Russell Simpson

Russell Simpson

Born: June 16, 1880
Died: December 12, 1959
in Danville, California, USA
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Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880, Danville, California – December 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor who appeared in over 500 movies. He is best known for his "grizzled old man" appearances. Gaunt, lanky, and rustic-sounding, Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years, particularly as a member of the John Ford Stock Company.

At age 18 Simpson prospected for gold in Alaska. He began taking acting classes in Seattle, Washington. In 1910 he married Gertrude Alter from New York City.

By 1909, he had gone into the theatre. He appeared in at least two plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1912, and made his motion picture debut in Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 original film version of The Virginian in a bit part. By 1923, when the film was remade, Simpson had progressed to playing the lead villain.

Throughout his career, Simpson worked for 12 years in road shows, stock companies, and on Broadway. He didn't usually perform lead roles, but he did star in many movies throughout the silent movie era. He performed a lead role as the grandfather in Out of the Dust (1920).

Simpson is best known for his work in the films of John Ford and, in particular, for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His final film was The Horse Soldiers, his tenth film for Ford. Simpson worked up to 1959, the year of his death.

He was the president of the Overseas Phonograph Accessories Corporation.

Movies for Russell Simpson...

The Horse Soldiers
Title: The Horse Soldiers
Character: Henry Goodbody
Released: June 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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Title: The Texan
Character: Zeb Waters
Released: September 29, 1958
Type: TV
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.
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The Tin Star
Title: The Tin Star
Character: Clem Hall
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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Title: Wagon Train
Character: Mr. Carr
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: TV
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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The Lonely Man
Title: The Lonely Man
Released: June 21, 1957
Type: Movie
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
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The Brass Legend
Title: The Brass Legend
Character: Deputy 'Pop' Jackson
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports immediately to Sheriff Adams, who strongly recommends him not to tell anybody about it. Unfortunately Clay talks to his father nevertheless. He believes Adams just wanted fame and reward for himself and accuses him in the newspaper. Thereby he endangers his son, who's now targeted by a killer which Tris' girlfriend Winnie hired for revenge. Written by Tom Zoerner
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Friendly Persuasion
Title: Friendly Persuasion
Character: Brother Griffith - Elder (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1956
Type: Movie
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Title: The 20th Century Fox Hour
Character: Old Man
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Title: Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: TV
Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals.
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The Tall Men
Title: The Tall Men
Character: Emigrant (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
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The Last Command
Title: The Last Command
Character: The Parson
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.
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Broken Lance
Title: Broken Lance
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt dies from a stroke partly caused by his rebellious sons and when Joe gets out he plans revenge.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Title: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Character: Fred Bixby
Released: July 22, 1954
Type: Movie
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Title: Public Defender
Character: Lundquist
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: TV
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Title: The Sun Shines Bright
Character: Lewt Lake
Released: May 2, 1953
Type: Movie
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
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Meet Me at the Fair
Title: Meet Me at the Fair
Character: Sheriff Evans
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Title: The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
Character: Sam Stanton
Released: November 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Lone Star
Title: Lone Star
Character: Maynard Cole
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Judge Grant
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Character: Quatermaster
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Title: Cavalcade of America
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
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Feudin' Fools
Title: Feudin' Fools
Character: Grandpa Smith
Released: September 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers.
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Title: Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Character: Clem Johnson
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
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Comin' Round the Mountain
Title: Comin' Round the Mountain
Character: Judge
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Sam
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC from 1957 through 1958.
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Call of the Klondike
Title: Call of the Klondike
Character: Andy McKay
Released: December 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
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Saddle Tramp
Title: Saddle Tramp
Character: Pop
Released: September 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.
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Wagon Master
Title: Wagon Master
Character: Adam Perkins
Released: April 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Navajo, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
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The Outriders
Title: The Outriders
Character: Farmer (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raiders, who force them to act as "outriders" (escorts) for a civilian wagon train that will be secretly transporting Union gold from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to St. Louis, Missouri. The three men are to lead the wagons into a raider trap in Missouri, but one of them starts to have misgivings....
