Victor McLaglen

Victor McLaglen

Born: December 9, 1886
Died: November 7, 1959
in Stepney, East London, England, UK
Victor McLaglen was a British-American film actor. He was known as a character actor, particularly in Westerns, and made seven films with John Ford and John Wayne. McLaglen won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1935 for his role in The Informer.

Movies for Victor McLaglen...

John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Title: John Ford: The Man Who Invented America
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: February 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Over a 50-year career and more than a hundred movies, filmmaker John Ford (1894-1973) forged the legend of the Far West. By giving a face to the underprivileged, from humble cowboys to persecuted minorities, he revealed like no one else the great social divisions that existed and still exist in the United States. More than four decades after his death, what remains of his legacy and humanistic values in the memory of those who love his work?
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Title: Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
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On Location with Gunga Din
Title: On Location with Gunga Din
Character: MacChesney (archive footage)
Released: December 7, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary focusing on the production history and legacy of the adventure-comedy phenomenon, Gunga Din.
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Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Title: Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 9, 1994
Type: Movie
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, sex and race — on stage, in films, on radio and television.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Title: George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Harry Wittman
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: Rawhide
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Sea Fury
Title: Sea Fury
Character: Bellew
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Title: The Italians They Are Crazy
Character: Sergente O'Riley
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
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Title: Have Gun, Will Travel
Character: Mike O'Hare
Released: September 14, 1957
Type: TV
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.
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The Abductors
Title: The Abductors
Character: Tom Muldoon
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Two men (Victor McLaglen, George Macready) botch the kidnapping of a warden's daughter (Fay Spain), then plot to ransom Abraham Lincoln's corpse.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days
Character: SS Henrietta Helmsman
Released: October 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
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Lady Godiva of Coventry
Title: Lady Godiva of Coventry
Character: Grimald
Released: November 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.
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Bengazi
Title: Bengazi
Character: Robert Emmett Donovan
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.
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City of Shadows
Title: City of Shadows
Character: Big Tim Channing
Released: June 2, 1955
Type: Movie
After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law student, with the covert (and illegal) help of Channing. Despite his checkered past, Mason opts for honesty when he falls in love with Fern Fellows (Kathleen Crowley). This decision ultimately spells the doom for Mason's mentor Big Tim.
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Many Rivers to Cross
Title: Many Rivers to Cross
Character: Cadmus Cherne
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.
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Trouble in the Glen
Title: Trouble in the Glen
Character: Parlan
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman. Written by Les Adams
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Prince Valiant
Title: Prince Valiant
Character: Boltar
Released: April 5, 1954
Type: Movie
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthur's Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne.
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Fair Wind to Java
Title: Fair Wind to Java
Character: O'Brien
Released: January 28, 1953
Type: Movie
The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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The Quiet Man
Title: The Quiet Man
Character: Squire 'Red' Will Danaher
Released: July 21, 1952
Type: Movie
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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O'Mara's Chain Miracle
Title: O'Mara's Chain Miracle
Character: Officer O'Mara
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Officer O'Mara, a normally grumpy traffic cop, lightens up one day and smiles at a passing motorist. This sets off a chain of goodwill and pleasantness in the entire town, which leads to better business practices, but leaves O'Mara wondering why everyone is now so pleasant.
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Rio Grande
Title: Rio Grande
Character: Sgt. Maj. Timothy Quincannon
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Michael O'Reilly
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Title: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Character: First Sergeant Quincannon
Released: October 22, 1949
Type: Movie
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
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Fort Apache
Title: Fort Apache
Character: Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
Released: June 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
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The Foxes of Harrow
Title: The Foxes of Harrow
Character: Mike Farrell
Released: September 24, 1947
Type: Movie
An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.
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Michigan Kid
Title: Michigan Kid
Character: Curley Davis
Released: August 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
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Calendar Girl
Title: Calendar Girl
Character: Matthew O'Neill
Released: January 31, 1947
Type: Movie
Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities; but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler; and she turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely
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Whistle Stop
Title: Whistle Stop
Character: Gitlo
Released: January 25, 1946
Type: Movie
When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
Title: Love, Honor and Goodbye
Character: Terry O'Farrell
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him.
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Rough, Tough and Ready
Title: Rough, Tough and Ready
Character: Owen McCarey
Released: March 22, 1945
Type: Movie
The story is the old bromide about two brawling buddies, duking it out over the same girl, in this case pert Jo Matheson (Jean Rogers). Owen and Brad own a salvage company, but split up over Jo. Both separately sign up for the army, and both are reunited in the Pacific.
