Monte Blue

Monte Blue

Born: January 10, 1887
Died: February 18, 1963
in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Monte Blue (January 11, 1887 – February 18, 1963) was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles.

Blue was born as Gerard Montgomery Bluefeather in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father was half French, half Cherokee Indian. One of five children, his father died and his mother could not raise five children alone. Along with another brother, they both admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home. This did not stop him working his way through to Purdue University.

When growing up, Blue built up his physique to become a football player (he grew to six feet three inches tall). He not only played football, but he was also a fireman, railroad worker, coal miner, cowpuncher, ranch hand, circus rider, lumberjack, and finally, a day laborer at the studios of D. W. Griffith.

He had no theatrical experience when he came to the screen. In his first movie, The Birth of a Nation (1915), he was a stuntman and an extra in the movie. In his next movie, he starred in another small part in the movie, Intolerance (1916). Gradually moving to supporting roles for both D. W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, Blue earned his breakthrough role as Danton in Orphans of the Storm, starring sisters, Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. Then he rose to stardom as a rugged romantic lead along with top leading actresses such as Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Shearer. His most prolific female screen partner was Marie Prevost with whom he made several films in the mid 20s at Warner Brothers. Blue's finest silent screen performance was as the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue became one of the few silent stars to survive the talkie revolution. However, he lost his investments in the stock market crash of 1929.

He rebuilt his career as a character actor, working until his retirement in 1954. One of his more memorable roles was the sheriff in Key Largo. He divorced his first wife in 1923 and married Tova Jansen in 1924. He had two children, Barbara Ann and Richard Monte. During the later part of his life, Monte Blue was an active Mason and the advance man for the Hamid-Morton Shrine Circus; while on business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he had a heart attack because of complications from influenza, dying at age 76.

Monte Blue has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6286 Hollywood Blvd.

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Title: Rawhide
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Title: 26 Men
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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Title: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Released: September 6, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: TV
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Apache
Title: Apache
Character: Geronimo
Released: July 9, 1954
Type: Movie
Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.
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Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Title: Adventures of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
In TV's pioneer days when kids idolized the Lone Ranger, the Texas Kid was a knight errant of the frontier leading the fight for law and order alongside his Mexican companion Pepe. In this rarely-seen TV pilot, the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered rancher's daughter, openly defying the landgrabbers in a cow town so lawless that rustlers operate in broad daylight! Shot at the Corrigan Ranch in 1950, TEXAS KID co-starred Mercury Records recording artist John Laurenz as Pepe and stuntman Hugh Hooker as the Kid. Hooker, a specialist in stunts involving horses and stagecoaches, often doubled Gene Autry and even produced a few movies, including the low-budget gem . That movie's star was Hugh's teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker, whose own subsequent, stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER (1978), Burt Reynolds' hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen.
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The Last Posse
Title: The Last Posse
Character: Uncle Will
Released: July 4, 1953
Type: Movie
A posse's pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded.
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Hangman's Knot
Title: Hangman's Knot
Character: Maxwell
Released: November 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.
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Trail of the Arrow
Title: Trail of the Arrow
Character: (archive footage)
Released: November 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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Title: Mr. & Mrs. North
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: TV
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
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Rose of Cimarron
Title: Rose of Cimarron
Character: Lone Eagle
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A white girl raised by Indians sets out to find out who murdered her adoptive parents.
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Warpath
Title: Warpath
Character: First Emigrant
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.
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The Sea Hornet
Title: The Sea Hornet
Character: Lt. Drake
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
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Gold Raiders
Title: Gold Raiders
Character: John Sawyer
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.
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Snake River Desperadoes
Title: Snake River Desperadoes
Character: Jim Haverly
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Starrett tries to prevent a range war between settlers and the Native Americans. Blue and his fellow scoundrels think they can profit from the bloodshed,but the Durango Kid along with a couple of precocious youngsters put an end to Blue's terrorism.
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Title: The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Released: April 15, 1951
Type: TV
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Three Desperate Men
Title: Three Desperate Men
Character: Marshal Pete Coleman
Released: January 12, 1951
Type: Movie
When they learn that their brother Matt Denton is awaiting trial in California, charged with train robbery, deputies Tom Denton and Fred Denton leave their home in Fort Grant, Texas and head west. They arrive in Tulare just in time to rescue Matt from being hanged, but a guard is killed during their escape. Ed Larkin who framed Matt, falsely accuses them of a long list of crimes. They return to Fort Grant so that Tom can see his sweetheart Laura Brook. They encounter outlaw Bill Devlin who persuades them to hold up a train which Laura unwittingly told them would carry a large payroll. Soon the whole territory is enraged at their deeds. They return to Fort Grant to hold up the two banks that are filled with huge sums of cattle money.