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Free For All
Title: Free For All
Character: Farmer
Released: November 1, 1949
Type: Movie
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Jack Brewster
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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The Gal Who Took the West
Title: The Gal Who Took the West
Character: Bartender (as old Timer)
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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Tuna Clipper
Title: Tuna Clipper
Character: Capt. Fergus MacLennan
Released: April 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his taciturn family. Eventually, the lad proves himself on all fronts, and is welcomed back into the family fold.
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Joan of Arc
Title: Joan of Arc
Character: Old Man with Pipe (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
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Sundown in Santa Fe
Title: Sundown in Santa Fe
Character: Sheriff Jim Wyatt
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader of the President Lincoln murder ring. Rocky is sent to Santa Fe to find Durant and arrest him and the gang of outlaws he controls. Rocky soon finds that the information for every robbery comes from Tom, who is the son of the sheriff. But Rocky has to arrest the whole gang, and he does not know who is part of the gang and where Durant may be hiding.
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The Untamed Breed
Title: The Untamed Breed
Character: Minister
Released: October 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
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Tap Roots
Title: Tap Roots
Character: Big Sam Dabney
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
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Coroner Creek
Title: Coroner Creek
Character: Walt Hardison
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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Albuquerque
Title: Albuquerque
Character: Abner Huggins
Released: February 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace and his sister Celia. Cole tires of his uncle's heavy-handed tactics and switches over to the Wallace side. Lety Tyler, an agent hired by the uncle, also switches over by warning Cole and Ted of a trap set for them by the uncle and his henchman.
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Bowery Buckaroos
Title: Bowery Buckaroos
Character: Luke Barlow
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted on his back, and Blackjack McCoy has him kidnapped by Indian Joe. Gabe poses as a dangerous gunman, the Klondike Kid, while Slip is in charge of all the remaining loose ends.
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The Fabulous Texan
Title: The Fabulous Texan
Character: Wade Clayton
Released: November 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land and power as fast as he can. The two former Rebels take on this despot each in his own way.
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Title: The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Character: Dan Yeary
Released: August 4, 1947
Type: Movie
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
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A Boy and His Dog
Title: A Boy and His Dog
Character: Mr. Thornycroft
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck comes through the fence and becomes stuck, Davy removes the collar. Even though the boy tells him to stay in his owner's yard, the dog follows him home.
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My Dog Shep
Title: My Dog Shep
Character: Mathew Hodgkins
Released: November 1, 1946
Type: Movie
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.
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My Darling Clementine
Title: My Darling Clementine
Character: John Simpson
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.
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Death Valley
Title: Death Valley
Character: Old Silas Bagley
Released: August 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the rightful owner of the gold and her sweetheart.
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Bad Bascomb
Title: Bad Bascomb
Character: Elijah Walker
Released: May 26, 1946
Type: Movie
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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California Gold Rush
Title: California Gold Rush
Character: Colonel Parker
Released: February 4, 1946
Type: Movie
California Gold Rush is set in 1849. Ryder heads to Sutter's Mill, where he must contend with claim-jumping and treachery.
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They Were Expendable
Title: They Were Expendable
Character: 'Dad' Knowland
Released: December 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, a squadron of PT-boat crews in the Philippines must battle the Navy brass between skirmishes with the Japanese. The title says it all about the Navy's attitude towards the PT-boats and their crews.
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Along Came Jones
Title: Along Came Jones
Character: Pop de Longpre
Released: July 19, 1945
Type: Movie
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
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Roughly Speaking
Title: Roughly Speaking
Character: The Colonel - Drill Instructor (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1945
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.
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The Big Bonanza
Title: The Big Bonanza
Character: Adam Parker
Released: December 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother. There he meets his old school friend Sam Ballou. But the two old friends soon find themselves on opposite sides and Sam has Jed arrested. Then when Jed's young brother sees one of Sam's men kill another man, the boy becomes Sam's intended victim.
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Roaring Guns
Title: Roaring Guns
Character: Farmer MacKenzie
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Texas Masquerade
Title: Texas Masquerade
Character: J.K. Trimble
Released: February 8, 1944
Type: Movie
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman cousin's ranch in Texas. The ranch, as are others in the same area, is being plagued by a gang called the Night Riders, while the friendly local town lawyer is trying to cajole the cousin into selling out to him. Hoppy begins by arriving in the town, separate from his pals, all spiffed up and dandified, posing as the Eastern lawyer...
