Kid
Character: Storekeeper Farnum
Released: February 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alerts Jeff Baker about the $1000. Bakers' henchman are too late to get the Kid but they kill the rancher paid by the Kid. The Sheriff then arrests the Kid claiming he murdered the rancher to get the money back and that Baker said he then lost it at his gambling table.
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The Invisible Man Returns
Title: The Invisible Man Returns
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1940
Type: Movie
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Slightly Honorable
Title: Slightly Honorable
Character: Ed, District Attorney's Man (Uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Beggar (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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Saga of Death Valley
Title: Saga of Death Valley
Character: Ranch Hand Ben
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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Here I Am a Stranger
Title: Here I Am a Stranger
Character: Kelly
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
The story of a young man's discovery of his father.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Burned-Out Rancher
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Prisoner Worrying About Dick Tracy (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Jonas
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Gambler
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: Settler
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Cooch Show Spectator (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Mesquite Buckaroo
Title: Mesquite Buckaroo
Character: Hank (as Edward Brady)
Released: April 30, 1939
Type: Movie
It's time for the big rodeo and it's Bob of the Allen ranch against Luke Williams of the Barns ranch. With Bob leading after the first day, Sands and Trigger kidnap him to keep him from winning.
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Southward Ho!
Title: Southward Ho!
Character: Mears
Released: March 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
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The Oklahoma Kid
Title: The Oklahoma Kid
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
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: Lordsburg Saloon Owner (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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Character: Man at the Show (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
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Scouts to the Rescue
Title: Scouts to the Rescue
Character: Henchman Slade
Released: January 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's 40th sound-era serial. Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack sets off in search of lost treasure and finds adventure
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Carpenter at Ranch (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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The Mad Miss Manton
Title: The Mad Miss Manton
Character: Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Beggar
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Hobble Jake
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Townsman at Execution (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Convict
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Thunder in the Desert
Title: Thunder in the Desert
Character: Reno
Released: March 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Bob arrives looking for the killer of his uncle. When the Sheriff chases him and his partner Rusty, Reno thinks they are the men he is looking for and takes them into his gang. There Bob finds his uncle's gun and knows he has found the right gang. However he realizes the gang has an unknown leader and he sets out to find him.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Prospector
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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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Ivory Patrol Lieutenant
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Danger Valley
Title: Danger Valley
Character: Jake Reed
Released: November 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office and overhears. He and his men kill Jake and forge new deeds. Now owning everything Dana tries to kick the Temple group off their land. But Jack and sidekick Lucky are on hand and plan to help them fight back.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Henchman Breed
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.
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Man Of The People
Title: Man Of The People
Character: Tramp with Heckler (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Worker Throwing Stone (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Sworn Enemy
Title: Sworn Enemy
Character: Mike (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Dawson's Friend (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Sailor
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Farmer
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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His Family Tree
Title: His Family Tree
Character: Seated Pub Sailor
Released: September 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Man Getting Wine on Head
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Convict in Prison (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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It's A Small World
Title: It's A Small World
Character: Buck Bogardus
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Mercenary Scout (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Character: Tender
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
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A Wicked Woman
Title: A Wicked Woman
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
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Redhead
Title: Redhead
Character: Joe
Released: October 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
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Everything's Ducky
Title: Everything's Ducky
Character: Dolan, the Cop
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware.
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Their Big Moment
Title: Their Big Moment
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Pirate (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1934
Type: Movie
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
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Roast-Beef and Movies
Title: Roast-Beef and Movies
Character: Gunman in Fictitious Film Scene (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
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The Son of Kong
Title: The Son of Kong
Character: Bo'sun Red
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
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Gun Justice
Title: Gun Justice
Character: Denver
Released: December 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.
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Bombshell
Title: Bombshell
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Radio Operator on Telephone (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: Man at Crelliman's Place (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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One Sunday Afternoon
Title: One Sunday Afternoon
Character: Pig Contest Emcee (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Ranger's Code
Title: Ranger's Code
Character: Bert
Released: August 14, 1933
Type: Movie
When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.
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Before Dawn
Title: Before Dawn
Character: Paddywagon Cop (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
After the death of a gangster, those familiar with his million dollar stash start mysteriously dying. Police detectives with the help of a clairvoyant try to determine who, living or dead, is responsible.
