Kenneth Harlan

Kenneth Harlan

Born: July 26, 1895
Died: March 6, 1967
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kenneth Harlan was an American screen and stage actor, his film career spanning the years 1917 to 1943. During the Silent era he was a romantic leading man.

Movies for Kenneth Harlan...

Nearly Eighteen
Title: Nearly Eighteen
Character: Sammy Klein
Released: November 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A singer pretends to be younger so she can enter a music school.
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The Masked Marvel
Title: The Masked Marvel
Character: Gas Works Policeman
Released: November 6, 1943
Type: Movie
A team of two-fisted insurance investigators (one of whom disguises himself as The Masked Marvel) endeavor to discover and thwart the loathsome saboteur Sakima.
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The Underdog
Title: The Underdog
Character: Eddie Mohr
Released: October 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During WWII, a strong-willed 12-year-old boy tries to steer his vocationally and maritally confused father straight, at the same time striving to keep his honor while the gang in his new neighborhood bully him.
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Melody Parade
Title: Melody Parade
Character: Jedson
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
The owner and staff of a Hollywood nightclub struggle to keep their establishment from closing.
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The Law Rides Again
Title: The Law Rides Again
Character: John Hampton, Indian Agent
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson hit the trail with captured outlaw Duke Dillon (Jack La Rue) to find out what sparked the uprising. They discover clues that point to corrupt Indian agent John Hampton (Kenneth Harlan), but meanwhile, the bandit Dillon pulls a fast one on the marshals, and soon everybody's getting ready for a showdown.
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Daredevils of the West
Title: Daredevils of the West
Character: Territorial Commissioner
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
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Wild Horse Stampede
Title: Wild Horse Stampede
Character: Borman
Released: April 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Two cowboys try to protect railroad workers from rampaging Indians.
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You Can't Beat the Law
Title: You Can't Beat the Law
Character: First Warden
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
A wild playboy is framed by crooks for a robbery he didn't commit and eventually lands in prison. There he becomes pals with the prison's most hardened criminal, who plans a daring escape.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
Title: Hitler- Dead or Alive
Character: Cutler
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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You Can't Escape Forever
Title: You Can't Escape Forever
Character: Fingerprint Division Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.
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Foreign Agent
Title: Foreign Agent
Character: George "Mack" McColl
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Phantom Killer
Title: Phantom Killer
Character: Police Lt. Jim Brady
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
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Bandit Ranger
Title: Bandit Ranger
Character: Mark Kenyon
Released: September 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Travers finds and brings in the body of ranger Frank Mattison, murdered on the road to Trail City, where he had been sent to deal with an outbreak of cattle rustling. Businessman Art Kenyon, who has hired gunman Ed Martin to impersonate Mattison to further his rustling schemes, quickly changes Martin's story and has Travers framed for the ranger's murder. Managing to escape, Travers must come up with proof to clear his name and bring the true killers to justice.
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Title: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Character: Captain Sneed
Released: September 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Hoping to increase its box-office allure by adopting the title of a popular song, Deep in the Heart of Texas (clap!clap!clap!clap!) was the first Johnny Mack Brown western of the 1942-43 season. The plot concerns a group of insurrectionists who intend to keep Texas separate from the rest of the USA.
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The Corpse Vanishes
Title: The Corpse Vanishes
Character: Editor Keenan
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: Agent Brown
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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Klondike Fury
Title: Klondike Fury
Character: Flight Dispatcher
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: FBI Chief Colton
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Capt. Holding [Ch. 1]
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Police Lt. Cosgrove
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Fighting Bill Fargo
Title: Fighting Bill Fargo
Character: Sheriff Hackett
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home town, Bill Fargo takes over the operation of his late father's newspaper. He quickly gets swept up in political intrigue fomented by political boss Hackett (Kenneth Harlan), who has a cute habit of rubbing out any and all honest candidates for the sheriff's office.
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Dangerous Lady
Title: Dangerous Lady
Character: Detective Dunlap
Released: September 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.
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King of Dodge City
Title: King of Dodge City
Character: Banker Carruthers
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
The story takes place in Kansas, just after the Civil War. Wild Bill Hickok is summoned from Dodge City to Abilene, there to neutralize a crooked political machine. Hickok is aided every step of the way by Tex Rawlings, a seemingly harmless drifter who is appointed sheriff after proving his prowess with his six-guns.
