James A. Marcus

James A. Marcus

Born: January 20, 1867
Died: October 15, 1937
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for James A. Marcus...

The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Parole Board Member (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
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On Such a Night
Title: On Such a Night
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Sea Captain (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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The Cattle Thief
Title: The Cattle Thief
Character: Cal Pierson
Released: May 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
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The Lonely Trail
Title: The Lonely Trail
Character: Mayor
Released: May 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk.
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The Voice of Bugle Ann
Title: The Voice of Bugle Ann
Character: Ed Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A Missouri farmer's (Lionel Barrymore) son (Eric Linden) loves the daughter (Maureen O'Sullivan) of a neighbor who has killed the farmer's foxhound.
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Title: Steamboat Round the Bend
Character: Warden
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
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Western Frontier
Title: Western Frontier
Character: Marshal Bat Manning
Released: August 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden hair Girl only to find that she's his long lost sister.
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Life Begins at Forty
Title: Life Begins at Forty
Character: Townsman in Print Shop
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
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Red Morning
Title: Red Morning
Character: The Hotel Keeper
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
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We Live Again
Title: We Live Again
Character: Peasant
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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The Trail Beyond
Title: The Trail Beyond
Character: Brother of John Ball
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
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The Scarlet Empress
Title: The Scarlet Empress
Released: May 9, 1934
Type: Movie
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.
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Honor of the Range
Title: Honor of the Range
Character: Turner
Released: April 15, 1934
Type: Movie
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the money gone the disgruntled townsmen make Boots Sheriff and lock up Ken. Clem, now a prisoner of Rawhide, has a change of heart and sends Ken a message with the outlaw's location. Ken escapes by impersonating the saloon entertainer and rides for the hangout.
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Strawberry Roan
Title: Strawberry Roan
Character: Big Jim Edwards
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem.
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King of the Arena
Title: King of the Arena
Character: Colonel Hiller
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
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Adorable
Title: Adorable
Character: Cook General
Released: May 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Rebellious Princess Marie "Mitzi" Christine must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry.
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The Lone Avenger
Title: The Lone Avenger
Character: Jud Winters
Released: May 14, 1933
Type: Movie
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
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The Man from Arizona
Title: The Man from Arizona
Character: Judge McSweeney (as James Marcus)
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
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Mason of the Mounted
Title: Mason of the Mounted
Character: U.S. Marshal
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
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Vanishing Men
Title: Vanishing Men
Character: Baker (as James Marcus)
Released: April 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Heck Claibourne has been involving young Russ Whitely in his cattle rustling schemes, and when they are nearly caught by Sheriff Doug Barrett and deputy O'Hara, their cohort, Luke, shoots and kills O'Hara.
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Hell's House
Title: Hell's House
Character: Charles Thompson
Released: January 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Old Doctor (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Land of Wanted Men
Title: Land of Wanted Men
Character: Judge
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy takes a job as sheriff in a small town and finds that one of his first jobs is trying to stop trouble between newly arrived sheepmen and local cattle ranchers, who don't want the sheep grazing on "their" range.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: William P. Donovan
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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Liliom
Title: Liliom
Character: Linzman
Released: September 27, 1930
Type: Movie
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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Back Pay
Title: Back Pay
Character: Judge
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Bored with small town life, a woman leaves for the big city and winds up becoming the mistress of a ruthless businessman.
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The Texan
Title: The Texan
Character: Sheriff John Brown
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin.
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Captain of the Guard
Title: Captain of the Guard
Character: Marnay
Released: March 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Basil
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
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In Holland
Title: In Holland
Released: February 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Comedy short.
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The Border Patrol
Title: The Border Patrol
Character: Capt. Bonham (as James Marcus)
Released: December 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Bill Storm is sent to El Paso to ferret out a gang of counterfeiters thought to be working there and, on the way, gives a ride to New York socialite Beverly Dix, whose car has been wrecked on the road to El Paso. Bill quickly comes to suspect Earl Hanway and Lefty Waterman of passing bad bills; taking Beverly's father into his confidence, Bill identifies the counterfeiting plant, arrests Hanway and Waterman, and finds himself with his arms full of Beverly.
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Isle of Lost Men
Title: Isle of Lost Men
Character: Malay Pete (as James Marcus)
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Costa (as James Marcus)
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Rascha, the wild daughter of Costa, the Gypsy bear tamer, swears revenge on Jorga, her father's enemy, when he cuts off her braids (a sign of disgrace among the Gypsies).
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Maj. Hartman
Released: January 29, 1928
Type: Movie
Pvt. Smith, an American soldier stationed in a German town during the occupation of Germany after World War I, falls in love with the daughter of the town's leading citizen. The problem is that his sworn enemy, Sgt. Butts, also has designs on the girl. Butts comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition and get the girl for himself, but things don't go quite the way he planned.
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Sadie Thompson
Title: Sadie Thompson
Character: Joe Horn
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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The Broken Mask
Title: The Broken Mask
Character: Maurice Armato
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Pertio, an Argentine dancer, has a severely scarred face that has kept him from succeeding in his chosen career. He is persuaded by Caricia, an Argentine dancer who has become a star, to have a plastic surgeon repair his face. The surgery is successful and the two dancers team up both professionally and personally. However, the doctor who performed the operation has fallen madly in love with Caricia, and his determination to have her leads him to perform a procedure on Pertio that makes his scars reappear.
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The Beauty Shoppers 1927
Title: The Beauty Shoppers 1927
Released: December 12, 1927
Type: Movie
This film was released in 1927
