Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis

Born: October 7, 1872
Died: December 4, 1937
in Englewood, Illinois, USA

Movies for Ralph Lewis...

China's Little Devils
Title: China's Little Devils
Character: Harry
Released: May 27, 1945
Type: Movie
In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
bee
The Utah Kid
Title: The Utah Kid
Character: Henchman Cheyenne Kent
Released: August 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The Utah Kid was a late entry in Monogram's "Trail Blazers" series. These low-budget westerns usually featured three cowboy stars; this time, however, there are only two, Bob Steele and Hoot Gibson. Though neither star is a spring chicken, Steele is the younger of the two, so he's the "Utah Kid" by default. The plot, involving a gang of crooks who go around fixing rodeo results, was designed to accommodate yards and yards of stock footage.
bee
Music for Madame
Title: Music for Madame
Character: Henchman (Uncredited)
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.
bee
Behind the Mike
Title: Behind the Mike
Character: Townsman
Released: September 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
bee
Make Way for Tomorrow
Title: Make Way for Tomorrow
Character: Business Man (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1937
Type: Movie
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
bee
The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Senator
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
bee
Border Flight
Title: Border Flight
Character: Boat Captain
Released: May 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
bee
Swifty
Title: Swifty
Character: Alec McNiel
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then they incite the locals to form a lynch mob, but Swifty has an unexpected ally in the Sheriff who knows Price was after his stepfather's land.
bee
Dr. Socrates
Title: Dr. Socrates
Character: Bookstore Proprietor
Released: October 19, 1935
Type: Movie
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor in a small town that has a gangster's hideout.
bee
Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Man at Bar
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
bee
Sunset Range
Title: Sunset Range
Character: Sheriff
Released: April 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie. This sends Reasonin' Bates and his cowhands on their horses after the gangsters in their cars.
bee
Born to Battle
Title: Born to Battle
Character: Justice Hiram McClump
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to investigate recent cattle rustling at one of their ranches and to see if a pair of nesters have anything to do with it. After discovering the nesters, pretty Betty Powell and her rickety old father, are incapable of rustling, Tom instead turns his attention to the huge, swaggering bully of a foreman, Nate Lenox.
bee
The Lost City
Title: The Lost City
Character: Prof. Reynolds
Released: March 6, 1935
Type: Movie
An evil scientist invents a earthquake machine and plots to take over the world from his base in Africa.
bee
Outlaw Rule
Title: Outlaw Rule
Character: John Lathrop
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found dead.
bee
Terror of the Plains
Title: Terror of the Plains
Character: Dad Lansing
Released: November 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
bee
Badge of Honor
Title: Badge of Honor
Character: Randall Brewster
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.
bee
Mystery Liner
Title: Mystery Liner
Character: Prof. Grimson
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
bee
Riot Squad
Title: Riot Squad
Character: Judge Moore
Released: July 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The constant battling over the same woman gets two detectives demoted to what's considered the toughest job in the Police Department--the Riot Squad.
bee
Somewhere in Sonora
Title: Somewhere in Sonora
Character: Mr. Kelly Burton
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
bee
Sucker Money
Title: Sucker Money
Character: John Walton
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it.
bee
The Death Kiss
Title: The Death Kiss
Character: Winchell
Released: December 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
bee
Call Her Savage
Title: Call Her Savage
Character: Doctor (Uncredited)
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.
bee
McKenna of the Mounted
Title: McKenna of the Mounted
Character: Kennedy
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
bee
American Madness
Title: American Madness
Character: Judge (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
bee
The Lost Squadron
Title: The Lost Squadron
Character: Joe
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.
bee
Abraham Lincoln
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Character: Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
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.
bee
The Bad One
Title: The Bad One
Character: Blochet
Released: May 3, 1930
Type: Movie
In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
bee
The Girl in the Glass Cage
Title: The Girl in the Glass Cage
Character: John Cosgrove
Released: June 23, 1929
Type: Movie
A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her uncle is stealing the box-office receipts.
bee
The Shield of Honor
Title: The Shield of Honor
Character: Dan MacDowell
Released: December 10, 1927
Type: Movie
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
bee
The Sunset Derby
Title: The Sunset Derby
Character: Sam Gibson
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
After suffering a fall during a race, rider Jimmy Burke loses his nerve. But with the help of his girlfriend Molly Gibson, Jimmy regains his confidence just in time to achieve victory during the Big Race.