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Wide Open Town
Title: Wide Open Town
Character: Tom Wilson
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Jim
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Desperate Cargo
Title: Desperate Cargo
Character: Capt. Hank MacFarland
Released: July 4, 1941
Type: Movie
When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.
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Gangs Inc.
Title: Gangs Inc.
Character: Jim Adams
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
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Secret Evidence
Title: Secret Evidence
Character: Frank Billings
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.
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The Case of the Black Parrot
Title: The Case of the Black Parrot
Character: Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met Sandy and fallen for her during the voyage, suspects something odd about the cabinet. His suspicions are confirmed when people who have touched the cabinet mysteriously die. Jim and Sandy set out to solve the mystery before anyone else can become a victim.
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Pride of the Bowery
Title: Pride of the Bowery
Character: Captain
Released: December 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Title: Mysterious Doctor Satan
Character: Capt. Lathrop
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
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Junior G-Men
Title: Junior G-Men
Character: Dyer, Factory Gate Guard
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism
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Prairie Schooners
Title: Prairie Schooners
Character: Dalton Stull
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott) leads a wagon train of settlers from Kansas to Colorado. Along the way, they cross a group of Indians who don't want any more settlers on their land.
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Doomed to Die
Title: Doomed to Die
Character: Ludlow
Released: August 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Jerry Connell (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Santa Fe Marshal
Title: Santa Fe Marshal
Character: Blake
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
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The Green Hornet
Title: The Green Hornet
Character: Charles Roberts (uncredited)
Released: January 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
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The Night of Nights
Title: The Night of Nights
Character: Actor (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival of the play he dies contented.
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Heroes in Blue
Title: Heroes in Blue
Character: Miller
Released: November 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Family heartbreak: A dedicated New York City policeman raises two sons, one following in his dad's footsteps as a cop while the other turns to crime and is arrested for murder.
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Range War
Title: Range War
Character: Chas. Higgins
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. Till now they have been able to charge tolls on herds passing through. Hoppy goes undercover to expose them.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: FBI Chief Clive Anderson [Chs. 13-15]
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Bob Randall
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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The Oregon Trail
Title: The Oregon Trail
Character: General Terry
Released: July 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Stan - Star Advertising Manager (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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Buck Rogers
Title: Buck Rogers
Character: Reporter at Wade's Lab
Released: April 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Man at New York Airport
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Mr. John Trumbell - Juror #3
Released: April 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
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Sunset Trail
Title: Sunset Trail
Character: John Marsh
Released: February 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
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The Duke of West Point
Title: The Duke of West Point
Character: Varsity Football Coach
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.
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The Headleys at Home
Title: The Headleys at Home
Character: Smooth Adair
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In this domestic comedy, a social climbing wife inadvertently creates trouble when she insists that her husband invite a renowned financier, who is new in town, to their house for dinner. Her husband doesn't know the man, and is too intimidated to ask him; instead, he hires an actor to play him.
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Law of the Texan
Title: Law of the Texan
Character: Allen Spencer
Released: October 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Ore shipments are being stolen and the Rangers send Buck and his men to guard the next shipment. When that is stolen also, Buck is kicked out of the Rangers.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Angry Businessman
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Laundry Owner
Released: July 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
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Pride of the West
Title: Pride of the West
Character: Caldwell
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Caldwell and Nixon have their men rob the stage and then critcize the Sheriff for not catching the robbers. With her father the Sheriff under pressure, Mary sends for Hoppy who finds the stolen money and sets a trap to bring in the entire gang.
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Held For Ransom
Title: Held For Ransom
Character: McBride
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman.
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Whirlwind Horseman
Title: Whirlwind Horseman
Character: John Harper
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have been terrorizing the ranchers. Ken figures that one of the prominent citizens is the real boss and sets a trap to find him.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: Mr. Richards
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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Accidents Will Happen
Title: Accidents Will Happen
Character: Elmer Ross
Released: April 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.
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Merrily We Live
Title: Merrily We Live
Character: Mr. Remington
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
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Blondes at Work
Title: Blondes at Work
Character: Marvin Spencer
Released: February 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
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Swing It, Sailor!
Title: Swing It, Sailor!
