Joe King

Joe King

Born: February 8, 1883
Died: April 11, 1951
in Austin, Texas, USA
Joe King was an American screen and stage actor, his film career spanning the years 1912 to 1946. In addition, he wrote the story for a 1915 movie and directed two 1916 films.

Movies for Joe King...

Thunder Beach
Title: Thunder Beach
Character: Narrator
Released: June 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Auto racing at Daytona presented in exciting wide screen glory.
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Magnificent Doll
Title: Magnificent Doll
Character: Jailer
Released: December 8, 1946
Type: Movie
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne Madison thinks back on her childhood, her first marriage, and later romances with two very different politicians, Aaron Burr and his good friend James Madison. She plays each against the other, not only for romantic reasons, but also to influence the shaping of the young country. By manipulating Burr's affections, she helps Thomas Jefferson win the presidency, and eventually she becomes First Lady of the land herself.
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His Butler's Sister
Title: His Butler's Sister
Character: Train Conductor
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
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Bombardier
Title: Bombardier
Character: General Barnes
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
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She Has What It Takes
Title: She Has What It Takes
Character: Lee Shuleman
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Fay Weston (Jinx Falkenburg), a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway play producer in starring her in a planned-show that is a tribute to her supposed mother.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Scott
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Col. McLane (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Colonel (uncredited)
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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The Glass Key
Title: The Glass Key
Character: Fisher (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Big Shot
Title: The Big Shot
Character: Prosecutor Toohey
Released: June 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: Police Lieutenant
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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They Died with Their Boots On
Title: They Died with Their Boots On
Character: Chairman of Hearing (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Draft Board Chairman (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Badlands Of Dakota
Title: Badlands Of Dakota
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: September 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming Universal leading man Robert Stack made his western-movie debut in Badlands of Dakota. Set in the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, the story finds brothers Jim and Bob Holliday (Stack and Broderick Crawford) dukeing it out over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson (Ann Rutherford). While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok (Richard Dix) does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane (Frances Farmer).
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Bullets for O'Hara
Title: Bullets for O'Hara
Character: Maxwell
Released: July 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.
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Strange Alibi
Title: Strange Alibi
Character: Warden Morrell
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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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Captain of the Cruz del Sur (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Title: Trail of the Vigilantes
Character: Ellery
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
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Always a Bride
Title: Always a Bride
Character: Mr. Franklyn
Released: November 2, 1940
Type: Movie
A young man wants to marry his sweetheart, but her parents will agree to their wedding only on one condition: he must run for mayor--and win. Comedy.
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The Flag of Humanity
Title: The Flag of Humanity
Character: President Rutherford B. Hayes (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Title: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Character: Inspector O'Matthews
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic surgery. It is here that an arch fiend takes refuge.
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When the Daltons Rode
Title: When the Daltons Rode
Character: Oklahoma Sheriff
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?
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You're Not So Tough
Title: You're Not So Tough
Character: Collins
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
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It's a Date
Title: It's a Date
Character: First Mate Kelly
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
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Black Friday
Title: Black Friday
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 29, 1940
Type: Movie
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
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Danger On Wheels
Title: Danger On Wheels
Character: Race Commissioner
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
During a test, a race car using an experimental oil fueled engine blows up, killing the driver. Lucky Taylor, a stunt driver, is initially blamed for the accident, but is later cleared. He thinks the engine design has a real chance to win races, but the racing association has banned it since the accident. He devises a scheme to have a car equipped with the engine entered into a race, without race officials-- or the engine designer's sassy daughter -- finding out about it.
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Destry Rides Again
Title: Destry Rides Again
Character: Sheriff Keogh
Released: November 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When a tough western town needs taming, the mild-mannered son of a hard-nosed sheriff gets the job.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Saxby
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Summers (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: Tom 'Jim' Saxby
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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East Side of Heaven
Title: East Side of Heaven
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Inspector Cavanaugh (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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You Can't Get Away with Murder
Title: You Can't Get Away with Murder
Character: Prison Guard
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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My Son Is a Criminal
Title: My Son Is a Criminal
Character: Jerry Kingsley
Released: February 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Former police chief Tim Halloran Sr. (Willard Robertson) fully expects his son Tim Jr. (Alan Baxter) to follow in his footsteps, flat though they may be. Instead, the younger Halloran opts for the easy road of crime.
