Murdock MacQuarrie
Biography: Murdock MacQuarrie was born on August 25, 1878 in San Francisco, California, as Murdock J. MacQuarrie. He was an actor and director, known for Modern Times (1936), By the Sun's Rays (1914) and Nancy's Birthright (1916). He was married to Claire M. He died on August 22, 1942 in Los Angeles, California.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 25, 1878
Deathday: August 22, 1942
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Modern Times
1936-02-05
Modern Times
Overview: A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-05
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Shakedown
1936-07-17
Shakedown
Overview: A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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Canyon of the Fools
1923-01-21
Canyon of the Fools
Overview: Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
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Cheated Hearts
1921-12-12
Cheated Hearts
Overview: Barry Gordon, the older son of a Virginia colonel, inherits a taste for alcohol--a habit that caused his father's death. His brother, Tom, falls in love with Muriel Beekman, their guardian's daughter. Barry also loves her but feels rejected. Three years later, after extended travels, Barry learns that Tom, having been sent to Morocco by Mr. Beekman, has been captured by desert marauders and is being held for ransom. He begins a search for him and in Tangiers encounters the Beekmans and Kitty Van Ness. Barry and Muriel discover their love for each other, but he refuses to commit himself while Tom is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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Tower of London
1939-11-17
Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Sure Fire
1921-11-05
Sure Fire
Overview: The rancher Jeff Bransford returns to his ancestral acres and finds them heavily mortgaged and about to be foreclosed and is defended by hired men with guns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-05
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Smoky Trails
1939-03-03
Smoky Trails
Overview: Trailing the men that murdered his father, Bob Archer finds a man in a gunfight. He helps him to escape only to be knocked out by him and captured by the Sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Pinto Rustlers
1936-05-14
Pinto Rustlers
Overview: Tom Evans is a young cowboy orphaned by a band of rustlers. Seeking revenge, Tom pretends to be a notorious ex-con and manages to worm his way into the gang in order to get the goods on the bunch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-14
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When Lightning Strikes
1934-12-18
When Lightning Strikes
Overview: Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-18
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The Penal Code
1932-12-23
The Penal Code
Overview: A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Discord and Harmony
1914-03-16
Discord and Harmony
Overview: Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The End of the Feud
1914-04-12
The End of the Feud
Overview: For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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A Ranch Romance
1914-07-08
A Ranch Romance
Overview: Raphael Praz kidnaps heroine Kate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-08
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If I Were Queen
1922-10-15
If I Were Queen
Overview: While studying in Paris, Princess Oluf of Kosnia (Andree LeJon) befriends an American girl, Ruth Townley (Clayton), and gives her a locket bearing her name and the royal coat of arms. When Ruth accidentally drops the locket off a balcony, it is returned by a handsome stranger. Back home in Kosnia, Oluf wants to get married, but her choice of mate is challenged by Valdemir, the ruler of a neighboring principality (Warner Baxter).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Ways of Fate
1913-04-19
The Ways of Fate
Overview: Two men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-19
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The Old Doctor
1915-05-23
The Old Doctor
Overview: Obscured by modesty and the ethics of the old school, old Doctor Jones, a master of his profession, pursues his practice in the village of Condon. A shunner of publicity and fame, his wife's work is wrapped up in promoting the welfare of his fellow-beings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-23
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The Wall of Money
1913-09-21
The Wall of Money
Overview: One day, Harry, who also works at the mill and with whom Wally is living, is badly hurt. Wally in his working clothes goes to his father and explained how dangerous it is for any man to work in the mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-21
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The Return of Chandu
1934-10-01
The Return of Chandu
Overview: Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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The Laramie Kid
