Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt

Born: March 18, 1874
Died: January 4, 1953
in Georgetown, Colorado, USA

Movies for Arthur Hoyt...

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Title: The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Character: J.P. Blackstone
Released: April 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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Hail the Conquering Hero
Title: Hail the Conquering Hero
Character: Rev. Upperman (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1944
Type: Movie
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Mr. Quink
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Title: My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Character: Smith, Faculty Member
Released: November 7, 1942
Type: Movie
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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Apache Trail
Title: Apache Trail
Character: Meredith - Stage Passenger (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
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The Palm Beach Story
Title: The Palm Beach Story
Character: Pullman Conductor
Released: August 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
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Sullivan's Travels
Title: Sullivan's Travels
Character: Preacher at Revival Mission (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
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They Meet Again
Title: They Meet Again
Character: Redmond, Governor's Secretary
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of embezzlement charges.
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The Lady Eve
Title: The Lady Eve
Character: Lawyer at Phone in Pike's Office (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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Christmas in July
Title: Christmas in July
Character: Mild Juror (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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Hullabaloo
Title: Hullabaloo
Character: Audition Official
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Mr. Hines - Floorwalker (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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The Great McGinty
Title: The Great McGinty
Character: Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Released: August 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Title: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Character: Little Man
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Loftus (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Police Prompter
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Made for Each Other
Title: Made for Each Other
Character: Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
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The Cowboy and the Lady
Title: The Cowboy and the Lady
Character: Valet (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Mr. Petewyler (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Girls on Probation
Title: Girls on Probation
Character: Mr. Engstrom
Released: October 22, 1938
Type: Movie
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
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The Sisters
Title: The Sisters
Character: Tom Selig
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Rage of Paris
Title: The Rage of Paris
Character: Assistant Manager (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ritzy New York City hotel, the trio plot to have Gloria catch the eye of Bill Duncan, a millionaire staying at the hotel. The plan works and the two quickly become engaged. Nicole's plan may be thwarted by Bill's friend, Jim Trevor, who's met Nicole before and sees through her plot.
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The Devil's Party
Title: The Devil's Party
Character: Webster
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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One Wild Night
Title: One Wild Night
Character: McBride (uncredited)
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Fred - Chief Councilman
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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Start Cheering
Title: Start Cheering
Character: Librarian
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
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The Black Doll
Title: The Black Doll
Character: Coroner
Released: January 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
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Love Takes Flight
Title: Love Takes Flight
Character: Grey
Released: November 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Dr. Shuttle
Released: October 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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The Wrong Road
Title: The Wrong Road
Character: Beamish
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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It's All Yours
Title: It's All Yours
Character: Dabney
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco. Linda Gray is a mouse-like secretary to the elder Barnes who has fallen in love with Jimmy, but he favors actress Constance "Connie" Marlowe. Mr. Barnes dies and leaves everything to Linda but he has urged his partner, Alexander Duncan, to plan things so that Jimmy and Linda will get married. Coached by Duncan, Linda accepts the inheritance and announces that she is departing for New York on a wild spending spree. He tells Jimmy that the will can be broken but only after many months and he suggests that Jimmy follow Linda and curb her spending or there won't be any money left. In New York, Linda hires Jimmy as her private secretary. Connie also arrives in New York, as does the ingenious Baron Rene de Montigny with the intention of marrying the wealthy Miss Gray.
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She's No Lady
Title: She's No Lady
Character: Mr. Douglas
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Alden "Bill" Carter III sees a beautiful woman, Jerry, dining alone at the Park Savoy in New York, and after a brief flirtation, introduces himself. After he entreats her to be his "mystery woman" to make his girl friend jealous, Jerry agrees to attend a reception that night with him at the Douglas home. This plays right into Jerry's plans, as she is a jewel thief who intends to steal the Douglas jewels with her cohorts, Uncle John and Jeff...
