Wallace MacDonald
Biography: From Wikipedia Wallace Archibald MacDonald (5 May 1891, Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Canada - 30 October 1978, Santa Barbara, California) was a Canadian silent film actor, also a film producer. MacDonald started as a messenger boy with the Dominion Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He later worked up to teller with the Royal Bank in Sydney before the bank transferred him to Vancouver, British Columbia. From there, he moved to California, where he acted on the stage before making inroads into Hollywood. MacDonald initially began as an actor in films in 1914 and appeared in almost 120 motion pictures between then and 1932. He had notable roles in such films as Youth's Endearing Charm in 1916 working with Mary Miles Minter and Harry von Meter. Late in World War I he returned briefly to Nova Scotia to enlist in the 10th Canadian Siege Battery where he assisted in recruiting for the Canadian Army. With the advent of sound, MacDonald's acting career diminished, and most of his roles between 1927 and 1932 went uncredited. He retired from acting in 1932 to concentrate on script writing. However, by 1937 he had recognized the potential of film production. It is in his role of producer that MacDonald is now probably best remembered. He produced well over 100 films between 1937 and 1959. He died in 1978. Sometimes he is mistaken as a brother of actor Francis McDonald. Though both resembled one another and were born in 1891, they were born three months apart and spelled their surnames differently.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 04, 1891
Deathday: October 30, 1978
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Dough and Dynamite
1914-10-26
Dough and Dynamite
Overview: Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two are forced to work as bakers, the striking cooks put dynamite in the dough, with explosive results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Vanishing Frontier
1933-03-13
The Vanishing Frontier
Overview: Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeatedly returns to see her. Eventually he is captured and now his men must try and rescue him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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Caught in a Cabaret
1914-04-27
Caught in a Cabaret
Overview: Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-27
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Tumbling River
1927-08-21
Tumbling River
Overview: Tom heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of cattle rustlers led by popular western villain Wallace McDonald.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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Drums of the Desert
1927-06-04
Drums of the Desert
Overview: John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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Zip, the Dodger
1914-10-17
Zip, the Dodger
Overview: Zip, the Dodger
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-17
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Hello Trouble
1932-07-15
Hello Trouble
Overview: After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Branded
1931-09-01
Branded
Overview: A cowboy looking to sell an inherited ranch changes his mind after a female neighbour arrives on the scene.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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Mabel's Married Life
1914-06-20
Mabel's Married Life
Overview: Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
1914-08-10
The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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The Rounders
1914-09-07
The Rounders
Overview: Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-07
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The Mayor of Hell
1933-06-24
The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Rouge and Riches
1920-02-09
Rouge and Riches
Overview: Rebecca Butler, tired of poverty, takes a job in a Broadway chorus line and determines to marry a millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-09
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I Loved a Woman
1933-09-23
I Loved a Woman
Overview: The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-23
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The Range Feud
1931-10-14
The Range Feud
Overview: Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.
Genres: Mystery Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-14
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Marked Cards
1918-07-14
Marked Cards
Overview: Ellen Shannon, the daughter of self-made Irish politician Pat Shannon, is engaged to Ted Breslin, but because Pat began his career as a menial laborer, Ted's mother, Mrs. J. De Barth Breslin, refuses to sanction the marriage. Heartbroken, Ted takes up drinking and gambling with "Poker" LeMoyne and Don Jackson, while Ellen attends a finishing school hoping to improve herself. While trying to elude her chaperone, Ellen unwittingly dashes into a man's hotel room, and from the window, she witnesses Don and "Poker" playing cards, while Ted lies unconscious from too much drink. When the two gamblers quarrel, Don kills "Poker," but Ted is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-14
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Love and Bullets
1914-07-04
Love and Bullets
Overview: Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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Fatty Again
1914-10-03
Fatty Again
Overview: Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-03
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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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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933-07-22
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Overview: A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-22
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A Street of Memory
1937-01-22
A Street of Memory
Overview: A look at some sights in Olvera St. in Los Angeles, California.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Fighting Thru
1930-12-25
Fighting Thru
Overview: Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-25
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The Princess of Park Row
1917-10-01
The Princess of Park Row
Overview: After Baron Alexis swindles the people of Bellaria out of rich mining lands, King Vladimir, who is told by his counselor Kronski that Alexis bought the land in good faith, sends Prince Niclos to America to negotiate a loan on the king's collateral so that the land can be bought and given back to the people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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The Primrose Path
1925-09-14
The Primrose Path
Overview: Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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The Drums of Jeopardy
1931-03-01
The Drums of Jeopardy
Overview: A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter's death.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Blockade
1928-12-16
Blockade
Overview: Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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The Rogue Song
1930-01-17
The Rogue Song
Overview: In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-17
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Between Fighting Men
1932-10-15
Between Fighting Men
Overview: Ken not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the conflict between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. It gets worse when Butch kills Judy's father.
