Herbert Heyes
Biography: Washington born, Herbert Heyes was an American screen and television actor who starred in an array of movies during his career which spanned from 1915 to 1958. (His earlier stage career began sometime circa 1906-1908.) He appeared in approximately 100 films, including the 1947 holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street. Heyes died in 1958 in California, USA.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 01, 1889
Deathday: May 31, 1958
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Behind Locked Doors
1948-09-13
Behind Locked Doors
Overview: Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from prosecution so long as he pretends to be crazy. To get the goods on Drake, private detective Ross Stewart has himself committed to the asylum as a patient. Meanwhile, reporter Kathy Lawrence, posing as Stewart's wife, acts as his liaison to the outside world.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-13
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Miracle on 34th Street
1947-06-04
Miracle on 34th Street
Overview: Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-04
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Park Row
1952-09-01
Park Row
Overview: In New York's 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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A Place in the Sun
1951-06-12
A Place in the Sun
Overview: A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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The Seven Little Foys
1955-09-30
The Seven Little Foys
Overview: Vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, who has vowed to forever keep his act a solo, falls in love with and marries Italian ballerina Madeleine. While they continue to tour the circuit, they begin a family and before long have seven little Foys to clutter the wings. After tragedy threatens to stall Eddie's career, he comes to realize that his little terrors are worth their weight in gold. - Chris Stone
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-30
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Wolves of the North
1921-04-16
Wolves of the North
Overview: Aurora, daughter of Professor Norris, a student of Eskimo culture in the region of Unalik on the southeast coast of Alaska, is devoted to David, a youth of weak character who has been reared in the family, and she is aloof to other men. "Wiki" Jack, primitive and passionate, sets out to win her despite her unconcealed disdain for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-16
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The Tiger Woman
1917-02-18
The Tiger Woman
Overview: Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F. Roseman), sells state secrets to a spy to pay her exorbitant bills, and her response is to report him to the secret police. Then she runs off to Monte Carlo with her lover, Count Zerstoff (Emil deVarney), but she poisons him after he racks up a load of gambling losses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-18
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The Land of Jazz
1920-12-01
The Land of Jazz
Overview: Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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New York Confidential
1955-02-15
New York Confidential
Overview: Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-15
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Union Station
1950-10-04
Union Station
Overview: Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-04
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955-08-18
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Overview: A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-18
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950-08-19
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Overview: Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-19
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Ruby Gentry
1952-12-25
Ruby Gentry
Overview: A sexy but poor young girl marries a rich man she doesn't love, but carries a torch for another man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Salome
1918-08-10
Salome
Overview: Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah. (Film presumed lost.)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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Detective Kitty O'Day
1944-05-13
Detective Kitty O'Day
Overview: Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-13
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The Straight Way
1916-09-18
The Straight Way
Overview: Deserted by her husband, John Madison, because he incorrectly accuses her of having an affair, Mary Madison goes to her aunt's house to have her baby, and then loses her memory in a train wreck. John, however, hears that she has died, so he takes possession of their infant daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-18
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The Slave
1917-06-03
The Slave
Overview: Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she marries the man, who turns vicious and keeps her locked up in his mansion. He finally dies, and Caroline starts out having a good time with his money, but she sees the folly of her ways. She wakes up from the dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-03
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The Victim
1916-12-25
The Victim
Overview: Ruth Merrill and her father both are serving prison terms but her's is lighter and she is released. She becomes the wife of the wealthy Dr. Richard Boulton, who knows nothing of her past. Ruth's father escapes from prison and the unscrupulous detective, the same one who sent both to prison while knowing Ruth was innocent, is sent on Merrill's trail.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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Campus Rhythm
1943-11-19
Campus Rhythm
Overview: Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-19
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943-11-05
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Overview: A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Three Guys Named Mike
1951-03-01
Three Guys Named Mike
Overview: A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Winning a Bride
1919-10-11
Winning a Bride
Overview: A ranch foreman wins a series of events at a frontier day rodeo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-11