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The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Mayor
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.
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The Meddlin' Stranger
Title: The Meddlin' Stranger
Character: 'Big Bill' Dawson (as James Marcus)
Released: June 12, 1927
Type: Movie
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than Boris Karloff in this primitive silent oater from poverty row studio Action Pictures.
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Captain Salvation
Title: Captain Salvation
Character: Old Sea Salt
Released: May 14, 1927
Type: Movie
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
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Duck Soup
Title: Duck Soup
Character: Colonel Buckshot (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.
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The Bachelor's Baby
Title: The Bachelor's Baby
Character: Colonel Carter
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Directed by Frank R. Strayer. With Helene Chadwick, Harry Myers, Midget Gustav, Edith Murgatroyd.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: A Sea Captain
Released: January 8, 1927
Type: Movie
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
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The Eagle of the Sea
Title: The Eagle of the Sea
Character: Dominique
Released: October 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac.
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The Lily
Title: The Lily
Character: Emile Plock (as James Marcus)
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Texas Streak
Title: The Texas Streak
Character: Colonel Hollis
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
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Siberia
Title: Siberia
Character: Andrei Vronsky
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. There Petroff is sent in the discharge of his official duties and secretly renews their romance. When the Bolsheviki overthrow the government, Sonia is freed and aids in the escape of Petroff, who incurs the enmity of Egor, the revolutionary leader, because he is a royalist. Together they escape across the frozen wastes in a sledge, pursued by wolves and Egor, who has used patriotism as a cloak to conceal personal ambitions.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Character: Kyrilla Troekouroff
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
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All Around Frying Pan
Title: All Around Frying Pan
Character: The Sheriff
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Wondering cowboy Bart Andrews (played by Fred Thompson) gets arrested simply because a crooked sheriff is short on men for his chain gang. A chance visit to a rodeo on the way to jail, gives Bart a chance to demonstrate his bronco-busting skills, which results in the sheriff caving to pressure from a group of cowboys, to allow Bart to work on ranch, rather than joining the road gang. Finding himself in the right place at the right time, Bart is able to prevent the theft of a train full of cattle, but later ends up being accused of killing a station agent when he interrupts the ranch foreman robbing an express office. Bart is eventually able to bring the foreman to justice, and in a surprise twist, it turns out that he was in fact the real owner of the ranch he was working at!
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The Fighting Heart
Title: The Fighting Heart
Character: Judge Maynard
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
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The Isle of Hope
Title: The Isle of Hope
Character: Captain Duffy
Released: August 16, 1925
Type: Movie
A ship captain's beautiful daughter and a wealthy playboy who is searching for buried treasure find themselves stranded on a desert island.
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Dick Turpin
Title: Dick Turpin
Character: Squire Crabtree
Released: February 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
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The Iron Horse
Title: The Iron Horse
Character: Judge Haller
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Snodgrass the Innkeeper
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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The Acquittal
Title: The Acquittal
Character: Judge
Released: November 19, 1923
Type: Movie
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at his trial is an acquittal. Since the police don't seem to be particularly interested in finding the real killer, the dead man's daughter-in-law--the wife of the adopted son who wasn't charged--takes it upon herself to solve the crime.
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Scaramouche
Title: Scaramouche
Character: Binet
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Braithwaite
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
In managing the shipyard inherited from her father, Derith Keogh has considerable labor problems and accedes to the unreasonable demands of John Trevelyan, an anarchist labor agitator. Derith's brother John is off in pursuit of an adventuress, and Angus Campbell, her superintendent, resigns in exasperation. Angus returns, however, to help Derith persuade Trevelyan to settle a strike, which Trevelyan accomplishes in spite of being shot by one of his own men.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mr. Bumble
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver's family history waiting to come to light. Written by Snow Leopard
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Come on Over
Title: Come on Over
Character: Carmody (as James Marcus)
Released: March 11, 1922
Type: Movie
Shane O'Mealia leaves Ireland, promising to send for his sweetheart, Moyna. In the mean time the son of the old lady she lives with, takes them back to America without telling Shane, who then must explain a girl he's been seeing in New York.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Character: Hobbs
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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Serenade
Title: Serenade
Character: Pepuso
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
In the Spanish town of Magdalena live María and her sweetheart, Pancho, son of the governor. When the town is captured by brigands led by Ramírez, the governor is deposed, and Don Domingo Maticas is appointed in his place. Ramón, son of the new governor, becomes infatuated with María. She repulses him, but he is encouraged by her mother.
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Headin' Home
Title: Headin' Home
Character: Simon Tobin
Released: September 18, 1920
Type: Movie
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
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The Strongest
Title: The Strongest
Character: Curate
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The Strongest is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Basil
Released: August 19, 1919
Type: Movie
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.
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On the Jump
Title: On the Jump
Character: William Desmond (as James Marcus)
Released: October 6, 1918
Type: Movie
In this propaganda film, athletic silent star George Walsh plays reporter Jack Bartlett, who interviews President Wilson regarding the Fourth Liberty Loan. The story never appears in the paper, however, because its new owner, Otto Crumley, is pro-German. So Jack quits his job and begins canvassing for the Liberty Loans. In the midst of his vigorous campaigning he also halts Crumley's plans to inspire a strike at a munitions plant.
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The Prussian Cur
Title: The Prussian Cur
Character: Patrick O'Grady
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.
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The Conqueror
Title: The Conqueror
Character: Jumbo
Released: September 16, 1917
Type: Movie
The life of Sam Houston, soldier, statesman, patriot and one of the founders of the Republic of Texas, is depicted.
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The Honor System
Title: The Honor System
Character: Gov. John Hunter
Released: February 12, 1917
Type: Movie
A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.
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The Serpent
Title: The Serpent
Character: Ivan Lazar
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Dancaire
Released: November 1, 1915
Type: Movie
A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.
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The Regeneration
Title: The Regeneration
Character: Jim Conway
Released: September 12, 1915
Type: Movie
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.