Jack Hoxie
Also Known As: Jack Hoxan, Hart Hoxie, John Hartford Hoxie, Art Hoxie, Mr. Hart. Hoxie
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kingfisher Creek, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, USA
Birthday: January 11, 1885
Deathday: March 28, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande
Overview: "Pep" Pepper, a romantic cowboy whose faculty for dreaming loses him his job, tries to emulate Don Quixote's courage after reading the Spanish classic.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-04
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Cyclone Bliss
Overview: Quiet and fairminded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, singlehanded, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-20
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Ridin' Thunder
Overview: When Bill Croft, a notorious gunfighter, is bushwhacked, innocent rancher Frank Douglas is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be hanged. Jack Douglas, Frank's son, sets out to prove his father's innocence with the help of Jean, the murdered man's daughter; Jack eventually apprehends the killer and forces him to confess, but the sheriff is unable to stop the execution without an official pardon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-14
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Red Hot Leather
Overview: Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-17
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Rough and Ready
Overview: Ned Raleigh, a cowboy on the Stone Ranch, is laughed at by his pal Rawhide Barton for emulating his chivalrous namesake, Sir Walter Raleigh. Manning, an eastern capitalist, agrees to make Stone a loan to pay off his mortgage if he surrenders 200 head of cattle as security; Manning, after he discovers oil on the property, conspires with Blake, Stone's foreman, to hide the stock, and thus secure the land for himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-09
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The Western Whirlwind
Overview: Jack Howard, returning from the war, learns that his father, Sheriff Howard, has been killed by an unknown assailant, and he induces the mayor of Gold Strike to swear him in as sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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The Girl from Frisco
Overview: A series of 25 2-reel Western thrillers in which a cowgirl aids the cause of justice and humanity in the Old West, often aided by her fiancé and her rancher father. Each episode tells a complete story in itself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-09
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The Fighting Three
Overview: The touring show's soubrette, Jeanne D'Arcy, as it turns out, is the long-lost daughter of Westerner John D'Arcy. While she is performing at the town opera house, D'Arcy is found murdered and young Jack is accused of the heinous deed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-03
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The Red Rider
Overview: White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-02
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The Operator at Black Rock
Overview: The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-05
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Gold
Overview: A cowboy turned gold miner fights a gang that buys miner's claims and then murders them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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The Valley of the Giants
Overview: Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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The Further Adventures of Stingaree
Overview: The movie serial sequel to the popular original series featuring Stingaree. Both are now lost.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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The Hazards of Helen Ep26: The Wild Engine
Overview: Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and speeds down the track to warn the passengers of their imminent peril. Nearing a river trestle under repair, she hurtles into the river; undaunted, she swims to the opposite bank and flags down the excursion train in the nick of time, causing the engineer to run his train onto a siding just a few moments before the runaway dashes by.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-07
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The Girl at the Throttle
Overview: Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train will collide with the Eastbound Express. Helen jumps onto a nearby standing locomotive, opens it up full throttle, catches up the Express, warns the engineer of the impending danger
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-28
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Daring Chances
Overview: When his sister, who is married to saloon keeper Joe Slavin, dies, Jack Armstrong takes in her little daughter, Bebe. Sampson Burke, his rival for schoolteacher Agnes Rushton, conspires with Slavin to have Jack arrested for abduction.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-19
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Heroes of the Wild
Overview: The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of the Gauchos. But the woman's guardian, her uncle, plots to steal her wealth.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-01
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Wolf Tracks
Overview: Poverty-row Western story of two young strangers -- Jack Hastings and Jean Meredith -- inheriting one-half of a map to a hidden gold mine. A villain, Wolf Santell, steals Jack's half of the map, which is enclosed in a locket, only to lose it again in the river.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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Fighting Fury
Overview: A Spanish-American boy raised by his Mexican servant, Clay Hill, Jr. vows vengeance on the three ranchers who murdered his parents.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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Kaintucky Bill
Overview: The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge joke, Kaintucky Bill takes the oath of office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-07
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The White Outlaw
Overview: Jack Lupton loves three things in the world, Buck his dog, Scout his horse and the lovely rancher's daughter Mary Gale. But his beloved horse Scout was driven off by man's cruelty and finding freedom, now leads a big herd of horses to run wild! And Jack has his own problems with the cruelty of his fellow man, in the form of James Hill his brutal and jealous rival for Mary's affections!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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Law and Lawless
Overview: Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lopez's foreman Barnes is one of Daggett's men and he frames Montana for murder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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Captain Courtesy
Overview: A romantic melodrama set in old California.