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Easy Living
Title: Easy Living
Character: Jeweler (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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Paradise Express
Title: Paradise Express
Character: Phineas K. Trotter
Released: February 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
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Join the Marines
Title: Join the Marines
Character: Capt. James
Released: January 25, 1937
Type: Movie
New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the team. Joining the Marines to win the Colonel's approval many adventures follow.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Furniture Salesman (Uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
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Smartest Girl in Town
Title: Smartest Girl in Town
Character: Wedding Minister
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
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How to Be a Detective
Title: How to Be a Detective
Character: Worried Citizen (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1936
Type: Movie
This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
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Don't Turn 'em Loose
Title: Don't Turn 'em Loose
Character: Judge Bass - Head of Parole Board
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
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Lady Luck
Title: Lady Luck
Character: J. Baldwin Hemingway
Released: September 13, 1936
Type: Movie
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is announced the winner of $2,500 and a ticket worth $150,000 for champion horse Lady Luck, if the horse wins an upcoming race, Mamie is pursued by wealthy sportsman Jack Conroy and nightclub owner and racketeer Tony Morelli.
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Walking on Air
Title: Walking on Air
Character: Mr. Thompson (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.
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Sing, Baby, Sing
Title: Sing, Baby, Sing
Character: Mr. Vissinger
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: James Morpher
Released: July 27, 1936
Type: Movie
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Title: Poor Little Rich Girl
Character: Percival Gooch
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
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Early to Bed
Title: Early to Bed
Character: Smithers
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Grouch (uncredited)
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Budington (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Mr. Pinkley
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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Magnificent Obsession
Title: Magnificent Obsession
Character: Perry
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
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$1,000 a Minute
Title: $1,000 a Minute
Character: Jewel clerk
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Two rich and wealthy millionaires who have a lot of money bet that reporter Wally Jones can't spend $720,000 in twelve hours.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Titwillow
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to build a factory.
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Men of Action
Title: Men of Action
Character: Mr. Evans
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
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The Raven
Title: The Raven
Character: Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
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Chinatown Squad
Title: Chinatown Squad
Character: William Ward
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.
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Traveling Saleslady
Title: Traveling Saleslady
Character: Delegate (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and a crazy inventor. Together they create "Cocktail Toothpaste". The new concoction tastes like whiskey in the morning, a martini at suppertime, and champagne at night.
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A Night at the Ritz
Title: A Night at the Ritz
Character: Mr. Hassler
Released: March 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Title: Murder on a Honeymoon
Character: Dr. O'Rourke
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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One Hour Late
Title: One Hour Late
Character: Barlow
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Willis Ivans
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Mr. Smith
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
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I Sell Anything
Title: I Sell Anything
Character: Franj Entwistle (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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No Ransom
Title: No Ransom
Character: Grant
Released: October 7, 1934
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Assistant to Dean
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Wake Up and Dream
Title: Wake Up and Dream
Character: George Spelvin
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
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Kansas City Princess
Title: Kansas City Princess
Character: Mr. Greenway
Released: September 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Justice of the Peace (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Springtime for Henry
Title: Springtime for Henry
Character: Alfred Ordway
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. The rake is tempted, but then decides he prefers the married woman, which is fine with her husband who has an eye for the secretary.
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One More River
Title: One More River
Character: Perkins (Uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1934
Type: Movie
A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
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Hat, Coat and Glove
Title: Hat, Coat and Glove
Character: James Gardner (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1934
Type: Movie
A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
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Let's Try Again
Title: Let's Try Again
Character: Phillips
Released: July 6, 1934
Type: Movie
To divorce, or not to divorce. That is the question pondered by a married couple of 10 years who miss their burning desire for each other (Clive Brook and Diana Wynyard) in this 1934 film directed by Worthington Miner.