Genres: Action Western Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Maytime
1923-11-17
Maytime
Overview: Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-17
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The Day of Faith
1923-10-20
The Day of Faith
Overview: Jane Maynard opens a mission in memory of philanthropist Bland Hendricks. John Anstell, son of a powerful and selfish millionaire, Michael Anstell, falls in love with Jane, to the old man's disapproval. Anstell tries to undermine Jane's work by hiring reporter Tom Barnett to write an unfavorable story about the mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-20
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The Sea Hawk
1924-06-14
The Sea Hawk
Overview: The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-14
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Lightnin'
1925-08-23
Lightnin'
Overview: Set in a hotel straddling the border between California and Nevada, this early John Ford comedy follows a female hotel owner's efforts to turn a profit and get some work out of her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
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The Star Boarder
1914-04-04
The Star Boarder
Overview: A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-04
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Those Love Pangs
1914-10-10
Those Love Pangs
Overview: Charlie and a rival vie for the favor of their landlady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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The Knockout
1914-06-11
The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Mabel's Busy Day
1914-06-13
Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914-12-21
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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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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Roaring Rails
1924-09-20
Roaring Rails
Overview: A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-20
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Curlytop
1924-12-28
Curlytop
Overview: Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves his sweetheart, Bessie, for her and resolves to go straight. When he sets out to find a job, the jealous Bessie gets Curlytop drunk and hacks off her long curls.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Sweetie
1929-10-25
Sweetie
Overview: Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-25
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The Lady
1925-02-08
The Lady
Overview: A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
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The Charmer
1925-04-20
The Charmer
Overview: A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite ( followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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Two-Fisted Law
1932-06-08
Two-Fisted Law
Overview: Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-08
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The Last Flight
1931-08-29
The Last Flight
Overview: Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-29
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Wandering Fires
1925-09-15
Wandering Fires
Overview: A young woman, victim of a scandal involving her lover believed killed in France during war, is loved by another man who urges her to marry him. After they are married, the husband becomes jealous of the lost lover. One day the lover returns injured and with amnesia. After much drama happiness is restored.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-15
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Love and Glory
1924-12-07
Love and Glory
Overview: During an uprising in Algeria in 1869, two Frenchmen--Anatole, the brother of Gabrielle, and Pierre, her sweetheart--join the colors and are later reported dead. Gabrielle is kidnaped and taken to Paris, and the soldiers return.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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Learning to Love
1925-01-25
Learning to Love
Overview: A 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-25
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Fancy Baggage
1929-01-26
Fancy Baggage
Overview: In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-26
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Texas Cyclone
1932-02-24
Texas Cyclone
Overview: When Texas Grant rides into town people think the supposedly dead Jim Rawlins has returned. After a confrontation with Utah Becker, Grant learns Jim's wife, Helen, is about to lose her ranch to Becker, so he decides to stay and pose as Rawlins in an effort to help her.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-24
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Fifty Fathoms Deep
1931-08-20
Fifty Fathoms Deep
Overview: In this high-seas adventure, a woman creates a great rift between old friends: an experienced older diver, and his younger protege. They become enemies when a gold-digger marries the latter. She soon leaves him in favor of a wealthy yachtsman. She is aboard his boat when an accident occurs. The two divers must salvage the costly boat before it sinks.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-20
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The Fighting Shepherdess
1920-03-01
The Fighting Shepherdess
