Jack McDonald
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 17, 1880
Deathday: June 19, 1941
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The Trail Rider
1925-02-22
The Trail Rider
Overview: Story of a cowboy who saves an old cobbler from being abused by a nasty banker. The banker does not take kindly to Hartwell's interfering and orders his henchman to kill the upstart.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-22
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Against All Odds
1924-07-27
Against All Odds
Overview: Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-27
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13 Washington Square
1928-01-28
13 Washington Square
Overview: In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-28
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The Broken Gate
1927-02-15
The Broken Gate
Overview: In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father. Shunned as a "sinful" woman by most of the town, she turns over her son, Don, to be raised by Miss Julia, the town librarian, who tells the boy that she's his "aunt". Don grows up and goes to college, and when he comes back home the town gossips begin a rumor-mongering campaign. When the town policeman tries to drive Aurora out of town he is found murdered, and Don is arrested for the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-15
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A Just Punishment
1914-09-23
A Just Punishment
Overview: Uncle Preston, a financial "wizard," discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler and a swindler, who is promoting a mythical mining property, the "Battle Axe." He decides to teach his nephew a lesson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-23
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When the West Was Young
1914-09-07
When the West Was Young
Overview: Ned Halton and his young bride, Nellie, depart from the east in a prairie schooner to seek a home in the western wilds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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Chip of the Flying U
1914-08-29
Chip of the Flying U
Overview: When he's fired from his bank job aimless Claude Bennett decides to head West. Once he gets a job as a cowboy on the Flying "U" ranch he restyles himself as Chip and discovers who he really is through a series of adventures.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-29
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The Flame of the Yukon
1926-08-30
The Flame of the Yukon
Overview: George Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him. When she learns he doesn't have any money she gets him a job at a café. News of a gold strike in the Ophir area comes, and George sets out, with a dog team supplied by Flame. Meanwhile a woman comes to town, says she is Mrs. Fowler and is looking for her husband.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-30
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The Eyes of the World
1917-01-27
The Eyes of the World
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-27
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The Girl from Frisco
1916-08-09
The Girl from Frisco
Overview: A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-09
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The Bait
1921-01-02
The Bait
Overview: Crook Bennett Barton uses pretty Joan Granger as bait to blackmail millionaire John Warren.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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Mile-a-Minute Kendall
1918-05-13
Mile-a-Minute Kendall
Overview: Young Kendall struggles for acceptance in the eyes of his wealthy father, who sees him only as a layabout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-13
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Western Speed
1922-04-23
Western Speed
Overview: Lorimer is wanted for a crime he didn't commit, and "Red" has his hands full keeping the old man safe from the sheriff and his posse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-23
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The Circus Cowboy
1924-05-11
The Circus Cowboy
Overview: After a 2-year absence, Buck Saxon returns home to find his girl, Norma, married to the town's wealthiest citizen, Ezra Bagley, yet professing to love Buck. Unjustly accused of attempting to murder Bagley, he escapes and joins a circus, where he falls in love with Bird, a tightrope walker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-11
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The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy
1916-08-16
The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy
Overview: "Sidewinder Steve" returns to civilization to find that his ore specimens show he has discovered a turquoise mine. He wires his friend, Ace Brent, the capitalist, who has a half-interest in his discoveries, to furnish him with money to make the trip back across the desert to officially stake his claim. But "Lonney" Smith, telegraph operator at the town and secret spy for The Syndicate, Brent's rivals, informs his employers of the new "strike," and they dispatch their agent Meyers to thwart Brent. The latter, recovering from injuries received in a previous encounter with sheep herders, consents to allow Barbara to handle the affair. Her admirer, John Wallace, follows her to the desert town, fearing for her safety. The action then develops into a thrilling three-cornered race across the desert between Barbara and John, Lonney and Meyers, and a gang of local adventurers headed by "Dry Wash" Sexton, proprietor of the "saloon and hotel."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-16
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Shotgun Jones
1914-04-27
Shotgun Jones
Overview: Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cattle, receiving for it cash payment in bills of large denomination. He proceeds to town alone to deposit it in his bank. Two bad men, Bretall and Hayes, have learned of the deal and trail him with a view to securing the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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The Girl of My Dreams
1918-12-15
The Girl of My Dreams
Overview: A girl nicknamed "The Weed" lives with her foster parents in their mountain cabin and frequently visits a nearby health resort to sell milk and eggs. On one of her excursions, she befriends a cantankerous old millionaire, George Bassett, who later bequeaths to her his entire estate. Ralph Long's car plunges down an embankment, and he is dragged from the wreckage and looked after by the Weed, who soon captivates him with her charm and ingenuousness. While he is in the hospital, however, the lecherous Kenneth Stewart snaps a photo of the girl swimming in the nude in a mountain pool and hangs an enlargement of it in his club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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Lorna Doone
1922-10-01
Lorna Doone
Overview: In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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Don Q Son of Zorro
1925-06-15
Don Q Son of Zorro
Overview: Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the young upstart for murder, Don Cesar fakes his own death and retreats to the crumbling ruins of the family castle he plots his vengeance.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-15
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The Phantom City
1928-12-27
The Phantom City
Overview: A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-27
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The Love Thief
1916-12-17
The Love Thief
Overview: The Love Thief was later reissued as The She Tiger
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-17
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Her Country First
1918-09-22
Her Country First
Overview: During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by organizing a "Girls Aviation Corps". She has uniforms made and hires a veteran of the Spanish-American War to teach her "cadets" military routines and drills. Her father owns a munitions factory and is always telling her to be on the lookout for spies. She convinces herself that the family butler, Williams, is a spy because he cuts his grapefruit in an odd way. It turns out that Williams isn't a spy but the people whom Dorothy least suspects are in fact spies, and they discover that Dorothy knows the password to get into the factory after hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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Cameo Kirby
1923-10-20
Cameo Kirby
Overview: Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1923-10-20
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The White Circle
1920-08-22
The White Circle
Overview: Having endangered his life by foolishly gambling away funds entrusted to him by the Carbonari, an Italian secret society, London banker Bernard Huddlestone appeals to Northmour, an adventurer, for protection. Northmour takes Huddlestone and his daughter Clara to his castle in Scotland, offering them safety in return for Clara's hand in marriage. There Clara encounters Frank Cassilis, an old adversary of Northmour's, and falls in love. Trouble brews between the two men, but when the Carbonari discovers Huddlestone's hiding place and storms the castle, the fugitives band together to fight the avengers. Coming to the realization that only his sacrifice will appease the attackers, Huddlestone steps out and meets his death. Northmour, deciding that married life would prove too monotonous, gives up his claim on Clara to Cassilis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-22
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
1917-09-22
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated like a prisoner by her strict Aunt, yet she gamely does her best to get an education. When spoiled girls at school mock the spirited Rebecca as "missy poor-house," she soon makes them come to eat their words. Despite many difficulties, Rebecca manages to help the less fortunate and spread joy in Riverboro, dreaming that her reward will come when she is "all growed up." This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-22
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The Last of the Mohicans
1920-11-21
The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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The Great Redeemer
1920-10-24
The Great Redeemer
Overview: A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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The Whip
1928-09-16
The Whip
Overview: Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
The Girl in the Show
Overview: In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-30
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Show Boat
1929-07-27
Show Boat
Overview: This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-27
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Greed
1924-12-04
Greed
Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-04
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While Paris Sleeps
1923-01-21
While Paris Sleeps
Overview: Lon Chaney plays a Parisian sculptor who falls in love with his model (Mildred Manning). She, however, cares nothing for him. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
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Ladies Must Live
1921-10-29
Ladies Must Live
Overview: A societal romance drama based on an Alice Duer Miller novel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-29
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The Ship from Shanghai
1930-01-31
The Ship from Shanghai
Overview: On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-31
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The World's a Stage
1922-11-01
The World's a Stage
Overview: While playing Juliet in a barnstorming Shakespearean troupe, Jo Bishop is discovered by a motion picture director and brought to Hollywood. She becomes a star and quickly marries Wallace Foster. Another man, John Brand, also loves her, but is satisfied to remain her friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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Better Times
1919-07-13
Better Times
Overview: Ezra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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The Spoilers
1914-04-10
The Spoilers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-10
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Smouldering Fires
1925-01-18
Smouldering Fires
Overview: A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-18
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Until We Three Meet Again
1913-03-07
Until We Three Meet Again
Overview: As James Abbott, Frank Arthur and Martin Wynne, college chums, are bidding farewell to one another at the commencement ball, James discovers that May Scott, whom he loves, favors Frank. He conceals his disappointment and just before they part, he suggests that each man write on a slip of paper, to be put in the back of his watch, the words "Until we three meet again, Thursday, June 12th, ten years from today."
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-07
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The Big Punch
1921-02-13
The Big Punch
Overview: Buck, who is preparing to enter a theological seminary, aids his brother and some friends who are fleeing from justice, and thus implicated he is sent to prison for 2 years. There he meets again Hope Standish, a Salvation Army girl who had interested him. Returning home, he meets the old district circuit rider and promises to continue the circuit rider's work when he dies. The brother escapes from prison and is converted by Buck, who falls in love with Hope.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-13
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Main Street
1923-04-25
Main Street
Overview: The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-25
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Singing River
1920-11-21
Singing River
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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