Neva Gerber
Also Known As: Genevieve Dolores Gerber
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Argenta, Illinois, USA
Birthday: April 03, 1894
Deathday: January 02, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Thundering Thompson
Overview: Using a false accusation of unlawful land-squatting, Bill Edwards (Al Ferguson) goes to the County Seat and has Sheriff Brown to swear out a warrant against sheep-herders Marie Valerian (Neva Gerber) and her father (Silver Tip Baker. The Sheriff sends a Deputy, "Thundering" Thompson (Cheyenne Bill_, back to serve the warrant. Thompson learns that Edwards is only trying to force the Valerians to sell their sheep to him at a cheap price, and comes back without serving the warrant. This enrages Edwards who enlists the aid of a local cattleman and his hands to drive off the sheep. Thompson sets out to keep this from happening.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-07
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The Fighting Stallion
Overview: Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Mays. After Yak catches and tames the wild horse, Mays gets Yak out of the way by having him arrested for murder. Mays and his men can now make one last raid.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-28
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A Yankee Go Getter
Overview: Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budget silent melodrama produced by Benjamin F. Wilson, Gerber's frequent collaborator. Two almost identical women claim ownership to a pocketbook found by author turned adventurer Barry West (James Morrison). Barry is hired by nefarious Nicholas Lanza (Joseph W. Girard) to marry heiress Lucia, who surprisingly turns out to be one of the claimants. Meanwhile, Lucia's lookalike sister Vera is plotting to install herself as Lucia and claim the inheritance. After the wedding, Barry discovers a secret passage and finds the kidnapped Lucia. The villains are brought to justice and Barry and Lucia can finally plan a future together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Dangerous Paths
Overview: Dangerous Paths is a 1921 silent film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-01
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Pitfalls of a Big City
Overview: Tenement dweller Molly Moore, trying to forget her crooked past and go straight, runs a cheap restaurant in the underworld district in order to educate her younger sister Marion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-13
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The Voice on the Wire
Overview: A silent action movie serial consisting of 15 chapters.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-18
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When a Woman Strikes
Overview: A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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Hell Hounds of the Plains
Overview: Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy Yak takes over the search for the rustlers. John Lawson says Yak cannot marry his daughter until the murderer of the Sheriff is caught. But unknown to Lawson, the murderer is his own son.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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Warrior Gap
Overview: Against explicit orders, a vainglorious cavalry major insists on counterattacking a gang of hostile Sioux Indians. His captain refuses to comply and is arrested for insubordination and cowardice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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The Screaming Shadow
Overview: Directed by Ben F. Wilson and Duke Worne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Idle Wives
Overview: Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first two of the original seven reels survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-16
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Hell Bent
Overview: A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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California in '49
Overview: Feature version of Days of '49 (1924), a 15-chapter serial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-01
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The Voice from the Sky
Overview: A crazed scientist calling himself The Voice from the Sky broadcasts his voice all across the globe, and threatens to suspend all energy in the earth's atmosphere and turn day into night unless the world immediately destroys all arms and vehicles of warfare. U. S. Secret Service agent Jack Deering is sent to Arizona to investigate
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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Three Mounted Men
Overview: Fellow convicts Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters become even more bitter enemies when Buck agrees to tamper with the prison's books for the warden's greedy son. The latter secures Buck's release, but when Buck threatens to blackmail him, he decides that the best place for the outlaw is back in prison. Promising to deliver Buck to the warden's anxious son, Cheyenne Harry accepts a premature pardon and goes in search of the outlaw, hoping to catch him in the act of committing a crime. In a small Western town, Harry falls in love with a dance hall girl named Lola, not knowing that she is Buck's sister. Soon Harry learns that Buck is planning a robbery and informs the warden's son, whose deputies promptly arrest him. Lola's grief so moves Harry, however, that he and his two brothers decide to pursue the deputies and rescue Buck. Lola then promises to marry Harry, while her brother promises to reform.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-06
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Roped
Overview: Wealthy ranch owner Cheyenne Harry decides he needs a housekeeper, but his cowboys decide he needs a wife and advertise in an eastern newspaper. The ad is answered by Aileen Judson-Brown, as dictated by her fortune-hunting mother. Harry marries Aileen and a baby is born a year later. Deciding to gain more money and social standing, Mrs. Judson-Brown then tries to break up the marriage so that Aileen can marry Ferdie Van Duzen. Mrs. Judson-Brown steals the baby and tells Harry the baby has died and Aileen no longer loves him. Harry goes out West in sorrow, but when Mrs. Judson-Brown's butler wires Harry the truth, Harry locates the baby and discovers Aileen still loves him. The reunited family goes West together, leaving Mrs. Judson-Brown behind.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-03
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A Fight For Love
Overview: The Northwest Mounties are after Cheyenne Harry for the murder of an Indian boy, and the only witness to the crime is a priest - who can't tell what he saw because the real killer, Black Michael, has confessed to him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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The Trail of the Octopus
Overview: Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
Genres: Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-19
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The Power God
Overview: In this movie serial Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-01
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Officer '444'
Overview: Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. And, taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-14
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Like Wildfire
Overview: Tommy Buckman, the ne'er-do-well son of dime store magnate John Buckman, is given one last chance to succeed by surveying a possible location in New England for the opening of another store in his father's chain. Arriving in the town of Winton, Tommy lands in jail and, disowned by his father, is bailed out by Nina Potter, whose father owns the only dime store in town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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The Spindle of Life
Overview: When Mrs. Harrison arrives in Harborsport for her vacation, she announces her plan to marry Gladsome, her daughter, to Vincent Bradshaw, the son of her financial advisor James Bradshaw. To keep Gladsome from socializing with the local fishermen, James drives them from his property, but they organize under her and force their way back. Arrested for rabble-rousing, Gladsome is bailed out of jail by James and later meets "Alphabet" Carter, a vacationing financial wizard, for whom she has an immediate attraction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Mr. Opp
Overview: Optimistic in the face of failure, Daniel Webster Opp finally attains success as a traveling salesman for a shoe firm, but just when his prospects are best, he receives word that his stepfather is dead. He leaves at once to meet his brother Ben at Cove Junction, where they settle the estate according to Ben's demands. Ben takes the money, while Mr. Opp is given the homestead and custody of Kippy, his feebleminded half-sister. Sacrificing all to remain with his sister, Mr. Opp founds a newspaper, the Opp Eagle, and begins to promote the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-20
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Vic Dyson Pays
Overview: Silent western
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-03
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The Great Secret
Overview: A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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