Alfred Allen

Alfred Allen

Born: April 8, 1866
Died: June 18, 1947

Movies for Alfred Allen...

Sunset Pass
Title: Sunset Pass
Character: Amos Dabb
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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The Flying Fleet
Title: The Flying Fleet
Character: Admiral (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
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Under the Tonto Rim
Title: Under the Tonto Rim
Character: Dad Denmeade
Released: February 4, 1928
Type: Movie
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after a poker game was shot by a gambler "who shuffles with one hand." The real murderer, Sam Spralls, has convinced Watson that he killed Denmeade and threatens to expose him unless Watson assigns him all the gold claims. Spralls assembles a band of killers to jump the claims when Watson complies. Eventually, Denmeade learns the identity of the killer when he sees Spralls shuffle a deck of cards. He forms a vigilante party and rids the community of Spralls and his gang.
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Out All Night
Title: Out All Night
Character: Captain
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
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Singed
Title: Singed
Character: Jim
Released: August 23, 1927
Type: Movie
Dance-hall girl Dolly Wall invests her life savings in an oil well. A gusher comes in, enriching not only Dolly but her ne'er-do-well socialite sweetheart Royce Wingate. While Wingate hobnobs with the Upper Crust, poor Dolly is left home alone, stigmatized by her "scandalous" past.
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Underworld
Title: Underworld
Released: August 20, 1927
Type: Movie
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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The Magic Garden
Title: The Magic Garden
Character: Chief Clare
Released: June 30, 1927
Type: Movie
Story about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again. He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden.
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The Outlaw Dog
Title: The Outlaw Dog
Character: Henry Jordan
Released: May 22, 1927
Type: Movie
When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill Brady and Bill's girlfriend Helen Meadows. He gets a chance to clear his name by helping Bill trap a pair of outlaws who plan to blow up a mail train and abscond with the loot.
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Rolling Home
Title: Rolling Home
Character: Gen. Wade
Released: June 7, 1926
Type: Movie
Nat Alden, a promoter, has had bad luck on his deal and is broke. He meets an old army pal who is now a chauffeur of the businessman who threw the luckless Nat out of his office. Nat is on his way back to his small hometown, where he is believed to be a millionaire. To keep the belief alive he has his pal drive him there in the businessman's automobile. Complications arise quickly.
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Perils of the Wild
Title: Perils of the Wild
Character: Capt. William Robinson
Released: August 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Movie serial Perils of the Wild
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Title: The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
Character: Gen. George Meade
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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White Tiger
Title: White Tiger
Character: Mike Donovan
Released: December 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
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The Miracle Baby
Title: The Miracle Baby
Character: Dr. Amos Stanton
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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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Big Phil Creedon
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with love" and as a joke, he makes a bet with his pals that he will obtain an autographed picture from the girl within 24 hours. But getting the photo is harder than it seemed at first, and he finally asks a burglar to help him out by stealing it.
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Desert Driven
Title: Desert Driven
Character: Yorke
Released: July 8, 1923
Type: Movie
The story of a man -- accused of a crime he didn't commit and wounded by the posse -- who hides out on a desert ranch.
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Shootin' for Love
Title: Shootin' for Love
Character: Jim Travis
Released: June 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Duke Travis returns from the war suffering from shell shock and an inordinate fear of guns. His father, a ranch owner, refuses to accept Duke's disability and considers him a coward.
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The Grub Stake
Title: The Grub Stake
Character: Mark Leroy
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
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The Pride of Palomar
Title: The Pride of Palomar
Character: John Parker
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A soldier inaccurately reported as dead returns home to his Spanish family’s estate in California, only to find his father deceased and his ancestral land in the hands of strangers.
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Shattered Idols
Title: Shattered Idols
Character: The Judge
Released: February 6, 1922
Type: Movie
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as Shattered Idols. Jean Hurst, the widow of a British Army officer in India, hates her crippled son David because she thinks he is a coward and a weakling. She sends him away to England for his education. When he returns to India, he falls in love with native girl Sarasvati, who he saves from being burned on a funeral pyre.
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O'Malley of the Mounted
Title: O'Malley of the Mounted
Character: Big Judson
Released: February 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Sergeant O'Malley of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gets himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. He finds the killer, but falls in love with the man's sister. In the meantime, one of the outlaws uncovers O'Malley's true identity.
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The Sage Hen
Title: The Sage Hen
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
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The Broken Gate
Title: The Broken Gate
Character: Eph Adamson
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her millinery shop, she has sent him away to be educated. When Don, her son (Arnold Gregg), returns from college, he finds he has to defend his mother constantly. He is accused of murdering a man who made a snide remark about Aurora and is put on trial.