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The Princess and the Pirate
Title: The Princess and the Pirate
Character: Captain Barrett / The Hook
Released: November 17, 1944
Type: Movie
Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.
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Roger Touhy, Gangster
Title: Roger Touhy, Gangster
Character: Herman "Owl" Banghart
Released: June 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
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Tampico
Title: Tampico
Character: Fred Adamson
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
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Forever and a Day
Title: Forever and a Day
Character: Archibald Spavin
Released: January 21, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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China Girl
Title: China Girl
Character: Major Bull Weed
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
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Powder Town
Title: Powder Town
Character: Jeems O'Shea
Released: June 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
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Call Out the Marines
Title: Call Out the Marines
Character: Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Two Marine sergeants (Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe) flirt with a cafe girl (Binnie Barnes) in San Diego, then find out she's a spy.
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Broadway Limited
Title: Broadway Limited
Character: Maurice "Mike" Monaghan
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.
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Diamond Frontier
Title: Diamond Frontier
Character: Terrence Regan
Released: September 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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South of Pago Pago
Title: South of Pago Pago
Character: Bucko Larson
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young chief. Together, the two save Kehane’s people and their island home from the rapacious picaroons but at the tragic cost of their own future together.
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The Big Guy
Title: The Big Guy
Character: Warden Bill Whitlock
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.
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Rio
Title: Rio
Character: Dirk
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
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Full Confession
Title: Full Confession
Character: Pat McGinnis
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.
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Captain Fury
Title: Captain Fury
Character: Jerry Black aka Blackie
Released: May 26, 1939
Type: Movie
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Ex-Champ
Title: Ex-Champ
Character: Tom 'Gunner' Grey
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
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Let Freedom Ring
Title: Let Freedom Ring
Character: Chris Mulligan
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
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Gunga Din
Title: Gunga Din
Character: MacChesney
Released: January 26, 1939
Type: Movie
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.
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Pacific Liner
Title: Pacific Liner
Character: Crusher McKay
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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We're Going to Be Rich
Title: We're Going to Be Rich
Character: "Dobbie" Dobson
Released: July 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
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The Devil's Party
Title: The Devil's Party
Character: Marty Malone
Released: June 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.
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Battle Of Broadway
Title: Battle Of Broadway
Character: Big Ben Wheeler
Released: April 22, 1938
Type: Movie
The wealthy owner of a Pennsylvania steel business travels to New York to break up his son's romance with a showgirl. Director George Marshall's 1938 comedy stars Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn, Hattie McDaniel, Lynn Bari, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, Andrew Tombes, Esther Muir and Frank Moran.
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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Title: Ali Baba Goes to Town
Character: Himself
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big-name guest stars playing themselves.
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Wee Willie Winkie
Title: Wee Willie Winkie
Character: Sgt. Donald MacDuff
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
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This Is My Affair
Title: This Is My Affair
Character: Jock Ramsay
Released: May 28, 1937
Type: Movie
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Title: Nancy Steele Is Missing!
Character: Dannie O'Neill
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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Sea Devils
Title: Sea Devils
Character: Steve Webb
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
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The Magnificent Brute
Title: The Magnificent Brute
Character: 'Big Steve' Andrews
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A love triangle forms the basis of this drama. It all begins in a steel mill when a steel worker ignores the besotted gazes of his landlady at the boarding house and falls in love with a gold-digger. His best friend also finds himself smitten by the seductive young woman. But when the one of the workers fritters away a collection that had been taken up for the wife of a deceased co-worker on a foolish bet, he and the vamp take off until the good-hearted landlady intervenes and convinces them to stay and take their lumps.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: J.C. Doyle
Released: April 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Character: Bull Brackett
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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Professional Soldier
Title: Professional Soldier
Character: Colonel Michael Donovan
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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The Informer
Title: The Informer
Character: Gypo Nolan
Released: May 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Great Hotel Murder
Title: The Great Hotel Murder
Character: Andrew W. 'Andy' McCabe
Released: February 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.
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Under Pressure
Title: Under Pressure
Character: Jumbo Smith
Released: February 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.