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Galloping Romeo
Title: Galloping Romeo
Character: Matt Kent
Released: August 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers and Grizzly get the jop driving the stage, the same thing happens.
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Inflation
Title: Inflation
Character: Foreman (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.
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The Nuisance
Title: The Nuisance
Character: Conspirator to Get the District Attorney (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Real Estate Client (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
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The Lone Avenger
Title: The Lone Avenger
Character: Tuck Hawkes
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
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Girl Missing
Title: Girl Missing
Character: Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
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Parachute Jumper
Title: Parachute Jumper
Character: Capt. J.C. Mason (uncredited)
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Prisoner Wanting Match (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Sheriff Kenyon
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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Forbidden Trail
Title: Forbidden Trail
Character: J. Snodgrass
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell. Later when Tom is jailed he accidentally finds the evidence, but the Karger encited mob has jailed the Sheriff and is already on the loose.
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The Phantom President
Title: The Phantom President
Character: Sailor / Henchman (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. As election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Red-Headed Woman
Title: Red-Headed Woman
Character: Man Outside Pool Hall (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
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Law of the West
Title: Law of the West
Character: Lee Morgan
Released: March 19, 1932
Type: Movie
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots Tracy, he tells Bob that Carruthers did it and sends Bob out after him. But unknown to Bob, Morgan has put blanks in his gun.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Stone, outlaw boss
Released: January 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, trying to help Thorton's daughter Beth, sets out after Stone and the half of the map.
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Without Honors
Title: Without Honors
Character: Lopez Venero
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Jack Marian isa gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Jack plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers. Along the way, he clears the name of the brother of Texas ranger Mike Donovan, and helps patch up the romance between Donovan and heroine Bernice.
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Oklahoma Jim
Title: Oklahoma Jim
Character: Cash Riley
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambler sets out to help a pretty young woman save her trading post.
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An American Tragedy
Title: An American Tragedy
Character: Train Brakeman (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
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The Nevada Buckaroo
Title: The Nevada Buckaroo
Character: Henchman Slade
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
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The Texas Ranger
Title: The Texas Ranger
Character: Nevady
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.
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Beyond Victory
Title: Beyond Victory
Character: Sergeant
Released: April 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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The Conquering Horde
Title: The Conquering Horde
Character: Splint Goggin
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Confederate Courier (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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A Devil with Women
Title: A Devil with Women
Character: Pedro (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
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Won by a Neck
Title: Won by a Neck
Character: One Shot Louie
Released: October 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Won by a Neck is a 1930 Comedy short.
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The Last of the Duanes
Title: The Last of the Duanes
Character: Man in Lynch Mob
Released: August 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Henry (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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Western Knights
Title: Western Knights
Character: Al's Boss
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Western Slapstick. A good chance to see Al St. John moving into the western comedy sidekick that would be his bread and butter role for the next twenty years. Also, it's a rare screen opportunity for Addie McPhail, Roscoe Arbuckle's wife and therefore Al's aunt.
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City Girl
Title: City Girl
Character: Reaper
Released: January 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
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The Trespasser
Title: The Trespasser
Character: Fred the Moving Man (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1929
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child's welfare, which starts gossip that she is a "kept woman."
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The Delightful Rogue
Title: The Delightful Rogue
Character: MacDougal
Released: September 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A modern-day pirate vies with a society playboy for the love of a dancer.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: George Stanislaus David
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
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Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Title: Stewed, Fried and Boiled
Released: March 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
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Lesson No. 1
Title: Lesson No. 1
Released: February 12, 1929
Type: Movie
Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
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The Code of the Scarlet
Title: The Code of the Scarlet
Character: Paddy Halloran
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.
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Harold Teen
Title: Harold Teen
Character: Officer Axel Dewberry
Released: April 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.
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Dressed to Kill
Title: Dressed to Kill
Character: Singing Walter
Released: March 17, 1928
Type: Movie
A mob boss' gang gets suspicious about their boss' new girlfriend, a beautiful young girl who doesn't seem to be the type who'd hang out with gangsters. They're not quite certain if she's actually a police agent or just a "groupie".
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The Noose
Title: The Noose
Character: Seth McMillan
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Title: Slide, Kelly, Slide
Character: Joe - Train Agent (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
Title: The Winning of Barbara Worth
Character: McDonald
Released: October 14, 1926
Type: Movie
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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Mantrap
Title: Mantrap
Character: Trapper (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
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The Volga Boatman
Title: The Volga Boatman
Character: Boatman
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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Three Faces East
Title: Three Faces East
Character: Firking
Released: February 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A spy story that takes place during World War I.