Character: First Officer
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
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Saleslady
Title: Saleslady
Character: Bigelow
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
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Tim Tyler's Luck
Title: Tim Tyler's Luck
Character: Spencer, Trader
Released: December 27, 1937
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Title: Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Character: [scenes deleted]
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
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The Mysterious Pilot
Title: The Mysterious Pilot
Character: Carter Snowden
Released: December 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowden
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The Shadow Strikes
Title: The Shadow Strikes
Character: Captain Breen
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
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Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Title: Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Character: Roger 'Angel' Carroll
Released: September 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Counterfeit bills are being printed in Canada and shipped across the border hidden in blocks of ice. When the counterfeiters force engraver Bronson to make a new plate, he inscribes a tiny help message on it. Renfrew catches a henchman who has one of the new bills. A magnifying glass lets him read the message and he heads out alone to round up the counterfeiters.
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Wine, Women and Horses
Title: Wine, Women and Horses
Character: Mr. Bright
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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Topper
Title: Topper
Character: Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.
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Blazing Sixes
Title: Blazing Sixes
Character: Major Taylor
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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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Gunsmoke Ranch
Title: Gunsmoke Ranch
Character: Phineas T. Flagg
Released: May 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Eddie
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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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: Real G-Man
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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A Million to One
Title: A Million to One
Character: William Stevens
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
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Trail Dust
Title: Trail Dust
Character: Bowman
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.
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Flying Hostess
Title: Flying Hostess
Character: 1st Detective
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.
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Hideaway Girl
Title: Hideaway Girl
Character: Lead steward
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
An unfortunate marriage and a bogus Count are the ingredients for this musical.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Police Surgeon
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Mr. Andrews
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Department of Commerce Inspector
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Public Enemy's Wife
Title: Public Enemy's Wife
Character: G-Man
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Title: The Case of the Velvet Claws
Character: Peter Milnor
Released: July 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: 'Chick'
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Stephen Martin
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Marshal Bill Graves
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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Movie Maniacs
Title: Movie Maniacs
Character: Leading man
Released: February 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The stooges arrive in Hollywood hoping to make it in the movie business. They sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. After taking over production of a movie, causing the director and cast to walk off, Moe takes over as director, with Larry and Curly as the leading man and lady. When the real executives send a telegram explaining why they haven't arrived, the stooges must leave on the run.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Jim Davis
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Cappy Ricks Returns
Title: Cappy Ricks Returns
Character: Matt Peasley
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
"Cappy" Ricks comes out of retirement to fight against a bill, sponsored by his old political rivals, that, if passed, would forbid the selling of wooden shingles for house-roofs. He also takes time, along the way, to smooth the rocky road to romance being traveled by Bill Peck and Barbara Blake.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Bob
Released: September 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Title: The Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Ward
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
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Under Montana Skies
Title: Under Montana Skies
Character: Clay Conning
Released: September 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
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Paradise Island
Title: Paradise Island
Character: Jim Thorne
Released: July 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
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Man, Woman and Wife
Title: Man, Woman and Wife
Character: Bill / Jack Mason
Released: January 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Helen Brandon, an unhappily married woman, marries former suitor Jack Mason when her husband, Ralph, is killed in action. The report of Ralph's death is false; he returns to the States, a deserter, under an assumed name and becomes a derelict.
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Code of the Air
Title: Code of the Air
Released: September 30, 1928
Type: Movie
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Midnight Rose
Title: Midnight Rose
Character: Tim Regan
Released: February 26, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent crime movie
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Streets of Shanghai
Title: Streets of Shanghai
Character: Sergeant Lee
Released: December 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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Cheating Cheaters
Title: Cheating Cheaters
Character: Tom Palmer
Released: December 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Nan Carey ( Betty Compson ), a shoplifter, is caught by the police but acquitted through the influence of Lazare ( Lucien Littlefield ), a crooked lawyer, who places her with a gang of crooks. Posing as the Brockton family, they move to a seaside home, where they plan to steal the jewel collection of the Palmers, their neighbours. Nan wins the confidence of the family by flirting with Tom ( Kenneth Harlan ), who becomes infatuated and wants to go away with her, but she refuses him. Tom is caught red-handed in the Brockton mansion attempting to steal their jewels while Nan is making a success of the Palmer robbery.
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Life in Hollywood No. 2
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 2
Character: Himself
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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Easy Pickings
Title: Easy Pickings
Character: Peter Van Horne
Released: February 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.
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Twinkletoes
Title: Twinkletoes
Character: Chuck Lightfoot
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
"Twinkletoes" Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother. Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot, a noted prizefighter, who falls in love with her at first sight. She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck, whose wife, Cissie, is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful. Meanwhile, Twink has secured a job in a singing-dancing act in a Limehouse theater, under the auspices of Roseleaf, who has more than just a protective interest in the girl. The jealous Cissie discovers that Twink's sign-painting father also has a night job as a burglar, and she turns him into the police. While a big success dancing on the stage, the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps, and she decides to toss herself into the Thames. Possibly, the now-free Chuck, since Cissie has been killed in an accident, might come along and rescue her.