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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Title: So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Character: Rice - Curry's Partner
Released: July 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
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This Side of the Law
Title: This Side of the Law
Character: The Sheriff
Released: June 17, 1950
Type: Movie
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.
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The Iroquois Trail
Title: The Iroquois Trail
Character: Chief Sagamore
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French and Indian War.
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Character: Det. Sgt. Pluther (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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The Blonde Bandit
Title: The Blonde Bandit
Character: Police Chief Ramsey
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
A duped bride joins a bookie in love and crime.
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Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Title: Ranger of Cherokee Strip
Character: Chief Hunter
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Having been framed for murder, the half-breed Joe Bearclaws (Douglas Kennedy) escapes from jail and Ranger Steve Howard (Monte Hale) goes after him. He catches up with him in the Cherokee Strip where he has no authority. Joe is then framed for another murder and this time Steve knows he is innocent and goes after the real killer.
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The Big Wheel
Title: The Big Wheel
Character: Deacon Jones
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.
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Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Sheriff Stanton
Released: September 15, 1949
Type: TV
The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and its first true "hit".
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The Fountainhead
Title: The Fountainhead
Character: Gas Station Executive (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1949
Type: Movie
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Colorado Territory
Title: Colorado Territory
Character: US Marshal (uncredited)
Released: June 11, 1949
Type: Movie
In Colorado territory, outlaw Wes McQueen escapes jail to pull a railroad robbery but, upon meeting pretty settler Julie Ann, he wonders about going straight. Western remake of High Sierra with Joel McCrea taking over the Humphrey Bogart role.
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The Younger Brothers
Title: The Younger Brothers
Character: Deputy Joe
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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Homicide
Title: Homicide
Character: George, Sheriff
Released: April 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Michael Landers, a police lieutenant, sets out to investigate an intricate murder case. But, the case is closed after the only witness is found dead. Will Michael be able to fathom the mystery?
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South of St. Louis
Title: South of St. Louis
Character: Capt. Jeffrey
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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Flaxy Martin
Title: Flaxy Martin
Character: Joe, Detective
Released: February 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin, who also has shady connections, becomes a suspect in a murder, Walter takes the fall. However, on his way to prison, he escapes, determined to bring the real killer to justice.
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Johnny Belinda
Title: Johnny Belinda
Character: Ben (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1948
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
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Two Guys from Texas
Title: Two Guys from Texas
Character: Pete Nash
Released: August 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Two vaudevillians on the run from crooks try to pass themselves off as cowboys.
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Key Largo
Title: Key Largo
Character: Sheriff Ben Wade
Released: July 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
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Silver River
Title: Silver River
Character: 'Buck' Chevigee
Released: May 20, 1948
Type: Movie
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
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Life with Father
Title: Life with Father
Character: The Policeman
Released: September 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
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The Unfaithful
Title: The Unfaithful
Character: Businessman with Hunter
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
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Cheyenne
Title: Cheyenne
Character: Timberline
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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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Norris - lake house caretaker
Released: May 29, 1947
Type: Movie
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Stallion Road
Title: Stallion Road
Character: Horse Rancher (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1947
Type: Movie
A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.
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Bells of San Fernando
Title: Bells of San Fernando
Character: Governor Don Sebastian Fernando
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
In the New Spain era, a tyrant ruling the San Fernando Valley attempts to wrestle a blacksmith’s daughter from the arms of her Irish sailor fiancé.
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Humoresque
Title: Humoresque
Character: Moving Man (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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The Time, The Place and The Girl
Title: The Time, The Place and The Girl
Character: Stage Manager (uncredited)
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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Never Say Goodbye
Title: Never Say Goodbye
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
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So You Want to Play the Horses
Title: So You Want to Play the Horses
Character: The Colonel (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.
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Shadow of a Woman
Title: Shadow of a Woman
Character: Mike, Police Lieutenant
Released: September 14, 1946
Type: Movie
Brooke's marital life with Eric takes a downturn when she starts suspecting that her husband is starving his son from a prior marriage to death in order to claim his inheritance.
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Two Guys from Milwaukee
Title: Two Guys from Milwaukee
Character: Broadcast Director (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the microphone is live, the two stage a debate on democracy versus monarchy broadcast back to the Prince's homeland. A plebiscite there puts Henry out of a job. Flying to Milwaukee to become a beer salesman, he meets Bacall on the seat next to his, but a tap on his shoulder means he must give up his seat (and dream) to Bogie.