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Sime
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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Moonlight in Vermont
Title: Moonlight in Vermont
Character: Uncle Rufus
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Riding High
Title: Riding High
Character: Frenchy McGuire
Released: November 11, 1943
Type: Movie
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and Dick Powell. Lamour stars as Ann Castle, a former burlesque queen who heads westward to claim her father's silver mine. Powell plays mining engineer Steve Baird, who like Ann has a vested interest in the worked-out mine. With the help of genial counterfeiter Mortimer J. Slocum (Victor Moore), Steve and Ann are able to peddle mining stock, thus saving her from bankruptcy. The stockholders are in a lynching mood when it appears that they've been flim-flammed, but a last minute "miracle" saves the day. Featured in the cast are Paramount stalwarts Cass Daley and Gil Lamb, the former doing her quasi-Martha Raye act and the latter swallowing his harmonica for the millionth time. Production values are excellent and the songs are exuberantly performed; it's only in its hackneyed plot that Riding High slows to a clip-clop.
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Colt Comrades
Title: Colt Comrades
Character: Sheriff
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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Border Patrol
Title: Border Patrol
Character: Orestes Krebs
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
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Tennessee Johnson
Title: Tennessee Johnson
Character: Kirby
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early life. During the Civil War, Johnson stays a staunch Unionist and upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln's assassination, Johnson becomes the President and became the first U.S. president ever to be impeached.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Flapjack
Released: June 11, 1942
Type: Movie
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.
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Lone Star Ranger
Title: Lone Star Ranger
Character: Tom Duane
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, making life difficult for Dunne inasmuch as he's in love with Longstreth's niece Barbara.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: 2nd Captain (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Shut My Big Mouth
Title: Shut My Big Mouth
Character: Mayor Potter
Released: February 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Title: Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Character: Ned Nolan
Released: January 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Swamp Water
Title: Swamp Water
Character: Marty McCord
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
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Last of the Duanes
Title: Last of the Duanes
Character: Tom Duane
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
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Wild Geese Calling
Title: Wild Geese Calling
Character: Marshal Len Baker
Released: August 15, 1941
Type: Movie
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with his best friend Blackie.
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Bad Men of Missouri
Title: Bad Men of Missouri
Character: Hank Younger
Released: July 26, 1941
Type: Movie
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
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Citadel of Crime
Title: Citadel of Crime
Character: Jess Meekins
Released: July 23, 1941
Type: Movie
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
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Tobacco Road
Title: Tobacco Road
Character: Chief of Police
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Shubel Morgan
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Brigham Young
Title: Brigham Young
Character: U.S. Army Major
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
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Wyoming
Title: Wyoming
Character: Mr. Bronson
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Minister
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Gaylord
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Character: Pa Joad
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Scout
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Title: Drums Along the Mohawk
Character: Dr. Petry
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Kenneth Allen (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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Desperate Trails
Title: Desperate Trails
Character: Sheriff Big Bill Tanner
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
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The Bill of Rights
Title: The Bill of Rights
Character: Frontiersman
Released: August 19, 1939
Type: Movie
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
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Western Caravans
Title: Western Caravans
Character: Winchester Thompson
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the settlers. Kohler re-ignites the feud by making settler Winters appear to be a rustler and then by killing Winter's son. Once more the two sides appear headed for a war and Jim is caught in the middle.
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Young Mr. Lincoln
Title: Young Mr. Lincoln
Character: Woolridge (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Orth
Released: April 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Heart of the North
Title: Heart of the North
Character: Dave MacMillan
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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Valley of the Giants
Title: Valley of the Giants
Character: McKenzie
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Fred - Outrider in Prologue
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Mary Robbins is a moderately educated, beautiful, young woman who owns the saloon called "The Poker". She is the only woman in the town of Couldee - making her the fancy of all the men there, especially to Sheriff Jack Rance. On the way to Monterey to sing at a mass officiated by Father Sienna, her stagecoach is held up by the infamous masked bandit, Ramerez. He too takes a fancy to Mary, and decides to secretly follow her, taking on the identity of an officer named, Lieutenant Johnson. While in Monterey, he dances, sings and courts Mary, who has now fallen in love with him. He then has to make a quick getaway. In the mean-time, Sheriff Jack has set up a trap to catch Ramerez at "The Poker". When Ramerez does arrive he soon discovers that Mary is the owner, and quickly changes to the identity of Lieutenant Johnson. How long can this charade last?
