Jack Richardson

Jack Richardson

Born: November 17, 1870
Died: June 12, 1960
in New York City, New York, USA

Movies for Jack Richardson...

The Unknown Man
Title: The Unknown Man
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
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The Mating Season
Title: The Mating Season
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
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I Shot Jesse James
Title: I Shot Jesse James
Character: St. Joseph Saloon Bartender (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
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Dishonored Lady
Title: Dishonored Lady
Character: Passerby
Released: May 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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Black Market Babies
Title: Black Market Babies
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!
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The Climax
Title: The Climax
Character: Musical Conductor (Uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano when his jealousy drives him to the point of mad obsession. Ten years later, another young singer reminds Hohner of the late diva and his old mania kicks in. Hohner wants to prevent her from singing for anyone but him, even if it means silencing her forever.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Second Uncle (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Borrowed Hero
Title: Borrowed Hero
Character: 2nd Detective Escorting Dixie (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
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Mr. Celebrity
Title: Mr. Celebrity
Character: Bill Geraghty
Released: October 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Father of Girl on Ship (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Character: Casino Patron
Released: December 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
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Rangers of Fortune
Title: Rangers of Fortune
Character: Townsman
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor (Arthur Allen) and his young granddaughter (Betty Brewer). The trio learns that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron (Joseph Schildkraut), who is endeavoring to push out the ranch owners and take over the territory.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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Gun Code
Title: Gun Code
Character: Mike McClure
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
This low-budget western stars Tim McCoy as federal agent Tim Hammond, who follows a gang of big-city gangsters to the Wide Open Spaces. Don't be fooled by the opening credits: the "Peter Stewart" listed as director Gun Code was actually PRC workhorse Sam Newfield.
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A Chump at Oxford
Title: A Chump at Oxford
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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The Housekeeper's Daughter
Title: The Housekeeper's Daughter
Character: Reporter
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Senator Manchester (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Member
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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News Is Made at Night
Title: News Is Made at Night
Character: Golfer
Released: July 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Title: The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Character: Old Man in Montage (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.
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Danger on the Air
Title: Danger on the Air
Character: District Attorney Franklin (Uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Sheriff (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 Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Engineer
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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3 Kids and a Queen
Title: 3 Kids and a Queen
Character: Customer
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
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The Daring Young Man
Title: The Daring Young Man
Character: Detective
Released: July 17, 1935
Type: Movie
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
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The Perfect Clue
Title: The Perfect Clue
Character: Simms
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Spectator Bidding $4.00 (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
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The Merry Frinks
Title: The Merry Frinks
Character: Newspaper Officer Worker (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
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Long Lost Father
Title: Long Lost Father
Character: Man Getting Race Results
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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The Son of Kong
Title: The Son of Kong
Character: Sailor
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
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Gun Justice
Title: Gun Justice
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an imposter to pose as the heir Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the imposter, and arrives posing as himself. In an ensuing gunfight a man is killed and Ken is in trouble when not only is he accused of the murder, but the imposter escapes and convinces the Sheriff he's the real Ken Lance.
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The Invisible Man
Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Editor
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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They Never Come Back
Title: They Never Come Back
Character: Hank Bates
Released: May 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
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The Man from New Mexico
Title: The Man from New Mexico
Character: Jim Fletcher
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The cattle on the Langton Ranch are mysteriously dying and cowhands are disappearing or being shot. Two Langton riders bring a wounded rider they found wounded and hung up in a barbed-wire fence to Sally Langton and report that her father is missing. A lone rider, Jess Ryder, tops a rise and sees a band of men working on some calves in a secluded corral, and he frowns as he sees what Bat Murchinson is doing.
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Scandal for Sale
Title: Scandal for Sale
Character: Compositor
Released: April 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is promised $25,000 if he can bring the circulation of a newspaper up to one million.
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Police Court
Title: Police Court
Released: February 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is determined to see his father "make good" again.
