William Welsh
Also Known As: William Joseph Welsh, William Welch, William J. Welsh, Mr. Welsh
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: February 08, 1870
Deathday: July 16, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Overview: Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-24
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The Opening Night
Overview: When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see his actress wife Carol Chandler (Claire Windsor), thought to be a widow, marrying her leading man Jimmy Keane (John Bowers). Rather than mar her new-found happiness, he takes a job washing cars. New York City is a small town. Will Carol need her car washed?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-14
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The Head of the Family
Overview: Silent Comedy of the battle of the sexes for dominance within the home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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Daredevil's Reward
Overview: Tom Mix portrayed a daredevil ranger on the trail of a gang of outlaws. To get close to the gang, Tom utilizes various cunning disguises, including donning the garb of a medicine man. Along the way, complications arise when Tom falls for the niece (Natalie Joyce) of the gang leader (William Welch).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Chain Lightning
Overview: Steve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-14
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Come and Get It!
Overview: When Breezy's father is accused of murdering his neighbor, the former Navy boxing champ takes to the street to clear his name.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-03
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Lightning Speed
Overview: Jack Pemberton, a cub reporter falls in love with Betty (Mary Mayberry), the governor's daughter. During an investigation into racketeering, Jack learns that gangster Velvet is attempting to kidnap Betty in order to force her father to pardon a relative on death row.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-26
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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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Ridin' Wild
Overview: Trained by his Quaker mother to be gentle, Cyril Henderson receives only laughter from the townspeople when he tries to act tough to impress Grace Nolan, who is allowing Art Jordan, the town bully, to occupy her time so as to pique Cyril. The murder of Andrew McBride, who holds the mortgage on the Henderson's property, is blamed on the elder Henderson, and Cyril unsuccessfully tries to take the blame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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The Fighting Ranger
Overview: After crashing his plane in the wilderness, a young airborne forest ranger is nursed back to health by a mountain man and his pretty daughter in this 18-chapter serial from Universal.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-11
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The Man from the West
Overview: Art Louden, foreman of the Bar H Ranch, is contemptuous of the masculine city flappers and effeminate city sheiks who are vacationing on the ranch, and when reproached by the owner, Bill Hayes, for discourtesy to a guest, Art complains that there are no "she-women" left. Seeing a newspaper photo of Iris Millard, he is attracted by her apparent innocence; then she arrives with her father, and Art is disillusioned to find her as snobbish and as jazzily dressed as the others. His disdain, however, causes Iris to play up to his ideas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-31
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Queen of the Jungle
Overview: A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party's air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. This puts a chill on the expedition and all hands return to whence they came. The end of chapter 1, "Lost in the Clouds", finds Marilyn's balloon being shot down by the flaming arrows of a native tribe. Chapter 2,"Radium Rays", reveals that Joan survived her descent and the tribe named "the child from the sky" as their queen and priestess.A flash forward of about 18 years finds that the now-adult David has returned to Africa to search for his long-lost childhood friend.He hits the trail and is quickly captured by the tribesmen and is brought to their sadistic ruler,who turns out to be a now-grown Joan. Unaware of his or her own true ...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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The Set-Up
Overview: Cliff Barton, suspicious of the intentions of the local banker, Seth Tolliver, withdraws his money from the bank, hides it, and is later killed by two hirelings of the banker. Deputy Sheriff Art Stratton, who has trained Barton's horse and is in love with his daughter, Thora, is assigned to guard the ranch for the creditors; and Tolliver, who has designs on the property and wants his son to marry Thora, arranges to have the ranch auctioned.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-15
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The Western Rover
Overview: Returning to the family ranch after a spell as a circus performer, Art Hayes finds that a crooked ranch foreman has forced his father into bankruptcy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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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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Hills of Peril
Overview: Sheriff is aided by Laramie who pretends to be an outlaw to infiltrate a gang of bootleggers. Laramie is attracted to Ellen, who is trying to activate an old mine. He helps her with the mine and captures the bootleggers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-01
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The Conscience of Hassan Bey
Overview: From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter. Still she was obdurate. In his madness, he had poisoned his other love with the deadly sting of a serpent. His fury spent, he fell from bey to man, and sought to atone according to his light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-20
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Top o' the Morning
Overview: Jerry O'Donnell arrives from Ireland to be with her father in America. However, she soon finds living with her stepmother unpleasant, Jerry leaves home and encounters John Garland, a millionaire, now a widower, whom she knew in Ireland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-04
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The Flirt
Overview: Treats of the average, smalltown, middle class family life. Flirtatious Cora Madison is engaged to Richard Lindley but is attracted to Val Corliss, who has come to town to promote oil stock. When Cora's father refuses to become involved, she forges his name on some papers, thus enabling Corliss to sell many shares.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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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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The Lone Hand