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The Ice Flood
Title: The Ice Flood
Released: October 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp, filled with brawny he-men who spend their time drinking, gambling and brawling when not cutting timber. Once there, Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against "Dum-Dum" Pete, the toughest man in those parts. Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camp's mascot, a crippled young boy, and saves his sweetheart, Marie O'Nei, that daughter of a rival lumber company, from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an ice-break flood.
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The King of the Turf
Title: The King of the Turf
Character: John Doe Smith
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
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The Fighting Edge
Title: The Fighting Edge
Released: January 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.
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The Golden Strain
Title: The Golden Strain
Character: Milt Mulford Jr
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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Bobbed Hair
Title: Bobbed Hair
Character: David Lacy
Released: October 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.
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Ranger of the Big Pines
Title: Ranger of the Big Pines
Character: Ross Cavanagh
Released: July 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A college graduate returns West after ten years in the East to her home in Sulfur Springs. Virginia's mother, the owner of a rooming house has turned hard and uncaring in her absence and the girl finds comfort in her friendship with Ross Cavanagh, a forest ranger. The latter runs afoul of cattle baron Sam Gregg, who resents a new tax on cattle grazing on government land.
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The Marriage Whirl
Title: The Marriage Whirl
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
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Drusilla with a Million
Title: Drusilla with a Million
Character: Colin Arnold
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.
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The Crowded Hour
Title: The Crowded Hour
Character: Billy Laidlaw
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents. Billy subsequently arranges for the Broadway debut of the act and falls in love with Peggy, who wholeheartedly returns his affection. When the World War breaks out, Billy remains unconcerned until his younger brother is killed in action. Billy then immediately enlists and is sent to France; Peggy joins the Red Cross to be with him, and Grace Laidlaw, Billy's wife, also goes to France, working with the Y. M. C. A. Billy is assigned to destroy an ammunition dump, and Peggy learns, after he has left on the mission, that he has been recalled.
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Learning to Love
Title: Learning to Love
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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White Man
Title: White Man
Character: White Man
Released: November 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Lady Andrea Pellor (Joyce) is engaged with a South African wealthy mine owner only to save her family from misery. Before the wedding, she changes her mind about marrying the rich man for the wrong reasons, and she begs a pilot known as "White Man" (Harlan) to take her with him.
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Butterfly
Title: Butterfly
Character: Craig Spaulding
Released: October 11, 1924
Type: Movie
Silent Feature Film by Clarence Brown
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The Virgin
Title: The Virgin
Character: David Kent
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The Virgin (1924)
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Poisoned Paradise
Title: Poisoned Paradise
Character: Hugh Kildair / Gilbert Kildair
Released: February 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Margot Le Blanc loses her small fortune at Monte Carlo and makes the acquaintance of Hugh Kildair, an artist, who hires her as a housekeeper. A gang of thieves set a trap for Kildair when they find that he knows a mathematical system guaranteed to win at the gambling table.
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The Man Without a Heart
Title: The Man Without a Heart
Released: January 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Broken Wing
Title: The Broken Wing
Character: Philip Marvin
Released: December 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An American pilot flying in Mexico crash-lands on a ranch, and is nursed back to health by the daughter of the ranch's owner. Unbeknownst to the pilot--who has lost his memory because of the crash--the girl has been praying for a husband, and believes that God has answered her prayers by sending him this handsome pilot. However, a local guerrilla leader has also had designs on the daughter, and comes up with a plan to get rid of his competition, make some money and win the girl in the bargain.
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April Showers
Title: April Showers
Character: Danny O'Rourke
Released: October 21, 1923
Type: Movie
This silent romantic melodrama is believed to be lost.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: The Virginian
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
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Temporary Marriage
Title: Temporary Marriage
Character: Robert Belmar
Released: June 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Temporary Marriage is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Kenneth Harlan, Mildred Davis, and Myrtle Stedman.
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East Side - West Side
Title: East Side - West Side
Character: Duncan Van Norman
Released: June 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family. She falls in love with the son (Harlan) but the couple is separated by his cruel, class-conscious mother. Lory stays true to her spirit and does not compromise her integrity when the mother attempts to pay her off. Later, a tragedy might open the door the broken hearted young woman to find happiness.