bee
The Silent Power
Title: The Silent Power
Character: John Rollins
Released: November 1, 1926
Type: Movie
American silent film directed by Frank O'Connor.
bee
The Block Signal
Title: The Block Signal
Character: 'Jovial Joe' Ryan
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner. Though Ryan's failing eyesight is named as the cause of the crash, he's undeterred as he designs an automatic braking invention.
bee
Fascinating Youth
Title: Fascinating Youth
Character: John Ward
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
bee
Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Brophy
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released, she sets out to take her revenge on those responsible. -from IMDB.com
bee
The Last Edition
Title: The Last Edition
Character: Tom McDonald
Released: November 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A twenty-year veteran of the printing room of The San Francisco Chronicle is passed up for a promotion at the same time his son is accused of graft and involved in scandal. The historical landmarks of old San Francisco are present: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, City Hall and the Pickwick Hotel-- but they don't distract from the dramatic and emotional perforamces at the film's center.
bee
The Million Dollar Handicap
Title: The Million Dollar Handicap
Character: John Porter
Released: February 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The Million Dollar Handicap
bee
The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
bee
Hello, 'Frisco
Title: Hello, 'Frisco
Character: Ralph Lewis
Released: September 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
bee
Dante's Inferno
Title: Dante's Inferno
Character: Mortimer Judd
Released: September 7, 1924
Type: Movie
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman finally drive a distraught man to commit suicide. The businessman is tried for murder and executed, and is afterward taken by demons to the Hell where he will spend the rest of eternity. .
bee
The Man Who Came Back
Title: The Man Who Came Back
Character: Thomas Potter
Released: August 17, 1924
Type: Movie
Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
bee
Blow Your Own Horn
Title: Blow Your Own Horn
Character: Nicholas Small
Released: November 11, 1923
Type: Movie
World War I veteran Jack Dunbar who, like a lot of veterans then and now, is finding it hard to land a job. When he fixes the broken down auto of the newly rich Nicholas Small, he finally runs into some luck. The blustery Small explains that the way to get ahead is to blow your own horn, and then he takes Dunbar to an estate, where he is introduced as a millionaire.
bee
Tea- With a Kick!
Title: Tea- With a Kick!
Character: Jim Day
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
The tale of Bonnie Day, a rambunctious young lady who is rankled when she is expelled from college for serving tea in her room. She goes on to open up a tearoom in a fancy hotel, saving all the profits to pay the legal fees for her father who has been unjustly jailed. Mr. Day's rival has embroiled him in a crooked stock deal and made him appear to be the guilty party. Meanwhile, Bonnie is in the midst of a romantic dilemma; her Aunt Pearl wants her to wed Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie much prefers helpful young lawyer Art Binger.
bee
The West~Bound Limited
Title: The West~Bound Limited
Character: Bill Buckley
Released: April 14, 1923
Type: Movie
The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
bee
The Fog
Title: The Fog
Character: Johnathan Forge
Released: January 18, 1923
Type: Movie
Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .
bee
The Third Alarm
Title: The Third Alarm
Character: Dan McDowell
Released: December 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Because Dan McDowell is unable to operate the new mechanized fire equipment, he is retired with a small pension; his son, Johnny, quits school to work in the fire department; and his old horse, Bullet, is sold to a dirt-hauler. Dan is charged with stealing Bullet and is jailed, but he is cleared in time to give valuable aid in a fire that traps Johnny's sweetheart, June Rutherford.
bee
The Sin Flood
Title: The Sin Flood
Character: Fraser
Released: November 12, 1922
Type: Movie
Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
bee
Broad Daylight
Title: Broad Daylight
Character: Peter Fay
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman agrees to marry the son of a well-known man in order to get a chance to take revenge on her new father-in-law, who she believes framed her own father who is now in prison.
bee
Flesh and Blood
Title: Flesh and Blood
Character: Fletcher Burton
Released: August 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
bee
The Conquering Power
Title: The Conquering Power
Character: Pere Grandet
Released: July 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true love triumph?
