Robert McKim

Robert McKim

Born: August 26, 1886
Died: June 4, 1927
in San Jacinto, California, USA
From Wikipedia

Robert McKim (August 26, 1886 – June 4, 1927) was an American actor of the silent film era. He appeared in 99 films between 1915 and 1927. He is best remembered for playing the arch villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks's Zorro in The Mark of Zorro in 1920.

McKim starred with Lon Chaney in the 1923 silent version of All The Brothers Were Valiant. One of his last roles was again as a villain in the unfinished silent The Mysterious Island, starring Lionel Barrymore based on the Jules Verne novel. Though McKim shot its silent sequences in 1927, the film was not released until 1929 and McKim was uncredited. He died in Hollywood, California from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1927 at age 40.

Movies for Robert McKim...

One Foot in Heaven
Title: One Foot in Heaven
Character: Handsome Jack Pressley (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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The Thrill Seekers
Title: The Thrill Seekers
Character: Hal Walker
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Minor silent action hero James F. Fulton starred in this low-budget melodrama distributed by Poverty Row company Hi-Mark. Fulton, who would later play The Air Mail Pilot and direct the airborne serial The Eagle of the Night (both 1928), here starred as a lumberjack whose thrill-seeking girlfriend (Ruth Clifford) is kidnapped by a romantic rival (Robert McKim).
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The Denver Dude
Title: The Denver Dude
Character: Bob Flint
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
A cowboy begins to do such un-cowboylike things as dressing up and taking baths in order to impress a pretty young girl. He sees that a citified "dandy" is also after the girl, and the dude seems to be scoring some points with his "civilized" demeanor.
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A Regular Scout
Title: A Regular Scout
Character: Ed Powell
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Silent cowboy western about a man on a mission to exact revenge on the gang who, he feels, are responsible for his mother's death, after their raid. Upon discovering that one of the gang members killed in the raid was the long-lost son of the Monroe family, so he decides to impersonate him to exact his revenge on the their family.
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The Strong Man
Title: The Strong Man
Character: 'Mike' McDevitt
Released: November 19, 1926
Type: Movie
A meek Belgian soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives penpal letters and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. After the war, the young Belgian journeys to America as assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as word comes that Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place.
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The Dead Line
Title: The Dead Line
Character: 'Silver Sam' McGee
Released: June 27, 1926
Type: Movie
An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.
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The Bat
Title: The Bat
Character: Dr. Wells
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
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The Tough Guy
Title: The Tough Guy
Character: Con Carney
Released: February 1, 1926
Type: Movie
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Spook Ranch
Title: Spook Ranch
Character: Don Ramies
Released: September 20, 1925
Type: Movie
Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat. The sheriff promises them their freedom if they solve the mystery of a haunted house near the town. Bill agrees.....
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North of Nome
Title: North of Nome
Character: Henri Cocteau
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
North of Nome 1925
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Don Q Son of Zorro
Title: Don Q Son of Zorro
Character: Capitán Juan Ramon (Archive Footage)
Released: June 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
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The Torrent
Title: The Torrent
Character: Detective
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Title: Mademoiselle Midnight
Character: João / Manuel Corrales
Released: April 14, 1924
Type: Movie
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
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Ride for Your Life
Title: Ride for Your Life
Character: 'Gentleman Jim' Slade
Released: February 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Bud Watkins loses his ranch and savings to gambling house proprietor "Gentlemen Jim" Slade. The Cocopah Kid, a notorious bandit, lures away Betsy Burke, Bud's sweetheart and the daughter of the local sheriff.
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Maytime
Title: Maytime
Character: Monte Mitchell
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
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Thundergate
Title: Thundergate
Character: Ray Williams
Released: October 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
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Strangers of the Night
Title: Strangers of the Night
Character: Borolsky
Released: September 10, 1923
Type: Movie
A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Struve
Released: August 26, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Robert McKim
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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Human Wreckage
Title: Human Wreckage
Character: Dr. Hillman
Released: June 17, 1923
Type: Movie
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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Dead Game
Title: Dead Game
Character: Prince Tetlow
Released: April 23, 1923
Type: Movie
"Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Tetlow finds her and abandons Katy in the desert.
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Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Title: Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
Character: Captain Gómez
Released: March 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime is a silent comedy film.
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Title: All the Brothers Were Valiant
Character: Finch
Released: January 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. But when Mark's ship arrives in port sans its captain, Joel takes over the command. His new bride, Priscilla, insists on coming along and they head for the South Seas, where Mark was last seen.
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Without Compromise
Title: Without Compromise
Character: David Ainsworth
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
