Edward Peil Sr.

Edward Peil Sr.

Born: January 18, 1883
Died: December 29, 1958
in Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Edward Peil Sr. was an American stage and screen actor. He appeared in films from 1906 to 1951.

Movies for Edward Peil Sr....

The Texas Rangers
Title: The Texas Rangers
Released: June 3, 1951
Type: Movie
It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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Branded
Title: Branded
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
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Pretty Baby
Title: Pretty Baby
Character: Hawkins (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
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Bright Leaf
Title: Bright Leaf
Character: Train Conductor (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
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Three Daring Daughters
Title: Three Daring Daughters
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
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The Lady from Shanghai
Title: The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Guard (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Title: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
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Valley of Fear
Title: Valley of Fear
Character: Jamison Forbes (as Edward J. Peil)
Released: September 14, 1947
Type: Movie
Johnny Williams (Johnny Mack Brown) returns to his home town of Beaufort, and finds himself when being chased by banker Henry Stevens (Tristram Coffin), Grangers Association head Les Travers (Ed Cassidy as Edward Cassidy) and real estate agent Frank Wilkins (Ted Adams.)
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Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Ratkin
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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Canyon City
Title: Canyon City
Character: Jim Hardy (as Ed Peil Sr.)
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
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Cattle Stampede
Title: Cattle Stampede
Character: Banker
Released: August 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed. The latter tells them there is a range war in progress across the border and that he is looking for men to help make a cattle drive to the rail junction.
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Robin Hood of the Range
Title: Robin Hood of the Range
Character: Grady (as Ed Peil Sr.)
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
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Captive Wild Woman
Title: Captive Wild Woman
Character: Jake - Handler (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1943
Type: Movie
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: Officer
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Townsman
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Hoppy Serves a Writ
Title: Hoppy Serves a Writ
Character: Card Player
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
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The Outlaw
Title: The Outlaw
Character: Swanson (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
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The Kid Rides Again
Title: The Kid Rides Again
Character: John Ainsley
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: Freighter Captain [Chs. 7-8]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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For Me and My Gal
Title: For Me and My Gal
Character: Jim (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
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Foreign Agent
Title: Foreign Agent
Character: Robert Nelson, fifth columnist
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Border Roundup
Title: Border Roundup
Character: Sheriff
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.
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The Major and the Minor
Title: The Major and the Minor
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: September 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Sunset Serenade
Title: Sunset Serenade
Character: Party Guest
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Policeman
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
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Riders of the West
Title: Riders of the West
Character: Investigator Jim Dodge
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
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The Pride of the Yankees
Title: The Pride of the Yankees
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
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Texas Justice
Title: Texas Justice
Character: Ed Hannigan
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
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Down Rio Grande Way
Title: Down Rio Grande Way
Character: Commissioner Adams
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: Ryder
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Hotel Proprietor
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Rancher
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Air Raid Warden
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Dealer with Visor
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Cattle Rancher
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
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Underground Rustlers
Title: Underground Rustlers
Character: Mr. Ward
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: U.S. Marshal
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Tonto Basin Outlaws
Title: Tonto Basin Outlaws
Character: Photographer
Released: October 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
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The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Title: The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Character: Mr. Harper - Cattle Rancher (as Ed Piel Sr.)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
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Fugitive Valley
Title: Fugitive Valley
Character: Jailer Ed
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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The Texas Marshal
Title: The Texas Marshal
Character: Sam Adams
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Sun Valley Private Investigator (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Title: The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Character: Clark
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang's hideout, and they scare folks away to protect their mine.
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Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Title: Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Character: Hardy
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Train Conductor
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Title: A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Character: Opera House Assistant manager (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
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Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Title: Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Character: Dave Barlow
Released: December 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Barfly
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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Riders of Black Mountain
Title: Riders of Black Mountain
Character: George Harris
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the outlaws. So he sets up a fake shipment knowing that if the stage is robbed the contact person will be identiifed. But the day the stage is due the Sheriff arrests the gang Tim was expecting to do the robbery.