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You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Title: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
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Off the Record
Title: Off the Record
Character: Brown
Released: January 21, 1939
Type: Movie
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Mac Drummond
Released: December 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Gateway
Title: Gateway
Character: Inspector
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
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City Streets
Title: City Streets
Character: Mike Shanahan
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Character: Charles Dillingham
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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In Old Chicago
Title: In Old Chicago
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
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Arsène Lupin Returns
Title: Arsène Lupin Returns
Character: Inspector Hennessey (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?
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Big Town Girl
Title: Big Town Girl
Character: Detective
Released: December 3, 1937
Type: Movie
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.
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Hot Water
Title: Hot Water
Character: Mayor Roberts
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.
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White Bondage
Title: White Bondage
Character: Trent Talcott
Released: August 5, 1937
Type: Movie
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
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Fly Away Baby
Title: Fly Away Baby
Character: Guy Allister
Released: June 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
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Armored Car
Title: Armored Car
Character: Tom Sheridan
Released: June 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Larry Willis and Bill Wane are security guards who ride in the back of Banks Co. armored trucks. When they barely avoid a robbery, they return to headquarters, where their boss John Hale introduces them to detective Tom Sheridan, who will be working with them to uncover a new gang of robbers.
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San Quentin
Title: San Quentin
Character: Warden Taylor
Released: May 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Judge at Ruth's Trial
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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That Man's Here Again
Title: That Man's Here Again
Character: Mr. Ned Murdock
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In order to keep her near him, he wangles a job for her as a maid at the building.
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Land Beyond the Law
Title: Land Beyond the Law
Character: Lew Wallace (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A wild cowboy changes course and becomes a sheriff after his father is murdered.
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Once a Doctor
Title: Once a Doctor
Character: Frank Brace
Released: January 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Red Munro
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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Polo Joe
Title: Polo Joe
Character: Colonel Hilton
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
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China Clipper
Title: China Clipper
Character: Mr. Pierson
Released: August 11, 1936
Type: Movie
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.
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Jailbreak
Title: Jailbreak
Character: Mike Eagan
Released: August 5, 1936
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.
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Public Enemy's Wife
Title: Public Enemy's Wife
Character: Wilcox
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, fingered her for. Gene is in prison for life. She claims that she had no knowledge of Gene's criminal activity, but FBI agent Lee Laird doesn't buy it.
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Satan Met a Lady
Title: Satan Met a Lady
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
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The Case of the Velvet Claws
Title: The Case of the Velvet Claws
Character: George C. Belter
Released: July 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Perry and Della are finally married by his old friend, Judge Mary. They plan to go on a honeymoon, but before it can start, Perry is retained by a woman with a gun and $5000.
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Bullets or Ballots
Title: Bullets or Ballots
Character: Dan 'Mac' McLaren
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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Sons o' Guns
Title: Sons o' Guns
Character: General Harper
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.
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The Singing Kid
Title: The Singing Kid
Character: Dr. May
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.
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Snowed Under
Title: Snowed Under
Character: John - in a Doorman's Uniform (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer Arthur Layton sends Alice, Alan's first wife, to help him stick to business. But then Daisy, his second wife, shows up wanting her alimony. Stranded with two wives, a girlfriend, and a jug of applejack, Alan still has to finish his play!
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Road Gang
Title: Road Gang
Character: J. W. Moett
Released: March 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
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The Walking Dead
Title: The Walking Dead
Character: Judge Roger Shaw
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.
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Freshman Love
Title: Freshman Love
Character: Terry Biddle (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
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Man of Iron
Title: Man of Iron
Character: Harrison Balding
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
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Broadway Hostess
Title: Broadway Hostess
Character: Big Joe Jarvis
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.
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Frisco Kid
Title: Frisco Kid
Character: James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
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Moonlight on the Prairie
Title: Moonlight on the Prairie
Character: Sheriff Jim
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
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Shipmates Forever
Title: Shipmates Forever
Character: Commander Doughlin (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
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Special Agent
Title: Special Agent
Character: Agent Wilson
Released: September 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify
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We're in the Money
Title: We're in the Money
Character: Mr. Blank(scenes deleted)
Released: August 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginger and Dixie are process servers for goofy lawyer Homer Bronson. The two friends want to quit, but they're offered a thousand dollars to serve four subpoenas in a breach of promise suit against rich C. Richard Courtney. Little does Ginger realize, C. Richard Courtney and her mysterious park bench boyfriend 'Carter' are one and the same.