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The Captain Hates the Sea
Title: The Captain Hates the Sea
Character: Junius P. Schulte
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
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Murder at the Vanities
Title: Murder at the Vanities
Character: Bill Murdock
Released: May 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
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Wharf Angel
Title: Wharf Angel
Character: Turk
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
On the wharfs of San Francisco, saloon girl Toy, also known as Mary, lives over Mother Bright's bar. When Como Murphy, a fugitive from the law, hides in her room, she falls in love with him. He explains that after he spoke out about the rights of man to a crowd, a riot ensued, during which a policeman was killed. Como took the gun from the killer, but is thought to be guilty of the crime himself. Como, who reciprocates Mary's love, spends the night with her, but leaves to keep her out of danger. He joins the crew of a ship sailing to China after he is befriended by Turk, a big lumbering sailor who is also in love with Mary. Each man is unaware that they love the same woman.
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No More Women
Title: No More Women
Character: Forty-Fathoms
Released: March 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Title: Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
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The Lost Patrol
Title: The Lost Patrol
Character: The Sergeant
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
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Dick Turpin
Title: Dick Turpin
Character: Dick Turpin
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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Laughing at Life
Title: Laughing at Life
Character: Dennis P. McHale / Burke / Captain Hale
Released: July 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
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Hot Pepper
Title: Hot Pepper
Character: Jim Flagg
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
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Rackety Rax
Title: Rackety Rax
Character: 'Knucks' McGloin
Released: October 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Gambler/racketeer "Knucks" McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual Rose Bowl football game, and decides this is one sweet proposition and could be even sweeter if one had his own college and football game and had a large say beforehand as to the outcome of any game this team had. So he ups and creates his own college---Carnasie after his own neighborhood. His gangster rival. Gilatti, thinks this give McGloin a definite inside advantage and, if there is one thing a gambler can't abide, it is that someone has an inside advantage and they are not that someone. Gilatti gets himself a college football team. Education marches on.
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Guilty as Hell
Title: Guilty as Hell
Character: Detective Capt. T.R. McKinley
Released: August 5, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
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While Paris Sleeps
Title: While Paris Sleeps
Character: Jacques Costaud
Released: May 8, 1932
Type: Movie
To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
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Devil's Lottery
Title: Devil's Lottery
Character: Jem Meech
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Intricate, soapy drama of romance, heartbreak, and murder amongst a diverse group of sweepstakes winners visiting a newspaper tycoon's estate.
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The Gay Caballero
Title: The Gay Caballero
Character: Don Bob Harkness / El Coyote
Released: February 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is really Don Bob) who now has a partner in Ted. Unfortunately Ted is also falling love with Don Paco's daughter Adela.
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Wicked
Title: Wicked
Character: Scott Burrows
Released: October 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband.
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Annabelle's Affairs
Title: Annabelle's Affairs
Character: John Rawson / Hefly Jack
Released: June 14, 1931
Type: Movie
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her husband and told not to part with them. However she is an extravagant spender and is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival.....
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Captain Jim Flagg
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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Dishonored
Title: Dishonored
Character: Colonel Kranau
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: Sergeant Flagg
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Three Rogues
Title: Three Rogues
Character: Bull Stanley
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each been betrayed by a woman. They come across a wagon train bound for the town of Custer, where hundreds of people are gathering for a land rush in the Dakotas, which President Ulysses S. Grant has opened to settlers thanks to a treaty with the Sioux Indians. After the three rogues ride off, they spy a lone wagon with a tempting string of thoroughbreds. Before they can steal the horses, however, the wagon is attacked by a gang led by Layne Hunter, a shifty saloon owner from Custer. The trio chase off the gang, and as they are about to abscond with the horses, they find pretty Lee Carleton, whose father was killed in the attack.
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A Devil with Women
Title: A Devil with Women
Character: Jerry Maxton
Released: October 17, 1930
Type: Movie
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
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On the Level
Title: On the Level
Character: Biff Williams
Released: May 18, 1930
Type: Movie
An ironworker and his equally tough friend decide to leave New Orleans to work as beam-walkers on a New York City skyscraper. This arouses the ire of his Cajun girlfriend who promptly shoots at him as he walks away and then follows him to the Big Apple where she becomes a nightclub performer.
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Hot for Paris
Title: Hot for Paris
Character: John Patrick Duke
Released: December 22, 1929
Type: Movie
A romantic adventure musical film directed by Raoul Walsh....The film is believed to be lost.
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The Cock-Eyed World
Title: The Cock-Eyed World
Character: Top Sergeant Flagg
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Minstrel Show Performer
Released: September 16, 1929
Type: Movie
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.
