Herbert Rawlinson

Herbert Rawlinson

Born: November 14, 1885
Died: July 12, 1953
in New Brighton, Cheshire, England, UK
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Herbert Banemann Rawlinson (15 November 1885 – 12 July 1953) was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor. A leading man during Hollywood's silent film era, Rawlinson transitioned to character roles after the advent of sound films.

Rawlinson was born in New Brighton, Cheshire, England, UK. He sailed to America on the same ship as Charlie Chaplin.

He died of lung cancer in 1953.

Movies for Herbert Rawlinson...

Jail Bait
Title: Jail Bait
Character: Dr Boris Gregor
Released: May 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gregor accidentally kills a night watchman. Fearing that Gregor plans to turn himself in, Brady kills him and blackmails Dr. Gregor into giving him a new face.
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The Flaming Urge
Title: The Flaming Urge
Character: Herb - Fire Chief
Released: September 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A pyromaniac tries to fight his obsession with fire. This movie uses the pyromaniac urge as an extraordinarily transparent metaphor for homosexuality.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
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Title: Adventures of Superman
Character: Rozan
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: TV
Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
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Gene Autry and the Mounties
Title: Gene Autry and the Mounties
Character: Inspector Wingate
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Montana Marshals Gene and Scat are tracking some bank robbers. When the baddies cross into Canada, the Mounties are called upon to help.
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Chain Gang
Title: Chain Gang
Character: Senator Holden
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts masquerades as a prison guard to document inhuman conditions.
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Fighting Man of the Plains
Title: Fighting Man of the Plains
Character: Lawyer
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
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Brimstone
Title: Brimstone
Character: Cottonwood Citizen
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
A U.S. Marshal goes undercover to stop a cattle smuggling gang, but when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Strange Gamble
Title: Strange Gamble
Character: John Murray
Released: October 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and Mexican money; his only clues are the name "Mordigan" and a drawing of a comet. He quickly finds out that Mordigan is the town "boss"; but what or who is "the comet", and why are Mordigan and his henchmen intent on persecuting a young woman, her drunken brother, and her deathly ill sister-in-law who've also just arrived in town?
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Borrowed Trouble
Title: Borrowed Trouble
Character: Groves
Released: July 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the conflict between school teacher Miss Abott and next door saloon owner Mawson. When Miss Abott disappears, Hoppy gets a clue to her location and rescues her from Mawson's cabin. It looks like Mawson is the man he wants, but Hoppy finds an item that indicates otherwise.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: Graham
Released: July 15, 1948
Type: Movie
Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.
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Sinister Journey
Title: Sinister Journey
Character: Constable Reardon
Released: June 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Norman Talbot
Released: May 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
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The Gallant Legion
Title: The Gallant Legion
Character: Major Grant
Released: May 24, 1948
Type: Movie
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers must step in to thwart their chicanery.
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Silent Conflict
Title: Silent Conflict
Character: Yardman
Released: March 19, 1948
Type: Movie
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.
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Railroaded!
Title: Railroaded!
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.
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San Quentin
Title: San Quentin
Character: Dr. Stanton (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1946
Type: Movie
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
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Accomplice
Title: Accomplice
Character: Vincent Springer
Released: September 29, 1946
Type: Movie
A private detective and his assistant are hired to find a missing husband. The seemingly easy case is complicated by a dead body.
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Sheriff of Sundown
Title: Sheriff of Sundown
Character: Governor Brainerd
Released: November 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Bringing his large cattle herd to Sundown, rancher Tex Jordan must sell his cattle to corrupt baron Jack Hatfield. He does OK but learns Hatfield is cheating the small outfits. When one refuses to sell he is murdered and Tex then decides to stay and take up the fight. He is appointed a special Agent by the Governor but unknonw to him the Governor's Secretary is a spy for Hatfield and reveals his plans.
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Goin' to Town
Title: Goin' to Town
Character: Wentworth
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.