Overview: A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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Madam Satan
1930-09-20
Madam Satan
Overview: A socialite masquerades as a notorious femme fatale to win back her straying husband during a costume party aboard a doomed dirigible.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-20
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Two Can Play
1926-02-21
Two Can Play
Overview: Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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Thy Name Is Woman
1924-02-04
Thy Name Is Woman
Overview: A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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Mabel's Blunder
1914-09-12
Mabel's Blunder
Overview: Mabel is pursued by her boss, despite being engaged to his son, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-12
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King of the Wild Horses
1933-11-10
King of the Wild Horses
Overview: Columbia's King of the Wild Horses is a remake of the silent Hal Roach western feature of the same name -- and with the same "star," Rex the Wonder Horse, in the lead. Most of the story involves the romantic triangle between rogue stallion Rex, the gorgeous mare Lady, and villainous black steed Marquis.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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Night Flight
1933-10-06
Night Flight
Overview: Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Tropical Nights
1928-12-10
Tropical Nights
Overview: Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is murdered, Miller is arrested for the crime. The actual killer, however, is MacDonald, who does an expert job covering his tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-10
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Are All Men Alike?
1920-11-08
Are All Men Alike?
Overview: In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) takes her to a Greenwich Village cafe, she thinks she's found where she belongs. So she spends all her time there and gets herself in a load of trouble.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-08
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The Spoilers
1923-08-26
The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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Millie
1931-02-06
Millie
Overview: After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage. The years pass, and now Millie's daughter garners the attentions of men - men who once devoted their time to her mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Leave It to Susan
1919-05-25
Leave It to Susan
Overview: A Clarence G. Badger silent cowboy western kidnapping mistaken identity romantic comedy, based on a story by Rex Taylor; about a rich woman who gets lost in the West, and is found by an engineer who she mistakes for an outlaw. tHe plays along because he enjoys it, but then four real outlaws show up, and he tells them he was kidnapping her. They get found out, the girl gets one of the outlaws' guns and rescues them, and of course, they discover they love each other!
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-25
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New Lives for Old
1925-02-22
New Lives for Old
Overview: Olympe is a cabaret dancer who offers her services to France when her country goes to war. She becomes a spy and provides valuable intelligence information during World War I by winning the confidence of a German officer. Hugh Warren is the American soldier who falls for Olympe. She allows him to believe she is a simple peasant and reveals nothing of her career as a spy. The two fall in love and are married, but the villainous German agent De Montinrich reveals to her husband's family that she is a tawdry club dancer. Unable to reveal her role in espionage, Olympe is ostracized by her friends and family. When the French government honors Olympe for her wartime bravery, her family no longer considers her a blemish on their sterling reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-22
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A Poor Relation
1921-12-30
A Poor Relation
Overview: Slaving to perfect an invention, Noah Vale tries to keep two orphans--Rip and Patch--and himself by peddling books and is helped by Scallops, a girl who occasionally brings them food. He appeals to Fay, a wealthy relative, for help in marketing his invention and arouses the interest of Fay's pretty daughter. Sterrett, Fay's partner, steals the model but returns it when he discovers it to be worthless. Johnny Smith, Fay's secretary, is fired when he proposes to the boss's daughter; and visiting Vale's attic, he is comforted by his epigrams. Johnny takes them to a newspaper editor, and they are so successful that both Smith and Vale are hired. Vale decides to give up inventing for writing, and Johnny marries Miss Fay despite her father's opposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-30
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A Fool There Was
1922-06-18
A Fool There Was
Overview: A respectable businessman leaves his wife and daughter for the clutches of a cold, heartbreaking female.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-18
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High Speed
1932-04-02
High Speed
