Evelyn Brent
Biography: Evelyn Brent (born Mary Elizabeth Riggs) was an American film and stage actress.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 18, 1899
Deathday: June 04, 1975
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Known For
Fast Company
1929-09-20
Fast Company
Overview: Egomaniacal baseball slugger Elmer Kane is not only good, he enjoys telling everybody how good he is. A professional scout, Bert Wade, takes an interest in Elmer, who in turn takes an interest in Evelyn Corey, an attractive actress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-20
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The Seventh Victim
1943-08-21
The Seventh Victim
Overview: A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-21
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Mr. Wong, Detective
1938-10-05
Mr. Wong, Detective
Overview: A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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Lady Robinhood
1925-07-26
Lady Robinhood
Overview: Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-26
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Forbidden Cargo
1925-02-22
Forbidden Cargo
Overview: A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahamas and the United States. Jerry Burke, a Secret Service agent assigned to the Bahamas to halt this illegal trade in rum, meets Captain Joe, whom he knows as Peggy O'Day, and falls in love with her, arousing the antipathy of Pietro, Peggy's first mate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-22
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Heart of a Painted Woman
1915-04-19
Heart of a Painted Woman
Overview: Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but finds a job as a model for a prominent artist, and soon becomes his mistress. When her lover throws her over to marry the daughter of a wealthy man, she becomes a "fallen women", a plaything for wealthy playboys. She meets Barrett, a millionaire's son, and begins to wonder if she might have a future with him, but it seems like he'll turn out to be just like "all the others".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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Framed
1930-03-16
Framed
Overview: Rose Manning swears revenge for the unjust slaying of her father by Inspector McArthur. Five years later, as a nightclub hostess, she is sought by Chuck Gaines, secretly a bootlegger, but she centers her attentions on young Jimmy Carter, who, she learns, is the son of McArthur.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-16
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Underworld
1927-08-20
Underworld
Overview: Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-20
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A Night of Mystery
1928-04-07
A Night of Mystery
Overview: Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who is now married to Rochemore, a French magistrate, to return her love letters. Leaving he witness the murder of Rochemore.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
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High Pressure
1932-01-10
High Pressure
Overview: Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-10
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Sudden Bill Dorn
1937-12-01
Sudden Bill Dorn
Overview: Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted to Lorna, his jealous girl friend has men destroy the ranch and the explosion helps uncover the gold vein.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Wide Open Town
1941-08-08
Wide Open Town
Overview: Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-08
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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
1936-10-16
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Overview: A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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The Desert Outlaw
1924-08-24
The Desert Outlaw
Overview: Tom Halloway, compelled through circumstances to become an outlaw, robs the express office on the day of his sister's arrival from the East and is seen at the scene of the crime by McTavish, a religious fanatic. Accompanying Tom in his escape from the posse is Sam Langdon, a prospector charged with McTavish's murder. He clears up the situation, wins a pardon for Tom, and wins May, Tom's sister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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The Last Command
1928-01-21
The Last Command
Overview: A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Genres: Drama History War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-21
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The Golden Eye
1948-08-29
The Golden Eye
Overview: A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable money-making machine. However, the owner, instead of being happy about his now profitable business, insists to Charlie that something is fishy and that someone is out to murder him. Charlie and his "crew" travel to the mine, pretending to be tourists staying at a nearby dude ranch so as not to arouse suspicion, and discover that the owner may well be right--it looks like the mine is being used as a cover for criminal activities, and that someone is indeed out to murder him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-29
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The Dangerous Flirt
1924-10-19
The Dangerous Flirt
Overview: The naïve Sheila Fairfax (Brent) plays with men’s emotions without fully comprehending the risks leading to several dangerous situations from which she and the man she loves to barely escape with their lives.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-19
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Dangerous Lady
1941-09-12
Dangerous Lady
Overview: Private detective 'Duke' Martindale and his wife, Phyllis, an attorney, are working together to clear a girl falsely convicted of murdering a judge. Two people who know the truth are killed and 'Duke' Is shot at. Despite some interference by Police-Sergeant Brent, and a dangerous automobile chase and 'Duke' and Phyllis finding themselves prisoners of the real murderers, the case is solved.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Help! Help! Police!