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Unknown Blonde
Title: Unknown Blonde
Character: Mr. Vail
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Zeke
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
Andy is a rich and well-respected man. But he's concerned what sort of boyfriend his daughter might have gotten as she's talking marriage and her previous boyfriends were very short-term and he didn't like them very much. So, when he learns where this boyfriend works, he goes undercover as a porter there to spy on him. Unfortunately, he ends up befriending the wrong folks and thinks the boyfriend is a crook...when it's really these new 'friends' who are jewel thieves.
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The 9th Guest
Title: The 9th Guest
Character: Osgood's Secretary (Uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
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Hold Your Temper
Title: Hold Your Temper
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
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In the Money
Title: In the Money
Character: Professor Higginbottom
Released: November 6, 1933
Type: Movie
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the formerly-affluent family loses its income. Levelheaded oldest daughter Lambie struggles to make ends meet but has trouble persuading her carefree, profligate siblings to cut down on their spending. Youngest brother Dick enters a motorcycle race to win $500, but crashes his bike on the speedway and is paralyzed. Shocked into reality by the tragedy, Lambie's younger sister Babs persuades ex-prizefighter Gunboat Bimms to enter the ring one last time in hopes of winning a purse that will pay for Dick's surgery.
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The Chief
Title: The Chief
Character: Man at Alderman Meeting
Released: November 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Burton (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Curtain at Eight
Title: Curtain at Eight
Character: Watkins, theater watchman
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
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Ann Vickers
Title: Ann Vickers
Character: Mr. Penny (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1933
Type: Movie
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
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Shanghai Madness
Title: Shanghai Madness
Character: Van Emery
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
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A Shriek in the Night
Title: A Shriek in the Night
Character: Wilfred
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Rival newspaper reporters Pat Morgan and Ted Rand find themselves unraveling the mystery behind the death of a millionaire philanthropist who fell from his penthouse balcony. When it is discovered that the plunge was not an accident, the building's residents come under suspicion. Soon, the body count begins to mount as three more murders occur by strangulation.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Businessman
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Roger (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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His Private Secretary
Title: His Private Secretary
Character: Little
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: John Harper, Realtor (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
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Pleasure Cruise
Title: Pleasure Cruise
Character: Rollins
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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The Eleventh Commandment
Title: The Eleventh Commandment
Character: Charlie Moore
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
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Daring Daughters
Title: Daring Daughters
Character: Hubbard
Released: March 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
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Dangerously Yours
Title: Dangerously Yours
Character: Dr. Ryder
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
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Goldie Gets Along
Title: Goldie Gets Along
Character: Mayor Silas C. Simms
Released: January 27, 1933
Type: Movie
A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
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No Other Woman
Title: No Other Woman
Character: Bridge Player
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Title: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Character: Dr. Meeker (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Mr. Russell, Attorney (Uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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Red Haired Alibi
Title: Red Haired Alibi
Character: Waiter at Peacock Inn
Released: October 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round
Character: Willis
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...
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Vanity Street
Title: Vanity Street
Character: Albert Kerr
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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The Crusader
Title: The Crusader
Character: Oscar Shane
Released: October 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
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The All-American
Title: The All-American
Character: Smythe
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
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American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Ives
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
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The Devil and the Deep
Title: The Devil and the Deep
Character: Mr. Planet
Released: August 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Naval commander Charles Storm has made life miserable for his wife Diana due to his insane jealousy over every man she speaks to. His obsessive behavior soon drives her to the arms of a handsome lieutenant. When Charles learns of their affair, he plots revenge.
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Madame Racketeer
Title: Madame Racketeer
Character: Shiffem
Released: July 23, 1932
Type: Movie
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
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Dynamite Ranch
Title: Dynamite Ranch
Character: Smithers
Released: July 7, 1932
Type: Movie
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
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Make Me a Star
Title: Make Me a Star
Character: Hardy Powell
Released: July 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
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New Morals for Old
Title: New Morals for Old
Character: Art Student (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.
