Robert Frazer

Robert Frazer

Born: June 28, 1891
Died: August 17, 1944
in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Robert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US was an American actor that appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944, aged 53 in Los Angeles, California, US due to leukemia. In 1912 he played the title role in the 1912 silent film version of Robin Hood and a year later he played Jesus Christ in Thus Saith the Lord.

After leaving school he studied to be an electrical engineer but acting captured his fancy and he turned to the stage where he spent several years before going into silent films.

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Gun Cargo
Title: Gun Cargo
Character: First Mate Fred Winthrop
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.
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Desert Command
Title: Desert Command
Character: Maj. Booth
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
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Forty Thieves
Title: Forty Thieves
Character: Judge Reynolds
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
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The Tiger Woman
Title: The Tiger Woman
Character: Ramgah
Released: May 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
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Law Men
Title: Law Men
Character: Banker Bradford
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
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The Kansan
Title: The Kansan
Character: Saloon Gambler
Released: September 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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Wagon Tracks West
Title: Wagon Tracks West
Character: Robert Warren
Released: August 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
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The Stranger From Pecos
Title: The Stranger From Pecos
Character: Bill Barstow
Released: July 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
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Seeing Hands
Title: Seeing Hands
Character: John Downin (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
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Daredevils of the West
Title: Daredevils of the West
Character: Martin Dexter
Released: May 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
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A Night for Crime
Title: A Night for Crime
Character: Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Title: Dawn on the Great Divide
Character: Judge John Corkle
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
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Riders of the West
Title: Riders of the West
Character: John Holt
Released: August 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
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Inside the Law
Title: Inside the Law
Character: Bank Official
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.
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The Dawn Express
Title: The Dawn Express
Character: John Oliver
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
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Black Dragons
Title: Black Dragons
Character: Amos Hanlin
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Daniel Brewster
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Devil Pays Off
Title: Devil Pays Off
Character: Detective
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
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The Gunman From Bodie
Title: The Gunman From Bodie
Character: Wyatt
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Crooked Businessman
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Gangs of Sonora
Title: Gangs of Sonora
Character: Sam Tredwell
Released: July 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
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Criminals Within
Title: Criminals Within
Character: Capt. Bryant
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
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Roar of the Press
Title: Roar of the Press
Character: Louis Detmar
Released: April 17, 1941
Type: Movie
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
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Pals of the Pecos
Title: Pals of the Pecos
Character: Stevens
Released: April 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
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One Man's Law
Title: One Man's Law
Character: Russell Fletcher
Released: June 29, 1940
Type: Movie
In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
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Grand Ole Opry
Title: Grand Ole Opry
Character: Slick (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
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Music in My Heart
Title: Music in My Heart
Character: Gardner's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1940
Type: Movie
A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
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Crashing Thru
Title: Crashing Thru
Character: Doctor Smith
Released: December 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
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Daughter of the Tong
Title: Daughter of the Tong
Character: Williams
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
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Law of the Wolf
Title: Law of the Wolf
Character: Lt. Franklin
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
When a man is wrongly accused of murder, a dog helps clear his name.
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Juarez
Title: Juarez
Character: (uncredited)
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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Exile Express
Title: Exile Express
Character: Immigration Official
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Austrian Courier (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Six-Gun Rhythm
Title: Six-Gun Rhythm
Character: Lem Baker
Released: February 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Western - When football player Tex fletcher arives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity - Tex Fletcher, Joan Barclay, Ralph Peters
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Peter Droit
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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Cipher Bureau
Title: Cipher Bureau
Character: Paul's Counsel
Released: October 25, 1938
Type: Movie
The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
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Smashing the Rackets
Title: Smashing the Rackets
Character: Weather Man
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
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On the Great White Trail
Title: On the Great White Trail
Character: Andrew Larkin
Released: July 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.
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Religious Racketeers
Title: Religious Racketeers
Character: Police Inspector Burke
Released: July 7, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
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Phantom Ranger
Title: Phantom Ranger
Character: Chief McGregor
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
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Black Aces
Title: Black Aces
Character: Homer Truesdale
Released: September 4, 1937
Type: Movie
When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is believed to be a member of the Black Aces gang. Ted finds the probable location of the gang's hideout and sets out to clear himself.
