John Beck
Also Known As: Jack Beck, John Christopher Beck
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plano, Illinois, USA
Birthday: June 07, 1876
Deathday: January 01, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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High Wall
Overview: Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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Branded Men
Overview: When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
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When Romance Rides
Overview: Lucy Bostil, daughter of a Colorado ranch owner, is led by a dog to his master, Lin Slone, who is exhausted from a struggle to capture a wild horse; she revives Lin and they christen the horse "Wildfire." The Bostils have entered Sage King in a race, but Lucy agrees to tame and train the wild horse, since Buckles, her favorite colt, has been stolen. When Joel Creech, a half-witted stable hand, is discharged, he becomes a tool of the Cordtses--who also have entered a horse (Buckles) in the race--in drugging Sage King. Lin and Lucy enter Wildfire under the Bostil colors, and she rides him to victory, When Cordts is disgraced and discovered to be a horse thief, he persuades Joel to abduct Lucy. Joel does so, but first he kills Cordts. Warned by his dog of Lucy's danger, Lin pursues and rescues the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-16
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Bedlam
Overview: London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-10
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Everyman's Law
Overview: Texas Ranger Johnny, poses as a hired gunman called The Dog Town Kid in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang, to uncover a plot by a crooked lawman, Sheriff Bradley, and a large landholder, Jim Morgan against the smaller ranches and the homesteaders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-10
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Island Captives
Overview: A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-22
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The Iron Claw
Overview: The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster...and a masked fiend known as The Iron Claw.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-15
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The Intruder
Overview: A murder is committed aboard a cruise ship just before it sinks in a storm. The survivors, including the killer, land on a mysterious jungle island.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Overview: Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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Robbers of the Range
Overview: Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Young Tom Edison
Overview: Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Remember the Night
Overview: Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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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 Shock
Overview: A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-10
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Bad Men of Missouri
Overview: The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-26
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The Cave Girl
Overview: A 1921 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-26
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Spitfire
Overview: Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-08
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
Overview: One of the bloodiest battles in American history is brought to life in this rarely-seen silent blockbuster. Over 3,000 extras were employed to recreate General George Custer's last stand against the Indian forces led by Crazy Horse.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-16
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Betty of Greystone
Overview: After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there. She meets David Chandler, Graystone's owner, who is attracted to her and tells her to come back whenever she wants to. Betty's mother soon remarries, but her new stepfather is not the same kind of man that her father was
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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The Wet Parade
Overview: The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-26
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Tap Roots
Overview: Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Genres: Drama War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-25
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Wild and Woolly
Overview: Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
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The Man from Arizona
Overview: A cowboy saves his injured friend from a vigilante group, which believes that he is part of a bandit gang that attacked a wagon train. The cowboy sets out to find the bandit gang and clear his friend's name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-21
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