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Cinderella Jones
Title: Cinderella Jones
Character: Jailer
Released: March 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Character: Cleve Andrews
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Frontier Days
Title: Frontier Days
Character: Ned-U.S. Marshal
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
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Danger Signal
Title: Danger Signal
Character: Policeman in Car
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
Title: The Horn Blows at Midnight
Character: The Chef (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1945
Type: Movie
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Abdul Dhris
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Trial by Trigger
Title: Trial by Trigger
Character: Brewster (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1944
Type: Movie
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
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Northern Pursuit
Title: Northern Pursuit
Character: Jean
Released: November 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: Seaman (uncredited)
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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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Heckler (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: Jens Petersen
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
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Truck Busters
Title: Truck Busters
Character: Scrappy O'Brien
Released: January 28, 1943
Type: Movie
An independent truck driver organizes his fellow truckers to resist the efforts of a crooked trucking company exec to bring all drivers under his control. When the trucker's brother dies in an "accident" arranged by the trucking company's henchmen, he takes matters into his own hands
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: American (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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The Hard Way
Title: The Hard Way
Character: Man in Audience (Uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Title: Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Character: Bit Role
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
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Gentleman Jim
Title: Gentleman Jim
Character: Gambler in "Lucky Guy"
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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Road to Morocco
Title: Road to Morocco
Character: Kasim's Aide (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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The Hidden Hand
Title: The Hidden Hand
Character: Matthews, the undertaker (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Peter Thorne is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing, who uses her insane brother, John Channing, to frighten her other relatives because they are after her money. Further complications arise when another murderer arrives on the scene and plants the blame on John.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Secret Enemies
Title: Secret Enemies
Character: Hugo Mehl
Released: September 17, 1942
Type: Movie
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Dan Morton
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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The Great Man's Lady
Title: The Great Man's Lady
Character: Man #2, Hoyt City
Released: April 15, 1942
Type: Movie
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Policeman at Union Hall (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Klondike Fury
Title: Klondike Fury
Character: Flight Dispatcher
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
In this Alaskan adventure, a surgeon becomes a pilot after he messes up an operation. Unfortunately, he crashes during a storm and finds himself cared for by a lovely woman. He gets a chance to reclaim his self-esteem when her son suddenly needs the same operation the surgeon botched.
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The Remarkable Andrew
Title: The Remarkable Andrew
Character: Policeman
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
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North to the Klondike
Title: North to the Klondike
Character: John Burke
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Colonel
Released: December 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
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Law of the Timber
Title: Law of the Timber
Character: Hodge Mason
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood.
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New York Town
Title: New York Town
Character: McAuliffe (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stefan Janowski. The big city doles out joy and misery indiscriminately: In the apartment below Victor and Steve, Gus Nelson learns that his wife has given birth to quintuplets, while the lonely tenant in the apartment below Gus has given up on life and committed suicide.
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King of the Texas Rangers
Title: King of the Texas Rangers
Character: Capt. Tom King Sr.
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom King Jr. seeks to discover who murdered his father, a Texas Ranger; the trail leads to a network of Axis spies.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Sheriff Jordan
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Sunset in Wyoming
Title: Sunset in Wyoming
Character: Jim Hayes
Released: July 15, 1941
Type: Movie
By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.
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Riders of Death Valley
Title: Riders of Death Valley
Character: Rance Davis
Released: July 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Title: Scattergood Pulls the Strings
Character: Ben Mott
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
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The Great Train Robbery
Title: The Great Train Robbery
Character: The Super
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Tom Logan is a railroad detective who takes it upon himself to halt the activities of his crooked brother Duke. Duke and his henchman have stolen an entire gold train, including the passengers......
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Title: The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Character: Pablo Slide Along
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Captain Norberg
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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North West Mounted Police
Title: North West Mounted Police
Character: Indian
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: Marshal Evans
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Road to Singapore
Title: Road to Singapore
Character: High Priest (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet Dorothy Lamour...
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Train Passenger
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Geronimo
Title: Geronimo
Character: Interpreter
Released: November 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
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Our Leading Citizen
Title: Our Leading Citizen
Character: Frank
Released: August 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
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Port of Hate
Title: Port of Hate
Character: Hammond
Released: August 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A group of American adventurers discover a bed of black pearls off a South Pacific island. When one of them is shot dead, a young girl in the group is accused of the crime.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: Lerdo de Tajada
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Indian (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Cherokee
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Dodge City
Title: Dodge City
Character: Barlow
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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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Character: Sheriff Walker
Released: December 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Hawk of the Wilderness
Title: Hawk of the Wilderness
Character: Yellow Weasel
Released: December 3, 1938
Type: Movie
An expedition arrives on an uncharted jungle island to rescue the local natives, led by a jungle boy, from a volcano that is about to erupt.
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Illegal Traffic
Title: Illegal Traffic
Character: Captain Moran
Released: November 2, 1938
Type: Movie
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an old friend, whom he once barnstormed in an air circus, Martin joins the gang as a pilot. He becomes interested in Carol Butler, a beautiful girl involved with the gang through the activities of her ne'er-do-well father.