1935-06-01
The Laramie Kid
Overview: When Morley has his own bank robbed, Tom tries to break it up. Mistaken for one of the gang, he is caught and sentenced to a chain gang. His girlfriend Peggy then sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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When a Woman Strikes
1919-04-01
When a Woman Strikes
Overview: A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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Chandu on the Magic Island
1935-01-01
Chandu on the Magic Island
Overview: On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Wild Girl
1932-11-09
Wild Girl
Overview: Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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The Tonto Kid
1934-08-14
The Tonto Kid
Overview: Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the only living relative. Then when the Tonto Kid finds platinum on the ranch, Creech frames him for murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-14
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Ghost Town Law
1942-03-27
Ghost Town Law
Overview: When two of their Marshal friends are killed, the Rough Riders are sent to investigate. They have to find the killers in a ghost town where the houses and an old mine are interconnected by secret passages and tunnels.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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The Oubliette
1914-08-14
The Oubliette
Overview: Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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By the Sun's Rays
1914-07-21
By the Sun's Rays
Overview: The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-21
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Ashes of Vengeance
1923-08-06
Ashes of Vengeance
Overview: This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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North of Arizona
1935-02-02
North of Arizona
Overview: Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs on as a ranch foreman, but learns the ranch is the home of the crooks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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Ghost Town Riders
1938-12-16
Ghost Town Riders
Overview: Molly Taylor owns the town of Stillwell but is unaware the taxes are due as Gomer has stolen her notice. Bob Martin arrives at the same time as Molly and eventually realizes Gomer is up to something. When Gomer's henchman slips and reveals there is a letter, Bob finds it and heads for the tax collector with Gomer's men in pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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The Hidden Woman
1922-04-02
The Hidden Woman
Overview: Ann Wesley, a wealthy society girl is loved by Bart Andrews. Andrews reproaches Ann for her frivolity and believes she has a better self hidden within her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-02
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Bride of Frankenstein
1935-04-20
Bride of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Son of the Border
1933-05-05
Son of the Border
Overview: An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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Gangs Inc.
1941-06-13
Gangs Inc.
Overview: Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local crime organization.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1913-11-01
The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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The Fighting Texan
1937-06-01
The Fighting Texan
Overview: A rancher finds that his stock of horses is mysteriously being depleted, and discovers that a ranch near him has had a sudden upsurge in its horse population.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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Back to the Woods
1937-05-14
Back to the Woods
Overview: Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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The Two Gun Man
1931-05-15
The Two Gun Man
Overview: Marshals Blackie and Joe, posing as two-gun men, hire on at Markham's ranch. They are after Tulliver and his gang of rustlers. But unknown to the two, Tulliver has planted Thorn on the ranch and he kills the foreman Riggs and puts the blame on Blackie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-15
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The Arizona Terror
1931-09-13
The Arizona Terror
Overview: Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the murder. The Arizonian escapes the law and joins up with the outlaw Vasquez. Knowing Porter's scheme, he plans to trap him by using Vasquez as the next buyer.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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Captain of the Guard
1930-03-28
Captain of the Guard
Overview: In this operetta, the captain of the king's guard secretly works for the rebellion during the French Revolution and is in love with the movement's symbolic leader.
