Alan Hale

Alan Hale

Born: February 9, 1892
Died: January 22, 1950
in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Alan Hale Sr. (born Rufus Edward Mackahan; February 10, 1892 – January 22, 1950) was an American movie actor and director, most widely remembered for his many supporting character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Ronald Reagan, among dozens of others. Hale was born Rufus Edward Mackahan in Washington, D.C. He studied to be an opera singer and also had success as an inventor. Among his innovations were a sliding theater chair (to allow spectators to slide back to admit newcomers rather than standing), the hand fire extinguisher, and greaseless potato chips.

His first film role was in the 1911 silent movie The Cowboy and the Lady. He played "Little John" in the 1922 film Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery, reprised the role 16 years later in The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, then played him yet again in Rogues of Sherwood Forest in 1950 with John Derek as Robin Hood's son, an unprecedented 28-year span of portrayals of the same character in theatrical films. Hale played Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), featuring in a pivotal confrontation with the Earl of Essex, portrayed by Flynn.

His other films include the 1922 epic The Trap with Lon Chaney, 1928's Skyscraper; as well as Fog Over Frisco with Bette Davis; Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen with Baby LeRoy and William Frawley; The Little Minister with Katharine Hepburn; and It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert; all released in 1934; the 1937 film Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyck; High, Wide, and Handsome with Irene Dunne and Dorothy Lamour; The Fighting 69th with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien; They Drive By Night with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart; Manpower with Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, and George Raft; Virginia City with Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart; and as the cantankerous Sgt. McGee in the 1943 movie This Is the Army with Irving Berlin. He also co-starred with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland in the successful western film Dodge City (1939) where he played the slightly dimwitted but likeable and comical Rusty Hart, sidekick to Flynn's character, Sheriff Wade Hatton. Hale co-starred with Errol Flynn in 13 movies.

Hale directed eight movies during the 1920s and 1930s and acted in 235 theatrical films.

Movies for Alan Hale...

Title: The Londoners
Character: Miguel
Released: October 23, 2008
Type: TV
Londyńczycy is a Polish TV drama series about Polish immigrants in London, aired on TVP 1 since late 2008. It is currently aired on Community Channel. The title music for the series is the Robbie Williams song "Supreme".
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Title: The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: April 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Title: Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Character: Little John
Released: June 21, 1950
Type: Movie
The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
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Colt .45
Title: Colt .45
Character: Sheriff Harris
Released: May 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
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Stars in My Crown
Title: Stars in My Crown
Character: Jed Isbell
Released: May 11, 1950
Type: Movie
The story of a young pastor coming to a small town in the United States to set up his ministry. The movie tells of the various relationships and struggles he goes through as he goes about raising his family and preaching to the community.
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The Inspector General
Title: The Inspector General
Character: Kovatch
Released: December 31, 1949
Type: Movie
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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Always Leave Them Laughing
Title: Always Leave Them Laughing
Character: Sam Washburn
Released: November 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
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The House Across the Street
Title: The House Across the Street
Character: J.B. Grennell
Released: September 10, 1949
Type: Movie
Dave Joslin, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, is demoted and moved to the Miss Lonely Hearts column-writing department by the newspaper's publisher, J. B. Grennell, because Joslin refuses to desist in printing stories linking a gangster, Matthew Keever, to a murder. But Joslin, aided by Kit Williams, a newspaper woman with whom he is in love, investigate the murder case on their own time.
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The Younger Brothers
Title: The Younger Brothers
Character: Sheriff Knudson
Released: May 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Brothers who rode with a notorious outlaw gang led by Frank and Jesse James decide to go straight and try to get pardons so they can return to a law-abiding life.
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Character: Jake Evarts
Released: March 6, 1949
Type: Movie
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Needing money, will join the Confederate troops, each for their particular motivations.
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Whiplash
Title: Whiplash
Character: Terrance O'Leary
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.
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Adventures of Don Juan
Title: Adventures of Don Juan
Character: Leporello
Released: December 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under threat from sinister forces.