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Love in High Gear
Title: Love in High Gear
Character: Thaddeus Heath
Released: May 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
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The Impatient Maiden
Title: The Impatient Maiden
Character: Mr. Thomas
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected.
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Peach-o-Reno
Title: Peach-o-Reno
Character: Secretary
Released: December 25, 1931
Type: Movie
After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law-firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town.
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Take 'em and Shake 'em
Title: Take 'em and Shake 'em
Released: September 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Take 'em and Shake 'em is a 1931 Comedy short.
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Side Show
Title: Side Show
Character: Dr. Martin
Released: September 19, 1931
Type: Movie
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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Gold Dust Gertie
Title: Gold Dust Gertie
Character: Minister Tate
Released: June 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
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Blondes Prefer Bonds
Title: Blondes Prefer Bonds
Character: The Husband
Released: May 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Louise Fazdenda decides to get a make-over to rekindle the romance in her marriage. Somehow the rejuvenation process takes them back to the time of their courtship...the big hats and big bustles. Neither does much to rekindle the husband's dying flame but does attract the attention of a couple of other men.
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Inspiration
Title: Inspiration
Character: Gavarni
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
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The Criminal Code
Title: The Criminal Code
Character: Leonard Nettleford
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
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Going Wild
Title: Going Wild
Character: Robert Story
Released: December 21, 1930
Type: Movie
Rollo and Lane just happen to be tossed off the train at White Beach where Robert Story -Air ace and writer- is supposed to stop. It is a case of mistaken identity as no one knows what Story looks like. So they get free room and meals at the Palm Inn and everything is going well until they want Story to fly in the race on Saturday. Rollo has never even be up in a plane, never mind fly one, so he must figure a way out. But the girls have everything bet on his winning the race. Written by Tony Fontana
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Along Came Youth
Title: Along Came Youth
Character: Adkins (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1930
Type: Movie
An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain near the aristocratic lady he would woo.
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The Life of the Party
Title: The Life of the Party
Character: Secretary
Released: October 25, 1930
Type: Movie
Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.
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On Your Back
Title: On Your Back
Character: Victor
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
On Your Back is a 1930 American drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and written by Howard J. Green. The film stars Irene Rich, Raymond Hackett, H. B. Warner, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Shilling and Ilka Chase.
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Night Work
Title: Night Work
Character: George Twining
Released: August 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.
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Dumb-bells in Ermine
Title: Dumb-bells in Ermine
Character: Siegfried Strong
Released: May 10, 1930
Type: Movie
In a small town in Virginia, Faith Corey, daughter of a socially prominent family, meets and falls in love with Jerry Malone, a prizefighter, though her straitlaced mother wants her to marry Siegfried, a spellbinding "missionary reformer." Though Grandma Corey promotes the romance with the prizefighter, Mike, the fighter's hardboiled, wisecracking manager, tries to keep them apart; following a quarrel, Faith reconciles herself to marrying Siegfried, but when he invites a group of "weak sisters" to a revival meeting, he is disgraced when one accuses him of her downfall. Finally, with Mike's advice, Jerry wins back Faith and they are united with the family's blessings.
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The Girl Said No
Title: The Girl Said No
Character: The Minister
Released: March 15, 1930
Type: Movie
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.
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Seven Days Leave
Title: Seven Days Leave
Character: Mr. Willings
Released: January 24, 1930
Type: Movie
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is shocked when he shows up on her doorstep, and they make an agreement that he will pretend to be her son. "Seven Days Leave" is a screen adaption of James M. Barrie's play, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals."
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Peacock Alley
Title: Peacock Alley
Character: Crosby
Released: January 4, 1930
Type: Movie
Claire Tree spends the night in the hotel room of her friend and confidante, saying goodbye to him before her impending marriage the following day. When she returns to the hotel with her husband the following night, the house detective accuses her of prostitution and throws them out. Now Claire must explain everything to her unsympathetic husband.
