Herschel Mayall

Herschel Mayall

Born: July 12, 1863
Died: June 10, 1941
in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA

Movies for Herschel Mayall...

Come to Dinner
Title: Come to Dinner
Character: Oliver Jurgen
Released: February 24, 1934
Type: Movie
MGM's all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, 'Jean Harlow' , et al.
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Big Town
Title: Big Town
Character: Banker
Released: December 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A newspaper owner discovers that his girlfriend's father is the head of the biggest racket in New York City.
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Hey, Pop!
Title: Hey, Pop!
Character: Contest judge
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Title: The Studio Murder Mystery
Character: Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1932
Type: Movie
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
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His Woman
Title: His Woman
Character: Mrs. Morrisey
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
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Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love
Title: Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Corianton is unsure of his father Alma's religious teachings until God strikes down a religious foe. Converted, he becomes a successful missionary until seduced by the harlot Isabel. Struck with guilt, he runs away until discovered by his brother Shiblon who is then killed. While mourning, Corianton has a vision of Jesus and leads his people in victorious battle.
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The Royal Family of Broadway
Title: The Royal Family of Broadway
Character: Doctor
Released: December 22, 1930
Type: Movie
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Judge Summers
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
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The Great Power
Title: The Great Power
Character: John Power
Released: March 23, 1929
Type: Movie
The Great Power
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Alimony
Title: Alimony
Character: Blake
Released: February 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Jimmy Mason lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that he couldn't have done it without the help and support of his wife Marion. When Jimmy starts cheating on her, she divorces him, receiving an enormous settlement. Reduced to penury by various spendthrift mistresses, Jimmy is rescued once more by Marion, who once more guides him to success-and remarries him, this time on her terms.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Title: Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Gambler
Released: December 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
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In the Days of Daniel Boone
Title: In the Days of Daniel Boone
Character: General Braddock
Released: June 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Presumed lost. 15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. A trailer is included in the DVD More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.
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The Isle of Lost Ships
Title: The Isle of Lost Ships
Character: Capt. Clark
Released: March 17, 1923
Type: Movie
A likely lost film, that tells the story of people and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
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Money, Money, Money
Title: Money, Money, Money
Character: Mr. Carter
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Money, Money, Money is a 1923 silent film.
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Thirty Days
Title: Thirty Days
Character: Giacomo Polenta
Released: December 10, 1922
Type: Movie
John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
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Calvert's Valley
Title: Calvert's Valley
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
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Three Word Brand
Title: Three Word Brand
Character: Carroll
Released: October 15, 1921
Type: Movie
Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.
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To a Finish
Title: To a Finish
Character: Joe Blake
Released: August 21, 1921
Type: Movie
A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder.
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Straight from the Shoulder
Title: Straight from the Shoulder
Character: Joseph Martin
Released: June 19, 1921
Type: Movie
Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.
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The Beautiful Gambler
Title: The Beautiful Gambler
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.
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The Scuttlers
Title: The Scuttlers
Character: Captain Machen
Released: December 12, 1920
Type: Movie
The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
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Kismet
Title: Kismet
Character: Jawan
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
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Drag Harlan
Title: Drag Harlan
Character: Lane Morgan
Released: October 24, 1920
Type: Movie
William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold.
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Title: The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Character: Leonard Billigns
Released: June 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
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Bonds of Honor
Title: Bonds of Honor
Character: Paul Berkowitz
Released: October 4, 1919
Type: Movie
In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, is a playboy. There is a girl, Toko-Ku, who loves them both, but really prefers the bad boy. Sadao encounters Paul Berkowitz in a gambling den and borrows far more money from him than he can ever pay back.
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The Sleeping Lion
Title: The Sleeping Lion
Character: Durant
Released: June 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
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The Money Corral
Title: The Money Corral
Character: Carl Bruler
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
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The Silver Girl
Title: The Silver Girl
Character: Gilman Parton
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of gratitude Anne marries him, even though she is half his age.