Overview: Wyoming cattleman Laramie Lad takes a vacation by visiting an old friend who runs a summer resort, but before he can relax, he meets Jane Sheridan and her father, Al Sheridan, who are fighting off a group of swindlers who want the old man's mining property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-16
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Obey the Law
Overview: When his old prison-friend's daughter is about to wed a wealthy man, the friend steals a valuable pendant and gives it to the girl's father. The father, in turn and not realizing it is stolen goods, gives it to his daughter as a wedding present. But the law shows up looking for the pendant.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-05
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Dead Game
Overview: "Katy" Didd holds up the stage in which his sweetheart, Alice Mason, is traveling to her wedding to Prince Tetlow, to whom her guardian insists that she be married. Katy hides her at his ranch, but Tetlow finds her and abandons Katy in the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-23
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Shootin' for Love
Overview: Duke Travis returns from the war suffering from shell shock and an inordinate fear of guns. His father, a ranch owner, refuses to accept Duke's disability and considers him a coward.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-28
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The Ramblin' Kid
Overview: The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her after he triumphs in a rodeo in spite of having been doped by his enemy, Sabota the Greek, a crafty racetrack tout.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-14
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Crossed Clues
Overview: Crossed Clues is a 1921 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-30
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The Heart of Humanity
Overview: The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-21
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Cavalry
Overview: Just after the Civil War, Captain Thorn is sent west to help protect the new telegraph line that is under construction. Leeds is out to establish an independent nation in the west and tries stop its construction and also incoming wagon trains by inciting the Indians to attack both of them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-04
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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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Trailed by Three
Overview: The story of a girl who for months was in perpetual peril; on land, on sea, everywhere, Orient, Occident, and the Antipodes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-04
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Paying the Price
Overview: Michael Donovan, a heavy loser at a gambling casino, confronts its owner with evidence of cheating and finds himself accused of murder, on circumstantial evidence, of the owner's murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-05
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Shadows of the North
Overview: Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war, leaving Pancake to run the mine. During Ben's absence three claim jumpers take possession of the mine: one of the men is the father of Beatrice, Ben's sweetheart; another, a rival suitor. Pancake is murdered when he and Ben plot to regain the claim. Ben kidnaps Beatrice, resolving to obtain revenge through her. Ben finds that she knew nothing of the stolen claim and that her father was innocent of Pancake's murder. Ben then resolves to find the culprit and bring them to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-27
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Beyond the Rockies
Overview: A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-08
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Skinner Steps Out
Overview: William Henry Skinner's young wife has great confidence in her husband's abilities and is ambitious for his success. He informs her of his importance at the office; but in reality he is an insignificant employee on a small salary, and when refused a raise, he hasn't the courage to tell his wife. Distressed at her husband's shabby appearance, "Honey" persuades him to buy a dress suit, and at a charity bazaar she pushes him to the front so that he dominates the affair and comes to the attention of the dignitaries. Skinner forces himself upon the attention of his employer and the employer's chief rival, whose admiration he wins when he bluffs him out of a poker pot. In spite of Skinner's efforts to prevent it, the rival companies are consolidated; and impressed by his spirit and enthusiasm, his superiors promote him to sales manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-24
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The Eleventh Dimension
Overview: A professor seeks to prove life after death by reviving a dead body.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-16
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Sundown Trail
Overview: Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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His Hour of Triumph
Overview: Leonard Dare, a producer, finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick: the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest actor living. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-30
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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The Foolish Virgin
Overview: A 1916 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-26
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Freighters of Destiny
Overview: A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-29
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Traffic in Souls
Overview: A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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Elusive Isabel
Overview: Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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Neptune's Daughter
Overview: The daughter of King Neptune takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king, the man she holds responsible.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-25
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Benson at Calford
Overview: The first entry in the Collegians comedy short series, with 4th of July celebrations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-08
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The Love Trader
Overview: A woman, raised in the most-strict New England atmosphere, marries a stern, God-fearing sea captain and is thrown suddenly into the romantic, colorful and licentious atmosphere of a South Sea island outpost. With her inhibitions and repressed desires what will be her reaction to the charms of the sensuous of the beautiful tropic nights and the call of love?
