Harry Todd

Harry Todd

Born: December 12, 1863
Died: February 15, 1935
in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA

Movies for Harry Todd...

Law Beyond the Range
Title: Law Beyond the Range
Character: Judge Avery
Released: February 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
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Prescott Kid
Title: Prescott Kid
Character: Dr. Lemuel Haley
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Cowboy Tim Hamlin arrives in a town plagued by a gang of cattle rustlers.
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One Is Guilty
Title: One Is Guilty
Character: Danny O'Keefe
Released: May 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Flagman at Railroad Crossing (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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Gordon of Ghost City
Title: Gordon of Ghost City
Character: Salesman
Released: August 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying to run her grandfather's gold mine and other outlaws who are trying to stop her.
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Trouble Busters
Title: Trouble Busters
Character: Skinny Cassidy
Released: May 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Leaving town with the Sheriff after him, Tex joins up with the Trouble Busters Skinny and Windy. In Placerville he runs into trouble with Bill Jarvis leading to a mad rush to file on oil rich land.
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Unknown Valley
Title: Unknown Valley
Character: Zeke
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
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The Thrill Hunter
Title: The Thrill Hunter
Character: Station Agent
Released: April 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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Sundown Rider
Title: Sundown Rider
Character: Mulligan
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
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The Wyoming Whirlwind
Title: The Wyoming Whirlwind
Character: Sheriff Joe Flagg
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A mysterious bandit known as "The Wolf" steals the payroll from a country ranch.
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Fighting for Justice
Title: Fighting for Justice
Character: Cookie
Released: August 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Tom Gardner (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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The Fighting Fool
Title: The Fighting Fool
Character: Deputy Hoppy
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A sheriff (Tim McCoy) flirts with a local girl (Marceline Day) and chases an outlaw called the Shadow.
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One Man Law
Title: One Man Law
Character: Deputy Hank
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranchers, Thompson and Judge Cooper look for a legal device to stop him.
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The Deadline
Title: The Deadline
Character: Chloride
Released: December 3, 1931
Type: Movie
On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn off a wanted poster with some handwriting on it.
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Law of the Rio Grande
Title: Law of the Rio Grande
Character: 'Cookie'
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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The Miracle Woman
Title: The Miracle Woman
Character: Briggs (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Ben Stevens
Released: May 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A remake of 1930's "Phantom of the Desert", in which a crooked foreman and the ranch hands are rustling horses, and laying the blame on a wild stallion that roams the surrounding hills.In this one the principals are Jim/Cheyenne(Rex Lease) as the cowhand that comes along and clears the horse,Starlight;the crooked foreman is Clyde Winslow(Harry Woods), while Helen Sutter(Dorothy Gulliver) is the daughter of ranch owner Frank Sutter(Jay Hunt.) This one was remade at least four more times by 1940.
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The Texas Ranger
Title: The Texas Ranger
Character: Lynn Oldring - Clayton Rider
Released: May 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.
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The Sign of the Wolf
Title: The Sign of the Wolf
Character: John Farnum
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Character: Sample
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
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Ten Cents a Dance
Title: Ten Cents a Dance
Character: Mr. Carney
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Under Montana Skies
Title: Under Montana Skies
Character: Abner Jenkins
Released: September 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
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Borrowed Wives
Title: Borrowed Wives
Character: Lawyer Winstead
Released: August 20, 1930
Type: Movie
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
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Sons of the Saddle
Title: Sons of the Saddle
Character: 'Pop' Higgins
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the rancher's daughter, though he is unaware that Harvey, a youthful cowhand, also loves her. Thus, Jim asks the boy, whom he protects like a brother, to speak for him. When he is spurned by Ronnie, Harvey decides to join Red Slade's gang, who are plotting a raid on the Wind River herd. As Jim forcibly attempts to separate him from the gang, Harvey is killed; and through the aid of his horse, Tarzan, Jim foils Slade's attempt to stampede the herd. Slade takes refuge in a wagon where Ronnie is hiding; Jim rescues Ronnie from the wagon just before the runaway team plunges over a cliff with Slade riding to his doom.
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The Fighting Legion
Title: The Fighting Legion
Character: 'Dad' Williams
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as an imposter. Dave is then in trouble when Edwards incites the mob to lynch him.
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Lucky Larkin
Title: Lucky Larkin
Character: Bill Parkinson
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Colonel Lee, a homesteader, is the object of terrorists who want to drive him off the range so that his horses cannot be entered in the county races, and he refuses an offer of Martin Brierson to buy him out. Pete, Brierson's brother, in hiding because of his criminal record, burns the colonel's barn and injures his horses. Convinced of Brierson's responsibility for the terror tactics, "Lucky" Larkin plans to ride Tarzan, the colonel's pet colt. Brierson does his best to disqualify the horse, but Larkin tricks him and wins the race. Larkin captures Pete and forces him to confess. The Brierson brothers are brought to justice, and Larkin wins Emmy Lou, a homesteader's daughter.
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Courtin' Wildcats
Title: Courtin' Wildcats
Character: McKenzie
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 King of the Kongo
Title: The King of the Kongo
Character: Commodore
Released: August 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
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One Stolen Night
Title: One Stolen Night
Character: Blazer
Released: March 15, 1929
Type: Movie
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
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King of the Rodeo
Title: King of the Rodeo
Character: J.G.
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago.
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The River Woman
Title: The River Woman
Character: The Scrub
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A drama of the underworld of the old Mississippi River
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The Pace That Kills
Title: The Pace That Kills
Character: Uncle Caleb
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.
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The Flyin' Cowboy
Title: The Flyin' Cowboy
Character: Tom Gordon
Released: May 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Rodeo king Bill Hammon invites the owner of a Wild West show to give an exhibition at the ranch. A pair of jewel thieves uses the event to "ply their trade", prompting the show's owner, a radio champion, to go after them.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Bert
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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The Rawhide Kid
Title: The Rawhide Kid
Character: Comic
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Good cowboy vs. bad cowboy in this romantic adventure.
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The Bugle Call
Title: The Bugle Call
Character: Cpl. Jansen
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
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The Ridin' Rowdy
Title: The Ridin' Rowdy
Character: Deefy
Released: April 24, 1927
Type: Movie
Buffalo is banished to the wilderness after playing a nasty practical joke on his rancher father. During his exile, Billy meets and falls in love with pretty Patricia Farris, who sadly rejects him when he tries to steal a kiss.
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A One Man Game
Title: A One Man Game
Character: Sam Baker
Released: January 30, 1927
Type: Movie
The efforts of crooked rancher Stephen Laban to force his local bank into an unsecured loan are foiled by Fred Hunter and Jake Robbins, and Laban vows vengeance on the pair; but he is temporarily thwarted by the arrival from the East of society girl Millicent Delacey. Knowing her weakness for social prestige, Hunter arranges to masquerade as the Duke of Black Butte, a visiting nobleman on a hunting expedition; Millicent and her social-climbing mother completely succumb to the duke's charm.
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The Third Degree
Title: The Third Degree
Character: Mr. Chubb
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
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The Buckaroo Kid
Title: The Buckaroo Kid
Character: Tom Darby
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Mulford sends Ed Harley to manage Radigan's rundown ranch. He makes a success of it but when called to return, he asks Radigan for a loan. Radigan says he can have the loan but not his daughter, but Ed wants both.
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The Runaway Express
Title: The Runaway Express
Character: Dad Hamilton
Released: October 10, 1926
Type: Movie
Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the engine when his engineer refuses to continue until he has observed union rest rules.
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The Flaming Frontier
Title: The Flaming Frontier
Character: California Joe
Released: September 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
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Chip of the Flying U
Title: Chip of the Flying U
Character: Weary
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
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Under Western Skies
Title: Under Western Skies
Character: Payne
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter of an Oregon rancher. Bob goes to work as a fieldhand for the elder Parkhurst and discovers that the Oregon crops may fail because eastern bankers, led by Bob's father, refuse to advance the farmers credit. Bob intercedes with his father, who promises to help the ranchers if Bob wins the steeplechase in the Pendleton rodeo.
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Lorraine of the Lions
Title: Lorraine of the Lions
Character: Colby
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.
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The Outlaw's Daughter
Title: The Outlaw's Daughter
Character: Bookkeeper
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.
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Loaded Dice
Title: Loaded Dice
Character: Rancher Bole
Released: March 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Loaded Dice is a 1925 Silent Western
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The Hurricane Kid
Title: The Hurricane Kid
Character: Hezekiah Potts
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
The Hurricane Kid runs afoul of Colonel Langdon's ranch foreman, Lafe Baxter when Joan Langdon shows an obvious preference for The Kid, and The Kid responds by protecting Joan from Baxter.
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Thundering Romance
Title: Thundering Romance
Character: Davey Jones
Released: December 15, 1924
Type: Movie
A cowboy sets out to help a pretty young girl who is about to lose her ranch when crooks plan to foreclose on it because she doesn't have enough money to make her mortgage payment. He puts together a cattle drive in order to sell the herd to raise the money to pay off the note, but when the crooks hear about this, they make plans to stampede the herd along the way.
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The Sawdust Trail
Title: The Sawdust Trail
Character: Quid Jackson
Released: August 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show where he clashes with the leading lady, "Calamity" Jane, a man-hater.
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Ride for Your Life
Title: Ride for Your Life
Character: 'Plug' Hanks
Released: February 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Bud Watkins loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade. The Cocopah Kid, a notorious bandit, lures away Betsy Burke, Bud's sweetheart and the daughter of the local sheriff.
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Treasure Canyon
Title: Treasure Canyon
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
After discovering a rich silver deposit, Luke Hughes draws a map to his mine and plans on recording the claim. During his journey to the registrar's office, however, Luke is set upon by a bandit who steals the map.
