Theodore Lorch
Biography: Theodore Lorch (September 29, 1873 – November 12, 1947) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1908 and 1947.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 29, 1873
Deathday: November 12, 1947
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Flash Gordon
1936-04-06
Flash Gordon
Overview: Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-06
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The Empire Builders
1924-03-01
The Empire Builders
Overview: Australian Rex [Snowy] Baker stars in this USA film. Rex as Captain William Ballard of the Territorials is sent to make a treaty with the natives. But he meets resistance from the Boers, still unreconciled to British rule.Love interest is Katryn van der Poel [Margaret Landis] Theodore Lorch plays Hendrik van der Poel Pinckney Harrison as Karui the king. J.P. Lockney as the friendly "treader". And as the "baddy" Fritz van Roon played by Jere Austin. After fighting and horse riding and rescues "Rex" wins the natives over to the British way of life, and "gets" the girl!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Wild Blood
1929-02-10
Wild Blood
Overview: It seems that an evil saloon owner not only wants this valuable steed for himself, but also its owner, the beautiful Mary Ellis. Enter honest gambler Jack Crosby, who wants to settle the score.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-10
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Rustler's Paradise
1935-05-01
Rustler's Paradise
Overview: Cheyenne joins El Diablo's gang looking for his long time missing wife and daughter. After saving Romero from the gang he returns to get Connie who he now realizes is his daughter. Captured, he escapes with Connie and they return to Romero's just ahead of El diablo's attacking gang.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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His Fighting Blood
1935-10-14
His Fighting Blood
Overview: A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang, the gang orders his death--and tells his brother to kill him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-14
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Blake of Scotland Yard
1937-01-30
Blake of Scotland Yard
Overview: Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the "Scorpion".
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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Bad Man of Deadwood
1941-09-05
Bad Man of Deadwood
Overview: Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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Uncivil Warriors
1935-04-26
Uncivil Warriors
Overview: Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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The Lightning Warrior
1931-11-01
The Lightning Warrior
Overview: A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Italian Love
1920-03-08
Italian Love
Overview: Ethelyn Gibson has run away from daddy Ted Lorch because he wants to sell her to Leo White, King of Little Italy, for his music hall. So she dresses as a man and runs into Billy West in this scattershot burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-08
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Sailor Izzy Murphy
1927-10-08
Sailor Izzy Murphy
Overview: Izzy Murphy is a street vendor of scents that falls in love with the beautiful woman (Audrey Ferris) whose picture adorns the perfume bottle he sells. After resourcefully tracing the beauty (whose father(Warner Oland) manufactures the perfume to a luxury yacht, he finds himself in the company of an escaped lunatic John Miljan) who has vowed to murder the perfume manufacturer in retaliation for all the flowers that have been lost in the making of the perfume.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-08
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Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
1936-10-14
Rip Roarin' Buckaroo
Overview: Fighter "Scotty" McQuade, contender for the light-heavyweight championship of the Pacific Coast,after being duped by his manager Ted Todd and fight-promoter Lew Slater, is disgusted with the fight game and decides to go back to punching cattle. He gets a job on the ranch owned by Colonel Hayden, where he once again encounters Slater, who has a crooked deal going that will cause Hayden to lose his ranch. With the aid of the Colonel's daughter, Betty Rose, and his pal "Frozen-Face" Cohen, McQuade breaks jail on a framed charge and puts an end to Slater's crooked dealings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-14
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1935-10-18
The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-18
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The President's Mystery
1936-09-28
The President's Mystery
Overview: The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-28
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Come and Get It
1936-11-06
Come and Get It
Overview: An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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The Fugitive Sheriff
1936-10-19
The Fugitive Sheriff
Overview: Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election. Dissatisfied with this, the villains contrive to frame Ken on a murder charge. He breaks out of jail and tracks down the genuine culprit,
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-19
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Rebellion
1936-10-27
Rebellion
Overview: In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-27
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Black Gold
1936-01-19
Black Gold
Overview: Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-19
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Here Comes Trouble
1948-03-15
Here Comes Trouble
Overview: A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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My Brother Talks to Horses