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Without Honors
Title: Without Honors
Character: Steve Henderson
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Jack Marian isa gambler with an unsavory past. Suspected of being an outlaw, Jack plays along with this misconception, the better to infiltrate a gang of smugglers. Along the way, he clears the name of the brother of Texas ranger Mike Donovan, and helps patch up the romance between Donovan and heroine Bernice.
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Land of Wanted Men
Title: Land of Wanted Men
Character: Thorpe
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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Maid to Order
Title: Maid to Order
Character: Jim McGuire, Smuggler
Released: August 28, 1931
Type: Movie
While trying to nab a gang of diamond smugglers, the police are notified by Scotland Yard that the gang's leader, a beautiful Englishwoman who was on her way to the States to take control of the gang, has been caught. Because the American gangsters don't know what their English boss looks like, the police persuade a female impersonator to pretend to be her and infiltrate the gang.
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Gun Smoke
Title: Gun Smoke
Character: Rancher Eddie
Released: April 10, 1931
Type: Movie
Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
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The Sunrise Trail
Title: The Sunrise Trail
Character: Henchman
Released: February 7, 1931
Type: Movie
Working under cover, Tex goes south of the border and joins Rand's gang where he befriends gang member Kansas. He plans to lead the gang into the Sheriff's trap, but hopes to spare his new friend.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Reporter
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Chiselers of Hollywood
Title: Chiselers of Hollywood
Released: December 29, 1930
Type: Movie
Three sisters come to Hollywood to be movie stars. Complications arise when two of them fall in love with the same man.
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The Devil to Pay!
Title: The Devil to Pay!
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
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The Costello Case
Title: The Costello Case
Character: Donnelly
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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The Dude Wrangler
Title: The Dude Wrangler
Character: Dude Guest
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
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Trigger Tricks
Title: Trigger Tricks
Character: Joe Dixon
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Out to avenge his brother's death at the hands of cattleman Kingston, Tim gets hired at Dawley's sheep ranch. The sheep men are greatly outnumbered but Tim has some tricks planned that will even the odds.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Captain
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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One Splendid Hour
Title: One Splendid Hour
Released: May 1, 1929
Type: Movie
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The Leatherneck
Title: The Leatherneck
Character: Court-Martial Officer
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
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Marked Money
Title: Marked Money
Character: Scudder
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education. The villains aren't interested at all in The Boy, but they do dearly covet the 25 grand he carries with him in a box. (From the Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_money/)
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Eagle of the Night
Title: Eagle of the Night
Released: October 20, 1928
Type: Movie
1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial from Pathe was one of the studio's last. Some pieces are no longer extant (half of chapters 3&6, all of 7, 8, and 9, and the beginning of the 10th and final chapter), but the beginning and end are there as well as enough to follow the action adequately. The surviving Grapevine print is beautifully restored and tinted in spots, although you can tell the print is deteriorated in some of the surviving sections. Basically, an inventor (Josef Swickard, in a role not unlike the one he later played in THE LOST CITY) has created a silencer/muffler for planes to silence any engine sounds, and the bad guys are out to steal the invention and put it to evil use.
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Melody of Love
Title: Melody of Love
Character: Music Publisher
Released: October 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% all-talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent the Fox Movietone sound-on-film recording system for one week, having to be filmed at night while the Fox Studio was closed down for the evenings.
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The Chinatown Mystery
Title: The Chinatown Mystery
Released: September 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
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Across the Plains
Title: Across the Plains
Character: Joe Steward
Released: June 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Helen Williams, lured to a wild cattle-town on the promise of a job learns that the job she has is not the kind she thought she had, and finds herself selling drinks and dancing with drunk cowboys in the saloon. She meets Jim Blake, the rough-and-ready foreman of the Bar-X Ranch and they fall in love. And face more than a few problems on the way to getting married.
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Women Who Dare
Title: Women Who Dare
Character: Frank Lawson
Released: March 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Film directed by Burton L. King
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Partners in Crime
Title: Partners in Crime
Character: Jake
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Richard Deming witnesses a store robbery and is taken captive by the criminals. Suspected of the crime, he is sought by the police, but his sweetheart, Marie, convinced of his innocence, enlists the help of two friends, a newspaper reporter and a half-witted detective. Hoping to win the girl's favor, the two go to the gangsters' hideout, encounter a violent gang war, and accidently set off a case of police tear bombs. The police, summoned by Marie, arrive just in time to save the kidnaped attorney.