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My Girl Tisa
Title: My Girl Tisa
Character: Dugan
Released: February 7, 1948
Type: Movie
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
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My Wild Irish Rose
Title: My Wild Irish Rose
Character: John Donovan
Released: December 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Musical biography of Irish 19th century tenor Chauncey Olcott.
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Cheyenne
Title: Cheyenne
Character: Fred Durkin
Released: June 6, 1947
Type: Movie
Slick gambler James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) is apprehended by the law and given the option to forgo a prison sentence if he poses as a bandit. His mission is to uncover the identity of the Poet, a notorious outlaw who has been holding up bank-owned stagecoaches and leaving verses at the crime scenes to taunt the authorities. James finds time to woo the Poet's lovely wife, Ann (Jane Wyman), who initially cold-shoulders him. But, as a romance develops, they partner up to find the robber.
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Pursued
Title: Pursued
Character: Jake Dingle
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.
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That Way with Women
Title: That Way with Women
Character: Herman Brinker
Released: February 14, 1947
Type: Movie
A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.
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The Man I Love
Title: The Man I Love
Character: Riley
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.
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The Time, The Place and The Girl
Title: The Time, The Place and The Girl
Character: John Braden
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub next door to the Cassels' home. The club's owners--Steve, a handsome ladies' man, and Jeff, his clownish sidekick--hatch a plan to keep the club open. Steve arranges to meet--and woo--Vicki and then invite her and her uncle to the club. When Vicki's snobbish aunt and the manager discover that Vicki now favors popular music over the classics, they arrange to get the club closed. But that doesn't keep Steve and Jeff down. Instead, they decide to put on a Broadway show if they can get a backer. They find their "angel" in Vicki's uncle who agrees to finance the show only if Vicki is the leading lady. But again, Vicki's aunt and manager may be the spoiler in everyone's plans.
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Night and Day
Title: Night and Day
Character: Leon Dowling
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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Perilous Holiday
Title: Perilous Holiday
Character: Dr. Lilley
Released: March 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.
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Escape in the Desert
Title: Escape in the Desert
Character: Dr. Orville Tedder
Released: May 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Escaped Nazi POWs hold the denizens of a California resort hostage.
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Title: God Is My Co-Pilot
Character: Big Mike Harrigan
Released: April 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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Hotel Berlin
Title: Hotel Berlin
Character: Herman Plottke
Released: March 2, 1945
Type: Movie
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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Roughly Speaking
Title: Roughly Speaking
Character: Lew Morton
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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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Janie
Title: Janie
Character: Prof. Matthew Q. Reardon
Released: September 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Teenage Janie falls in love with a private from an Army base opposed by her editor father.
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The Adventures of Mark Twain
Title: The Adventures of Mark Twain
Character: Steve Gillis
Released: July 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A dramatised life of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, or Mark Twain.
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Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Walter Whirtle
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
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Destination Tokyo
Title: Destination Tokyo
Character: 'Cookie' Wainwright
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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This Is the Army
Title: This Is the Army
Character: Sergeant McGee
Released: August 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Boats O'Hara
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Pat Corbett
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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Desperate Journey
Title: Desperate Journey
Character: Sgt. Kirk Edwards
Released: September 26, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
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Juke Girl
Title: Juke Girl
Character: Yippee 'Yip'
Released: May 30, 1942
Type: Movie
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
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Captains of the Clouds
Title: Captains of the Clouds
Character: Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy (bush pilot)
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined Canadian bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF.
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The Smiling Ghost
Title: The Smiling Ghost
Character: Norton
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Jumbo Wells
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Thieves Fall Out
Title: Thieves Fall Out
Character: Robert Barnes
Released: May 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die before the broker can collect the full value of the policy and the broker's gangster partner doesn't want to wait for nature to take its course.
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Footsteps in the Dark
Title: Footsteps in the Dark
Character: Police Insp. Charles M. Mason
Released: March 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.
