Doc Crane
Also Known As: Harry F. Crane, H.F. Crane, Harold Crane, Harry Crane, H.C. Crane, Harry Fairbanks "Doc" Crane, Harry Fairbanks Crane
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 22, 1846
Age: 179 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 17, 1920
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The Broken Coin
Overview: A movie serial directed by Francis Ford.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-21
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Mixed Blood
Overview: For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and repelled. In contrast, she has only a passing interest in Big Jim, the town's honest, good-hearted sheriff. Then, after Carlos kills a faro dealer, he forces Nita to make an escape with him.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-18
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The Oubliette
Overview: Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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A Woman's Eyes
Overview: Tom Horn is known throughout the cow country as a hard worker and a hard player. Tom is the leader of a gang. The Buzzard stumbles across oil indications on a homestead occupied by an old man and his daughter. Tom's party agrees it will be a good scheme to jump the claim, and they set out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-17
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What Love Can Do
Overview: Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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A Bargain with Chance
Overview: First movie in the Lord John's Journal series. Detective novel author and war hero Lord John solves a mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-14
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The Last Volunteer
Overview: While traveling incognito through his kingdom, Prince Ludwig of Saxe-Tholberg becomes infatuated with Katrina, the daughter of innkeeper Hermann Ardelheim, but their idyll is interrupted by the arrival of a courier bearing the news that Austrania has threatened war. Katrina is heartbroken to discover the identity of her sweetheart whom she can never hope to marry. After Ludwig's departure, Katrina overhears the plotting of two spies and with the help of her brother Roalf, she confronts them. In the ensuing struggle, Katrina kills one of them, who turns out to be the Austranian ambassador. Although Katrina admits her crime, Marshal von Trump plans to execute Roalf in order to pacify the Austranians. Katrina appeals to Ludwig, who pardons Roalf over the advice of his counselors causing Austrania to declare war. A crucial battle is fought near the Ardelheim inn, during which Katrina becomes a heroine by signaling the advance of Ludwig's troops.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-22
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Pollyanna
Overview: When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-18
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Drugged Waters
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-20
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Flirting with Death
Overview: When an aviator dies performing in a traveling circus, the circus closes and sideshow con men "Sky-High" Billy Wardell and "Domino" Dominick are arrested for giving out fake watches to wheel of fortune winners. After Domino springs the jail's lock, they jump a freight train and arrive in the next town, where Billy falls in love when Jane Higgenbotham allows them to breakfast on her freshly baked pies.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-24
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A Youth of Fortune
Overview: At the urging of his wealthy grandfather, Willie O'Donovan is sent to boarding school by his preoccupied parents, neither of whom shows much interest in the lad. At school, where he falls in love with Mary, a country girl, Willie hears that his grandfather has died and left him $50,000,000 to be managed by whomever Willie is living with on his eighteenth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. O'Donovan, who are in the midst of divorce, both hire private detectives to bring Willie back to them, but after a series of close calls, Willie manages to avoid the detectives and take refuge at the home of Mary's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-15
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The Melting Pot
Overview: The wide-ranging storyline of The Melting Pot takes its characters from the Jewish ghettoes of Russia to the Lower East Side of New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-15
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The Higher Law
Overview: The youthful monarch, Edward IV of England, is treacherously advised by Sir Stephen Fitz Allen, who is the King's boon companion, in favor of turning down the offer of Louis XI to cease the controversy that has been pending so long. The King, Edward IV, follows the advice of his companion and the French messenger meets with an insult, returning to the French court in a quandary.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-19
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Monsieur Bluebeard
Overview: the third installment in The Adventures of Francois Villon collection
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-17
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The Ninety Black Boxes
Overview: the fourth installment in The Adventures of Francois Villon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-21
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