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Sincerely Yours
1955-11-05
Sincerely Yours
Overview: He dazzled America for decades with his musical artistry. Now fans as well as those curious about this exciting entertainer’s unique appeal can relive the Liberace magic in his only starring film, Sincerely Yours. In a poignant story scripted by Irving Wallace, Liberace plays a concert pianist threatened by deafness. Plunged into despair, he finds escape from personal sorrow by secretly involving himself in the problems of strangers. Liberace touches the heart and delights the ear with sparkling renditions of 31 selections from Chopin to Chopsticks. Along the way he romances Joanne Dru and Dorothy Malone, trades barbs with old pro William Demarest and in a warmly humorous nightclub scene, pokes fun at his own image as the 1950s matinee idol of the little-old-lady set. From beginning to end, Sincerely Yours perfectly captures the charisma and sheer musicality of the legendary Mr. Showmanship.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-05
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Let's Do It Again
1953-06-16
Let's Do It Again
Overview: Composer Gary Stuart (Ray Milland) and his wife, Connie (Jane Wyman), have an argument over her alleged affair with Courtney Craig (Tom Helmore). The Stuarts agree to get divorced, and each tries to move on to a new love: Gary with socialite Deborah Randolph (Karin Booth) and Connie with businessman Frank McGraw (Aldo Ray). However, they start to realize that they still have strong feelings for each other. The Stuarts must make a decision before their divorce is final.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-16
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One Stolen Night
1923-01-29
One Stolen Night
Overview: Diantha Ebberly travels with her parents to the edge of the Sahara to meet her longtime betrothed, Herbert Medford, whom she has never seen. She is rescued from a swarm of beggars by an "Arab," then meets him again when she slips out at night in native dress. They fall in love, but Diantha is abducted by Sheik Amud, then returned safely home by the "Arab." The next morning Diantha discovers her fiancé and lover to be one and the same.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-29
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
1955-12-31
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Overview: A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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The Darling of Paris
1917-01-22
The Darling of Paris
Overview: This film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and presumed lost: The wealthy girl Esmeralda is kidnapped by gypsies at birth and becomes, as one might assume, the darling of Paris. She is loved by the bell ringer and former hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo, the wicked surgeon who cares him, and an equally wicked Captain Phoebus.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-22
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Teen Age
1944-06-17
Teen Age
Overview: Teen-Age is another "exposé" film of the 1940s, cheaply made but widely distributed. In the guise of a warning against wartime juvenile delinquency, the film offers the exploitational tale of a bunch of wild, unsupervised kids at large in a small community. With nothing but time on their hands, the young protagonists become involved with petty theft, inevitably leading to some pretty serious consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-17
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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
1943-04-30
Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Overview: When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-30
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The Vixen
1916-12-03
The Vixen
Overview: In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin). She continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray (Herbert Heyes) (again stolen from Helen) - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune. (filmsite.org)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-03
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Death Valley Manhunt
1943-11-25
Death Valley Manhunt
Overview: Unknown to oil company president Ross, his man Quinn is pulling a swindle on the independent drillers. Quinn controls both the Judge and the Marshal. But when the Marshal is accidentally killed, Wild Bill Elliott is brought in as the new Marshal and things begin to change.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-25
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Something to Live For
1952-03-07
Something to Live For
Overview: Advertising executive Alan Miller, a recovered alcoholic who now does interventions on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous, is called to help Broadway actress Jenny Carey whose developing career is threatened by an increasing dependence on alcohol. Alan's growing interest in Jenny strains his marriage to Edna, with whom he has two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Between Us Girls
1942-09-04
Between Us Girls
Overview: A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Million Dollar Kid
1944-02-28
Million Dollar Kid
Overview: The gang is friend with a millionaire because they saved him from an agression. However, the gang is suspecting that the man's son was actually one of the agressors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-28
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The Fighting Seabees
1944-01-27
The Fighting Seabees
Overview: Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-27
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Only the Valiant
1951-04-13
Only the Valiant
Overview: Only the Valiant, a classic western adventure, based on a novel by Charles Marquis Warren, the film tells the story of a Cavalry officer who volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-13
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The Adventures of Ruth
1919-12-28
The Adventures of Ruth
Overview: Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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Outlaws of Santa Fe
1944-04-04
Outlaws of Santa Fe