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King of Alcatraz
Title: King of Alcatraz
Character: Officer
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Cap Folsom
Released: September 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
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Touchdown, Army
Title: Touchdown, Army
Character: Pilot (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
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Rebellious Daughters
Title: Rebellious Daughters
Character: Charlie, alias Clint Houston
Released: July 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Girl moves out of her parents house against their wishes. Gets a job in a dress shop, gets mixed up with dirty pictures and blackmail.
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Title: The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Mr. Cameron
Released: June 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
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Cocoanut Grove
Title: Cocoanut Grove
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: May 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
Title: The Big Broadcast of 1938
Character: Passenger (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.
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Amateur Crook
Title: Amateur Crook
Character: Crone
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
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Born to the West
Title: Born to the West
Character: Bart Hammond
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Dare Rudd takes a shine to his cattleman cousin Tom's girlfriend who asks Tom to hire Dare to head the big cattle drive. Dare loses the money for the drive to cardsharps, but Tom wins it back, but Dare must save Tom's life.
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Sky Racket
Title: Sky Racket
Character: Benjamin Arnold
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A government agent sets out to capture a gang of airmail bandits who use a death ray to blow planes out of the sky.
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Souls at Sea
Title: Souls at Sea
Character: Mate
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.
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Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Title: Rootin' Tootin' Rhythm
Character: Joe Stafford
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog, out to stop a bunch of cattle rustlers, assume the identities of what they believe to be dead bandits, which soon gets them in big trouble.
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Title: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Character: Indian Jim
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
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Secret Agent X-9
Title: Secret Agent X-9
Character: Baron Michael Karsten
Released: April 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
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A Million to One
Title: A Million to One
Character: John Kent Sr.
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
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Ride, Ranger, Ride
Title: Ride, Ranger, Ride
Character: Duval, aka Chief Tavibo
Released: November 30, 1936
Type: Movie
It is the story of Gene's, a Cavalry scout, who manages to quell an Indian uprising.
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Song of the Gringo
Title: Song of the Gringo
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 22, 1936
Type: Movie
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang, he is sent to kill two more miners. When Estaban is killed, Tex is put on trial for all three murders.
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Mary of Scotland
Title: Mary of Scotland
Character: Messenger
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Prison Shadows
Title: Prison Shadows
Character: Bert McNamee
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
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Sharad of Atlantis
Title: Sharad of Atlantis
Character: Unga Khan
Released: May 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. Norton's rocket submarine searching the sea and little Billy Norton, the professor's son stows away, of course. When they find Atlantis they are caught in a war between peaceful Atlanteans, note their white capes, and war-monging Atlanteans, note their black capes. After many harrowing moments for Crash, Diana, Prof. Norton and Billy, they barely get away with their lives when they escape a tower of Atlantis raised to the surface for the sole purpose of dominating or destroying the Earth (Which one depends on the compliance of the upper world dwellers.)
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Treachery Rides the Range
Title: Treachery Rides the Range
Character: Colonel Drummond
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty. After the trouble starts, the Indians get the Colonel's daughter and hold her prisoner. Written by Tony Fontana
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Chetley 'Chet' Kasedon
Released: March 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.
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Nevada
Title: Nevada
Character: Clem Dillon
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A gambler wins a ranch in a round of poker, then joins his neighbors on a rustler-ridden cattle drive to Texas.
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Title: Wanderer of the Wasteland
Character: Guerd Larey
Released: September 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
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Trails of the Wild
Title: Trails of the Wild
Character: RCMP Larry Doyle
Released: July 31, 1935
Type: Movie
An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
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The Test
Title: The Test
Character: Pepite La Joie
Released: May 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Fingerprint Expert
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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Social Error
Title: Social Error
Character: Dean Carter
Released: April 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid of a kidnapped heiress.
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On Probation
Title: On Probation
Character: Al Murray
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelor.
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Title: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Character: Hamzulla Khan
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers leaded by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are having trouble with the rebellious leader Mohammed Khan. After two casualties, the experienced but insubordinate Lieutenant Alan McGregor receives as replacement, the arrogant Lieutenant Forsythe and the immature son of Colonel Stone, Lieutenant Donald Stone. With the intention to prove that he will not have any privilege in the troop, the reception of Colonel Stone to his son is absolutely cold, but he becomes the protégé of McGregor. When Lieutenant Stone is kidnapped by Mohammed Khan, McGregor and Forsythe disobey the direct order of their commander, disguise as Indian peddlers and go to Khan's fortress to attempt to rescue their friend.
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Student Tour
Title: Student Tour
Character: Jeff Kane
Released: October 5, 1934
Type: Movie
A philosophy professor accompanies his school's rowing team on a worldwide tour.