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Peacock Feathers
Title: Peacock Feathers
Character: Bit Role (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
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Flower of Night
Title: Flower of Night
Character: Derck Bylandt
Released: October 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
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A Child of the Prairie
Title: A Child of the Prairie
Character: Slippery Jim Watson
Released: June 20, 1925
Type: Movie
In Red Gulch Tom is married to Nell and has a daughter. He is shot by cardsharp Jim, who runs off with Nell. The little daughter, found wandering on the prairie by two wolf hunters, is adopted and named Prairie Nell. Fifteen years later, she is the pride of Bar X, when Tom returns, shoots Jim, and finds his daughter.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Pruitt
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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The Deadwood Coach
Title: The Deadwood Coach
Character: Character
Released: December 7, 1924
Type: Movie
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
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The Rose of Paris
Title: The Rose of Paris
Character: Jules
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
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The Fighting American
Title: The Fighting American
Character: Quig
Released: May 26, 1924
Type: Movie
On the wager that he will propose marriage to any girl selected by his fraternity brothers, Bill finds himself making love to Mary, an old-fashioned girl who is secretly in love with him…
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The Dancing Cheat
Title: The Dancing Cheat
Character: 'Denker' Eddie Kane (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: April 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston.
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Fools Highway
Title: Fools Highway
Character: Jackie Doodle (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
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The Broken Wing
Title: The Broken Wing
Character: Bassilio (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: December 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daughter of the ranch's owner. Unbeknownst to the pilot--who has lost his memory because of the crash--the girl has been praying for a husband, and believes that God has answered her prayers by sending him this handsome pilot. However, a local guerrilla leader has also had designs on the daughter, and comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition, make some money and win the girl in the bargain.
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The Eternal Struggle
Title: The Eternal Struggle
Character: Jean Caardeau (as Edward J. Brady)
Released: October 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Believing she's responsible for the death of her would-be seducer, a young woman flees to North Vancouver.
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To the Last Man
Title: To the Last Man
Character: Daggs
Released: September 23, 1923
Type: Movie
Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.
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Racing Hearts
Title: Racing Hearts
Character: Pete Delaney (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: 'Bad' Rufe Tolliver (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: April 15, 1923
Type: Movie
June Tolliver is a Kentucky mountain girl whose family is feuding with the Falins. But their differences are temporarily put on hold when revenue officer John Hale (Antonio Moreno) comes around. He falls in love with June and sends her to the city to get an education. When she returns and the feud breaks out once again, June tries to become a peacemaker between the two families.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Ike Goodsell
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
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The Siren Call
Title: The Siren Call
Character: Edward Brent
Released: September 17, 1922
Type: Movie
Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
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Over the Border
Title: Over the Border
Character: (as Edward J. Brady)
Released: June 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Jen Galbraith is in love with Sgt. Tom Flaherty of the Royal Mounted. She is the daughter of Peter Galbraith, who is engaged in smuggling moonshine whiskey across the Canadian border. When she tries to warn her father and brother of the approaching police, she is arrested with the entire gang.
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The Silent Call
Title: The Silent Call
Character: Jimmy the Dud
Released: November 7, 1921
Type: Movie
A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
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The Rough Diamond
Title: The Rough Diamond
Character: Pedro Sachet (as Edwin J. Brady)
Released: October 30, 1921
Type: Movie
An unemployed cowboy (Tom Mix) joins a circus and falls in love with a woman (Eva Novak) whose father takes a shine to the ranch hand.
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The Kiss
Title: The Kiss
Character: Manuel Feliz
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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Cheated Love
Title: Cheated Love
Character: Scholom Maruch
Released: May 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
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The Yellow Typhoon
Title: The Yellow Typhoon
Character: Morgan
Released: May 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Hilda and Berta Nordstrom, although identical in appearance, are opposites in temperament. Berta weds naval engineer Robert Hallowell, deserts him in Europe, and travels to the Orient in search of the gay life where she becomes a notorious courtesan known as The Yellow Typhoon.