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: MacKenzie
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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That I May Live
Title: That I May Live
Character: Bish Plivens
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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Paradise Isle
Title: Paradise Isle
Character: Baxter
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
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Wild West Days
Title: Wild West Days
Character: Matt Keeler
Released: July 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Title: Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
Character: Bayliss Baynum
Released: June 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
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Mountain Justice
Title: Mountain Justice
Character: Matthew Turnbull
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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Green Light
Title: Green Light
Character: Sheep Man
Released: February 20, 1937
Type: Movie
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
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Maid of Salem
Title: Maid of Salem
Character: Village Marshal (Uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
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Ramona
Title: Ramona
Character: Scroggs
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
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Back to Nature
Title: Back to Nature
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
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San Francisco
Title: San Francisco
Character: 'Red' Kelly
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Girl of the Ozarks
Title: Girl of the Ozarks
Released: June 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Abner Prewett
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Character: Jeff Parkington
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Paddy O'Day
Title: Paddy O'Day
Character: Benton
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in New York.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Squire Amasa Bartlett
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Motive for Revenge
Title: Motive for Revenge
Character: McAllister
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Title: The Hoosier Schoolmaster
Character: Doc Small
Released: May 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment against "Yankees". He goes up against the town bully, who both want the same girl, and his troubles multiply when a vicious band of nightriders set out to drive him out of town.
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West of the Pecos
Title: West of the Pecos
Character: Roy Neal
Released: December 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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The World Moves On
Title: The World Moves On
Character: Notary (1825)
Released: June 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Jim Wood
Released: March 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
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Three on a Honeymoon
Title: Three on a Honeymoon
Character: Ezra MacDuff
Released: March 22, 1934
Type: Movie
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the ship's second officer. Little does she know that he has been hired by her father to keep other men away from her.
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Carolina
Title: Carolina
Character: Richards
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
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Frontier Marshal
Title: Frontier Marshal
Character: Editor Pickett
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Title: Sixteen Fathoms Deep
Character: A.B. Crockett
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Professor (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Title: Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Character: Speaker
Released: July 13, 1933
Type: Movie
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
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Face in the Sky
Title: Face in the Sky
Character: Pa Nathan Brown
Released: January 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her father who plans to marry her off to someone she despises.
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Silver Dollar
Title: Silver Dollar
Character: Hamlin
Released: December 22, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Old Man in Wagon Train
Released: November 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
Title: The Cabin in the Cotton
Character: Uncle Joe
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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Hello Trouble
Title: Hello Trouble
Character: Jonathan Kenyon
Released: July 15, 1932
Type: Movie
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
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The Honor of the Press
Title: The Honor of the Press
Character: Dan Perkins
Released: July 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not rounding up the crooks. Daniel discovers that a coded message in the newspaper's editor's box tips the crooks about each robbery.
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Flames
Title: Flames
Character: Jake
Released: May 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the apartment building next door to his new girlfriend.
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The Riding Tornado
Title: The Riding Tornado
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Banker Craig
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Lena Rivers
Title: Lena Rivers
Character: Grandfather Nichols
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Judge R.W. Williams
Released: February 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
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Ridin' for Justice
Title: Ridin' for Justice
Character: Marshal Joseph Slyde
Released: January 4, 1932
Type: Movie
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Title: Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Character: Doctor
Released: October 10, 1931
Type: Movie
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
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Alexander Hamilton
Title: Alexander Hamilton
Character: Harvey Taylor - First Ex-Soldier
Released: September 12, 1931
Type: Movie
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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The Great Meadow
Title: The Great Meadow
Character: Thomas Hall
Released: January 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
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Man to Man
Title: Man to Man
Character: Uncle Cal
Released: December 5, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
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Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Lincoln's Employer
Released: November 8, 1930
Type: Movie
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
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Billy the Kid
Title: Billy the Kid
Character: Angus McSween
Released: October 16, 1930
Type: Movie
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
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The Lone Star Ranger
Title: The Lone Star Ranger
Character: Colonel John Aldridge
Released: January 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he joins the Texas Rangers, and also hopes to win the approval and hand of Mary Aldridge, a girl from the East. He is assigned to round up a gang of cattle rustlers who are, unknown by Mary. led by her father.