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Front Page Woman
Title: Front Page Woman
Character: Hartnett
Released: July 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Dan Archer (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Alibi Ike
Title: Alibi Ike
Character: Johnson
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
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Woman in the Dark
Title: Woman in the Dark
Character: Detective
Released: November 8, 1934
Type: Movie
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Police Dispatcher
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Roadhouse Nights
Title: Roadhouse Nights
Character: John Hanson
Released: February 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
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The Battle of Paris
Title: The Battle of Paris
Character: Jack
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: City Editor
Released: December 28, 1929
Type: Movie
A society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child.
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Character: First Foreman
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Tin Gods is a lost 1926 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky, released by Paramount Pictures, and based on the play Tin Gods by William Anthony McGuire. Allan Dwan directed and Thomas Meighan starred.
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Unguarded Women
Title: Unguarded Women
Character: Captain Robert Banning
Released: June 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the death of his friend, Captain Banning. When Albright comes back from the war, his fiancée, Helen Castle and her father, George, can see that something is bothering him. So Castle sends him to take care of business in China -- and to pull himself together. While in China, Albright runs across Bannings' widow, Breta, who has buried her sorrows behind a mask of revelry and fast living. Because he feels responsible for what she has become, Albright attempts to regenerate her and proposes marriage.
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Big Brother
Title: Big Brother
Character: Big Ben Murray
Released: December 23, 1923
Type: Movie
When gangster Jimmy Donovan is made guardian of Midge, the 7-year-old brother of his friend Big Ben Murray, he decides to reform and rear Midge properly. The court takes custody of Midge, but Donovan proves himself by recovering a payroll stolen by some of his ex-colleagues, thereby winning Midge and Kitty, his girl.
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Twenty-One
Title: Twenty-One
Character: Mr. McCullough
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Twenty-One is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill and Joe King.
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The Daring Years
Title: The Daring Years
Character: Jim Moran, pugilist
Released: September 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
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The Valley of Silent Men
Title: The Valley of Silent Men
Released: September 10, 1922
Type: Movie
The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a hot-blooded French-Canadian beauty, with a secret of her own...
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Anne of Little Smoky
Title: Anne of Little Smoky
Character: Bob Hayne
Released: November 20, 1921
Type: Movie
The Brockton clan considers the mountain Little Smoky their own, but then the government comes in and declares it a forest and game preserve. This doesn't stop the family, who swears they will do what they want with the land.
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The Broadway Bubble
Title: The Broadway Bubble
Character: Geoffrey Landreth
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The story of a young society woman, who, aspiring for a musical comedy career against her husband's wishes, places her twin sister in her home to enact her part as a wife, while she played her role behind the footlights.
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The Right To Lie
Title: The Right To Lie
Character: Crosby Dana
Released: November 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Carlotta has been brought up in an Italian convent, unaware that she is the illegitimate child of American architect J. Winthrop Drake. When her mother, an Italian opera singer, dies, Drake finally learns of Carlotta's existence and brings her back to New York with him without revealing the truth of their relationship.
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Love's Prisoner
Title: Love's Prisoner
Character: Jim Garside
Released: June 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A young lady, who "hates the law" rises from the tenements to society. Financial reverses lead her to commit a series of burglaries as "The Bird". She becomes involved with the detective investigating the burglaries. After she confesses and pays for her crimes, they marry.
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False Evidence
Title: False Evidence
Character: Lot Gordon
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Promised in marriage to wealthy Lot Gordon , Scottish lassie Madelon MacTavish prefers Lot's poor relation Burr Gordon. The wisdom of her choice is proven later on, when a vengeful Lot tries to rape the girl.
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The Imp
Title: The Imp
Released: February 15, 1919
Type: Movie
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Irish Eyes
Title: Irish Eyes
Character: Sir Arthur Ormsby
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Pretty Irish lass Pegeen O'Barry lives in a small fishing village on the cost with her kind but alcoholic father and her vicious stepmother Moll. When her father is killed during a drunken brawl, a stunned Pegeen wanders down to the shore in her grief. She is noticed by Sir Arthur Ormsby, an Englishman who just happens to be sailing his yacht up the coast. He takes a liking to her and before long she's moved into his estate. Things are going along swimmingly until Arthur's wastrel brother Guy shows up.