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Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Character: De Villefort, the king's attorney
Released: September 3, 1922
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
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Heart's Haven
Title: Heart's Haven
Character: Adam Breed
Released: August 8, 1922
Type: Movie
A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: 'Hell-Bent' Wade
Released: October 23, 1921
Type: Movie
Hell Bent Wade is the victim of an attack in which is wife is killed and daughter kidnapped. A couple of decades later, he is a sheriff known only as the "mysterious rider," because of his nighttime prowls in search of cattle rustlers.
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The Man Of The Forest
Title: The Man Of The Forest
Character: Harvey Riggs
Released: June 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Ailing ranch owner Al Auchincloss (Harry Lorraine) sends for his two nieces, Helen and Bo Raynor (Claire Adams and Charlotte Pierce), who are his heirs. Milt Dale, who lives in the forest (Gantvoort), comes down to help round up the cattle, and a romance springs up between him and Helen. This does not please Harvey Riggs (McKim), who is trying to get control of the ranch.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Capt. Juan Ramon
Released: December 5, 1920
Type: Movie
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
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The Devil to Pay
Title: The Devil to Pay
Character: Brent Warren
Released: November 28, 1920
Type: Movie
Small town politician and banker Brent Warren is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan is sent to the gallows for it. Roan, however, is resuscitated after he is hung and proceeds to secretly haunt Warren's life. District attorney Cullen Grant is sure that Warren was behind the killing and has him arrested. Warren's fiancee, Dare Keeling, also happens to the Grant's ex-sweetheart, and she believes in his innocence. Her brother, Larry, however, isn't so sure and he goes to work as Warren's secretary.
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The U.P. Trail
Title: The U.P. Trail
Character: Jose Durade
Released: November 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an Indian massacre. Falling in love after nursing her back to health, Warren must yet again save Allie when she is kidnapped by a dangerous bandit.
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The Silver Horde
Title: The Silver Horde
Character: Marsh
Released: May 9, 1920
Type: Movie
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
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Bullet Proof
Title: Bullet Proof
Character: McGuirk
Released: May 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Pierre Winton promises to avenge his father's killing at the hands of McGuirk, the bandit. While hunting for McGuirk, Pierre comes upon Mary Brown who has been badly injured in a rock slide. They fall in love, but while attempting to rescue Mary, Pierre is trapped and rendered unconscious in another rock slide. Saved by Jim Boone's band of outlaws, Pierre joins the gang, and Boone's daughter Jackie falls in love with him, but, Pierre still loves Mary, from whom he has been separated.
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Henry Neuman
Released: May 1, 1920
Type: Movie
A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
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The Woman in Room 13
Title: The Woman in Room 13
Character: Dick Turner
Released: April 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Laura Bruce is married to John Bruce, police commissioner. She discovers her husband is enjoying a drunken revel with another woman, and vows she will obtain a divorce. After doing so she weds Paul Ramsey. His employer, Dick Turner, a libertine, offers his a responsible position in the west, and she faces a long separation. Ramsey later learns that Turner is interested in his wife and engages a man to protect her, who happens to be her former husband.
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Title: Her Kingdom of Dreams
Character: Charlie Stanmore
Released: September 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
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Wagon Tracks
Title: Wagon Tracks
Character: Donald Washburn
Released: July 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
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Greased Lightning
Title: Greased Lightning
Character: Alden J. Armitage
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
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Partners Three
Title: Partners Three
Character: Grant Haywood
Released: March 22, 1919
Type: Movie
Agnes Cuyler, a cabaret singer in New York who loathes her work, is fired for slapping Grant Haywood, a customer from the West who tries to kiss her. Haywood begs forgiveness and after glorifying the clean Western life, proposes. To escape her circumstances, Agnes accepts, but soon learns that Haywood is a brutal drunkard.
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The Brand
Title: The Brand
Character: Bob Barclay
Released: March 9, 1919
Type: Movie
A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.
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The Marriage Ring
Title: The Marriage Ring
Character: Hugo Mertons
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
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Green Eyes
Title: Green Eyes
Character: Alexander Chapman
Released: August 26, 1918
Type: Movie
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her down to his home. There, she finds an acquaintance, Alexander Chapman (Robert McKim), and the fact that she knows him rouses her new husband's jealousy. This is fanned even further when Pearson's younger brother, Morgan (Emory Johnson) returns from college. His fiancee, Margery (Doris Lee), believes there is something going on between Shirley and Morgan and complains to Pearson.
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The Vamp
Title: The Vamp
Character: Phil Weil
Released: July 14, 1918
Type: Movie
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the method on the shy minister she loves, and it works.
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The Claws of the Hun
Title: The Claws of the Hun
Character: Alfred Werner
Released: July 8, 1918
Type: Movie
An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
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Playing the Game
Title: Playing the Game
Character: 'Flash' Jim Purdy
Released: April 22, 1918
Type: Movie
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
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Love Me
Title: Love Me
Character: Mortimer Appleby