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Terror Island
Title: Terror Island
Character: Captain Black
Released: April 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
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When Bearcat Went Dry
Title: When Bearcat Went Dry
Character: Rattler Webb
Released: November 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Bearcat Turner Stacy loves Blossom Fulkerson and promise her to give up drinking. Turner is arrested and he find Blossom in the arms of Jerry Henderson. Kindard Powers attack Handerson thinking he's a Officer. He can rescue himself and hid in Blossoms cabin. Later he is attacked again but this time rescued by Turner. He forces him into marry Blossom from hes deathbed and when he dies, Turner goes after Powers and kills him. Blossom leaves the community, but comes back and agrees to marry Turner.
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The Great Radium Mystery
Title: The Great Radium Mystery
Character: Frank Bird
Released: October 13, 1919
Type: Movie
Criminals steal a radium-powered tank from an inventor. His heiress and a government agent take up the chase.
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Almost a Husband
Title: Almost a Husband
Character: Zeb Sawyer
Released: October 11, 1919
Type: Movie
A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....
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The Grey Parasol
Title: The Grey Parasol
Character: Rodger Irwin
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Hamilton Hill meets Estelle Redding in an umbrella repair shop and rescues her from two thugs soon afterwards. Estelle has hidden in the handle of her grey parasol the formula for "Coalex," an inexpensive substitute for coal which the coal trust is trying to prevent from reaching the market. Edward Burnham, one of the thugs, tells Hamilton that Estelle is a German agent, but the infatuated young bachelor fails to believe the story.
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Every Woman's Husband
Title: Every Woman's Husband
Released: July 17, 1918
Type: Movie
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
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Marked Cards
Title: Marked Cards
Character: John Acton
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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The Gun Woman
Title: The Gun Woman
Character: The Bostonian
Released: January 27, 1918
Type: Movie
A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.
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The High Sign
Title: The High Sign
Released: December 31, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to be admitted to his school fraternity, David Bruce is told to impersonate a Balkan prince. In that guise, Bruce leaves for the prince's tiny municipality. En route, he becomes involved with a gang of anarchists who order him to kill the prince he is supposed to be impersonating.
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The Spindle of Life
Title: The Spindle of Life
Character: Jason
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
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The Stolen Play
Title: The Stolen Play
Character: Leroux
Released: August 31, 1917
Type: Movie
A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.
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The Reed Case
Title: The Reed Case
Character: Red
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When, after three years of active service, ace detective Jerry Brennon is ordered by his doctor to take a rest, Senator Reed, Jerry's staunch supporter since he arrested two crooks burglarizing the Reed home, prevails upon the detective to stay at his cabin in the mountains. Warned that the cabin is haunted, Jerry's suspicion is aroused when a bullet whizzes past his head.
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Fires of Rebellion
Title: Fires of Rebellion
Character: Dan Mallory
Released: July 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the pattern by marrying Dan Mallory (Edward Brady). The new foreman, John Blake (William Stowell), fires Mallory. Mallory attacks him, but because of his alcohol abuse, his heart gives out and he dies. Blake asks Joe for Madge's hand, and he accepts for her. Madge longs for something better, when Cora, a former stenographer from the company (Golda Madden), writes her from the big city.
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The Flame of Youth
Title: The Flame of Youth
Character: McCool
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancée, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island.
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Mutiny
Title: Mutiny
Character: Eben Wiggs
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: Wilkins
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 Double Room Mystery
Title: The Double Room Mystery
Character: Bill Greely
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.
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The Mainspring
Title: The Mainspring
Character: Jerviss (as E.J. Brady)
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Finding himself penniless, Lawrence Ashmore, whose late father was ruined on the stock exchange, obtains a position as a reporter. Ashmore is assigned to investigate the reported fatal illness of Jesse Craven, one of Wall Street's financial monarchs.
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The Sultana
Title: The Sultana
Character: Count Strelitso
Released: October 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Rich young playboy Gregory Kirkland reads a newspaper story about a daring robbery, and bets his friends that he can steal a famous diamond tiara, The Sultana, from its designer and then secretly return it without being caught. Robert Sautrelle, who designed the tiara, visits Kirkland's home, and Gregory does indeed steal it. However, he gets cold feet before he returns it and convinces a woman he knows, Virginia Lowndes, to return it. Unfortunately, things don't work out exactly as Gregory had planned.
