Paul Ellis

Paul Ellis

Born: November 6, 1896
Died: January 30, 1974
in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Movies for Paul Ellis...

The Ancines Woods
Title: The Ancines Woods
Character: Bouso
Released: April 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf and responsible for a series of killings. The local Abbot is called upon to form a team to investigate, in an effort to halt the harrowing murders.
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Los flamencos
Title: Los flamencos
Character: El Cojo
Released: March 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Diego, retired from flamenco due to an illness, is obsessed with the memory of Antonia Jiménez, a beautiful woman he loved in the past and with whom he formed an artistic duet. Now, after having triumphed on the stages of half the world, she returns from America, while he is dedicated to survive in the suburbs of Madrid mixed up in shady business. He kills the man who stole his woman. A tragedy could be sensed in the air.
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Oscuros sueños de agosto
Title: Oscuros sueños de agosto
Released: July 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides to spend the holidays with her, taking advantage of the fact that her boyfriend has gone to study in Germany. During her stay in the sanatorium, Ana meets Mario, an attractive young man somewhat unbalanced, who tries to seduce her. Although at first she does not show any interest, little by little she becomes attracted to him.
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La barrera
Title: La barrera
Released: May 16, 1966
Type: Movie
In a small town, the administrator, confronted with the baker, forbids his children fto talk with those of the baker, and vice versa. One day, Paco and Pablo, the baker's children, listen to two builders who plan to kidnap Mary, the daughter of the administrator. Children decide to keep the secret and save the girl themselves. Meanwhile, a young teacher arrives to the village with his wife and kids get back to school. But the administrator's wife is furious because it is not her brother the one who gets the job and, along with her husband, will try to convince everyone to get rid of the teacher.
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Aunt Tula
Title: Aunt Tula
Character: Tio Pedro
Released: September 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Ramiro, a bank clerk and father of two young children, has been left, after his wife's death, in the care of Tula, his sister-in-law. From the novel by Miguel de Unamuno, Miguel Picazo (" Dark dreams of August ") premieres as director with this portrait of one of those small provincial cities where nothing ever happens.
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El secreto de Tomy
Title: El secreto de Tomy
Character: Don Fabián Márquez
Released: October 14, 1963
Type: Movie
The racing stables of Gandia family go to auction. Tomy, son of the owner, manages to save his favorite horse, "Cantador". Now, his only obsession is to resolve the problems of his father, providing him a new wife and riding his horse at the races. After a while, in the Official Prize, "Cantador", ridden by Tomy wins. This fact causes everyone to be interested in the horse and eventually Tomy will be forced to auction it to liquidate their debts. But the new owner is the father of Luchy, Tomy's classmate , and he will do everything possible to recover it.
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Objetivo: las estrellas
Title: Objetivo: las estrellas
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Pachín
Title: Pachín
Released: August 7, 1961
Type: Movie
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El sol sale todos los días
Title: El sol sale todos los días
Released: January 20, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Little Nightingale
Title: The Little Nightingale
Released: February 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Joselito is a child whose mother left town when he was just a baby and whose father has died. He lives with his grandfather, the bellringer of the town, and his best friend is the sexton. He enjoys singing and has not lost hope of someday meeting her mother.
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The Land of Fire Goes Out
Title: The Land of Fire Goes Out
Released: August 31, 1955
Type: Movie
In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to live with him at his ranch. However, her past follows her, and he is forced to face it head on.
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Se necesita un hombre con cara de infeliz
Title: Se necesita un hombre con cara de infeliz
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
The head of a criminal gang hires a man to rescue some compromising documents.
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El pescador de coplas
Title: El pescador de coplas
Character: (as Manuel Granada)
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
It is the story of two brothers who have rented a boat to survive. Juan Ramón sings like an angel and an entrepreneur decides to take him to Madrid to succeed.
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Rebelión en los llanos
Title: Rebelión en los llanos
Released: December 17, 1953
Type: Movie
The town rebels against a landowner in La Rioja.
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Stella Maris
Title: Stella Maris
Released: January 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Aspects of the life of a group of fishermen.
