James Sheridan

James Sheridan

Movies for James Sheridan...

Gun Cargo
Title: Gun Cargo
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.
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Arizona Round-Up
Title: Arizona Round-Up
Character: Kansas - Henchman
Released: June 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the government remount station.
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Where Trails End
Title: Where Trails End
Character: Henchman
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their land so they can exploit the valuable tungsten deposits in this WW II western. Mayhem ensues, but soon the villains are vanquished and America's tungsten deposits are safe once more.
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Boot Hill Bandits
Title: Boot Hill Bandits
Character: Townsman
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Bolton's men blow up the wagon carrying the mine payroll and Marshal Crash Corrigan is supposedly killed in the explosion. A man finds his badge and gives it to Bolton. Thinking Crash dead, Bolton gives the badge away and it ends up with the Sheriff. Crash is OK and the Range Busters know Bolton is the head of the gang but that he gets his orders from someone else and that is the man they want.
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Western Mail
Title: Western Mail
Character: Henchman Cheyenne
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with them, they hope to get the evidence they need.
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Lone Star Law Men
Title: Lone Star Law Men
Character: Henchman
Released: December 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up.
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Riding the Sunset Trail
Title: Riding the Sunset Trail
Character: Henchman Rip Carson
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.
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Spooks Run Wild
Title: Spooks Run Wild
Character: Cop
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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The Driftin' Kid
Title: The Driftin' Kid
Character: Henchman Buckhorn (as James Sherridan)
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
In this western, the good-guy battles his bad-guy double and his band of outlaws to protect a purty gal's ranch.
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Silver Stallion
Title: Silver Stallion
Character: Henchman
Released: May 27, 1941
Type: Movie
The Kid and his pals are horse thieves wanted by the law. As he takes a horse from Jan Walton she makes him promise to bring it back.
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The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Title: The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Character: Henchman
Released: May 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang's hideout, and they scare folks away to protect their mine.
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Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Title: Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Character: Henchman
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
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Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Title: Ridin' the Cherokee Trail
Character: Henchman
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter and his sidekick, Slim Andrews, star in this musical Western about a couple of Texas Rangers who defend the citizens of a small territory from power-hungry outlaws. Villain Bradley Craven (Forrest Taylor) is determined to stop the election process that would allow the region to join the Union. Tex and Slim join a rancher and his daughter to stop Craven, with fearless Tex going undercover to ensure that justice is served.
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Billy the Kid's Range War
Title: Billy the Kid's Range War
Character: Henchman
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Williams is out to stop Ellen Goreham from completing her road that is under construction and is using a man to impersonate Billy the Kid. When Billy sees the wanted posters and learns of the murders he supposedly committed, he sets out to find the imposter. His sidekick Fuzzy is there to help him but his friend Jeff, now a Marshal, is also after him.
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The Lone Rider Rides On
Title: The Lone Rider Rides On
Character: Wagon Raider
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land. Though he was only a child at the time, he vividly remembers the scar on the ringleader's face -- and Tom will stop at nothing until he brings him to justice … and exacts vengeance.
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Rollin' Home to Texas
Title: Rollin' Home to Texas
Character: Henchman
Released: December 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys." The warden of the Desert Wells Penitentiary asks Tex Reed and Slim to check the series of bank robberies which have been committed by escaped convicts. Lockwood, head of an opposing political machine, is behind the escapes and robberies, and the escapes are being planned by Red, a convict. Tex trails the next escapee but the hang shoots the man before Tex can question him. Jimmy, brother of Tex's girl friend Mary, is set up, by the gang, to be killed while robbing a bank by Carter who will collect a reward for shooting him. Jimmy is wounded but not killed and Tex arrests him to keep him safe. The gang now wants to get rid of Tex, so they send Red, dressed as a prison guard, with a fake message from the Warden for Tex.
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Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Title: Take Me Back to Oklahoma
Character: Henchman
Released: November 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Storm is out to wreck Ace's stage line. When Tex arrives to help Ace, Storm brings in hired killer Mule Bates. But Tex and Bates know each other and the two devise a plan to fool Storm.