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Three Jumps Ahead
Title: Three Jumps Ahead
Character: Lige McLean
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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What a Wife Learned
Title: What a Wife Learned
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
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Bells of San Juan
Title: Bells of San Juan
Character: John Engel
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
Rod Norton is a lawman searching for his father's killer. Norton suspects saloon owner Jim Garson but is lacking evidence. Garson's henchmen, the Rickard brothers, kidnap Norton's sweetheart Dorothy, hoping to lure the sheriff into a trap.
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According to Hoyle
Title: According to Hoyle
Character: Jim Riggs
Released: May 6, 1922
Type: Movie
"'Boxcar' Simmons, a tramp, represents himself as a mining millionaire in a small town. The population accepts him at his own valuation, and two of the town's 'slickers' make desperate efforts to 'take him for his roll.' One of their schemes is to sell him a worthless ranch, but he turns the tables on them by making them believe that the ranch is a veritable bed of silver ore, and then, after they buy it, he presents the major part of the proceeds to the girl who owns the place and with whom he had fallen in love." (Moving Picture World, 24 Jun 1922, p. 736.)
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The Sky Pilot
Title: The Sky Pilot
Character: The Old Timer
Released: April 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Arthur Moore, a missionary preacher, attempts to fit into the cowboy community so he can set up a church in the local saloon. Gwen, daughter of the "Old Timer," is injured in a stampede and loses her ability to walk. Though rejected by the townsfolk, the preacher's wisdom and love are needed if the young girl is to be healed. Shot in 'Vidor Village', Vidor's ill-fated studio property in California's High Sierra.
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Patsy
Title: Patsy
Character: Tramp
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
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Fickle Women
Title: Fickle Women
Released: August 9, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Jack-Knife Man
Title: The Jack-Knife Man
Character: Booge
Released: July 31, 1920
Type: Movie
A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
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A Twilight Baby
Title: A Twilight Baby
Released: January 24, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Face in the Watch
Title: The Face in the Watch
Released: October 15, 1919
Type: Movie
The Face in the Watch is a 1919 silent Western.
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A Taste of Life
Title: A Taste of Life
Released: March 2, 1919
Type: Movie
When her husband, struggling lawyer Horace Dillingham, is unable to provide adequate money for her insatiable desire for expensive cherries, Kitty Dillingham goes to work as a stenographer for him. One day while Horace is out of the office, Kitty mistakes Jonas Collamore, a defendant in a divorce suit for whom Horace is acting, for an important client. Kitty agrees to lunch, and, swallowing many maraschino cherries along with their cocktails, becomes drunk. Jonas takes her to a nearby inn where they are followed by Mrs. Collamore's detectives, who then summon Mrs. Collamore and her lawyer Horace.
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Shootin' Mad
Title: Shootin' Mad
Released: October 20, 1918
Type: Movie
A settler and his daughter are trying to homestead a plot of land. They are tricked out of the land by a crooked saloon owner, who then shoots the father and makes a play for the daughter. A local cowboy comes to her rescue.
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His Busy Day
Title: His Busy Day
Released: April 28, 1918
Type: Movie
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
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Humanity
Title: Humanity
Released: May 19, 1917
Type: Movie
A cowboy travels East to settle an old score. He finds the man he's been looking for, but his beautiful daughter pleads for her father's life.
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Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Title: Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley
Released: April 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town. He later winds up in a boxing match which again brings the law on his tail.
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Skinny Gets a Goat
Title: Skinny Gets a Goat
Character: The Love Rival
Released: March 25, 1917
Type: Movie
A courtship results in animals running away and being kidnapped by a tramp on a train. Don't worry, fat Skinny is coming to the rescue!
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Luke, Rank Impersonator
Title: Luke, Rank Impersonator
Released: December 10, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke crashes a society affair, thereby livening things up.
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Luke's Movie Muddle
Title: Luke's Movie Muddle
Released: December 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.
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Luke's Newsie Knockout
Title: Luke's Newsie Knockout
Released: November 26, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke's Newsie Knockout is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Luke, Patient Provider
Title: Luke, Patient Provider
Released: November 19, 1916
Type: Movie
When a doctor is forced, because of a lack of patients, to dismiss his pretty nurse, Luke comes to the rescue and uses his flivver to supply a ready supply of accident cases.
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Luke, the Gladiator
Title: Luke, the Gladiator
Released: November 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke, the Gladiator is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Luke's Preparedness Preparations
Title: Luke's Preparedness Preparations
Released: November 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke's Preparedness Preparations is a 1916 short comedy film starring Harold Lloyd.
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Luke, the Chauffeur
Title: Luke, the Chauffeur
Released: October 29, 1916
Type: Movie
A fortune hunter marries a widow, believing her to be an heiress, but she isn't.
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Luke and the Bang-Tails
Title: Luke and the Bang-Tails
Released: October 15, 1916
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke at the Tijuana Races.
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Luke's Speedy Club Life
Title: Luke's Speedy Club Life
Released: October 1, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.
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Luke and the Mermaids
Title: Luke and the Mermaids
Released: September 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke asleep in the briny deep.
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Luke Joins the Navy
Title: Luke Joins the Navy
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The beginning of the film you find Harold Lloyd playing his "Lonesome Luke" character. Out of the blue, Lloyd decides he's going to join the navy and you really wonder if part of the film leading to it is missing. After all, the decision seemed to come from no where and why Snub Pollard would also join is unclear. And, oddly, they seem to skip all training and are stationed on a navy ship. Soon Pollard's wife comes to the boat looking for him and she's put off the boat as the movie ends very, very anticlimactically.
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Luke Does the Midway
Title: Luke Does the Midway
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Lonesome Luke at the San Diego Exposition.
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Luke's Lost Lamb
Title: Luke's Lost Lamb
Released: August 7, 1916
Type: Movie
A day at the seaside chasing a lost child.
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Luke's Fatal Flivver
Title: Luke's Fatal Flivver
Released: June 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke and friends are crowded into his two-seater, out for a ride in the country. Hayhem ensues when his party of fifteen encounters some 'fashionable folk.'
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Luke Laughs Last
Title: Luke Laughs Last
Released: June 5, 1916
Type: Movie
Unhappy in his job as a butler (although he likes wearing a dress suit), Luke gets involved with burglars and the law.
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Luke's Late Lunchers
Title: Luke's Late Lunchers
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Luke runs a beanery, in which the bad service, terrible food and filthy conditions lead to hi-jinx.
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The Man in Him
Title: The Man in Him
Released: February 8, 1916
Type: Movie
John Stone becomes engaged to Margaret Houston much to the disapproval of Harry Gardner, his rival. Determined to ruin Stone in the eyes of society, one night at a party Gardner steals a pearl necklace and a diamond bar-pin. He hides the necklace in his own clothes but places the bar-pin in Stone's pocket when he is not looking.
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A Christmas Revenge
Title: A Christmas Revenge
Character: Deacon
Released: December 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy becomes enraged when a stranger comes to town and wins the affections of his sweetheart. On the night of the wedding Broncho Billy "shoots up" the church, wounding the bridegroom. He then escapes across the border, after leaving a note to his rival telling him he will finish the job on Christmas night.
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Broncho Billy's Love Affair
Title: Broncho Billy's Love Affair
Released: November 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy becomes engaged. A month later the engagement is broken when the girl's father comes into a fortune. She moves to the city with her parents, where she lives surrounded by luxury.
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Wine, Women and Song
Title: Wine, Women and Song
Released: November 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack Dobbs starts to gamble and dissipate when he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle. In a few years he has squandered the entire fortune and is heavily in debt to the proprietor of a gambling club. He appeals to all his friends who welcomed him while he had money, but finds they do not know him when he is penniless. Finally, in desperation he forges a check to pay his gambling debts. He is caught and sent to prison for fifteen years. At the end of his term he leaves the prison an old and broken man.
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Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother
Title: Broncho Billy's Cowardly Brother
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 29, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and his brother are both in love with the same girl, but she decides to marry Broncho's brother. One Sunday morning an outlaw creates a panic in the church by "shooting up" the place. The sheriff, who is the girl's father, is shot when he attempts to arrest the outlaw. Broncho's brother is offered the sheriff's star, but is afraid to take it.
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Broncho Billy Evens Matters
Title: Broncho Billy Evens Matters
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 22, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1915 Silent Western
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Broncho Billy's Parents
Title: Broncho Billy's Parents
Character: Billy's Father
Released: October 15, 1915
Type: Movie
A 1915 western with Broncho Billy
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The Convict's Threat
Title: The Convict's Threat
Character: The Warden
Released: September 28, 1915
Type: Movie
The convict's cellmate, his time up, calls on the former's wife with a letter of introduction from the convict, and threatens to tell who her husband is unless she gives him money which she has earned by hard work as a stenographer and seamstress. The convict saves the warden's little daughter from drowning and is pardoned for his brave deed. Meanwhile his released cellmate forces the convict's wife again and again to give him money, and calling at her home one night, attempts to kiss her, but she repels him with a revolver. The pardoned convict arrives just in time to hear what passes and almost chokes his former cellmate to death.
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An Unexpected Romance
Title: An Unexpected Romance
Character: The Old Settler
Released: September 24, 1915
Type: Movie
An old settler, with a beautiful daughter, received notice from a real estate agent that the mortgage on his property is due, but he is unable to pay. His daughter goes to the agent's office to ask for more time and the agent, smitten with her beauty, forces his attentions on her. She rejects him and he threatens to evict father and daughter. The owner advises the agent to foreclose if the settler refuses to pay, but to give him plenty of time if he is unable to. The agent, however, wires that the settler refuses to pay and proceeds to evict the pair. Meanwhile, the owner is advised by his physician to go to the country for his health.
