Niles Welch
Also Known As: Niles Eugene Welch
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 21, 1976
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The Courage of Marge O'Doone
Overview: Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. Believing that he is dead, Margaret goes into a state of delirium which enables Buck Tavish, a long-time admirer, to carry her away to his cabin. When she finally comes to her senses she flees in search of Michael, leaving Marge behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-30
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The Kiss of Hate
Overview: When Count Peter Turgeneff, his daughter, Nadia, and Paul, his generous-hearted son, came to live in the Governor's palace in the Russian province of Valogda, there was rejoicing among the oppressed race whose home was in the Ghetto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-03
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Empty Saddles
Overview: Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-20
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Convicted
Overview: A criminologist investigates the murder of a Broadway producer on an ocean liner.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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In Borrowed Plumes
Overview: In Borrowed Plumes is a silent comedy
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-10
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Sundown Rider
Overview: Wanted for a murder he didn't commit, Camp O'Neil escapes and assumes a different identity becoming foreman on Molly McCall's ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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The Face in the Dark
Overview: Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent to work when her sweetheart, Richard Grant, is accused of robbing a bank. Her father, now a bank examiner, works in collusion with two thieves who are acquainted with a master criminal known only as "the Face in the Dark." When the evidence implicates her father in the robbery, Jane confronts him, and although Richard is released from jail, Ridgeway escapes. The two crooks lead him to the Face in the Dark, but as the two men are shaking hands, the place is raided by Secret Service agents who arrest the mysterious criminal and congratulate Ridgeway for his fine detective work. Jane is happily reunited with her sweetheart and her father.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-15
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The Cup of Life
Overview: Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-07
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This Side of Heaven
Overview: A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Border Devils
Overview: Jim Gray is looking for the gang leader known as the General. When Neil Denham is murdered, Jim assumes his identity. He and his pal Squint Saunders then try to join the gang. But they get captured and Jim is told he can join up only if he kills his friend.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-03
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
Genres: Western Action Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-30
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Foolproof
Overview: Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime. Part of the Crime Does Not Pay series
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-07
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Cross-Examination
Overview: Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father. Witness after witness piles up damaging evidence against the accused youth, but expert cross-examination by Waring digs out the startling truth behind the killing and subsequently reveals the identity of the real killer in a surprise-twist ending.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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The Lone Avenger
Overview: A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1933-05-14
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A Yellow Streak
Overview: Wall street broker Barry Dale is systematically ruined financially by his alleged best friend Richard Marvin . This Marvin does so that he can win Dale's wife Virginia away from the discredited broker. Dispirited and disillusioned, Dale heads to the West for a fresh start in life. Unfortunately, he soon develops the reputation as a coward, but he manages to dispel this by becoming a notorious outlaw, reasoning that highway robbery is not all that different from Wall Street chicanery.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-06
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Cross Streets
Overview: A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-05
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The Miracle Rider
Overview: In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-11
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What Becomes of the Children?
Overview: Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
Genres: Drama Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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The Wolf Dog
Overview: The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Air Hawks
Overview: A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
Genres: Action Romance Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-07
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A Scarlet Week-End
Overview: A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-30
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Evidence
Overview: When Florette, a popular actress, and her friend Edith become rivals for the love of Walter Stanley, a leading man, Florette sacrifices her feelings for the other girl. Three years later, Phillip Rowland, a young aristocrat, falls in love with Florette. When Edith intrudes in her affairs, Florette--although she fears unhappiness will result because of their differing social positions--decides to marry Rowland regardless of the consequences. Rowland stands by his wife, although she is snubbed by his family, but when Edith conspires with Walter Stanley to place Florette in a compromising position, Judge Rowland accepts circumstantial evidence as truth and plans for a divorce. Florette, however, cleverly puts her brother-in-law on the defensive; making amends, he has her reinstated in the family's good graces. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-05
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A Little Girl in a Big City
Overview: Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-20
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Come On, Tarzan
Overview: Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers horses for slaughter, whose meat is sold to pet food manufacturers. The wild horse Tarzan frees the doomed horses from their corrals, and Frazer convinces the Sheriff that Tarzan is a threat and can be shot on sight. Local cowboy Ken Benson (Maynard) and rancher Pat Riley (Kennedy) work together to clear Tarzan's good name and put Frazier behind bars for his evil deeds.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-10
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The Winning Girl
Overview: Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Reckless Youth
Overview: A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-30
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Wine of Youth
Overview: Based on a play be Rachel Crothers, WINE OF YOUTH is a solid drama about "the modern young generation" and how they think they know it all. It's also a play about love and marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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Let's Fall in Love
Overview: A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Music Is Magic
Overview: An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Manhattan Parade
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Stone of Silver Creek
Overview: In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Boy in Court
Overview: Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to reform school, the judge takes an interest in him and assigns a probation officer to try to steer Johnny away from a life of crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-03
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For the Service
Overview: Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his best to keep the peace between the Native Americans and a government outpost. O'Bryan is replaced by George Murphy, the son of commanding officer Captain Murphy. Obviously unqualified for his job, Murphy proves himself a coward and a weakling, forcing O'Bryan to take over when the fort is besieged by outlaw Bruce Howard and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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The Singing Vagabond
Overview: Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-16
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McKenna of the Mounted
Overview: Jones played Tom McKenna, a disgraced Royal Canadian Mountie who turns highway robber to pay off his gambling debt. He joins a gang of outlaws led by Morgan (Niles Welch) and to prove his loyalty is assigned to rob a safe belonging to the father (Ralph Lewis) of his former girlfriend, Shirley (Greta Grandstedt).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-26
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The Sin of Martha Queed
Overview: Due to a misunderstanding, and the vicious streak of her relative David Boyd, Martha Queed is believed to be involved in an illicit affair with Arnold Barry. Her small-minded father, Marvin, insists they marry but the following morning when David is found murdered Arnold is suspected. As sentencing approaches a series of events materialize to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-03
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To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Rags to Riches
Overview: A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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Carry on, Sergeant!