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An Old Fashioned Boy
Title: An Old Fashioned Boy
Character: Dr. Graves
Released: October 31, 1920
Type: Movie
David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals their betrothal. But when he finds out that she has other ideas, David tries a trickier method of winning her for his bride.
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Loot
Title: Loot
Character: Lark Ashby
Released: October 6, 1919
Type: Movie
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from the jeweler Arabin. A gang of crooks led by Pete Fielding, known as "The Shadow," plans to keep Hildreth from going to Arabin's until they have robbed the store. Actress Morn Light, whom the Shadow loves, agrees to entice Hildreth to her apartment to be imprisoned. When she warns Hildreth because she wants to avenge her father's death, which was caused by the Shadow, the Shadow overhears and captures them both.
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The Other Half
Title: The Other Half
Character: J. Martin Trent
Released: August 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Social drama about a friendship that is pressurized by class differences.
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The Man in the Moonlight
Title: The Man in the Moonlight
Character: Capt. Hendricks
Released: July 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme, the daughter of an innkeeper. After O'Farrell receives a message that Rosine's wayward brother Louis has escaped from prison with the notorious devil-may-care outlaw Rossingnol, O'Farrell postpones the wedding to find the convicts.
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The Sleeping Lion
Title: The Sleeping Lion
Character: Col. Doharney
Released: June 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
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Riders of Vengeance
Title: Riders of Vengeance
Character: Harry's Father
Released: June 9, 1919
Type: Movie
Harry's bride is murdered at their wedding along with Harry's mother and father, and the good-hearted outlaw turns grimly malevolent.
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The Blinding Trail
Title: The Blinding Trail
Character: John Halverson
Released: May 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Flighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the logging camp her father owns, after he is temporarily blinded after he crashes his toboggan into a tree in order to avoid hitting Helen. She convinces her cousin Adele--who is actually also in love with Jim--to get him to propose. Jim's sight returns and he and Helen marry, but on the day their child is to be born, he goes blind again. Frustrated by being married to a blind man, Helen falls in love with his assistant Jean Du Bray. Complications ensue.
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The Red Glove
Title: The Red Glove
Character: Gentleman Geoff
Released: March 17, 1919
Type: Movie
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
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The Sea Flower
Title: The Sea Flower
Character: 'Gun' Fowler
Released: December 23, 1918
Type: Movie
A secret service agent disguises himself as a sailor.
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Kiss or Kill
Title: Kiss or Kill
Character: Middleton
Released: October 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.
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A Society Sensation
Title: A Society Sensation
Character: Captain Harry Hannibal Fairfax
Released: September 22, 1918
Type: Movie
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot to fame, A Society Sensation was cut down to a meek 24 minutes so the lead would be in every scene. Title cards tried to make up for the lost scenes.
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Winner Takes All
Title: Winner Takes All
Character: Saul Chadron
Released: July 20, 1918
Type: Movie
Saul Chadron, a brutal cattle baron, is distressed that homesteaders are intruding on his domain and hires outlaws to drive them away.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Released: June 22, 1918
Type: Movie
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Brace Up
Title: Brace Up
Character: Col. Court
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents' child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father and his shy, retiring mother. The "father" side of his nature manifests itself on the college football field, where Henry excels. Unfortunately, the "mother" side is evidenced by a streak of cowardice, which surfaces at all the wrong times. Hoping to expunge the cowardly part of his make-up, Henry hires a bunch of self-styled mentalists to "concentrate" his problems away. Pretty soon, Henry is a virtual slave to the whims of the mentalists, who push his emotional buttons with reckless abandon.
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Nobody's Wife
Title: Nobody's Wife
Character: Sheriff Carew, aka Alec Young
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Jack Darling of the North West Mounted Police is ordered to track down and arrest murderer Alec Young, whose girl, Dancing Pete, performs in the Nugget dance hall. En route to Nugget, Jack meets Hope Ross, who is caring for her sister's baby. Although the two fall in love, the outlook for a happy romance appears hopeless, because he believes that she is a married mother, and she thinks that he is an outlaw.
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The Girl in the Dark
Title: The Girl in the Dark
Character: Chief of Police Struber
Released: March 4, 1918
Type: Movie
Lois Fox, upon whose shoulder is branded a Chinese idiograph resembling the letters "A. Y.," is rescued from a gang of Chinese ruffians by Brice Ferris. His servant Ming, in attempting to steal from her finger a ring that bears a mysterious green seal, is killed, and soon afterward a stranger named Strang arrives, also in search of the girl. Despite Brice's efforts to protect her, Lois is abducted and taken to the headquarters of Lao Wing, the leader of a secret Chinese society known as the Tong.
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Painted Lips
Title: Painted Lips
Character: Capt. McTavish
Released: February 4, 1918
Type: Movie
The daughter of a sea captain, the heroine falls in with a bad crowd and is soon working as a "hostess" (wink! wink!) in a cheap waterfront dive.
