Murdock MacQuarrie

Murdock MacQuarrie

Born: August 25, 1878
Died: August 22, 1942
in San Francisco, California, USA
Murdock MacQuarrie was born on August 25, 1878 in San Francisco, California, as Murdock J. MacQuarrie. He was an actor and director, known for Modern Times (1936), By the Sun's Rays (1914) and Nancy's Birthright (1916). He was married to Claire M. He died on August 22, 1942 in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Murdock MacQuarrie...

Cat People
Title: Cat People
Character: Sheep Caretaker (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
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The Omaha Trail
Title: The Omaha Trail
Character: Oxen Owner
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Hickory Jake
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Ghost Town Law
Title: Ghost Town Law
Character: Judge Crail (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
When two of their Marshal friends are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to investigate. They have to find the killers in a ghost town where the houses and an old mine are interconnected by secret passages and tunnels.
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Woman of the Year
Title: Woman of the Year
Character: Head Copy Reader (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
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Man from Montana
Title: Man from Montana
Character: Joel Preston
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: 1st Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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The Mummy's Hand
Title: The Mummy's Hand
Character: Temple Priest (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Kenyon
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Boys of the City
Title: Boys of the City
Character: Man on Sidewalk Watching Fight
Released: July 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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Pinto Canyon
Title: Pinto Canyon
Character: Rancher Barnes
Released: April 30, 1940
Type: Movie
In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The leader of the rustlers, rancher Farley (Ted Adams), hires killer Pete Childers (George Cheseboro) to impersonate a deputy sheriff and gain Sheriff Hall's confidence.
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An Angel from Texas
Title: An Angel from Texas
Character: Lone Star Townsman
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
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The House of the Seven Gables
Title: The House of the Seven Gables
Character: Town Gossip
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
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The Showdown
Title: The Showdown
Character: Zeke
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
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The Shadow
Title: The Shadow
Character: Richards
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
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Death Rides the Range
Title: Death Rides the Range
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
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Cowboys from Texas
Title: Cowboys from Texas
Character: Congressman
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
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Tower of London
Title: Tower of London
Character: Councilman (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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At the Circus
Title: At the Circus
Character: Attendant (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Title: Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character: Bill - a Settler
Released: July 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
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Wolf Call
Title: Wolf Call
Character: Miner
Released: May 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
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Smoky Trails
Title: Smoky Trails
Character: Will Archer (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: March 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
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The Phantom Stage
Title: The Phantom Stage
Character: John Scott -Stage Agent (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: February 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Carson and sidekick Grizzly take a job driving a stage for a line that is being repeatedly robbed. The culprits place a large box on the stage in which Runt can hide and steal the gold without the driver or guard knowing it. When Bob realizes what is happening, he replaces Runt in the box in hope of catching the outlaws.
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Honor of the West
Title: Honor of the West
Character: Hank (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: January 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Engineer
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Ghost Town Riders
Title: Ghost Town Riders
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly and eventually realizes Gomer is up to something. When Gomer's henchman slips and reveals there is a letter, Bob finds it and heads for the tax collector with Gomer's men in pursuit.
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The Jury's Secret
Title: The Jury's Secret
Character: Flood Victim
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
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The Fighting Texan
Title: The Fighting Texan
Character: Jim Perkins
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A rancher finds that his stock of horses is mysteriously being depleted, and discovers that a ranch near him has had a sudden upsurge in its horse population.
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
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Stormy Trails
Title: Stormy Trails
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
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Great Guy
Title: Great Guy
Character: Mr. Marvin (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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Shakedown
Title: Shakedown
Character: Attendant (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
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Fury
Title: Fury
Character: Dawson's Friend (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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Pinto Rustlers
Title: Pinto Rustlers
Character: Ed Walton (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: May 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Tom Evans is a young cowboy orphaned by a band of rustlers. Seeking revenge, Tom pretends to be a notorious ex-con and manages to worm his way into the gang in order to get the goods on the bunch.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: J. Widdecombe Billows
Released: February 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
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I'll Name the Murderer
Title: I'll Name the Murderer
Character: Wreck Witness (Uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
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The New Frontier
Title: The New Frontier
Character: Tom Lewis
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Stockbroker
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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The Laramie Kid
Title: The Laramie Kid
Character: Dad Bland
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.
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Silent Valley
Title: Silent Valley
Character: Barnes
Released: May 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A sheriff tracking a gang of rustlers discovers that one of them is the brother of his fiance.
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Bride of Frankenstein
Title: Bride of Frankenstein
Character: Sympathetic Villager (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
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Stone of Silver Creek
Title: Stone of Silver Creek
Character: George J. Mason
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
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North of Arizona
Title: North of Arizona
Character: Marshal Herron
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.
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Chandu on the Magic Island
Title: Chandu on the Magic Island
Character: The Voice of the Ubasti
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
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When Lightning Strikes
Title: When Lightning Strikes
Character: Jim Caldwell
Released: December 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
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Terror of the Plains
Title: Terror of the Plains
Character: Foreman Cole
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
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The Return of Chandu
Title: The Return of Chandu
Character: The Supreme Voice of Ubasti [Chs. 4-12]
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
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The Man from Hell
Title: The Man from Hell
Character: Sheriff Jake Klein
Released: August 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
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The Tonto Kid
Title: The Tonto Kid
Character: 'Pop' Slawson
Released: August 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.
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Going Bye-Bye!
Title: Going Bye-Bye!
Character: Jury Foreman
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