Overview: A group of workers decide to join the army in the Great War. The indulge themselves in the side benefits to being soldiers, and one of them marries a French waitress.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-10
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Cornered
Overview: Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-05
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The Secret of the Storm Country
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Charles Miller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Shipmates Forever
Overview: An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-12
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Silver Dollar
Overview: A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-22
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The Phantom
Overview: An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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The Gulf Between
Overview: A young woman, who is the daughter of a sea captain, falls in love with a man from a rich family who does not approve of her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-21
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The Whispered Name
Overview: Anne Gray (Ruth Clifford) runs off with Robert Gordon (William E. Lawrence), believing that he is going to marry her. When they arrive at a hotel, another guest, Langdon Van Kreel (Charles Clary), sees though Gordon's ploy and chases him away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-21
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Ermine and Rhinestones
Overview: Long Island socialite Billy Kershaw (Niles Welch) is engaged to wealthy Peggy Rice (Ruth Stonehouse), but she prefers to "play the field" with other men. When Billy tires of Peggy's randy behavior and returns to his ex-sweetheart Minette (Edna Murphy), the suddenly possessive Peggy heads to Minette's home, hoping to bribe the girl into giving up the boy. At that very moment, one of Minette's jealous ex-boyfriends breaks into her house, ties and gags the poor girl, and turns on the gas. Library of Congress holds a complete negative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-01
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Dangerous Pleasure
Overview: This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-11
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Why Announce Your Marriage?
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-20
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Emmy of Stork's Nest
Overview: Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-11
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The Way of a Maid
Overview: A silent film comedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-30
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Tomorrow's Youth
Overview: A look at how his parents' divorce affects the life of a young boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-14
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The Rainbow Trail
Overview: The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
Overview: Rey Scott received an Honorary Academy Award for this documentary "for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions." Producer David O. Selznick thought so much of it, that he distributed KUKAN in 35mm, even after the film had already had an extensive run in 16mm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-23
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The Ivory-Handled Gun
Overview: Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud started by their fathers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-11
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The Crucial Test
Overview: Wicked Russian Grand Duke Bagroff becomes infatuated with Thanya, but she loves American artist Vance Holden. When Thanya's revolutionary brother Boris tells her that he plans to kill Bagroff, she agrees to help. The plan fails and Boris and Thanya are captured, but they soon escape to Paris where Thanya rejoins the struggling Vance. Bagroff finds Thanya and tells her that he will make Vance famous if she consents to be his mistress. Thanya agrees and Vance becomes an overnight success. Then, as Bagroff and Thanya prepare to spend their first night together, Boris appears and kills the duke, thereby allowing Thanya and Vance to spend a peaceful, successful life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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One of Many
Overview: The home of Mrs. Bryson and her two daughters is happy except for the poverty that prevents the girls from sending their sick mother away to the mountains. Both help to support the household, but it is Shirley who feels the responsibility of her mother's approaching death and her worry is evident to all about her. She is employed in a manicure shop frequented by wealthy men and meets Wilfred Templeton, who invites her to dine with him. He questions her about her dejected air and she tells him of her mother's illness. This is Templeton's opportunity, and he asks her to make a bargain with him. He will give her all the money she needs and in return she is to live with him in an apartment which he will establish for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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Lying Wives
Overview: Duplicitous Patricia Chase schemes to break up the new marriage of Margery and Wallace Graham because she yearns for Wallace despite her marriage to another. She nearly succeeds but the revelation of a secret thwarts her at the last moment and she gets her just desserts shortly after.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-13
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Riding Wild
Overview: It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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A Royal Family
Overview: The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries. The tempestuous Angela rejects the idea, so the prince visits Arcacia in the guise of Count Bernardine, determined to secure the union. Unaware of his true mission, Angela grows to love the count, but finally heeds his warnings about impending war and agrees to the arranged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-16
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Her Boy
Overview: When the United States enters World War I, the widowed Helen worries that she will lose her only son David, who has just turned 21. Although David patriotically urges the employees at his factory to enlist, he reluctantly gives in to his mother's pleas to remain at home with her. When David is drafted, his panic-stricken mother alters the date on his birth certificate, although the later birth date implies that he is illegitimate. Disgusted, David enlists under an assumed name, thus shaming Helen, who confesses her dishonesty to the townspeople. Her son, now in uniform, then forgives her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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Who Are My Parents?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-26
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Shame
Overview: John Grey enlists when the Spanish-American War begins, not knowing that his sweetheart Mary is pregnant and then perishes before they can legalize their union. When Mary dies, her daughter Little Mary is taken into an orphanage and adopted by Peters, a cruel farmer who turns her into a slave. Befriended by Seppe, a hunchback farmhand of similar parentage, young Mary escapes to the city where she finds work at a hospital run by Dr. Strong. She falls in love with Strong's son Donald when he learns that she is illegitimate, he backs out of the engagement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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Faithful Wives
Overview: The title tells it all. Faithful wives perhaps but can the same be said for their husbands?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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Miss George Washington
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-19
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The Carpenter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-10
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I Believed in You
Overview: An aspiring writer and her boyfriend, a professional agitator head off to the Big Apple in search of good fortune. Unfortunately, the agitator soon finds himself in trouble with the cops. Meanwhile the writer attempts to become a Greenwich Village Bohemian type. She and her new friends are all starving for their art until a kindly gent offers them financial assistant. They refuse on principle. Tragedy pays a call when the writer learns that her boyfriend has been untrue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-09
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