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The Grand Passion
Title: The Grand Passion
Character: Ben Mackey
Released: January 28, 1918
Type: Movie
Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own financial ambitions; however, Jack envisions The Trumpet as an instrument of good and soon persuades Dick to clean up Powderville.
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Fighting Mad
Title: Fighting Mad
Character: Eldorado Smith
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
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The Price of a Good Time
Title: The Price of a Good Time
Character: His Father
Released: November 4, 1917
Type: Movie
A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who informs the girl's parents of her "fling."
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Follow the Girl
Title: Follow the Girl
Character: Martinez
Released: August 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Orphan Hilda Swanson's prayers are answered when a Swedish-American colonization company agrees to send her to America. Aboard the steamer, she meets Olaf, a young Swede, and Donna, an enemy courier who is posing as a passenger. Learning that the secret service is on her trail, Donna sews secret documents into the hem of Hilda's skirt. She then sends a wire to her comrade Felix Martinez, notifying him to intercept the Swedish girl.
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The Reed Case
Title: The Reed Case
Character: Bull Renfroy
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
When, after three years of active service, ace detective Jerry Brennon is ordered by his doctor to take a rest, Senator Reed, Jerry's staunch supporter since he arrested two crooks burglarizing the Reed home, prevails upon the detective to stay at his cabin in the mountains. Warned that the cabin is haunted, Jerry's suspicion is aroused when a bullet whizzes past his head.
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The Flame of Youth
Title: The Flame of Youth
Character: Jasper Sneedham
Released: June 18, 1917
Type: Movie
James Gordon, Sr., owner of the Gordon syndicate, dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California. After an argument with his fiancée, socialite Lucy Andrews, Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan, McCool's servant who, along with Jasper Sneedham, has been cheating the company. On the launch, Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head, but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedham's stepdaughter Nadine. Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer, the only honest man on the island.
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Come Through
Title: Come Through
Released: June 1, 1917
Type: Movie
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his mark publicly as a dancer, but secretly as a gentleman burglar.
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The Flashlight
Title: The Flashlight
Character: John Peterson
Released: May 21, 1917
Type: Movie
Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.
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The Gates of Doom
Title: The Gates of Doom
Character: Grand Duke Alexis
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant.
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Hell Morgan's Girl
Title: Hell Morgan's Girl
Character: Hell Morgan
Released: March 5, 1917
Type: Movie
Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a painter, Roger finds himself drunk and on the skids in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. At a dive run by Hell Morgan (Alfred Allen), he meets Lola (Dorothy Phillips), who nurses him back to physical and moral health.
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A Child of Mystery
Title: A Child of Mystery
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
In New York's Little Italy, Carlotta's life is run by Black Hand leaders who will not let her see her sweetheart Tom. The Black Handers also control the life of prominent Judge Andrews, because years before, after the death of Andrews' daughter, they kidnapped his granddaughter. Only now have they agreed to return her, at a charity ball, for a large ransom.
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Barriers of Society
Title: Barriers of Society
Character: John Phillips
Released: October 16, 1916
Type: Movie
When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter. Harry Arnold, courting Martha, invites her out sailing and arranges to have the yacht wrecked near an uncharted island so that he can be alone with her until rescuers arrive. Meanwhile, without knowing Martha is on board, Westie secures a position on the yacht.
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The Unattainable
Title: The Unattainable
Character: Theatre Manager
Released: September 4, 1916
Type: Movie
An actress falls in love with a shepherd, to the dismay of a wealthy suitor. One reel survives at the National Archives Of Canada and the Library of Congress.
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A Yoke of Gold
Title: A Yoke of Gold
Character: Luis Lopez
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
During the days of the California missions, Jose Garcia becomes friends with Luis Lopez, a local Robin Hood determined to redistribute among the poor the loot of the rich. Inspired by Luis, Jose sets out to rob the home of wealthy landowner Don Ortega. On the way, however, Jose gets lost in the desert and is nearly dead when he is found by Don Ortega's aristocratic cousin, Castro Arrellanes, and Castro's daughter Carmen, who take him in and nurse him back to health. Jose quickly falls in love with Carmen, and as a result, renounces his plan of robbing the rich. Then, he learns that Luis has made plans to break into Don Ortega's house.
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A Soul Enslaved
Title: A Soul Enslaved
Character: Ambrose
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Tired of poverty, Jane finally accepts the advances of Ambrose, the wealthy owner of the factory in which she works, and becomes his mistress. Years later, long after she has left Ambrose, Jane falls in love with Richard Newton, whose own past, like hers, hardly stands out as scrupulous. They get married and have a child, but then Richard finds out that Jane had been a kept woman, and insists on a separation.