Genres: Western Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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Trouble Busters
Overview: Leaving town with the Sheriff after him, Tex joins up with the Trouble Busters Skinny and Windy. In Placerville he runs into trouble with Bill Jarvis leading to a mad rush to file on oil rich land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-15
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The Forbidden Trail
Overview: When Red Hawk Dugan and his men attack a small wagon train, Colonel Merriwell is killed and the young girl Isobel taken and raised thinking Dugan is her father. Fifteen years later the Colonel's son Jack arrives looking for Dugan whom he learned killed his father. As he hunts for Dugan he meets and falls in love with Isobel only to then learn Dugan is her father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-01
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Lightning Bryce
Overview: Two prospectors, one the father of Sky "Lightning" Bryce and the other the father of Kate Arnold, find a large gold deposit belonging to an Indian tribe. They head for home but each sends a note to their respective off-springs advising them of their good fortune. One of the fathers conceives a plan of taking a dagger and wrapping a piece of string around the blade, after which he prints on the string with a lead pencil, the exact location of their find. If something happens to them, the string goes to the son and the knife to the daughter. That night an Indian approaches their camp and blows some mysterious wolf powder which causes a man to see wolves in place of human beings. Lightning's father see his partner as a wolf and stabs him to death; later he is brought into town in a dying condition but before dying, hands the knife and the string over to the sheriff with instructions to deliver to Lightning and Kate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-14
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The Three Godfathers
Overview: Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-18
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Barb Wire
Overview: A miner fences his claim with barbed wire to keep out a gang of claim jumpers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-31
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A Six Shootin' Romance
Overview: "Lightning" Jack inherits a ranch. Unfortunately, he is forced to share his inheritance with Donaldeen Travis, a snobbish debutante type who arrives from the East with her mammy and sister in tow. Donaldeen takes an immediate dislike to the uncouth "Lightning" and spends time instead with smooth-talking neighbor Currier King.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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The Red Warning
Overview: Phillip Haver, who, along with his friend Toby Jones, finds David Ainslee dying in the desert. After rustlers stole his cattle, Ainslee went off in search of a lost mine and fell victim to a killer. Before he kicks the bucket, Ainslee hands Haver a poke of gold dust to pay off the mortgage on the ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-17
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Men of Daring
Overview: The story is set in the Black Hills of South Dakota circa 1876. While making their way through the Badlands, a religious cult is terrorized by a bandit known only as Black Roger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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The Rambling Ranger
Overview: Hank Kinney, a ranger, witnesses the accidental death of a man and the survival of a motherless infant. Kinney asks the county sheriff to process adoption papers and goes with the child to take up the mining claim left him by his father. Sam Bruce, the richest and most hated man in Copperville, tries to jump the claim and swears vengeance when Kinney kicks him off the property. Kinney strikes up a friendship with Ruth Buxley, daughter of the general store proprietor; and Bruce, who covets the girl, instigates a rumor that Hank is unfit to rear a child and sends the sheriff's posse to get the the baby.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-09
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The Border Sheriff
Overview: Carter Brace is out to murder Belden. Collins who was sent to bring in the border gang led by Brace, saves Belden's life in San Francisco. When they all reach the border, Brace tries again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-24
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'Blue Blazes' Rawden
Overview: Rawden, a lumberjack in the North woods, fights with crooked dance hall owner 'Ladyfingers' Hilgard over the affections of Babette DuFresne. Hilgard is killed. When Hilgard's mother and younger brother arrive in the remote logging town, Rawden attempts to ease their suffering by creating the fiction that Hilgard had been a well-loved man who died naturally. But when young Eric Hilgard learns the truth of his brother's death, he comes gunning for Rawden.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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The Diamond from the Sky
Overview: This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-03
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The Car of Death
Overview: In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recognition in a serial that started getting released two months later. She became the audacious star of "The Hazards of Helen", acting as the heroine of numerous railroad adventures.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-28
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Outlaw Justice
Overview: A man accused of murdering a sheriff, escapes a posse and joins a gang at the Bar-O-Ranch. The mistress of the ranch is about to be cheated out of her land, but the wanted man helps her against the gang and bests the leader in a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Desert Rider
Overview: Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the map, now goes after the gold Sutherland has taken out of the mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-10
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Riders of the Law
Overview: Jack Meadows and sidekick Toby are looking for whiskey smugglers along the Canadian border. They find a badly wounded Seriff who earlier caught one of them and a nearby hoofprint of a horse with a broken shoe. Setting up a blacksmith shop, they soon find the owner of that horse and replace the shoe with another that will let them trace him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-15
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Back Fire
Overview: Two cowboys drift into town. Both are broke, and one of them jokingly suggests they rob the local express office. A citizen overhears them, and when the office is robbed soon afterwards, the cowboys are blamed for it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-02
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The Wild Horse Stampede