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Billy the Kid in Texas
Title: Billy the Kid in Texas
Character: Townsman
Released: September 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In the second of the "Billy the Kid" series from PRC that starred Bob Steele, Billy the Kid is being held on a trumped-up murder charge in a Mexico jail. He escapes and meets his pal, Fuzzy Jones, in Corral City, Texas, which is taking a holiday to allow the cowpunchers of the Lazy A Ranch their periodic spree. In the saloon, Billy is recognized by Dave Hendricks and Flash, two the Lazy A's bed men, as the rider who had held them up after they had robbed the express wagon a few hours earlier. Outside, Billy is ambushed and slightly wounded, and is taken to the express office by Jim Morgan where Mary Barton, the local agent, agrees to tend him until the doctor arrives. Billy turns over the loot he took from the outlaws and he is appointed sheriff, with Fuzzy as his deputy. The Lazy A gang brings in a noted gunfighter, Gil Cooper, who turns out to be Billy's brother. Billy, Gil and Fuzzy eventually rout the outlaw gang, and Gil remains behind with Mary as Billy and Fuzzy ride off.
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The Cowboy from Sundown
Title: The Cowboy from Sundown
Character: Davis Cowhand
Released: September 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.
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Arizona Frontier
Title: Arizona Frontier
Character: Henchman
Released: August 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A government agent uncovers the truth behind a series of raids on a freight company.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Barfly
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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Pals of the Silver Sage
Title: Pals of the Silver Sage
Character: Henchman Rip
Released: April 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.
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Phantom Rancher
Title: Phantom Rancher
Character: Henchman Joe
Released: March 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Cowboy puts on a black mask and a black outfit to fight a gang of land-grabbing crooks.
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East Side Kids
Title: East Side Kids
Character: Apartment Tenant
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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Sundown on the Prairie
Title: Sundown on the Prairie
Character: Henchman Danny
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
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Drifting Westward
Title: Drifting Westward
Character: Henchman Piute
Released: January 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the third midnight raid on his home, Don Careta is fearful for the safety of his daughter Wanda, and sends for Jack Martin to help him.
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Six-Gun Trail
Title: Six-Gun Trail
Character: Henchman
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Chasing jewel thieves, Captain Carson and Magpie head for the border where Carson, posing as a Chinaman, opens a store that buys jewelry. To flush the thieves into the open, Carson wins all their money at poker. They agree to sell him the jewels but plan to kill him and keep both the jewels and the money.
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Gun Packer
Title: Gun Packer
Released: November 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Jack has been called in to investigate stage robberies where the stolen gold bullion mysteriously disappears, He finds the Professor, an elderly ex-con, and convincing him they used to work together, gets the Professor to get him in to the gang. Now posing as an outlaw, he learns what the Professor does with the bullion, but he is in trouble when his true identity is revealed.
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Lightning Carson Rides Again
Title: Lightning Carson Rides Again
Character: Henchman
Released: October 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Lightning Carson's nephew has been falsely accused of murder. To get in with the gang, Lightning poses as a Mexican. He also appears as himself making his costume changes at his sister's ranch. Just as he about to bring in the gang, a henchman finds evidence of his masquerade and arrives to expose the hoax.
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Starlight Over Texas
Title: Starlight Over Texas
Character: Hill's Partner
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Henchman
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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Knight of the Plains
Title: Knight of the Plains
Character: Henchman
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Peterson has a plan to obtain all the ranches in the valley. He gives Carson a phony Spanish land grant and has him pose as the Mexican owner. When Fred and Fuzzy have their cattle stolen by Peterson's men, they quickly become involved in the scheme.
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The Feud Maker
Title: The Feud Maker
Character: Tex's Pal / Settler
Released: April 16, 1938
Type: Movie
When Tex is brought in to fight in a range war between the cowmen and the nesters, he meets his old outlaw boss Lassiter. He learns Lassiter is behind the feud when Lassiter asks him to join up with his gang. Tex refuses and instead sets out to stop the feud but no one will believe him that Lassiter is responsible.