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The Strawberry Blonde
Title: The Strawberry Blonde
Character: Old Man Grimes
Released: February 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
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The Great Mr. Nobody
Title: The Great Mr. Nobody
Character: 'Skipper' Martin
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Tex Bell
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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Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Title: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Character: Capt. Bullwinkle
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Carl Pitt
Released: August 10, 1940
Type: Movie
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Ed Carlsen
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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Virginia City
Title: Virginia City
Character: Olaf Swenson
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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Three Cheers for the Irish
Title: Three Cheers for the Irish
Character: Gallagher
Released: March 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more unprepared for the romance that develops between his favorite daughter, Maureen, and the Scottish cop who takes over his beat.
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Alice in Movieland
Title: Alice in Movieland
Character: Carlo's Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her arrival. Instead of instant success, she meets disappointment after disappointment, and she needs the unexpected encouragement of her grandmother and an aging, former star whom she meets at a talent night. Finally, she gets a call to be an extra, and she's so hopeful that the regulars decide to make a fool of her. Is this the end of Alice's dream? Not if the porter has anything to say about it.
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The Fighting 69th
Title: The Fighting 69th
Character: Big Mike Wynn
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
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Green Hell
Title: Green Hell
Character: Dr. Emil 'Nils' Loren
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Title: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Character: The Prince of Tyrone
Released: November 11, 1939
Type: Movie
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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On Your Toes
Title: On Your Toes
Character: Sergei Alexandrovitch
Released: October 14, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Dust Be My Destiny
Title: Dust Be My Destiny
Character: Michael 'Mike' Leonard
Released: September 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Porthos
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Artagnan and his faithful musketeers, Porthos, Athos and Aramis. After Philippe falls for the king's betrothed, Spanish Princess Maria Theresa, Louis imprisons him, forcing his brother to don an iron mask that will slowly suffocate him -- and it's up to D'Artagnan to rescue him.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Rusty Hart
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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Pacific Liner
Title: Pacific Liner
Character: Gallagher
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
An outbreak of cholera threatens a luxury liner in this surprisingly low-budget melodrama from RKO. En route from Shanghai to San Francisco, chief engineer Crusher McKay (Victor McLaglen) and shipboard doctor Tony Craig (Chester Morris) become rivals for the attention of nurse Ann Grayson (Wendy Barrie). A Chinese stowaway, meanwhile, infects the stokehold with cholera and it is left to Crusher to keep the engines at full throttle until reaching harbor. But morale sinks to an all-time low when Crusher himself is stricken and the overworked men threaten with mutiny. Tony attempts to keep the stokers in check but the situation is growing more dangerous by the minute when a heroic Crusher rises from his sickbed. Leaving their previous petty squabbles behind, Tony and Crusher manage to guide the ship safely to harbor, where the doc and Ann rekindle their romance.
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Listen, Darling
Title: Listen, Darling
Character: J.J. Slattery
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
To stop Pinkie's widowed, struggling mother Dottie from marrying a well-off older man they know she doesn't love, teenager Pinkie and her best friend Buzz kidnap her in the family travel trailer to live a carefree life on the open road. They then get the idea to find Dottie a financially secure husband whom both she and Pinkie would like.
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The Sisters
Title: The Sisters
Character: Sam Johnson
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Valley of the Giants
Title: Valley of the Giants
Character: 'Ox' Smith
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 Adventures of Robin Hood
Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Little John
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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Four Men and a Prayer
Title: Four Men and a Prayer
Character: Furnoy
Released: April 29, 1938
Type: Movie
The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo
Title: The Adventures of Marco Polo
Character: Kaidu
Released: April 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.
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Algiers
Title: Algiers
Character: Grandpere
Released: January 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. French officials arrive insisting on Pepe's capture are met with unfazed local detectives, led by Inspector Slimane, who are biding their time. Meanwhile, Pepe meets the beautiful Gaby, which arouses the jealousy of Ines.
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Breakdowns of 1937
Title: Breakdowns of 1937
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Detective Flugelman
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party while they steal the jewels.
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Thin Ice
Title: Thin Ice
Character: Baron
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Ed Munn
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter.