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Smoking Guns
Title: Smoking Guns
Character: Townsman
Released: June 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Title: Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Character: Sheriff (as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
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Cross Fire
Title: Cross Fire
Character: Jim Wells
Released: May 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
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Son of the Border
Title: Son of the Border
Character: Townsman
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
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The Penal Code
Title: The Penal Code
Character: Lefty
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
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The Gambling Sex
Title: The Gambling Sex
Character: Thompson
Released: November 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
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Wild Girl
Title: Wild Girl
Character: Jess Larabee (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
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Ride Him, Cowboy
Title: Ride Him, Cowboy
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
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Daring Danger
Title: Daring Danger
Character: Pa Norris (as Murdock McGuarrie)
Released: June 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Title: The Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Frang the Watchman
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dissenting Doctor at Lecture (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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The Devil Plays
Title: The Devil Plays
Character: Thomas, the Butler
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
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One Man Law
Title: One Man Law
Character: Ed Grimm, ( as Murdock McQuarrie)
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranchers, Thompson and Judge Cooper look for a legal device to stop him.
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Soul of the Slums
Title: Soul of the Slums
Character: Prison Warden
Released: November 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
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Near the Trail's End
Title: Near the Trail's End
Character: Dan Cather
Released: September 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
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The Arizona Terror
Title: The Arizona Terror
Character: Joe Moore
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Executor of the Estate
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
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The Two Gun Man
Title: The Two Gun Man
Character: Rancher Markham
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Marshals Blackie and Joe, posing as two-gun men, hire on at Markham's ranch. They are after Tulliver and his gang of rustlers. But unknown to the two, Tulliver has planted Thorn on the ranch and he kills the foreman Riggs and puts the blame on Blackie.
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Hell Bound
Title: Hell Bound
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Blondel
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Captain of the Guard
Title: Captain of the Guard
Character: Pierre
Released: March 28, 1930
Type: Movie
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
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Troopers Three
Title: Troopers Three
Character: Army Officer
Released: February 23, 1930
Type: Movie
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.
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Black Jack
Title: Black Jack
Character: Holbrook
Released: September 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
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The Only Woman
Title: The Only Woman
Character: Yacht Captain
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
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Ashes of Vengeance
Title: Ashes of Vengeance
Character: Carlotte
Released: August 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Canyon of the Fools
Title: Canyon of the Fools
Character: Sproul
Released: January 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
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If I Were Queen
Title: If I Were Queen
Character: Duke of Wortz
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
While studying in Paris, Princess Oluf of Kosnia (Andree LeJon) befriends an American girl, Ruth Townley (Clayton), and gives her a locket bearing her name and the royal coat of arms. When Ruth accidentally drops the locket off a balcony, it is returned by a handsome stranger. Back home in Kosnia, Oluf wants to get married, but her choice of mate is challenged by Valdemir, the ruler of a neighboring principality (Warner Baxter).
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The Hidden Woman
Title: The Hidden Woman
Character: Iron MacLoid
Released: April 2, 1922
Type: Movie
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Cheated Hearts
Title: Cheated Hearts
Character: Ibrahim
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
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Sure Fire
Title: Sure Fire
Character: Major Parker
Released: November 5, 1921
Type: Movie
The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
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The Silver Horde
Title: The Silver Horde
Character: Richard Jones
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
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Jacques of the Silver North
Title: Jacques of the Silver North
Character: Jim Blake
Released: June 9, 1919
Type: Movie
"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter of the owner of the trading post. When fugitive Joseph Treffery (Captain C.A. Van Auker) happens into town, Memory hides him from the police.
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When a Woman Strikes
Title: When a Woman Strikes
Released: April 1, 1919
Type: Movie
A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Tull
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Lassiter quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane. He also befriends Venters, and helps him track down some bandits who have been rustling the Withersteens' cattle.
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Fear Not
Title: Fear Not
Character: Allen Mornington
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing. James rises to the position of judge, but when Allen is brought into his court on drug charges, James resigns. The two brothers, along with James's daughter, Hilda, then retire to the country to fight their desire for drugs.
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Panthea
Title: Panthea
Character: Police Agent
Released: January 7, 1917
Type: Movie
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
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The Old Doctor
Title: The Old Doctor
Character: Old Doctor Jones
Released: May 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Obscured by modesty and the ethics of the old school, old Doctor Jones, a master of his profession, pursues his practice in the village of Condon. A shunner of publicity and fame, his wife's work is wrapped up in promoting the welfare of his fellow-beings.
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Richelieu
Title: Richelieu
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Released: September 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
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The Oubliette
Title: The Oubliette
Character: François Villon
Released: August 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
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By the Sun's Rays
Title: By the Sun's Rays
Character: John Murdock, the Detective
Released: July 21, 1914
Type: Movie
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
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A Ranch Romance
Title: A Ranch Romance
Character: Jack Deering
Released: July 8, 1914
Type: Movie
Raphael Praz kidnaps heroine Kate.
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The Forbidden Room
Title: The Forbidden Room
Character: Dr. James Gibson
Released: June 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Title: The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Character: The Stranger
Released: May 1, 1914
Type: Movie
American silent short movie.
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The End of the Feud
Title: The End of the Feud
Character: Hen Dawson
Released: April 12, 1914
Type: Movie
For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
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Discord and Harmony
Title: Discord and Harmony
Character: Old Felix - the Composer
Released: March 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Danglars
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
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The Wall of Money
Title: The Wall of Money
Character: McQuarrie
Released: September 21, 1913
Type: Movie
One day, Harry, who also works at the mill and with whom Wally is living, is badly hurt. Wally in his working clothes goes to his father and explained how dangerous it is for any man to work in the mill.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Roger Chillingworth
Released: May 17, 1913
Type: Movie
Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.
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The Ways of Fate
Title: The Ways of Fate
Released: April 19, 1913
Type: Movie
Two men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead.