Will Walling
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 01, 1872
Deathday: March 05, 1932
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The Princess from Hoboken
1927-03-01
The Princess from Hoboken
Overview: To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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The Killer
1921-01-30
The Killer
Overview: Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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While Satan Sleeps
1922-06-25
While Satan Sleeps
Overview: With the help of Red Barton (Wade Boteler), Phil (Jack Holt) makes a spectacular escape from jail. He obtains a parson's outfit from a pawnshop and shortly thereafter winds up in a barroom brawl. One of the other brawlers is Chuckwalla Bill (J.P. Lockney), the newly elected mayor of the town of Panamint.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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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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The Canyon of Light
1926-12-05
The Canyon of Light
Overview: The story begins as Tom Mills (Tom Mix) rides off to fight in WWI. Leaving his ranch in the care of his sister Ellen (Carmelita Geraghty) and her husband Ed (Carl Miller) Mills returns from the battlefield two years later to find that his brother-in-law has deserted, and the ranch is in a state of ruin and disrepair. Even worse, Ed is now top man in a vicious outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-05
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High Speed
1932-04-02
High Speed
Overview: A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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The Sin Flood
1922-11-12
The Sin Flood
Overview: Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof doors as a safeguard against an overflow of the river; when a flood comes, it appears that the entire town will be submerged. Trapped in Stratton's cafe, amongst others, are Billy Bear, a young broker, and Poppy, a chorus girl with whom he has been in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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Are Brunettes Safe?
1927-02-06
Are Brunettes Safe?
Overview: Are Brunettes Safe?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-06
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The Timber Wolf
1925-09-20
The Timber Wolf
Overview: A lumber man called the Timber Wolf comes to the aid of an old prospector.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The Gentle Cyclone
1926-06-27
The Gentle Cyclone
Overview: The story is motivated by a long-standing feud, which comes to a head when each of the warring families tries to adopt an orphan girl who is about to receive a huge inheritance.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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The Iron Horse
1924-08-24
The Iron Horse
Overview: Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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Welcome Danger
1929-10-12
Welcome Danger
Overview: A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Whispering Smith
1926-03-28
Whispering Smith
Overview: Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. "Whispering Smith," engaged by the railroad to restore order, is hesitant in dealing with Sinclair when he falls in love with Marion, Sinclair's wife, who is separated from her husband and operates a small shop in Medicine Bend. Dicksie, McCloud's sweetheart, overhears Sinclair threaten McCloud, and she rides through a storm to warn him; Smith, with the aid of Bill Dancing, tracks down Sinclair and his men, and Bill kills the villain. Dicksie and McCloud marry and take Marion under their protection.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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The Range Feud
1931-10-14
The Range Feud
Overview: Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
Genres: Mystery Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-14
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The Crimson Challenge
1922-04-02
The Crimson Challenge
Overview: In the cattle town of Lost Valley, Buck Courtrey, saloon owner and political boss, covets Tharon, daughter of Jim Last, a small rancher; and when rebuffed, he has Last killed. Tharon swears revenge with her father's own guns and organizes a vigilante band to check Courtrey's activities. Learning that she loves Billy, a cowpuncher, Courtrey kidnaps and threatens to kill him unless Tharon agrees to marry Courtrey following his divorce from Ellen. Courtrey's wife informs Tharon of Billy's whereabouts, and she rescues him in time to join the townspeople attacking Courtrey's gang. Courtrey is pursued by Tharon, who kills him and returns to become Billy's wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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The Village Blacksmith
1922-11-01
The Village Blacksmith
Overview: (survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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The Painted Desert
1931-01-18
The Painted Desert
Overview: Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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As No Man Has Loved
1925-02-11
As No Man Has Loved
Overview: Also known as The Man Without a Country
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-11
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The Devil's Saddle
1927-07-10
The Devil's Saddle
Overview: Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-10
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His Back Against the Wall
1922-05-21
His Back Against the Wall
Overview: Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-21
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Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
1924-04-16
Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
Overview: Nellie Horton, when mistreated by her father, is taken in charge by Thomas Lipton. She grows up in poverty not knowing her true identity as the heiress to her mother's millions. Upon the death of her benefactor, she becomes a model in a fashionable shop. There she falls into the hands of her mother's unscrupulous nephew, who contrives to do away with her in order to obtain her fortune. ....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-16
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The Great K&A Train Robbery
1926-10-17
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Overview: Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang he enlists the help of the hobo DeLuxe Harry.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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Abysmal Brute
1923-04-15
Abysmal Brute
Overview: A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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The Mating Call
1928-07-21
The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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Winners Of The Wilderness
1927-01-15
Winners Of The Wilderness