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High, Wide and Handsome
Title: High, Wide and Handsome
Character: Walt Brennan
Released: July 21, 1937
Type: Movie
The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they find themselves stranded. They're taken in by Mrs. Cortlandt and her grandson, Peter, who is trying to set up a pipeline that will supply oil throughout the state. Sally and Peter soon fall in love and marry. Neither their marriage nor Peter's pipe dreams flow too smoothly.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Captain of the Guard
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
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God's Country and the Woman
Title: God's Country and the Woman
Character: Bjorn Skalka
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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When Thief Meets Thief
Title: When Thief Meets Thief
Character: Jim Diall 'Col. Fane'
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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Our Relations
Title: Our Relations
Character: Joe Grogan
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
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Yellowstone
Title: Yellowstone
Character: John Alexander Hardigan
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Murder mystery set in Yellowstone National Park.
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Parole!
Title: Parole!
Character: John Borchard
Released: June 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Louis Friedlander-directed film
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The Country Beyond
Title: The Country Beyond
Character: Jim Alison
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
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A Message to Garcia
Title: A Message to Garcia
Character: Dr. Ivan Krug
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba.
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Two in the Dark
Title: Two in the Dark
Character: Inspector Florio
Released: January 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
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Another Face
Title: Another Face
Character: Charles L. Kellar
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Burbix
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
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Hollywood Extra Girl
Title: Hollywood Extra Girl
Character: Crusades Actor (uncredited)
Released: August 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A short semi-documentary about a "typical extra girl" on a DeMille film.
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The Crusades
Title: The Crusades
Character: Blondel
Released: August 21, 1935
Type: Movie
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
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The Good Fairy
Title: The Good Fairy
Character: Maurice Schlapkohl
Released: February 18, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Grand Old Girl
Title: Grand Old Girl
Character: Click Dade
Released: January 15, 1935
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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The Little Minister
Title: The Little Minister
Character: Rob Daw
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
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Babbitt
Title: Babbitt
Character: Charlie McKelvey
Released: December 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Martin the Furniture Man
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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There's Always Tomorrow
Title: There's Always Tomorrow
Character: Henry
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
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Great Expectations
Title: Great Expectations
Character: Joe Gargery
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A young boy, Pip, encounters an escaped prisoner, Magwitch, and steals food for him. After the convict is captured, Pip meets the reclusive Miss Havisham and her niece, Estella, eventually becoming friends with the girl. Wealth comes to Pip via a mysterious benefactor and he goes off to London for an education. As adults, Pip and Estella become romantic, and Pip learns the identity of his patron.
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The Scarlet Letter
Title: The Scarlet Letter
Character: Bartholomew Hockings
Released: September 18, 1934
Type: Movie
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
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Of Human Bondage
Title: Of Human Bondage
Character: Emil Miller
Released: July 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
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Little Man, What Now?
Title: Little Man, What Now?
Character: Holgar Jachman
Released: June 4, 1934
Type: Movie
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
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Fog Over Frisco
Title: Fog Over Frisco
Character: Chief O'Malley
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
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Picture Brides
Title: Picture Brides
Character: Von Luden
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.
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It Happened One Night
Title: It Happened One Night
Character: Danker
Released: February 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A renegade reporter and a young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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The Lost Patrol
Title: The Lost Patrol
Character: Cook
Released: February 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Sam
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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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Lundstrom
Released: April 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.
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The Eleventh Commandment
Title: The Eleventh Commandment
Character: Max Stager
Released: March 25, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after, various people turn up claiming to be the rightful heir to her fortune.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Borglund
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Title: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Character: Mr Simpson
Released: July 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
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So Big!
Title: So Big!