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Thunder in the Desert
Title: Thunder in the Desert
Character: Henchman
Released: March 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Bob arrives looking for the killer of his uncle. When the Sheriff chases him and his partner Rusty, Reno thinks they are the men he is looking for and takes them into his gang. There Bob finds his uncle's gun and knows he has found the right gang. However he realizes the gang has an unknown leader and he sets out to find him.
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Paroled - To Die
Title: Paroled - To Die
Character: Henchman Matson
Released: January 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Meline is taking money from his own bank to drill an oil well. When he finds Doug Redfern's bandana, he has his gang rob his bank and uses the bandana to frame Doug. When Doug is convicted but immediately paroled, Meline has another plan that he thinks will put him away permanently.
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The Fighting Deputy
Title: The Fighting Deputy
Character: Henchman Buck
Released: December 5, 1937
Type: Movie
The Sheriff and his deputies are after Scar Adams. Scar is the brother of Alice Denton, the girl Deputy Tom plans to marry, and when the Sheriff is wounded she makes Tom refuse the job of Sheriff. But when Scar kills his father, Tom puts on the badge and takes out after him.
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Where Trails Divide
Title: Where Trails Divide
Character: Henchman Spade
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
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God's Country and the Man
Title: God's Country and the Man
Character: Pete (Red's Henchman)
Released: September 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Henchman Pinto
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.
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Whistling Bullets
Title: Whistling Bullets
Character: Henchman Sam (as Sherry Tansey)
Released: May 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Ace Beldon is in prison, but with his stolen bonds not recovered, Capt. Saunders has an idea. He sends Graham to prison and has him and Beldon break out. With Ranger Raymond assisting, they make their escape and get to the hangout run by Stone. But the plan starts to go awry when Sam overhears Graham talking with the Captain and reports back to Stone.
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History Is Made at Night
Title: History Is Made at Night
Released: March 5, 1937
Type: Movie
An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.
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The Silver Trail
Title: The Silver Trail
Character: Tex
Released: February 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Western, featuring Rin Tin Tin Jr., about a man trying to find an old friend in a town that is trying to deceive him.
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Trailin' West
Title: Trailin' West
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.
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The Speed Reporter
Title: The Speed Reporter
Character: Henchman Gat
Released: May 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.
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Ridin' On
Title: Ridin' On
Character: Jail Defender (uncredited)
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Bolton has organized a feud between the Rork's and the O'Neil's. He has rustled cattle and killed a man putting the blame on Danny O'Neil. Tom Rork has found a bullet with markings on it that he hopes will clear Danny and bring in the real killer.
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The Law of 45's
Title: The Law of 45's
Character: Henchman Toral
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Lawyer Rontel has made Geologist Sheffield his prisoner and by power of attorney is using his money to buy the ranches of those driven off by his hired men. But when he goes after Hayden, Tucson and Stoney arrive and things begin to change.
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Courage of the North
Title: Courage of the North
Character: The Hawk, Mordant Henchman (as Jim Sheridan)
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain.
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Paradise Canyon
Title: Paradise Canyon
Character: Pete
Released: July 19, 1935
Type: Movie
John Wyatt is a government agent sent to smash a counterfeiting operation near the Mexican border. Joining Doc Carter's medicine show they arrive in the town where Curly Joe, who once framed Carter, resides.
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Big Calibre
Title: Big Calibre
Character: Barfly / Man at Dance
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
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The Phantom Cowboy
Title: The Phantom Cowboy
Character: Jack Rogers
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bill Collins has a look alike the Phantom who beats Houston robbery plan. However the Phantom is shot by Houston’s men. Bill finding him dying isn’t aware that Houston is just about the get him too…
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West of the Law
Title: West of the Law
Character: Henchman Spider aka Jones
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Big-city gangsters run out of gas in the middle of the desert. A local cowboy gives them a tow back to his ranch, and the gangsters decide his ranch would be the perfect hide-out.