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Derecho viejo
Title: Derecho viejo
Released: January 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Tango musician moves to France to put an unhappy love affair behind him. Inspired by the life of tango composer Eduardo Arolas.
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El seductor
Title: El seductor
Character: Roberto
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.
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El precio de una vida
Title: El precio de una vida
Released: October 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.
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What's the Matador?
Title: What's the Matador?
Character: Pedro Alverez (uncredited)
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Desperate Cargo
Title: Desperate Cargo
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Ortega (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Steward Taking Dagwood's Sandwich (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Racetrack Official (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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Arizona Gang Busters
Title: Arizona Gang Busters
Character: Henchman Mario
Released: September 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Arizona Gang Busters is another pre-WWII saber-rattler that finds a band of renegade gunmen, under the pretense of developing an irrigation project for the reclamation of arid desert land, using airplanes and parachute jumpers to gather valuable military information for a European power.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Faber - Henchman
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Los hijos mandan
Title: Los hijos mandan
Released: September 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Based on the Spanish play "El caudal de los hijos" by José López Pinillos. Francisca, the daughter of a provincial gentleman in Valencia, falls in love with Miguel, a young sculptor. When Miguel leaves for Paris to complete his studies, the lovers promise to wait for each other. During Miguel's absence, however, the Duke of Montesino calls on Francisca's father and asks for her hand in marriage. Her father, pressed for money because of gambling debts, agrees to the match.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Spanish Radio Broadcaster
Released: June 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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California Frontier
Title: California Frontier
Character: Miguel Cantova
Released: December 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Halstead forces the Land Agent to alter the records and then kicks the Mexicans off their land. Buck has been sent to investigate and quickly joins up with Juan Cantova in the fight against Halstead. To keep Buck from seeing the records, Halstead has the Agent murdered. His men then claim Juan killed him and both Buck and Juan then find themselves wanted dead or alive.
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Mis dos amores
Title: Mis dos amores
Character: El Chato
Released: October 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Rita Santiago's father, Don Antonio, stubbornly refuses to give permission for her to marry Julio Bertolin, a struggling medical student, because he wants his daughter to marry a rich Brazilian. Because of this, Julio leaves medical school and determines to gain wealth and position for himself by becoming a singer.
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Jungle Menace
Title: Jungle Menace
Character: Greenway
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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Heroes of the Alamo
Title: Heroes of the Alamo
Character: General Castillion
Released: August 7, 1937
Type: Movie
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.
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No matarás
Title: No matarás
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Antonio Guerra is an unemployed Spanish immigrant in the USA. His brother and mother in Spain haven't heard about him for many years or even receive a letter. But one day, his brother receives a letter from him, telling that things are going well. But the reality is other. Antonio is passing a hard time in New Yor City, suffering the Years of Depression as many out of workers. One day, Antonio meets a nice Cuban seller, who invites him to eat at his poor house. The seller advices Antonio to visit a man, who has contacts and could help him to find a job. Nevertheless, Antonio is send with the leader of a group of gangsters, dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcohol. Antonio is offered a work of dealer, but he won't do anything out of the law.
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Fatal Lady
Title: Fatal Lady
Character: Paris Cafe Guest (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
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Marihuana
Title: Marihuana
Character: Tony Santello
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
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The House of a Thousand Candles
Title: The House of a Thousand Candles
Character: Agent
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Tony Cosmato (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Lavelle, the jewel thief
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
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Rip Roaring Riley
Title: Rip Roaring Riley
Character: Franko - Henchman
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Ted Riley is ordered to investigate happenings at Diamond Island, where a bogus Major Gray is reported engaged in manufacturing a new brand of secret gas for his own purposes. Riley blows up his motor boat just off the island and is picked up by Gray's men. On the island he discovers chemist Professor Baker (John Cowell) and his daughter, Anne, are held captive by Major Gray.
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Title: Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
Character: Enrico Garcia
Released: October 20, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal an island's oil reserves.
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Captured in Chinatown
Title: Captured in Chinatown
Character: Zamboni
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.
