Wilfred Lucas

Wilfred Lucas

Born: January 29, 1871
Died: December 13, 1940
in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
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Wilfred Lucas (January 30, 1871 – December 13, 1940) was a Canadian-born American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.

Wilfred Lucas made his Broadway debut in 1904, playing in both the The Blue Grass Handicap and The Superstition of Sue. Following his 1906 role in the highly successful play The Chorus Lady, he was recruited to the fledgling Biograph Studios by D. W. Griffith.

At the time, the film business was still looked down upon by many members of the theatrical community. In her 1925 book titled When the Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife, actress Linda Arvidson, told the story of the early days at Biograph Studios. In it, she referred to Lucas as the "first real grand actor, democratic enough to work in Biograph movies." In 1908 Lucas made his motion picture debut in Griffith's The Greaser's Gauntlet, appearing in more than 50 of these short (usually 17 minutes) films over the next two years.

In 1910 while still acting, he wrote the script for Griffith's film Sunshine Sue, which was followed by many more scripts by 1924. Lucas also began directing in 1912 with Griffith on An Outcast Among Outcasts, and directed another 44 films over the next 20 years.

In early 1916 he starred as John Carter in Acquitted, about which Photoplay wrote, "No single performance in the records of active photography has surpassed his visualization of the humble book-keeper in Acquitted." Later in 1916 he appeared in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance.

Part of the group of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, Lucas became friends and sometimes starred with Mary Pickford, Sam De Grasse, and Marie Dressler. Canadian-born director Mack Sennett hired him to both direct and act in a large number of films at his Keystone Studios.

Lucas made the successful transition from silent film to sound. While working in Hollywood, in 1926 he returned to the stage, performing in several Broadway plays. He later appeared as a foil for Laurel and Hardy in their feature films Pardon Us and A Chump at Oxford.

During his long career, Wilfred Lucas appeared in more than 375 films. Although for a time he was cast in leading roles, he became very successful as secondary and minor characters, making a good living in the film industry for more than three decades.

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The Sea Wolf
Title: The Sea Wolf
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Weiner (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Board Member (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Triple Justice
Title: Triple Justice
Character: Constable Herb at Tule Mesa
Released: September 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad realizes he must escape and track down the real killers since the only one who can prove his innocence is his friend, Sheriff Bill Gregory, who has been shot and will not soon regain consciousness. Chasing down the robbers one by one, he eventually discovers the identity of the gang's ringleader.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Women in Hiding
Title: Women in Hiding
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
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Brother Orchid
Title: Brother Orchid
Character: Brother MacDonald
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
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Waterloo Bridge
Title: Waterloo Bridge
Character: Elderly Huntsman at Estate Dance (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Broker
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Tear Gas Squad
Title: Tear Gas Squad
Character: Policeman
Released: May 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Southerner (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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Women Without Names
Title: Women Without Names
Character: Roomer
Released: March 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Eye Doctor (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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A Chump at Oxford
Title: A Chump at Oxford
Character: Dean Williams
Released: January 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.
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Legion of the Lawless
Title: Legion of the Lawless
Character: East Ivestown Leader (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Stationmaster (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Police Detective Randall
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Raffles
Title: Raffles
Character: Bobby
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
Title: The Marshal Of Mesa City
Character: Marshal Andy Thompson (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Pompous Man (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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The Day the Bookies Wept
Title: The Day the Bookies Wept
Character: Bill, Man Outside Racetrack (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
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Each Dawn I Die
Title: Each Dawn I Die
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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Women in the Wind
Title: Women in the Wind
Character: Burbank Offical (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Almost a Gentleman
Title: Almost a Gentleman
Character: Dog Show Director
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
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Breakdowns of 1938
Title: Breakdowns of 1938
Character: Race Judge (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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The Declaration of Independence
Title: The Declaration of Independence
Character: John Dickinson (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1938
Type: Movie
This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
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Brother Rat
Title: Brother Rat
Character: Ballfield Doctor
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Story of three buddies at the Virginia Military Institute. Cadet Bing Edwards is secretly married and soon to be a father.
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A Man to Remember
Title: A Man to Remember
Character: Man at Hospital Dedication (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Wheeler
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Freshman Year
Title: Freshman Year
Character: Professor Ullrich
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
A budding entrepreneur nearly loses everything after his get-rich quick scheme selling "flunk" insurance to his fellow students goes terribly awry.
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Councilman
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Cell Block Keeper
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Night Spot
Title: Night Spot
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-police officers who believe that the club is the headquarters of a dangerous gang of crooks.
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The Baroness and the Butler
Title: The Baroness and the Butler
Character: Member of Parliament
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
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The Daredevil Drivers
Title: The Daredevil Drivers
Character: Race Judge
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.