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Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp
Title: Broncho Billy and the Card Sharp
Character: The Rancher
Released: September 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, in a quarrel with Faro Dan, a card sharp, shoots him and flees. Pursued, he hides in the wagon of a man whom he meets on the prairie. The posse is misled by Broncho Billy's friend and the fugitive escapes. Several years later Broncho is made sheriff of an adjoining county.
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Broncho Billy and the Lumber King
Title: Broncho Billy and the Lumber King
Released: September 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Tired out, a ranger happens upon a cabin in the woods to ask for rest. He is met at the door by a pretty girl, and it is a case of love at first sight. The girl's father, leader of the lumber thieves, returns to find her before a small mirror arranging her hair, and upbraids her for her vanity. The ranger hears and, as the father is about to strike the girl, rushes out and hurls the man from her. When the ranger departs, the leader of the thieves follows with a rifle, and catching the ranger unawares, forces him to go to the thieves' rendezvous. The girl, who has seen, rushes to call the sheriff. Meanwhile the thieves draw lots to see who shall kill the ranger. It falls to the chief, who is about to shoot the ranger when the sheriff and his aides rush up and arrest the thieves.
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Versus Sledge Hammers
Title: Versus Sledge Hammers
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: September 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A count shows up in Snakeville to deliver a letter telling matronly Margaret Joslin that she has inherited a lot of money, so of course he wants to romance and marry her.
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Broncho Billy's Marriage
Title: Broncho Billy's Marriage
Released: August 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, while in a dance hall, goes to the assistance of the girl who is playing the piano, when a patron tries to force her to drink. As a result, the girl loses her position. A few days later Broncho Billy finds her wandering about the streets. She tells him the sad story of her life, and how through her innocence, she was led into a shameless life. Broncho Billy falls deeply in love with her, and shortly after asks her to become his wife.
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Broncho Billy Steps In
Title: Broncho Billy Steps In
Released: August 13, 1915
Type: Movie
Because he believes in education, a ranch owner hires a school teacher from the east and opens a school for his cowboys. The teacher is admired by all of the cowboys, and by one in particular, an outlaw, who frightens all the pupils one morning by writing "school" with bullet holes on the blackboard. Broncho Billy steps in and sends him over the county line.
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Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber
Title: Broncho Billy and the Land Grabber
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho works for a despicable land grabber who treats his help like a brute. The men finally plot to lynch the land grabber. Broncho races on his horse ahead of them and tells him of the plot.
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Broncho Billy's Word of Honor
Title: Broncho Billy's Word of Honor
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and his pals hold up a stagecoach. In rifling the mail bag, Broncho discovers a letter from his mother in which she begs him to come back home, as she is dying. Before he can comply, he and his band are captured. He is placed in charge of a young man, who hopes to get enough money from the reward for the capture of the bandits to marry his sweetheart.
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His Regeneration
Title: His Regeneration
Released: May 7, 1915
Type: Movie
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room.
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His Wife's Secret
Title: His Wife's Secret
Released: April 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A burglar enters a darkened house to rob. A young wife, home alone, phones her husband at the club, begging him to come home. He returns stinking drunk and the decent-hearted burglar must intervene.
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Andy of the Royal Mounted
Title: Andy of the Royal Mounted
Character: The Captain
Released: April 10, 1915
Type: Movie
Andy of the Royal Mounted and another trooper are both in love with a little school teacher, who shows the light of knowledge to the children of the settlers in a tiny Canadian hamlet. The school teacher favors Andy's suit and the other trooper is correspondingly despondent. He loses gracefully because Andy is his best friend, but his trouble preys on him. He goes into a saloon, gets drunk and is caught by his colonel and discharged from the service. Later, he shoots a gambler in a brawl and while making his getaway, rescues the school teacher from death when her horse runs away.
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Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
Title: Broncho Billy and the Vigilante
Character: A Cattle Owner
Released: February 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The cattle owners have formed a lynching party and are in pursuit of a rustler who has been ravaging the country. Broncho Billy, the sheriff, goes after him and captures him single handed. He takes the prisoner to a hotel for the night, and while in the barroom the lynching party comes along. They leave their shotguns outside and step in for a drink.
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Broncho Billy's Sentence
Title: Broncho Billy's Sentence
Released: February 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Billy commits a robbery but a preacher inspires him to have a change of heart.
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Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
Title: Slim the Brave and Sophie the Fair
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: February 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Slim calls on Sophie, but has no more than gotten comfortably settled when Mustang arrives and is given all the attention. Very shortly Hiram, Sophie's father, comes downstairs and kicks Mustang out. Mustang returns with a note telling Sophie to meet him next day when the stage coach arrives and they will run away.
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Sophie's Home-Coming
Title: Sophie's Home-Coming
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: February 4, 1915
Type: Movie
Slim receives a note from Sophie telling him that she will arrive on the five o'clock stagecoach the next morning, and for him to set his alarm clock so he will be sure to meet her. Mustang reads the note, and after Slim has gone to bed, substitutes another clock in Slim's room.
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When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
Title: When Slippery Slim Bought the Cheese
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim purchases a large piece of Limburger cheese. On the way home he stops to chat with Sophie, but Hiram, her father, chases him off the premises.
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Sentimental Sophie
Title: Sentimental Sophie
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 21, 1915
Type: Movie
Slim and Mustang are rivals for the affections of Sophie, the cook at the O.K. Hotel.
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When Love and Honor Called
Title: When Love and Honor Called
Character: The Deputy
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy is sent on a secret mission to a small Arizona town. There he meets a beautiful girl, Elizabeth Barton, who is betrothed to a handsome daredevil, Juan Martin, of the Bar-O Ranch. Broncho is given a job by the foreman, George Chisholm. At a dance Martin and another cow-puncher quarrel. Martin draws his gun but Broncho Billy interferes. Martin is enraged and attempts to shoot Broncho. He takes the gun from him, takes the cartridges out and hands it back. Martin plots with the cook and other members of the outfit to poison the coffee of the foreman and steal the cattle. He hopes to throw the blame for the murder and theft on Broncho Billy.
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When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
Title: When Slippery Slim Went for the Eggs
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 14, 1915
Type: Movie
When eggs went up to $6 a dozen, Slim and Sophie try in every way to make their hen lay, but with no success. Mustang sees their efforts and decides to play a joke. One morning Slim receives a letter telling him that giving hens hot water to drink and putting salt on their tails will make them lay.
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The Battle of Snakeville
Title: The Battle of Snakeville
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 7, 1915
Type: Movie
The proprietor of the O.K. hotel is advertising for a "lady" cook. Meanwhile, a Chinaman is stealing all his trade. Sophie arrives in Snakeville and applies for the position. The proprietor engages her without a moment's hesitation.
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Snakeville's Rising Sons
Title: Snakeville's Rising Sons
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 31, 1914
Type: Movie
Mustang and Slim are on very friendly terms. The same may be said of their wives, and when Slim's wife warns him that it is Friday the 13th and beware of friendship, he scorns her.
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Slippery Slim Gets Square
Title: Slippery Slim Gets Square
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Pete decides to steal Slim's clothes, when he chooses to bathe in the creek before going to a dance with Sophie.
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Snakeville's Blind Pig
Title: Snakeville's Blind Pig
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 17, 1914
Type: Movie
Snakeville's men are forced to stay home and do the housework when the women decide to take over the town.
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Sophie's Sweetheart
Title: Sophie's Sweetheart
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete are suitors for the hand of Sophie Clutts, but she cares nothing for either of them.
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Sophie's Fatal Wedding
Title: Sophie's Fatal Wedding
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 3, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim receives an invitation to attend the wedding of Sophie and Mustang Pete. He is brokenhearted, and when he goes to Sophie's home to plead with her he is locked out. He leaves a note telling her that he is going to shoot himself, but he loses his nerve.
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Broncho Billy's Double Escape
Title: Broncho Billy's Double Escape
Character: The Second Sheriff
Released: November 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, an outlaw, while being pursued by the sheriff of Bear County, crosses the line into Gulch County. Later he is captured by the Gulch County authorities, who wire to the neighboring sheriff's office to send a man to bring the prisoner back. A deputy sheriff is sent and that night they stop at a small hotel. Broncho and the deputy become quite friendly and Broncho induces him to remove his handcuffs. While Broncho Billy sleeps the deputy steals downstairs and enters a card game. He loses heavily. He returns to the room and tells Broncho of his loss. They then both turn in for the night. While the deputy sleeps, Broncho slips his gun from his pocket, goes downstairs and holds up the gamblers. Without waking his guardian, he places the loot on the table, then writes a note, telling the deputy that he has gone to the boundary and will be waiting for him there.
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Snakeville's Reform Wave
Title: Snakeville's Reform Wave
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: November 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim and his wife, Sophie, drive to town. While Sophie does her shopping Slim sneaks over to the saloon to get a few drinks. Here he meets Mustang, so the two drink together. Slim has promised his wife that he will not take a drink as long as he wears a certain ring on his finger, so takes off the ring before each drink.
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The Tell-Tale Hand
Title: The Tell-Tale Hand
Character: The Judge
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Tim Cantle, an evil-looking fellow, is drinking at a bar. The saloonkeeper's daughter enters, and Tim, slightly tipsy, tries to kiss her. She struggles to escape him. Broncho Billy enters and draws his gun. Tim flees. Tim gets his horse and rides away. As he approaches a house on a hill nearby, he sees Annie Fargo run out of her home, her father cursing her. Tim seizes and kisses her. She strikes him in the face and screams. Her father then comes out and drives Tim away. He sends Annie back into the house, following her with his gun. Tim swears vengeance.