1947-02-04
My Brother Talks to Horses
Overview: Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses--and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is telling the truth, he attracts the interest of gambler Rich Roeder who needs a "sure thing" in the upcoming Preakness. Meanwhile, Lewie's older brother John carries on a romance with the lovely Martha.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-04
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Deception
1946-10-26
Deception
Overview: After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-26
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939-12-29
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-29
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Bowery at Midnight
1942-10-30
Bowery at Midnight
Overview: A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Genres: Crime Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough
1941-09-20
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Overview: A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-20
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Red River Range
1938-12-22
Red River Range
Overview: The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Butch Minds the Baby
1942-03-20
Butch Minds the Baby
Overview: Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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I Am the Law
1938-08-25
I Am the Law
Overview: With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-25
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Kentucky Moonshine
1938-05-20
Kentucky Moonshine
Overview: The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
1938-05-27
The Fighting Devil Dogs
Overview: Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Maid's Night Out
1938-03-03
Maid's Night Out
Overview: A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Idol of the Crowds
1937-09-30
Idol of the Crowds
Overview: Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-30
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The Toast of New York
1937-07-22
The Toast of New York
Overview: After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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Alcatraz Island
1937-10-13
Alcatraz Island
Overview: A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Genres: Romance Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Confession
1937-08-19
Confession
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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The Drunkard
1935-04-03
The Drunkard
Overview: An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-03
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If a Body Meets a Body
1945-08-30
If a Body Meets a Body
Overview: Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-30
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The Galloping Ghost
1931-09-01
The Galloping Ghost
Overview: A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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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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The Shadow of Silk Lennox
1935-12-11
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
Overview: A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter tries to run off with the gang's latest haul.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-11
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We Want Our Mummy
1939-02-24
We Want Our Mummy
Overview: The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Spook Louder
1943-04-02
Spook Louder
Overview: The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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Uncivil War Birds
1946-03-29
Uncivil War Birds
Overview: The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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The Pride of the Yankees
1942-07-14
The Pride of the Yankees
Overview: The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-14
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Wildcat Trooper
1936-07-01
Wildcat Trooper
Overview: A Royal Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in a criminal called "The Raven." The problem is that no one has ever seen him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-01
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Blake of Scotland Yard
1937-01-30
Blake of Scotland Yard
Overview: A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
Genres: Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-30
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Lost Ranch
1937-07-10
Lost Ranch
Overview: Cattlemen's Protective Association agent Tom Wade and his partner Happy are assigned to look into the disappearance of rancher John Carroll, who has been abducted by Carson, who wants to use his out-of-the-way ranch as a base for his smuggling operations. Complications arise as Carrol's daughter, Rita, looking for him, has an unfriendly run-in with Wade, then later is herself kidnapped by Carson.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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Gunfire
1934-06-01
Gunfire
Overview: The second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Aces Wild
1936-12-21
Aces Wild
Overview: Cheyenne rides into Durango and runs into his old enemy Kelton. Kelton's game is to bring his safe to a town without a bank and let the townspeople put their valuables in it. Then he grabs the loot and flees. But Cheyenne is on to his scheme and finding the safe empty, gets the Sheriff to join in the chase.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-21
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The Canyon of Adventure
1928-04-21
The Canyon of Adventure
Overview: Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian aren't going to keep statehood-for-California from becoming a reality. Bancroft uses his guns to settle any debates regarding international laws.