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She Loved a Fireman
Title: She Loved a Fireman
Character: Fire Tug Captain
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
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Missing Witnesses
Title: Missing Witnesses
Character: Judge in Wagner Case (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
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The Man Without a Country
Title: The Man Without a Country
Character: Lincoln's Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1937
Type: Movie
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.
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Navy Blue and Gold
Title: Navy Blue and Gold
Character: Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.
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The Westland Case
Title: The Westland Case
Character: Gun Dealer
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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Idol of the Crowds
Title: Idol of the Crowds
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Customer in Drugstore (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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Prairie Thunder
Title: Prairie Thunder
Character: Nate Temple
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Police Commissioner (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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Varsity Show
Title: Varsity Show
Character: Police Commissioner
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big Broadway alumnus and have him direct their show. What they don't know is that this "star's" last three shows were flops.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Director of Screen Test (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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Empty Holsters
Title: Empty Holsters
Character: John Ware
Released: July 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
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Blazing Sixes
Title: Blazing Sixes
Character: Sheriff Tom
Released: June 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is using for their headquarters.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Jury Foreman #1 (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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Mile a Minute Love
Title: Mile a Minute Love
Character: Drexel
Released: April 5, 1937
Type: Movie
William Bakewell stars as an inventor who develops a high-powered boat engine. Bakewell, of course, created this wonder machine to benefit mankind-and, incidentally, to win an upcoming motorboat race.
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Land Beyond the Law
Title: Land Beyond the Law
Character: Jim Blake (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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The Super Snooper
Title: The Super Snooper
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
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Black Legion
Title: Black Legion
Character: Bailiff (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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Criminal Lawyer
Title: Criminal Lawyer
Character: Brandon's Assistant
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole group is guilty, just to get even with Larkin for a rebuke. On the same night in court, Madge Carter is on trial for disorderly conduct, and Brandon volunteers to defend her, and proves the case against her if a frame-up. Finding that she is penniless, Brandon hires her as his secretary, and falls in love with her. Brandon is appointed district attorney and has ambitions of becoming the state governor. Having dinner at Betty's home, she maneuvers him, while he is drunk, into marrying her. Later, Madge is a witness when Larkin shoots down a fellow gangster. By threatening Brandon's life, he forces her to commit perjury at his trial, and say he fired in self-defense. Brandon, the prosecuting attorney (who has had his marriage to Betty annulled) knows she is lying but doesn't know why.
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We Who Are About to Die
Title: We Who Are About to Die
Character: Prison Yard Captain (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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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Give Me Liberty
Title: Give Me Liberty
Character: His Excellency Permitting Henry's Arrest (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
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Midnight Blunders
Title: Midnight Blunders
Character: Professor Edwin Millstone (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Wong abducts prominent scientist Dr. Edwin Millstone. Bumbling bank guards Tom and Monte search through Chinatown to find Dr. Wong and rescue the professor.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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The Devil-Doll
Title: The Devil-Doll
Character: Off-Screen Voice (voice / uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Businessman
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Raglan Staff Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.
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Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: Police Chief
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Proprietor (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Love on a Bet
Title: Love on a Bet
Character: Man at Hutchinson's Meeting
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Director (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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Modern Times
Title: Modern Times
Character: Juvenile Officer
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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Chatterbox
Title: Chatterbox
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapproval of her stern grandfather, Uriah. Stowing away in the car of Philip Greene, a wealthy young man working with the theater troupe, Jenny talks her way into the play's lead role. But director Archie Fisher doesn't tell her that the new version of the play is meant as a spoof.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Druggist (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Kind Lady
Title: Kind Lady
Character: First Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: First Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Rip Roaring Riley
Title: Rip Roaring Riley
Character: Chief Martin
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Ted Riley is ordered to investigate happenings at Diamond Island, where a bogus Major Gray is reported engaged in manufacturing a new brand of secret gas for his own purposes. Riley blows up his motor boat just off the island and is picked up by Gray's men. On the island he discovers chemist Professor Baker (John Cowell) and his daughter, Anne, are held captive by Major Gray.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Mack's Horse Trainer (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Pat, a Welfare Worker (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Arizonian
Title: The Arizonian
Character: Townsman with Mayor
Released: June 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Angkor
Title: Angkor
Character: Wilfred Lucas, game hunter
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Basically a travelogue featuring footage of Angkor Wat (in Cambodia) shot by a couple of explorers in the WWI years, with additional footage shot on a set in Hollywood by George M. Merrick.