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A Horse on Sophie
Title: A Horse on Sophie
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: November 19, 1914
Type: Movie
Sophie writes a note to her aunt telling her that she is undecided whether she will marry Slippery Slim or Mustang Pete, but says she will accept the one who buys the best-looking horse.
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Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
Title: Sophie and the Man of Her Choice
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: November 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim and Sophie are deeply in love. Slim incurs the enmity of Hiram Clutts, Sophie's father, and Mustang Pete. They swear vengeance. Mustang writes a note to Slim, signing Sophie's name, asking him to meet her in a cemetery. Slim finds a band of men waiting clad in sheets. He flees and asks Sophie to save him.
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Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
Title: Slippery Slim and the Impersonator
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: November 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim, crossed in love, plots revenge with help from an unexpected quarter.
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Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
Title: Snakeville and the Corset Demonstrator
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Sophie, who boasts the most perfect figure in the world, attracts the attention of every man in town when she arrives in Snakeville to demonstrate corsets.
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Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
Title: Slippery Slim, The Mortgage and Sophie
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim, the Justice of the Peace, serves a notice on Hiram Clutts, threatening to foreclose his mortgage unless Sophie marries him the next day. Hiram agrees that Sophie shall marry him as he demands. Sophie tells Mustang of this and they plan to elope that night. Mustang calls for her in his buggy, but they fail to make their escape unnoticed by Hiram. He chases them with a shotgun, but is unable to catch them before they reach Slim's office. They disguise themselves and Slim, not knowing who they are, performs the marriage ceremony.
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Snakeville's Peace-Maker
Title: Snakeville's Peace-Maker
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Mustang Pete receives a letter from his daughter, Sophie, who is away at boarding school, asking permission to bring some girls home with her to spend their vacation. Mustang flatly refuses. That afternoon he and Slippery Slim have a fight over a checker game, and to get "square" Slim advertises the fact that he will pay his ranch hands double the salary that Mustang will pay. As a result Slim gets all of Mustang's helpers. Mustang then writes to Sophie and tells her to bring home the girls if she cares to. The girls arrive the following day and Mustang has an abundance of help, all of Slim's helpers deserting him.
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When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
Title: When Slippery Slim Met the Champion
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Slim is elected to try to last three rounds against the world's champion boxer in order to win $100.
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Slippery Slim Gets Cured
Title: Slippery Slim Gets Cured
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Sophie tries curing Slim's drinking problem by forcing him to drink ammonia, but it doesn't work.
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Broncho Billy's Wild Ride
Title: Broncho Billy's Wild Ride
Released: August 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, an outlaw, is captured but eludes his captors, and while making his getaway, runs upon the county judge's daughter, who is helplessly trying to stop her runaway horse. He makes a thrilling rescue while going at top speed on horseback, but is captured by the posse and taken back to town.
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Broncho Billy Wins Out
Title: Broncho Billy Wins Out
Character: The Hotelkeeper
Released: August 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and the coward are both in love with the school teacher at Snakeville. Broncho is accepted, and the coward, mad with jealousy, induces the unsuspecting rival to carry through a mock hold-up. When Broncho Billy appears as a highwayman, the school teacher shoots at him. The coward has left the crowd and fires at Broncho.
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Snakeville's New Waitress
Title: Snakeville's New Waitress
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: July 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Attendance rises at the Snakeville Hotel Restaurant when Sophie is hired as a waitress.
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Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
Title: Slippery Slim -- Diplomat
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: July 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim uses his position as postmaster in order to hold back all the invitations to Sophie's birthday party, except, of course, his own and that of the parson.
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Sophie Gets Stung
Title: Sophie Gets Stung
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: July 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Five of Snakeville's leading citizens are all determined to marry Sophie.
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Sophie Finds a Hero
Title: Sophie Finds a Hero
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: June 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete get into a duel over Sophie.
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Broncho Billy, Outlaw
Title: Broncho Billy, Outlaw
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Carnos, a greaser, is sent to jail. He is a very refractory prisoner and swears to get even with the sheriff when he is liberated. On the day of the greaser's release, the sheriff had captured Broncho Billy, an outlaw, and was bringing him to justice, when he is suddenly pushed from his horse by the outlaw, and is left to wend his way across the plains afoot. Broncho Billy escapes on the sheriff's horse and unknowingly stops at the sheriff's home for food. Looking through a window he sees the greaser about to take the life of the sheriff's wife.
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The Wooing of Sophie
Title: The Wooing of Sophie
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: June 18, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim secures a marriage license in the hope of marrying Sophie.
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Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
Title: Broncho Billy and the Mine Shark
Released: June 13, 1914
Type: Movie
William Young and his daughter, Mildred, settle in the west, with the intention of investing their money in a mine. True Boardman, a mine shark, knowing that Young will be easy money, salts the mine and sells it to them.
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The Snakeville Volunteer
Title: The Snakeville Volunteer
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: June 11, 1914
Type: Movie
Slippery Slim and Mustang Pete decide to join the Army.
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Sophie Pulls a Good One
Title: Sophie Pulls a Good One
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: June 4, 1914
Type: Movie
Sophie, a dentist, recognizes a patient as the bandit who previously robbed her during a stagecoach holdup.
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Sophie Starts Something
Title: Sophie Starts Something
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: May 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Sophie leads members of the local Women's Temperance League to the local saloon with a plan for destruction.
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Red Riding Hood of the Hills
Title: Red Riding Hood of the Hills
Character: Sherrif
Released: May 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Marguerite becomes weary as the hours and the Overland Limited roll on. Her trip from New York to the far west was a tedious one, and it is with a sigh of relief that she steps from the observation platform to pluck some flowers. The train had stopped for water. Marguerite wanders into the woods and when she returns, discovers that the train had pulled off. She is alone in a new country, without friends or funds.
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Broncho Billy's Sermon
Title: Broncho Billy's Sermon
Character: The Bartender
Released: May 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy is a typical bad man. The story opens with him shooting up a small town in the west, and scaring the inhabitants nearly to death. The sheriff with his deputies order him out of the country. Sunday morning, the congregation is in church singing. Boardman, another bad man, and his protégés, break up the meeting. The preacher is ousted.
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Broncho Billy's Close Call
Title: Broncho Billy's Close Call
Released: May 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, an express messenger, saved the life of Geraldine Burke, a school teacher. They learned to love each other and later married. One day, the village gossip informed some of the cowpunchers about town that Geraldine was entertaining a gentleman in her home. Broncho Billy was soon given the news and determined to settle with the critter immediately
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Pie for Sophie
Title: Pie for Sophie
Character: Jabberwat
Released: April 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Two German musicians discover the citizens of Snakeville do not appreciate their music.
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Broncho Billy -- Gun-Man
Title: Broncho Billy -- Gun-Man
Character: Harry Rawlins
Released: April 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Jack Holmes, a squatter, and his daughter, Margaret, settle on land owned by Harry Rawlins. Broncho Billy, gunman, is engaged by Rawlins to eject the squatter or put him out of the way. Broncho is wounded by a half-breed and Margaret nurses him back to health. The gunman then refuses to turn Holmes out.
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Broncho Billy's Cunning
Title: Broncho Billy's Cunning
Character: The Detective
Released: March 30, 1914
Type: Movie
A detective from the east is sent west to locate a notorious bandit and train robber. In the costume of a western cowpuncher he reaches a small town. He is injured by falling over a precipice. Broncho Billy finds him, carries him to his cabin and nurses him back to health. It is then that Broncho discovers that the detective is looking for him
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A Gamblers' Way
Title: A Gamblers' Way
Released: February 5, 1914
Type: Movie
Jim Kane, a gambler, prevails upon Grace Carew to marry him. Grace is undecided whom she loves the best, John Hunter, a ranchman, or Kane, but finally decides to marry Kane. Some time later, we see Kane abusing his wife, neglecting her and always in a state of intoxication. Hunter has always been a friend of the family and it was nothing unusual to see him in their home, but Kane, entering the house one evening under the influence of liquor, misinterprets the meaning of Hunter's presence there, and upbraids his wife, slapping her in the face. Hunter is furious, but controls himself.
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Broncho Billy and the Red Man
Title: Broncho Billy and the Red Man
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy saves an Indian from starvation. The Indian's intelligence is soon discovered by Broncho, who determines to make the red man a partner in his prospecting camp. An accident renders the prospector unconscious and the Indian hastens to the village for a doctor. The physician discovers that Broncho Billy's marred face is filled with dirt and gold. He tries to bribe the Indian. "Where did the explosion occur? See, Buck, I'm going to give you this money, tell me?" But the Indian is loyal.
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Broncho Billy and the Settler's Daughter
Title: Broncho Billy and the Settler's Daughter
Character: Harry Todd - the Settler
Released: January 31, 1914
Type: Movie
Old Harry Todd and his daughter, Marguerite, are in the west prospecting for gold. They meet Broncho Billy, who takes dinner with them and later continues on his way. As he is riding across the plains thinking of Marguerite, he happens to see an Indian at the top of a hill, looking down upon the prospector and his daughter. Broncho Billy warns Todd and his daughter.
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Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
Title: Broncho Billy and the Bad Man
Character: The Sheriff
Released: January 24, 1914
Type: Movie
To err is human, but in the end, goodness of heart will prevail and the one who has committed an offense against man-made laws may come out of the mire and develop into a law abiding and god-fearing citizen. Broncho Billy, from being one of the most desperate characters in the west, is reformed through the kind treatment accorded him at the hands of the sheriff and his wife, and is made deputy.