1919-04-27
Help! Help! Police!
Overview: While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with Eve Pendleton, the daughter of Edward's business rival Judson. After George prevents Pendleton from getting an option on a deal by racing in his car with his father's $100,000 deposit, Pendleton favors Eve's other suitor, Arthur Trask, whose gentlemanly manner conceals his intent to rob Eve and her wealthy friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Daughter of Shanghai
1937-12-17
Daughter of Shanghai
Overview: A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-17
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King of Gamblers
1937-04-22
King of Gamblers
Overview: Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Queen o'Diamonds
1926-01-24
Queen o'Diamonds
Overview: Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband, LeRoy Phillips, is a diamond thief. The impersonation results in Jerry's becoming innocently involved in a theft ring, and consequently she is suspected of murder. After a series of misadventures, Jerry proves her innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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The Mating Call
1928-07-21
The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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The Payoff
1942-11-24
The Payoff
Overview: The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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Panama Lady
1939-05-12
Panama Lady
Overview: A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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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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Stage Struck
1948-06-13
Stage Struck
Overview: A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-13
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The World Gone Mad
1933-04-15
The World Gone Mad
Overview: A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Showdown
1928-02-25
The Showdown
Overview: Passions run hot in the tropics as men fight over oil wells and a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-25
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The Weakness of Strength
1916-08-20
The Weakness of Strength
Overview: Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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Emergency Landing
1941-03-07
Emergency Landing
Overview: A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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Broadway
1929-05-27
Broadway
Overview: A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-27
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The Law West of Tombstone
1938-11-18
The Law West of Tombstone
Overview: A blustering gunfighter talks himself into the position of mayor in a small western town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
1926-03-19
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Overview: Mame Walsh promised their mother on her deathbed to look after little sister Janie. But Janie helps herself to everything of her sister's, be it her clothes or her men - even the money entrusted to her by fellow employees at the store they work at. Regardless, Mame can't break her promise. So when it comes to getting Janie out of trouble, big sister comes to the rescue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-19
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The Silver Horde
1930-10-24
The Silver Horde
Overview: A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-24
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The Millionaire's Double
1917-04-30
The Millionaire's Double
Overview: After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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The Pagan Lady
1931-09-07
The Pagan Lady
Overview: Dot starts out as a bartender in Havana when in walks Dingo Mike (Charles Bickford) and orders up a drink that sounds like something you'd consume on a dare. He drinks the concoction down in one swallow and also manages to outsmart Dot's boss and his rum-running hooligans. You see, Dingo is a bootlegger himself. He literally sweeps the lady off her feet and they set up housekeeping in a tropical hotel full of colorful characters, some of whom are in the bootlegging business too.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-07
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Symphony of Living
1935-01-19
Symphony of Living
Overview: Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-19
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Interference
1928-11-04
Interference
Overview: Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's "technical wizard" did not necessarily qualify him to be a director. Evelyn Brent heads the cast as scheming Deborah Kane, who sets out to blackmail Faith Marley (Doris Kenyon), the above-reproach wife of Sir John Marlay.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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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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Woman Trap
1929-09-28
Woman Trap
Overview: In Woman Trap, Hal Skelly is hard-bitten police sergeant Dan Malone, whose mission in life is to rid his community of gangsters. The revelation that Dan's own brother Ray is the secret head of all local criminal activities does not weaken Dan's resolve in the least. The barely relevant title is a reference to "heroine" Kitty Evans, the wife of a minor gang functionary. Screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz, presumably on a dare, makes a brief appearance as a crime reporter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-28