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Wagon Wheels
Title: Wagon Wheels
Character: Kenneth Murdock
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Wellington and her toddler, Sonny, as well as the older Abby Masters, who begins a romance with scout Jim Burch. Along the way, the wagon train battles Indians led by Kenneth Murdock, a trapper who doesn't welcome competition for Oregon's lucrative fur trade. Wagon Wheels is a 1934 remake of 1931's Fighting Caravans, using stock footage from the original.
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The Last Round-up
Title: The Last Round-up
Character: Jack Kells
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero, Cleve is actually out-heroed by the film's nominal villain, outlaw leader Jack Kells (Monte Blue). It is Kells who brings about the story's happy ending, sacrificing his own life to ensure the blissful future of young lovers Cleve and Joan Randall (Barbara Fritchie).
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Come On, Marines!
Title: Come On, Marines!
Character: Lt. Allen
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
"Lucky" Davis, a ladies-man and a devil-may-care U. S. Marine Sergeant, is leading a Marine-squadron on an expedition through a Phillipine jungle where an outlaw bandit is leading a guerilla-war rebellion. Their assignment is to rescue a group of children from an island mission that has been cut off from all communication. It comes as a bit of a surprise when Davis discovers that the "children" are a group of 18-25 year-old girls blissfully bathing in a pool while awaiting rescue.
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Her Forgotten Past
Title: Her Forgotten Past
Character: Donald Thorne
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler, thought to have been killed in an automobile crash, reappears when his wife remarries.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: John Brandt
Released: March 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
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The Thundering Herd
Title: The Thundering Herd
Character: Smiley
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.
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Officer Thirteen
Title: Officer Thirteen
Character: Tom Burke
Released: November 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the justice system--in his town. When the killer is freed because of perjured testimony and the corrupt legal system, the dead officer's partner quits the force and vows to bring the killer to justice.
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The Stoker
Title: The Stoker
Character: Dick Martin
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A man whose wife has deserted him winds up saving a beautiful girl from the clutches of a murderous bandit on a Nicaraguan coffee plantation.
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Those Who Dance
Title: Those Who Dance
Character: Dan Hogan
Released: April 18, 1930
Type: Movie
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
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Isle of Escape
Title: Isle of Escape
Character: Dave Wade
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
On a South Sea island, Stella operates a hotel for her mother, who is constantly drunk on liquor smuggled by Shane, the principal trader and virtual dictator of the island. Dave Wade, exhausted from the heat, lands on the shore near the hotel and reports having escaped from a nearby cannibal island. Stella has her servants, Manua and Loru, care for him, but Shane, to whom she is married but with whom she has never lived, orders him taken to his house, intent on stealing his gold. In a drunken orgy, Shane takes the gold, provoking a fight in which Stella aids Wade. When Ma Blackney dies and Stella recovers the gold, she suggests they go to another island and establish a trading business; but because of a misunderstanding, Stella is kidnaped by the natives and taken to the cannibal island. Disregarding their differences, Wade and Shane join forces and go to the island; Shane sacrifices himself to stall the cannibals while Stella and Wade flee to the sea.
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Tiger Rose
Title: Tiger Rose
Character: Devlin
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
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Show of Shows
Title: Show of Shows
Character: Condemned Man (segment "Rifle Execution") (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
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From Headquarters
Title: From Headquarters
Character: Happy Smith
Released: April 27, 1929
Type: Movie
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana republic jungle.
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No Defense
Title: No Defense
Character: Monte Collins
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects by the Vitaphone Company. It was distributed by Warner Brothers.
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The Greyhound Limited
Title: The Greyhound Limited
Character: Monte
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.
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Conquest
Title: Conquest
Character: Donald Overton
Released: December 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other leaves him to die, so he can have the girl all to himself. However, the injured pilot survives and when he recovers he vows vengeance on the man who left him to die--especially after he finds out that he married the girl they were both after.
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White Shadows in the South Seas
Title: White Shadows in the South Seas
Character: Dr. Matthew Lloyd
Released: November 11, 1928
Type: Movie
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
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Across the Atlantic
Title: Across the Atlantic
Character: Hugh Clayton
Released: January 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Brothers Hugh and Dan Clayton are both in love with Phyllis, their father's secretary. She finally chooses Hugh, and they marry before he joins the army and is sent overseas as a fighter pilot. He is shot down in a dogfight, crashes and loses his memory and drifts around Europe. Years go by, and Phyllis decides to try to find him in France before consenting to marry Dan, who still loves her. Complications ensue.
