Edward Hearn

Edward Hearn

Born: September 6, 1888
Died: April 15, 1963
in Dayton, Washington, USA
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Guy Edward Hearn (September 6, 1888 – April 15, 1963) was an American actor who, in a forty-year film career, starting in 1915, played hundreds of roles, starting with juvenile leads, then, briefly, as leading man, all during the silent era.

With the arrival of sound, he became a character actor, appearing in scores of productions for virtually every studio, in which he was mostly unbilled, while those credits in which he was listed reflected at least nine stage names, most frequently Edward Hearn, but also Guy E. Hearn, Ed Hearn, Eddie Hearn, Eddie Hearne, and Edward Hearne.

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Conquest of Cochise
Title: Conquest of Cochise
Character: Gen. Gadsden (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.
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The Man Behind The Gun
Title: The Man Behind The Gun
Character: Major Nichols (uncredited)
Released: January 31, 1953
Type: Movie
This 1952 western stars Randolph Scott as an army investigator who poses as a schoolteacher while working undercover to expose a group of secessionists. Also starring Patrice Wymore, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale Jr., Lina Romay, Morris Ankrum, Dick Wesson and Philip Carey.
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Springfield Rifle
Title: Springfield Rifle
Character: Calhoun (uncredited)
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
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Road Agent
Title: Road Agent
Character: Sheriff Quillin
Released: March 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Brand controls the only road to the cattle market and is charging exorbitant rates. Tim and Chito rob Brand to recover only their overcharge, but accidentally end up with all of Brand's money......
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Pistol Harvest
Title: Pistol Harvest
Character: Terry Moran
Released: August 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Two men are accused of killing their boss. They are saved from the hangman's noose when two other guys are arrested, but Holt feels as though justice is still not being served. On their own, they set about to track down the genuine killer.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
Title: Lightning Strikes Twice
Character: Hank
Released: April 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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Raton Pass
Title: Raton Pass
Character: Treadwell - Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Raton Pass is a curious western based on the rules of Community Property. Dennis Morgan and Patricia Neal portray a recently married husband and wife, each of whom owns half of a huge cattle ranch. Neal is a tad more ambitious than her husband, and with the help of a little legal chicanery she tries to obtain Morgan's half of the spread. He balks, so she hires a few gunslingers to press the issue. In a 1951 western, the greedy party usually came to a sorry end; Raton Pass adheres strictly to tradition.
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Storm Warning
Title: Storm Warning
Character: Mr. Rainey (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A fashion model (Rogers) witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister (Day).
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A Wonderful Life
Title: A Wonderful Life
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who loved family and church, gave to the needy, and donated most of his money to charity. Now deceased, his somewhat neglected daughter reflects on his past and ponders that age-old question, did he indeed have such "a wonderful life"?
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The Great Jewel Robber
Title: The Great Jewel Robber
Character: Canadian Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood Raffles", whose famous robbery victims included such real-life celebrities as Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith and Dennis Morgan. David Brian stars in the title role, and he's supported by John Archer, Marjorie Reynolds, Jacqueline de Wit, Alix Talton, Ned Glass, Perdita Chandler and columnist Sheilah Graham, playing herself.
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Saratoga Trunk
Title: Saratoga Trunk
Character: Man with Lantern (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
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Swing Shift Maisie
Title: Swing Shift Maisie
Character: Plant Guard (Uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
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The Desperadoes
Title: The Desperadoes
Character: Armed Townsman
Released: May 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie's choice for this doesn't show in time, he gets some local boys to do it. When his man does turn up he decides to stick around, as he is pals with the sheriff and also takes a shine to Willie's daughter Allison. This gives the bad men several new problems.
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Northwest Rangers
Title: Northwest Rangers
Character: Gambler
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.
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The Omaha Trail
Title: The Omaha Trail
Character: Man without Oxen to Sell
Released: September 1, 1942
Type: Movie
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
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Sabotage Squad
Title: Sabotage Squad
Character: Dynamite Truck Driver
Released: August 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant and a patriotic professional gambler, rivals in life and love, combine efforts to corner a gang of Nazi saboteurs operating out of a barber shop, in which their mutual girlfriend works, and unmask its secret leader.