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Fighting Caballero
Title: Fighting Caballero
Character: Henchman
Released: May 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Desperados menace a mining operation.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Carlos Duran
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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Women Must Dress
Title: Women Must Dress
Character: Raphela Mendoza
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: Dancer (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Pinkerton in 'Madame Butterfly'
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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The Woman Condemned
Title: The Woman Condemned
Character: Dapper Dan
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
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Secret Sinners
Title: Secret Sinners
Character: Travers - the Gigolo
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A young, unmarried theatrical couple befriend an out-of-work housekeeper and introduce her to another new acquaintance, a man of means, unaware that he is married and going through a messy divorce.
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No Man of Her Own
Title: No Man of Her Own
Character: Vargas
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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Smuggling
Title: Smuggling
Character: (as Manuel Granado)
Released: September 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Contrabando is an adventure film. The film tells of the millionaire Hernández who smuggles weapons from the United States into Mexico. He does this because he is planning an uprising. The hotel attendant Carlos is informed of this. Hernández and his troops are defeated by the army. Carlos is acquitted and can marry his lover Lolita. The film Contrabando was shot in locations on the border with the United States, such as Tijuana, Ensenada and Playas de Rosarito. It was shot in Spanish and in English under the title Contraband. The role of Lolita was cast for the English version with Dorothy Sebastian. Contrabando's plot was inspired by an actual 1929 rebellion led by José Gonzalo Escobar.
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The men in my life
Title: The men in my life
Character: Count Ivan Karloff
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Alternate-language version of Men in Her Life (1931)
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The Common Law
Title: The Common Law
Character: Querido
Released: July 17, 1931
Type: Movie
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
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Messing Around
Title: Messing Around
Released: April 8, 1931
Type: Movie
Alternate-language version of Rough Seas (1931)
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Gaucho soul
Title: Gaucho soul
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Elsa, a young girl from Buenos Aires, visits her aunt and uncle, Don Alfredo and Doña Cristina, at their ranch. While playing golf, Elsa meets a gaucho, Antonio, and is enchanted by his exquisite singing voice.
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Charros, gauchos y manolas
Title: Charros, gauchos y manolas
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The magazine "Paintings of the People" initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs. A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting, and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico, Argentina and Spain, his paintings come to life. In Xochimilco, Mexico, a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Baker's famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub. In Buenos Aires, an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl. At the other side of the Hispanic world, a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador, who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Crook
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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The Beautiful Spy
Title: The Beautiful Spy
Character: Balcarce
Released: May 10, 1928
Type: Movie
A complete version of the film is held by Cineteca Del Friuli.
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Bitter Apples
Title: Bitter Apples
Character: Stefani Blanco
Released: April 23, 1927
Type: Movie
John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt company's investors, facing financial ruin, kills himself, leaving a son and a daughter, both of whom blame the Wyncote family for their loss and vow to take their revenge on them.
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Three Hours
Title: Three Hours
Character: Gilbert Wainwright
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.
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The Dancer of Paris
Title: The Dancer of Paris
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Pace That Thrills
Title: The Pace That Thrills
Character: Toreador
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
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Pretty Ladies
Title: Pretty Ladies
Character: Warren Hadley
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Maggie, a headlining comedienne with the Follies, takes a fall off the stage into the orchestra pit and lands on the drum of musician Al Cassidy. One thing leads to another, they fall in love and get married. Al becomes a famous songwriter and Maggie stays home and has children. One day Al is hired to write a big number for Selma Larson, one of the Follies' most beautiful stars, and falls for her.
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The Bandolero
Title: The Bandolero
Character: Ramon
Released: October 20, 1924
Type: Movie
When his wife is killed by the evil Marques de Bazan, Spanish army officer Dorando becomes a notorious outlaw known as El Bandolero. He kidnaps Bazan's son Ramon and has him raised by one of his own men. When Ramon grows up to be a man he meets and falls in love with El Bandolero's beautiful daughter Petra. Bandolero forbids his daughter from seeing Ramon, so Ramon leaves to become a bullfighter. A vengeful young woman he has spurned sets up Ramon to be gored by a vicious young bull. Complications ensue.