Character: Klass Pool
Released: April 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
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Union Depot
Title: Union Depot
Character: The Baron, aka Bushy Sloan
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
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The Sea Ghost
Title: The Sea Ghost
Character: Capt. Greg Winters
Released: November 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Title: The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Character: Hubert
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Title: Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
Character: Jeb Mondstrum
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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The Night Angel
Title: The Night Angel
Character: Biezel
Released: July 18, 1931
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until her mother is released. When the happy day comes, he goes to visit them, but is attacked by the doorman, who is in love with the daughter and jealous of the DA. The DA kills him in self-defense but is acquitted when the daughter delivers a highly emotional speech professing her love for him.
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Aloha
Title: Aloha
Character: Stevens
Released: April 26, 1931
Type: Movie
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.
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She Got What She Wanted
Title: She Got What She Wanted
Released: November 9, 1930
Type: Movie
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
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Red Hot Rhythm
Title: Red Hot Rhythm
Character: Walter
Released: November 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A 1929 film by Leo McCarey.
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The Sap
Title: The Sap
Character: Jim Belden
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Adam Pike
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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The Leatherneck
Title: The Leatherneck
Character: Otto Schmidt
Released: February 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
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The Spieler
Title: The Spieler
Character: Flash
Released: December 20, 1928
Type: Movie
After being released from jail, two con artists take their grift to a carnival.
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Sal of Singapore
Title: Sal of Singapore
Character: Captain Erickson
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
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Power
Title: Power
Character: Hanson
Released: September 23, 1928
Type: Movie
Tale of a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue the deluge-threatened townsfolk.
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The Cop
Title: The Cop
Character: Mather
Released: August 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Pete Smith, a lift bridge operator in a harbor, feels lonely in his cabin, his only visitor being a policeman on patrol, Sgt. Coughlin. One night, after hearing shots, Smith gives shelter to a wounded man, whom he hides from Coughlin. Before leaving, the man, Marcas, promises to return the favor and the coat he borrows from him. Later, Smith enters the police, and his chief, Mather, suspects he is protecting Marcas, who is actually a gangster. Marcas sends a girl, Mary Monks, to deliver a luxurious coat with a fur collar to Smith. Pete and Mary get along well, and for his sake, she betrays Marcas, who is eventually shot to death by the cops, after having stopped his mob from killing Smith. Mary goes away alone into the night, and when Mather finds out that Pete is protecting her, he drops away the evidence of her presence on the spot.
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Oh Kay!
Title: Oh Kay!
Character: Jansen
Released: August 26, 1928
Type: Movie
On the eve of her wedding Lady Kay Rutfield runs off aboard her sloop. A storm carries her out to sea and she is rescued by a passing rumrunner bound for the Long Island Sound. Once they arrive in the States, Kay makes her escape and hides in the deserted mansion of Jimmy Winter. Jimmy is due to marry the following day. He comes home to the mansion unexpectedly, and finds Kay, who persuades him to let her pose for a night as his wife.
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Skyscraper
Title: Skyscraper
Character: Slim Strede
Released: April 8, 1928
Type: Movie
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves from a falling beam, Sally, but when he is injured in an accident and temporarily crippled, he rejects her. Swede tries every desperate measure to get Blondy to fight back, to try to walk, even masquerading as stealing Sally away from him.
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The Leopard Lady
Title: The Leopard Lady
Character: Caesar
Released: February 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police, Paula joins a circus where several murders have occurred. Among the suspects is gorilla trainer Caesar (Alan Hale Sr.). (NY Times)
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
Title: The Wreck of the Hesperus
Character: Singapore Jack
Released: October 31, 1927
Type: Movie
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he loves has been tricked into marrying John Hazzard in his absence. Heartbroken and bitter, the captain, with his daughter, Gale, and second mate, Singapore Jack, returns to sea. He rescues from a burning vessel John Hazzard, Jr., son of his rival, and though he tries to keep the boy from Gale, a romance develops. ...
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Vanity
Title: Vanity
Character: 'Happy' Dan Morgan
Released: May 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a visit to a colorful steamship captain aboard his ship.
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Dick Turpin
Title: Dick Turpin
Character: Tom King
Released: February 1, 1925
Type: Movie
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart from a terrible marriage.