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The Story of the Old Gun
Title: The Story of the Old Gun
Character: John Purcell - Sheriff, Yuba County
Released: January 15, 1914
Type: Movie
Raymond Beahan, a young chap from the city, pays a visit to his uncle, John Purcell, the sheriff. The day after he arrives, he dresses up in his uncle's hat, cartridge belt, chaps, etc., and is about to take an old gun from the wall to put in his belt when his uncle asks him not to take the gun, as he prizes it very highly. He then tells the boy the story of how the gun came into his possession. The story is so vivid to the boy, that when his uncle leaves him to round up some bandits, and he is left alone in the cabin, he falls asleep and dreams the same story his uncle has just related to him, only HE is the hero.
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Snakeville's New Doctor
Title: Snakeville's New Doctor
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 10, 1914
Type: Movie
In these days of women's equal rights, it is not strange to find the fair sex taking the places of men in every occupation. Women physicians are not unusual, but a really beautiful one is, and would have her hands full taking care of every lovesick swain, who would develop every known disease to have the pleasure of letting her feel his pulse or hold his head.
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A Snakeville Courtship
Title: A Snakeville Courtship
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Jeremiah Green receives a letter from his niece, stating that she is coming west, and is in the market for a husband. The news scatters fast throughout the western town, and when the fair Sophie arrives, her callers are numerous. One look at the three-hundred-pound debutante is enough to convince the men that they are not eligible for the marriage certificate, especially if Sophie is to be the bride.
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That Pair from Thespia
Title: That Pair from Thespia
Released: December 25, 1913
Type: Movie
Shakespeare the Second and Dan Rice the Third, would-be ham actors, blow into the town of Barnstorm. That afternoon they give a "free" performance, which is indeed terrible. Dan Rice passes the hat, only to receive cat-calls for his trouble. The hotel proprietor orders them to pay their bill and leave town.
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Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed
Title: Broncho Billy's Christmas Deed
Character: The Poor Husband
Released: December 20, 1913
Type: Movie
A poor man, the father of a young child, wants his offspring to have a Christmas such as every child is deserving of. He is penniless. For the love of his child he commits burglary.
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Sophie's New Foreman
Title: Sophie's New Foreman
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: December 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike, a cowpuncher, is given his walking papers for neglect of duty. He has little trouble, however, in securing a position on Sophie Clutts' ranch. His trial is a hard and tedious one, the gladiatoress standing over him with a powerful six-shooter, and every time he drops his work, a bullet from the aforementioned piece of artillery hastily reminds him of his necessary toil.
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The Three Gamblers
Title: The Three Gamblers
Released: December 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Herbert Corrington, a would-be gambler and agent for an express company, not satisfied with the necessities of life, tries his luck at roulette, appropriating the express company's money. Robert, the son, is fast traveling in the footsteps of his father. The Sheriff in the next county is sent for a large package of money in Corrington's possession to be delivered to the Blue Ledge Mine for the payroll. Corrington gambles a thousand dollars of this money and loses. Broncho Billy, a professional gambler, loans Corrington the money necessary to replace the funds he had maliciously taken. Corrington gives the gambler a note payable in thirty days or his home as collateral in case of default.
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Sophie's Hero
Title: Sophie's Hero
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: November 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike dons a bearskin to chase away his rivals.
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The Naming of the Rawhide Queen
Title: The Naming of the Rawhide Queen
Character: Reuben Glen
Released: November 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Prospectors discover gold on the outskirts of Rawhide, a small town in the far west. Reuben Glen, a prospector, living in the next county, becomes discouraged and determines to try his luck elsewhere. When he arrives at Rawhide he is gently but firmly requested to remove himself immediately from the vicinity.
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Broncho Billy's First Arrest
Title: Broncho Billy's First Arrest
Released: November 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy is made sheriff.
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The Cowboy Samaritan
Title: The Cowboy Samaritan
Character: "Whiskey" Bill Tate
Released: November 20, 1913
Type: Movie
John Landers is sent to the drug store by his bedridden wife for some medicine. The druggist refuses him credit. Returning home his wife presents him with a letter from her brother in which he enclosed a check for fifty dollars. Landers is induced by Whiskey Bill Tate to gamble his money, which he does and loses.
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The Last Laugh
Title: The Last Laugh
Released: November 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Marguerite discovers a personal in the paper asking for information concerning Wallace Jones, and stating that he is heir to an immense fortune, which she shows to her mother. That morning, when a man applies to Mrs. Joslin for a room in her house and the landlady discovers his valise is marked "W. Jones," both she and her daughter insist on his taking one of their rooms, and make a great fuss over him. Mr. Jones is at a loss to understand their overwhelming attentions, but as Marguerite is extremely pretty, he accepts the fussing good-naturedly, as far as she is concerned.
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Greed for Gold
Title: Greed for Gold
Character: Skinflint - the Miser
Released: October 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Greed for gold, this is what has dragged many a man downward. Skinflint, a miser, not satisfied with the gold he boards, tries to make a practice of selling whiskey to the Indians, taking from them practically all the gold they possess for just a few glasses of the fire water. Skinflint might have succeeded had it not been for Bill Riley, a prospector, who quickly takes the bottle of intoxicating liquor from the Indian and smashes it on a nearby rock. Skinflint becomes enraged and determines to get even.
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The Kid Sheriff
Title: The Kid Sheriff
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 23, 1913
Type: Movie
Reno Bill, a desperado, discovers the sheriff and the express agent in the act of holding up the stage. The next day Reno Bill is captured by Fred Church and his young assistant, when they find him annoying a pretty young girl. They take him to jail and when the bandit sees the sheriff and agent he contemptuously tells Church of their treachery.
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Broncho Billy Gets Square
Title: Broncho Billy Gets Square
Character: Todd - Grace's Father
Released: October 17, 1913
Type: Movie
A reward is offered for the capture of Broncho Billy and David Kirkland and freedom is promised to either one who will turn state's evidence.
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Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Title: Why Broncho Billy Left Bear County
Character: The Bartender
Released: September 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Through a kindly act Broncho Billy earns the deep gratitute of Marion Rivers, who presents him with a Bible. Not long afterwards, she comes upon him as he is about to hold up the stage, but at sight of the girl he is overwhelmed with shame and taking out the little Bible promises her that he will live honorably. In the meantime, Marion's father holds up the stage at another point, and one of the stagecoach drivers, mounting a bareback pony, rides off for the sheriff. Broncho Billy sees Rivers get away with the money, and when he hears the sheriff and his men coming, for Marion's sake he goes to warn her father. To shield him, he takes the bags of money and rides away with the men after him. He leaves the money at the mile post with a note saying: "SAheriff, I'm through with Bear County, this stick-up was my last", and rides across the border. (Moving Picture World Synopsis)
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The Redeemed Claim
Title: The Redeemed Claim
Released: September 20, 1913
Type: Movie
George Ingraham is refused a loan by all the money lenders in town, until one of them accidentally discovering that a vein of gold runs through Ingraham's land, offers to lend him the money on the property, with the understanding that he is to take possession if the money is not paid back by 12 o'clock noon on September 30th.
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Broncho Billy Reforms
Title: Broncho Billy Reforms
Released: September 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and his pals plot to rob the general store. Broncho Billy is elected to go into the store and engage the proprietor in conversation while the others enter the rear door and rob the till.
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A Western Sister's Devotion
Title: A Western Sister's Devotion
Released: August 30, 1913
Type: Movie
Evelyn Hicks, a beautiful daughter of the west, becomes engaged to Broncho Billy, while at an informal dance. Sheriff Hardley, laid up with an injured ankle, sends for Broncho Billy, swears him in as sheriff, and instructs him to capture the two horse thieves that were causing considerable disturbance in the surrounding territory. Imagine the surprise, humiliation and pain Broncho Billy suffers when he discovers that one of the bandits is the brother of the girl he loves.
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The Tenderfoot Sheriff
Title: The Tenderfoot Sheriff
Character: Snake
Released: August 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Snake, a notorious outlaw, robs the general store. True Boardman, the sheriff, and a posse starts out after him. Snake riddles the sheriff's hat with bullets and the sheriff and posse run under cover. Boardman resigns. The village trustees appoint a new sheriff. Snake writes a note saying he will be in Kelly's saloon that night.
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Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Title: Broncho Billy and the Western Girls
Character: Outlaw
Released: July 12, 1913
Type: Movie
Evelyn and Irene Courteny, through the helplessness of their father, who is a cripple, are given charge of the general store and post office. A large bag of gold with registered letters, etc., are delivered by the mail carrier on day. Dick Lee, a notorious outlaw, sees the delivery of the valuable bag. That night, with a gang, Lee breaks into the post office and would have carried off the treasure, had not Evelyn escaped through a back window, mounted her horse, and rode away. One of the men sees her, however, and the three go in pursuit. Irene is quick to inform Broncho Billy, and the latter arrives just in time to save Evelyn from the hands of the bandits. The three are captured. Broncho Billy falls in love with Irene and the two are left to plan their future happiness. (Moving Picture World synopsis)
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Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Title: Alkali Ike and the Hypnotist
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: June 21, 1913
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny.
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Alkali Ike's Misfortunes
Title: Alkali Ike's Misfortunes
Released: May 31, 1913
Type: Movie
Sofie Clutts, the belle of Lizardville, returns from her visit to the East, and the men clamor to see her. Alkali Ike is robbed of his suspenders, his hat and coat, so that three of the men could look presentable. Sofie tries to entertain her three suitors, one in the parlor, another in the dining room, and the last in the kitchen. Alkali Ike calls to see the fair Sofie, and is shoved by suitor number one from the parlor into the dining room, his next trip from the dining room into the kitchen, and the last trip, the one that hurt the most, was from the kitchen through the window into some shrubbery.