bee
A Private Scandal
Title: A Private Scandal
Character: Phillip Lawton
Released: June 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time entangled in the deteriorating marriage of the American couple who rescued her.
bee
Sowing the Wind
Title: Sowing the Wind
Character: Brabazon
Released: April 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petworth's gambling house, her ideals are shattered and she denounces her mother's life.
bee
Man-Woman-Marriage
Title: Man-Woman-Marriage
Character: The Father
Released: March 27, 1921
Type: Movie
Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then she discovers her faith, and everything turns out for the best. In several scenes Victoria has visions of love and marriage throughout history: she appears in the Stone Age, with a tribe of Amazonians, in the Middle Ages and in the Roman era.
bee
Prisoners of Love
Title: Prisoners of Love
Character: Her Father
Released: January 16, 1921
Type: Movie
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
bee
Outside the Law
Title: Outside the Law
Character: 'Silent' Madden
Released: January 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
bee
813
Title: 813
Character: Robert Castleback
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
bee
Common Sense
Title: Common Sense
Character: Dan Bowers
Released: June 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Dan Bowers, embittered and disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, seeks solitude in the Maine woods, with a lame dog as his only companion. One day he meets Violet Manners who, with her invalid mother Marion, is visiting in a nearby village. Marion is haunted by memories of the past, and one day when Violet takes Dan to meet her mother, she discovers that he is the husband who deserted her years ago. The shock causes Marion's death, but before she dies, she justifies her past behavior toward Dan. -From the AFI Catalog of Feature FIlms.
bee
When the Clouds Roll By
Title: When the Clouds Roll By
Character: Curtis Brown
Released: December 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
bee
Eyes of Youth
Title: Eyes of Youth
Character: Robert Goring
Released: November 29, 1919
Type: Movie
A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the roads, she makes her choice.
bee
The Valley of the Giants
Title: The Valley of the Giants
Character: Col. Pennington
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
bee
The Hoodlum
Title: The Hoodlum
Character: Alexander Guthrie
Released: August 31, 1919
Type: Movie
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
bee
The Long Lane's Turning
Title: The Long Lane's Turning
Released: February 10, 1919
Type: Movie
bee
The Dub
Title: The Dub
Character: Frederick Blatch
Released: January 19, 1919
Type: Movie
John Craig is a struggling young contractor who falls into a crooked business scheme. A trio of unsavory partners on the verge of dissolving their company have hired him for a job, assuming that he will fail.
bee
The Talk of the Town
Title: The Talk of the Town
Released: September 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
bee
Fires of Youth
Title: Fires of Youth
Character: John Linforth
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Lucille, a beautiful and romantic young woman, marries John Linforth, a wealthy businessman, who is twice her age, and too distracted by his business affairs to give her the attention she craves.
bee
Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: "Sudden" Duncan
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Easterner Alva Leigh arrives in the mining town of Magnet just after her fiancé, Donald Jaffray, has been murdered. Because Alva has sworn vengeance, "Sudden" Duncan, the real murderer, accuses Donald's partner, Dick Randall, of the crime. Knowing that Dick is planning a journey across the desert, Duncan fills his canteen with poison, but Alva, who also is determined to kill Dick, drills a hole in the canteen so that the water will drain out. After Dick's departure, Alva learns from "Tiger Lil'," who is jealous of Duncan's attention to the Eastern newcomer, that it was Duncan who killed Donald. Frantic, Alva immediately mounts a horse and rides into the desert to save the man she now recognizes as her true love. Tiger Lil' shoots Duncan in a dance hall quarrel, and Alva marries Dick.
bee
Jack and the Beanstalk
Title: Jack and the Beanstalk
Character: Francis' Father
Released: July 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack exchanges his cow for some magic beans. The beans grow overnight into a beanstalk, which Jack climbs, arriving at a castle that is his. Jack sets a deal with the giant in exchange for their fortune.
bee
A Tale of Two Cities
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Character: Roger Cly
Released: March 10, 1917
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
bee
The Children Pay
Title: The Children Pay
Character: Theodore Ainsley, the Girls' Father
Released: November 26, 1916
Type: Movie
What will become of the Children in a home divided....
