Paul McAllister
Also Known As: Paul MacAllister
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: June 29, 1875
Deathday: July 08, 1955
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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For Woman's Favor
Overview: A modern love story is the framework for a costume love story, based on Boccaccio's "The Falcon."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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The Big Killing
Overview: The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-01
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Beau Geste
Overview: Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-24
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The Scales of Justice
Overview: Robert Darrow, a district attorney is in love with young widow, Edith Russell Dexter. Her wealthy grandfather, Judge Philip Russell, wants her to marry his business manager, Walter Elliot, who actually has been embezzling from Russell's company. During a garden party, Edith and the judge fight over her attentions to Robert
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-20
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Inspiration
Overview: The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Noah's Ark
Overview: The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Evangeline
Overview: A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-24
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Cock of the Air
Overview: An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-23
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
Overview: While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-14
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Via Wireless
Overview: Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-16
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His Brother's Wife
Overview: When Richard Barton's health fails, his wife Helen, desperate for money to pay the medical bills, agrees to spend the night with the wealthy Howard Barton, without knowing that he is Richard's long-absent brother. However, after she tells Howard that she is selling herself in order to help her husband, he calls off the rendezvous and sends her home with enough money to pay for Richard's care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-04
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The Doctor Takes a Wife
Overview: A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-25
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Manhandled
Overview: Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-21
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Jamestown
Overview: The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-04
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Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-02
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The Whip
Overview: The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-25
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The Sign on the Door
Overview: A 1921 film directed by Herbert Brenon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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She's a Sheik
Overview: The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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Christopher Columbus
Overview: Everyone knows what happened after he "discovered" America, but in this film we learn about Columbus' multi-year struggle to secure funding for the journey. Prior explorers journey's to the North American continent also get a nod in this story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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You Can't Fool Your Wife
Overview: Edith sets out to prove that a wife can never be fooled by her husband - but will she succeed?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-29
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Trilby
Overview: The hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart. This 1915 Maurice Tourneur film is a version of the famous du Maurier novel. It was later done in a more famous 1931 film named Svengali with John Barrymore. The later film obviously changed the title due to the huge presence of its star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-19
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Yolanda
Overview: The backdrop is fifteenth century France, and Charles, Duke of Burgundy has promised his daughter, Princess Mary, that she can marry the man she loves, Prince Maximilian of Styria. But when the Swiss threaten war, the duke is compelled to take back his word and he arranges for Mary to wed the half-witted dauphin of France's King Louis XI .
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Overview: This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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The Invisible Ray
Overview: Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-20
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A Stage Romance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-05
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