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Jackass Mail
Title: Jackass Mail
Character: Miner
Released: July 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
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Dr. Broadway
Title: Dr. Broadway
Character: Jim, policeman
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
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Fingers at the Window
Title: Fingers at the Window
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: April 22, 1942
Type: Movie
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
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I Was Framed
Title: I Was Framed
Character: Policeman
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.
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Nazi Agent
Title: Nazi Agent
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil. Threatening Becker with deportation, Hugo forces him to use his shop as a front for espionage.
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: Lead Henchman at Mill [Ch. 5]
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
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Pacific Blackout
Title: Pacific Blackout
Character: Sergeant
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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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Title: Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Character: Cutter Captain
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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Holt Of The Secret Service
Title: Holt Of The Secret Service
Character: Agent Jim Layton
Released: November 21, 1941
Type: Movie
A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.
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Honky Tonk
Title: Honky Tonk
Character: Poker Player on Train
Released: October 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
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Love Crazy
Title: Love Crazy
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Title: The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Character: Patrol Cop
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
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Santa Fe Trail
Title: Santa Fe Trail
Character: Abolitionist in Armory (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to the 2nd Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth. While there they aid in the capture and execution of the abolitionist, John Brown following the Battle of Harper's Ferry.
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Go West
Title: Go West
Character: Man at Saloon Door (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Embezzler, shill, all around confidence man S. Quentin Quale is heading west to find his fortune; he meets the crafty but simple brothers Joseph and Rusty Panello in a train station, where they steal all his money. They're heading west, too, because they've heard you can just pick the gold off the ground. Once there, they befriend an old miner named Dan Wilson whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars so he can go start life anew, and for collateral, he gives them the deed to the Gulch. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival, Terry Turner (who's also in love with his daughter, Eva), has contacted the railroad to arrange for them to build through the land, making the old man rich and hopefully resolving the feud. But the evil Red Baxter, owner of a saloon, tricks the boys out of the deed, and it's up to them - as well as Quale, who naturally finds his way out west anyway - to save the day.
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You, the People
Title: You, the People
Character: Policeman
Released: November 30, 1940
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.
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Remedy for Riches
Title: Remedy for Riches
Character: Police Patrolman-Driver
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in the "Dr. Christian" series of six films.
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Little Nellie Kelly
Title: Little Nellie Kelly
Character: Second Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.
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The Green Archer
Title: The Green Archer
Character: Cop
Released: October 25, 1940
Type: Movie
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Man in Monrose's Office
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Observer of Man Overboard (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Deadwood Dick
Title: Deadwood Dick
Character: Tom Sharp
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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We Who Are Young
Title: We Who Are Young
Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1940
Type: Movie
A man violates company policy by getting married.
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Sporting Blood
Title: Sporting Blood
Character: Bank Guard
Released: July 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
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A Failure at Fifty
Title: A Failure at Fifty
Character: Partner (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Bondsman
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Colonel Lang
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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A Way in the Wilderness
Title: A Way in the Wilderness
Character: Prisoner (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
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Women in Hiding
Title: Women in Hiding
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1940
Type: Movie
In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Officer on the Orchid
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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Florian
Title: Florian
Character: Policeman
Released: June 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Edison, the Man
Title: Edison, the Man
Character: Broker
Released: May 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
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Two Girls on Broadway
Title: Two Girls on Broadway
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Jury Foreman
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Son of the Navy
Title: Son of the Navy
Character: Desk Sgt. Flaherty
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A runaway boy pretends to be the son of a Navy man, only to turn both their lives upside down.
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The Ghost Comes Home
Title: The Ghost Comes Home
Character: Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Barfly Drinking Panther (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
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Chasing Trouble
Title: Chasing Trouble
Character: Callahan's Boss
Released: January 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
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Wolf of New York
Title: Wolf of New York
Character: Cop
Released: January 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
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Nick Carter, Master Detective
Title: Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character: Deputy
Released: December 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Bad Little Angel
Title: Bad Little Angel
Character: Fireman (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Smashing the Money Ring
Title: Smashing the Money Ring
Character: Guard Muldoon (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1939
Type: Movie
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
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Fast and Furious
Title: Fast and Furious
Character: Turnkey (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1939
Type: Movie
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: Fisherman (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Forest Ranger
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Title: The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Character: Trooper (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1939
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
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Union Pacific
Title: Union Pacific
Character: Sergeant (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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Broadway Serenade
Title: Broadway Serenade
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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Let Us Live
Title: Let Us Live
Character: Detective Carson (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
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Sergeant Madden
Title: Sergeant Madden
Character: Guard in Jail
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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Money to Loan
Title: Money to Loan
Character: Police Captain
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.