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The Black Watch
Title: The Black Watch
Character: Captain Donald King
Released: May 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
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Strong Boy
Title: Strong Boy
Character: Strong Boy
Released: March 3, 1929
Type: Movie
"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position. But when he thwarts an attempted train robbery and saves the Queen of Lisonia's jewels, he is viewed as a hero and Mary finally agrees to marry him.
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Captain Lash
Title: Captain Lash
Character: Captain Lash
Released: January 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Lash is the head coal stoker on a steam ship whose shipmates have nicknamed "Captain". Lash somehow grabs the attention of society dame passenger Cora Nevins. Nevins is actually a jewel thief who's lifted diamonds from wealthy passenger Arthur Condrax. She needs Lash to aid in sneaking the "ice" ashore at Singapore. Cocky is Lash's concertina-playing buddy and uses it to signal Lash.
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The River Pirate
Title: The River Pirate
Character: Sailor Fritz
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.
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Hangman's House
Title: Hangman's House
Character: Denis Hogan
Released: May 13, 1928
Type: Movie
Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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A Girl in Every Port
Title: A Girl in Every Port
Character: Spike Madden
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?
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Mother Machree
Title: Mother Machree
Character: The Giant of Kilkenny
Released: December 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
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The Loves of Carmen
Title: The Loves of Carmen
Character: Escamillo
Released: September 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Carmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
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Life in Hollywood No. 5
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 5
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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What Price Glory
Title: What Price Glory
Character: Capt. Flagg
Released: November 23, 1926
Type: Movie
U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
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Beau Geste
Title: Beau Geste
Character: Hank
Released: August 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Pete Masarick
Released: July 11, 1926
Type: Movie
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
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The Isle of Retribution
Title: The Isle of Retribution
Character: Doomsdorf
Released: April 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes with the rich girl, Lenor Harderworth, for the attentions of the heroic Ned Cornet. A snow-slide resolves a few issues.
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The Fighting Heart
Title: The Fighting Heart
Character: Soapy Williams
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
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Winds of Chance
Title: Winds of Chance
Character: Poleon Doret
Released: August 15, 1925
Type: Movie
A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
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The Unholy Three
Title: The Unholy Three
Character: Hercules
Released: July 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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Percy
Title: Percy
Character: Reedy Jenkins
Released: April 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.
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The Hunted Woman
Title: The Hunted Woman
Character: Quade
Released: March 22, 1925
Type: Movie
The Hunted Woman
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The Beloved Brute
Title: The Beloved Brute
Character: Charles Hinges
Released: November 9, 1924
Type: Movie
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
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The Gay Corinthian
Title: The Gay Corinthian
Character: Squire Hardcastle
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.
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The Passionate Adventure
Title: The Passionate Adventure
Character: Herb Harris
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
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Women and Diamonds
Title: Women and Diamonds
Character: Brian Owen
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father.
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In the Blood
Title: In the Blood
Character: Tony Crabtree
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
A woman frames her stepson for theft and he takes the place of his father's drugged champion and wins a boxing match.
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The Boatswain's Mate
Title: The Boatswain's Mate
Character: Ned Travers
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn.
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M'Lord of the White Road
Title: M'Lord of the White Road
Character: Lord Annerley / John
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A dying lord asks a tramp to pose as him and marry a lady, and he is later accused of killing the lord.
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Heartstrings
Title: Heartstrings
Character: Frank Wilson
Released: October 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
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Woman to Woman
Title: Woman to Woman
Character: Nubian Slave (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
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The Romany
Title: The Romany
Character: The Chief
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
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The Crimson Circle
Title: The Crimson Circle
Released: September 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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A Sailor Tramp
Title: A Sailor Tramp
Character: The Sailor Tramp
Released: July 1, 1922
Type: Movie
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
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The Glorious Adventure
Title: The Glorious Adventure
Character: Bulfinch
Released: April 23, 1922
Type: Movie
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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Little Brother of God
Title: Little Brother of God
Character: King Kennidy
Released: April 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
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A Romance of Old Baghdad
Title: A Romance of Old Baghdad
Character: Miski
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
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The Sport of Kings
Title: The Sport of Kings
Character: Frank Rosedale
Released: December 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A man helps a rich girl's slum work and wins the race on her ex-fiancé's horse.
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The Prey of the Dragon
Title: The Prey of the Dragon
Character: Brett 'Dragon' Mercer
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Baron
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealous husband.
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Corinthian Jack
Title: Corinthian Jack
Character: Jack Halstead
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A boxer saves a girl from a noble kidnapper.
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The Call of the Road
Title: The Call of the Road
Character: Alfred Truscott
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
In 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.