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A Man in the Open
Title: A Man in the Open
Character: Trevor
Released: February 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
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Todd of the Times
Title: Todd of the Times
Released: February 9, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Heart of Rachael
Title: The Heart of Rachael
Character: Clarence Breckenridge
Released: October 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he ignores her for the bottle. In addition, his daughter, Billy (Ella Hall), who is not much younger than Rachael, is spoiled. When Rachael meets the family doctor, Warren Gregory (Herbert Heyes), they fall in love.
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Wedlock
Title: Wedlock
Character: George Osborne
Released: July 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engagement party given for his sister Jane, but Jane's fiance, Lord Cecil Graydon, threatens to break off the betrothal unless Granger's marriage is annulled. To please his sister, Granger sacrifices Margery, who seeks work and later gives birth to a child. Following the baby's death, Margery goes West, where she befriends an old miner who later leaves her his fortune. Meanwhile, Granger becomes involved in a fraudulent mining deal, and because of George Osborne's perjured testimony, he is sent to prison for five years. When he escapes, Margery agrees to hide him and is ultimately responsible for obtaining his pardon. Granger then remarries the wife he once abandoned. - Written by Pamela Short, from IMDB.com
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Maid o' the Storm
Title: Maid o' the Storm
Character: Abe Strohman
Released: July 27, 1918
Type: Movie
Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often dances on the beach and dreams of a man who will appear to her out of the mist. Her dream comes true when she witnesses an airplane crash in which the pilot, Franklin Shirley, is injured.
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Patriotism
Title: Patriotism
Character: Sidney Carson
Released: June 10, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the adjoining estate, and Dr. Hyde both love Robin, but she gives her heart to John Hamilton, an American soldier whose ship was sunk off the coast.
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Shackled
Title: Shackled
Character: Henry Hartman
Released: May 20, 1918
Type: Movie
A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in a luxurious apartment and promises to marry her. After his fortune has been squandered, however, he woos and marries wealthy Edith Danfield while her sweetheart, James Ashley, is fighting in the trenches overseas. Embittered, Lola decides that from now on she will use men to her own advantage and travels to Florida to seek her first victim. She soon loses heart, however, and is about to commit suicide when Edith's invalid father, Thomas Danfield, convinces her to begin her life anew. The two become close friends and together return home, where they find that Edith, neglected and abused by Walter, has realized her mistake and is longing for James. To provide Edith with grounds for divorce, Lola allows Walter to enter her room, but when he rushes to attack her in a drunken rage, he falls down the stairs and is killed.
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Honor's Cross
Title: Honor's Cross
Character: Thomas Dolan
Released: May 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Carmen of the Klondike
Title: Carmen of the Klondike
Character: 'Silk' McDonald
Released: March 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Dorothy Harlan, a vaudeville artist, joins her fiancé, Cameron Stewart, in the Klondike during the early days of the gold rush. Dance hall owner "Silk" McDonald, who wants her for himself, tricks Dorothy into believing that Cameron has been unfaithful, and Dorothy begins dancing in Silk's establishment.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Jean du Barry
Released: December 30, 1917
Type: Movie
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
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The Babes in the Woods
Title: The Babes in the Woods
Released: December 3, 1917
Type: Movie
A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.
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Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island
Character: Prologue Player
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night. He is given something from Mrs. Hawkins. The squire discovers it's a map showing the location of the treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim overhears how the squire is planning to retrieve the treasure and feels inspired by it ...
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The Rose Of Blood
Title: The Rose Of Blood
Character: Koliensky
Released: November 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the death of his wife, Lisza and he become involved, but because of the difference in social station he refuses to marry her. Lisza's former lover, Vassya (Richard Ordynski), convinces her to join the revolution and she goes off to the group headquarters in Switzerland. But the prince's little boy begs to have Lisza come back, so he goes after her and marries her.