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Chandu on the Magic Island
Title: Chandu on the Magic Island
Character: Capt. Walker
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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Shrimps for a Day
Title: Shrimps for a Day
Character: Mr. Wade
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
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Love Time
Title: Love Time
Character: Dignitary (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Romaticized biopic about the life of composer Franz Schubert.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Roman Greeting Antony (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
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The Return of Chandu
Title: The Return of Chandu
Character: Capt. Wilson [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 Dragon Murder Case
Title: The Dragon Murder Case
Character: Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night, everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and comes along, but they do not find Montague. When they drain the pool the next day, they find nothing except what looks like dragon prints. Philo has his suspicions and tries to piece the clues together to find out what has happened.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Metropolitan Operagoer
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Apples to You!
Title: Apples to You!
Character: Chairman of the Board
Released: April 7, 1934
Type: Movie
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
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The Moth
Title: The Moth
Character: John Gale
Released: January 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy young socialite Diane Wyman squanders her fortune and becomes involved in a scandalous raid at a wild party. Her legal guardian, a lecherous old man who has the hots for her, hires a private detective to spy on her. He tails her to a train headed for New Orleans, but she catches on to him. She befriends a young woman aboard the train and they both give the private eye the slip. What Diane doesn't know, however, is that that her newfound friend is actually a notorious criminal known as The Moth, and she has her own reasons for helping Diane escape--she, too, is being tailed by a detective, who's after a cache of jewels she's stolen.
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Air Fright
Title: Air Fright
Character: Mr. Lucas, Airline Superintendent
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
The girls are stewardesses on an experimental flight.
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The House on 56th Street
Title: The House on 56th Street
Character: Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1933
Type: Movie
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Andrews' Lawyer Barry (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Midnight Mary
Title: Midnight Mary
Character: Nightclub Bouncer (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman is on trial for murder. In flashback, we learn of her struggles to overcome poverty as a teenager -- a mistaken arrest and prison term for shoplifting and lack of employment lead to involvement with gangsters. In a brothel, she meets a young lawyer, scion of a wealthy and prestigious family, who falls for her and helps her turn around her life. But her past catches up with her, and she must face the music rather than cause him scandal.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Bill (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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Strange People
Title: Strange People
Character: John Davis
Released: June 16, 1933
Type: Movie
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
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The Sphinx
Title: The Sphinx
Character: Prosecuting Attorney
Released: June 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
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I Cover the Waterfront
Title: I Cover the Waterfront
Character: Randall
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
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The Devil's Brother
Title: The Devil's Brother
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo, a notorious outlaw.
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The Big Cage
Title: The Big Cage
Character: Bob Mills
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: El Shaitan
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Mr. Wayne
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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Phantom Thunderbolt
Title: Phantom Thunderbolt
Character: Eaton - Railroad President
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy called The Thunderbolt Kid comes to the aid of a town that is being threatened by outlaws who don't want a railroad to go through the town.
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Racetrack
Title: Racetrack
Character: Mr. Ryan
Released: February 25, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as the son he never had. But when Jackie's mother appears, Joe has a hard decision to make.
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Sister to Judas
Title: Sister to Judas
Character: Mike O'Flanagan
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.
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The Secrets of Wu Sin
Title: The Secrets of Wu Sin
Character: Pharmacist
Released: December 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown.
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Lucky Larrigan
Title: Lucky Larrigan
Character: John Larrigan
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Craig Larrigan's father and his partner own a large cattle ranch that is losing stock to rustlers. Craig, an easterner, heads west but in the disguise of a Mexican bandit. He is eventually thrown in jail with his identity still unknown. His cellmate is one of the rustlers and when they break out, the rustler takes him to the gang and Craig now has a chance to capture them all.
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The Unwritten Law
Title: The Unwritten Law
Character: Captain Kane
Released: November 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Child Welfare Official (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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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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The Devil Horse
Title: The Devil Horse
Character: Whitney [Ch. 1] (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
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Free Wheeling
Title: Free Wheeling
Character: The Specialist
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
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Big City Blues
Title: Big City Blues
Character: Policeman
Released: September 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An Indiana boy comes into an inheritance and moves to New York City, living it up with his girlfriend until he gets in over his head and someone gets killed.
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What Price Hollywood?
Title: What Price Hollywood?
Character: Bill the Replacement Director (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
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The Dark Horse
Title: The Dark Horse
Character: Debate Chairman
Released: June 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
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Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”
Title: Stockholm ”Queen of the Baltic”
Released: June 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Tourist film.
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The Midnight Patrol
Title: The Midnight Patrol
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
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Careless Lady
Title: Careless Lady
Character: Ship's Purser
Released: April 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Innocent Sally Brown thinks men are only attracted to experienced women, so she poses as the wife of an unmarried businessman on a trip to Paris.