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Rollin' Westward
Title: Rollin' Westward
Character: Poker Player
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman and her father in their fight against land-grabbers who are trying to swindle them out of their cattle ranch.
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The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Title: The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt
Character: Precinct Night Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.
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Stand Up and Fight
Title: Stand Up and Fight
Character: Joe, Arnold's Henchman
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
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Gang Bullets
Title: Gang Bullets
Character: Detective Craig (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Juvenile Court
Title: Juvenile Court
Character: Cop in PAL Office (uncredited)
Released: September 10, 1938
Type: Movie
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
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You Can't Take It with You
Title: You Can't Take It with You
Character: Court Attendant (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
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Professor Beware
Title: Professor Beware
Character: Cop
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
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Think It Over
Title: Think It Over
Released: July 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
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My Old Kentucky Home
Title: My Old Kentucky Home
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.
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Springtime in the Rockies
Title: Springtime in the Rockies
Character: Jed Thorpe
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
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The Old Wyoming Trail
Title: The Old Wyoming Trail
Character: Hammond (as Eddie Hearn)
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
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Trouble at Midnight
Title: Trouble at Midnight
Character: DeHoff
Released: October 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.
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Life Begins with Love
Title: Life Begins with Love
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
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It Happened in Hollywood
Title: It Happened in Hollywood
Character: Cop
Released: September 7, 1937
Type: Movie
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Exclusive
Title: Exclusive
Character: Policeman
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government Committee who put him behind bars. Members of the committee include Colonel Bogardus, owner of the World , Horace Mitchell, a candidate for mayor, and Mr. Franklin, a department store owner. First Gillette buys a rival newspaper, the Sentinel , and offers a pricey editorship to World newsman Ralph Houston, who refuses the offer on principle. That evening, Ralph and his partner, Tod Swain, are greeted at home by a creditor, and Vina Swain, Ralph's fiancée, is furious to find out he turned down Gillette's offer. When she learns Ralph went into debt to put her through college, she warns Gillette of a police raid and pays back Ralph's debt with Gillette's renumeration. When Ralph orders Vina not to work for Gillette, she breaks their engagement.
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It Can't Last Forever
Title: It Can't Last Forever
Character: Federal Man
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
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Anything for a Thrill
Title: Anything for a Thrill
Character: Collins
Released: June 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
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A Star Is Born
Title: A Star Is Born
Character: Sanitarium Attendant (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
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Penrod and Sam
Title: Penrod and Sam
Character: 2nd G-Man
Released: February 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
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Devil's Playground
Title: Devil's Playground
Character: Surgeon
Released: January 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Second Dog Show Judge
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Title: The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Character: Mal MacGregor
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
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The Accusing Finger
Title: The Accusing Finger
Character: Bailiff
Released: November 17, 1936
Type: Movie
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
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Mad Holiday
Title: Mad Holiday
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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The President's Mystery
Title: The President's Mystery
Character: Meeting Moderator (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Man at Dance (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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The Unknown Ranger
Title: The Unknown Ranger
Character: Jim Wright
Released: September 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate. Everyone is looking for men when the actual rustler is a horse.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Businessman
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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Avenging Waters
Title: Avenging Waters
Character: Foreman Jim
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Mortimer builds a fence for the cattle brought by Ken Morley. To retaliate, Slater who wants access to the land, builds a dam cutting off Mortimer's water supply. When Ken confronts Slater, he is captured. Then lightning destroys the dam and Ken, imprisoned in a shack, is in the path of the oncoming water.
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Silly Billies
Title: Silly Billies
Character: Mark - Martin's Brother
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
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King of the Pecos
Title: King of the Pecos
Character: Eli Jackson
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Profiteer Alexander Stiles lays claim to a million acres of range in the Pecos River country, but a rancher named Claybor stands in his way as he has already claimed the water-rich location of Sweetwater as his own.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Sheriff Ed
Released: March 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: Officer (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Title: The Leathernecks Have Landed
Character: Marine Officer (uncredited)
Released: February 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody" Davis infiltrates a gang of Shanghai gunrunners to bring the culprit to justice.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Character: Police Clerk (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion Courtney, but he's unaware that Marion is the sister of the innocent man he sent to prison. Marion gets herself committed to a women's prison to get proof from inmate, Evelyn 'Duchess' Thane, that her brother is innocent. Powell learns of Marion's plight and believes she's in love with the man he sent to prison.