Overview: During the French and Indian War the Indians under Pontiac kidnap Rene. Colonel O'Hara hopes to rescue and wed her.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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The Noose
1928-01-29
The Noose
Overview: In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-29
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Clash of the Wolves
1925-11-17
Clash of the Wolves
Overview: A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girlfriend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However, the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-17
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Moby Dick
1930-09-20
Moby Dick
Overview: Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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North of Hudson Bay
1923-11-18
North of Hudson Bay
Overview: On a steamboat heading North, where his brother has struck gold, Mike Dane falls in love with Estelle MacDonald. When he arrives at the Canadian trading post, Dane learns that his brother has been murdered and his partner sentenced to death as the killer.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-18
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The Little Minister
1921-12-25
The Little Minister
Overview: In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by increasing industrialization. When Lord Rintoul attempts to rout the rebellious weavers, Babbie always manages to send word in time to prevent their being taken by surprise. Gavin, new minister to the town, falls in love with Babbie, and his relationship with the young gypsy almost costs him his position. But what Gavin and his parishioners do not know is that Babbie is actually Lady Babbie, ward of Lord Rintoul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Ridin' for Justice
1932-01-04
Ridin' for Justice
Overview: More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity with the local saloon girls becomes the talk of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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Nobody's Money
1923-01-28
Nobody's Money
Overview: Two newspapermen who wrote a successful book using a phony author have to come up with a real person when the book is a huge success. Ailing literary agent Jack Holt takes the job while his safe cracking friend tags along for the ride. Jack falls in love with the Governor's daughter just as the Governor is about to be blackmailed by the evil Drisco, who has planted $20,000 in the Governor's safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-28
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The Harvester
1927-11-07
The Harvester
Overview: The Harvester is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by James Leo Meehan and starring Orville Caldwell, Natalie Kingston and Will Walling. It is an adaptation of the 1911 novel of the same name by Gene Stratton-Porter, which was later remade as a sound film in 1936.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-07
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Womanpower
1926-09-19
Womanpower
Overview: Spoiled rich boy Johnny Bromley, goaded by the sneering laughter of the cheap Dot and by his father's open contempt, retires to a prizefighters' training camp for rehabilitation. There he meets Jenny Killian, daughter of the camp owner whose encouragement and love help him overcome the unpleasant memories of Dot's accusations of cowardice. When at last he is a success, he wins the hand of Jenny in marriage and his parent's forgiveness; upon meeting his former rival (The Broker) with Dot, he surprises him with a swift punch in the jaw.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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Ranger of the Big Pines
1925-07-26
Ranger of the Big Pines
Overview: A college graduate returns West after ten years in the East to her home in Sulfur Springs. Virginia's mother, the owner of a rooming house has turned hard and uncaring in her absence and the girl finds comfort in her friendship with Ross Cavanagh, a forest ranger. The latter runs afoul of cattle baron Sam Gregg, who resents a new tax on cattle grazing on government land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-26
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The Temple of Venus
1923-11-11
The Temple of Venus
Overview: Venus, the Goddess of Love (Celeste Lee) sends Cupid to Earth to look for romance.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-11
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Heroes of the Street
1922-12-24
Heroes of the Street
Overview: When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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The Bad Sister
1931-03-29
The Bad Sister
Overview: Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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The Siren Call
1922-09-17
The Siren Call
Overview: Love complicates the hunt for gold in 1890's Alaska.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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Without Compromise
1922-10-29
Without Compromise
Overview: When the ability of Dick Leighton (William Farnum), Sheriff of Randolph, Oregon, to enforce law and order is tested by the leader of the political opposition, he stands his ground and overpowers the unruly element.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-29
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The Jazz Singer
1927-10-06
The Jazz Singer
Overview: A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-06
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Little Robinson Crusoe
1924-08-25
Little Robinson Crusoe
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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North of the Rio Grande
1922-05-14
North of the Rio Grande
Overview: Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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Cleopatra
1928-07-07
Cleopatra
Overview: An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-07
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Dark Streets
1929-08-11
Dark Streets
Overview: Pat and Danny McGlone are identical twin brothers, rivals and competitors in everything they do, and Pat grows up and becomes a policeman while Danny turns to a life of crime. They now find themselves on the opposite sides of the law, and both are in love with a pretty Irish girl from their neighborhood, Kate Dean. Before long one has to prove that blood is thicker than water.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-11
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Riders of the North
1931-04-05
Riders of the North
Overview: In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.
Genres: Romance Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-05
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His Master's Voice
1925-09-01
His Master's Voice
Overview: A loyal dog follows his master to the front in World War One.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-01
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Two Fisted Justice
1931-10-20
Two Fisted Justice
Overview: It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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