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Red Noses
Title: Red Noses
Character: Mr. Lucas
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
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Cross-Examination
Title: Cross-Examination
Character: Judge Hollister
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
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The Tabasco Kid
Title: The Tabasco Kid
Character: Sheriff's Deputy
Released: January 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
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House of Mystery
Title: House of Mystery
Character: Sheriff Franklin
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Two hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
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Rich Man's Folly
Title: Rich Man's Folly
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
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The Phantom
Title: The Phantom
Character: Dist. Atty. John Hampton
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Character: Capt. Hammond
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
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The Age for Love
Title: The Age for Love
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: October 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.
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Graft
Title: Graft
Character: Candidate Louis
Released: September 21, 1931
Type: Movie
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
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The Galloping Ghost
Title: The Galloping Ghost
Character: Sportscaster
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
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Pardon Us
Title: Pardon Us
Character: Warden
Released: August 15, 1931
Type: Movie
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
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Stranger in Town
Title: Stranger in Town
Character: J.P. Walker
Released: August 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
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Homicide Squad
Title: Homicide Squad
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The police use a gangster's son to get to him.
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Young Donovan's Kid
Title: Young Donovan's Kid
Character: Duryea
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
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Dishonored
Title: Dishonored
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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Men Call It Love
Title: Men Call It Love
Character: Sam Ellery (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
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Millie
Title: Millie
Character: Millie's Elderly Escort (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1931
Type: Movie
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
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Looser Than Loose
Title: Looser Than Loose
Character: Mr. Gillstrom, Charley's Boss
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
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Love Your Neighbor
Title: Love Your Neighbor
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Big Ben Benson
Released: April 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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Cock o' the Walk
Title: Cock o' the Walk
Character: Señor Vallejo
Released: April 13, 1930
Type: Movie
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Manager
Released: March 23, 1930
Type: Movie
The Arizona Kid (Warner Baxter) carries out his mission as a Robin Hood-type bandit while posing as a wealthy and carefree miner. He falls for an eastern girl, Virginia Hoyt (Carole Lombard), accompanied by presumably her brother, Dick Hoyt (Theodore von Eltz), actually her husband. The Kid's mine is raided and two of his friends are killed and he learns that Dick and Virginia are the culprits...
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Hello Sister
Title: Hello Sister
Character: Dr. Saltus
Released: February 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
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Burnt Fingers
Title: Burnt Fingers
Character: Lord Cumberly
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Burnt Fingers (1927)
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The Sorrows of Satan
Title: The Sorrows of Satan
Released: October 12, 1926
Type: Movie
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.
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Her Sacrifice
Title: Her Sacrifice
Character: Edwin Ramsey
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.
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Cyclone Cavalier
Title: Cyclone Cavalier
Character: Hugh Clayton
Released: September 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Handsome action star Reed Howes, the former "Arrow Collar Man," starred in this low-budget silent melodrama as an adventuresome Yankee who saves the duly elected president of a South American republic from being overthrown by his unscrupulous secretary. Having fallen in love with Rosita Gonzales (Carmelita Geraghty), the daughter of the president of Costa Blanca, Ted Clayton accidentally overhears El Diablo (Jack Mower) discussing a scheme to illegally take control of the government.
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The Bad Lands
Title: The Bad Lands
Character: Col. Owen
Released: July 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Patrick Angus O'Toole is a military officer assigned to investigate a gang of gunrunners operating near Fort Sumner in the Dakota Bad Lands. At the fort, O'Toole comes to the aid of Mary Owen, who is being harassed by Captain Blake. The irate Blake gives Mary's cowardly brother, Hal, 24 hours to pay his gambling debt. In desperation, Hal robs the Pony Express, a crime for which O'Toole is arrested.
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A Broadway Butterfly
Title: A Broadway Butterfly
Character: Stage Manager
Released: March 29, 1925
Type: Movie
Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
Title: Riders of the Purple Sage
Character: Oldring
Released: March 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.
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As No Man Has Loved
Title: As No Man Has Loved
Character: Maj. Bissell
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Also known as The Man Without a Country
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Lightning Romance
Title: Lightning Romance
Character: Richard Wade
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Wade is the son of a wealthy father who runs a successful ship-building company. He uses his athletic prowess to defeat the villainous competitors who are out to financially ruin his father.
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Racing for Life
Title: Racing for Life
Character: Hudford
Released: August 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
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The Fighting Sap
Title: The Fighting Sap
Character: Charles Richmond
Released: June 30, 1924
Type: Movie
A disgraced son of a mine owner discovers a plot among the workers to defraud his father.
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Valley of Hate
Title: Valley of Hate
Character: Old Jim Darley
Released: June 20, 1924
Type: Movie
A city visitor falls for a mountain girl and collides with her family of rustic moonshiners.