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Black Gold
Title: Black Gold
Character: Oilman Lease Holder (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1936
Type: Movie
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
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Bulldog Courage
Title: Bulldog Courage
Character: Henchman Clayton
Released: December 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked down and killed, his son comes to town to tangle with the banker.
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The Rainmakers
Title: The Rainmakers
Character: Farmer
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
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Confidential
Title: Confidential
Character: Insp. Stone
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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Streamline Express
Title: Streamline Express
Character: Mack - Purser
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
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Page Miss Glory
Title: Page Miss Glory
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Title: Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Character: Barney Craven
Released: September 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang.
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Diamond Jim
Title: Diamond Jim
Character: Job Applicant
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
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Public Hero Number 1
Title: Public Hero Number 1
Character: Policeman in Pursuing Car (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1935
Type: Movie
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
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The Miracle Rider
Title: The Miracle Rider
Character: Emil Janss
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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Naughty Marietta
Title: Naughty Marietta
Character: Mercenary Scout (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
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Behind the Green Lights
Title: Behind the Green Lights
Character: Detective Brewster
Released: March 11, 1935
Type: Movie
A police detective's (Norman Foster) lawyer girlfriend (Judith Allen) works for a crooked criminal lawyer (Sidney Blackmer).
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Forsaking All Others
Title: Forsaking All Others
Character: Party Guest (Uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
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Mystery Mountain
Title: Mystery Mountain
Character: Lake
Released: December 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railroads and transportation companies like that owned by Jane Corwin. The Rattler is especially difficult to catch because of his skill at disguising himself as other people.
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In Old Santa Fe
Title: In Old Santa Fe
Character: Outlaw (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Gangster Chandler and his accomplice Tracy arrive at a dude ranch. Cowboy Kentucky arrives at the same time. When Tracy double-crosses his boss and has the stage robbed, Kentucky finds the outlaws and brings them in. Tracy frames him for the murder of the driver but his pal Cactus gets him out of jail. He returns just as Chandler shoots Tracy and Kentucky finds himself arrested for another murder.
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Fighting Thru
Title: Fighting Thru
Character: Lennie Lenihan
Released: August 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men. They hire on at the Lund ranch and when her cattle are rustled and she is kidnaped they follow the trail, It's Lenahan and his gang and Reb soon finds himself a prisoner.
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Paris Interlude
Title: Paris Interlude
Character: Reporter
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
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The Thin Man
Title: The Thin Man
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1934
Type: Movie
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
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Stolen Sweets
Title: Stolen Sweets
Character: Ship's Captain
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance of her high-society, fortune-hunting fiance Barrington Thorne.
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Cross Country Cruise
Title: Cross Country Cruise
Character: Bus Passenger (Uncredited)
Released: January 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.
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The Mystery Squadron
Title: The Mystery Squadron
Character: Sheriff
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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Son of a Sailor
Title: Son of a Sailor
Character: Admiral
Released: November 29, 1933
Type: Movie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
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Eskimo
Title: Eskimo
Character: Captain's Mate (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1933
Type: Movie
The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
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I'm No Angel
Title: I'm No Angel
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation— flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
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Golden Harvest
Title: Golden Harvest
Character: Pierce (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1933
Type: Movie
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
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Penthouse
Title: Penthouse
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping lawyer Jackson Durant in a snoop job aimed at pinning a murder on the thug. Her life will be in peril when that secret gets out.
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Fighting With Kit Carson
Title: Fighting With Kit Carson
Character: Morgan
Released: July 1, 1933
Type: Movie
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shipment across the wild West. When the Mystery Riders attack and steal the gold, Kit is the only survivor. He later joins forces with the cavalry to retrieve it.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Title: The Last of the Mohicans
Character: Munro
Released: May 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.
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Texas Tornado
Title: Texas Tornado
Character: Fanner Durkin
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way into the rustling gang and hideout of "Three-Star" Henley, but his plans go wrong and he has to fight his way to victory.