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Life in Hollywood No. 4
Title: Life in Hollywood No. 4
Released: August 25, 1927
Type: Movie
Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
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The Black Diamond Express
Title: The Black Diamond Express
Character: Dan Foster
Released: June 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
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Bitter Apples
Title: Bitter Apples
Character: John Wyncote
Released: April 23, 1927
Type: Movie
John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt company's investors, facing financial ruin, kills himself, leaving a son and a daughter, both of whom blame the Wyncote family for their loss and vow to take their revenge on them.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Monte
Released: October 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
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So This Is Paris
Title: So This Is Paris
Character: Dr. Paul Giraud
Released: July 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
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Other Women's Husbands
Title: Other Women's Husbands
Character: Dick Lambert
Released: March 17, 1926
Type: Movie
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old college friend, Jack Harding, with whom Kay has flirted on a previous dinner engagement; there he finds solace in the charms of Roxana, and he soon is making excuses to his wife for his frequent absences from home.
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The Man Upstairs
Title: The Man Upstairs
Character: Geoffrey West
Released: January 22, 1926
Type: Movie
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.
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Hogan's Alley
Title: Hogan's Alley
Character: Lefty O'Brien
Released: December 12, 1925
Type: Movie
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael. They both live in an Irish-Jewish neighborhood on New York's East Side known as "Hogan's Alley." Lefty defeats Battling Savage for the championship, breaking his left hand and leaving his opponent close to death.
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Red Hot Tires
Title: Red Hot Tires
Character: Al Jones
Released: October 31, 1925
Type: Movie
The first time Al Jones sees Elizabeth Lowden, he becomes so distracted that he runs his car into a steamroller. The second time he sees her, Elizabeth's car frightens his horse, causing him to fall. ....
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The Limited Mail
Title: The Limited Mail
Character: Bob Wilson / Bob Snobson
Released: September 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Bob Wilson, who becomes a tramp after being jilted by his fiancée, prevents the Limited Mail from being wrecked during a mountain storm and becomes fast friends with Jim Fowler, a railway mail clerk. Jim gets Bob a job on the railroad, and Bob works himself up to the position of engineer on the Limited. Both of the men fall in love with Caroline Dale, but she prefers Bob.
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Kiss Me Again
Title: Kiss Me Again
Character: Gaston Fleury
Released: August 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
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Recompense
Title: Recompense
Character: Peter Graham
Released: April 26, 1925
Type: Movie
A black-and-white melodrama where France, South Africa and England featured prominently in the narrative about Julie Gmelyn, a bright-eyed, single-minded Red Cross nurse and Peter Graham a clergyman who gives up his chaplaincy and goes to war.
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The Dark Swan
Title: The Dark Swan
Character: Lewis Dike
Released: November 26, 1924
Type: Movie
An American drama based on a novel
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The Lover of Camille
Title: The Lover of Camille
Character: Jean Gaspard Deburau
Released: September 15, 1924
Type: Movie
The Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French novel Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.
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Being Respectable
Title: Being Respectable
Character: Charles Carpenter
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is really in love with young "flapper" Valerie. He gives in to his family's pressure, however, and marries Suzanne, after which Valerie leaves town. Years later, after Charles and Suzanne have had a child, Valerie comes back to town and Charles realizes he is still in love with her, and she with him. Complications ensue.
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Revelation
Title: Revelation
Character: Paul Granville
Released: June 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul's life.
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Daughters of Pleasure
Title: Daughters of Pleasure
Character: Kent Merrill
Released: June 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Newly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas, a pretty French girl. At the same time, he advises his daughter, Marjory, to break her ties with Kent Merrill...
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How to Educate a Wife
Title: How to Educate a Wife
Character: Ernest Todd
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Business failure Ernest Todd is advised by his friend, Billy Breese, to enlist his wife's charms as a means of winning customers.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: Owen Burke / Jerry Brent
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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The Marriage Circle
Title: The Marriage Circle
Character: Dr. Franz Braun
Released: February 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are unhappily married. The professor, suspicious of his wife, hires a detective to spy on her in hopes of obtaining a divorce. Mizzi sets her sights on seducing Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. Dr. Braun's colleague, Dr. Mueller, who has his eye on Charlotte, sees this as his opportunity. Through a misunderstanding, Charlotte thinks that her husband is interested in Miss Hofer, and asks Mizzi to keep him occupied... around and around the circle goes in Lubitsch's refined comedy of mistaken infidelity.
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Loving Lies
Title: Loving Lies
Character: Captain Dan stover
Released: January 22, 1924
Type: Movie
A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to complications when he rescues a young girl and her baby from the sea.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Stephen Winship
Released: December 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
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Defying Destiny
Title: Defying Destiny
Character: Jack Fenton
Released: September 29, 1923
Type: Movie
Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth Alden (Irene Rich), whose grateful father (James Gordon), president of the local bank, offers him a job. Middle-class Jack becomes head teller, joins the country club, and plans to marry Beth, but his upwardly mobile behavior stirs resentment. When he’s falsely accused of embezzlement the town’s upper crust turns its back. Jack endures self-exile until a chance encounter with a plastic surgeon enables him to return home incognito and seek vengeance.