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The Valley of Hate
Title: The Valley of Hate
Character: Old Jim Darley
Released: June 20, 1924
Type: Movie
A young man in South Carolina inherits property in a valley he has never visited before. On arriving he is mistaken by the locals for a revenue officer intent on enforcing the Volstead Act on Prohibition. As the whole area lives off the moonshining trade, this prevents problems - particularly when he falls in love with the daughter of the head of the local producers.
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Daughters of Pleasure
Title: Daughters of Pleasure
Character: Mark Hadley
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Newly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas, a pretty French girl. At the same time, he advises his daughter, Marjory, to break her ties with Kent Merrill...
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Title: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Character: Earl of Rutland
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
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North of Nevada
Title: North of Nevada
Character: C. Hanaford
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted foreman Tom Taylor as promised. The relatives, Reginald (Taylor Graves) and his sister Marion, arrive to take over the ranch, and Tom quickly falls for the lovely Marion. The weak Reginald, on the other hand, sells his part of the property to evil Indian Joe Deerfoot, who then kidnaps Marion to get her share as well.
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Trilby
Title: Trilby
Character: The Laird
Released: July 29, 1923
Type: Movie
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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The Greatest Menace
Title: The Greatest Menace
Character: Charles W. Wright
Released: May 19, 1923
Type: Movie
A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him out.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Released: May 3, 1923
Type: Movie
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Jazzmania
Title: Jazzmania
Character: Julius Furman
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
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Heroes of the Street
Title: Heroes of the Street
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
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The Kentucky Derby
Title: The Kentucky Derby
Character: Capt. Wolff
Released: December 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
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Paid Back
Title: Paid Back
Character: Ship Captain
Released: August 28, 1922
Type: Movie
Wealthy orphan Carol Gordon marries the executor of her estate, though she does not love him. Soon afterward, trying to help a friend who is being blackmailed, she is misunderstood by her husband to be herself compromised.
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Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: The Policeman
Released: August 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
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Across the Dead-Line
Title: Across the Dead-Line
Character: Aaron Kidder
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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The Beautiful Liar
Title: The Beautiful Liar
Character: Gaston Allegretti
Released: December 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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The Fighting Breed
Title: The Fighting Breed
Character: John MacDonald
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A wealthy young Australian, the last of the "Fighting O'Farrells," decides to secretly work at his own farm in order to prove himself.
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One a Minute
Title: One a Minute
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
An excellent silent comedy starring unjustly forgotten star Douglas MacLean. Its indictment of pharmaceutical entrepreneurs is far sharper than Side Effects'.
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Through The Back Door
Title: Through The Back Door
Character: Elton Reeves
Released: May 5, 1921
Type: Movie
A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
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The Man from Kangaroo
Title: The Man from Kangaroo
Character: Red Jack Braggan
Released: January 24, 1920
Type: Movie
John Harland is a former boxer turned reverend posted to the town of Kangaroo. He falls in love with Muriel, an orphaned heiress, and discovers that her guardian Martin Giles is embezzling her inheritance. Harland earns the ire of parishioners by teaching young boys to box, and Giles manipulates local opinion to have the bishop remove him. Harland rescues a gentleman from a mugging in Sydney who suggests that he go to Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has driven the church out of the area. Harland preaches, and unexpectedly sees Muriel in the congregation; her property is near Kalmaroo. But her overseer is Red Jack Braggan who leads the gang which violently breaks up Harland's mission - much to the distress of Muriel who regards Harland as too timid - and is in cahoots with Giles.
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Soldiers of Fortune
Title: Soldiers of Fortune
Character: President Alvarez
Released: November 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
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A Woman of Pleasure
Title: A Woman of Pleasure
Character: Sir John Thornbull
Released: November 9, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Hushed Hour
Title: The Hushed Hour
Character: Robert Appleton Jr.
Released: May 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Judge Robert Appleton (Winter Hall) has led an exemplary life. His four children, however, fell short once they grew up and had to fend for themselves. When Appleton dies, his widow (Lydia Knott) explains that his last request was that each child spend one hour of contemplation with his body. The first is the youngest daughter, Daisy (Rosemary Theby), an artist of note who was betrayed and left with a son to raise out of wedlock. Next is Luke (Milton Sills), a wild young man who ran away at 19, and even though he is now married and a father, he still can't quite settle down. The eldest son, Bob (Wilfred Lucas), is next -- he wed a wealthy woman, but the marriage has no love.