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The Accusation of Broncho Billy
Title: The Accusation of Broncho Billy
Character: The Sheriff
Released: April 15, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, owner of a saloon in Big Horn City, is trusted implicitly by the miners in the surrounding territory. Several of them have gathered at the bar, when Broncho Billy receives a note, stating that the stage-coach will not stop at Big Horn until the following day. The men request Broncho Billy to keep their gold until the coach arrives.
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Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Title: Broncho Billy's Gratefulness
Character: The Sheriff
Released: March 29, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, suffering from a fever, collapses on the doorstep of a ranchman's home. John Harding, returning from his work, carries Broncho Billy into the house and places him on the bed. A doctor is summoned. A few weeks later, Broncho Billy now fully recovered thanks Harding and his wife for their kind treatment and returns to town where he is greeted with a welcome hand by everyone. Two or three days later Fred Church, hiding behind a tree opposite to Harding's home, sees the latter leave. Church forces his attentions on Mrs. Harding. Returning to his home Harding is informed by his wife of what had happened during his absence.
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Broncho Billy and the Step-Sisters
Title: Broncho Billy and the Step-Sisters
Released: March 15, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy is in love with Agnes Shephard. The jealousy of the step-sister Evelyn arouses in her a scheme which, if carried out, would result in the breaking of the engagement.
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Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Title: Broncho Billy and the Sheriff's Kid
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy, haying disturbed the laws of the state, is thrown into jail. The warden hands the outlaw a cup of water and a piece of stale bread. The latter grabs the warden's hand, pulls it through the bars and threatens the former with a broken arm unless he unlocks the door. Broncho Billy, having gained his freedom, takes to the woods.
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Broncho Billy's Last Deed
Title: Broncho Billy's Last Deed
Character: The Sheriff
Released: February 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy is seen smoking a cigar in a general store in the far west. An Indian enters, who tries to force his attentions on a young girl. The Indian is rejected by Broncho. The Indian swears revenge.
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The Making of Broncho Billy
Title: The Making of Broncho Billy
Character: The Sheriff
Released: February 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy runs into trouble in a bar when he gets into a confrontation with a bully. Since the bully has a gun and Billy doesn't, he's forced to endure the bully's humiliating tactics until he manages to get away. He determines to find himself a gun, learn how to use it and then go back and find the bully for a little payback.
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Broncho Billy's Promise
Title: Broncho Billy's Promise
Released: December 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A pretty western girl rejected a cowpuncher admirer for Bronche Billy. Snake, the rejected suitor, swears revenge and immediately proceeds to the village barroom to load up with ammunition, both for the gun and the stomach.
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Alkali Ike's Motorcycle
Title: Alkali Ike's Motorcycle
Released: December 14, 1912
Type: Movie
One night all the boys of the Seven Up Ranch are invited to the house to meet Bud Simpson's niece from Lizardhead. After hours of brushing up his dusty best clothes, Alkali Ike finally rigs himself out and, with a freshly washed rubber collar roped about his neck, chases into the ranch house where he finds the lovely Sophie seated at the organ, surrounded by the boys, who are industriously screeching their heads off in an endeavor to sing. Alkali Ike vainly attempts to elbow his way through and get a sight of the fair Sophie, but in vain, and is finally thrown out of the house by the boys. But his wooing is not in vain, and the next morning a motorcyclist arrives at the ranch and stops for a while. Alkali immediately sees possibilities in the machine, buys it outright, and invites Sophie to take a spin with him along the trail.
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Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Title: Broncho Billy's Mexican Wife
Character: Perkins, The Sheriff
Released: November 30, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho marries a Mexican girl at the earnest entreaty of her dying father. Later a Mexican singer wins her love and, to get Broncho out of the way, she has him arrested and jailed on the charge of having assaulted her. In a frenzy of rage, Broncho secures the sheriff's revolver, escapes from jail and tracks the pair at his shack.
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An Indian's Friendship
Title: An Indian's Friendship
Released: November 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho is instrumental in saving Yellow Wolf, an Indian, from the wrath of Dan Runnion, a surly cowpuncher, and Runnion swears revenge. His chance comes when he sees a notice from the county sheriff advising that cattle rustlers are at work and for ranchmen to watch their stock.
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The Ranch Girl's Trial
Title: The Ranch Girl's Trial
Released: October 26, 1912
Type: Movie
Pepita, proprietress of the town dance hall, is loved by Big Moose, an Indian. Jake Harding, a worthless cowpuncher, also pretends love for Pepita in order to get an occasional drink of free whiskey. Big Moose swears to kill Harding, and is only prevented from carrying out his treat by Pepita.
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The Tomboy on Bar Z
Title: The Tomboy on Bar Z
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic Western in which John saves his beloved Mary when she is about to marry a criminal.
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Alkali Ike Stung!
Title: Alkali Ike Stung!
Released: October 8, 1912
Type: Movie
This time Alkali Ike is dissatisfied with his boarding house and, when the buxom Sophie, a two-hundred-pound widow arrives in town, buys out Tony's place and nails up cards announcing that it will be opened on the following Tuesday as a first-class boarding house, Alkali is the first to see it, rushes back and begins to lay plans for switching at once.
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An Indian Sunbeam
Title: An Indian Sunbeam
Character: An Indian
Released: September 28, 1912
Type: Movie
The accidental overturning of their "prairie schooner" kills a settler and his wife and leaves their little baby girl, Sunbeam, alone in the world. Discovered by Big Wolf, an Indian brave from a nearby tribe, Sunbeam is adopted and brought up as one of their number.
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Alkali Ike's Pants
Title: Alkali Ike's Pants
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Coyote Simpson and "Alkali" Ike both love the buxom Sophie, pride of Buckskin, Ariz. Coyote has a long curling mustache that is his one pride and joy, but Sophie objects to it when he kisses her and orders him to trim it down.
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The Tenderfoot Foreman
Title: The Tenderfoot Foreman
Released: September 11, 1912
Type: Movie
Edna Graham is advised in a letter from her father, given her after the old ranchman's death, not to attempt to run the big "Double K," hut to secure a competent manager. Later, Edna is caused to regret not having followed her father's advice, as the men in her employ are surly and rude, and endeavor in every manner to make life miserable for her.
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Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Title: Alkali Ike Plays the Devil
Released: August 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike receives some good news one morning in the form of an invitation from the boys of a nearby town to attend a masquerade ball with his best girl. Much elated. Alkali calls on Sophie and she gladly agrees to go. Alkali now goes to the town postmistress, secures the address of a costume firm and writes for a costume. It arrives in the nature of a Mephisto garb, horns, tail and all.
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Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up
Title: Broncho Billy's Last Hold-Up
Character: The Sheriff
Released: August 12, 1912
Type: Movie
A girl helps Broncho Billy to hide when the sheriff comes looking for him. When a while later he finds her and her mother unconscious, he holds up a stagecoach to bring them to a doctor. The sheriff, still on Billy's track, shoots him in front of the doctor's practice.
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The Smuggler's Daughter
Title: The Smuggler's Daughter
Released: July 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Silas Gregg lives with his pretty daughter, Vedah, in the western hills, unknown to the girl. Gregg is the leader of a band of smugglers, who have their rendezvous in his barn. Vedah is loved by Brant Graham, a sturdy young Hillman, and to insure his future, Graham gets the sheriff to appoint him a deputy, receives his badge, pins it inside his sleeve and is ordered to be on the watch for smugglers, who are continually getting goods across the Mexican border, Graham promises and leaves. Later he goes to Gregg's shack, puts the ring on Vedah's finger and asks to see her father, to gain his consent. Finding he has gone down to the barn they start in search for him. In passing the barn Graham suddenly discovers Gregg and his gang sorting over their goods inside.
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A Story of Montana
Title: A Story of Montana
Character: The Sheriff
Released: July 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Clayton, a ranchman, has a pretty daughter, Sue, who is loved by Dan Morris, a worthless cattleman. Clayton tries to force Sue to marry Morris, but the girl indignantly refuses, tells Morris she doesn't love him and goes to meet her real sweetheart.
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Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Title: Broncho Billy's Narrow Escape
Released: July 5, 1912
Type: Movie
While looking for work, Broncho Billy meets a girl and falls in love with her. Broncho is then accused of horse theft by a jealous lover of the girl. At the moment that he is to be hanged, Broncho’s beloved girl comes to his rescue.
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Western Hearts
Title: Western Hearts
Released: June 14, 1912
Type: Movie
Seth Perkins, a prospector, has two daughters. Mabel and Vedah. Vedah is a cripple, and the town doctor writes her father it will be necessary to operate to cure her and the expense will be one hundred dollars. Perkins has no such sum and is in despair.
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On El Monte Ranch
Title: On El Monte Ranch
Released: June 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Dave Trent is employed on the Big C ranch and lives with his sister, Mary, a charming girl. Jim Andrews, foreman of the ranch, loves Mary, and one morning calls to put the engagement ring on her finger.
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Broncho Billy's Bible
Title: Broncho Billy's Bible
Released: June 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Broncho Billy and his pal, after robbing the stagecoach, divide the loot and part company. Among the valuables in his share. Broncho finds a well-worn Bible and, after skimming over the pages with a grim smile, he puts it in an inside pocket and rides into town.
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A Western Legacy
Title: A Western Legacy
Character: Alice's Father
Released: May 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Walter Johnson, a young college chap in the east, receives word that he has been left a legacy of one million dollars by an eccentric uncle, providing he marries the old fellow's niece who lives in Mustang, Arizona.
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The Sheriff and His Man
Title: The Sheriff and His Man
Character: Sheriff Todd / Mexican
Released: May 18, 1912
Type: Movie
The Arizona Kid, a notorious outlaw, makes his escape from jail by sawing the bars from the cell window. Next morning this is discovered and reward notices are scattered broadcast offering $1,000 reward for his apprehension and giving his picture for identification.