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The Ballyhoo Buster
Title: The Ballyhoo Buster
Character: Jim Burnett
Released: January 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a reward to any spectator to last three rounds in fighting him. While in the ring, he notices in the audience the two men who stole his money. He knocks out his contestant, pursues the crooks, and recovers the money.
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Avenging Fangs
Title: Avenging Fangs
Character: Trigger Kincaid
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A dog and his dead master's brother track down murderers.
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The Silent Trailer
Title: The Silent Trailer
Character: Steve Hale
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
"Fearless" the dog saves the day in this silent short.
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Code of the Northwest
Title: Code of the Northwest
Character: Donald Stafford
Released: July 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
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Her Honor, the Governor
Title: Her Honor, the Governor
Character: Slade
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
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The Heart Of A Coward
Title: The Heart Of A Coward
Released: July 17, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Rainmaker
Title: The Rainmaker
Character: Western Doctor
Released: May 10, 1926
Type: Movie
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
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The Hurricane
Title: The Hurricane
Character: The Husband
Released: February 26, 1926
Type: Movie
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Walloping Kid
Title: Walloping Kid
Character: Don Dawson
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
A handsome boxer is sent out to manage his father's ranch. This is no easy task, as the ranch foreman's a no-good louse!
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Ridin' Wild
Title: Ridin' Wild
Character: Scarface Jordan
Released: September 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.
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Border Vengeance
Title: Border Vengeance
Character: Mark Newman - Assayer
Released: August 12, 1925
Type: Movie
After Wes Channing's partner, the feckless Buck Littleton, loses his half-interest in their ranch to gambler Flash Denby, Wes stands up against the sheriff's men when they try to seize the ranch-- land that has a gold mine on it. Denby tries to trick Mary Sims, granddaughter of Wes's neighbor Rufe Sims, into signing over the rights to the land. Denby's machinations are all set in order-- but Wes's right hook may prove to be a hell of a monkey wrench!
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Lightnin' Jack
Title: Lightnin' Jack
Character: Bud Knowles
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Lightnin' Jack travels to Arizona where he gets a job on the Manning ranch. Two men are out to get the Manning ranch and see their chance when Manning decides to use Lightnin's horse in the big race. They get Manning to bet his ranch and then kidnap Lightnin' so he won't be there to ride.
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Dynamite Dan
Title: Dynamite Dan
Character: Spike Moran
Released: October 2, 1924
Type: Movie
Dan (Kenneth MacDonald) knocks out the foreman (Boris Karloff) at his workplace so the foreman accuses him of stealing money from the company safe. Dan takes off to visit his girlfriend when they're attacked by a man who Dan eventually knocks out with a single punch. A boxing manager see this and signs him up.
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The Cowboy and the Flapper
Title: The Cowboy and the Flapper
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Fire Patrol
Title: The Fire Patrol
Character: 'Butch' Anderson
Released: August 14, 1924
Type: Movie
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Tiger Thompson
Title: Tiger Thompson
Character: Bull Dorgan
Released: July 13, 1924
Type: Movie
Tiger Thompson promises a dying train robber to mind his innocent daughter and return the stolen loot. Along the way, Thompson is attacked by the dead man's gang but manages to reach the law (and the girl) in one piece and with the stolen money intact.
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The Midnight Express
Title: The Midnight Express
Character: Detective Collins
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.