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Cleopatra
Title: Cleopatra
Character: Ventidius
Released: October 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Jacques Defarge
Released: March 10, 1917
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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The Road to Love
Title: The Road to Love
Character: Sidi Malik
Released: December 7, 1916
Type: Movie
Hafsa, a beautiful Arab girl (Lenore Ulrich), wants the right to choose her own mate, instead of the husband picked out by her father, Malik (Herschel Mayall). Naturally, the man she falls in love with is unacceptable, since he's an American.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: David Manning
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
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Civilization
Title: Civilization
Character: The King of Wredpryd
Released: June 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.
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The Aryan
Title: The Aryan
Character: Chip Emmett
Released: April 9, 1916
Type: Movie
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.
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The Forbidden Adventure
Title: The Forbidden Adventure
Character: John Robbins
Released: December 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess, Ameera. Their love results in their being condemned to death, but even in the City of Death, love will find a way.
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Keno Bates, Liar
Title: Keno Bates, Liar
Character: Wind River
Released: August 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim Maitland loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors "Keno" Bates and "Wind River"are robbed, at gunpoint. After the surprise, they track Maitland down, and Keno shoots him dead on self defense. Keno goes through his belongings and finds a letter and a locket; the letter announces the arrival of the deceased's sister, and the locket has a cameo picture of Doris Maitland. Thus, Keno tells Wind River they must do a heap of lying. Meeting the girl at the stagecoach's arrival, Keeno feels responsible for the innocent and attractive Ms. Maitland; he tells her a white lie, that her brother was a good man, "killed in a mine accident," who had left her a cabin and money - and Keno turns his own cabin over to Doris. Keno and Doris began to fall in love. Anita, a dance-hall girl, aggressively tries to seduce Keno.
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The Toast of Death
Title: The Toast of Death
Character: Yar Khan
Released: August 12, 1915
Type: Movie
Ballerina Poppea is adored by all the men of Calcutta, especially British soldier Captain Drake and Indian PrinceYar Khan. Because of his title and wealth, Poppea decides to marry the prince, while keeping Drake as a lover. But the prince eventually discovers what she's up to and goes out of his way to catch the adulterers together. He takes two glasses of wine, pours arsenic into one, and tells Poppea to choose which glass each man will drink. She innocently picks the poisoned glass for Drake and he dies horribly. The prince disposes of the body and drives Poppea out into the desert.
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The Renegade
Title: The Renegade
Character: Robert Graves - the Renegade
Released: April 28, 1915
Type: Movie
A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.
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On the Night Stage
Title: On the Night Stage
Character: Handsome Jack Malone
Released: April 15, 1915
Type: Movie
A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her and she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.
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The Bargain
Title: The Bargain
Character: Gambler
Released: December 3, 1914
Type: Movie
After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.
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The Typhoon
Title: The Typhoon
Released: October 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
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The Wrath of the Gods
Title: The Wrath of the Gods
Released: June 8, 1914
Type: Movie
An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
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In the Sage Brush Country
Title: In the Sage Brush Country
Character: Frank Wilding
Released: January 1, 1914
Type: Movie
In what scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan misleadingly called “The Romantic Adventures of a Woman of the ’50s,” this story has Hart play Jim Brandon, who has just robbed the Wolf Creek stage of a payroll meant for Frank Wilding’s Lost Hope Mine. Fearing another holdup, Wilding reluctantly entrusts his daughter Edith with the next payroll. Confident of his concealed identity, Brandon comes to town, orders drinks at the local saloon, and hears that this is “payday” for the mine. Outside, he realizes Edith will be carrying the payroll and follows her onto the stage. When it stops at the Mountain House Restaurant, Brandon protects Edith from a man forcing his attention on her, which forges an unacknowledged bond between them. strangely leaves her to barricade the door.
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Under Two Flags
Title: Under Two Flags
Character: Bertie Cecil
Released: July 9, 1912
Type: Movie
Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.