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The Way of the West
Title: The Way of the West
Character: Henchman 'Skipy' (as Jim Sheridan)
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit is Horton and when Horton kills Parker he frames Gordon. His identity revealed, the Sheriff lets Gordon escape to go after the real killer.
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The Lone Rider
Title: The Lone Rider
Character: Henchman Wilson
Released: October 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A cowboy takes on a gang of gold mine swindlers.
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Pals of the West
Title: Pals of the West
Character: Henchman Pete
Released: September 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Sheriff Ed Dawson (Franklyn Farnum)asks Texas Rangers Wally Wallace (Hal Taliaferro) and Bill (Al Hoxie), to go into an outlaw stronghold, where his daughter Ann (Dorothy Crittin)is being held prisoner, and capture the gang led by Larkin (Yakima Canutt). But Wally's identity is revealed and they are taken prisoner.
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Carrying the Mail
Title: Carrying the Mail
Character: Chuck
Released: July 1, 1934
Type: Movie
The owner of a stagecoach line is about to lose his mail contract after 30 years because he's been underbid. His competitor is actually a crook who's planning to hijack the stagecoach and rob the mail--and, for good measure, have a go at his rival's pretty young daughter.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Wolfer
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A cattleman's son stops his men from busting up a herd of sheep when he sees that they're owned by a pretty young woman.
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Pals of the Prairie
Title: Pals of the Prairie
Character: Henchman
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery.
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Romance of the West
Title: Romance of the West
Released: June 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Chasing the man who had caused the death of his sister, Jack Walsh rescues Mary Winters from the unwanted attentions of a drunk, and learns that she has been lured to Mexico by the false promises of an ex-prizefighter "Kayo" Mooney. The latter kidnaps Mary but Jack wins the showdown and Mary, and finds that Mooney is the man he was looking for.
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Code of the Cow Country
Title: Code of the Cow Country
Character: Ted Calhoun
Released: June 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill Jackson, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper, who persuades Ted to sign I. O. U.'s while under the influence of alcohol. Jim, in company with Red Irwin, a tough deputy sheriff, confronts the gambler and forces a confession. Jackson plans a raid on the Calhoun cattle, forcing Ted to be his ally. Dolores, a dancehall girl, overhears the plot and tells Jim, causing Helen to misunderstand his motives.
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Title: General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Character: Soldier that stabs Gall
Released: September 16, 1926
Type: Movie
One of the bloodiest battles in American history is brought to life in this rarely-seen silent blockbuster. Over 3,000 extras were employed to recreate General George Custer's last stand against the Indian forces led by Crazy Horse.
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Fools Highway
Title: Fools Highway
Character: Ole Larsen (as Sherry Tansey)
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Mike Kildare, a swaggering youth from New York City's Bowery at the turn of the century, comes to the defense of Mamie Rose, a mender in a secondhand clothing shop, when his own gang of Irish-Americans insult her.
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The Headless Horseman
Title: The Headless Horseman
Released: November 5, 1922
Type: Movie
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he begins to pursue the beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon there many who would like to see him leave the village altogether.
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Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Title: Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Character: Child Isaac (as Sheridan Tansey)
Released: September 17, 1920
Type: Movie
The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.
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The Power and the Glory
Title: The Power and the Glory
Character: Milo Consadine
Released: September 2, 1918
Type: Movie
In order to help her poverty-stricken family, Jonnie Consadine, a strong-willed young woman from the Blue Ridge Mountains, comes to the city and takes a job in a mill, while her uncle, Pros Passmore, continues his endless search for a lost silver mine.
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The Foolish Virgin
Title: The Foolish Virgin
Character: Jim (as Sheridan Tansey)
Released: September 26, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 film.
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Destruction
Title: Destruction
Character: Josine's Brother (as Master Tansey)
Released: December 26, 1915
Type: Movie
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to kill the son who inherits, but he outfoxes her.