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Her Private Affair
Title: Her Private Affair
Character: Michael Sturm
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
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Say It with Songs
Title: Say It with Songs
Character: Mr. Jones
Released: August 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
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The Wheel of Life
Title: The Wheel of Life
Character: George Faraker
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the sake of the Regiment. He goes so far as to resign from his commission and returns to India as a civilian.
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: Hoyt
Released: February 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A crotchety old coot wants his son and daughter-in-law to have kids so he can have grandchildren, but so far they haven't done so. In a somewhat ham-handed attempt to bring them closer together so they'll be in the mood to give them the grandchildren he wants, he winds up bringing them to the point where they're considering divorcing. He decides to change his tactics in order to achieve his goal.
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: Thorne
Released: December 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young fellow who earns a precarious living demonstrating an elastic exerciser in a drugstore window. Fannie and Joe set a date to be married, but the wedding is called off when Fannie finds Joe making love to her unprincipled sister, Edna. Fannie auditions for Landau, a theatrical producer, and goes on the Broadway stage. Fannie is a great success, and she and Joe soon find their way back into each other's arms.
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Home, James
Title: Home, James
Character: William Waller (floorwalker)
Released: October 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
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Just Married
Title: Just Married
Character: Steward
Released: August 18, 1928
Type: Movie
After many outrageous moments, a young girl marries her former acquaintance, not with her fiancee.
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A Texas Steer
Title: A Texas Steer
Character: Knott Innitt
Released: December 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Laconic cowboy Maverick Brander just happens to be a very wealthy rancher, but the money doesn't really mean that much to him. The same can't be said for his social-climbing wife and his man-crazy daughter Bossy. His wife, with the help of some political bosses, helps Maverick get elected to Congress, where he manages to get in all sorts of trouble, including getting blackmailed by opponents of a bill he's trying to get passed.
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Shanghai Bound
Title: Shanghai Bound
Character: Algy
Released: October 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and hold the others hostage as part of his campaign of destruction against all white men.
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Ten Modern Commandments
Title: Ten Modern Commandments
Character: George Disbrow
Released: July 27, 1927
Type: Movie
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
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Tillie the Toiler
Title: Tillie the Toiler
Character: Mr. Smythe
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: King's Secretary
Released: March 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Jack Holt stars as Ben Wade, a rancher framed on a robbery charge by crooked lawyer Harkness (Charles Sellon).
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An Affair of the Follies
Title: An Affair of the Follies
Character: The Inventor
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the Follies. The husband doesn't like the idea at all, and they wind up separating. One night the clerk and his friend, an inventor, are dining at a restaurant, and the inventor is lamenting that he has a great invention but can't get in to see a millionaire named Hammersley in order get get financial backing. They don't know that Hammersley happens to be sitting at the next table. The three strike up a conversation and become friends. However, there's another thing Jerry also doesn't know--Hammersley is in love with Tamara and, in fact, she is going to his house that night to see him.
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Dreams of Monte Carlo
Title: Dreams of Monte Carlo
Character: Bancroft
Released: November 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Three girls from a small town win a trip to Monte Carlo. The trip was sponsored by their local newspaper, which sends along its ace reporter Bancroft as their "chaperone".
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Up in Mabel's Room
Title: Up in Mabel's Room
Character: Simpson
Released: June 20, 1926
Type: Movie
Mabel catches her husband buying lingerie, and he won't explain who it's for. She divorces him, but later learns he was buying her an anniversary gift. She becomes determined to win him back.
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Footloose Widows
Title: Footloose Widows
Character: Henry
Released: June 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
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The Midnight Sun
Title: The Midnight Sun
Character: Yessky - Kusmin's Secretary
Released: April 23, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Crown of Lies
Title: The Crown of Lies
Character: Fritz
Released: March 27, 1926
Type: Movie
Romantic drama directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
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Eve's Lover
Title: Eve's Lover
Character: Amos Potts
Released: July 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.
