Tom Santschi

Tom Santschi

Born: October 24, 1880
Died: April 9, 1931
in Crystal City, Missouri, USA
Tom Santschi was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era. Additionally, he directed numerous films during the mid 1910s.

Movies for Tom Santschi...

Trapped
Title: Trapped
Character: Capt. William Baxter
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
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King of the Wild
Title: King of the Wild
Character: Harris
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Title: Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Character: Simon Slade
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
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The Phantom of the West
Title: The Phantom of the West
Character: Bud Landers
Released: November 10, 1930
Type: Movie
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
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River's End
Title: River's End
Character: Shotwell
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung.
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The Utah Kid
Title: The Utah Kid
Character: Butch
Released: October 27, 1930
Type: Movie
The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws running from the law where he meets and falls for a waylaid school teacher.
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Title: Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Character: Bit role (voice)
Released: October 10, 1930
Type: Movie
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
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Paradise Island
Title: Paradise Island
Character: Dutch Mike Lutze
Released: July 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
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The Wagon Master
Title: The Wagon Master
Character: Jake Lynch
Released: September 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch (Tom Santschi) on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler (Ken Maynard) joins the train when it leaves for Gold Hill, and takes command when Hollister is killed from ambush. Jacques Frazelle (Al Ferguson) schemes to get rid of The Rambler and win Sue Smith (Edith Roberts). He plots with Lynch to disrupt the train, but The Rambler beats him in a whip-fight...
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Land of the Silver Fox
Title: Land of the Silver Fox
Character: Butch Nelson
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
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Isle of Lost Men
Title: Isle of Lost Men
Character: Captain Jan Jodahl
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
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Honor Bound
Title: Honor Bound
Character: Mr. Mortimer
Released: April 29, 1928
Type: Movie
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
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Vultures of the Sea
Title: Vultures of the Sea
Character: Grim Hawley - Sea Captain
Released: March 1, 1928
Type: Movie
When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father.
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The Law and the Man
Title: The Law and the Man
Character: Dan Creedoon
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent film from the end of the silent era.
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Land of the Lawless
Title: Land of the Lawless
Character: Kelter
Released: December 25, 1927
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger insinuates himself into a murderous gang by showing off his talents. When he is taken prisoner by the ringleader, he makes a getaway and returns with a sheriff.
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The Adventurous Soul
Title: The Adventurous Soul
Released: November 29, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Cruise of the Hellion
Title: The Cruise of the Hellion
Character: Kilroy
Released: September 10, 1927
Type: Movie
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Old San Francisco
Title: Old San Francisco
Character: Captain Stoner - in Prologue
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
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When a Man Loves
Title: When a Man Loves
Character: Captain of Convict Boat
Released: August 21, 1927
Type: Movie
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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The Land Beyond the Law
Title: The Land Beyond the Law
Character: Bob Crew
Released: June 5, 1927
Type: Movie
Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustlers is terrorizing the local ranchers. After a bit of detective work -- greatly aided by a motley group of would-be outlaws deputized for the occasion -- Steele unmasks a supposedly upstanding citizen Bob Crew (Tom Santschi) as the leader of the rustlers.
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The Eyes of the Totem
Title: The Eyes of the Totem
Character: Philip La Rue
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
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Tracked by the Police
Title: Tracked by the Police
Character: 'Sandy' Sturgeon
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
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Hills of Kentucky
Title: Hills of Kentucky
Character: Ben Harley
Released: February 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"
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The Overland Stage
Title: The Overland Stage
Character: Hawk Lespard
Released: January 31, 1927
Type: Movie
At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
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The Third Degree
Title: The Third Degree
Character: Daredevil Daley
Released: December 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
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The Desert's Toll
Title: The Desert's Toll
Character: Jasper
Released: November 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
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Forlorn River
Title: Forlorn River
Character: Bill Hall
Released: September 27, 1926
Type: Movie
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
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3 Bad Men
Title: 3 Bad Men
Character: 'Bull' Stanley
Released: August 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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The Hidden Way
Title: The Hidden Way
Character: Bill
Released: July 26, 1926
Type: Movie
The film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power of love. After rescuing Mary from certain death, the “three bad men” meet her saintly mother and stay on to help on their farm. In The Hidden Way, two of the ex-cons conspire to steal the family’s tiny nest egg, but through plot twists involving a medicinal spring, a wronged woman, a villainous Casanova, his avaricious father, and government inspectors (!), the pair eventually see their error and join the third in turning over a new leaf.
