Lon Poff

Lon Poff

Born: February 8, 1870
Died: August 8, 1952
in Bedford, Indiana, USA

Movies for Lon Poff...

Spaceship to the Unknown
Title: Spaceship to the Unknown
Character: The High Priest (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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Father's Little Dividend
Title: Father's Little Dividend
Character: Old Man on Porch (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Old Man
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Juror
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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Calling All Doctors
Title: Calling All Doctors
Character: Phil Graves
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Mountaineer (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Halsey (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
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Come and Get It
Title: Come and Get It
Character: Lumberjack (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Grand Jury Member (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: First High Priest
Released: April 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Townsman
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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She Couldn't Take It
Title: She Couldn't Take It
Character: Judge
Released: October 8, 1935
Type: Movie
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
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Alimony Aches
Title: Alimony Aches
Character: Undertaker
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Ex-wife remarries, doesn't tell husband so he'll still pay alimony.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Title: Mystery of the Wax Museum
Character: Tall Thin Henchman (Uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1933
Type: Movie
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Hello, Everybody!
Title: Hello, Everybody!
Character: Constable
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole town, depends on Kate to hold everything together. The power company wants to build a dam which will require flooding many of the farms; Kate is holding out; if Kate sells, everyone else will sell; if Kate refuses, the rest of the town will refuse as well. Randolph Scott meets Kate's beautiful sister, Sally Blane, at a dance. Randolph Scott, as it turns out, is an agent for the power company. Kate thinks he's just using Sally; Sally believes that he truly likes her. Randolph comes to the farm and appears to woo Kate. Kate remains unconvinced about selling out, but falls for Randolph.
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So Big!
Title: So Big!
Character: Deacon (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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The Expert
Title: The Expert
Character: Morgue Attendant
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
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Ambassador Bill
Title: Ambassador Bill
Character: Chauffeur
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
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Way Back Home
Title: Way Back Home
Character: Constable (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
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Caught
Title: Caught
Character: Clem (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
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Haunted at Midnight
Title: Haunted at Midnight
Character: Elder Husband
Released: May 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.
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Behind Office Doors
Title: Behind Office Doors
Character: Mr. Burden (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
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Tom Sawyer
Title: Tom Sawyer
Character: Judge Thatcher
Released: December 19, 1930
Type: Movie
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
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Night of Goblins
Title: Night of Goblins
Character: Old Relative
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Spanish version of The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case and Berth Marks.
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Title: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
Character: Old Relative (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.
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What a Life
Title: What a Life
Character: Prison Reformer
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.
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Courtin' Wildcats
Title: Courtin' Wildcats
Character: Professor
Released: December 22, 1929
Type: Movie
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he finds Calamity Jane running roughshod over everyone. So the dude decides to tame her.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Father Joseph
Released: February 21, 1929
Type: Movie
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
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The Faker
Title: The Faker
Character: Hadiran's Aid
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
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The Viking
Title: The Viking
Character: Friar Slain by Vikings (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1928
Type: Movie
In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Bookkeeper (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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Silver Valley
Title: Silver Valley
Character: 'Slim' Snitzer
Released: October 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Fired for crashing his aeroplane into his employer's ranch, Tom Mix is elected sheriff in a town with, as a title stated, "a high mortality rate among sheriffs." Mix, of course, prevails against almost impossible odds, at one point cornering a gang of cutthroats holding leading lady Dorothy Dwan captive in the crater of a volcano about to erupt.
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: D. P. Graves - the Undertaker
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
Title: Bardelys the Magnificent
Character: Prison Friar (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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Marriage License?
Title: Marriage License?
Character: Footman
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
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Mantrap
Title: Mantrap
Character: Minister (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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Without Mercy
Title: Without Mercy
Character: Madame Gordon's 1st Henchman (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1925
Type: Movie
In this silent melodrama Sir Melmoth Craven is running against John Orme for a seat in Parliament. Orme is an honest man, but Craven is on the shady side. For campaign money, he borrows money from an equally shady establishment called Gordon, Ltd. Orme's sweetheart, Margaret Garth, becomes infatuated with Craven, much to the dismay of her mother, Enid.
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Isn't Life Terrible?
Title: Isn't Life Terrible?
Character: Mr. Jolly
Released: July 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with the first prize being an ocean trip. To win the prize Charley has to sell those pens - surprisingly he wins, but the ship turns out to be a wreck on it's last trip to the scrapyard. To make things worse they accidentally leave their young daughter on the dock and the ship sails without her. What else can go wrong on this trip?
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The Million Dollar Handicap
Title: The Million Dollar Handicap
Character: Milkman
Released: February 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The Million Dollar Handicap
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Greed
Title: Greed
Character: Lottery Agent (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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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Shorty's Chum
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
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The Man Who Won
Title: The Man Who Won
Character: Sandy Joyce
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Bill is a gambler, whose friend Scipio goes in search of his wife Jessie. Jessie, fed up with her life of poverty, has run off with the wealthy and villainous James. She has left behind her two children on James' promise that she can send for them later. Scipio leaves the tots with Bill when he goes on his search..
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Tall Actor in Casting Office (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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Suzanna
Title: Suzanna
Character: Álvarez
Released: February 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dolores, although Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she was kidnapped in infancy and is really Don Diego's daughter, she keeps silent; but Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. There are explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna, and Dolores marries Pancho. Suzanna (1923) has been mastered from a good quality but incomplete 35mm print.
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The Girl I Loved
Title: The Girl I Loved
Character: Minister (circuit rider)
Released: February 15, 1923
Type: Movie
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (long after everyone else has) that he loves Mary. But by now it's too late. She plans to marry his friend Willie.
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Brass Commandments
Title: Brass Commandments
Character: Slim Lally
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
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The Village Blacksmith
Title: The Village Blacksmith
Character: Gideon Crane
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Archbishop (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1922
Type: Movie
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
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The Night Horsemen
Title: The Night Horsemen
Character: Haw Haw
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Father Joseph
Released: August 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Big Town Ideas
Title: Big Town Ideas
Released: May 20, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman and her dog defend an innocent man.
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The Old Swimmin' Hole
Title: The Old Swimmin' Hole
Character: Professor Payne - Schoolmaster
Released: February 26, 1921
Type: Movie
The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted.
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Square Shooter
Title: Square Shooter
Character: Sandy
Released: August 8, 1920
Type: Movie
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, because he is suspicious of his foreman Sam Curtis' activities, decides to proceed incognito. Disguised as Harold Montague, his partner's son, Chick works among the ranch hands and discovers that Curtis is rustling cattle and is responsible for driving Barbara Hampton and her aunt from their home.
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Bonnie May
Title: Bonnie May
Released: June 10, 1920
Type: Movie
Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite the reluctance of his mother.
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The Last Straw
Title: The Last Straw
Character: Rev. Beal
Released: February 14, 1920
Type: Movie
A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Monty Price
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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'49–'17
Title: '49–'17
Character: Bald-Headed Wrangler (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1917
Type: Movie
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.