Genres: War Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-28
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Command Performance
1931-01-19
Command Performance
Overview: Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-19
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1933-07-13
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
Overview: When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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Terror of the Plains
1934-11-22
Terror of the Plains
Overview: A ranch hand sets out to prove his father is innocent of murder in this B-movie Western starring cowboy hero Tom Tyler. Disguised as an outlaw, Tom Lansing (Tyler) takes up with a motley crew hiding out in a ghost town to catch the true killer. This 1934 classic co-stars Frank Rice as Lansing's sidekick, Banty, and Roberta Gale as Bess, a beautiful young captive of the outlaw gang who is in desperate need of a hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-22
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Stormy Trails
1936-12-23
Stormy Trails
Overview: A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit turns out to be a former ranch hand who was suing him. The rancher is arrested for murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-23
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The Forbidden Room
1914-06-20
The Forbidden Room
Overview: Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Man from Hell
1934-08-28
The Man from Hell
Overview: A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough western town where he finds trouble everywhere.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-28
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Stand Up and Fight
1939-01-06
Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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At the Circus
1939-10-20
At the Circus
Overview: Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter's accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-20
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939-07-31
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Overview: Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-31
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Death Rides the Range
1939-12-14
Death Rides the Range
Overview: A wounded archaeologist crawls into the camp of three kindhearted cowboys. When the cowboys bring him to a nearby trading post, he's murdered after he lets slip a secret about a hidden cave. Investigating his death, Ken and his friends encounter a land dispute between a pair of neighboring ranches, an arrogant German baron and a mysterious shack that houses a great secret.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
1914-05-01
The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Overview: American silent short movie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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Fury
1936-06-05
Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Stone of Silver Creek
1935-04-14
Stone of Silver Creek
Overview: In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Pinto Canyon
1940-04-30
Pinto Canyon
Overview: In his final Western for Poverty Row's Metropolitan Pictures, Bob Steele played Bob Hall, a lawman looking into a series of cattle rustlings. The leader of the rustlers, rancher Farley (Ted Adams), hires killer Pete Childers (George Cheseboro) to impersonate a deputy sheriff and gain Sheriff Hall's confidence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-30
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The Phantom Stage
1939-02-10
The Phantom Stage
Overview: Bob Carson and sidekick Grizzly take a job driving a stage for a line that is being repeatedly robbed. The culprits place a large box on the stage in which Runt can hide and steal the gold without the driver or guard knowing it. When Bob realizes what is happening, he replaces Runt in the box in hope of catching the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-10
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The Gambling Sex
1932-11-21
The Gambling Sex
Overview: A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-21
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Wolf Call
1939-05-22
Wolf Call
Overview: A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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Boys of the City
1940-07-15
Boys of the City
Overview: Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-15
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Prison Shadows
1936-07-17
Prison Shadows
Overview: A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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The Shadow
1940-01-05
The Shadow
Overview: The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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Ride Him, Cowboy
1932-08-27
Ride Him, Cowboy
Overview: John Drury saves Duke, a wild horse accused of murder, and trains him. When he discovers that the real murderer, a bad guy known as The Hawk, is the town's leading citizen, Drury arrested on a fraudulent charge.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-27
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Going Bye-Bye!
1934-06-23
Going Bye-Bye!
Overview: In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has helped to send him to prison. Frightened, the boys plan to leave town and advertise for someone to share expenses with them. The woman who answers the ad is actually Butch's girlfriend. Meanwhile Butch escapes and hides in a trunk in his girlfriend's apartment where he gets locked inside. Not realizing who it is, Stan and Ollie finally manage to get the trunk open and then Butch exacts his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Her Moment
1918-07-01
Her Moment
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Sundown Trail
1931-09-11
Sundown Trail
Overview: Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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Brigham Young
1940-09-27
Brigham Young
Overview: Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two fictitious characters, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Genres: History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-27
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1913-06-01
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: American horror movie from 1913.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-01
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1943-02-10
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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The Showdown
1940-03-08
The Showdown
Overview: European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Deadwood Dick
1940-07-19
Deadwood Dick
Overview: Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-19
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One Man Law
1931-12-04
One Man Law
Overview: Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranchers, Thompson and Judge Cooper look for a legal device to stop him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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The House of the Seven Gables
1940-04-12
The House of the Seven Gables
Overview: In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-12
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The Unfoldment
1922-01-01
The Unfoldment
Overview: Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following their father's death. Osborne's city editor, Charles MacLaughlin, who is hated and feared by his business associates, is strongly attracted to Katherine, who accepts his mother's invitation to dinner. In spite of his ruthless manner Katherine tries to change the atheistic views of "Mac" and his embittered crippled brother, Angus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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An Angel from Texas