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Her Honor, the Governor
Title: Her Honor, the Governor
Character: Richard Palmer
Released: July 19, 1926
Type: Movie
The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
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Hands Across the Border
Title: Hands Across the Border
Character: Breen
Released: May 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that is using Drake's land as the crossing point. Ted meets Ysabel Castro, the daughter of the rancher just across the border-river, when he saves her from a mad-bull.
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Siberia
Title: Siberia
Character: Alexis Vetkin
Released: March 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. There Petroff is sent in the discharge of his official duties and secretly renews their romance. When the Bolsheviki overthrow the government, Sonia is freed and aids in the escape of Petroff, who incurs the enmity of Egor, the revolutionary leader, because he is a royalist. Together they escape across the frozen wastes in a sledge, pursued by wolves and Egor, who has used patriotism as a cloak to conceal personal ambitions.
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My Own Pal
Title: My Own Pal
Character: August Deering
Released: February 28, 1926
Type: Movie
My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
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The Primrose Path
Title: The Primrose Path
Character: Big Joe Snead
Released: September 14, 1925
Type: Movie
Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Character: Police Officer Moore
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
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Paths to Paradise
Title: Paths to Paradise
Character: Chief of Detectives Callahan
Released: June 28, 1925
Type: Movie
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
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Little Robinson Crusoe
Title: Little Robinson Crusoe
Character: Captain Dynes
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
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Thundering Dawn
Title: Thundering Dawn
Character: Gordon Van Brock
Released: November 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
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Is Divorce a Failure?
Title: Is Divorce a Failure?
Character: Smith
Released: March 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Are You a Failure?
Title: Are You a Failure?
Character: Kildevil Brenon
Released: March 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
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Brass Commandments
Title: Brass Commandments
Character: Campan
Released: January 28, 1923
Type: Movie
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
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The Heart of Doreon
Title: The Heart of Doreon
Character: Doreon
Released: November 13, 1921
Type: Movie
Doreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who has skipped town to avoid arrest. Doreon vows to find Blake and bring him back. King, a corporal in the Mounties, aids Babette in returning Doreon to her.
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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: Rameriz
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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Mother o' Dreams
Title: Mother o' Dreams
Character: Tom
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
Mother o' Dreams
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The Cradle of Courage
Title: The Cradle of Courage
Character: Tierney
Released: September 19, 1920
Type: Movie
Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.
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Eve in Exile
Title: Eve in Exile
Character: John Sheen
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by her father after he loses all his money in speculation. There she falls in love..
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Title: Her Kingdom of Dreams
Character: Tom Langley (as Thomas Santschi)
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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In Search of Arcady
Title: In Search of Arcady
Character: Lascho
Released: June 1, 1919
Type: Movie
To escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara Chichester disguises herself as a gypsy, and after buying a gypsy wagon, roams the countryside "in search of Arcady."
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The Stronger Vow
Title: The Stronger Vow
Character: Pedro Toral
Released: April 27, 1919
Type: Movie
During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have long feuded. Dolores' cousin, Pedro Toral, jealous of her attentions to Juan, kills her brother that night and after leaving Juan's handkerchief by the body, makes Dolores swear to avenge the death with her own hands....
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Little Orphant Annie
Title: Little Orphant Annie
Character: Dave Johnson
Released: December 31, 1918
Type: Movie
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
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The Hell Cat
Title: The Hell Cat
Character: Jim Dyke
Released: November 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dyke, whose attentions she repeatedly rebuffs. Jim and his men attack Pancha's ranch, burning it to the ground and killing her father. The outlaw carries her to his cabin, where Wan-o-mee, his jealous squaw, tries to stab the girl....
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Title: Who Shall Take My Life?
Character: Big Bill O'Shaughnessy (as Thomas Santschi)
Released: December 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
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Beware of Strangers
Title: Beware of Strangers
Character: John Mentor
Released: February 10, 1917
Type: Movie
Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
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The Garden of Allah
Title: The Garden of Allah
Character: Boris Androvsky
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
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The Crisis
Title: The Crisis
Character: Stephen Brice
Released: December 21, 1916
Type: Movie
Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
Title: The Adventures of Kathlyn
Character: Bruce
Released: February 19, 1916
Type: Movie
Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.