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Marshal of Reno
Title: Marshal of Reno
Character: Editor John Palmer
Released: July 2, 1944
Type: Movie
One of two towns will be selected to be the County Seat and Editor Palmer has a gang working to make sure his town is chosen. Investigating the lawlessness, Red Ryder poses as an outlaw to get into the gang hoping to find out who the boss is. But Palmer knows Red and exposes his true identity when he arrives and Red and Gabby then find themselves prisoners of the gang. [Written by Maurice Van Auken]
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Forty Thieves
Title: Forty Thieves
Character: Buck Peters
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
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Lumberjack
Title: Lumberjack
Character: Buck Peters
Released: April 28, 1944
Type: Movie
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy warns against this but she does so anyway. It looks as though she will be unable to deliver the timber called for in her agreement. Hoppy has to make the lumber deal happened and solve the murder.
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Shake Hands with Murder
Title: Shake Hands with Murder
Character: John Clark
Released: April 22, 1944
Type: Movie
A female bail-bond broker and her partner help an accused embezzler prove his innocence. Having the body of the embezzler's late business partner pop up doesn't help matters.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Released: February 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In this comedy, three merchant marines get into all kinds of trouble. Two of the salts have just broken off their engagements after meeting other, more desirable women.
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Nabonga
Title: Nabonga
Character: T.F. Stockwell
Released: January 25, 1944
Type: Movie
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
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Marshal of Gunsmoke
Title: Marshal of Gunsmoke
Character: Sam Garret
Released: January 22, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. marshal Ritter arrives in town to round up bandits who are attempting to fix the local elections.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Doc Sears
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Riders of the Deadline
Title: Riders of the Deadline
Character: Ranger Captain Jennings
Released: December 3, 1943
Type: Movie
When Ranger Hoppy's falsely accused young ranger friend is killed while supposedly trying to escape from jail, Hoppy is blamed and drummed out of the Texas Rangers.
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Old Acquaintance
Title: Old Acquaintance
Character: Red Cross Chairman (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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Where Are Your Children?
Title: Where Are Your Children?
Character: Brooks the Butler
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plants, meets and falls in love with Danny Chester (Jackie Cooper), who enlists in the Navy and is sent to San Diego for training. She accepts an invitation to go on a ride to San Diego with her friends Herb (Neyle Morrow), Opal (Evelyn Eaton)and Jerry (Jimmy Zahner) but doesn't know the car has been stolen.
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Colt Comrades
Title: Colt Comrades
Character: Rancher Varney
Released: June 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam owned by a greedy merchant in town, who is intent on driving them out and taking their land for himself.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Businessman
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Days of Old Cheyenne
Title: Days of Old Cheyenne
Character: Frank Shelby
Released: March 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Clint Ross's skill at fisticuffs earns him the town marshal's job in Cheyenne. Thanks to the string-pulling of political boss Big Bill Harmon, Ross makes it all the way up to the governor's office. But when Ross figures out that Big Bill is a big crook, it's showdown time.
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Two Weeks to Live
Title: Two Weeks to Live
Character: J. J. Stark Sr.
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
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Reveille with Beverly
Title: Reveille with Beverly
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.
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Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Title: Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher
Character: Mr. James J. Blake
Released: January 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Cosmo Jones, a correspondence-school detective from a small town, comes to the big city to offer his services to the police. He happens by where a gangster is killed by an opposing gang. Socialite Phyllis Blake is running around with gang member Tom and the opposing gang plan on kidnapping her. Cosmo is with Sergeant Flanagan when the attempt is made in front of a night club, where a bystander is seriously wounded in the gun-battle. Police Chief Murphy blames Flanagan for the shooting and demotes him. Cosmo, with the aid of a porter, Eustace and Flanagan's fiancée, Susan, tries to find the killer. Phyllis is finally kidnapped and Cosmo decides the act was committed by one of the two gangs. He has her father place an ad in the newspaper that contact has been made with the kidnappers. Each gang thinks the other is pulling a double cross, and one gang wipes out the other.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Tom Clark
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Judge
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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War Dogs
Title: War Dogs
Character: David J. Titus
Released: November 13, 1942
Type: Movie
A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.