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Any Woman
Title: Any Woman
Character: Jones
Released: May 4, 1925
Type: Movie
When Ellen Linden comes back home from finishing school, she finds out that her wealthy father has lost all his money. She must get a job to help support the family, and goes to work as a secretary in the brokerage firm of Phillips and Rand. Both partners find themselves attracted to her, but each has a different approach: Phillipls takes the rough, aggressive route and Rand does the opposite, complimenting and flattering her at every opportunity. However, she falls in love with Tom Galloway, a young inventor who has come up with a new type of soft drink, "Here's How". in which Ellen attempts to interest the brokers. Phillips, however, doesn't take rejection lightly and schemes to break up Ellen and Galloway using his unwitting partner.
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The Sporting Venus
Title: The Sporting Venus
Character: Detective
Released: April 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Familiar story of spoiled heiress, Blanche Sweet, who dabbles in romance with commoner Ronald Colman. They roam the highlands together hunting since this is Sweet's "sport." They seem to have an idyllic affair going when into the mix comes an impoverished prince (Lew Cody). He determines to steal away the heiress and pay off his creditors. Indeed, this is the plan he shares with them.
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Head Winds
Title: Head Winds
Character: Winthrop Van Felt
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Peter kidnaps Patricia to prevent her from marrying the wrong man.
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The Lost World
Title: The Lost World
Character: Prof. Summerlee
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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Sundown
Title: Sundown
Character: Henry Crawley
Released: November 30, 1924
Type: Movie
Cattlemen attempt to keep their lands and herds from being overrun by nesters.
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To the Ladies
Title: To the Ladies
Character: Tom Baker
Released: October 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Three clerks for the Kincaid Piano Company -- Leonard Beebe, Chester Mullin, and Tom Baker are in competition for a promotion to factory manager.
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Daring Youth
Title: Daring Youth
Character: Winston Howell
Released: February 1, 1924
Type: Movie
On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
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The Love Piker
Title: The Love Piker
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
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Souls for Sale
Title: Souls for Sale
Character: Jimmy Leland (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
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The White Flower
Title: The White Flower
Character: Gregory Bolton
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
Konia Markham, the daughter of an American father and a Hawaiian mother, is told by a sorceress that the man who presents her with a perfect white flower will be her true love. When Bob Rutherford offers a gardenia to Konia at a banquet, David Panuahi, a rejected suitor, becomes even more jealous and persuades Konia to have the kahuna put a death curse on Bob's fiancee, Ethel Granville. Bob's devotion to a failing Ethel softens Konia, however, and she has the curse removed. She is about to jump into a volcano when Bob, now released by Ethel from their engagement, finds her and declares his love.
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The Strangers' Banquet
Title: The Strangers' Banquet
Character: Morel
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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Little Wildcat
Title: Little Wildcat
Character: Mr. Wilding
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
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The Top of New York
Title: The Top of New York
Character: Mr. Brady
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Hilda lives in a tenement apartment with her aunt, Mrs. Brady, and her crippled younger brother Micky, and works in a department store where her boss lusts after her. But happiness comes into her life when she meets artist Emery Gray. Gray's wife deserted him long ago, leaving him with their daughter Susan (Mary Jane Irving) to raise. While Susan and Micky become playmates, Hilda restores Gray's faith in womanhood.
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Kissed
Title: Kissed
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Constance Keener, who is betrothed to young millionaire Merton Torrey, confesses to him her desire for romance such as he does not give her. On the occasion of a masquerade ball, Torrey is unable to escort her; and while she is alone on the balcony, someone suddenly seizes and kisses her, then disappears. She attempts to discover her assailant's identity.
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The Foolish Age
Title: The Foolish Age
Character: Lester Hicks
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
After graduating from college, rich girl Margery Carr decides to do some good in the world. Much to the chagrin of her father, she decides to open an office to help derelicts. For her secretary, she picks an ex-gangster named Bubbs out of the throng.