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The Shadow of the Eagle
Title: The Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Colonel Nathan Gregory
Released: February 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
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The Local Bad Man
Title: The Local Bad Man
Character: Ben Murdock
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
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The Rainbow Trail
Title: The Rainbow Trail
Character: Jim Lassiter
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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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Haskins' Assistant (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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Local Boy Makes Good
Title: Local Boy Makes Good
Character: Relay Caller
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
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The Galloping Ghost
Title: The Galloping Ghost
Character: Clay College Coach Harlow
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
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Bad Girl
Title: Bad Girl
Character: Male Nurse (uncredited)
Released: August 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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Broadminded
Title: Broadminded
Character: Man at Fire Escape Window
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Title: How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 6: 'The Big Irons'
Character: Mr. Hearn - Office Worker (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.
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The Vanishing Legion
Title: The Vanishing Legion
Character: Jed Williams
Released: June 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
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Ladies' Man
Title: Ladies' Man
Character: Maitre D'
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
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Clearing the Range
Title: Clearing the Range
Character: Jim Fremont
Released: April 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Captain Paul Lake
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
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The Painted Desert
Title: The Painted Desert
Character: Tex (as Guy Edward Hearn)
Released: January 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
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Looser Than Loose
Title: Looser Than Loose
Character: Gillstrom's Assistant
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Charley is about to get engaged to Thelma when his boss foists some clients upon him to entertain.
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One Night at Susie's
Title: One Night at Susie's
Character: Policeman (Uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Tom Hodge
Released: September 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A film by George Crone
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Hide-Out
Title: Hide-Out
Character: Coach Latham
Released: March 30, 1930
Type: Movie
A bootlegger on the run from the law hides out on a college campus. He disguises himself as a student and soon becomes the school's star athlete and the most popular man on campus.
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: Frank Edwards (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
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The Drake Case
Title: The Drake Case
Character: Edmonds / Butler (as Eddie Hearn)
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
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The Bachelor Girl
Title: The Bachelor Girl
Character: Campbell
Released: May 20, 1929
Type: Movie
The Bachelor Girl
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The Donovan Affair
Title: The Donovan Affair
Character: Nelson
Released: April 11, 1929
Type: Movie
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
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Ned McCobb's Daughter
Title: Ned McCobb's Daughter
Character: Butterworth
Released: December 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Carol runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Carol, George is allowing his bootlegger brother to use the house as a hiding place for his liquor.
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The Big Hop
Title: The Big Hop
Character: Pilot
Released: August 31, 1928
Type: Movie
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot.
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The Fightin' Redhead
Title: The Fightin' Redhead
Character: Jim Dalton
Released: July 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Red Hepner and his sidekick Sidewinder Steve go in search of an outlaw
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A Hero on Horseback
Title: A Hero on Horseback
Character: Harvey Grey
Released: June 10, 1927
Type: Movie
A chronic gambler whose addiction has lost him his ranch. On the verge of total bustitude, he discovers that a gold mine, of which he is part-owner, has finally paid off. Once his debts are settled, his first move is to buy out the local banker who'd foreclosed on him.
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Spuds
Title: Spuds
Character: Captain Arthur
Released: April 10, 1927
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
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Winners Of The Wilderness
Title: Winners Of The Wilderness
Character: Gen. George Washington
Released: January 15, 1927
Type: Movie
During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
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The General
Title: The General
Character: Union Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
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Perils of the Rail
Title: Perils of the Rail
Character: Jack Hathaway
Released: October 22, 1926
Type: Movie
A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.
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Jim Hood's Ghost
Title: Jim Hood's Ghost
Released: September 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Jim Hood's sister comes to town and the bad men don't like it.
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Title: With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Character: Fred Warren
Released: August 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent film of the events of The Alamo
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The Sign of the Claw
Title: The Sign of the Claw
Character: Robert Conway
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
A police dog and his cop track a gang of bank robbers, one of which is the dog's former abusive owner.
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With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Title: With Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness
Character: The Stranger
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
In pre-revolutionary war days, Daniel Boone captures the white renegade Simon Gerty but lets him go. After Boone moves from North Carolina to homestead in Kentucky, Gerty reappears. This time Gerty kills the Chief's son saying it was a white man and this sends the Indians on the warpath.