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After the Fog
Title: After the Fog
Character: Joshua Barker
Released: December 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: The Banker
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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My Lady's Past
Title: My Lady's Past
Released: April 1, 1929
Type: Movie
The BFI holds a complete copy.
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All Faces West
Title: All Faces West
Character: Gunner Bill
Released: March 2, 1929
Type: Movie
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
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Innocents of Paris
Title: Innocents of Paris
Character: Emile Leval
Released: January 2, 1929
Type: Movie
A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
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Tropical Nights
Title: Tropical Nights
Character: Singapore Joe
Released: December 10, 1928
Type: Movie
Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is murdered, Miller is arrested for the crime. The actual killer, however, is MacDonald, who does an expert job covering his tracks.
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Wild Geese
Title: Wild Geese
Character: Caleb Gare
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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Now We're in the Air
Title: Now We're in the Air
Character: Lord Abercrombie McTavish
Released: October 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps and are wafted over the enemy lines in a runaway balloon. Through misunderstanding they are honored as heroes of the enemy forces, and sent back to the U.S. lines to spy. Here they are captured and almost shot, but everything ends happily. Only 20 minutes of this 6 reel comedy are extant.
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The First Auto
Title: The First Auto
Character: Hank Armstrong
Released: June 27, 1927
Type: Movie
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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The Frontiersman
Title: The Frontiersman
Character: Andrew Jackson
Released: June 11, 1927
Type: Movie
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the treacherous White Snake in particular.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Character: Sandy
Released: May 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
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The Earth Woman
Title: The Earth Woman
Character: Ezra Tilden
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape heroine Sally Tilden (Priscilla Bonner), setting off a chain reaction of violence, murder, and false confessions.
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The Splendid Road
Title: The Splendid Road
Character: Capt. Lightfoot
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Character: The Eagle's Lieutenant / Coach Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
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Why Women Love
Title: Why Women Love
Character: Silas Martin
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Why Women Love (1925)
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Si Pace
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
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Paint and Powder
Title: Paint and Powder
Character: Riley
Released: September 16, 1925
Type: Movie
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
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Faint Perfume
Title: Faint Perfume
Character: Grandpa Crumb
Released: June 8, 1925
Type: Movie
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her. Barnaby follows her, to ask for custody of the boy, but meets and falls in love with Richmiel's pretty and sensitive cousin Ledda. Complications ensue.
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Old Shoes
Title: Old Shoes
Released: April 8, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Narrow Street
Title: The Narrow Street
Character: Garvey
Released: January 4, 1925
Type: Movie
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
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Painted People
Title: Painted People
Character: Fred Lane
Released: January 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Trampas
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, Steve, falls in with bad guys led by Trampas. The Virginian catches them cattle rustling. As foreman, he must give the order to hang his friend. Trampas gets away and shoots the Virginian in the back. Molly nurses him to health, and falls in love with him. They plan to marry, but on their wedding day Trampas returns, looking for trouble.
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Defying Destiny
Title: Defying Destiny
Character: Mr. Wilkens
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth Alden (Irene Rich), whose grateful father (James Gordon), president of the local bank, offers him a job. Middle-class Jack becomes head teller, joins the country club, and plans to marry Beth, but his upwardly mobile behavior stirs resentment. When he’s falsely accused of embezzlement the town’s upper crust turns its back. Jack endures self-exile until a chance encounter with a plastic surgeon enables him to return home incognito and seek vengeance.