bee
A Sister of Six
Title: A Sister of Six
Character: Caleb Winthrop
Released: October 29, 1916
Type: Movie
A young woman and her five little brothers and sisters are left orphans by the murder of their father over gold found on his ranch. Together the seven offspring fight against their greedy neighbors to keep what is rightfully theirs.
bee
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: The Governor
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
bee
Gretchen the Greenhorn
Title: Gretchen the Greenhorn
Character: Jan Van Houck
Released: September 3, 1916
Type: Movie
Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where he owns an engraving business. In the tenement community where the Van Houcks live, there are residents of many nationalities. Gretchen soon becomes close friends with Pietro, a popular resident, and she also takes an interest in the widow Garrity and her children. Another resident, Rogers, is more mysterious. One day Rogers tells Mr. Van Houck that he could help him get a job printing money for the government. Van Houck eagerly agrees to try, but when he finds out what Rogers is really doing, he is placed in a painful dilemma.
bee
Hell-to-Pay Austin
Title: Hell-to-Pay Austin
Character: Dad Dawson
Released: August 20, 1916
Type: Movie
After her father's death, little Briar Rose is taken in by the men at a lumber camp. The girl shows a definite preference for one of the lumberjacks, "Hell-to-Pay" Austin, so he becomes her new "father." Just as much as Hell-to-Pay takes care of Briar, she watches over him, and it is largely through her influence that he gives up hard drinking and needless fighting. Then, when Briar is old enough, she goes away to school and quickly falls in with the wrong crowd. Hell-to-Pay comes after her and takes her away from Doris Valentine, an adventuress who had been teaching Briar the tricks of the trade. When they are reunited, Hell-to-Pay and Briar realize that they are in love, so they decide to change their relationship from guardian and ward to husband and wife.
bee
Going Straight
Title: Going Straight
Character: John Remington
Released: June 3, 1916
Type: Movie
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't help him pull a heist.
bee
The Flying Torpedo
Title: The Flying Torpedo
Character: Head of the Board
Released: March 12, 1916
Type: Movie
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country is basically defenceless, offer $1,000,000 to anyone who can come up with a weapon to defeat the invaders. Winthrop Clavering, a writer and inventor, hears of the reward and tells his friend Bartholomew Thompson, a scientist and inventor who has been working on developing flying torpedo. However, enemy agents have also heard about Thompson's project, and set out to kill him and steal his plans. This film is now considered lost.
bee
Martha's Vindication
Title: Martha's Vindication
Character: Deacon Hunt
Released: February 20, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
bee
Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Banquo
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
bee
Jordan Is a Hard Road
Title: Jordan Is a Hard Road
Character: Jim Starbuck
Released: December 19, 1915
Type: Movie
A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.
bee
The Wolf-Man
Title: The Wolf-Man
Character: Hilbert Grinde, 'The Wolf Man'
Released: September 9, 1915
Type: Movie
Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
bee
Victorine
Title: Victorine
Character: The Side Show Manager
Released: August 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Dottie gets a job in a small show as "side kick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice boy who is backing the show, and who is too modest to declare his love to Dottie. She can see no one save the great, handsome "Strong Man." The knife thrower gets drunk, and the "Angel" forbids Dottie to do her act. The "Strong Man," however, locks up the "Angel" and bids the knife thrower go on with the show. Dottie, terrified but helpless, has risked her life a half dozen times from the carelessly thrown knives, when the "Angel," bursting out of his prison, rushes into the ring and flings himself between her and the weapons. He is seriously injured. At the hospital, Dottie and the "Angel" pledge their troth.
bee
The Little Catamount
Title: The Little Catamount
Character: Old Hemlock - Hattie's Father
Released: July 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor Dawson, another moonshiner, and arranges with Hattie's father to marry her. This does not agree with Hattie's ideas at all.
bee
The Mountain Girl
Title: The Mountain Girl
Character: Old Lloyd - the Girl's Grandfather
Released: July 11, 1915
Type: Movie
In a primitive log cabin buried among the rugged pines deep in the California mountains lives the Mountain Girl with her grandfather, a man of hoary age.