Overview: Cowboy Jack Carter, the proud owner of the Australian shepherd Bunk, accepts the challenge of corralling 10,000 wild horses within a 10-day period. With the enormous sum for his efforts, Jack prepares to propose to Jessie Hayden. Unfortunately, Jack's rival, Charlie Champion, seeks to stop him from achieving both of his goals.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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Hello, 'Frisco
Overview: A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Man from Tia Juana
Overview: Jack Hoxie and Marin Sais star in this 'American Girl' short. A courageous young woman must clear her boyfriend after he is framed for a hold-up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-30
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The Wolf and His Mate
Overview: When Donald Bayne, known in the North as The Wolf, loses his cabin to Steve Nolan in a backwoods court, he threatens and thrashes the new owner, then leaves him to tend to his traps. Upon his return, he discovers that Nolan has been killed in a shooting accident and that Bess Nolan, his niece, has moved into the cabin with Rose, her sister's child. Unable to evict her, The Wolf camps out next to the cabin, but soon realizes that this act has compromised her honor in the town. To correct the situation, he forces her into marriage, but she maintains a safe distance from him. When Bess's sister and "Snaky" Burns, her brother-in-law, kidnap Rose for use in their criminal activities, Bess implores Donald to intervene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-07
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Fatherhood
Overview: Arizona range rider Lon Gilchrist helps stagecoach passengers fight off attacking Apaches. After rescuing a baby and binding her bleeding forehead with his handkerchief, Lon receives a reward that allows him to buy a ranch. Many years later, the rescued child, Lizzie Mayberry, is a waitress in a cheap restaurant, where she meets Lon, who, now wealthy, courts and marries her. Because he is so busy, Lon has his friend Del Beasley look after her. After a misunderstanding, Lizzie has Del take her to the railway station. Thinking that they left together, Lon pursues them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-04
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Hills of Hate
Overview: Nate “Hate” Hammond is in business with his father and much sought after by mothers in the city who have marriageable daughters. Their quest is fruitless though since “Hate” has already made his choice secretly. His father is duped into participating in a financial scandal by clever crooks, and the one girl “Hate” believed would understand refuses to see him. Heading West, he eventually finds both gold and the girl, who now knowing the truth is extremely glad to be reunited with a rugged, brave lover.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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The Double O
Overview: Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances Powell. The foreman and his "half-breed" accomplice Cholo kidnap Frances.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-29
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Looking for Trouble
Overview: Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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The Phantom Horseman
Overview: Sheriff Bob Winton sets out to capture a mysterious bandit named "The Hawk," a phantom rider who is admired by the townspeople, because he steals from the Williams Lumber Co., a ruthless outfit determined to own all the land in the vicinity. This is a lost film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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Nobody's Wife
Overview: Jack Darling of the North West Mounted Police is ordered to track down and arrest murderer Alec Young, whose girl, Dancing Pete, performs in the Nugget dance hall. En route to Nugget, Jack meets Hope Ross, who is caring for her sister's baby. Although the two fall in love, the outlook for a happy romance appears hopeless, because he believes that she is a married mother, and she thinks that he is an outlaw.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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The Fighting Peacemaker
Overview: Peace River Parker, foreman of the Cross L Ranch and engaged to Jess, the daughter of the owner, is railroaded into a prison term by the false witness of Jefferson Crane, who covets the ranch and Jess. Through the complicity of Clell Danert, a villainous foreman who also desires Jess, Crane arranges to ruin the Marshall ranch by driving a herd of sheep onto the cattle range.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-07
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Overview: Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-30
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The Scarlet Sin
Overview: Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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Nan of Music Mountain
Overview: Henry de Spain is determined to find the man who murdered his father. He becomes sort of an outsider with Duke Morgan's gang, cattlemen, and outlaws. Nan, daughter of the head of the clan, secretly loves Henry and when he is wounded in a fight with the Morgan clan, she helps him escape. This angers her father and he declares that she shall marry her cousin. Nan dispatches a message to Henry for assistance and he brings her safely to his clan. Nan then learns that her father was the murder of Henry's father. She returns to her father to learn the truth and together they go to Henry and reveal the murder's name. After a thorough understanding and forgiving, Henry and Nan are married.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-12
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Where Is This West?
Overview: John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take her half of their shared inheritance. Together, Harley and Sallie fight for ownership of the ranch with foreman Buck Osborne and his gang, who, to scare off the new owners, stage fake holdups, Indian battles, and gunfights.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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The Man from Wyoming
Overview: Ned Bannister, manager of a sheep ranch, is accused of the murder of David Messiter, a neighboring cattle rancher. Bannister's employer, Halloway, would like to own the cattle rancher's spread. When Helen Messiter, niece of the deceased, arrives to investigate the murder, Halloway, the real culprit, tries to seduce her.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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A Roaring Adventure
Overview: Duffy Burns returns from college in the East and discovers that his father's cattle are being systematically stolen by a band of unknown outlaws. Duffy resolves to catch the culprits, conceals his identity, and goes to work on his father's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-08
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