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You Can't Buy Luck
Title: You Can't Buy Luck
Character: Police Lab Man (uncredited)
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
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Left-Handed Law
Title: Left-Handed Law
Character: Tom Willis
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
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We're in the Legion Now
Title: We're in the Legion Now
Character: Capt. Henri Rillette
Released: December 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.
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What Becomes of the Children?
Title: What Becomes of the Children?
Character: John Worthington
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
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Without Orders
Title: Without Orders
Character: CCC Camp Supervisor
Released: October 22, 1936
Type: Movie
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
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Gambling with Souls
Title: Gambling with Souls
Character: Dr. John Miller
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
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The Black Coin
Title: The Black Coin
Character: James Hackett
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Title: It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Character: Lloyd Schaefer, Stage Manager
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Lab Man
Released: June 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Title: The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Character: Dr. Paul Gironda
Released: April 17, 1936
Type: Movie
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
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Murder at Glen Athol
Title: Murder at Glen Athol
Character: Dr. Agnew (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Art Silverspurs Holden
Released: January 29, 1936
Type: Movie
Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holden to the Sheriff, the Sheriff gives Holden an alibi. Janet and Jim Fentriss then find Holden's secret hideout. When Janet returns the next day to meet Jim, Holden makes her a prisoner and waits in ambush for Jim to arrive.
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Never Too Late
Title: Never Too Late
Character: Commissioner George Hartley
Released: November 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
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The Fighting Marines
Title: The Fighting Marines
Character: H.R. Douglas
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
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Condemned to Live
Title: Condemned to Live
Character: Dr. Duprez
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Trails of the Wild
Title: Trails of the Wild
Character: Bob Stacey
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 Miracle Rider
Title: The Miracle Rider
Character: Chief Black Wing
Released: April 11, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
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Million Dollar Haul
Title: Million Dollar Haul
Character: Steve Graham
Released: April 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Special Insurance-Investigator Dan Kennedy and his wonder dog, Tarzan the Police Dog, are called in to investigate the persistent robbing of a shipping-and-storage warehouse in Los Angeles.
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One in a Million
Title: One in a Million
Character: Detective Captain
Released: March 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
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Public Opinion
Title: Public Opinion
Character: Mona's Attorney
Released: March 14, 1935
Type: Movie
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
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The Fighting Pilot
Title: The Fighting Pilot
Character: Cardigan
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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The World Accuses
Title: The World Accuses
Character: Attorney Hopper
Released: November 11, 1934
Type: Movie
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
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The Fighting Trooper
Title: The Fighting Trooper
Character: Jim Hatfield
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves LaFarge's life and this gets him into LaFarge's gang. He then arrests LaFarge and brings him in only to learn that LaFarge is not only innocent but is now a prisoner of the real killer.
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Counsel on De Fence
Title: Counsel on De Fence
Released: October 24, 1934
Type: Movie
New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
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The Trail Beyond
Title: The Trail Beyond
Character: Jules LaRocque
Released: October 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
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The Curtain Falls
Title: The Curtain Falls
Character: MacArthur - the Attorney
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
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Monte Carlo Nights
Title: Monte Carlo Nights
Character: Jim Daggett
Released: May 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
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Guilty Parents
Title: Guilty Parents
Character: District Attorney
Released: April 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
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Love Past Thirty
Title: Love Past Thirty
Character: Don Meredith
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
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The Mystery Squadron
Title: The Mystery Squadron
Character: Dr. Flint
Released: December 21, 1933
Type: Movie
Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
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The Fighting Parson
Title: The Fighting Parson
Character: Joseph Doolittle
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
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Found Alive
Title: Found Alive
Character: Harry Roberts
Released: April 11, 1933
Type: Movie
When a California mother loses custody of her young son to her ex-husband, she flees with the child to the jungles of Mexico with hopes of starting life anew.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Major Booth
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
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The Vampire Bat
Title: The Vampire Bat
Character: Emil
Released: January 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
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The Crooked Circle
Title: The Crooked Circle
Character: The Stranger
Released: September 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
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The King Murder
Title: The King Murder
Character: Van Kempen
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
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Fighting for Justice
Title: Fighting for Justice
Character: Raney
Released: August 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
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White Zombie
Title: White Zombie
Character: Charles Beaumont
Released: July 28, 1932
Type: Movie
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
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The Arm of the Law
Title: The Arm of the Law
Character: Gregory Brandess
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
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The Saddle Buster
Title: The Saddle Buster
Character: Rance
Released: March 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Chief Lone Eagle
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
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Discarded Lovers
Title: Discarded Lovers
Character: Warren Sibley
Released: January 3, 1932
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
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Two-Gun Caballero
Title: Two-Gun Caballero
Character: Bob Blake - posing as Lopez
Released: December 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans on seeing if he can make things a bit easier for them.