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Foreign Agent
Title: Foreign Agent
Character: Stevens
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Townsman
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
Title: Perils of the Royal Mounted
Character: Richard Winton
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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Hello, Annapolis
Title: Hello, Annapolis
Character: Capt. Dugan
Released: April 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Rivals Bill Arden and Paul Herbert enter the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to impress a girl.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Character: Ex-Soldier Commander
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
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Lady Gangster
Title: Lady Gangster
Character: Lewis Sinton
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
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The Panther's Claw
Title: The Panther's Claw
Character: District Attorney Bill Dougherty
Released: March 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The police arrest a man climbing over the wall of a cemetery after midnight. He claims that he is being blackmailed and is following instructions he received by mail to leave $1000 on a certain grave. It turns out that he's not the only one who got a blackmail letter from the same person--calling himself "The Black Panther"--and it also turns out that all the recipients are connected to an opera company.
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Stagecoach Buckaroo
Title: Stagecoach Buckaroo
Character: Bill Kincaid
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
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Broadway Big Shot
Title: Broadway Big Shot
Character: District Attorney
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict. The zealous journalist, also a star quarterback on the town college team, decides to become a convict himself. He gets into the prison, becomes president of the prisoners' union, does his interview, successfully woo's the warden's daughter, and gets out in time to publish his story before anyone else does. His career is off to a tremendous start.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Admiral Warburton [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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Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Police Chief
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
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I Killed That Man
Title: I Killed That Man
Character: Prison Warden
Released: November 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.
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Arizona Cyclone
Title: Arizona Cyclone
Character: George Randolph
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Crenshaw and Randolph are competing freight haulers and Randolph's lead man Tom Baxter has given him an advantage....
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Col. Lee Avery
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Lydia
Title: Lydia
Character: Dignitary on Podium
Released: September 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Judge Gary
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Gentleman from Dixie
Title: Gentleman from Dixie
Character: Prison Warden
Released: September 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana ranch, where they're raising horses to compete in an important race.
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Title: Scattergood Meets Broadway
Character: The Governor
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
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Adventure in Washington
Title: Adventure in Washington
Character: Sen. Jenkins
Released: May 29, 1941
Type: Movie
A troubled youth is offered the opportunity to serve as a Senate page in Washington, DC.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Dodge City Marshal
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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Strange Alibi
Title: Strange Alibi
Character: King Carney
Released: April 19, 1941
Type: Movie
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
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Flying Wild
Title: Flying Wild
Character: Mr. Reynolds
Released: March 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: First Mate
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.
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King of the Royal Mounted
Title: King of the Royal Mounted
Character: Ross King
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns that Compound X also contains magnetic properties that could aid them in their warfare against the British, they send agents to infiltrate Canada and steal a large quantity of the substance. It's up to Sgt. King (Allan Lane) and his Mounties to track down the agents and put an end to their scheme.
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Cross-Country Romance
Title: Cross-Country Romance
Character: Captain Brawley
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
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Free, Blonde and 21
Title: Free, Blonde and 21
Character: John Crane
Released: March 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Title: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Character: Dr. Frohmann
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.
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Framed
Title: Framed
Character: Walter Billings
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
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Five Little Peppers at Home
Title: Five Little Peppers at Home
Character: Mr. Decker
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner becomes ill.
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Swiss Family Robinson
Title: Swiss Family Robinson
Character: Captain
Released: February 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for themselves in the jungle environment.
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Money To Burn
Title: Money To Burn
Character: Dover
Released: December 31, 1939
Type: Movie
In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.
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Swanee River
Title: Swanee River
Character: Army Officer
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of the time, the film is more fictional than factual biography.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Bank Association Official (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Naughty But Nice
Title: Naughty But Nice
Character: Hardwick's Attorney (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
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Dark Victory
Title: Dark Victory
Character: Dr. Carter
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
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Sudden Money
Title: Sudden Money
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: District Attorney
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.
