Jack Baston

Jack Baston

Born: August 6, 1892
Died: May 3, 1970
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Jack Baston...

The Golden Blade
Title: The Golden Blade
Released: August 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient Bagdad and inspired from the Arabic fairy tales of One Thousand and One Nights.
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Title: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Character: Gen. Alfred Jodl
Released: October 16, 1951
Type: Movie
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
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Gunfire
Title: Gunfire
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
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Hello Cheyenne!
Title: Hello Cheyenne!
Character: Buck Lassiter
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's girlfriend is the daughter of one crew foreman, who wants to win the race in order to re-establish himself in the business. However, the foreman of the other crew has his own scheme to win the race, and will stop at nothing--including kidnapping--to accomplish it.
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The Branded Sombrero
Title: The Branded Sombrero
Character: Charles Maggert
Released: January 8, 1928
Type: Movie
A cowboy promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert, that he will return the cattle that Maggert rustled from the local ranchers.
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The Loves of Carmen
Title: The Loves of Carmen
Character: Morales
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
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Chain Lightning
Title: Chain Lightning
Character: Campan
Released: August 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
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The Circus Ace
Title: The Circus Ace
Character: Kirk Mallory
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
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Down to the Sea in Ships
Title: Down to the Sea in Ships
Character: Samuel Siggs
Released: November 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Being the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit Quaker community, and the dangerous adventures of an unwilling stowaway aboard one of the elder Morgan's harvest vessels.
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Dynamite Allen
Title: Dynamite Allen
Character: Howard Morton (as J. Thornton Baston)
Released: February 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Betty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
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The Good-Bad Wife
Title: The Good-Bad Wife
Character: Daniel Carter
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
William Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
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The White Moll
Title: The White Moll
Character: The Dangler
Released: July 24, 1920
Type: Movie
Desperate because a wealthy man has reduced her father to thievery, Rhoda agrees to rob the poor box of the church, although she finds the act abhorrent.
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The Fighting Kentuckians
Title: The Fighting Kentuckians
Character: Ned Catlin
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Ned Catlin, a young Kentuckian, joins the army during World War I and is sent to France, leaving his sweetheart, June Reeves, behind him. A villainous neighbor who also covets June is drafted and returns with the false news that Ned is dead.