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The Secret Code
Title: The Secret Code
Character: Jefferson Harrow
Released: September 8, 1918
Type: Movie
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting is actually a baby sweater.
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Shifting Sands
Title: Shifting Sands
Character: John Stanford
Released: August 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well.
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Every Woman's Husband
Title: Every Woman's Husband
Character: Frank Emerson
Released: July 17, 1918
Type: Movie
A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
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The Price of Applause
Title: The Price of Applause
Character: Marcarson
Released: April 4, 1918
Type: Movie
In New York's Washington Square, a poet named Karl (Jack Livingston) is the king of art and artifice. But World War I breaks out and the spotlight on him begins to fade, so he dramatically declares his intention to enlist in the British Army. His friend Marcarson announces that he will go with him, keeping Karl to a promise which he hadn't planned to see through.
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Until They Get Me
Title: Until They Get Me
Character: Selwyn
Released: December 2, 1917
Type: Movie
In an effort to reach his wife's deathbed, Kirby is forced to kill a man in self-defense. He is arrested by Selwyn, a member of the North West Mounted Police, who allows him to say a last farewell to his wife. After visiting his wife's deathbed, Kirby eludes Selwyn and becomes a fugitive from the police. Each year he returns to visit his son and, during one of his sojourns, meets Margy, a little farmhouse servant who has run away from her life of drudgery.
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Betty and the Buccaneers
Title: Betty and the Buccaneers
Character: Dick Winthrop
Released: November 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Romantic adventure film in which the girl Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her gullible father is tricked by a set of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty.
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The Rose Of Blood
Title: The Rose Of Blood
Character: Prime Minister
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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The Law North of 65
Title: The Law North of 65
Character: Niklo
Released: October 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Pierre, away in the Northland, loves Jeanne. His love is returned and they are engaged to be married. Pierre leaves for a trapping expedition, and in the meantime the girl is enamored with the tales told by Niklo, an itinerant trapper, and becomes infatuated with him.
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Big Timber
Title: Big Timber
Character: Walter Monahan
Released: July 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Stella Benton, a young society girl who has lost her beautiful voice through the death of her father, goes to live with her brother Charles, in the lumber camp. Charles Benton is having a struggle to make both ends meet, and when his cook quits, he makes his sister do the work for the hundred men in the lumber camp. Jack Fyfe, a neighboring lumber man, meets Stella and gradually falls in love with her, but love is not reciprocated. Seeing that she is being overworked, Fyfe offers to marry her, in spite of the fact that she does not love him. A child is born of this loveless marriage, and the couple are reasonably happy, until Walter Monahan, a wealthy lumberman, begins to make love to Stella.
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Wild Winship's Widow
Title: Wild Winship's Widow
Character: Morley Morgan
Released: May 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Widow Catherine Winship cherishes the memory of her late husband so greatly that she has given up her life to the adoration of his memory. However Catherine's idealism is rudely shattered when she discovers a package of love letters in a secret drawer in Winship's desk.
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Hell Hath No Fury
Title: Hell Hath No Fury
Released: March 20, 1917
Type: Movie
Hell Hath No Fury is a silent drama.
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The Selfish Woman
Title: The Selfish Woman
Character: Donald McKenzie
Released: July 9, 1916
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Tom Morley, is building a railroad through Imperial Valley. Tom's father also wants the job, and tries to persuade his son to give up the work, but Tom refuses. Tom falls for a society girl named Alice Hale, who marries him to bring prestige to her family. Initially, Alice plots against Tom, but Tom wins her over and they work together to defeat those who are plotting to destroy Tom's work.
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The Ring of Destiny
Title: The Ring of Destiny
Character: Big Bill
Released: November 18, 1915
Type: Movie
Jack and Dolly, his sister, live together in the west. On Jack's birthday, Dolly presents him with a peculiar ring. The brother and sister attend a masquerade ball that evening, each dressed in the other's clothes. Dolly, being taken for a man, meets Big Bill, a new ranchman, and he offers her a cigar, which she tries to smoke. Jack sees her in distress, and coming to her rescue, is introduced as the sister. The next morning Jack leaves to look over his stock. While riding through the sage brush, he takes a shot at a rabbit and the bullet lands near the spot where a cattle rustler is plying his unlawful trade. The cattle rustler and Jack meet. The former believes that Jack tried to kill him and a fight follows. Jack is killed.