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Red Courage
Title: Red Courage
Character: Nathan Hitch
Released: October 10, 1921
Type: Movie
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Joe Reedly. The pair give the editor $100 and get a bill of sale for the newspaper, only to find out later that Reedly holds a mortgage of $200 against it. This they pay off and start a campaign to clean up the town. They meet with considerable opposition until they enlist the services of Judge Fay.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: Count de Varville
Released: September 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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Don't Neglect Your Wife
Title: Don't Neglect Your Wife
Character: Ben Travers
Released: July 31, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of a prominent San Francisco doctor, feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself attracted to a young newspaper reporter. ...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Lieutenant Schnitz
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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In the Heart of a Fool
Title: In the Heart of a Fool
Character: Mortie Sands
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
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Trumpet Island
Title: Trumpet Island
Character: Henry Caron
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
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The Desperate Hero
Title: The Desperate Hero
Character: Whitty
Released: June 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Henry Baird, a young newspaperman with a second-hand car but little money, decides to raffle off the car at a county picnic, so that he can take out his sweetheart, Mabel Darrow, the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, as soon as Henry gets the money, his tailor demands that he pay off his debt. Also, youngsters set the car on fire before he can give to the winner, Joseph Plant, whose wife Evelyn was formerly Henry's sweetheart.
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Nurse Marjorie
Title: Nurse Marjorie
Character: Anthony, Duke of Donegal
Released: April 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
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The Grim Game
Title: The Grim Game
Character: Dr. Harvey Tyson
Released: October 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
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The Yellow Dog
Title: The Yellow Dog
Character: Albert Walker
Released: November 4, 1918
Type: Movie
In the small shipbuilding town of Danforth, Albert Walker realizes, to his distress, that German sympathizers, spies and draft evaders, by voicing doubts about the United States' involvement in the war, are having a disastrous effect on the patriotic spirit of the townspeople.
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Mr. Opp
Title: Mr. Opp
Character: Mr. D. Webster Opp
Released: August 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.
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Bringing Home Father
Title: Bringing Home Father
Character: Pa Swazey
Released: June 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he agrees to help Mrs Swazey in her campaign to become elected.
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The Man Who Took a Chance
Title: The Man Who Took a Chance
Character: James
Released: January 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Monty Gray returns to the US after spending 10 years building railroads in China. As he enters a hotel he runs into an old friend from college whom he hasn't seen in years, and they begin catching up on old times. Monty notices a picture of a young woman that his friend is carrying and, bowled over by her beauty, he instantly falls for her.
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Little Partner
Title: Little Partner
Character: Reggie
Released: December 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The father is hanged and the girl, unknowing the real truth, becomes the ward of two young and successful miners.
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The Devil's Bondwoman
Title: The Devil's Bondwoman
Character: The Alchemist
Released: November 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners. When Mason falls in love with Beverly Hope, however, he rejects Doria, who, out of revenge, tells John that Mason tried to seduce her and then begs her husband to ruin him.
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A Stranger from Somewhere
Title: A Stranger from Somewhere
Character: Daniel Darling
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
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Love Never Dies
Title: Love Never Dies
Character: Monsieur Jarnier
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
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The Heart of a Show Girl
Title: The Heart of a Show Girl
Released: August 28, 1916
Type: Movie
Elspeth Marner is a seventeen-year-old premiere danseuse. Frank Masterson is the most hated as well as the most respected critic of dramatic art in New York. When the story opens, Elspeth, flushed with applause, enters her dressing room where her mother and the maid rush to do her bidding. The next morning, in bed, Elspeth reads Masterson's scathing criticism: that her real name is doubtless Lizzie Schmitt; that she is spoiled and petulant and not at all a lady, etc. Elspeth is furious, hysterical, angry and her mother, after telephoning Masterson to tell him her opinion of him, calls in the doctor.