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The Blood Seedling
Title: The Blood Seedling
Character: Allan Golyer
Released: September 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Farmer Allen Golyer finds his romance with his naïve sweetheart Susie usurped by Bertie Leon, a traveling salesman. Leon's slick, citified ways win the girl's heart and she leaves Golyer for him . Just then Golyer's friend, Colonel Blood, shows up with a sapling which he presents to him. Leon meanwhile leaves the little country village and is never heard from again. Susie, believing that he was fickle, agrees to marry Golyer. For the next 20 years they are happy, until Golyer goes to a seer.
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In the King's Service
Title: In the King's Service
Character: Rupert
Released: August 16, 1915
Type: Movie
Rupert returns to his Canadian home after five years, an officer of the Royal Mounted Police, under orders to capture some illicit distillers. Jacques, an invalid, being unable to make farming pay, has, unknown to his sister, Philomel, been induced by Antoine, a suitor for the hand of Philomel, to join him in the illicit whiskey traffic.
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The Heart of Paro
Title: The Heart of Paro
Released: July 24, 1915
Type: Movie
Paro, a half-breed Indian, overcome with liquor, encounters Grace, the pretty daughter of James Lathrop, a mine owner. She is sorry for his condition and gives him a cross of black jet. Dick Graham is a ne'er-do-well, who has been sheep raising in the low lands and lost his fortune.
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The Octopus
Title: The Octopus
Character: Thatcher Thole
Released: July 15, 1915
Type: Movie
Archie Sheldon, determining to go to New York City, is given a letter by his mother to Thatcher Thole, Gotham's most unscrupulous financier. She tells her son that Thole is an old friend of the family, and will undoubtedly give him a start in life.
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The Girl and the Reporter
Title: The Girl and the Reporter
Character: Ned Pelton - Reporter
Released: June 28, 1915
Type: Movie
Billie Benton, a cub reporter, goes to the home of Violet Reynolds, a society girl and settlement worker, and asks for an interview, which is refused. Billie returns to the reportorial room, expresses his failure and the city editor assigns Ned Pelton, another reporter, to get the story.
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How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Title: How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Character: John Callahan
Released: June 3, 1915
Type: Movie
When Jimmie Collins, a pickpocket, is arrested and brought before Captain Callahan of the Tenth, he is surprised because he is lodged in a cell. Jimmie claims acquaintanceship with Bill McFarlin, a corrupt political boss, and he sneers at Captain Callahan when he is ordered to be placed behind the cell bars.
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The Jaguar Trap
Title: The Jaguar Trap
Released: May 24, 1915
Type: Movie
Joe Grant is the renegade husband of Lengua, a beautiful South African native girl. John Lewis is a South American trader, living with his daughter Grace. Ned Singleton helps Lewis in his work. Grant steals from Lewis' trading post and orders the abused Lengua to aid him in secreting the loot, and she refuses. She tells Lewis of Grant's misdeeds.
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The Two Natures Within Him
Title: The Two Natures Within Him
Character: Reverend William Morris
Released: May 20, 1915
Type: Movie
The Rev. William Morris is the director of a small church near a state penitentiary. He is convinced that a criminal is only a good man gone wrong. Dr. Bishop, a friend of the minister, has made a life-long study of this very subject. The doctor has a daughter whom the minister loves and to whom he is engaged.
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The Lion's Mate
Title: The Lion's Mate
Released: May 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Hamad, an Arab half-breed, is in command of the ivory traders. Allan Deane is sent to take charge of the ivory traders' camp, and Hamad is told that he can serve as assistant hereafter. Allan Deane and Naila love each other. She informs Allan that Hamad is a slave trader and sells the native men and women like beasts.
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The Great Experiment
Title: The Great Experiment
Character: John Morning
Released: April 19, 1915
Type: Movie
John Morning, rich, without family, dreams of things that might have been. He discovers a poverty-stricken woman who is fatally injured, takes her to her home in the slum district, where she dies, and John Morning assumes charge of the woman's daughter of fourteen, Ritta. He determines to try his "great experiment," and Ritta is unaware of whom her benefactor is.