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
1936-08-01
It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Overview: When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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The Sad Horse
1959-03-01
The Sad Horse
Overview: A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Attorney for the Defense
1932-05-21
Attorney for the Defense
Overview: A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-21
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Border River
1919-10-13
Border River
Overview: A Mountie searching for known moonshiners falls in love with the sister of a man associated with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-13
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The Impostor
1926-04-18
The Impostor
Overview: The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling debts and uses a valuable family jewel as security for a loan from Prince Borkoff, but it is stolen by Morris, a gambler.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-18
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Held to Answer
1923-11-22
Held to Answer
Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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The Crusader
1932-10-04
The Crusader
Overview: Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-04
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Jungle Jim
1937-01-18
Jungle Jim
Overview: Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-18
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Daughter of the Tong
1939-08-28
Daughter of the Tong
Overview: A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Robin Hood of Monterey
1947-09-06
Robin Hood of Monterey
Overview: Eduardo Belmonte overhears his new step-mother, Maria, and her lover, Don Ricardo Gonzales plotting to take over the Belmonte rancho on the night of the fiesta given by her husband, Don Carlos Belmonte. Eduardo offers Maria money if she will depart the hacienda premises, but she refuses and then accuses Eduardo of making love to her. The old Don doesn't take kindly to his son hitting on his step-mother and attacks him in a rage. The lights go out, the father is killed and Maria blames Eduardo, who escapes from the house, chased by Ricardo's men. The Cisco Kid and Pancho rescue Eduardo, who has been shot, and hide him while they investigate. Cisco discovers that bullets from Maria's gun, a handy little derringer, are the same type that killed Don Carlos. But the Alcalde arrests Cisco and Pancho, and Cisco is "supposedly" executed by a firing squad, but IS NOT shot and escapes by a trick. And now Maria and Ricardo are in real trouble with Cisco on the loose.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-06
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The Shuttle of Life
1920-11-01
The Shuttle of Life
Overview: An actress poses as an heiress who died, and dies fighting blackmailing detectives in a burning house.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Tip-Off Girls
1938-04-01
Tip-Off Girls
Overview: A federal agent goes after a hijacking ring that uses beautiful women to help it hijack the rigs of unsuspecting truckers.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Traveling Husbands
1931-08-15
Traveling Husbands
Overview: A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-15
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Trapped by the Mormons
1922-01-01
Trapped by the Mormons
Overview: Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Daybreak
1918-01-07
Daybreak
Overview: Edith Frome (Stevens) finds it impossible to live with her alcoholic husband Arthur (L ‘Estrange), and finally leaves him. After three years she returns but leaves each evening, returning late arousing the suspicion of her husband. Having her followed he soon learns that she visits a child. Suspecting the worst because of her friendship with Dr. David Brett (Phillips), he institutes divorce proceedings. Edith confesses the truth about the child and Arthur, realizing his folly, swears off liquor and they are reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-07
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The Iron Woman
1916-10-02
The Iron Woman
Overview: Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces the wife of his best friend and breaks up her marriage. No one is happy but it takes a near fatal accident to set things right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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Secret Orders
1926-03-07
Secret Orders
Overview: At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook masquerading as a salesman, to marry him. She agrees, but upon discovering his duplicity, she turns him over to the police. Janet enters the U. S. Secret Service and is detailed to uncover the source of a "leak" in the sailing of troop transports
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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The Spanish Jade
1922-04-10
The Spanish Jade
Overview: When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-10
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Why Bring That Up?
1929-10-03
Why Bring That Up?