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Carstens
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Sears
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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One Man's Law
Title: One Man's Law
Character: Joel Winters
Released: June 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Police Sergeant Riley
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Men with Steel Faces
Title: Men with Steel Faces
Character: Dr. Cooper (archive footage)
Released: May 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Man Saying 'Give Him His Five Bucks' (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Jones (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Man Wearing Visor
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Inspector Joe Cardona
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: Speaker at Meeting (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: John A.J. Cresswell
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Express Agent Frank (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Mutiny in the Big House
Title: Mutiny in the Big House
Character: Prison Gate Guard
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Price
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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Girl from Rio
Title: Girl from Rio
Character: William W. Wilson, Lawyer
Released: August 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
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I Stole a Million
Title: I Stole a Million
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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The Man from Sundown
Title: The Man from Sundown
Character: Sheriff Wiley
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Laborer (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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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Rancher Harper
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Mr. Turner (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Bank Cashier (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Sundown on the Prairie
Title: Sundown on the Prairie
Character: John
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
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Water Rustlers
Title: Water Rustlers
Character: Weylan's Lawyer
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
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Pirates of the Skies
Title: Pirates of the Skies
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
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King of the Sierras
Title: King of the Sierras
Character: Rancher Blake
Released: December 11, 1938
Type: Movie
An unusual film in that it was composed of new film footage tacked onto an original film produced by M. H. Hoffman Sr. and Jr.,and never released because of the collapse and merger of the Hoffman's Liberty Company into the newly-formed Republic operation in mid-1935, and consequently has two different sets of actors and production crew members.
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Gangster's Boy
Title: Gangster's Boy
Character: Editor
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
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Colorado Trail
Title: Colorado Trail
Character: Hobbs
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Neighbor Helping with Move (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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The Singing Cowgirl
Title: The Singing Cowgirl
Character: Tom Harkins
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
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Six Shootin' Sheriff
Title: Six Shootin' Sheriff
Character: Andy
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
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Code of the Rangers
Title: Code of the Rangers
Character: Ranger Captain (as Ed Pier Sr.)
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Townsman in Sheriff's Office
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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Blossoms On Broadway
Title: Blossoms On Broadway
Character: Conductor (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
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The Old Wyoming Trail
Title: The Old Wyoming Trail
Character: Edward Peil Sr.
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Idol of the Crowds
Title: Idol of the Crowds
Character: Det. Sgt. Baker (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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Heroes of the Alamo
Title: Heroes of the Alamo
Character: General Sam Houston
Released: August 7, 1937
Type: Movie
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.
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Slaves in Bondage
Title: Slaves in Bondage
Character: Detective Captain
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Detective
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Captains Courageous
Title: Captains Courageous
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Title: Two-Fisted Sheriff
Character: Judge Webster
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
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Come on, Cowboys
Title: Come on, Cowboys
Character: Thomas Rigby
Released: May 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.
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Gunsmoke Ranch
Title: Gunsmoke Ranch
Character: Dam Engineer Rankin
Released: May 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Sheriff (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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A Million to One
Title: A Million to One
Character: Mac
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
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College Holiday
Title: College Holiday
Character: Cop in Park
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
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The Cowboy Star
Title: The Cowboy Star
Character: Clem Baker (as Ed Piel Sr.)
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
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Alibi for Murder
Title: Alibi for Murder
Character: Peters (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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Oh, Susanna
Title: Oh, Susanna
Character: Mineral Springs Sheriff Cole (as Ed Peil Sr.)
Released: August 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.
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White Fang
Title: White Fang
Character: Minor Role
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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Show Boat
Title: Show Boat
Released: May 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: Guard in Sleeping Quarters (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Mr. Bligh, at Hutchinson's Meeting
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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Exclusive Story
Title: Exclusive Story
Character: Newspaperman (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
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Society Fever
Title: Society Fever
Character: Booker
Released: July 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
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The Nitwits
Title: The Nitwits
Character: Eddie the Detective
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Villager (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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Reckless
Title: Reckless
Character: Man Raising Stage Curtain (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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The Phantom Empire
Title: The Phantom Empire
Character: Cooper (as Edward Piel Sr.)
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Character: Jen Yu
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
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Million Dollar Baby
Title: Million Dollar Baby
Character: Louie
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
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Kid Millions
Title: Kid Millions
Character: Assistant Bartender (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Our Daily Bread
Title: Our Daily Bread
Character: Powerhouse Employee (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Bandits of the Badlands
Title: Bandits of the Badlands
Character: Malgrove
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Blue Steel', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Blue Steel' down to a 22 minute short version. Melgrove, the town's leading citizen, is intending to deviously buy the worthless town, which actually stands on top of a huge gold mine.