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: David Graham
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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The Toll of the Sea
Title: The Toll of the Sea
Character: Allen Carver
Released: January 22, 1923
Type: Movie
While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
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The Beautiful and Damned
Title: The Beautiful and Damned
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
Gloria, the daughter in a wealthy family, has finally spent most of her father's money. She marries Tony, whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is, and they continue indulging themselves. Tony's wealthy grandfather Adam Patch dies, but to their surprise he leaves Tony nothing. The couple try their hands at actually working for a living, but they don't like it and return to their spendthrift ways. Something has to give, and it soon does.
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Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Title: Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
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The World's a Stage
Title: The World's a Stage
Character: Wallace Foster
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
While playing Juliet in a barnstorming Shakespearean troupe, Jo Bishop is discovered by a motion picture director and brought to Hollywood. She becomes a star and quickly marries Wallace Foster. Another man, John Brand, also loves her, but is satisfied to remain her friend.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Cpl. Bob Fitzgerald
Released: June 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her from an attack by Fu Chang.
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The Primitive Lover
Title: The Primitive Lover
Character: Donald Wales
Released: April 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
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Polly of the Follies
Title: Polly of the Follies
Character: Bob Jones
Released: January 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy, focusing on the love triangle between Bob Jones, Alysia Potter and Polly Meachum. Originally engaged, Bob and Alysia elope to Bowling Green, Connecticut, where they meet Silas Meachum, a campaigner against motion pictures, and his daughter, Polly. The eloping couple’s family arrive, chasing them, and persuade them to wait to get married. Polly goes to New York to join the Ziegfeld Follies, but is ultimately replaced by Alysia. As Bob consoles Polly, Alysia breaks off the engagement, and Bob and Polly may now marry.
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Woman's Place
Title: Woman's Place
Character: Jim Bradley
Released: October 17, 1921
Type: Movie
The Women's Political League decides to find a female candidate for mayor and their choice is Kay Gerson who, they figure, will win votes from the men because of her looks. But the town's political boss, Jim Bradley, counters with his own good-looking candidate, Freddy Bleeker, who he thinks will get the women's vote.
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Dawn of the East
Title: Dawn of the East
Character: Roger Strong
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Countess Natalya is a glamorous refugee from the Bolshevik revolution. Supporting herself and her ailing sister by dancing in a Shanghai dive, she's is talked into a marriage with a wealthy Chinese gentleman. She has been led to believe that this marriage of convenience is not binding, thus she sees no reason not to marry American diplomat Kenneth Harlan once she's arrived in the States.
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Lessons in Love
Title: Lessons in Love
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
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Mama's Affair
Title: Mama's Affair
Character: Dr. Harmon
Released: January 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Eve Orrin is at the mercy of her possessive mother, who has a case of "nerves" every time her daughter tries to show a mind of her own. Mrs. Orrin and her friend, Mrs. Marchant, have determined that Eve will marry Mrs. Marchant's milquetoast son, Henry, and Eve is willing to go along with it just to placate her mother. But Eve herself finally has an attack of nerves, and she falls in love with Doctor Harmon, the physician called in to care for her.
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Dangerous Business
Title: Dangerous Business
Character: Clarence Brooks
Released: November 28, 1920
Type: Movie
A 1920 film directed by Roy William Neill.
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The Penalty
Title: The Penalty
Character: Dr. Wilmot Allen
Released: August 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
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Dollars and Sense
Title: Dollars and Sense
Character: David Rogers
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
Destitute, Hazel Farron is offered employment and comfort from bakery owner David Rogers. When Rogers' bakery slips into debt, he collapses from exhaustion and anxiety, forcing Hazel to turn to former admirer Geoffrey Stanhope for financial aid. Stanhope consents in return for a night alone with Hazel, but when she arrives at his hotel room for the appointed tryst, she discovers Stanhope waiting with Rogers and a minister so that Hazel can marry her employer.
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The Hoodlum
Title: The Hoodlum
Character: John Graham
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
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The Law That Divides
Title: The Law That Divides
Character: Howard Murray
Released: October 28, 1918
Type: Movie
John Douglas divorces his wife, taking custody of their son Kenneth and leaving her with their little daughter Kathleen. Mrs. Douglas dies in poverty, and Kathleen falls in with crook Jack Baggot and his wife, who teach her how to pick pockets.