bee
The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
Character: Leader of the House Hon. Austin Stoneman
Released: February 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
bee
The Exposure
Title: The Exposure
Character: Phelan
Released: December 26, 1914
Type: Movie
Helen and Joe are in love. He receives a letter from his uncle offering him a good position in his law office. He shows Helen the letter and she shows him one from the Standard, also a check for a short story. They have a quarrel over a slight thing and he leaves for his uncle's place. Six years go by and Helen is now a very successful writer on a large daily.
bee
Over the Ledge
Title: Over the Ledge
Released: December 12, 1914
Type: Movie
A poor widow dies, leaving her two young children, Bob and Mabel, in the care of a poor neighbor, who later is forced by circumstances to give them to an asylum. Twenty years pass and Jack, who has been adopted by a good family, has now gone into business for himself and is a rising young broker. He has been searching the detective agencies for his sister, without success, for some years. Mabel ran away from the asylum and has been brought up by a poor family, is without education and is now employed as a servant, and on a certain day is hanging clothes on a roof nearby a large office building, in which Bob has his office, and a small boy is flying his kite from the same rooftop.
bee
The Hop Smugglers
Title: The Hop Smugglers
Character: Sikes - the Revenue Officer
Released: November 24, 1914
Type: Movie
Short, silent movie about a female journalist who does a sensational article for the newspaper investigation opium smuggling.
bee
Her Awakening
Title: Her Awakening
Character: Dr. John
Released: September 20, 1914
Type: Movie
The will of old Dr. Andrews left the bulk of his property to his niece, Mary, who was an orphan living in a distant mining town. The small balance of his wealth went to a married nephew, John, who had been practicing medicine with him and was now made the executor of his estate, but who felt that he should have been made the sole heir.
bee
The Avenging Conscience
Title: The Avenging Conscience
Character: The Detective
Released: August 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; Paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
bee
The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: The Senator
Released: June 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.
bee
Home, Sweet Home
Title: Home, Sweet Home
Released: May 16, 1914
Type: Movie
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
bee
The Different Man
Title: The Different Man
Character: The Outlaw
Released: May 5, 1914
Type: Movie
The Different Man is a silent Western from 1914
bee
The Old Man
Title: The Old Man
Released: April 17, 1914
Type: Movie
The Old Man is a 1914 film short
bee
The Floor Above
Title: The Floor Above
Character: Jerome
Released: April 1, 1914
Type: Movie
English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a title, he does not tell Grace, fearing that she will stop loving him. Grace provides support for her sister Stella Ford, whose husband is frequently away on business trips, so Stephen, hoping to alleviate Grace's financial burden, pays all of Stella's debts and provides her with an allowance. When Grace learns of the arrangement, she is hurt that he did not confide in her. Stella lives in a building occupied by a wild crowd. In the flat above her lives Netta, who has numerous boyfriends, including Jerome, an older man, and Bartlett, a young fop. One evening, the rivals mistakenly enter Stella's apartment and in an ensuing fight, Jerome kills Bartlett.
bee
The Gangsters of New York
Title: The Gangsters of New York
Character: Spike Golden - a Rival Gangster
Released: February 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Biff Dugan, the eldest son of a poor family living in a tenement on the squalid East Side of New York, leads a gang of hoodlums, among whose members is his brother Porky. Their sister Jess is a consumptive whose health was ruined in a sweatshop. During a melee in a mission run by reformer Henry Davis, the Dugan gang encounters Billy Drew and his sister Cora, newcomers to the city. Porky saves Cora from the unwelcome attentions of Biff's rival, Spike Golden, and the two fall in love. Later, when Spike is killed in a gang war, Biff is wrongfully convicted of the murder and executed in the electric chair. Porky, who served a short term in prison for his part in the crime, comes back to the city to find that Jess has died and Cora has returned to the country.
bee
I Am Not a Racist
Title: I Am Not a Racist
Character: Austin Stoneman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to criticize the racism in it and also in the world today. Freemenville is a little city somewhere in the USA. A city ashamed because of its past of slavery, but proud of being the first in the country to end it. There is an annual ball to celebrate this fact. And this year's ball may be the biggest ever, because of the possible presence of a big celebrity, who is coming to town to see the premiere of a play. However, the play happens to be D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", a racist work that starts a series of events exposing the racism that still exists in the city, culminating in the recreation of the KKK.