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A Two Fisted Tenderfoot
Title: A Two Fisted Tenderfoot
Released: February 13, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Daring Years
Title: The Daring Years
Character: Flagier, cabaret owner
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
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Fog Bound
Title: Fog Bound
Character: Sheriff Holmes
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent film directed by Irvin Willat
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Movie Heavy (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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A Dangerous Adventure
Title: A Dangerous Adventure
Character: Herbert Brandon
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Grace Darmond, who had made quite a splash in the 1921 (and still extant) serial The Hope Diamond Mystery, returned to the Saturday matinees as Marjorie Stanton, the treasure-hunting damsel-in-distress of A Dangerous Adventure, produced in 15 chapters and directed by two of the Warner Brothers, Sam and Jack L. Warner. Marjorie and her sister Edith (Derelys Perdue) accompany their uncle (Jack Richardson) on a treasure hunt to Darkest Africa, where the latter fiendishly attempts to sell Marjorie to Ubanga (Rex de Roselli), the local High Priest. Happily, also along for the ride is handsome MacDonald Hayden (Philo McCullough), a wild game hunter who rescues both girls from several fates worse than death.
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Fightin' Mad
Title: Fightin' Mad
Character: Amos Rawson
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGraw becomes restless, and his father decides to send him to an old friend who commands the Border Police in Texas. On the way he meets Peggy Hughes, accompanying her Uncle Graham, a customs inspector, and he retrieves her hat from the rails of a train. At the headquarters, numerous scrapes and fights win him the admiration of, and friendship with, the men. Lazaro, a Secret Service agent, invites Mrs. Graham and Peggy, who are staying at the border station, for an automobile ride, and they are captured by bandits and held for ransom. Bud and his pals deliver the ransom and discover that Lazaro is the bandit chief. Lazaro refuses to release Peggy, but a jealous rival, Nita de Garma, causes his downfall and shoots him as the Border Police arrive to rescue the party.
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Too Much Speed
Title: Too Much Speed
Character: Tyler Hellis
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
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The Show Down
Title: The Show Down
Character: Blackie
Released: February 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Cowboy Snappy Walton (Art Acord) trying to same a damsel in distress, hunting down the bad men that's troubling her in this 2-reel western.
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The Silent Avenger
Title: The Silent Avenger
Character: Irving Somers
Released: April 20, 1920
Type: Movie
The Silent Avenger is an American silent action film
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The Toll Gate
Title: The Toll Gate
Character: The Sheriff
Released: April 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Outlaw Black Deering leads a band of desperadoes, but decides to give up the bandit life. Agreeing to go on one last job with his gang, he is captured when his henchman Jordan betrays the gang for the reward. Deering escapes and determines to avenge himself on Jordan.
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The Strange Boarder
Title: The Strange Boarder
Character: Westmark
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Honest Arizona rancher Sam Gardner, goes with his motherless son Billy to the city, where he is cheated out of ten thousand dollars by a band of crooks. Taking up residence in a boardinghouse where he meets Jane Ingraham, Sam decides that the only way to regain his losses is by gambling. To achieve this, he makes friends with gambler Kittie Hinch who takes him to Jack Bloom's gambling house. When Bloom begins flirting with Hinch's wife Florry, the injured husband kills his rival and the evidence points to Sam as the killer. Jane tries to provide him with an alibi, but fails. Just as things look grim for the rancher, a wire arrives from Hinch, now in Mexico, confessing to the crime. His faith in mankind thus rewarded, Sam is free to marry Jane
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Dangerous Hours
Title: Dangerous Hours
Character: Boris Blotchi
Released: December 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Idealistic young American falls under the influence of Communist agitators.
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South o' Santa Fe
Title: South o' Santa Fe
Released: May 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A ranch owner hires a young woman (Texas Guinan) to serve as foreman over a rambunctious group of cowboys.
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The End of the Game
Title: The End of the Game
Character: Dan Middleton
Released: March 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.
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The Old Maid's Baby
Title: The Old Maid's Baby
Character: Her Father
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Christine, known as Tiny, whose mother eloped with a circus clown and became a parachutist, spends most of her time with her lame dog and an elephant.
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The Long Lane's Turning
Title: The Long Lane's Turning
Released: February 10, 1919
Type: Movie
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Wife or Country
Title: Wife or Country
Character: Dr. Meyer Stahl
Released: December 29, 1918
Type: Movie
Sylia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, she is persuaded to help the German cause and later commits suicide rather than compromise her husbands career.