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Bread
Title: Bread
Character: Dick Frothingham
Released: August 31, 1918
Type: Movie
Bread is a socially engaged drama which follows the fate of a woman struggling to pull herself out of poverty as she’s ruthlessly exploited by a string of men.
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Her Body in Bond
Title: Her Body in Bond
Character: Joe Blondin / Pierrot
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes consumptive and is ordered West to recuperate. Peggy remains in New York to maintain the couple's income but gradually becomes desperate when letters sent her by her husband request more and more money. Joe's letters actually are being intercepted and rewritten by millionaire Harlan Quinn, who has designs on Peggy and wishes to portray Joe's situation as hopeless. After receiving a particularly alarming letter, Peggy consents to sell her honor to Harlan.
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Midnight Madness
Title: Midnight Madness
Character: Prentice Tiller
Released: June 8, 1918
Type: Movie
In the act of robbing a set of rare jewels from a museum, a robber is wounded in the hand. Prentice Tiller, while dressing a wound in his hand, overhears the woman in the next hotel room, Gertrude Temple, telephoning Aaron Molitor, to whom she is to deliver some jewels. Posing as Molitor, Prentice calls on Gertrude but disappears when Molitor, who also has been wounded in the hand, suddenly arrives. Molitor's men capture Prentice, who narrowly escapes death in the ruins of an old church and then continues to track Molitor.
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A Model's Confession
Title: A Model's Confession
Character: Billy Ravensworth
Released: June 2, 1918
Type: Movie
An important customer at Armande's, where Iva Seldon works as a model, is Billy Ravensworth, who purchases expensive gowns for a heartless vampire named Rita Challoner. When Billy pays for a number of gowns with a bad check, Iva is sent to Rita's home to collect the finery, and there she meets Bertrand Seldon, whom she recognizes as her own father, a society man who had deserted his wife years earlier and never acknowledged Iva. Rita learns that Billy is poor and breaks off their affair, after which Iva persuades him to pose as her fiancé so that she might enter society. Billy is content to maintain the masquerade in exchange for Iva's money, but soon finds himself jealous over her apparent romance with Bertrand. Iva agrees to accompany Bertrand on a drive, but the car plunges down a cliff, whereupon she reveals her identity. Before his death, Bertrand at last recognizes his daughter, and with his fortune, she and Billy begin a new life.
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The Marriage Lie
Title: The Marriage Lie
Character: Douglas Seward
Released: April 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Left alone and penniless after her father dies, Eileen Orton attempts suicide. Douglas Seward, who must be married to obtain the position he seeks, befriends Eileen and offers to support her if she will pose as his wife.
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The Wine Girl
Title: The Wine Girl
Character: Frank Harris
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Andrea Minghetti runs a California vineyard with the help of his pretty niece Bona, who cooks for the employees. A worker named Chico Piave, who belongs to a secret crime society, tries unsuccessfully to force himself on Bona, and later, he demands that Andrea give him both the young woman and a large sum in cash.
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The Wife He Bought
Title: The Wife He Bought
Character: Steele Valiant
Released: February 4, 1918
Type: Movie
James Brieson, a wealthy stockbroker, ruins Hutch Valiant, who soon after dies of the shock. Valiant's son Steele returns from the Northwest, where he won his fortune, just before his father's death and decides to devote his life to the cause of revenge.
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My Unmarried Wife
Title: My Unmarried Wife
Character: Phillip Smith
Released: January 7, 1918
Type: Movie
A nurse falls for a impoverished and recently blinded novelist.
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The Lash of Power
Title: The Lash of Power
Character: John Rand
Released: November 5, 1917
Type: Movie
John Rand, having lived in a small town his entire life, dreams of possessing wealth and power in New York. Napoleon Bonaparte has long been his ideal, and one day he feels a message from the departed general urging him to take up the fight for world supremacy. He goes to the city ready to begin the battle, and there, aided by his Napoleonic visions, John amasses a great fortune, ruthlessly destroying everyone who presents an obstacle to his lust for power.
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The Price of a Good Time
Title: The Price of a Good Time
Character: Preston Winfield
Released: November 4, 1917
Type: Movie
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
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The Flame of the Yukon
Title: The Flame of the Yukon
Character: George Fowler
Released: July 1, 1917
Type: Movie
George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him, but he has no money...
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Cheerful Givers
Title: Cheerful Givers
Character: Horace Gray
Released: April 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Paul Powell.
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Betsy's Burglar
Title: Betsy's Burglar
Character: Harry Brent
Released: March 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.