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The Purple Highway
Title: The Purple Highway
Character: Edgar Prentice, aka Edgar Craig
Released: August 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April ( Madge Kennedy ), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
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Main Street
Title: Main Street
Character: Dr. Will Kennicott
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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Brass
Title: Brass
Character: Philip Baldwin
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
With her marriage on the verge of breaking up, a young wife attempts to win back the love of her husband and child.
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Broadway Rose
Title: Broadway Rose
Character: Tom Darcy
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: Richard Goodloe
Released: April 9, 1922
Type: Movie
After serving time in Sing Sing, for which he was unjustly sentenced, and encouraged by two "sharpers," Richard Goodloe returns to the home of his wealthy southern mother in dread fear that she and Virginia Sanders should learn of his prison record--a fear which is constantly nurtured by his rival, Con Arnold.
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Peacock Alley
Title: Peacock Alley
Character: Elmer Harmon
Released: January 23, 1922
Type: Movie
A young man brings his new worldly Parisian wife back home to Pennsylvania.
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Orphans of the Storm
Title: Orphans of the Storm
Character: Danton
Released: December 28, 1921
Type: Movie
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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The Affairs of Anatol
Title: The Affairs of Anatol
Character: Abner Elliott
Released: September 25, 1921
Type: Movie
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
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Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Title: Moonlight and Honeysuckle
Character: Ted Musgrove
Released: July 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When an Arizona ranchman (Willard Louis) is elected senator, he heads for Washington with his daughter, Judith Baldwin (Mary Miles Minter). But they leave behind ranch hand Tod Musgrove (Monte Blue), who is in love with Judith. In Washington, two men propose to Judith -- Congressman Hamill (Guy Oliver) and Robert Courtney (William Boyd). Since she doesn't know which one to pick, she puts them to a test at her aunt's woodland cabin.
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A Broken Doll
Title: A Broken Doll
Character: Tommy Dawes
Released: June 12, 1921
Type: Movie
Ranch hand Tommy Dawes has a special bond with little Rosemary, the crippled daughter of his boss Bill Nyall. When Tommy accidentally breaks Rosemary's favorite doll one day, he borrows a $20 gold piece from the foreman's mattress to go to town and buy a new doll. However, on the way there he is ambushed and robbed by an escaped convict
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A Perfect Crime
Title: A Perfect Crime
Character: Wally Griggs
Released: March 5, 1921
Type: Movie
Wally Griggs is your classic meek, mild bank messenger, destined to a threadbare life of earning 63 dollars a month. At least this is what he seems to be. But when he's not working Griggs is the dashing James Brown, an adventurer and storyteller who is familiar with bank president Halliday. A publisher, fascinated by Brown's wild tales, offers him a deal. Griggs also uses his alter ego to help Mary Oliver, the girl her loves.
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Something to Think About
Title: Something to Think About
Character: Jim Dirk
Released: October 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
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The 13th Commandment
Title: The 13th Commandment
Released: January 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her fiancé Clay Wimborn admits that he has gone into debt to shower her with presents, Daphne Kip determines to become financially independent.
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Everywoman
Title: Everywoman
Character: Love
Released: December 30, 1919
Type: Movie
Everywoman is a lost 1919 American silent film allegory film directed by George Melford based on a 1911 play Everywoman by Walter Browne.
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Too Much Johnson
Title: Too Much Johnson
Character: Billy Lounsberry
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Augustus Billings has a domineering mother-in-law, and to get away from both her and his wife, he takes a trip, claiming that he is going off to check on Mexican oil investments. But he's really going on a cruise with Mrs. Dathis, who has purchased his yacht. To throw everyone off track, he uses the name Mr. Johnson. When he decides to repeat the trip, however, all hell breaks loose -- the jealous Mr. Dathis is out to get his hands on this Johnson character, while a real Mr. Johnson shows up in Mexico, and Mrs. Billings shows up with her mother, and the confusion continues from there.
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Romance and Arabella
Title: Romance and Arabella
Character: Harry Atteridge
Released: February 15, 1919
Type: Movie
Romance and Arabella is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, and Monte Blue.
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The Squaw Man
Title: The Squaw Man
Character: Happy
Released: December 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
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The Romance of Tarzan
Title: The Romance of Tarzan
Character: Juan
Released: October 17, 1918
Type: Movie
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...
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Riders of the Night
Title: Riders of the Night
Character: 'The Killer' Jed
Released: October 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
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The Goddess of Lost Lake
Title: The Goddess of Lost Lake
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Mary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned from college and when a pair of hunters, Mark Hamilton and Chester Martin, come along, she decides it would be fun to dress in native garb and fool them. Both men find themselves attracted to her, even though Indians were taboo for whites in the racist days of the 1910s.
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100% American
Title: 100% American
Character: Mayme's Army boyfriend
Released: October 4, 1918
Type: Movie
A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.