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The Mystery Trooper
Title: The Mystery Trooper
Character: Jack Logan
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Jack Logan is the heir to half of a map to a hidden Indian mine. The trader and villain Jean Gregg sends his chief henchman Mack to make life difficult for Jack. Jack is aided in his quest by the heirs to the other half of the map: Helen Holt and her younger brother Billy, and by a uniformed mystery man known as "The Mystery Trooper".
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Character: Dr. Romaine
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Released: October 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Released: December 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
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Frozen Justice
Title: Frozen Justice
Character: Lanak
Released: October 13, 1929
Type: Movie
Drama set in Alaska
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The Drake Case
Title: The Drake Case
Character: Roger Lane / Defense Attorney
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
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Careers
Title: Careers
Character: Lavergne
Released: June 2, 1929
Type: Movie
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
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Sioux Blood
Title: Sioux Blood
Character: Lone Eagle
Released: April 20, 1929
Type: Movie
One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
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Out of the Ruins
Title: Out of the Ruins
Character: Paul Gilbert
Released: August 19, 1928
Type: Movie
He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he makes the supreme sacrifice.
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Back to God's Country
Title: Back to God's Country
Character: Bob Stanton
Released: October 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
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The Silent Hero
Title: The Silent Hero
Character: Bud Taylor
Released: August 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
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Lightning
Title: Lightning
Character: Lee Stewart
Released: July 15, 1927
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.
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The City
Title: The City
Character: George Rand Jr
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play. A previous film on Fitch's play appeared in 1916. This version has been updated to contemporary 1926
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The Isle of Retribution
Title: The Isle of Retribution
Character: Ned Cornet
Released: April 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes with the rich girl, Lenor Harderworth, for the attentions of the heroic Ned Cornet. A snow-slide resolves a few issues.
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Desert Gold
Title: Desert Gold
Character: Dick Gale
Released: March 22, 1926
Type: Movie
Desert Gold is a 1926 silent American Western film directed by George B. Seitz. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film. Portions of the film were shot near Palm Springs, California.
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Secret Orders
Title: Secret Orders
Character: Bruce Corbin
Released: March 7, 1926
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook masquerading as a salesman, to marry him. She agrees, but upon discovering his duplicity, she turns him over to the police. Janet enters the U. S. Secret Service and is detailed to uncover the source of a "leak" in the sailing of troop transports
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The Golden Strain
Title: The Golden Strain
Character: Sergeant
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
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The Splendid Road
Title: The Splendid Road
Character: Stanton Halliday
Released: December 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
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Why Women Love
Title: Why Women Love
Character: Capt. Rodney O'Malley
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Why Women Love (1925)
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The Love Gamble
Title: The Love Gamble
Character: Douglas Wyman
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Peggy Mason joins her boyfriend Douglas Wyman at a secluded cabin. When he confesses his love and the fact he is still a married man Peggy is distraught and flees the cabin. But meanwhile Douglas' wife is murdered and when the police arrest him he finds he can't provide an alibi without tarnishing Peggy's reputation.
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The Keeper of the Bees
Title: The Keeper of the Bees
Character: James MacFarlane
Released: September 6, 1925
Type: Movie
A bee keeper does his best to help the army.