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Secret Service of the Air
Title: Secret Service of the Air
Character: Adm. A.C. Schuyler
Released: March 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Dave Reynolds (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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Torchy Gets Her Man
Title: Torchy Gets Her Man
Character: Tom Brennan
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
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Hard to Get
Title: Hard to Get
Character: Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1938
Type: Movie
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
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Secrets of an Actress
Title: Secrets of an Actress
Character: Harrison
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Under the Big Top
Title: Under the Big Top
Character: Herman
Released: August 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze star.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Goguelot (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Avery Flickner
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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Over the Wall
Title: Over the Wall
Character: Prosecutor
Released: April 2, 1938
Type: Movie
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.
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Hawaii Calls
Title: Hawaii Calls
Character: Mr. Harlow
Released: March 12, 1938
Type: Movie
After being nabbed while trying to stow away on board an ocean liner en route to Hawaii, young Bobby Breen sings for his travel fare and, along with sidekick Pua, turns detective to recover stolen naval documents from crooks
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The Kid Comes Back
Title: The Kid Comes Back
Character: Mr. D. Redman
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
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Over the Goal
Title: Over the Goal
Character: Stanley Short
Released: October 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The Carlton State star quarterback is wrongly thrown in jail, almost guaranteeing a major loss as well as costing the college a donation which would save the school from closing.
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Love Is on the Air
Title: Love Is on the Air
Character: Mr. George Copelin
Released: October 2, 1937
Type: Movie
A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.
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Make a Wish
Title: Make a Wish
Character: Dr. Stevens
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
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That Certain Woman
Title: That Certain Woman
Character: Dr. Hartman
Released: August 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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SOS Coast Guard
Title: SOS Coast Guard
Character: Cmdr. Boyle
Released: August 28, 1937
Type: Movie
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
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Back in Circulation
Title: Back in Circulation
Character: District Attorney Saunders
Released: August 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
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The Go-Getter
Title: The Go-Getter
Character: Lester
Released: May 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
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Nobody's Baby
Title: Nobody's Baby
Character: Radio Audition Executive
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Kitty Reily (Patsy Kelly) and Lena Marchetti (Lyda Roberti) meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.
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Midnight Court
Title: Midnight Court
Character: District Attorney Larson
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Blake of Scotland Yard
Title: Blake of Scotland Yard
Character: Sir James Blake
Released: January 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Doyle
Released: January 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property and slowly learns the business and of his brother's dirty tricks.
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Mysterious Crossing
Title: Mysterious Crossing
Character: District Attorney Henry R. Charters
Released: December 27, 1936
Type: Movie
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
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Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Title: Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Character: Grant Jackson
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 14-episode serial in which Mala, a Polynesian in the employ of U.S. Intelligence investigates sabotage on Clipper Island. A gang of spies causes the eruption of a volcano, for which our hero is blamed. He convinces the local Princess Melani of his innocence and helps her ward off a takeover by rival high priest Porotu.
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Mad Holiday
Title: Mad Holiday
Character: Captain Bromley
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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Hollywood Boulevard
Title: Hollywood Boulevard
Character: Manager of Grauman's
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Fred Townsend
Released: June 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Mr. Caldwell
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.
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Hitch Hike To Heaven
Title: Hitch Hike To Heaven
Character: Melville Delaney
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.
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Dancing Feet
Title: Dancing Feet
Character: Oliver Groves
Released: January 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails.
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Show Them No Mercy!
Title: Show Them No Mercy!
Character: Kurt Hansen
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Convention Girl
Title: Convention Girl
Character: Ward Hollister
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: J.W. Keaton
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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Men Without Names
Title: Men Without Names
Character: Crawford
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
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The People's Enemy
Title: The People's Enemy
Character: Philip Francis Duke Ware
Released: April 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.