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What Every Woman Wants
Title: What Every Woman Wants
Character: Horace Lennon
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
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The Co-respondent
Title: The Co-respondent
Released: October 6, 1917
Type: Movie
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Sins of Ambition
Title: Sins of Ambition
Character: Andrew Maxwell
Released: September 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Andrew Maxwell is so intent on creating a universal language that he completely neglects his wife, Laurette, and daughter, Ruth. Laurette decides she wants to return to the stage and is encouraged by Charles Prescott, a former suitor. When Maxwell discovers Laurette and Prescott together, he berates her, and she angrily moves out, taking Ruth along with her.
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Souls Triumphant
Title: Souls Triumphant
Character: Robert Powers
Released: May 19, 1917
Type: Movie
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him, unaware that he is constitutionally incapable of fidelity. Led astray by vampish Hattie Lee, Powers follows his new paramour to the Big City -- the first of several bad decisions which culminate in disaster for the errant hero.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: John Houston
Released: April 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Tod Browning & Wilfred Lucas.
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A Love Sublime
Title: A Love Sublime
Character: Philip
Released: March 11, 1917
Type: Movie
A Greek man falls for an injured French woman. When he is informed of her death, he continues to sing under her hospital window every night.
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Jim Bludso
Title: Jim Bludso
Character: Jim Bludso
Released: February 4, 1917
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, engineer Jim Bludso, accompanied by his friend, Banty Tim, returns home to the town of Gilgal, and discovers that his wife Gabrielle has deserted him and their son Breeches for another man. Jim is welcomed by Kate Taggart, the village storekeeper's daughter, and their attachment deepens until Gabrielle returns after being deserted by her paramour, and Jim forgives her for their son's sake. Meanwhile, Ben Merrill, an unscrupulous contractor who has built the town levee, fears that the structure will not hold the coming flood waters. Merrill destroys the levee and attempts to place the blame on Jim and Banty Tim. In the flood, Gabrielle is killed, but before dying, she exposes Merrill as the man for whom she had deserted her home. This information reaches Jim when he and Merrill are aboard the boat The Prairie Bell . In the ensuing fight, the ship catches fire and explodes. Rescued from the debris by Banty Tim, Jim marries Kate and begins a new life.
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The Microscope Mystery
Title: The Microscope Mystery
Character: Doc Arnold
Released: November 19, 1916
Type: Movie
When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries to retrieve the check, the quack (Dr. Bell) turns up dead with a gun shot wound to the chest. Doc Arnold lends his expertise to the investigation and solves the case by finding microscopic evidence on the murder weapon left at the scene.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Hell-to-Pay Austin
Title: Hell-to-Pay Austin
Character: Hell-to-Pay Austin
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father." Just as much as Hell-to-Pay takes care of Briar, she watches over him, and it is largely through her influence that he gives up hard drinking and needless fighting. Then, when Briar is old enough, she goes away to school and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. Hell-to-Pay comes after her and takes her away from Doris Valentine, an adventuress who had been teaching Briar the tricks of the trade. When they are reunited, Hell-to-Pay and Briar realize that they are in love, so they decide to change their relationship from guardian and ward to husband and wife.
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Acquitted
Title: Acquitted
Character: John Carter
Released: February 6, 1916
Type: Movie
Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.
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The Wood Nymph
Title: The Wood Nymph
Character: Fred Arnold
Released: January 23, 1916
Type: Movie
A silent drama film directed by Paul Powell
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Macduff
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
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The Lily and the Rose
Title: The Lily and the Rose
Character: Jack Van Norman
Released: November 6, 1915
Type: Movie
To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with and marries Jack Van Norman, a rich and handsome former football star. After a few months of marital contentment, Jack becomes infatuated with Rose, an exotic dancer.
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The Spanish Jade
Title: The Spanish Jade
Character: Osmund Manvers
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
In a provincial Spanish town, during the mid-nineteenth century, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of drifters and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel.
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Brute Force
Title: Brute Force
Character: Brute Force
Released: April 24, 1914
Type: Movie
A thin gent in formal wear, amid a club or party, reads a book about primitive man after he's ignored by a pretty lady. We see the book enacted: Weakhands loses his girlfriend to Bruteforce, but chances upon a design for a weapon to vanquish his rival and win her back. His tribe sees this and sets him up as their leader. With the club, he fends off various creatures (a winged lizard, a snake, a dinosaur) and a rival tribe led by Monkeywalk. The women even manage to repel an attack. But the rival tribe discovers the secret of the club themselves, and capture the women. Weakhands, sitting in despair, chances upon a new weapon: the bow and arrow.
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Gentleman Burglar
Title: Gentleman Burglar
Character: Baffles
Released: February 16, 1914
Type: Movie
Baffles, Gentleman Burglar
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
Title: A Tender-Hearted Crook
Released: October 2, 1913
Type: Movie
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
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Pure Gold and Dross
Title: Pure Gold and Dross
Released: April 13, 1913
Type: Movie
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The Massacre
Title: The Massacre
Character: Stephen
Released: December 19, 1912
Type: Movie
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
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A Sailor’s Heart
Title: A Sailor’s Heart
Character: The Sailor
Released: November 25, 1912
Type: Movie
A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
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A Pueblo Legend
Title: A Pueblo Legend
Character: The Indian Girl's Great Brother
Released: August 29, 1912
Type: Movie
A love story set among Native Americans.