Overview: George's partner in vaudeville quits their act, claiming that Betty has broken his heart. George then teams up with Charlie, a stranded trouper, and Irving becomes their manager. Later, in New York, the "Two Black Crows" star in their own revue and save money to build their own theater on Broadway. Betty comes to the theater with her lover, who poses as a cousin and induces George to hire her. He showers her with jewels and money. She tries to persuade George to invest in oil stock her lover is selling, and though their act is a success, Charlie fires Betty. When Charlie and Betty's lover quarrel, Charlie is injured.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-03
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The Mad Parade
1931-09-18
The Mad Parade
Overview: The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Silk Stocking Sal
1924-11-30
Silk Stocking Sal
Overview: Silk Stocking Sal is discovered burgling a palatial townhouse by its owner, Bob Cooper. Intrigued with her poise and daring, he offers to find her an honest job. She accepts his proposition and is hired by Cooper's importing firm to show antiques to prospective buyers. When Abner Bingham, Bob's partner, is found murdered after an argument with Bob, he is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die. To save Bob from the chair, Sal, who suspects Bull Reagen, a mobster, of the murder, goes to his apartment. She plants a microphone in the closet, gets Bull drunk, and, by accusing him of not having the killer instinct, taunts him into boasting of having killed Bingham. The conversation is overheard by the district attorney, who narrowly saves Bob from electrocution and then arrests Bull and his gang. Bob and Silk Stocking Sal are soon married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-30
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Speed Limited
1935-01-12
Speed Limited
Overview: A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Darkened Rooms
1929-11-23
Darkened Rooms
Overview: Phony spiritualists were given a good going-over in the early talkie melodrama Darkened Rooms. Evelyn Brent stars as Ellen, a fraudulent medium working in cahoots with genuine clairvoyant Emory Jago (Neil Hamilton). The plotline is secondary; the film's main purpose was to emulate the methods of such professional "de-bunkers" as Mrs. Harry Houdini by exposing the various tricks of the spiritualist's trade.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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Laughter and Tears
1921-09-26
Laughter and Tears
Overview: Bohemian drama. A woman falls in love with a struggling artist, who later becomes famous and decides to leave Venice for a lucrative career in Paris.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-26
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The Nitwits
1935-06-07
The Nitwits
Overview: A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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Forced Landing
1941-07-11
Forced Landing
Overview: On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-11
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
1917-12-14
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Overview: A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-14
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Night Club Scandal
1937-11-11
Night Club Scandal
Overview: When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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Paramount on Parade
1930-04-22
Paramount on Parade
Overview: This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-22
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Westward Ho
1942-04-24
Westward Ho
Overview: The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Song of the Trail
1936-03-15
Song of the Trail
Overview: A cowboy realizes too late that his girlfriend's father had been cheated out of everything in a crooked card game. He sets out to get revenge on the crooks.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-15
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Silent Witness
1943-01-15
Silent Witness
Overview: District Attorney Holden and his special investigator Betty Higgins are trying to convict brothers Joe and Lou Manson, silk-racket hoods, after they are indicted for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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The Glorious Lady
1919-10-19
The Glorious Lady
Overview: During an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis Benson, the daughter of a tenant farmer. Both injured, they fall in love, to the dismay of his mother and Lady Eileen, his intended bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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The Experiment
1922-09-01
The Experiment
Overview: A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-01
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Raiders of the South
1947-01-18
Raiders of the South
Overview: Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the reconstruction years to obtain evidence against a gang of raiders who have been making life difficult for the local carpet-baggers. He saves the life of Shorty Kendall, an unreconstructed rebel about to be hanged, and this wins him the gratitude of Belle Chambers, a widow whose husband was killed in the Civil War who hates all Yankees with a fever.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-18
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Again Pioneers
1950-11-01
Again Pioneers
Overview: Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Love's Greatest Mistake
1927-02-20
Love's Greatest Mistake
Overview: Love's Greatest Mistake is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is now lost.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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Holt of the Secret Service
1944-03-06
Holt of the Secret Service
Overview: Feature version of the 1941 American serial film of the same name, made for export only, never shown in the USA in any medium, and evidently a lost film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-06
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The Soul Market
1916-03-12
The Soul Market
Overview: Having made public her disdain for wealthy men, musical comedy actress Elaine Elton is nonetheless ardently pursued by a handsome young millionaire who, for her sake, poses as his own chauffeur. A romance blossoms, but Elaine cannot accept the handsome millionaire's marriage proposal; she has already promised to marry a powerful producer who has threatened to blacklist her from Broadway if she refuses to become his bride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-12
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Slightly Scarlet
1930-02-22
Slightly Scarlet
Overview: Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel-thief Malatroff blackmails Lucy into helping him steal the valuable necklace owned by the young wife of phlegmatic American businessman Sylvester Corbett.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-22