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The Outlaw's Daughter
Title: The Outlaw's Daughter
Character: Jim King
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Slim Cole, a notorious outlaw, shoots at mining executive Jim King, missing him but wounding Flora Dale in the shoulder. Jim takes care of the injured girl, who, when she recovers, goes to work in his office. Unknown to Jim, Flora is the daughter of an outlaw whom Cole had killed and has secretly vowed revenge against Jim.
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The Lawful Cheater
Title: The Lawful Cheater
Character: Roy Burns
Released: July 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
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As No Man Has Loved
Title: As No Man Has Loved
Character: Lt. Philip Nolan
Released: February 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Also known as The Man Without a Country
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Winner Take All
Title: Winner Take All
Character: Jack Hamilton
Released: October 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Perry Blair starts off as a sparring partner for a fighter, but when he knocks the guy down, manager Charles Dunham immediately sees his potential. He takes Blair to New York, where he meets pretty Cecil Manners. Blair finds out that his next fight is fixed and he pulls out. When Dunham spreads a rumor that he is yellow, Blair decides to return west.
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The Turmoil
Title: The Turmoil
Character: Roscoe Sheridan
Released: September 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Industrialist James Sheridan, Sr., once a laborer, insists on moulding the careers of his three sons; however, he loses James, Jr., in a flood disaster, and Roscoe suffers a mental breakdown. Realizing his mistake, he begins to insure the happiness of the third son, Bibbs, by bringing him together with Mary, the girl he loves.
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Daytime Wives
Title: Daytime Wives
Released: September 2, 1923
Type: Movie
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The Miracle Baby
Title: The Miracle Baby
Character: Hal Norton
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Released: February 9, 1923
Type: Movie
While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
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The Flirt
Title: The Flirt
Character: Richard Lindley
Released: December 24, 1922
Type: Movie
Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
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Her Night of Nights
Title: Her Night of Nights
Character: Jerry Trimble
Released: June 26, 1922
Type: Movie
Molly, a glamorous clothing model in New York, though yearning for a life of luxury, spurns the advances of her boss's son in favor of a shipping clerk, late of the backwoods.
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A Question of Honor
Title: A Question of Honor
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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The Spirit of the Lake
Title: The Spirit of the Lake
Released: October 30, 1921
Type: Movie
The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
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The Honor of Rameriz
Title: The Honor of Rameriz
Character: The Thief
Released: October 16, 1921
Type: Movie
The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
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The Face of the World
Title: The Face of the World
Character: Harold Mark
Released: August 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Silent Drama
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All Dolled Up
Title: All Dolled Up
Character: James Montgomery Johnson
Released: March 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prevent a million-dollar robbery of the same woman. With the man of her dreams, who helped her foil the robberies, she is "adopted" by Eva.
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Down Home
Title: Down Home
Character: Chet Todd
Released: October 1, 1920
Type: Movie
DOWN HOME is a rural drama set in New England and stars Leatrice Joy as Nancy Pelot, daughter of the town drunk. He was once a businessman and still owns a local farm, but Nancy now supports her father and herself with a mysterious job in a nearby town.
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Title: The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Character: Cyril Dennison
Released: June 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
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Over the Garden Wall
Title: Over the Garden Wall
Character: Stanley Davis
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
Peggy ( Bessie Love ) and her sister Frances ( Myrtle Reeves ) live with their father, but because of his idleness, they must all move to humbler quarters. Peggy adapts quickly to their new surrounding, while Frances misses the social life she once enjoyed. Their neighbors are well off, and Peggy begins a romance with their son, whom she thinks is the chauffeur. Meanwhile, Frances has become involved with a roguish character and plans to elope with him. Peggy saves her sister from imminent disgrace, but comes close to compromising herself instead. Peggy's sweetheart comes to her rescue and now his true identity is revealed to the very grateful girl.
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Jacques of the Silver North
Title: Jacques of the Silver North
Character: Warren Sherman
Released: June 9, 1919
Type: Movie
"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter of the owner of the trading post. When fugitive Joseph Treffery (Captain C.A. Van Auker) happens into town, Memory hides him from the police.