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-25
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The Narrow Path
Overview: Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the delight of the crowds. She becomes an orphan when her father, in a drunken stupor, kills her mother, and then himself. Bessie is knocked down by the car of Mrs. Latham, a society matron, who takes an interest in the girl and procures her a job as a dress model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-03
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Companionate Marriage
Overview: Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-21
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The Primrose Path
Overview: Too poor to pay for medicine, Ned Templeton, a struggling young artist living in Paris, lapses into a prolonged illness. To save her husband's life, Joan Templeton sells herself to a rich art dealer, then tells Ned that the money came from her father. After the couple emigrates to America, Ned encounters Cartwright, a millionaire who commissions a portrait of his daughter Helen. The heiress becomes infatuated with Ned who, enjoying the money and attention, neglects Joan more each day, sending her away and finally forcing her to work as a model to support herself. While posing for an art class, Joan meets Helen, and Helen recognizes her rival from one of Ned's paintings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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Frenzied Flames
Overview: Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is openly despised by one of the smoke-eaters, who has a yen for our hero's sweetheart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-01
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Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Overview: The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-17
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One More River
Overview: A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man on board a ship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-06
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Conscience
Overview: Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the rights to an invention. After Grant breaks up a fight in a bar between drunken Dave Wilson and an old man reprimanding him, Dave is told by his mother to apologize to Grant. He meets Benson, who witnessed the fight, outside Grant's apartment and tells him his purpose, but during Dave's conversation with Grant, Grant suddenly drops dead. The police find Dave hiding, and after a pistol is found outside and Benson tells them about the fight but says he knew nothing about Dave's apology, Dave is convicted of murder and electrocuted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-25
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Courtmartialed
Overview: Jules, the son of French General Bleriot, agrees to give a masked blackmailer his father's secret military papers when threatened with exposure of his gambling debts. Masked, Jules steals the papers, but during a struggle with his father, Jules receives a knife wound in his arm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-21
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The White Terror
Overview: Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-18
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The Mississippi Gambler
Overview: He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beautiful daughter of a Southern gentleman; yet she fell in love with the gambler. How? Why? See the answer in this utterly charming, smashingly dramatic and colorful romance of river days fraught with adventure.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-03
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The Lords of High Decision
Overview: Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees, Wayne Craighill joins the old man's mining business. Adding to the strain between father and son, Wayne soon falls in love with Jean, the daughter of a small mine owner whom the Colonel wants to put out of business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-28
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The Eternal Sin
Overview: Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married the Duke of Ferrara. After Lucretia's brother is killed by five conspirators, the fathers of Gennaro's dearest friends, Lucretia tortures the old men to death. Later, Gennaro and his companions journey to Lucretia's domain, and she sees her son for the first time. The Duke, who believes him to be her lover, poisons him, but Lucretia administers the antidote in time and saves his life. Then she schemes to poison her sons' five friends for their fathers' mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-15
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The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
Overview: A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each episode in the series was a story complete in itself. They are all presumably lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-28
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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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Rene Haggard Journeys On
Overview: Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime. His sister had been lured from home and abandoned by the villain. Desolate at first after some time she married a man who became governor but when the villain shows up again and threatens her happiness Rene kills him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-06
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One of Three
Overview: An adventuress traps Norroy into her apartment, then, with the aid of several men, gets the new secret code from him. He turns the laugh on all of them by staging their capture and proving that he had only a fake code with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Price She Paid
Overview: Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemuel Sidall (William Welsh), a wealthy man she loathes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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