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Enlighten Thy Daughter
Title: Enlighten Thy Daughter
Character: Dr. Richard Stevens
Released: January 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1917 picture of the same name. Ruth, the offspring of Stevens' hypocritical brother, is neglected by her parents in matters of sex education; as consequence, she trods the primrose path, ending up pregnant, then dead.
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Get That Venus
Title: Get That Venus
Character: Editor Nash
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous Venus of Asterville.
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Moonlight and Pretzels
Title: Moonlight and Pretzels
Character: Sport Powell
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
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The Working Man
Title: The Working Man
Character: Reeves Company Board Member (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
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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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The Bugle Call
Title: The Bugle Call
Character: Capt. Randolph
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
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Slipping Wives
Title: Slipping Wives
Character: Husband
Released: April 3, 1927
Type: Movie
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
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Her Sacrifice
Title: Her Sacrifice
Character: James Romaine
Released: September 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.
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The Belle of Broadway
Title: The Belle of Broadway
Character: Paul Merlin
Released: August 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris, one again and the other newly-crowned.
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Men of the Night
Title: Men of the Night
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
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Her Big Adventure
Title: Her Big Adventure
Character: Ralph Merriwell
Released: January 5, 1926
Type: Movie
Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He finds work as a bellhop in a fancy Los Angeles hotel. Meanwhile, Silas' secretary, Betty Burton (Grace Darmond), wins a thousand dollars in a contest and uses the money to vacation in the very same hotel.
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The Gilded Butterfly
Title: The Gilded Butterfly
Released: January 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Man in Blue
Title: The Man in Blue
Character: Officer Tom Conlin
Released: June 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Tom Conlin, an Irish cop walking a beat in an Italian neighborhood, falls in love with Tita Sartori, the daughter of a florist. Tita returns Tom's affection but keeps him at a distance, believing him to be married; However she is also wooed by an unscrupulous politician of considerable wealth.....
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The Adventurous Sex
Title: The Adventurous Sex
Character: The Sweetheart
Released: June 12, 1925
Type: Movie
A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out on her own to live the high life, but her reputation is soiled by an adventurer. The young woman resolves to kill herself, and throws herself into the water rushing towards Niagara Falls, but is saved at the last minute by her former sweetheart.
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The Prairie Wife
Title: The Prairie Wife
Character: Duncan MacKail
Released: February 23, 1925
Type: Movie
While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail, who is equally broke though he owns grainland in the West. Duncan and Chaddie are married and go west to homestead. Duncan hires Ollie, a Swedish caretaker, who frightens Chaddie. When business takes Duncan away, Chaddie goes to take care of Percy Woodhouse, an Englishman who has become ill at his place fifteen miles away. Her horse runs away, and she is forced to spend the night there. She sleeps under a wagon, but Duncan is nevertheless angry and jealous.
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The Tomboy
Title: The Tomboy
Character: Aldon Farwell
Released: December 26, 1924
Type: Movie
Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
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The Dancing Cheat
Title: The Dancing Cheat
Character: Brwlw Clay
Released: April 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Herbert Rawlinson and Alice Lake star in this drama taken from the Saturday Evening Post story by Calvin Johnston.
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Jack O'Clubs
Title: Jack O'Clubs
Released: February 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the girl he loves.
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The Victor
Title: The Victor
Character: Cecil Fitzhugh Waring
Released: June 1, 1923
Type: Movie
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Once there he can't bring himself to do it.....
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Herbert Rawlinson (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: Philip Quentin
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
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Another Man's Shoes
Title: Another Man's Shoes
Character: Stuart Granger / Jack Burton
Released: November 6, 1922
Type: Movie
To evade a gang conspiring to assassinate him, wealthy businessman Stuart Granger induces his unsuspecting, look-alike cousin, Jack Burton, to impersonate him for a month.