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The Scarlet West
Title: The Scarlet West
Character: Cardelanche
Released: July 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegade Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam, the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troops are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.
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The Charmer
Title: The Charmer
Character: Dan Murray
Released: April 20, 1925
Type: Movie
A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite ( followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
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Miss Bluebeard
Title: Miss Bluebeard
Character: Larry Charters
Released: January 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Director Frank Tuttle's 1925 silent mistaken-identity comedy, adapted from the 1923 play "Little Miss Bluebeard", stars Bebe Daniels.
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The Other Woman's Story
Title: The Other Woman's Story
Character: Colman Colby
Released: January 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfairly named “other woman” (Helen Lee Worthing) sets out to prove his innocence.
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Title: The Mine with the Iron Door
Character: Natachee
Released: October 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack, a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood.
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Broken Barriers
Title: Broken Barriers
Character: John Moore
Released: August 18, 1924
Type: Movie
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
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The Foolish Virgin
Title: The Foolish Virgin
Released: August 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Jim Owens (Robert Frazer), a reformed thief and successful inventor, meets quiet, meek and refined Mary Adams (Elaine Hammerstein) at a jazz party. They fall in love and all goes well until she finds out about his sordid past. It's Only after he rescues her from a blazing forest fire that she forgives him and confirms her love.
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Bread
Title: Bread
Character: Martin Devlin
Released: August 4, 1924
Type: Movie
To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several children, while her independent sister, Jeanette (Mae Busch), goes to work as a stenographer. Eventually, she is forced to marry a persistent salesman to avoid a scandal. Becoming disillusioned with married life, Jeanette leaves the salesman, but after 3 years' separation she realizes her need for a family and returns to him.
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Men
Title: Men
Character: Georges Kleber
Released: May 4, 1924
Type: Movie
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
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Women Who Give
Title: Women Who Give
Character: Captain Joe Cradlebow
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Women Who Give (1924)
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A Chapter in Her Life
Title: A Chapter in Her Life
Character: Dr. Ballard
Released: September 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love. Complete copies are held by many film archives in Europe and the United States.
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The Love Piker
Title: The Love Piker
Released: July 22, 1923
Type: Movie
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Jazzmania
Title: Jazzmania
Character: Captain Valmar
Released: February 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
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My Friend the Devil
Title: My Friend the Devil
Character: The Artist
Released: November 19, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent romantic drama...
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How Women Love
Title: How Women Love
Character: Griffin Ames
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
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Yellow Men and Gold
Title: Yellow Men and Gold
Character: Abraham
Released: May 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
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Partners Of The Sunset
Title: Partners Of The Sunset
Character: David Brooks
Released: February 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's offer to live on his Texas ranch, which is desired by an unscrupulous neighbor, Jim Worth. Young geologist David Brooks (who sells windmills) happens along and persuades the girls to refuse Worth's offer to buy the ranch. Worth has Vi kidnaped, and he gets the upper hand when Brooks rescues her. The geologist turns the tables, however, and Worth does not live to see either Brooks's windmill strike oil or happiness come to Brooks and Patricia.
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Without Limit
Title: Without Limit
Character: David Marlowe
Released: March 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
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Bolshevism on Trial
Title: Bolshevism on Trial
Released: April 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
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Her Code of Honor
Title: Her Code of Honor
Character: Richard Bentham
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
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The Decoy
Title: The Decoy
Character: Jim Danvers
Released: June 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Glory Moore, a young girl, finds herself left unprovided for after her father's death, as the farm has to be sold to pay his debts.
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The Ballet Girl
Title: The Ballet Girl
Character: Fred Pearl
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
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The Price Paid
Title: The Price Paid
Character: George Austen, Office Holder
Released: August 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Tim Clancy was a politician. He was a contractor incidentally. He wanted and secured, by breaking down a good man's moral code, the contract to build the new city water system. Specifications called for the best. He put in the cheapest.
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The Aztec Treasure
Title: The Aztec Treasure
Released: January 2, 1914
Type: Movie
Short directed by Webster Cullison.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Robin Hood
Released: August 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.