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The Huntress
Title: The Huntress
Character: Big Jack Skinner
Released: August 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determines to marry land prospector Sam Gladding, who resists her advances but later falls in love with Bela when an Indian sage gives him some advice.
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Circus Days
Title: Circus Days
Character: Eben Holt
Released: July 30, 1923
Type: Movie
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Released: May 3, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Kingdom Within
Title: The Kingdom Within
Character: Caleb Deming
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger
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Peg o' My Heart
Title: Peg o' My Heart
Character: Jim O'Connell
Released: December 17, 1922
Type: Movie
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.
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Rags to Riches
Title: Rags to Riches
Character: The Sheriff
Released: September 24, 1922
Type: Movie
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him. -from IMDB.com
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Human Hearts
Title: Human Hearts
Character: Paul Logan
Released: August 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a rich coal field. Toms father sees through her plot and disinherits him when her marries Barbara. When Barbara tires of farm life, the ensuing events lead to death and misplaced guilt.
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Across the Dead-Line
Title: Across the Dead-Line
Character: Enoch Kidder
Released: January 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John, and the hedonistic branch led by Enoch's brother Aaron. Aaron plans to sway John to come over to his side by using a young girl who has lost her memory to lure him over, but when he kidnaps her John sets out to free her. Complications ensue.
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Under the Lash
Title: Under the Lash
Character: Simeon Krillet
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home.
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Snowblind
Title: Snowblind
Character: Hugh Garth
Released: March 22, 1921
Type: Movie
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly. When a lost and snowblind girl stumbles into their camp, Hugh falls in love with her and misleads her as to the age and relationship of Pete and Bella, in hopes of keeping the girl's attentions directed at himself. But when the girl's sight returns, she realizes the truth and discovers that Pete has fallen in love with her. But Hugh's cruel nature now threatens them both.
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
Title: Bunty Pulls the Strings
Character: Tammas Biggar
Released: January 2, 1921
Type: Movie
A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.
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Godless Men
Title: Godless Men
Character: 'Black' Pawl
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
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The Branding Iron
Title: The Branding Iron
Character: John Carver
Released: October 31, 1920
Type: Movie
Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property.
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The Deadlier Sex
Title: The Deadlier Sex
Character: Jim Willis
Released: March 28, 1920
Type: Movie
The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Ladd
Released: November 21, 1919
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (Margery Wilson) from the clutches of notorious outlaw Rojas (Walter Long). Mercedes' fiancé, Captain George Thorne (Edward Coxen), entrusts her to Gale's care when he returns to duty.
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Bill Apperson's Boy
Title: Bill Apperson's Boy
Character: Bill Apperson
Released: June 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First National, and this was its first product. the story takes place in the Blue Ridge mountains, where the Appersons and the Yartons have an ongoing feud.
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The Brand
Title: The Brand
Character: Dan McGill
Released: March 9, 1919
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.
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Riders of the Night
Title: Riders of the Night
Character: Sally's Grandfather
Released: October 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Overland Bradley
Released: July 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and leaves Cleve to guard her, he realizes that he cannot remain part of an outlaw band and decides to rescue Joan.
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Breakers Ahead
Title: Breakers Ahead
Character: Captain Scudder
Released: March 25, 1918
Type: Movie
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric is at sea with Captain Scudder on a boat owned by Jim and Hiram Hawley, a jealous villager spreads the tale that Ruth is illegitimate, and the townspeople inevitably snub her. Jim Hiram sets his boat on fire after its arrival in port so that he can collect insurance money, and Ruth, believing that Eric is on board, tries to rescue him. When Ruth and Eric escape safely, Captain Scudder reveals that he, Ruth's long-lost father, was legally married to her mother, which re-establishes Ruth's good name and enables her to marry Eric. - From IMDB
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A Weaver of Dreams
Title: A Weaver of Dreams
Character: Martin Chandler
Released: March 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A Weaver of Dreams is a lost silent film directed by Edison's John H. Collins
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Blue Jeans
Title: Blue Jeans
Character: Jacob Tutwiler
Released: December 10, 1917
Type: Movie
June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the boy. There he finds that his country ways are not at all respected in the sophisticated city.
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The Virginian
Title: The Virginian
Character: Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.