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Man Under Cover
Title: Man Under Cover
Released: October 4, 1922
Type: Movie
Paul Porter and his swindler friend Daddy Moffat visit Paul's hometown and find an old friend, Holt Langdon, local bank cashier, in trouble over oil investments. Because of his friendship and love for Langdon's sister, Margaret, Paul resolves to help him by robbing the bank. Finding Holt a victim of suicide inside the bank, he makes it appear that Holt died defending the premises. Paul determines to reform, and he aids Margaret by buying a local newspaper. When two confidence men induce the populace to invest in a fake oil well scheme, Paul and Daddy Moffat, with the help of lawyer Colonel Culpepper, start another phony oil well and force the confidence men to buy it out at a high price. Paul returns the townspeople's money and tells Margaret the story; she then agrees to marry him.
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Don't Shoot
Title: Don't Shoot
Character: James Harrington Court
Released: August 21, 1922
Type: Movie
Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor.
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Cheated Hearts
Title: Cheated Hearts
Character: Barry Gordon
Released: December 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
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The Millionaire
Title: The Millionaire
Character: Jack Norman
Released: November 14, 1921
Type: Movie
Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with co-worker Kate Blair, a stenographer. He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in, he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother. The financier, Glyde, was murdered, so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him. In his attempt to outwit them, Norman poses as a valet, and has a friend impersonate him.
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Conflict
Title: Conflict
Character: Jevons
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
A society girl goes to live in the woods with her evil uncle and his wicked housekeeper.
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Charge It
Title: Charge It
Character: Philip Lawrence
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman's excessive spending brings difficulty to her family.
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Playthings of Destiny
Title: Playthings of Destiny
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
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Passers-By
Title: Passers-By
Character: Peter Waverton
Released: June 20, 1920
Type: Movie
A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class differential in the romance and sabotages it. The young man, in a state of boredom and depression, begins to invite into the house anyone who happens to pass by in the street.
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A Dangerous Affair
Title: A Dangerous Affair
Character: Terrence Redmond
Released: June 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Elderly millionaire James Rance, whose only passion is chess, warns his grandson Tommy, who missed the previous evening's game because he played poker with his uncle Gilbert, that should he miss another game, Gilbert will gain the boy's inheritance. During another poker game the next night, Gilbert provokes a fight between Tommy and another player that results in the other player's supposed death. Meanwhile, Terrence Redmond, the guardian of an orphan he found while fighting in France, falls in love with Dawn Moyer.
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Good Gracious, Annabelle
Title: Good Gracious, Annabelle
Character: John Rawson
Released: March 30, 1919
Type: Movie
When the father of sixteen-year-old Annabelle Leigh (Billie Burke) is killed in a fight, miner John Rawson (Herbert Rawlinson) snatches her away from the scene and takes her to his cabin for the night. In the morning, she insists she was "compromised" by the situation, so he marries her. But after a spat, he tells her to leave and she goes to another city. Annabelle doesn't even know the name of the man she married; however, he strikes it rich and sends her money, which she spends on frivolous entertainment.
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The Carter Case
Title: The Carter Case
Character: Craig Kennedy
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Science fiction serial.
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Kiss or Kill
Title: Kiss or Kill
Character: Henry Warner
Released: October 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.
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The Turn of the Wheel
Title: The Turn of the Wheel
Character: Maxfield Grey
Released: September 1, 1918
Type: Movie
While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean meets a young man, Maxfield Gray who is ready to kill himself because of his losses at the roulette wheel. She stops him from doing so, and lends him some money to win back what he's lost. He does, but they're only happy for a short while before Max is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife in the States.
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Out of the Night
Title: Out of the Night
Released: August 11, 1918
Type: Movie
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Back to the Woods
Title: Back to the Woods
Character: Jimmy Raymond
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Daughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to the logging village of Trentsville to search for "a real man." There she meets Jimmy Raymond, a young novelist posing as a local while writing his story. When Stephanie comes to Jimmy's cabin to report a supposed plot against him, he acts as though he intends to assault her. She nearly throws herself out the window but is stopped by Jimmy, who explains that he is working on a novel and merely wanted to determine a young girl's reactions. In retaliation, she orders that he be kidnapped and held in a nearby cabin, but remorsefully nurses him back to health when he is shot trying to escape.