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One Night in Rome
Title: One Night in Rome
Character: Duke Mareno
Released: September 29, 1924
Type: Movie
The story of a great Italian Duchess and of the baffling mystic, L Enigma
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Black Oxen
Title: Black Oxen
Character: Prince Rohenhauer
Released: December 29, 1923
Type: Movie
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
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Long Live the King
Title: Long Live the King
Character: King Karl
Released: November 26, 1923
Type: Movie
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
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Cameo Kirby
Title: Cameo Kirby
Character: Colonel Moreau
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Alan Hale
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Eleventh Hour
Title: The Eleventh Hour
Character: Prince Stefan de Bernie
Released: July 19, 1923
Type: Movie
An evil prince plans to use a super-explosive to take over the world.
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Main Street
Title: Main Street
Character: Miles Bjornstam
Released: April 25, 1923
Type: Movie
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
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The Covered Wagon
Title: The Covered Wagon
Character: Sam Woodhull
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?
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Quicksands
Title: Quicksands
Character: Ferrago
Released: February 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Little John
Released: October 18, 1922
Type: Movie
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
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The Dictator
Title: The Dictator
Character: Sabos
Released: June 25, 1922
Type: Movie
A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Benson
Released: May 8, 1922
Type: Movie
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
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A Doll's House
Title: A Doll's House
Character: Torvald Helmer
Released: February 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed.
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One Glorious Day
Title: One Glorious Day
Character: Ben Wadley
Released: January 29, 1922
Type: Movie
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after several failed attempts, finds Professor Ezra Botts, a timid old pedant and researcher of psychic phenomena. Life fairly well kicks Professor Botts around as it does all timid souls, and he gets little love or respect. But during an experimental trance, he is able to leave his body behind and at that moment, Ek sees his chance and slips in, taking over the professor's body. The "new" professor is energetic, charismatic, and dynamic, and from the limbo in which he floats, the real professor fears that Ek is going to wear out the tired old body before he, Botts, can return to it. And just how is he supposed to get back into his body, anyway?
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Gustave Seimann
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
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The Fox
Title: The Fox
Character: Rufus B. Coulter
Released: July 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
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A Wise Fool
Title: A Wise Fool
Character: George Masson
Released: June 26, 1921
Type: Movie
Jean, a wealthy young Canadian back from a trip to Europe, meets and falls for Carmen, a pretty young Spanish girl. They marry and have a daughter, but soon afterward Jean discovers his wife is having an affair. She takes her daughter and leaves him, and Jean's luck gets even worse--he loses his business in a fire and his thieving father-in-law steals what little money he has left.
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A Voice in the Dark
Title: A Voice in the Dark
Character: Dr. Hugh Sainsbury
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
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The Barbarian
Title: The Barbarian
Character: Mark Grant
Released: April 29, 1921
Type: Movie
Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Character: Karl von Hartrott
Released: March 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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Moral Suicide
Title: Moral Suicide
Character: 'Lucky' Travers
Released: March 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Wealthy Richard Covington, although aging and lonely, distresses his children, Waverly and Beatrice, by marrying a heartless seductress named Fay Hope. Because Fay's extravagant spending threatens to ruin Richard, Beatrice confronts her, which prompts Richard, who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful vampire, to order his daughter from the house.
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The Eternal Temptress
Title: The Eternal Temptress
Character: Count Rudolph Frizel
Released: December 9, 1917
Type: Movie
Austrian diplomats, seeking papers in the possession of the United States diplomat, work through the infatuation of his son, Harry, for an Italian widow. In his desperate financial straits, he is induced to turn traitor to his trust, but the woman, truly loving him, saves him from the consequences of his crime, at the cost of her own love and life.
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Life's Whirlpool
Title: Life's Whirlpool
Character: Dr. Henry Grey
Released: November 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Ethel Barrymore plays the wife of an abusive country squire. So nasty is her husband that he all but forces her to seek solace in the arms of her former sweetheart (played by Alan Hale in his leading-man period). Their clandestine relationship finally comes out in the open when the nasty husband is killed by his irate tenants.