1940-04-27
An Angel from Texas
Overview: A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-27
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The Mummy's Hand
1940-09-20
The Mummy's Hand
Overview: A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
Genres: Horror Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-20
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Cowboys from Texas
1939-11-29
Cowboys from Texas
Overview: Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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I'll Name the Murderer
1936-01-26
I'll Name the Murderer
Overview: Gossip columnist Tommy Tilton, who excels in slinging nonsense about, is not a timid bluffer when it comes to coaxing out a murderer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-26
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Diamond Jim
1935-09-01
Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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The Shadow of the Eagle
1932-02-01
The Shadow of the Eagle
Overview: The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Jackass Mail
1942-07-01
Jackass Mail
Overview: An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-01
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Man from Montana
1941-09-05
Man from Montana
Overview: A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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Panthea
1917-01-07
Panthea
Overview: A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-07
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The Only Woman
1924-10-25
The Only Woman
Overview: A 1924 film directed by Sidney Olcott.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-25
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Smoking Guns
1934-06-11
Smoking Guns
Overview: Accused of a murder he did not commit, Ken leaves the country. Three years later Evans finds him in the jungle. When Evans dies, Ken seeing the resemblance, assumes his identity and returns to clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-11
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Near the Trail's End
1931-09-20
Near the Trail's End
Overview: Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-20
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The Omaha Trail
1942-09-01
The Omaha Trail
Overview: The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Silent Valley
1935-05-02
Silent Valley
Overview: A sheriff tracking a gang of rustlers discovers that one of them is the brother of his fiance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-02
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The Devil Plays
1931-12-15
The Devil Plays
Overview: A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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Richelieu
1914-09-26
Richelieu
Overview: Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-26
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Woman of the Year
1942-02-05
Woman of the Year
Overview: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Cross Fire
1933-05-28
Cross Fire
Overview: Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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Troopers Three
1930-02-23
Troopers Three
Overview: Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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Cat People
1942-12-05
Cat People
Overview: A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
Genres: Mystery Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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The Jury's Secret
1938-01-16
The Jury's Secret
Overview: A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-16
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1918-09-01
Riders of the Purple Sage
Overview: Lassiter quits the Texas Rangers and spends his life in pursuit of a group of Mormons who kidnapped his married sister. In a town on the Utah border, he meets the Withersteens and falls in love with their daughter, Jane. He also befriends Venters, and helps him track down some bandits who have been rustling the Withersteens' cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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Fear Not
1917-11-26
Fear Not
Overview: Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing. James rises to the position of judge, but when Allen is brought into his court on drug charges, James resigns. The two brothers, along with James's daughter, Hilda, then retire to the country to fight their desire for drugs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-26
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Jacques of the Silver North
1919-06-09
Jacques of the Silver North
Overview: "Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter of the owner of the trading post. When fugitive Joseph Treffery (Captain C.A. Van Auker) happens into town, Memory hides him from the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-09
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Soul of the Slums
1931-11-15
Soul of the Slums
Overview: A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his stretch and vows to find those responsible for framing him. Meanwhile he sets up a mission in the slums he came from, and falls in love with a girl he meets there.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-15
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931-12-24
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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The New Frontier
1935-10-25
The New Frontier
Overview: In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In one such, citizens elect Milt Dawson to challenge the self-appointed rule of gambler Ace Holmes, only to have him shot in the back. But leading the next batch of settlers is Milt's quick-on-the-draw son John, who gets help from friendly outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-25
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Daring Danger
1932-06-22
Daring Danger
Overview: A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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Hell Bound
1931-05-01
Hell Bound
Overview: Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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Great Guy
1936-12-01
Great Guy
Overview: A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Silver Horde
1920-05-09
The Silver Horde
Overview: A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-09
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Black Jack
1927-09-25
Black Jack
Overview: Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler all have a piece of a silver dollar with each piece having a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil has to rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from the rustlers. The sheriffs's pose captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine ensuring their claim to the mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Honor of the West
1939-01-13
Honor of the West
Overview: Sheriff Bob Bartlett is called away from the rodeo to apprehend cattle rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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The Scarlet Letter
1913-05-17
The Scarlet Letter
Overview: Poor Hester Prynne finds herself most unwelcome in England.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-17
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Les Misérables
1935-04-20
Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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