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Neal of the Navy
Title: Neal of the Navy
Character: Hernandez
Released: September 2, 1915
Type: Movie
A former Annapolis cadet is thrown out of the Naval Academy for cheating on an exam. Of course he was framed, but he must enlist in the Navy to clear himself. Meanwhile he and his sweetheart search for a buried treasure on Lost Island, which everyone is after.
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Pals in Blue
Title: Pals in Blue
Released: June 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Fleeced by a pair of good-time gals, the boys are unable to pay their bar tab and end up cooling their heels in jail. Once released, the two pals decide to join the army, if only to know where their next meal is coming from. They are shipped to a remote frontier outpost, which is already a hotbed of intrigue due to the commanding officer's lust for the wife of one of his officers.
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The Legal Light
Title: The Legal Light
Character: Smithers (as E.J. Brady)
Released: March 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Carrie Simpkins, a lady lawyer, arrives in a small western town and begins the practice of law. Pete, Jake and Jerry, three cowboys, fall in love with her, but do not progress. Smithers, the pioneer town lawyer happens by and sees the sign, "Carrie Simpkins, Lawyer," and decides to pay her a visit, which he does, and he also falls in love with her. Pete, Jake and Jerry all hit upon the same plan unknown to each other, which will help their chances with Carrie.
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Ma's Girls
Title: Ma's Girls
Character: The Assayer (as Edward Brady)
Released: March 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Ma and Dad, with their two daughters, live in a cottage in a small western town. The sheriff is a friend of the family and a frequent visitor. Tom, the gambler, has tried to force his attention on Madge and Rose. The gambler plays cards in a bar-room with an assayer, and breaks him. Thereupon the assayer decides to end his life, but the gambler advances him some money.
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The Outlaw's Bride
Title: The Outlaw's Bride
Character: Dan Calvert, an Outlaw
Released: March 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Dan Calvert, an outlaw, comes with his plunder to the shack of old man Medford, who has a lovely daughter named Jessie. Calvert, in his plunder, finds money and a letter addressed to Hibbard Sharpe, who is on the outlaw's trail. Medford consents to the outlaw's marriage to his daughter in return for a sum of money.
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Sage Brush Tom
Title: Sage Brush Tom
Character: Heavy Man
Released: March 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Tom is attracted by an actress. When she and her company arrive at his ranch, he tries to attract her attention.
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The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl
Title: The Stagecoach Driver and the Girl
Character: The Gambler (as E.J. Brady)
Released: March 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Silent western starring Tom Mix
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The Man from Texas
Title: The Man from Texas
Character: John Hargrave
Released: March 2, 1915
Type: Movie
A cowboy gets a message that his sister's husband has left her in ill health. When he gets there, Texas finds her dead. He sets out to track down the promise-breaker and avenge his sister. On the way, Texas meets Moya Dalton, the fiery daughter of a rancher, and attempts to court her.
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Who Pays?
Title: Who Pays?
Released: March 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings, each episode did, in fact, end with a challenge to the audience: Who was responsible for the misfortune of the principal characters? The titles of the twelve episodes were: #1: The Price of Fame; #2: The Pursuit of Pleasure; #3: When Justice Sleeps; #4: The Love Liar; #5: Unto Herself Alone; #6: Houses of Glass; #7: Blue Blood and Yellow; #8: Today and Tomorrow; #9: For the Commonwealth; #10: Pomp of Earth; #11: The Fruit of Folly; #12: Toil and Tyranny.
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Leading Lizzie Astray
Title: Leading Lizzie Astray
Character: A City Slicker
Released: November 30, 1914
Type: Movie
A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.
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The Fruit of Evil
Title: The Fruit of Evil
Released: April 22, 1914
Type: Movie
The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Released: April 15, 1914
Type: Movie
The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves to be harmless.
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A Gypsy Romance
Title: A Gypsy Romance
Character: Jose's Rival
Released: April 8, 1914
Type: Movie
A story of the inside life of nomads who live in the shadow of civilization, worshiping their own goods and clinging to their ancient rites.
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The Mountaineer
Title: The Mountaineer
Released: March 15, 1914
Type: Movie
A young mountaineer loves Dorothy, daughter of a backwoodsman. An artist comes into the district to paint and falls in love with Lucille, Dorothy's sister. Dorothy is interested in the artist on account of her sister's love for him, and she poses.