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The Red Blood of Courage
Title: The Red Blood of Courage
Character: Roscoe Harding
Released: February 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the daughter of Professor Duane, and they are engaged to be married. Lieutenant Tavish, a British army officer, is attracted to Lydia and plans to take her away from Harding by fair means or foul.
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The Primitive Way
Title: The Primitive Way
Character: Billy Vaughan
Released: January 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Mildred Manning is the spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. She has a host of admirers, but does not permit them to become serious. Jimmie Blake, who frequents the household more than anybody else, is a rattle-brained young chap who fancies that he is in love with Mildred and insists that he wants her to marry him. Mildred jokes him and refuses to take him seriously.
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His Fighting Blood
Title: His Fighting Blood
Character: Sam Buck
Released: January 18, 1915
Type: Movie
In the mountains and hills of Kentucky, a feud has raged for many years between the McTriggers and the Sampsons. In vain did the authorities intervene, threaten arrests and endeavor to patch up the mimic war; all these efforts were of no avail.
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Lassoing a Lion
Title: Lassoing a Lion
Released: January 2, 1915
Type: Movie
Simon Valjon is inordinately jealous of his pretty, young wife, Mary, who, however, never gives him cause to doubt her fidelity and affection. The young couple have their home on a South African ranch in a neighborhood infested by wild beasts, particularly lions. Kimball, an artist, seeks their hospitality.
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The Sealed Package
Title: The Sealed Package
Character: Gilbert Howell
Released: July 22, 1914
Type: Movie
Brian Godfrey and Arnold Lambert are clerks in the diamond broker's office, both interested in Mildred St. Pierre, the daughter of an old employee. For a while she is impartial but Arnold is too impetuous in his addresses and she repulses him. Gilbert Howell, a traveling salesman of the firm, puts into the vault a sealed package containing valuable private papers. On the same day is placed in the vault, a number of fine uncut stones in a similar package. When Howard starts on his usual tour, he takes from the vault what he thinks are his papers. That same evening, old St. Pierre, recalling the fact of leaving some very important papers on his desk is worried and decides to make sure by going back to the office alone to place them in the vault.
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The Leopard's Foundling
Title: The Leopard's Foundling
Character: Peter Herman
Released: June 29, 1914
Type: Movie
The scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly along, she holding the baby in her arms while Balu, their idolized seven-year-old daughter, is on the seat beside her father, holding a line.
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The King's Will
Title: The King's Will
Character: John Bruce
Released: June 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Fast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution, manages to reinstate himself and orders Kathlyn and her father brought to the palace in order that one of them may be made the reigning sovereign.
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The Forged Parchment
Title: The Forged Parchment
Character: John Bruce
Released: May 18, 1914
Type: Movie
The captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in the third balcony of a burning building, and immediately rushes to Colonel Hare's residence, informing Bruce and the colonel of her tragic position.
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The Warrior Maid
Title: The Warrior Maid
Character: John Bruce
Released: May 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Kathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big animal cage to the tunnel that had been burrowed beneath, than the hungry and frenzied lions that were in the arena swarmed onto the stage and began clawing at the trap, excited to ferocity by the fresh scent of human beings.
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The Spellbound Multitude
Title: The Spellbound Multitude
Character: John Bruce
Released: April 20, 1914
Type: Movie
Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to serve the sinister purpose of the scheming Umballah.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Alex McNamara
Released: April 10, 1914
Type: Movie
The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
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The Cruel Crown
Title: The Cruel Crown
Character: John Bruce
Released: April 6, 1914
Type: Movie
Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's palace.
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The Garden of Brides
Title: The Garden of Brides
Character: John Bruce
Released: March 23, 1914
Type: Movie
The vengeful Umballah, having delivered his three bags of silver and secured Col. Hare as his prisoner, departs for the Palace of Allah, leaving Kathlyn and Bruce tied to the tiger cart with their backs to the savage beast and facing another death, at the hands of the brutal brigands.
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Three Bags of Silver
Title: Three Bags of Silver
Character: John Bruce (as Thomas Santschi)
Released: March 9, 1914
Type: Movie
The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the fair arm of Kathlyn.
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A Colonel in Chains
Title: A Colonel in Chains
Character: John Bruce
Released: February 23, 1914
Type: Movie
With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned in the dungeon of the royal palace. There she finds her father, whom she was led to believe had been dead.