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The Man from Utah
Title: The Man from Utah
Character: Spike Barton (as Edward Peil)
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
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Blue Steel
Title: Blue Steel
Character: Malgrove
Released: May 10, 1934
Type: Movie
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
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Manhattan Love Song
Title: Manhattan Love Song
Character: Employment Agent
Released: April 29, 1934
Type: Movie
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
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Journal of a Crime
Title: Journal of a Crime
Character: Jailer (uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
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I Am Suzanne!
Title: I Am Suzanne!
Character: Newspaper Reporter
Released: December 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
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The Mystery Squadron
Title: The Mystery Squadron
Character: Andrew Martin
Released: December 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
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Fury of the Jungle
Title: Fury of the Jungle
Character: Molango Villager (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
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Night Flight
Title: Night Flight
Character: Airport Office Employee (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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Broadway to Hollywood
Title: Broadway to Hollywood
Character: Stage Manager
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
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Headline Shooter
Title: Headline Shooter
Character: Riverport Townsman (uncredited)
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
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King of the Arena
Title: King of the Arena
Character: Police Chief
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Glenn Stoner
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Ratkin
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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Tombstone Canyon
Title: Tombstone Canyon
Character: Replaced by Bob Burns (credit only)
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).
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The Mask of Fu Manchu
Title: The Mask of Fu Manchu
Character: Coolie Spy (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1932
Type: Movie
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: The Sheriff (as Edward Peil)
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Movie Crazy
Title: Movie Crazy
Character: Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
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Trapped in Tia Juana
Title: Trapped in Tia Juana
Character: Capt. Davis
Released: August 14, 1932
Type: Movie
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Train Passenger
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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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Frank Warren
Released: April 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
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The Hatchet Man
Title: The Hatchet Man
Character: Bing Foo
Released: February 6, 1932
Type: Movie
When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
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Charlie Chan's Chance
Title: Charlie Chan's Chance
Character: Li Gung
Released: January 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
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The Local Bad Man
Title: The Local Bad Man
Character: Sheriff Hickory (as Edward Peil)
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Man (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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The Gay Buckaroo
Title: The Gay Buckaroo
Character: Hi - Clint's Servant (as Edward Peil)
Released: December 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.
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The Galloping Ghost
Title: The Galloping Ghost
Character: Coach of Baxter Team
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
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Law of the Rio Grande
Title: Law of the Rio Grande
Character: Second Sheriff
Released: August 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in trouble again.
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Wild Horse
Title: Wild Horse
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
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Everything’s Rosie
Title: Everything’s Rosie
Character: 1st Sheriff
Released: May 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
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Clearing the Range
Title: Clearing the Range
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Ike Mason
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Usher
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
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Cock o' the Walk
Title: Cock o' the Walk
Character: Ortega
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
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Cock o' the Walk
Title: Cock o' the Walk
Character: Cafe Manager
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
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Masked Emotions
Title: Masked Emotions
Character: Lee Wing
Released: June 22, 1929
Type: Movie
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Tumbling River
Title: Tumbling River
Character: Roan Tibbets
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Tom heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of cattle rustlers led by popular western villain Wallace McDonald.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: Moola
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent film drama..
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The Great K&A Train Robbery
Title: The Great K&A Train Robbery
Character: Bill Tolfree
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang he enlists the help of the hobo DeLuxe Harry.
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Black Paradise
Title: Black Paradise
Character: Murdock
Released: May 30, 1926
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
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Midnight Faces
Title: Midnight Faces
Character: Suie Chang
Released: March 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
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Yellow Fingers
Title: Yellow Fingers
Character: Kwong Li
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
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The Girl from Montmartre
Title: The Girl from Montmartre
Character: Messenger
Released: January 31, 1926
Type: Movie
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while on furlough during WWI. Convinced that Emilia is of noble birth, Hautrix tracks her down after the war, determined to trace her family tree. In the process, the two mismatched souls fall in love.
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Queen o'Diamonds
Title: Queen o'Diamonds
Character: Crook
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband, LeRoy Phillips, is a diamond thief. The impersonation results in Jerry's becoming innocently involved in a theft ring, and consequently she is suspected of murder. After a series of misadventures, Jerry proves her innocence.