Overview: A policeman, working on a case against a local mobster and his gang, slips on some race-car-driver overalls and goggles and, in addition to stopping the mobsters in their tracks, wins a few races and the love of the daughter of the racetrack owner.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-02
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The Checkered Flag
1926-01-19
The Checkered Flag
Overview: Wallace MacDonald as a car mechanic who invents a revolutionary new carburetor. To prove the efficiency of his creation, MacDonald enters an important auto race. It soon develops that our hero is in direct competition with a car owned by Lionel Belmore, the father of his girl friend Elaine Hammerstein.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-19
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The Riding Tornado
1932-05-04
The Riding Tornado
Overview: Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent fights with Stark and Stark quits and goes to work for Engle. Rustlers are stealing horses. Carson suspects Olcott and Olcott suspects Carson. Sheriff prevents war between them. Torrent stops wild horse stampede. Starks spills beans on Engle. Torrent kills Engle and wins Patsy Olcott.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-04
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Daring Danger
1932-06-22
Daring Danger
Overview: A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-22
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Youth's Endearing Charm
1916-09-04
Youth's Endearing Charm
Overview: Orphan Mary Wade, is the ward of a family of farmers who keep her busy with drudgery. Mr. Jenkins, the head of the household, makes advances to Mary, she flees to the city with her dog Zippy and lands in court for imitating a beggar who pretends to be blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Trumpet Island
1920-09-01
Trumpet Island
Overview: Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Sage Hen
1921-01-01
The Sage Hen
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Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Little Boss
1919-06-02
The Little Boss
Overview: The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith and produced by Vitagraph Studios.[2] The story and screenplay were by Rida Johnson Young starring Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-02
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Cupid Forecloses
1919-07-12
Cupid Forecloses
Overview: Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-12
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Their Big Moment
1934-08-17
Their Big Moment
Overview: Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-17
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Red Signals
1927-03-01
Red Signals
Overview: Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Hit the Deck
1929-12-25
Hit the Deck
Overview: A sailor finds himself the object of a cafe owner's affections.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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Zampa
1930-09-01
Zampa
Overview: In this one cowboy stars Rooseveldt and McDonald enact a rescued damsel plot complete with sword fight.
Genres: Music Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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Hell's Four Hundred
1926-03-14
Hell's Four Hundred
Overview: A chorus girl breaks a deal with her boss by marrying the rich man she was supposed to ruin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Follies Girl
1919-04-27
The Follies Girl
Overview: The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodruff's wealth. Since Woodruff continually calls for an imagined granddaughter, the child of his daughter who died before they could patch up a quarrel which estranged them, Nina gets Doll, a Follies girl, to impersonate the granddaughter, try to endear herself to Woodruff, and thus inherit the money. Doll would then be paid off and the relatives would get the inheritance. When Doll's administrations cause Woodruff to recover, Nina sends for Woodruff's grandson Ned, whom he disowned for marrying beneath him, hoping that Ned will send Doll away. When Ned seems to fall in love with Doll, Nina tells Woodruff that Ned and Doll are secretly meeting in the estate lodge. Woodruff investigates and finds that Doll and Ned are married and have a baby boy. Delighted, Woodruff forgives Ned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Their Last Haul
1915-02-21
Their Last Haul
Overview: Both crooks, on the pleading of the girl, determine to turn square but with the provision of turning just one more trick. The first could not foresee that the second had placed a time bomb in the safe when he went to rob it. Likewise, the second could not foresee the other was going to pay a visit to the booty after he had planted the explosive. But worse, neither could foresee that a gang of burglars were contemplating carrying off the safe and that there were police loitering nearby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-21
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The Arm of the Law
1932-04-19
The Arm of the Law
Overview: A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Faithful Wives
1926-11-25
Faithful Wives
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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The Understudy
1922-06-25
The Understudy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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