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, where they are coldly received by Gordon's snobbish family. Gordon's elder brother Mortimer's highbrow sensibilities are particularly offended by Maida's breezy manner, and he determines to break up the marriage.
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'Blue Blazes' Rawden
Title: 'Blue Blazes' Rawden
Character: 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard
Released: February 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.
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The Silent Man
Title: The Silent Man
Character: Jack Pressley
Released: November 26, 1917
Type: Movie
A hard-working prospector enters the town of Bakeoven to stake his claim, only to have his rights stolen and his face on "Wanted" posters. He plans reprisal.
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The Son of His Father
Title: The Son of His Father
Character: David Slosson
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young man becomes involved in a shady railroad deal which threatens to destroy his own father.
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Master of His Home
Title: Master of His Home
Released: August 12, 1917
Type: Movie
Unhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a mother tries to convince her daughter to get an abortion.
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Paws of the Bear
Title: Paws of the Bear
Character: Boris Drakoff
Released: June 17, 1917
Type: Movie
In Belgium, at the outbreak of the war, Russian agent Olga Raminoff shoots at a German general when the enemy enters town. Ray Bourke, an American traveler, gives her the protection of his name, but nevertheless both are sentenced to death. They are rescued by an allied rescue plane and later, bound for home, Ray meets an old college friend, Curt Schreiber, who is in the service of the German government. Schreiber has important papers to be delivered to Washington and, knowing that he will be searched on board ship, gives them to Ray. Olga beseeches Ray to give the papers up for her sake, but his word to Schreiber is sacred. Nearing America, Ray tells her that he will make an effort to return the papers if she will marry him.
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The Dark Road
Title: The Dark Road
Character: Carlos Costa
Released: March 31, 1917
Type: Movie
Jim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
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The Last of the Ingrams
Title: The Last of the Ingrams
Character: Rufus Moore
Released: February 25, 1917
Type: Movie
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules is driven from his house when banker Rufus Moore ( Robert McKim ) forecloses on the mortgage. Offered shelter by Mercy Reed ( Margery Wilson ), a woman who in her youth naively sinned and has remained rejected by the community ever since, Jules begins to reform. Climbing his way back to respectability, Jules attends church with Mercy, causing a storm of protest. Moore's wife Agnes urges the mob to violence, and as they attempt to tar and feather Jules and Mercy, Mercy delivers an eloquent speech condemning Moore as her betrayer. The mob then takes Moore as their victim, leaving Jules and Mercy in peace.
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The Iced Bullet
Title: The Iced Bullet
Character: Donald Greene
Released: January 21, 1917
Type: Movie
A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lodge is framed with a satire of Hollywood as the writer of the story comically tries to get the script read and accepted by a studio.
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The Weaker Sex
Title: The Weaker Sex
Character: Raoul Bozen
Released: January 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must turn for help to his lawyer--his wife.
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The Devil's Double
Title: The Devil's Double
Character: Van Dyke Tarleton
Released: November 26, 1916
Type: Movie
"Bowie" Blake is a gambler in a mining camp. One day, an artist, Van Dyke Tarleton comes to town with his wife, Naomi. He sees Bowie and decides he is perfect as a model for Lucifer in his latest painting. At first he refuses to pose, but Naomi talks him into it. Tarleton sees that Bowie is attracted to his wife, and purposely insults her just to get the right evil look in his eyes. But finally Bowie, whose feelings have become too much for him, quits.
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The Return of Draw Egan
Title: The Return of Draw Egan
Character: Arizona Joe
Released: October 14, 1916
Type: Movie
A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
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The Captive God
Title: The Captive God
Character: Montezuma
Released: July 23, 1916
Type: Movie
A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as a god by the Tehuan tribe, who have never before seen a white man, and is named Chiapa. Then at manhood he rules the Tehuans. Chiapa loves the priestess Tecolote but she is kidnapped by the Aztec warrior Mexitli, so he follows in the hopes of rescuing her.
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The Primal Lure
Title: The Primal Lure
Character: Richard Sylvester
Released: May 21, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 silent Western
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Hell's Hinges
Title: Hell's Hinges
Character: A clergyman
Released: March 5, 1916
Type: Movie
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.
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The Raiders
Title: The Raiders
Character: Jerrold Burnes
Released: February 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
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Honor's Altar
Title: Honor's Altar
Character: Paul
Released: February 14, 1916
Type: Movie
After building a financial empire, Frederick Mallery feels chained to his wife Winnie, who stood by him during the years of poverty. As a result, he offers Warren Woods, a down-and-out former playboy, $50,000 to seduce Winnie, so that he will have an excuse for a divorce.
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Between Men
Title: Between Men
Character: Rankin
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
When Ashley Hampdon becomes the target of a scheme to ruin him by his daughter's suitor, Hampdon sends for his old friend Bob White. Bob discovers that the suitor, Gregg Lewiston, cannot hope to win Lina Hampdon while her father's wealth remains intact. Lewiston hopes that if her family becomes destitute, she will turn to him. But Bob White is there to upset the scheme.
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The Disciple
Title: The Disciple
Character: Doc Hardy
Released: October 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.