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Home on the Range
1935-02-01
Home on the Range
Overview: Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold Far North gets too hot for them and they move to greener pastures in the western United States. Business is good until a young cattleman, Tom Hatfield, falls for their trap. But Georgia falls in love with him and this causes problems for her partners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Beau Sabreur
1928-01-22
Beau Sabreur
Overview: The film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-22
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Wrecking Crew
1942-11-07
Wrecking Crew
Overview: Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew in their lives away from the job and shows rhe comraderie of the crew in their work and even away from work.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-07
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A Broadway Lady
1925-11-15
A Broadway Lady
Overview: Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his family, she accepts his proposal, just to get under their skin. She finds out that Bob's sister Phyllis is planning to run off with Martyn Edwards, a cad who once betrayed a close friend of Rosalie's. Rosalie goes to Phyllis' apartment to talk her out of it, but soon finds herself involved in, and arrested for, a murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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His Tiger Lady
1928-05-27
His Tiger Lady
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
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Holt of the Secret Service
1941-11-21
Holt of the Secret Service
Overview: A murderous gang of counterfeiters has kidnapped the government's best engraver and is forcing him to print virtually undetectable phony money. The Secret Service's toughest agent, Jack Holt, and a female reporter go after the gang.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-21
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The Law Divine
1920-11-01
The Law Divine
Overview: A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Married to a Mormon
1922-04-01
Married to a Mormon
Overview: A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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The Arizona Express
1924-03-23
The Arizona Express
Overview: A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to get to the governor in time to present their new evidence and get a stay of execution.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-23
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Women's Wares
1927-10-01
Women's Wares
Overview: Salesgirl Dolly Morton becomes disillusioned about men after an incident with her boyfriend, so she becomes, with the help of her roommate, a gold digger who takes advantage of men without giving anything in return. However, after the gift of an apartment from a millionaire only results in scorn towards her, she decides to return to her original boyfriend.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Circus Jim
1922-01-24
Circus Jim
Overview: After the death of their father, a travelling showman, Iris Belmore and her little brother Billy are engaged to play in a circus owned by George Munro. Jim, a young man their father had adopted, comes home after he has been at the sea, where he has saved the lives of Lady Rosemount and her son during a shipwreck. Jim, a sharpshooter, also joins Munro’s circus and shows Iris and Billy much kindness. Iris and Jim do a sharpshooting act together. Munro’s jealousy is aroused when he sees that their friendship is growing into love. In revenge he tampers with Jim’s revolver, with the result that an accident happens in the ring and Iris is slightly wounded. Jim gives Munro a severe thrashing and leaves the circus, taking Iris and Billy with him, in search of other employment. While tramping the country, they meet Lady Rosemount and her husband. Sir Henry, hearing their story and wishing to show his gratitude, buys Munro’s circus and makes Jim the manager, on condition that he marries Iris. ×
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1922-01-24
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Midnight Molly
1925-01-11
Midnight Molly
Overview: Midnight Molly' is hit by a car while evading the police, and mistakenly identified as the wife of John Warren, candidate for mayor, whom she resembles. The real Mrs Warren has run off with another man, George Calvin, and John Warren is happy to recognise Molly as his wife. Molly continues to impersonate his wife on her recovery, saving Warren from the consequences of a divorce scandal. Calvin learns of the deception and tries to blackmail Warren, without success. A detective pursues Molly, but only gains fingerprints of the real Mrs Warren. Mrs Warren and Calvin are killed in a motor car accident, leaving Warren and Molly free to marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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Who's Your Neighbor?
1917-06-15
Who's Your Neighbor?
Overview: Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-15
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Madonna of the Streets
1930-11-25
Madonna of the Streets
Overview: Directed by John S. Robertson. With Evelyn Brent, Robert Ames, Ivan Linow, Josephine Dunn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-25
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The Mad Empress
1939-12-16
The Mad Empress
Overview: The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Loving Lies
1924-01-22
Loving Lies
Overview: A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to complications when he rescues a young girl and her baby from the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-22
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The Drag Net
1928-05-01
The Drag Net
Overview: A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Without Children
1935-04-15
Without Children
Overview: Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
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The Shadow of the East
1924-01-27
The Shadow of the East
Overview: Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-27
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Pages of Life
1922-11-01
Pages of Life
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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The Lure of Heart's Desire
1916-01-17
The Lure of Heart's Desire
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-17
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Playing with Fire
1916-04-17
Playing with Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-17
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The Spell of the Yukon
1916-05-15
The Spell of the Yukon
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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