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The White Mouse
Title: The White Mouse
Character: Lawler
Released: August 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Billy Silver, a young trapper, lives with his wife and little baby up in the region of the snows. Billy is energetic and finds trapping profitable. One morning while he is out examining his traps, the cabin catches fire. In the distance he hears the cries of his wife for help, and hastening to the scene as rapidly as he can
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Etienne of the Glad Heart
Title: Etienne of the Glad Heart
Character: Olaf - a Trapper
Released: August 3, 1914
Type: Movie
Etienne Cloquet, a young woodsman, is in love with Marie, the pretty daughter of Paul Le Groux, a salmon fisher. Etienne has such a sunny disposition that he has become generally known as "Etienne of the Glad Heart."
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The Wilderness Mail
Title: The Wilderness Mail
Character: Otto, the Mail Driver
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
Jan, the hunter, is in love with Marie, a French-Canadian girl. The same charmer has captivated Otto, the driver of the Wilderness Mail, a vengeful and selfish individual. Mane has a half-sister, Joan, a decided contrast to her, a sweet lovable girl not ordinarily bold or aggressive, but when aroused firm to a finish.
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Lost by a Hair
Title: Lost by a Hair
Character: Rejected Suitor
Released: June 28, 1914
Type: Movie
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of the ladies at a summer hotel. (Note: The majority of this film is considered lost. Only a fragment survives.)
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In Defiance of the Law
Title: In Defiance of the Law
Character: Scottie Deane
Released: June 28, 1914
Type: Movie
Billy McVeigh, a member of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, runs amuck another person of this service undeserving of its uniform, named Nome. The latter becomes his sworn enemy and is alert for a chance to "get even."
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When the Night Call Came
Title: When the Night Call Came
Released: June 12, 1914
Type: Movie
When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses of her sex battling against the perverted sordid side of her nature. It was the culmination of the biggest game Nell Delaney and her gang had ever undertaken. The girl, in order to land an over-cautious victim, had actually married Karl Kreidt, an unsophisticated young man, who had just come into possession of a large amount of money. He was thoroughly infatuated with the woman, could do naught but plan for her comfort, and so fell into the trap she had devised.
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A Wife on a Wager
Title: A Wife on a Wager
Released: June 10, 1914
Type: Movie
Wally Bristow is a wealthy young chap infatuated with a heartless society girl. He discovers that she is not true to him and leaves her. At the club he runs into an argument among the members to the effect that none of them could start out with nothing and return in a year, married and successful. Wally takes his friends up on the bet. Wally goes west and secures employment on a ranch. He becomes the butt of the cow punchers jokes, and his employer's daughter thinks him a prig until, one day, she observes him thrash a ranch bully for ill-treating a dog. Soon after she promises to be his wife. The society girl, meantime, hears of it and starts west to break up the match. Arriving in the neighborhood she sends a note to her rival saying that the man is untrue to her and to go to a certain place and she will see him with another woman.
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Love's Western Flight
Title: Love's Western Flight
Released: June 3, 1914
Type: Movie
For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love had long since been drowned in drink. Dorothy had reached the turning point. She answered an advertisement calling for a leading woman to accompany a repertoire show west. She was given the position and that night left.
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Passing of the Beast
Title: Passing of the Beast
Character: Gilbert - the Mountie
Released: May 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Jacques watched through an opening in the foliage and saw Gilbert of the mounted police and his own wife exchange pleasant greetings. From that moment he hated the police officer. Gilbert was too fine-looking.
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Title: The Battle of Gettysburg
Released: June 1, 1913
Type: Movie
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When Lincoln Paid
Title: When Lincoln Paid
Released: January 31, 1913
Type: Movie
The mother of a dead Union soldier attempts to convince President Lincoln to pardon a similarly condemned Confederate soldier whose unjust conviction was the result of her vindictive scheme.
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The Ball Player and the Bandit
Title: The Ball Player and the Bandit
Character: Harry's Rival
Released: November 27, 1912
Type: Movie
An Easterner wins his battles in the West by using his fists.