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The Light of Western Stars
Title: The Light of Western Stars
Character: Al Hammond
Released: November 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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The Lure of Luxury
Title: The Lure of Luxury
Character: John Coventry
Released: October 7, 1918
Type: Movie
Dale Aldis and John Coventry, who were sweethearts as children, meet again after the death of Dale's mother and discover that they are still in love.
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Lawless Love
Title: Lawless Love
Character: Freddie Montgomery
Released: August 23, 1918
Type: Movie
Vaudeville artist LaBelle Geraldine and her dancing partner, Freddie Montgomery, are stranded in Arizona when their troupe breaks up. In order to raise money, Geraldine orders Freddie to impersonate masked bandit Black Jim so that she may turn him in and collect the $2,000 reward. When the real Black Jim holds up her coach, Geraldine, believing that he is Freddie, boldly pulls out her gun, whereupon the bandit shoots her in the wrist and takes her to his cabin. Later Freddie, too, is captured, but when members of the gang insult Geraldine, he refuses to protect her. Gradually Black Jim falls in love with her, and she comes to admire him so deeply that instead of seizing a chance to escape one night, she returns to warn him of the gang's plot to kill him.
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The Lost Express
Title: The Lost Express
Character: Francis Murphy
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators and the authorities try to determine where it is and who took it.
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The Man from Tia Juana
Title: The Man from Tia Juana
Character: Larry Kerwin
Released: July 30, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais star in this 'American Girl' short. A courageous young woman must clear her boyfriend after he is framed for a hold-up.
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Treason
Title: Treason
Character: Danick Rysson
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by Pettrus Baariot, the telegraph operator, who then succeeds in sending a message that saves the Stratiria forces from defeat. For his heroism, Pettrus is promised a promotion, but after his recovery from his severe wounds, he is humiliated through the treachery of Danick Rysson, a government official who desires to marry Floria Natarre, Pettrus' beloved. Bitter, Pettrus listens to the overtures of one of the enemy and steals the new telegraph code.
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The Double Room Mystery
Title: The Double Room Mystery
Character: Silver Joe
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
William Newman, a notorious shyster lawyer, in return for a cut of the jewels, agrees to take the case of Morris, a man convicted of stealing diamonds. After gaining possession of the gems, Newman appropriates all of them and then refuses to carry out his share of the deal. Subsequently, Newman, who is attracted to Georgianna, a maid at his boardinghouse, frames the girl on charges of theft and then arranges for her freedom, thus appearing to be her savior.
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Her Soul's Inspiration
Title: Her Soul's Inspiration
Character: Silent Bob
Released: January 15, 1917
Type: Movie
A girl who loves dancing more than anything must prove her identity in order to keep her inheritance.
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Idle Wives
Title: Idle Wives
Character: Richard
Released: September 16, 1916
Type: Movie
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
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The Whirlpool of Destiny
Title: The Whirlpool of Destiny
Character: Davidson
Released: September 10, 1916
Type: Movie
George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, California. When George sells his father's favorite horse, Mr. Bell turns him out, and George becomes a grain salesman in St. Louis. Meanwhile, Polly Martin lives with her father Bill, an ex-businessman who has sunk to day-labor because of his addiction to alcohol. Bill frequently abuses Polly, and when he falls to his death from a high girder, Polly becomes a nurse in the Salvation Army in St. Louis. George falls in love with Polly after he saves her from the advances of a drunk, but she will not marry him because of his wild past.
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The Seekers
Title: The Seekers
Character: John Mount
Released: July 17, 1916
Type: Movie
The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.
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Eleanor's Catch
Title: Eleanor's Catch
Character: 'Red' McGuire
Released: July 1, 1916
Type: Movie
ELEANOR'S CATCH is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this two-reeler, she stars as a young city girl dragged into a life of crime by a ne’er-do-well suitor. A terrific surprise ending gives Eleanor and Cleo an early claim to promoting women’s equality in the workforce.
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Her Bitter Cup
Title: Her Bitter Cup
Character: Walter Burke
Released: April 17, 1916
Type: Movie
Rethna works hard to organize her fellow factory employees against the miserly, uncaring owner, Henry Burke. Then, realizing that she needs money to fight Burke, she begins an affair with his unscrupulous son Harry.
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Her Defiance
Title: Her Defiance
Character: Frank Warren
Released: January 14, 1916
Type: Movie
A woman is deserted by her wealthy young lover.