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Man's Genesis
Title: Man's Genesis
Character: Bruteforce
Released: July 10, 1912
Type: Movie
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.
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A Temporary Truce
Title: A Temporary Truce
Character: An Indian (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1912
Type: Movie
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
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Home Folks
Title: Home Folks
Character: The Blacksmith
Released: June 6, 1912
Type: Movie
A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the influence of his own narrow mind. Hence when his boy suggests going to a barn dance, he flies into a rage and commands that the boy remain at home. The boy, however, becomes rebellious and goes, and for this act of disobedience the father drives him from the house and forces the rest of the family to swear never to mention his name again.
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When Kings Were the Law
Title: When Kings Were the Law
Character: The King of Romanda
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
Over the Kingdom of Romanda there reigned a King who was greatly influenced by his favorite, whom he devotedly loved. He presents her with a necklace of fabulous worth and enjoins that she never part with it, which command she swears by the stars to keep. About this time an impecunious cousin of the King calls to beg the loan of money, which is refused. The favorite promises to intercede for him. The cardinal and the favorite are bitter enemies because of her thwarting many of his pet schemes, and he plans a revenge by inciting jealousy in the King. The scheme he devises is to have the necklace missing and found in the cousin's pocket. The plan succeeds so well that the King condemns the seemingly guilty pair to an air-tight chamber, where they would have suffocated to death had not the lady-in-waiting, who helped in the plot, become horror-stricken and confessed.
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Just Like a Woman
Title: Just Like a Woman
Character: The Wealthy Friend
Released: April 18, 1912
Type: Movie
When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are worthless, he finds the daughter less attractive. The widow's broker has a wealthy friend, who becomes very interested in the girl, although he is twice her age. He proposes marriage, believing that he can win her love through kindness. The girl, for her mother' sake accepts and they are married. Despite his great love he is unable to overcome the great difference in their ages, so he buys the worthless oil stock so that she may be independent, and he then leaves her to go back to his oil fields. His sacrifice arouses the girl's love and she follows him to tell him of her awakening.
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Fate's Interception
Title: Fate's Interception
Character: The American
Released: April 8, 1912
Type: Movie
The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he pays considerable attention to the little Mexican girl, at whose home he is a roomer. The girl falls deeply in love with the American, who wins her absolute confidence. When the time comes for his departure, he of course cannot take her with him, and when he says goodbye, she realizes how false his promises were. Her love for the American now turns to bitter hate, so she agrees to marry her erstwhile sweetheart, whom she threw aside for the American, if he will avenge her wrong. This he consents to do.
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The Girl and Her Trust
Title: The Girl and Her Trust
Released: March 28, 1912
Type: Movie
A train-station telegraphist warns the next station of approaching bandits.
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Title: The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
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Under Burning Skies
Title: Under Burning Skies
Character: Joe
Released: February 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
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Billy's Stratagem
Title: Billy's Stratagem
Character: Billy's Father
Released: February 12, 1912
Type: Movie
While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpowder and tricks the Indians into entering the cabin, while he and his sister escape.
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The Transformation of Mike
Title: The Transformation of Mike
Character: Mike
Released: February 1, 1912
Type: Movie
Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness.
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A Terrible Discovery
Title: A Terrible Discovery
Character: The District Attorney
Released: December 21, 1911
Type: Movie
A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
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The Failure
Title: The Failure
Character: The Clerk
Released: December 7, 1911
Type: Movie
A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes to help him recover his life, and eventually he realizes how steadfast she is.
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A Woman Scorned
Title: A Woman Scorned
Character: The Doctor
Released: November 30, 1911
Type: Movie
Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tells the doctor of the robbery, and helps him save his family.
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The Miser's Heart
Title: The Miser's Heart
Character: First Crook
Released: November 20, 1911
Type: Movie
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
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Love in the Hills
Title: Love in the Hills
Character: The Manley Suitor
Released: October 30, 1911
Type: Movie
A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city.
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The Long Road
Title: The Long Road
Character: A Policeman
Released: October 26, 1911
Type: Movie
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
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The Making of a Man
Title: The Making of a Man
Character: In Second Audience
Released: October 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
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Swords and Hearts
Title: Swords and Hearts
Character: Hugh Frazier
Released: August 27, 1911
Type: Movie
A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
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The Rose of Kentucky
Title: The Rose of Kentucky
Character: The planter
Released: August 24, 1911
Type: Movie
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.