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The Reckoning Day
Title: The Reckoning Day
Character: Frederick Kube
Released: October 20, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, Jane Whiting, a bright young lawyer who is engaged to Senator Wheeler, is assigned by the district attorney to expose a gang of spies who are collecting money for the German government through the operation of a fraudulent charity organization. Wheeler's son Frank has fallen in love with Lola Schram, whose pro-German mother is forcing the girl to work for Frederick Kube, the head of the spy ring, but when Kube learns of the romance, he orders Mrs. Schram to break it off. When Lola finally confesses her activities to Frank, Kube kills her and then frames Frank for the murder. Meanwhile, Jane, through the help of Jimmy and Tilly Ware, has discovered Kube's headquarters and modus operandi
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You Can't Believe Everything
Title: You Can't Believe Everything
Character: Hasty Carson
Released: June 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries to kiss Patricia , whereupon she leaps from the car and walks home. While Amy, disguised in Patricia 's clothing, accompanies Arthur to a roadhouse, Patricia , walking near the beach, sees her invalid friend, Jim Wheeler, jump into the ocean intending to kill himself. After rescuing him, Patricia persuades Jim to visit a specialist, but when she later is accused of spending the night with Arthur, she refuses to defend herself in order to conceal Jim's attempted suicide.
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Captain of His Soul
Title: Captain of His Soul
Released: February 10, 1918
Type: Movie
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Ashes of Hope
Title: Ashes of Hope
Character: 'Ace High' Lawton
Released: October 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Set in the Great White North, the film stars Bennett as the object of affections for several rugged northerners, including a couple of disreputable gamblers.
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Golden Rule Kate
Title: Golden Rule Kate
Character: 'Slick' Barney
Released: August 12, 1917
Type: Movie
The setting is the Old West town of Paradise, Nevada, where a young woman, Mercedes Murphy (played by Louise Glaum), co-owns and operates a combination saloon and dance hall called the Red Hen with her business partner, Slick Barney (played by Jack Richardson). Her little half-sister, Olive "Live" Sumner (played by Mildred Harris), who is crippled, lives with her and she makes every effort to protect the child. A tough, but good-hearted businesswoman, Mercedes shows a tender side at home with Live. Her partner, Slick, and a cowboy called the Heller (played by John Gilbert), who has a heart of gold, are both interested in Live.
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The Sawdust Ring
Title: The Sawdust Ring
Character: Colonel Simmonds
Released: July 15, 1917
Type: Movie
Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds's circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar. The original, feature-length release of "The Sawdust Ring" is not known to survive.
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Giving Becky a Chance
Title: Giving Becky a Chance
Character: Ross Benson
Released: June 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Since she is an only child, Becky Knight (Vivian Martin) is a bit spoiled by her parents (P.H. Sosso and Alice Knowland), who run a general store. They somehow manage to save up enough money to send Becky away to boarding school. The other girls come from very wealthy families and Becky allows them to believe that she comes from a rich family, too. One of her classmates invites her to her home, where she meets Tom Fielding (Jack Holt), a young doctor. He falls in love with Becky, and she never gets the opportunity to tell him the truth about her background.
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Love or Justice
Title: Love or Justice
Character: Paul Keeley
Released: June 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he meets Nan Bishop, an underworld figure. Nan's influence helps to make a man out of Dunn and with her help he breaks his dependence on drugs and is successful in obtaining a position as a criminal lawyer. Years later, they meet again in a courtroom. Nan has been falsely accused of murder and Dunn is the prosecuting attorney. Learning that Dunn's professional future depends on his winning the case, Nan pleads guilty, but, at the last minute, the real criminal is discovered and Nan is cleared of the crime. She then accepts Dunn's offer of marriage and together they look forward to a happy future.
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The Outlaw and the Lady
Title: The Outlaw and the Lady
Character: Ruth's Father
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Major Carter, owner of the Sunset mines, reads of a reward offered for Cheyenne Harry if captured. The butler gives him a telegram telling of the flooding of several shafts in his mine. He is soon on the way to the mine in his car. Ruth, his daughter, follows in her roadster.