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Brace Up
Title: Brace Up
Character: Henry Court
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father and his shy, retiring mother. The "father" side of his nature manifests itself on the college football field, where Henry excels. Unfortunately, the "mother" side is evidenced by a streak of cowardice, which surfaces at all the wrong times. Hoping to expunge the cowardly part of his make-up, Henry hires a bunch of self-styled mentalists to "concentrate" his problems away. Pretty soon, Henry is a virtual slave to the whims of the mentalists, who push his emotional buttons with reckless abandon.
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The Flash of Fate
Title: The Flash of Fate
Character: Randolph Shorb
Released: February 18, 1918
Type: Movie
When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.
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The High Sign
Title: The High Sign
Character: Donald Bruce
Released: December 31, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to be admitted to his school fraternity, David Bruce is told to impersonate a Balkan prince. In that guise, Bruce leaves for the prince's tiny municipality. En route, he becomes involved with a gang of anarchists who order him to kill the prince he is supposed to be impersonating.
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The Man Trap
Title: The Man Trap
Character: John Mull
Released: October 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Framed by police inspector Finch and his managing editor, R. H. Steadman, to cover up their own crooked work, reporter John Mull languishes in prison until he escapes, determined to wreak vengeance.
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Flirting with Death
Title: Flirting with Death
Character: 'Sky High' Billy Wardwell
Released: September 24, 1917
Type: Movie
When an aviator dies performing in a traveling circus, the circus closes and sideshow con men "Sky-High" Billy Wardell and "Domino" Dominick are arrested for giving out fake watches to wheel of fortune winners. After Domino springs the jail's lock, they jump a freight train and arrive in the next town, where Billy falls in love when Jane Higgenbotham allows them to breakfast on her freshly baked pies.
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Come Through
Title: Come Through
Character: James Harrington Court, aka 'The Possum'
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
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Like Wildfire
Title: Like Wildfire
Character: Tommy Buckman
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Tommy Buckman, the ne'er-do-well son of dime store magnate John Buckman, is given one last chance to succeed by surveying a possible location in New England for the opening of another store in his father's chain. Arriving in the town of Winton, Tommy lands in jail and, disowned by his father, is bailed out by Nina Potter, whose father owns the only dime store in town.
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The Scarlet Crystal
Title: The Scarlet Crystal
Character: Vincent Morgan
Released: February 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.
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The Eagle's Wings
Title: The Eagle's Wings
Character: Richard Wallace
Released: December 4, 1916
Type: Movie
A senator fights for the passage of a war-preparedness bill, while foreign spies conspire to plan an invasion.
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Little Eve Edgarton
Title: Little Eve Edgarton
Character: James Barton
Released: August 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Eve Edgarton decides to devote her life solely to her love of botany, but unexpectedly falls in love with a man who shares none of her intellectual interests.
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The False Part
Title: The False Part
Character: Herbert Rawlinson
Released: June 20, 1916
Type: Movie
The False Part
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The Wire Pullers
Title: The Wire Pullers
Character: Hamilton Craig
Released: June 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The Wire Pullers
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The Fair God of Sun Island
Title: The Fair God of Sun Island
Character: Herbert - a Fisherman
Released: October 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Harding, grown rich by illegally collecting insurance on self-destroyed boats, decides to settle down and chooses a home near where Old Ben and his daughter, Alice, fisherfolk, live. Alice and Herbert, a young fisherman, are in love. Captain Harding has long had his covetous eyes on the girl and is awaiting an opportunity to get her in his power.
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The Black Box
Title: The Black Box
Character: Sanford Quest
Released: March 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Science fiction serial, presumed lost.