Genres: Action Western Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-21
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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 Royal Rider
1929-02-17
The Royal Rider
Overview: Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The king is greatly impressed with the American cowboys and makes them his palace guard. The prime minister starts a revolution, and Dick and the Americans put it down. The boy king sanctions a romance between Scott and Ruth Elliott, the royal governess.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Romance Rides the Range
1936-09-01
Romance Rides the Range
Overview: Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arriving there with his double-talking friend Shorty, Barry learns that a parcel of his vast ranch has been fraudulently sold to Carol Marland and her ailing (and tiresome) young brother Johnny. Pretending he is only the foreman, and having his cowhands go along with it,Barry allows Carol and her whining, growing-ever-more-tiresome brother to believe that they are the actual owners in order to give him a free hand in running down the swindlers who victimized Carol who, with a brother like hers, was a victim to begin with.Barry learns that brothers Clem and Jonas Allen are the villains and,through a ruse in which they are led to believe there is a hidden treasure on the land they sold Carol, they try to buy it back bidding against Barry, who forces the price up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Two Minutes to Play
1936-11-02
Two Minutes to Play
Overview: Martin Granville Jr., a star track-and-field athlete, has intentions of going to Claxton College, but changes his mind when he meets Pat Meredith, a co-ed at a rival college, changes his mind team and goes to college there, just as his father Martin Granville Sr., an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Granville, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-02
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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 Affairs of Cellini
1934-08-24
The Affairs of Cellini
Overview: The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Spite Marriage
1929-03-24
Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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Madame X
1937-10-01
Madame X
Overview: An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-01
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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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Gasoline Gus
1921-08-20
Gasoline Gus
Overview: Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-20
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Gasoline Gus
1921-08-20
Gasoline Gus
Overview: Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-20
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Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939-12-16
Zorro's Fighting Legion
Overview: The mysterious Don Del Oro ("Lord of Gold"), an idol of the Yaqui Indians, plans to take over the gold and become Emperor. Francisco was put in charge of a legion to combat the Yaqui tribe and protect the land, but when attacked Zorro came to his rescue. Francisco's partner recognized Zorro as the hidalgo Don Diego Vega, then ask him to take over the fighting legion as his alter-ego Zorro.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Buck Rogers
1939-04-10
Buck Rogers
Overview: Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-10
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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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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1934-07-28
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Overview: Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-28
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Stagecoach
1939-03-03
Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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We Live Again
1934-11-01
We Live Again
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Professor Beware
Overview: Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the police close on his trail he gets in and out of scrapes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Orphan of the Pecos
1937-06-04
Orphan of the Pecos
Overview: Shortly after Brand kills Gelbert, Tom Rayburn arrives on the scene and is accused of the murder. Escaping, he goes after Doc Mathews, the man that can prove his innocence. Brand is also after Mathews and intends to keep him from testifying. But Mathews is a ventriloquist and this will lead to Brand's downfall.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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The Cherokee Strip
1937-05-15
The Cherokee Strip
Overview: A singing lawyer and other homesteaders participate in the Oklahoma land rush and found the town of Big Rock, but the fast-growing frontier settlement quickly becomes embroiled in political and business corruption. Director Noel Smith's 1937 western stars Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, Tommy Bupp, Ed Cobb, Frank Faylen, Tom Brower and Milton Kibbee.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-15
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The Glass Key
1942-09-08
The Glass Key
Overview: A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-08
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Two Heads on a Pillow
1934-10-02
Two Heads on a Pillow
Overview: A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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The Gallant Fool
1933-05-28
The Gallant Fool
Overview: The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the city, and that their presence is not desired by the local potentate. This incomprehensible hatred is equaled only by the Kit 's father's contempt for women. Kit, who criticized his father's contemptuous attitude towards Alicia, his girlfriend, Kit's father tells him of the drama he lived in Big Ben many years earlier.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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Goofy Movies Number One
1933-12-23
Goofy Movies Number One
Overview: The first part of this short is a "Metrophony" newsreel. It contains actual newsreel footage with humorous commentary (e.g., a flotilla of gondolas is parodied as being the Harvard/Yale regatta). The second part parodies silent movies with a film called "Minnie the Pretzel Twister" starring 'Cynthia Goosefeather.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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Sweet Adeline
1926-01-14
Sweet Adeline
Overview: A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben wins the affections of pretty neighbor Adeline. Ben wins out when the trip on which Bill has sent him becomes a great success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-14
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Ginsberg the Great
1927-11-26
Ginsberg the Great
Overview: Johnny Ginsberg (George Jessel) is a tailor's assistant whose ambition is to become a successful conjurer/magician. He joins a carnival and fails but not before apprehending a gang of jewel thieves and gaining the love of Mary (Audrey Ferris), the girl he adores.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-26
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The Runaway Bride
1930-05-04
The Runaway Bride