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The Royal Slave
Title: The Royal Slave
Character: John Bruce
Released: February 9, 1914
Type: Movie
After Kathlyn's seemingly marvelous escape from the Temple of the Lion, where she almost became a victim of fanatical men, not to remark the hungry and marauding lion, she is still followed by the wild beasts that rove in that vicinity in search of prey.
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The Two Ordeals
Title: The Two Ordeals
Character: John Bruce
Released: January 12, 1914
Type: Movie
Kathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome throne in compliance with the scheming councilors of a fanatical people. The high priest prepares to go on with the ceremony of marrying her to Umballah, who is the mainspring of all her troubles
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
Title: The Adventures of Kathlyn
Character: John Bruce
Released: December 29, 1913
Type: Movie
The serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn resided in a mythical India, fighting off unwanted advances from a handsome native, Umballah, when not battling an endless array of ferocious jungle fauna.
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Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Title: Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Character: Jan Karl
Released: November 1, 1913
Type: Movie
John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa, near the border of the jungle. The monotony of their lives is stirred by the arrival in the neighborhood of a hunting party, about to enter the jungle to secure wild animals for an American circus. Henry Barium, the young circus owner, heads the party. He prevails on old John Brant to accompany him on the trip and, in turn, agrees that Gene and Jan Karl shall join the expedition. Jan and Gene are "as good as engaged." as the saying goes. Young Barium pays marked attention to Gene as they journey, and Jan grows jealous. One day he comes on the young people when Barium is trying to force a kiss from Gene. In the trial of strength that follows, Barium is worsted. Gene, who loves Jan, does not show that worthy due appreciation of his interference, with the result that he leaves the expedition for the Transvaal mines. Next day a noble, shaggy-maned lion is caught.
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Alone in the Jungle
Title: Alone in the Jungle
Character: Bob Arden
Released: June 14, 1913
Type: Movie
The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a young sister named Helen, has settled on an isolated plantation in the Jungles. Jack Arden, son of another English planter, who comes over frequently to hunt with the boys has fallen in love with Helen. But Papa Brown discourages the lovers, saying that Helen is too young to be married. Jack agrees to wait. Some time afterward the Browns receive a letter from Jack stating that he is coming for another week-end of shooting- with the Brown boys. On his way to the Brown's home, Jack knocks down Concho, an overseer, for being cruel to one of the slaves. His action is approved of by the Browns. In honor of Jack the family starts on a lion hunt, and, after a long trip, they return by the river route. They espy a lioness drinking at the river's edge. She is killed by Jack and taken aboard. That night Jack again asks Mr. Brown for Helen's hand and is again told to wait.
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In the Long Ago
Title: In the Long Ago
Character: The Indian Warrior
Released: May 15, 1913
Type: Movie
A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised musician is refused the privilege of marrying the belle of the tribe. He proves himself not only strong enough to kill his rival, the tribe's stalwart warrior, in a struggle for the girl, but is able to make a magic flute which can and does restore the girl, now lying dead. In the closing scenes, the picture shows a short glimpse of modern life which suggests that the old myth is being played, in part, again.
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Alas! Poor Yorick!
Title: Alas! Poor Yorick!
Character: Deranged Actor
Released: April 21, 1913
Type: Movie
A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.
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Greater Wealth
Title: Greater Wealth
Character: Ed Young
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon's only son is a drunken disappointment, his wife becomes alienated from him, and his daughter falls critically ill.
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Mike's Brainstorm
Title: Mike's Brainstorm
Character: Mike Rosenberg
Released: November 22, 1912
Type: Movie
Mike Rosenberg, a ne'er-do-well, is broke, but still is undenied the pleasure of imagination. A circus comes to town, and he is without the price of admission. He retires disgusted to the solitude of the bar, where he dreams that he possesses unlimited wealth. His first investment is a pet elephant that leads him into a vast variety of expensive difficulties.
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Kings of the Forest
Title: Kings of the Forest
Character: Fritz - Sona's Husband
Released: November 11, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her ​​child because of the quarrel between her two suitors, is threatened along the way by wild animals. The quarrelling suitors put their dispute behind them, and rescue her.
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Monte Cristo
Title: Monte Cristo
Released: October 14, 1912
Type: Movie
An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost.
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Title: The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Character: The 'Sea Lawyer'
Released: January 4, 1912
Type: Movie
The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.