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The Heart of the Hills
Title: The Heart of the Hills
Released: March 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Two brothers live together in the Kentucky mountains. Wally, the younger, is a wood-cutter, while Phil is a cripple. The brothers receive word from a city physician that Phil can recover from his infirmity only by means of an operation which will cost $800. The amount, however, is far larger than they ever expect to own at one time. In the meantime, Nan Leslie, of the U.S. Revenue Service, is detailed to go into the mountain districts of Kentucky and get evidence against a gang of moonshiners.
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The Voice of the Viola
Title: The Voice of the Viola
Character: Edward
Released: March 4, 1914
Type: Movie
This is a story of the love of two brothers for the same girl.
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Regeneration
Title: Regeneration
Released: February 27, 1914
Type: Movie
The woman has been leading an adventurous life. Her admirer grows tired and casts her off. She departs and sinks down in the street, tired mentally and bodily. The artist is painting the Madonna. His model fails to give him the inspiration needed and he discharges her. Passing down the street he observes the woman with the beautiful tired face, speaks to her and finally persuades her to go with him and be his model and embrace a better life. The painting is finished. The woman has supplied the inspiration. She tires and longs for the old, merry life. She meets the tempter once more and goes with him to his home.
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Breed o' the Mountains
Title: Breed o' the Mountains
Character: Brady Jarvis
Released: February 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Joe Mayfield and Sue Jarvis are the children of two families in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which have been at variance for years. Brady, Dorothy's brother, has had an affair with a simple mountain maid. She, unable to care for the child, lays it with a note, at what she thinks is Brady's door. In reality, she has taken it to Mayfield's cabin. He finds it, but out of love for Sue, and to spare her the reflected disgrace, he cares for it himself, keeping silent as to its parentage. The love between himself and Sue ripens. Sue is ready to forget the feud and marry him. In order to prevent this, Brady, not knowing whence the child came, accuses Mayfield of being its parent. The accused is silent and Sue turns away. Mayfield, in the meantime, is unable to stand the fruits of injustice and the taunts of Brady. He tells Brady the true parentage of the child. Brady is softened. He tells Mayfield he is going to find its mother and "Make it right."
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A Flash in the Dark
Title: A Flash in the Dark
Released: February 18, 1914
Type: Movie
Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall carelessly allows to entertain his wife. As a result, the friend pays more than natural attentions to the woman. The three visit one of Randall's mines. The wife and friend go down the mining shaft in a bucket. While they are yet underground, a quantity of dynamite explodes. The mine is filled with poisonous fumes.
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The Greater Devotion
Title: The Greater Devotion
Released: February 11, 1914
Type: Movie
The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth. Despite the protests of Love and the pain of Devotion, the girl is given in marriage to Wealth by her father. A year lapses and the girl has suffered by her father's choosing. Wealth is faithless to her and heaps upon her head humiliation and indignity and finally brutality. Love returns to her and after listening to her story swears that he will kill Wealth, but Devotion restrains him with the advice that if he kills Wealth he can never have the girl. To insure the girl's happiness Devotion kills Wealth himself and then takes his own life.
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Fires of Conscience
Title: Fires of Conscience
Character: Tom
Released: February 4, 1914
Type: Movie
Two men meet in the desert. One is in search of gold and the other seeks solace and heartsease for an unrequited love. Although they are unknown to each other, each loves the same girl, Ray, the prospector, is the chosen suitor and around his neck he carries the girl's picture. They live together in the wilds and become friends, until one night Tom sees the picture in the locket around Ray's neck. Tom's jealousy prompts him to kill Ray, but gentle thoughts of Ethel restrain his hand.
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The Wheel of Life
Title: The Wheel of Life
Character: The Stranger
Released: January 28, 1914
Type: Movie
The husband and his wife live alone in the mountains, where he is working out a claim. A stranger from a distant mine is injured in the vicinity. The husband nurses him back to health. During his convalescence the stranger persuades the wife to elope with him.
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The Countess Betty's Mine
Title: The Countess Betty's Mine
Character: Betty's Brother
Released: January 21, 1914
Type: Movie
Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: The Intruder from the City
Released: January 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Much to the delight of the simple old father, his daughter becomes engaged to a big-hearted mountaineer. He builds their hut in the wilderness, and she is happy, though she often dreams of the great world outside. Then comes the intruder from the city, a man of the world. He obtains hoard at the girl's home. He blinds her eyes to the beautiful things of the; woods with his talk of pretty places and things of the great world without. He tempts and wins her away from the big-hearted backwoodsman. The young mountaineer, who has been working on his cabin, returns and finds the old man dozing and the girl gone.