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Johanna Enlists
Title: Johanna Enlists
Character: Pvt. Vibbard
Released: September 14, 1918
Type: Movie
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
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Till I Come Back to You
Title: Till I Come Back to You
Character: American Doughboy
Released: August 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.
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Hands Up
Title: Hands Up
Released: August 18, 1918
Type: Movie
A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.
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The Only Road
Title: The Only Road
Character: Pedro Lupo
Released: June 3, 1918
Type: Movie
Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of poor ranch workers, but she is actually the daughter of Clara Hawkins, a wealthy neighbour who was stolen at birth and presumed dead. (NFA Catalogue)
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M'Liss
Title: M'Liss
Character: Mexican Joe Dominguez
Released: May 5, 1918
Type: Movie
M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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The Man from Painted Post
Title: The Man from Painted Post
Character: Slim Carter
Released: September 29, 1917
Type: Movie
In order to find out who's behind a cattle rustling operation that's hurting ranchers, a detective for the Cattleman's Protective Association pretends to be a tenderfoot from back east who's just arrived in the area and doesn't know how to ride, rope or shoot.
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: One of Wild Bill's Men (Uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1917
Type: Movie
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.
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Hands Up!
Title: Hands Up!
Character: Dan Tracy
Released: April 28, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 film directed by Tod Browning & Wilfred Lucas.
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Betsy's Burglar
Title: Betsy's Burglar
Character: Victor Gilpin
Released: March 4, 1917
Type: Movie
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a delivery boy for a local grocer. One day a mysterious character named Harry Brent takes a room at the boarding house. Harry, seeing that Betsy is falling for his rather shady charms, persuades her to help him get a box of jewels owned by the Jaspers, an elderly couple who lives across the hall. It turns out that Harry is not quite who he seems; neither, however, are the Jaspers.
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Jim Bludso
Title: Jim Bludso
Character: Joe Bowers
Released: February 4, 1917
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, engineer Jim Bludso, accompanied by his friend, Banty Tim, returns home to the town of Gilgal, and discovers that his wife Gabrielle has deserted him and their son Breeches for another man. Jim is welcomed by Kate Taggart, the village storekeeper's daughter, and their attachment deepens until Gabrielle returns after being deserted by her paramour, and Jim forgives her for their son's sake. Meanwhile, Ben Merrill, an unscrupulous contractor who has built the town levee, fears that the structure will not hold the coming flood waters. Merrill destroys the levee and attempts to place the blame on Jim and Banty Tim. In the flood, Gabrielle is killed, but before dying, she exposes Merrill as the man for whom she had deserted her home. This information reaches Jim when he and Merrill are aboard the boat The Prairie Bell . In the ensuing fight, the ship catches fire and explodes. Rescued from the debris by Banty Tim, Jim marries Kate and begins a new life.
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The Matrimaniac
Title: The Matrimaniac
Character: Assistant Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1916
Type: Movie
A young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carrying his bride-to- be away. Now the young man, minister in tow, pursues his bride while her father and a horde of lawmen pursue them both.
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The Microscope Mystery
Title: The Microscope Mystery
Character: Jud
Released: November 19, 1916
Type: Movie
When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him out of a large sum of money. When his daughter tries to retrieve the check, the quack (Dr. Bell) turns up dead with a gun shot wound to the chest. Doc Arnold lends his expertise to the investigation and solves the case by finding microscopic evidence on the murder weapon left at the scene.
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The Vagabond Prince
Title: The Vagabond Prince
Character: Peasant
Released: October 22, 1916
Type: Movie
Prince Tonio of Bothalia, a mythical kingdom in the Balkan Mountains, escapes an arranged marriage to Princess Athalia, the elderly daughter of a neighboring king. Filled with wanderlust, he becomes a sailor and goes to San Francisco where he meets a young singer...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Title: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Character: The Strike Leader
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.
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The Devil's Needle
Title: The Devil's Needle
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1916
Type: Movie
Renee is a French artist's model who uses morphine as an escape from the dull reality of her life. She recommends it to a neurotic artist because "it kindles the fires of genius." The artist quickly becomes addicted to the drug and the quality of his work begins to disintegrate. He takes on a new model, marries her, and starts her on the same path of moral degradation, until a guilt-ridden Renee decides to intervene in order to save them both. According to silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, THE DEVIL'S NEEDLE was banned by the state of Ohio, but the censor board reversed its decision after recognizing the positive message beneath the film's scandalous surface. This special edition was mastered from a 35mm preservation print of the 1923 re-release version. The only known surviving copy, the element suffers significant nitrate decomposition during some scenes.
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Martyrs of the Alamo
Title: Martyrs of the Alamo
Character: Defender of the Alamo
Released: November 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
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Ghosts
Title: Ghosts
Character: Bohemian
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
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The Birth of a Nation
Title: The Birth of a Nation
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.