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Alkali Ike's Bride
Title: Alkali Ike's Bride
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: May 7, 1912
Type: Movie
Alkali is considered the ranch seamstress by the boys on Hard-Up, and consequently has to sew buttons on coats and do other sewing stunts that finally wear on his nerves and decide him on the matrimony thing. One day Alkali gets the town paper and sees a "Husband Wanted" ad. A widow with a small boy and loads of money, wants to hitch up with some nice western gentleman. This is pie tor Alkali, He instantly dispatches a letter to the widow to come to Snakeville, get off at his ranch and not to "fergit her dust."
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Broncho Billy and the Bandits
Title: Broncho Billy and the Bandits
Released: May 4, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Matthews, express agent in Red Rock, Arizona, and his daughter Alice, are watching anxiously over the bedside of Mrs. Matthews, who is very ill. An express box of money is now left by the stage and Matthews is ordered to guard it overnight. The "Arizona Kid," a notorious bandit, who has followed the stage and watched while they left the box, now gallops back to the rendezvous of his pals, tells them of the easy chance to rob the office and they start at once. Meanwhile Alice has sent her father for a doctor and is all alone with her sick mother.
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Alkali Ike's Boarding House
Title: Alkali Ike's Boarding House
Released: April 23, 1912
Type: Movie
Bridget, the cook on the Hard-Up Ranch, is some eat specialist on everything but soup. This, the boys declare, is bad, and select "Alkali" as the martyr to so inform her. "Alkali" does the test he can, but is bombarded out of the kitchen by the irate Bridget, who proceeds to drive the boys to the shelter of the hayloft for protection.
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Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
Title: Alkali Ike Bests Broncho Billy
Released: March 26, 1912
Type: Movie
When rancher Arthur Mackley welcomes his daughter (Florence Perkes) to his ranch for a visit, all of the cowboys compete for her affections.
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The Bandit's Child
Title: The Bandit's Child
Released: March 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom Fleming, a Western bandit, and his pal, Morgan, hold up the stage. Fleming dispatches Morgan to town to inform him when the stage leaves. Fleming now receives a letter from his wife back east, in which she tells him she and their little girl pray every night that he will always remain an honest, faithful husband and father.
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A Western Kimona
Title: A Western Kimona
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: February 24, 1912
Type: Movie
Pretty Bessie King has all the cowboys' hearts thumping ragtime jigs against their ribs whenever she comes to town, and Alkali is the hardest hit of all. After a series of flirtations she finally takes Alkali for better or worse and they are married. A year later a small son and heir keeps Alkali doing Marathons across the midnight floors.
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The Prospector's Legacy
Title: The Prospector's Legacy
Released: February 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A western prospector, who has been unusually lucky, prepares to return east to his wife. The suspicious actions of a gypsy horse-trader, whom he has seen loitering near his cabin, prompts him to take his gold to the bank, but on the way he is thrown from his horse and suffers fatal injuries. A young man and woman come on the scene and are given the gold, after they promise the dying man to send a portion of it to his wife. Later, the gypsy, learning who got the gold, attacks the mother of the young people and escapes with the treasure.
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Alkali Ike's Love Affair
Title: Alkali Ike's Love Affair
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: February 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike is in love with the daughter of Ranchman Brown, who is very much opposed to the match. Alkali, to prove that he is brave solicits the help of two of his cronies, who are to disguise as hold-up men and waylay Ranchman Brown. The hold-up occurs, but when Alkali pulls the masks off the highwaymen he finds they are not his friends, but two of the most desperate bad men of the country.
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Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Title: Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress
Released: February 2, 1912
Type: Movie
"Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress" (1912, 14 minutes) is a comedy-drama about yet another girl from the East who doesn't need to be protected from the local dangers. Broncho Billy plays a passive role, and even takes a bullet when a jealous villain tries to eliminate him from the new teacher's dance card. Filmed in the wilds of Fairfax, California and at Essanay Studios in San Rafael.
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The Oath of His Office
Title: The Oath of His Office
Released: January 27, 1912
Type: Movie
Bob Graham gains the consent of Grace Allen to marry before he leaves for the fall round-up. Bob takes with him a locket given him by Grace as a token of remembrance. Jed Brown, who has also loved Grace, goes with the punchers across the range and when opportunity offers steals the locket and forges a note which he returns and gives to Grace, making her believe that Bob has jilted her. Womanlike, she turns her affections to Jed and they are married. Bob learns of the trick and makes a solemn vow someday to get even.
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Widow Jenkins' Admirers
Title: Widow Jenkins' Admirers
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: January 23, 1912
Type: Movie
When Widow Jenkins publishes the news that she has been left a valuable estate and other properties, including a grocery store, all the eligible men of the neighborhood seek to win her hand. The most persistent of her admirers is Alkali Ike, who absolutely refuses to remove himself from her immediate vicinity and guards her so well that none of the other suitors are given a fair opportunity to propose.
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The Loafer
Title: The Loafer
Character: Jim Wrayburn
Released: January 20, 1912
Type: Movie
The forceful reformation of a lazy scrounger.
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A Child of the West
Title: A Child of the West
Character: Jim Riley
Released: January 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Riley is to be arrested for horse stealing and when the sheriff knocks at the door of Jim's shack, he asks his little girl Nellie to go and tell the man he is not at home. Nellie tries to persuade the big sheriff that her father is out, but to no avail, for Jim is arrested and taken away, while he promises his little girl he will soon return.
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Broncho Billy's Adventure
Title: Broncho Billy's Adventure
Released: December 30, 1911
Type: Movie
Fairfax, California, is the location used for this film, one of the earliest Broncho Billy films. Anderson includes his usual mix of comedy and drama as Broncho Billy gets caught in the middle of a family dispute between a jealous hotel owner and his daughter when she flirts with her boyfriend, a cowboy her father dislikes.
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Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Title: Broncho Billy's Christmas Dinner
Released: December 23, 1911
Type: Movie
It's Christmas, and a young woman is on her way to celebrate the holidays with her parents. A group of drunk cowboys startle her horses making her wagon, with the woman on it, speed off. By chance Broncho Billy saves her life and the grateful girl invites him over for Christmas dinner. Little does he know that the young lady is the Sheriff's daughter…
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Hubby's Scheme
Title: Hubby's Scheme
Character: One of Hubby's Friends
Released: November 14, 1911
Type: Movie
The boys want Simp to take a trip with them, but he fears his wife's objections. These, however, are circumvented, when a doctor, who is to be one of the party, pronounces Simp an invalid and argues that he must have a change of climate. Arrived at the resort, Simp has a great time until the clerk gets the letters mixed. Wifey soon scents something wrong
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Outwitting Papa
Title: Outwitting Papa
Character: The Reverend
Released: October 31, 1911
Type: Movie
Ethel Walker and Tom Phelps are engaged to marry, but father objects. Later, when the old gentleman finds his daughter writing a note to Tom, promising him to elope, he calls in blacksmiths and has them put bars on the windows and grating in the door.
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A Western Redemption
Title: A Western Redemption
Released: October 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Perkins, a Chicago youth, is arrested, charged with being one of the carbarn bandits, to whom is attributed a series of bold robberies. The disgraced parents also suffer for their son's crimes, the elder Perkins being thrown out of a job, and they are forced to leave their rented cottage, on account of the bad character of their son.
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Town Hall, Tonight
Title: Town Hall, Tonight
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: October 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Two wandering thespians, whose one lone trunk bears the legend "Schulz Brothers, in Vaudeville," are hitting the grit back to New York. They are sore and tired when they reach "Snakeville." They decide to stop overnight, and if fortune favors them to give a performance and gets enough money to ride back to Broadway. Thereat they bill the town and make ready for the performance at the Town Hall that evening. Their efforts to please the critical Snakeville audience are futile and before they have rendered their first selection the audience bowls them off the stage and all leave. Furthermore the management in the box office has decamped to the "Red Eye" saloon with all the proceeds of the performance and they are in as bad a fix as before.
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A Western Girl's Sacrifice
Title: A Western Girl's Sacrifice
Released: September 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Harry Farman and Eloise Wendell are engaged to be married. Harry is a wealthy young fellow and Eloise is a society girl, and both find pleasure in their clubs and other such luxuries that the city affords the fashionable, wealthy set. Eloise, who has rode a hobby of philanthropy is engaged with her club and other clubs, who are holding a tag day, the funds to go to the children of the poor. Eloise, with another friend, invades a saloon in a fashionable hotel, and are invited to have a drink by two men seated at a table. Eloise, in fun, lifts the glass to her lips when Farman enters. The match is broken off and the next day Farman, with a friend, goes west.
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A Pal's Oath
Title: A Pal's Oath
Character: U. S. Marshal / Minister
Released: August 12, 1911
Type: Movie
Two pals, Jack Manley and John French, are employed on a large ranch in Wyoming. French falls sick with fever and Jack goes for a doctor. This latter, however, refuses to accompany Jack without his payment in advance and Jack, in despair, is forced to depart without the doctor. Back at the bunkhouse he conceives the plan to hold up a pony express rider
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The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Title: The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Released: July 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Upon the death of her father, Ann Newton is made the heiress of an extensive and valuable ranch in Arizona, when she is visited by the officials of the S.W. Railroad Company, who, seeking to extend the tracks of their company, find it necessary to buy a portion of the ranch. Ann refuses to part with the ranch at any price
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The Hidden Mine
Title: The Hidden Mine
Character: 2nd Indian
Released: June 24, 1911
Type: Movie
William Hart, a prospector in the west, who, with his wife and child sought vainly for gold day after day, while hope waned and starvation faced them. One day while alone save for Nellie, their little girl, Mrs. Hart is visited by two tramp Mojave Indians who, with threats of vengeance, make her give them food.
