Frank Hall Crane
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: January 01, 1873
Deathday: September 01, 1948
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Girl's Desire
Overview: Elizabeth Browne is the daughter of nouveau riche parents, who became wealthy when they struck oil. While she attends finishing school, her folks travel to England in search of a family tree so that they can enter society. They encounter Lady Dysart, an adventuress who married Lord Dysart shortly before his death. Lady Dysart tries to convince the Brownes that Cecil, her son from a previous marriage, is the new Lord Dysart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-10
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Ten Nights in a Barroom
Overview: This story is based upon the celebrated drama of that title
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-09
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Mystery Ranch
Overview: The famous western fiction writer Bob Morris arrives at the Henderson ranch. He quickly realizes the hanging, runaway horses, and the shootout are fakes for his benefit. But when a real robbery takes place he thinks it's another fake.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1934-04-12
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Men and Women
Overview: Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The Speed Reporter
Overview: Spectacular stunt work by Richard Talmadge, circus acrobat and stunt man for Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., highlights this expose of a big city criminal mastermind.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-13
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The Two Roses
Overview: Released on June 7, 1910, THE TWO ROSES was Thanhouser's 16th release and was advertised as "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little Italy." The film featured Marie Eline (Tony, an Italian boy), Frank H. Crane (Tony Prolo, young Tony's father), and Anna Rosemond (Tony Prolo's wife). In this film Marie Eline was billed as "The Thanhouser Kid" for the first time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-07
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Out of Singapore
Overview: While a ship's captain is being slowly poisoned, a gang of thugs try to take over the ship.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-23
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Little Wildcat
Overview: Robert Ware takes it upon himself to tame wild girl, Mag, to prove to his doubting friend Arnold, he can turn her into a graceful young lady. Later, when Arnold is in the war, he meets a pretty nurse who greatly impresses him. Back home he recalls the pleasant encounter to Robert, telling him of the gentle beauty he never forgot. Mag, now Margaret, overhears the story and reveals to Arnold, she was the nurse. The surprised Arnold now has to admit that Robert was right about gentling the little wild cat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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Jane Eyre
Overview: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-02
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Classmates
Overview: Bert Stafford, who is in love with Sylvia Randolph, his mother's ward, despises Duncan Irving, a poor boy who is the object of Sylvia's affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-14
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
Overview: Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-05
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Gang Bullets
Overview: A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-10
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-29
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Lorna Doone
Overview: Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protected valley, becoming outlaws and highwaymen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-29
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Overview: According to the tale found in the ancient annals, the little town of Hamelin, in Hanover, found itself, five hundred years ago overrun with rats. The citizens tried every way to abate the plague, but without result. Finally a mysterious stranger appeared in the town and offered for the sum of 1000 guilders to clear the place of vermin.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-31
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The Actor's Children
Overview: When his play closes down, an actor returns home to find that his children are gone. He's then notified that a wealthy relative has died and left him a substantial amount of money. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-14
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The Winter's Tale
Overview: Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away, the child is raised by Bohemian shepherds. The Winter's Tale was the first of six Shakespeare adaptations from Thanhouser, and was the 13th or 14th title from the studio in its first nine weeks of releases.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-27
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-04
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The Daring Young Man
Overview: The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-17
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My Old Dutch
Overview: The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint and sturdy tradesmen - her humble vegetable peddlers
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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The Girl of the Northern Woods
Overview: This picture tells the story of Lucy Dane, a Canadian lumberman's daughter, and of Will Harding's love for her. Will is a worthy young surveyor and Lucy feels honored to have his love, and returns it. Jose, a half-breed trapper, adores Lucy and necessarily dislikes Will, whom he correctly counts his successful rival. More, he bears Will a grudge for responding to Lucy's cries for help when he forced his attentions on her in a lonely neck of the woods.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-02
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Daddy's Double
Overview: This deft comedy about a foiled elopement and assumed identity shows the importance of a carefully worked out scenario for narrative flow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-04
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The Vicar of Wakefield
Overview: Edwin Thanhouser re-made The Vicar of Wakefield in 1917 as a eight-reel feature film providing us with a frame of reference for the maturation of film language and cinematic techniques over the ensuing eight year period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-26
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Cinderella
Overview: Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-21
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If You Could Only Cook
Overview: An auto engineer and a professor's daughter pose as married servants in a mobster's mansion.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-30
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Step on It
Overview: A cop is fired from the force and attempts to solve a string of truck holdups.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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David Copperfield
Overview: Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-17
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Mason of the Mounted
Overview: Canadian Mountie Mason is sent south of the border to look for a horse thief with only a watch chain for evidence. He befriends young Andy and when Calhoun hits Andy, Mason and Calhoun fight. In the scuffle Calhoun's watch with the missing chain is dislodged. Mason then sets out to bring in Calhoun and his gang.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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Paul and Virginia
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-15
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Not Guilty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-20
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Lena Rivers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-12
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The Mermaid
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-29
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