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Beware of Strangers
Title: Beware of Strangers
Character: Professor Otto Rusburg, a Clairvoyant
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Title: The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Character: Bill
Released: January 13, 1917
Type: Movie
Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother
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Blood Money
Title: Blood Money
Character: Sam Blaire
Released: January 6, 1917
Type: Movie
The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the capture of Cheyenne Harry, accused of holding up a Wells Fargo shipment. Shortly after they have tacked the sign to a tree Cheyenne Harry removes it.
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Land O' Lizards
Title: Land O' Lizards
Character: Buck Moran
Released: September 18, 1916
Type: Movie
Eastern capitalists hire a stranger to head out to Arizona to investigate property near the Bar C Ranch, which contains gold. The Bar C is run by Buck Moran, and he and his cowboys are a lawless bunch. They don't know about the gold, but Dave Moore does, and so does his daughter Bobbie, whom he dresses up like a boy. Her true gender is eventually sussed out by the stranger.
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The Pilgrim
Title: The Pilgrim
Character: Joe Mex
Released: June 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Short western by Frank Borzage about a man called The Pilgrim who comes into a new town, establishes himself and falls in love with a woman.
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The Pitch o' Chance
Title: The Pitch o' Chance
Character: Kentuck
Released: December 24, 1915
Type: Movie
One of the earliest surviving short films by Franke Borzage. A simple western about a man who enjoys boozing, gambling and women.
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The Story of the Olive
Title: The Story of the Olive
Character: Ortega - the Foreman
Released: May 6, 1914
Type: Movie
In Southern California lived Jose de Cabrillo on an estate which he had inherited from his ancestors, who obtained the land from the King of Spain. The scene is laid in the year 1840, "Before the Gringo came." A young American, Sam Blythe. who wishes to settle in California, notices in riding by the gate of the ranch, that it is offered for sale. He says he will buy it if the olive industry is what he desires. Mercedes, the daughter of Jose, is incensed at the thought of her father's selling the ranch, and especially so when she thinks of an American as a possible owner.
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Destinies Fulfilled
Title: Destinies Fulfilled
Character: Thomas Pennington
Released: January 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Back in '65 there was an old Southern fire eater, Pennington, and his daughter, Lucille, fell in love with Carr who was then a lieutenant in the small Yankee force that arrived in their city at the base of the mountains. When the confederacy fell, Pennington fled into the mountains with his daughter, rather than submit and there buried himself in the same place where Carr now lived with Rosemary. Several years passed and Lucille did not forget Carr, her Yankee lover. It was then that fate brought them together and old Pennington finally consented to the marriage, exacting a promise from Carr, not to take Lucille away from him and her mountain home.
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American Born
Title: American Born
Character: Dick Travers
Released: December 1, 1913
Type: Movie
The dying mother, tells her only child, an orphan, of the wealth and power of her family and of her royal blood.
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Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Title: Calamity Anne Takes a Trip
Released: June 26, 1913
Type: Movie
'Calamity,' having fallen into money, receives a letter purporting to be from two long lost cousins, who were really Los Angeles confidence men. With her burro she goes to Los Angeles. After many adventures, she succeeds in getting her burro into the Pullman, and is met at the great amusement park, Venice, by the confidence men.
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Unwritten Law of the West
Title: Unwritten Law of the West
Released: June 19, 1913
Type: Movie
A Mexican girl stabs a man who has wronged her. The hero is arrested for the crime and though the crime cannot be fastened upon him, is advised by the court to leave town. His sweetheart clears him.
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Boobs and Bricks
Title: Boobs and Bricks
Character: Jasper Ragout
Released: April 21, 1913
Type: Movie
A pretty female drummer charms the rural swains. She borrows money and makes away with it. The village belle then refuses to take back her old admirers and weds another.
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Geronimo’s Last Raid
Title: Geronimo’s Last Raid
Character: Capt. Gray
Released: November 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Parker reports for duty to Major Wilkins, commanding Ft. Sill, where Geronimo is a prisoner. Parker quickly wins the love of Pauline, the major's daughter, and the undying hatred of Captain Gray. The captain plans to release Geronimo in the dead of the night, throwing the blame on Parker.