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Forgiven in Death
Title: Forgiven in Death
Character: The Minister
Released: June 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Ned and Jack, two western boys, are both in love with the pretty daughter of their employer, who, liking both, is unsettled as to which of them she will accept. She finally decides upon Jack and not desiring to hurt Ned's feelings, proposes to her father that she and Jack be married secretly.
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The Infant at Snakeville
Title: The Infant at Snakeville
Released: June 3, 1911
Type: Movie
Mrs. Graham and her baby boy are on their way from the east to an uncle's ranch in Wyoming, and they have completed the long journey in safety up to the time they are to take the stagecoach to Snakeville, near which the ranch is located. Through an accident Baby "Bumps," as he is fondly called by his mother, is carried off by the coach and Mrs. Graham left behind.
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The Lucky Card
Title: The Lucky Card
Character: A Mexican
Released: May 27, 1911
Type: Movie
George Maxwell, a young cowboy, rescues a fever-stricken Mexican prospector and carrying him to an inn in the vicinity like a good Samaritan, pays the innkeeper a sum of money to care for the stricken man until he recovers.
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Alkali Ike's Auto
Title: Alkali Ike's Auto
Character: Mustang Pete
Released: May 19, 1911
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike and Mustang Pete are both wooing the same woman. Ike hopes to take her for a horseback ride, but she chooses instead to go with Pete, who has a horse and carriage. Ike trades his horses for an automobile, hoping to win her over that way, but things do not work out as planned.
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The Puncher's New Love
Title: The Puncher's New Love
Released: May 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Harvey Barton, a young cowboy, is happily in love with Kate Bowers, a pretty western girl. One day he calls at her home, shows her a handbill advertising a barn dance to be held at one of the nearby ranches, and asks her to go with him. On his way back to the ranch he comes upon a beautiful young woman, whose horse has met with an accident and Harvey dismounts and bashfully asks her if he can be of any assistance. She accepts his help and invites him to accompany her home. She is inclined to flirt and easily turns the foolish young cowpuncher's head, and the meeting ends with him inviting her to accompany him to the dance.
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The Bunco Game at Lizardhead
Title: The Bunco Game at Lizardhead
Released: May 6, 1911
Type: Movie
Jake Walters and his wife, Millie, arrive at Lizardhead, Arizona. They have learned that Mrs. Riley, proprietress of the hotel, has advertised for a waitress and Millie is sent to take the position. Millie is pretty and soon has all the village swains breaking their necks to gain her favor. From "Stump" Willetts to "Lank" Henderson, every cowboy within a radius of ten miles of Lizardhead is led to believe that he is the pretty lady's choice.
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The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Title: The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Released: April 22, 1911
Type: Movie
Rev. Warren Addington, the pastor of an eastern evangelical church, is left a will wherein is given the location of a valuable mine in Montana, unknown to any other living person. He takes only one man into his confidence, Jack Beardsley, a westerner and a seemingly trustworthy man, who is familiar with the country.
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The Bad Man's First Prayer
Title: The Bad Man's First Prayer
Character: The Sheriff
Released: April 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Driven to drink by poverty brought upon by the long illness of his wife, Joe Selling, a western miner, spends most of his time at the village bar, where one day his daughter Alice enters and pleads with him to come home. She is thrust aside by the brutal bartender, who orders her to leave the place when Dan Quigley, a rather shady character, takes her part, thrusts the bartender aside, and helping Joe to his feet, leads him out of the place and home. At home Alice pleads with both men to reform, but her father is obstinate and Dan says he is "too bad."
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Across the Plains
Title: Across the Plains
Released: April 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Jennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California, from a little Kansas farm, traveling in a prairie schooner. At the last settlement visited by the two, the old man, who has a weakness for drink, purchases several bottles of whiskey, which he begins drinking when they have made camp for the night. A lone cowboy calls upon them and finds the old man in a jovial mood and cautions him to beware of the hostile tribe of Indians, through whose country they are now traveling.
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The Sheriff's Chum
Title: The Sheriff's Chum
Released: April 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Two young men of a western town, Will Phelps and George Arden, are in love with the same girl, the belle of the village. Having been pals from boyhood they decide to let the girl choose between them and to abide by her decision without argument or malice. Jessie chooses Phelps, and Arden, although deeply hurt by her decision, presses the hands of both and wishes them happiness. Several years elapse during which time Jessie and Will are married and the latter has become sheriff of the county. It is then that Arden returns and the two men are apparently happy in being together again.
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The Faithful Indian
Title: The Faithful Indian
Released: March 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Will Talbot, a miner, is severely injured in an explosion of dynamite on his claim and his life is saved through the aid of his faithful Indian servant. The Indian carries him to their shack and rides to town for the doctor. When the latter arrives he finds that Talbot has not only suffered severe face burns, but seems to have also lost all knowledge of his identity, a species of insanity occasionally the result of a violent shock.
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The Outlaw and the Child
Title: The Outlaw and the Child
Character: The Deputy
Released: February 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Dan Warrington, an outlaw, is captured by the sheriff, after the former had held up a stagecoach, and is sent to jail. After the sheriff has placed his captive under guard he goes home and is welcomed by his little daughter, a child of five. Not long after the sheriff is notified of the escape of Warrington
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The Bad Man's Downfall
Title: The Bad Man's Downfall
Released: February 11, 1911
Type: Movie
When pretty Molly Martin comes out to the west to teach school, she is beset by many admirers. But the most persistent, and as fate often wills it, the least acceptable, is one "Bad" McGrew, town bully and a generally worthless scamp.
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The Two Reformations
Title: The Two Reformations
Released: January 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Young Frank McLain loses his position in the east, and resolves to go west to prospect for gold. Arrangements are made that he leave his wife at home, and send for her later, as soon as he has found a position. Frank's prospecting proves a failure, and he is without funds, when his plight is made more severe by receiving a letter from Alice, his wife.
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The Count and the Cowboys
Title: The Count and the Cowboys
Released: January 7, 1911
Type: Movie
The scene is laid in the West and presents a French count, in immaculate attire, suddenly dropped among the cowboys. Following an altercation he offers to fight a duel, but when the results of a scheme arranged by the cowboys to show his opponent killing duelists by wholesale are seen, he breaks away and barely succeeds in catching the stage on his way back to the effete East, while the cowboys make merry over their successful joke.
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The Bad Man's Christmas Gift
Title: The Bad Man's Christmas Gift
Released: December 24, 1910
Type: Movie
Andy Carson, puncher on the Lazy X ranch, is in love with Gladys, daughter of Col. Pierce, the ranch owner. Gladys likes the young puncher, but when Jack Brinsley, a young Eastern friend of her father, comes to spend Christmas at the ranch, she speedily transfers her affection to the Easterner.
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The Tenderfoot Messenger
Title: The Tenderfoot Messenger
Released: December 17, 1910
Type: Movie
A Western story turning upon the cleverness of Shorty Blair, an express messenger, who assumes to be a tenderfoot and outwits a gang of desperadoes that follow him for the package of money he carries.
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A Cowboy's Vindication
Title: A Cowboy's Vindication
Released: December 10, 1910
Type: Movie
A shot during a struggle, and Frank Morrison is branded with the mark of Cain, but by his own efforts the real murderer is discovered.
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Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Title: Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Released: December 3, 1910
Type: Movie
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present is a silent Western
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A Western Woman's Way
Title: A Western Woman's Way
Released: November 26, 1910
Type: Movie
A Western Woman's Way is a 1910 Western
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The Little Prospector
Title: The Little Prospector
Released: November 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Silas Kendall, a prospector, and his daughter Nell, so the story goes, are prospecting in the mountains, a few miles above Canyon City, a little western town, and the basis of supplies for the hundreds of more or less successful gold prospectors. Kendall has built him a cabin and he and his daughter, a robust little woman, have managed to eke out a living, always hopeful some day of making the "big strike."
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Hank and Lank: Lifesavers
Title: Hank and Lank: Lifesavers
Released: November 8, 1910
Type: Movie
Hank and Lank: Lifesavers is a Silent Comedy short.
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A Westerner's Way
Title: A Westerner's Way
Released: November 5, 1910
Type: Movie
Jason Watkins, a real estate and loan agent, enters his office in the little Arizona town of Navajo, to find that during the night robbers have visited the place and broken into his safe, taking with them a large sum of money and other valuables. Watkins immediately notifies the sheriff, a posse is hurriedly organized and a search made for the culprits.
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The Silent Message
Title: The Silent Message
Released: October 29, 1910
Type: Movie
Jeff Bandera, outlaw, has been capture by the sheriff, who is taking him by rail to the nearest lockup. Jeff is desperate and when the train slows down to a curve he makes a leap through the window and, despite his handcuffs, escapes serious injury. Before the sheriff can leave the train and pursue him Jeff has taken refuge in the gulches of the rough country
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A Cowboy's Mother-in-Law
Title: A Cowboy's Mother-in-Law
Released: October 15, 1910
Type: Movie
Nellie Blair, the niece of a wealthy ranchman, and an orphan, comes in make her home with her uncle, and shortly after her arrival finds that the whole "Circle A" outfit, every manjack on the place, is in love with her.
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The Bearded Bandit
Title: The Bearded Bandit
Character: Mr. Conners / The Bearded Bandit
Released: October 8, 1910
Type: Movie
A stirring Western drama presenting as its principal character a man who is at once ranchman and bandit
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Ben's Kid
Title: Ben's Kid
Released: July 1, 1909
Type: Movie
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
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Tag Day
Title: Tag Day
Released: February 19, 1909
Type: Movie
The custom of young women "tagging" men on the public streets (on a day specially set aside and called "Tag Day") to secure funds for various charitable purposes is the basis for this Comedy short.