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The Maid at the Helm
Title: The Maid at the Helm
Character: Stone - First Mate of the Dakota
Released: December 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Story about a girl at sea with rough sailors.
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The New Superintendent
Title: The New Superintendent
Character: Bill Rooney - a Workman
Released: November 16, 1911
Type: Movie
James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough element in the works. Jack Hartway asks for a position, and Mr. Hastings discharges Morley. Hartway is duly installed as the new superintendent, and his first act is to put up a sign that Rooney, the bully, has formerly resented. Rooney tears the sign down, goes to the office to confront Hartway, is knocked down, and is made to nail the sign up again.
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Lost in the Jungle
Title: Lost in the Jungle
Character: Undetermined Role
Released: October 25, 1911
Type: Movie
Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on her father's farm, is her only pet and in the first part of our story we see her befriend him from a cruel keeper. Hans, a neighboring Boer farmer calls and asks for Meta's hand in marriage. The girl is ordered by her father to accept Hans' attentions. She has been taught to obey and when Hans gives her a love offering, a huge necklace of beads, she meekly offers her cheek for the betrothal kiss. Sir John's nephew, Hirshal, comes for a visit from England and Sir John brings him for a friendly call on the Krugas. Meta's heart awakens at the sight of the handsome, young Englishman, and she returns Hans's necklace. The father, however, orders her to marry Hans, or never darken his door again.
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Shipwrecked
Title: Shipwrecked
Character: Joe Runyon
Released: September 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.
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The Blacksmith's Love
Title: The Blacksmith's Love
Character: Joe Saunders - the Blacksmith
Released: August 16, 1911
Type: Movie
The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother and answer the call of duty to his country. The misfortunes of war claim Mace, and at night as Joe, sorely wounded, limps off the battlefield, he leaves Mace for dead. Soldiers burying the dead, discover life in Mace and he is hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons succeed in reviving him. Thinking Mace dead, Joe writes to his mother of this tragedy, and she sadly shows the letter to the wife. Joe returns. Mace's widow calls for the details of his death. After recovering from the operation it is found that Mace's mind is affected, and he is taken to an asylum for treatment.
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Back to the Primitive
Title: Back to the Primitive
Released: May 10, 1911
Type: Movie
John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the same ship and is to act as her escort. At the same time telling her he will meet them at Cape Town. After a hurried preparation for the departure the long journey is begun. Lord Thurlow is attentive to his charge that he may fulfill the wishes of his friend and confidant, John Wilton. Will Carson, a fellow passenger aboard, much admires the young and handsome Helen and seeks an introduction through the ship officer. The admiration becomes mutual and they are seen on the promenade deck enjoying fresh sea air. Their action causes much uneasiness on the part of Lord Thurlow, who interferes in the discharge of his duty, and is in turn insulted by Will, much to the disgust of Helen, who regrets the publicity of the incident. The approaching storm rivets the attention of all on board and for a time the unfortunate affair is forgotten.
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In Old California When the Gringos Came
Title: In Old California When the Gringos Came
Released: May 4, 1911
Type: Movie
In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film
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The Sergeant
Title: The Sergeant
Character: Soldier
Released: September 21, 1910
Type: Movie
In this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the Merced River (which actually might be Oregon's Clackamas River). When their horses are stolen by a renegade, they are forced to travel back to headquarters by foot and lose the trail. In the first clip, mounted troops search for the lost couple. The two are found the next day and the sergeant is disgraced. However, the sergeant proves his mettle when he escapes during an Indian attack and leads reinforcements to the rescue.
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Title: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Released: January 20, 1910
Type: Movie
A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Briton and Boer
Title: Briton and Boer
Released: October 25, 1909
Type: Movie
The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside Kimberly, S.A. Jobe's family are Boers with all the strange customs and fierce hatreds of this transplanted people, all except his oldest daughter Gretchen. She has attended the English school at Kimberly, and while there met and fell in love with Allen Hornby
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Ben's Kid
Title: Ben's Kid
Released: July 1, 1909
Type: Movie
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
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In the Sultan's Power
Title: In the Sultan's Power
Released: June 17, 1909
Type: Movie
Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of a seemingly cordial friendship the lady apparently does not return his affections. There is a reason for this. Osman Bey, a Turkish nobleman, desires the hand of this charming girl.