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The Pleasure Buyers
Title: The Pleasure Buyers
Character: Kildare
Released: December 19, 1925
Type: Movie
Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
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The Fighting Heart
Title: The Fighting Heart
Character: Flash Fogarty
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
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The Hunted Woman
Title: The Hunted Woman
Character: Charlie
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The Hunted Woman
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As No Man Has Loved
Title: As No Man Has Loved
Character: Capt. Kearney
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Also known as The Man Without a Country
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$50,000 Reward
Title: $50,000 Reward
Character: Buck Scofield
Released: December 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
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Teeth
Title: Teeth
Character: Sheriff (as Edward Piel)
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Tom Mix western film.
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The Man Who Came Back
Title: The Man Who Came Back
Character: Sam Shu Sin
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Kane (as Edward Peil)
Released: September 9, 1923
Type: Movie
An outlaw named Duane ( Tom Mix ), captured by the Texas Rangers, is promised a pardon if he rounds up a gang of cattle thieves. The man he suspects as the leader is revealed to be the father of Duane's sweetheart, Helen ( Billie Dove ). Duane captures the gang, gets a pardon for Helen's father, and marries Helen.
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Stepping Fast
Title: Stepping Fast
Character: Sun Yat (as Edward Peil)
Released: May 13, 1923
Type: Movie
Mix is Grant Malvern, a rancher who befriends scientist Quentin Durant (Tom S. Guise) after rescuing him from a trio of Chinese crooks. The crooks want to find Durant's Arizona gold mine, and the map to the location is contained in a pair of rings. After the crooks track down Durant and kill him, one of the rings winds up with Durant's daughter, Helen (Adams), and the other falls into Malvern's hands.
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The Purple Dawn
Title: The Purple Dawn
Character: Wong Chang
Released: May 10, 1923
Type: Movie
The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
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Three Jumps Ahead
Title: Three Jumps Ahead
Character: Buck Taggitt (as Edward Piel)
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter of an imperiled rancher. This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the 20-foot Beale's Cut. Truth be told, the star, who frequently did his own stunt work, was forced to use a double this time
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Arabia
Title: Arabia
Character: Ibrahim Bulamar (as Edward Piel)
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which is as much farce as it is Western
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The Song of Life
Title: The Song of Life
Character: Amos Tilden
Released: February 2, 1922
Type: Movie
A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the big city and tries to make amends by moving in with him without revealing her secret identity.
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Dream Street
Title: Dream Street
Character: Swan Way
Released: April 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
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That Girl Montana
Title: That Girl Montana
Character: Lee Holly
Released: January 31, 1921
Type: Movie
Montana Rivers finally escapes her father who had forced her to wear men's clothing and help in robbing and cheating. She is taken in by friendly Indians and stays at their camp. Later, Akkomi, chief of the tribe, asks his friend Dan Overton to take the girl as it is not good for her to remain in the camp. Dan provides for "Tana" and falls in love with her but, because of her past, she keeps him at a distance. Jim Harris comes by and recognizes Tana as the boy robber, but when he attempts to blacken her past, Dan gives him a beating which paralyzes him. Jim then stays on with Dan, who regrets his hastiness. Eventually Tana's father appears and demands that Tana go away with him. She refuses but also does not tell Dan of this trouble.
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The Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: Ramon (as Edward Peil)
Released: January 30, 1921
Type: Movie
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
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Two Moons
Title: Two Moons
Character: Lang Whistler
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A fight breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the upstart sheep men, whose fences were seen as a threat to the freedom of the West.
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Isobel or the Trail's End
Title: Isobel or the Trail's End
Character: Scottie Dean
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
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The Road to Divorce
Title: The Road to Divorce
Character: Dr. Shaw (as Edward Peil)
Released: April 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Mary Bird and Myron Sharpe share an idyllic life in a small New England town until the birth of their children. Myron becomes discontented as Mary's time becomes more devoted to her children than to making herself attractive for her husband. When Mary's old friend Pauline Dallas comes to visit, Myron finds himself attracted to her chic appearance. The two are on the threshold of a love affair when Mary becomes lost in a storm while boating.
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The Lincoln Highwayman
Title: The Lincoln Highwayman
Character: Steele
Released: December 29, 1919
Type: Movie
Marian Calvert becomes infatuated with the infamous Lincoln Highwayman ....