Overview: Mary Gray elopes to Atlantic City, NJ, but begins having second thoughts about the marriage. Then she becomes inexplicably locked in her hotel room, and a series of cops, robbers and kidnappers passes through. Desperate, Mary trusts the shifty chambermaid Clara who whisks her away to the mansion of wealthy George Blaine. There, Mary must pretend to be a lowly cook, but that seems better than sticking with the guy she was engaged to.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-04
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The Better 'Ole
1926-10-23
The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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Cheyenne Rides Again
1937-02-01
Cheyenne Rides Again
Overview: A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-01
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This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
This Land Is Mine
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Keg o' My Heart
1933-11-11
Keg o' My Heart
Overview: Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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Gambling Ship
1933-06-23
Gambling Ship
Overview: Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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The Lady in Question
1940-08-07
The Lady in Question
Overview: When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-07
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Tracked by the Police
1927-05-07
Tracked by the Police
Overview: The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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The Girl in 419
1933-05-26
The Girl in 419
Overview: A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-26
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The Sphinx
1933-06-01
The Sphinx
Overview: A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Rocket Ship
1938-03-05
Rocket Ship
Overview: A heavy condensation of the 1936 serial Flash Gordon, with altered musical score. Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-05
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Jesse James at Bay
1941-10-17
Jesse James at Bay
Overview: When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Half-Wits Holiday
1947-01-09
Half-Wits Holiday
Overview: A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-09
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The Hot Scots
1948-07-08
The Hot Scots
Overview: The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-08
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Careful Please
1926-02-07
Careful Please
Overview: A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-07
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The Remarkable Andrew
1942-03-05
The Remarkable Andrew
Overview: When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Grief Street
1931-10-01
Grief Street
Overview: A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with its door and window locked from the inside.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Arsène Lupin
1932-02-26
Arsène Lupin
Overview: A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris, he even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the police, led by the great Guerchard, think they know Arsene Lupin's identity, and they have a secret weapon to catch him.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Her Lucky Day
1920-04-01
Her Lucky Day
Overview: Alice Howell comedy short
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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His Wooden Legacy
1920-04-01
His Wooden Legacy
Overview: A woman played by Alice Howell receives an inheritance from her grandfather of his wooden leg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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Across the Pacific
1926-10-02
Across the Pacific
Overview: Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-02
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Sailor Maid
1937-02-12
Sailor Maid
Overview: An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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Dangerous Pleasure
1925-02-11
Dangerous Pleasure
Overview: This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-11
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Badman's Territory
1946-05-04
Badman's Territory
Overview: After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-04
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Body and Soul
1947-11-11
Body and Soul
Overview: Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-11
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Marked Woman
1937-04-10
Marked Woman
Overview: In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-10
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Spaceship to the Unknown
1966-01-01
Spaceship to the Unknown
Overview: A heavy condensation of the original serial compresses the original thirteen episodes into an efficient 97 minute feature. Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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Mad Love
1935-07-12
Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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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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Where the Worst Begins
1925-11-01
Where the Worst Begins
Overview: Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom. While Jane is negotiating with the senior Van Dorn, his son is kidnapped by two bandits. Donald soon escapes and seeks out Jane, with whom he has fallen in love. After Donald rescues Janes from the bandits, they decide to marry and spend their honeymoon in New York City.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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The Man from Arizona
1932-10-21
The Man from Arizona
Overview: A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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Honor of the Mounted
1932-06-20
Honor of the Mounted
Overview: Tom Halliday of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no credentials, has to cross the border in order to find and capture the killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-20
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
1935-01-25
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Overview: Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Black Beauty
1933-04-01
Black Beauty
Overview: Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has staked its fortune. However, the horse is injured racing for a doctor when its owner is hurt, and it looks like it won't recover in time to compete in the race.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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The Fugitive
1933-07-15
The Fugitive
Overview: A half a million dollars has been stolen and stashed away and prison inmate Dutch knows where it is. So Government Agent Joe goes to prison and makes friends with Dutch. When Joe breaks them out, Dutch leads them to the money only to find it gone. But Dutch's old gang is on hand and they haven't found it either.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-15
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Blue Steel
1934-05-10
Blue Steel
Overview: When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-10
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Journey Into Faith
1943-11-03
Journey Into Faith
Overview: Depiction of events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion and His post-resurrection appearance to two followers on the road to Emmaus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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Vagabond Lady
1935-05-03
Vagabond Lady
Overview: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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