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The Wanderer
Title: The Wanderer
Character: The Troublemaker
Released: October 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A ranchman is best by a bully whose unwelcome attentions are resented by the ranchman's daughter. Everything seems to be in favor of the bully until the hero makes his appearance, when the tide changes and one defeat after another is the lot of the vicious bully until he is driven away in disgrace.
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Calamity Anne's Ward
Title: Calamity Anne's Ward
Released: September 29, 1912
Type: Movie
During the raid on an emigrant train the girl and her brother, the only survivors, are attacked by the villain who kidnaps the girl and takes her to the camp of Calamity Anne, who takes a liking to the girl and becomes her guardian angel. The girl's brother is killed and a ranger takes the locket containing the girl's picture from his neck and recognizes the girl in Calamity Anne's camp. Later, Calamity Anne holds the villain and his band at bay and the girl and the ranger make their escape. The girl and the ranger come to the spot where the girl's brother is buried and here she asks the ranger if he is going to leave her there alone. His answer is to take her into his arms.
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A Life for a Kiss
Title: A Life for a Kiss
Character: Jim Richeson
Released: August 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Jim Richeson was a haunted man, but he smiled carelessly as he handled the sign offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive. He smiled again as he wheeled his horse and galloped off down the road, waving a satirical adieu to the posse. A pretty mountain girl with pail in hand, stood at the pump when Jim rode up. He took the pail from her, drank deeply, and then, as an afterthought, seized her and kissed her heartily. Then he leisurely mounted his horse and galloped off. Furious at the insult, the girl rushed for a gun, only to meet her lover, just as he rounded the bunkhouse. That person at once flew into a passion and gave hot chase to the vanishing bandit, vowing to have his life. Meanwhile, the girl, at the head of a posse, followed less swiftly. A royal battle took place in the mountains. Dick and Jim, sheltered behind the great rocks, tried every expedient known to the West in an effort to kill each other.
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The Distant Relative
Title: The Distant Relative
Character: The Bogus Long Lost Cousin
Released: April 14, 1912
Type: Movie
The distant relative is a scheming woman who installs herself as the guardian of the two orphan girls and then tries to gain possession of their ranch. Cowboy friends of the orphan girls expose the schemer and her accomplice.
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The Mother of the Ranch
Title: The Mother of the Ranch
Character: James Collins
Released: September 14, 1911
Type: Movie
James Collins leaves his dear old mother and goes West, where he becomes connected with the Bar Diamond Outfit. He finds the life of a cowboy arduous and the pay meager. The possibilities of owning a herd of his own by blotting brands or branding calves, occurs to him, as it has to many others, who desire quick results from very little effort. Six months later, he is a full-fledged cattle thief, branding cattle, under his own registered brand, while ostensibly an honest cowboy in the employ of the Bar Diamond Ranch. He writes his mother of his success and she, never dreaming of the hazardous occupation her son is following, plans to join him in the West.
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The Cowboy and the Artist
Title: The Cowboy and the Artist
Character: Ed Gardner
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
Two guys and a girl in the wild west.
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The Poisoned Flume
Title: The Poisoned Flume
Character: John Morgan
Released: August 13, 1911
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Kendall found the management of the ranch, with its attendant responsibilities, a source of worry. Her daughter, recently returned from an Eastern boarding school, could not assist her and, although the cowboys in her employ were faithful, the ranch needed an executive head. John Morgan, a neighboring ranchman, had long cast envious eyes upon the widow's increasing herd of cattle, and desired to marry the daughter in order to obtain possession of her ranch. He offers to manage her affairs for her, but the widow distrusts him and refuses his offer.
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The Sheepman's Daughter
Title: The Sheepman's Daughter
Character: The cattleman
Released: June 1, 1911
Type: Movie
Richard Mead was a sheepherder who lived with his daughter in a hut in the mountains. He was hated by the cattlemen and was ordered to quit the range. Returning to his home he tells his daughter what has happened, and prepares to protect himself.