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The Americano
Title: The Americano
Released: December 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter, Juana. Valdez returns to Paragonia, but is deposed by Generals Sanchez and Garcia and locked in San Mateo Prison. The Americano arrives...
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Captain Arthur Boyce
Released: December 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
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The Scarlet Oath
Title: The Scarlet Oath
Character: John Huntington
Released: October 23, 1916
Type: Movie
Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two infant twin daughters Olga and Nina, en route to America in search of freedom.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Cowboy
Released: July 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
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Sold Out
Title: Sold Out
Character: Halsey Brent
Released: June 5, 1916
Type: Movie
This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
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Dora Thorne
Title: Dora Thorne
Character: Hugh Fernely
Released: November 3, 1915
Type: Movie
Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but working-class woman. When Lord Earle hears of the relationship, he brings Valentine Charteris to the estate to distract his lovesick son. True to his love, however, Ronald refuses Valentine and marries Dora. After emigrating to Italy, Ronald earns a modest living as a painter, and Dora gives birth to twins. When Ronald receives a generous commission to paint a portrait, he asks Dora to pose for him, but overly preoccupied with the children, she refuses. Wounded by the rejection, Ronald calls on Valentine Charteris and quickly becomes infatuated with her, forcing Dora to return to Earlescourt with the twins.
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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Sir Francis Levinson
Released: August 18, 1915
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
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The Americano
Title: The Americano
Character: Madison - The Americano
Released: March 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attack the mission and loot its treasures. The monks hide her in the tower, but she is discovered by the ruffian crew and in grave peril until the Americano, leader of the pirate band, rescues her at his own risk.
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The Woman in Black
Title: The Woman in Black
Character: Frank Mansfield
Released: November 30, 1914
Type: Movie
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge. Meanwhile, Crane blackmails Stella Everett's father into forcing her to marry him, even though she loves Frank Mansfield, Crane's rival for a congressional seat. Frank wins, but Stella still faces the prospect of marriage to Crane until Zenda comes to her with a plan. On their wedding day, after the vows are recited, when Crane lifts the veil from his wife's face, he is shocked to discover, that his new bride is Mary. Now Stella and Frank are free to marry, and Zenda has gained her revenge.
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The Power of the Press
Title: The Power of the Press
Character: Sam Freeborn
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, strikes up a warm friendship with his cellmate, Harold Norwood, a defaulting paying teller. No less strange than their friendship is the befriending of Steve's wife, Annie, by Julia Seymour, prima donna, who is Norwood's wife. As a reward of good behavior, the men are released on Christmas morning. Annie is bewildered by the receipt of a bank book which shows that large deposits of gold have been made in her name and that of her sister, Mary, by their uncle, George Hosford, who, dying in Alaska, has entrusted the book to Joe Hawes, a fellow prospector.
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The Little Widow
Title: The Little Widow
Released: July 24, 1914
Type: Movie
An early short film in which the young widow is protected by the employer of her recently deceased husband.
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Woman Against Woman
Title: Woman Against Woman
Character: John Tressider
Released: June 27, 1914
Type: Movie
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two. While "doing the town," Miriam is lured into the apartment of a pair of letches named Crooke and Craven, who ply her with drugged liquor, then have their way with her. Holding Bessie's libertine friend, Rachel, responsible for all this, she heads to Rachel's flat and tries to strangle the life out of the woman. She also sees to it that Crooke and Craven are thrown out of their lodgings for their wanton behavior
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Strongheart
Title: Strongheart
Character: Ralph Thorne
Released: March 8, 1914
Type: Movie
STRONGHEART (1914) is a Native American Indian drama. Based on a famous play of the time, the film features an all-star cast. Originally five reels, the film was reissued at three reels in 1916.
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By Man's Law
Title: By Man's Law
Character: Brother Owner
Released: November 22, 1913
Type: Movie
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her job, a young girl almost falls into the hands of white slavers.
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Dick's Turning
Title: Dick's Turning
Released: July 2, 1913
Type: Movie