Overview: After bank robber Bob Hackett (Don "Red" Barry) learns that his real father was a marshal, he reforms and travels with his pal Buckshot (Wally Vernon) to Santa Fe, where his father was killed. When he stands up to rustlers working for Henry Jackson (Herbert Heyes), Hackett is made the new marshal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-04
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943-01-05
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Overview: A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-05
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King of the Cowboys
1943-04-09
King of the Cowboys
Overview: Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Tripoli
1950-11-09
Tripoli
Overview: In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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T-Men
1947-12-15
T-Men
Overview: Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Spy Train
1943-07-09
Spy Train
Overview: People on a train want what's in a Nazi spy bag, unaware it's a time bomb.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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Destination Unknown
1942-10-09
Destination Unknown
Overview: Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-09
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The Cobra Strikes
1948-04-24
The Cobra Strikes
Overview: A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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Bombardier
1943-05-14
Bombardier
Overview: A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-14
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Main Street Today
1944-03-25
Main Street Today
Overview: This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-25
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Mission to Moscow
1943-04-29
Mission to Moscow
Overview: Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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Man of Conflict
1953-11-04
Man of Conflict
Overview: Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power. In addition, he falls for the daughter of one of his father's poverty-stricken workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-04
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The Heart of Rachael
1918-10-04
The Heart of Rachael
Overview: Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he ignores her for the bottle. In addition, his daughter, Billy (Ella Hall), who is not much younger than Rachael, is spoiled. When Rachael meets the family doctor, Warren Gregory (Herbert Heyes), they fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-04
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Bedtime for Bonzo
1951-04-05
Bedtime for Bonzo
Overview: College prof Peter Boyd tries to salvage his professional and personal reputation by using a lab chimp to prove that environment trumps heredity in behavioral development.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-05
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It Is the Law
1924-08-31
It Is the Law
Overview: This silent mystery is considered a lost film.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-31
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It Ain't Hay
1943-03-10
It Ain't Hay
Overview: Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Under Two Flags
1916-07-31
Under Two Flags
Overview: The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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Dr. Jim
1921-11-28
Dr. Jim
Overview: Although renowned pediatrician Dr. Jim Keene loves his wife, Helen, she resents his devotion to his work and finds solace with other men. After the death of one of Jim’s young patients causes him to suffer a nervous collapse, the couple takes a sea voyage to restore his health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-28
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The Queen of Sheba
1921-04-10
The Queen of Sheba
Overview: The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-10
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Heart of the Sunset
1918-03-01
Heart of the Sunset
Overview: Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of thirst in the desert, the two fall in love. Mexican bandit Longorio, who longs to possess the beautiful Alaire, orders his men to kill her husband and take control of the ranch. The bandit captures Alaire and forces an old priest to marry them, but before the ceremony can be performed, Dave arrives and secretly marries her himself. The couple escapes and seeks refuge in a little house just inside the Mexican border, but Longorio's men pursue them and set the building on fire. Just in time, a force of United States cavalrymen arrives and conducts the couple across the Rio Grande to safety.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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The Lesson
1918-05-01
The Lesson
Overview: Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and escort, Chet Vernon. Helen is so anxious to experience life in the big city that she falls in love with visiting New York architect John Galvin almost immediately after his arrival. Several weeks later, the two marry and move to New York, where, after a series of painful experiences, Helen finally realizes John's selfishness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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The Far Horizons
1955-07-04
The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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Ruth of the Rockies
1920-08-29
Ruth of the Rockies
Overview: A young woman finds a trunk full of stolen diamonds, takes them and heads westward, pursued by the thief.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
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Carbine Williams
1952-05-01
Carbine Williams
Overview: David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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The Final Curtain
1916-02-02
The Final Curtain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-02
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Wild Oats
1916-01-19
Wild Oats
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-19
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Ever Since Eve
1921-08-28
Ever Since Eve
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-28
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