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The Flash
Title: The Flash
Character: Dr. Harvey
Released: February 7, 1915
Type: Movie
1915 film with Jack Holt
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Damon and Pythias
Title: Damon and Pythias
Character: Pythias
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
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Martin Eden
Title: Martin Eden
Character: Arthur Morse
Released: August 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A sad story about how a working-class man tries, and succeeds, to become a writer, but finds difficulty in fitting into that world.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Harvey Birch
Released: June 1, 1914
Type: Movie
An American agent exchanges places in prison with a condemned British officer and brother of a woman he greatly admires and goes to the gallows.
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One of the Bravest
Title: One of the Bravest
Character: Larry Duffy
Released: January 27, 1914
Type: Movie
A romantic drama about love and jealousy. Two firefighters want the same girl. She almost gets married to Harry, but John sneakily keeps her from doing so, and then marries her himself. After a year, he has started drinking and has lost his job, and his wife has to go to work at the factory. When a fire breaks out there, he rescues her, but loses his own life in the process.
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The Sea Wolf
Title: The Sea Wolf
Character: Humphrey Van Weyden
Released: December 7, 1913
Type: Movie
The cruel captain of a schooner dominates the shipwreck victims he picks up.
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The Trail of Cards
Title: The Trail of Cards
Character: Cole - the Revenue Officer
Released: July 7, 1913
Type: Movie
In a bustling little coast town a blustering man, who poses as a sea captain, and a trig U.S. Revenue officer, are in love with the same girl.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Robert
Released: May 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia.
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The Woodman's Daughter
Title: The Woodman's Daughter
Character: Jim Alridge
Released: April 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Blasé Jim Alridge, weary of city life, coming to his apartment, finds an invitation from an old chum, Dick Freeman, to come and visit him at his lodge in the wilds. A week later the two are reviewing the days of long ago before the fire log. While hunting a short time after, Jim meets Marion, a girl of the forest, and is fascinated by her strange type of femininity. He teaches her to read and write, and without considering the difference in their tastes and social standing asks her to marry him.
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Pierre of the North
Title: Pierre of the North
Character: Duncan McLain
Released: February 10, 1913
Type: Movie
Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter. Both men propose to the girl, both are refused. Baptiste, mad with jealous rage, abducts the girl and carries her off to a lonely cabin in the wilderness. She defies him, throws his proffered ring at him and is chained to the floor to change her mind.
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Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Released: October 14, 1912
Type: Movie
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost.
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The Maid at the Helm
Title: The Maid at the Helm
Character: Shaw - Second Mate of the Dakota
Released: December 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Story about a girl at sea with rough sailors.
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The New Superintendent
Title: The New Superintendent
Character: Jack Hartway - the New Superintendent
Released: November 16, 1911
Type: Movie
James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough element in the works. Jack Hartway asks for a position, and Mr. Hastings discharges Morley. Hartway is duly installed as the new superintendent, and his first act is to put up a sign that Rooney, the bully, has formerly resented. Rooney tears the sign down, goes to the office to confront Hartway, is knocked down, and is made to nail the sign up again.
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The Blacksmith's Love
Title: The Blacksmith's Love
Character: Mace Brewer
Released: August 16, 1911
Type: Movie
The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother and answer the call of duty to his country. The misfortunes of war claim Mace, and at night as Joe, sorely wounded, limps off the battlefield, he leaves Mace for dead. Soldiers burying the dead, discover life in Mace and he is hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons succeed in reviving him. Thinking Mace dead, Joe writes to his mother of this tragedy, and she sadly shows the letter to the wife. Joe returns. Mace's widow calls for the details of his death. After recovering from the operation it is found that Mace's mind is affected, and he is taken to an asylum for treatment.
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The Still Alarm
Title: The Still Alarm
Character: John Bird
Released: May 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners
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The Cowboy and the Shrew
Title: The Cowboy and the Shrew
Character: Hank Wilson
Released: April 10, 1911
Type: Movie
Hank Wilson, a good-natured cow puncher, loves a rancher's daughter, and finally musters up courage enough to make known his love. She looks upon the matter as a joke, and coquettishly furnishes him considerable annoyance.