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The Dragon Painter
Title: The Dragon Painter
Character: Kano Indara
Released: September 28, 1919
Type: Movie
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
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The Pagan God
Title: The Pagan God
Character: Wah Kung
Released: August 4, 1919
Type: Movie
Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actually a secret United States government operative sent to quell a Chinese rebellion led by Tai Chen.
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A Sage Brush Hamlet
Title: A Sage Brush Hamlet
Character: Claude Dutton
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is why he is known as a sagebrush Hamlet.
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Prudence on Broadway
Title: Prudence on Broadway
Character: Mr. Wentworth
Released: July 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
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I'll Get Him Yet
Title: I'll Get Him Yet
Character: Robert Hamilton (as Edward Peil)
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.
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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Character: Evil Eye
Released: May 13, 1919
Type: Movie
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
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Peppy Polly
Title: Peppy Polly
Character: Judge Monroe
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the investigation whitewashes the facts.
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Title: The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Character: Turnverein Terror
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
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Boots
Title: Boots
Character: Nicholas Jerome
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot to blow up a government official, she takes it on herself to foil the plot.
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The Greatest Thing in Life
Title: The Greatest Thing in Life
Character: The German Officer
Released: December 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he is soon in love with the little shop girl. Leo is homesick for his native France, but lacks the funds to make the passage. Edward, learning of their plight, sends $1,000 with a note saying that the money is payment for a good deed. Leo accepts the money and he and Jeannette embark at once.
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Borrowed Clothes
Title: Borrowed Clothes
Character: George Weston
Released: November 4, 1918
Type: Movie
A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other plans for her.
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You Can't Believe Everything
Title: You Can't Believe Everything
Character: Jim Wheeler
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries to kiss Patricia , whereupon she leaps from the car and walks home. While Amy, disguised in Patricia 's clothing, accompanies Arthur to a roadhouse, Patricia , walking near the beach, sees her invalid friend, Jim Wheeler, jump into the ocean intending to kill himself. After rescuing him, Patricia persuades Jim to visit a specialist, but when she later is accused of spending the night with Arthur, she refuses to defend herself in order to conceal Jim's attempted suicide.
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The Shuttle
Title: The Shuttle
Character: Ughtred Anstruthers
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Souls in Pawn
Title: Souls in Pawn
Character: Etienne Jaccard
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainable.
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The Serpent's Tooth
Title: The Serpent's Tooth
Character: Jack Stilling
Released: May 28, 1917
Type: Movie
Four lifelong friends share one very special summer. They develop an enduring bond despite their distinctly different emerging personalities.
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Whose Wife?
Title: Whose Wife?
Character: John Herrick (as Edward Peil)
Released: April 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Mary marries Claude, a rich playboy, to please her invalid mother who becomes ill before they leave for a South American honeymoon.
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The Eyes of the World
Title: The Eyes of the World
Character: James Rutledge Jr.
Released: January 27, 1917
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
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The Stronger Love
Title: The Stronger Love
Character: Jim Serviss (as Edward Peil)
Released: August 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Nell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by accident, she meets a stranger who has come to stay with the Rutherfords, they become infatuated.
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The Valiants of Virginia
Title: The Valiants of Virginia
Released: June 26, 1916
Type: Movie
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At Piney Ridge
Title: At Piney Ridge
Character: Mark Brierson
Released: May 1, 1916
Type: Movie
When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
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Unto Those Who Sin
Title: Unto Those Who Sin
Character: Stokes
Released: March 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Nadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his wife's lover, Nadia decides to move in with her flashy girl friend Mabel, who soon introduces her to the fast life.
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The Ragged Earl
Title: The Ragged Earl
Character: Lord Wildbrook (as Edward J. Peil)
Released: October 12, 1914
Type: Movie
The Ragged Earl was produced by Popular Plays and Players, a New York-based firm specializing in five-reel theatrical adaptations. Repeating his stage role, Andrew Mack essays the title character, a brawling Irish boy of a few centuries back. While swashbuckling his way through the Auld Sod, the Ragged Earl meets the aristocratic Kathleen Fitzmorris (Ormi Hawley), who is disguised as a boy to escape an arranged marriage with the wealthy but decrepit Lord Wildbrook (Edward Peil Sr.). Entering into the spirit of things, our hero disguises himself as Wildbrook, escorts Kathleen back home, and marries her himself, right under the noses of her unsuspecting parents.