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The Primal Call
Title: The Primal Call
Character: The Fisherman
Released: June 21, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
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Enoch Arden
Title: Enoch Arden
Character: Enoch Arden
Released: June 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
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Enoch Arden: Part II
Title: Enoch Arden: Part II
Released: June 15, 1911
Type: Movie
Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Philip, her former suitor. Enoch is rescued from the deserted isle where he has been stranded, and returns home. He discovers Annie's new life, and decides not to interrupt her happiness.
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Enoch Arden: Part I
Title: Enoch Arden: Part I
Released: June 12, 1911
Type: Movie
Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.
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The Lonedale Operator
Title: The Lonedale Operator
Character: The Fireman
Released: March 23, 1911
Type: Movie
A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.
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His Daughter
Title: His Daughter
Released: February 23, 1911
Type: Movie
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical practice. However, Mary's alcoholic father discovers the savings and steals it.
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The Diamond Star
Title: The Diamond Star
Released: February 20, 1911
Type: Movie
When John Wilson comes home drunk, his marriage collapses, and he agrees to live separately from his wife in their apartment. His evenings now free, he takes up with a socialite, but uncomfortable with her social ambition, forgets to attend a dinner party she has thrown in his honor. To atone, he buys her an extravagant diamond pin, but before he can deliver it he sees an old suitor leaving his wife’s side of the apartment. Consumed first by jealousy, then remorse, he discovers he still loves the woman he married. A child next door finds the diamond pin while playing in the Wilson apartment and innocently takes it to Mrs. Wilson. Misreading the attached note, Mrs. Wilson assumes the pin is meant as a peace offering and takes her husband back.
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Fisher Folks
Title: Fisher Folks
Character: Steve Hardester
Released: February 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Title: What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Character: Violent Jailbird
Released: February 13, 1911
Type: Movie
An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
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Heart Beats of Long Ago
Title: Heart Beats of Long Ago
Character: The Lover
Released: February 6, 1911
Type: Movie
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the house gives a feast in honor of the arrival of a wealthy foreign noble, whom he expects to make his son-in-law. The daughter, however, has given her heart to the son of her father's enemy. That he may be present at the festival, she surreptitiously takes her father's signet ring, throwing it to him from the window, which, of course, admits him. The father, anticipating the intrusion of his enemies, orders death to any member who enters the hall. After the festivities the unwelcome betrothal takes place and the forbidden lover braves death to see his loved one. While they are in clandestine meeting a guard is seen to enter the corridor so the girl hides her sweetheart in a secret closet, turning the key and taking it with her. Not finding the intruder, the guard imagines he was mistaken.
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His Trust Fulfilled
Title: His Trust Fulfilled
Character: George
Released: January 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
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His Trust
Title: His Trust
Character: George
Released: January 16, 1911
Type: Movie
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Released: January 5, 1911
Type: Movie
Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer Brown, his boyhood friend. Brown is the father of a very pretty daughter named Tessie. Bach becomes deeply smitten with the artless little country lass, and secretly hopes to win her. Tessie, however, has a host of admirers in the little village, the favored one being John Watson.
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The Two Paths
Title: The Two Paths
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Two sisters, Nellie and Florence, support themselves and their mother by sewing. A man accompanying a wealthy client tempts first Nellie and then Florence to leave with him. Nellie rejects him, but Florence goes to his decadent apartment and becomes his mistress. Nellie marries a diligent carpenter and raises a growing family. Eventually the Tempter tosses Florence out, and she dies alone and impoverished.
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Winning Back His Love
Title: Winning Back His Love
Character: Frederick Wallace
Released: December 25, 1910
Type: Movie
A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
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The Rocky Road
Title: The Rocky Road
Released: January 3, 1910
Type: Movie
The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young woman, and they become engaged. Unbeknownst to him this young woman is his own daughter.
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Title: 1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Released: September 6, 1909
Type: Movie
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.
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A Strange Meeting
Title: A Strange Meeting
Released: August 1, 1909
Type: Movie
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.
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The Renunciation
Title: The Renunciation
Released: July 19, 1909
Type: Movie
Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
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The Honor of Thieves
Title: The Honor of Thieves
Released: January 11, 1909
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Released: November 10, 1908
Type: Movie
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
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The Girl and the Outlaw
Title: The Girl and the Outlaw
Released: September 8, 1908
Type: Movie
Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
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The Greaser's Gauntlet
Title: The Greaser's Gauntlet
Character: Jose
Released: August 11, 1908
Type: Movie
Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother bestows upon him her blessing, presenting him with a pair of gauntlets, upon the dexter wrist of which she has embroidered a Latin Cross.