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Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Title: Whoso Diggeth a Pit
Character: The Rich Broker
Released: January 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids the father good-bye just as the latter receives a telegram, telling him that he is a large sum short on margins. The broker reads and tells the father he will help him if he is allowed to marry the daughter. The father agrees against his will. The girl agrees to the self-sacrifice to save her father's honor. Money triumphs, and the broker and the girl marry, but as time goes on, he ill-treats her shamefully.
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A Hopi Legend
Title: A Hopi Legend
Character: Great Bear
Released: December 31, 1913
Type: Movie
An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset. The chief of the tribe to which the girl belongs, covets and demands her of her father. The father consents, but the girl rebels. At sunset, she meets her lover and tells him what her fate is to be. He tells her that when the moon shines, he will come for her and take her away.
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The Lightning Bolt
Title: The Lightning Bolt
Character: Brady
Released: December 24, 1913
Type: Movie
Held and Brady are fellow officers of the mounted police, and both love the same girl, while Brady's affection is overshadowed by a deep hatred for his rival. The two men are dispatched into the surrounding forests to look for timber fires.
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A Cracksman Santa Claus
Title: A Cracksman Santa Claus
Released: December 19, 1913
Type: Movie
The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain. Dot gets home, tired out and distressed because she has been discharged from the store. Her crippled sister hangs up her stocking and prays for the morrow. It is too much for Dot. She goes out to secure money for a present at any cost. Passing the window of a mansion, she observes a man give a woman a necklace. In the hurried departure, it is left behind. The temptation is too strong: she gets through the window and secures the necklace, only to be confronted by the cracksman, who has entered another way and pretends to be the owner. She tells her sad tale.
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Retribution
Title: Retribution
Character: Pedro
Released: December 10, 1913
Type: Movie
Dorothy and her father have staked all their hopes on their mine. While they are awaiting the arrival of Mr. Reid, who is to report on the value of the mine, Pedro, a Mexican, makes familiar advances to Dorothy and is sternly repulsed. Reid arrives and a mutual attraction springs up between himself and Dorothy, to the chagrin of Pedro.
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The Fires of Fate
Title: The Fires of Fate
Character: Dot's Father
Released: November 20, 1913
Type: Movie
The young doctor, spending most of his time in charity work, is particularly interested in the case of a poor mother who must send her child away for its health. This brings him into contact with the owner of the tenement and he endeavors to persuade him to improve conditions. He is refused. But, the owner's daughter has overheard this refusal and she determined to investigate the trouble herself.
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The Cracksman's Reformation
Title: The Cracksman's Reformation
Character: The Poor Man
Released: November 14, 1913
Type: Movie
Dorothy informs the cracksman that when he has finally renounced his life of thieving he may return to her and claim her. The cracksman resolves to be worthy of her. In his home he doubts his ability to reform and takes out his revolver. A vision of the girl comes to him and he is about to cast it aside when a tray of gleaming jewels crosses his vision. His resolution wavers. He places the gun in his pocket and sallies out.
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The Heart of a Cracksman
Title: The Heart of a Cracksman
Character: Carlton's Son
Released: November 7, 1913
Type: Movie
Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hearing of this the previous couple plan to balk the father; their scheming is overheard by the cracksman, who has stealthily entered the house. The son and his wife retire and the cracksman creeps upstairs and enters Marcia's room. Affected by her beauty and innocence as she lays sleeping, he determines to assist her; following the son into the sick man's room he snatches the stolen will from his hand.
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Her Nephews from Labrador
Title: Her Nephews from Labrador
Released: January 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Two boys from Labrador, Canada, visit their aunt in Westcheser, New York. Although it's in the middle of a cold winter in New York, the nephews from Labrador are used to much colder weather and think the New York winter is too warm for them, and act accordingly.
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War
Title: War
Released: December 8, 1911
Type: Movie
In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in the enjoyment of their several pursuits of life, an Arab rushes upon the peaceful scene, announcing that Italy has declared war against Turkey and that the Italian warships are now in the harbor, shelling the city.