Otto Matieson
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 27, 1893
Deathday: February 19, 1932
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Parisian Love
1925-08-01
Parisian Love
Overview: Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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The Maltese Falcon
1931-05-23
The Maltese Falcon
Overview: A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-23
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Folly of Vanity
1925-01-26
Folly of Vanity
Overview: This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-26
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The Happy Warrior
1925-07-05
The Happy Warrior
Overview: Malcolm McGregor joins the circus and falls in love with Olive Borden but his life changes when he finds out he is a titled Lord.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-05
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Old San Francisco
1927-09-04
Old San Francisco
Overview: In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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The Dangerous Maid
1923-11-19
The Dangerous Maid
Overview: Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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Bells of San Juan
1922-10-15
Bells of San Juan
Overview: Rod Norton is a lawman searching for his father's killer. Norton suspects saloon owner Jim Garson but is lacking evidence. Garson's henchmen, the Rickard brothers, kidnap Norton's sweetheart Dorothy, hoping to lure the sheriff into a trap.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Golden Trail
1920-09-01
The Golden Trail
Overview: At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Revelation
1924-06-23
Revelation
Overview: Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life is changed forever. She leaves her previous life to live one of service and piety, a decision that ultimately saves Paul's life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-23
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The Telltale Heart
1928-01-01
The Telltale Heart
Overview: An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Beau Ideal
1931-01-25
Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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Bride of the Storm
1926-02-20
Bride of the Storm
Overview: An American ship is wrecked off the coast of the Dutch East Indies, and little Faith Fitzhugh and her mother have washed ashore on a rocky island that supports only a lighthouse. Faith's mother lives only long enough to inform the three Dutch lighthouse keepers that her daughter is the heiress to a large fortune. Years pass and Faith grows to womanhood. Jacob Kroon and his son, Piet, then conspire to marry Faith to Piet's idiot son, Hans, in order to bring her fortune into the family. Dick Wayne, a sailor on an American cruiser that is repairing a damaged cable in the waters of the lighthouse, learns of Faith's captivity and comes to her rescue. Piet kills Jacob in a fit of jealousy, and Dick then kills Piet in a fight. Hans sets the lighthouse on fire and incinerates himself. Dick and Faith make it back to the cruiser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-20
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General Crack
1929-12-16
General Crack
Overview: The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack. His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-16
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Golden Dawn
1930-06-14
Golden Dawn
Overview: Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Conspiracy
1930-08-10
Conspiracy
Overview: Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric mystery writer Winthrop Clavering help unravel the truth about the murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-10
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The Beloved Rogue
1927-03-12
The Beloved Rogue
Overview: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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Yellow Fingers
1926-03-21
Yellow Fingers
Overview: Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-21
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Surrender
1927-01-02
Surrender
Overview: Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but there are rumblings of war. Soon, the village is overrun with the Imperial troops of the Russian Czar, with Constantine in Imperial command. He is attracted by the beauty of Lea and commands her to come to his quarters. She refuses and he is outraged. He orders the townspeople barred behind their doors and the village burned. Though she loves her honor above everything else, she can not bear to see the villagers suffer, and makes the lonely walk through the village to the Inn.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Scaramouche
1923-09-15
Scaramouche
Overview: A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
Genres: History Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-15
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Boston Blackie
1923-05-06
Boston Blackie
Overview: Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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While London Sleeps
1926-11-27
While London Sleeps
Overview: Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse district of London.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-27
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The Americans Come
1930-07-25
The Americans Come
Overview: A 1930 musical tableau presented by Joe Schenck. Based on patriotic hymn by Fay Foster.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-25
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Captain Blood
1924-09-21
Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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Morals for Men
1925-12-01
Morals for Men
Overview: Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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The Scarlet Lady
1928-08-01
The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Silent film drama...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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Sackcloth and Scarlet
1925-03-22
Sackcloth and Scarlet
Overview: Silent Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-22
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The Woman from Moscow
1928-11-03
The Woman from Moscow
Overview: A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
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The Last of the Lone Wolf
1930-08-26
The Last of the Lone Wolf
Overview: In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-26
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The Salvation Hunters
1925-02-15
The Salvation Hunters
Overview: A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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Christine of the Big Tops
1926-08-20
Christine of the Big Tops
Overview: When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-20
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The Silver Treasure
1926-06-13
The Silver Treasure
Overview: Nostromo is the foreman of longshoremen in a South American Republic, and they are to load the cargo of silver that is to come from the San Tome mine. Sotillo and his band gang are plotting to steal the silver, but the fore-warned Nostromo has a plan to outwit them. He meets the silver train far up the road and has the shipment transferred to a big wagon, sending it via side-streets to the wharf. He and his men stay with the train and fight of the bandits. Back at the wharf, Nostromo thinks about claiming the silver was lost in the battle and taking it for himself. He and his conscience struggles mightily.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-13
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Napoleon's Barber
1928-11-24
Napoleon's Barber
Overview: Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced on lavish feature-film scale by John Ford, the man who made The Iron Horse and Four Sons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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The Road to Romance
1927-10-08
The Road to Romance
Overview: The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Prisoners
1929-05-18
Prisoners
Overview: Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-18
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The Desert Bride
1928-03-26
The Desert Bride
Overview: Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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Strange Cargo
1929-03-31
Strange Cargo
Overview: On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-31
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Whispering Wires
1926-10-24
Whispering Wires
Overview: A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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The Last Moment
1928-02-15
The Last Moment
Overview: A man drowns himself in lake. As he is dying, he recalls the crucial moments of his life and the incidents that led to his final, fatal decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-15
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Behind Closed Doors
1929-02-24
Behind Closed Doors
Overview: Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new republic. They are led by an unknown leader called 'The Eagle."
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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Men of the Sky
1931-06-20
Men of the Sky
Overview: In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-20
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Too Many Crooks
1927-04-02
Too Many Crooks
Overview: Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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