Alan Roscoe
Also Known As: Albert Roscoe, Алан Роско, John Albert Rascoe
Biography: From Wikipedia Alan Roscoe (August 23, 1886 – March 8, 1933) was an American film actor of the silent and early talking film eras. He appeared in 108 films between 1915 and 1933. His interment was located in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: August 23, 1886
Deathday: March 08, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Strangers of the Evening
Overview: Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-14
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Subway Express
Overview: Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-01
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The Last Card
Overview: Ralph Kirkwood is falsely tried for murder. He is found guilty after being represented by lawyer, Tom Gannell. Kirkwood's wife believes she knows the identity of the real killer and sets about trapping him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-23
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Camille
Overview: Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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Call of the West
Overview: Nightclub entertainer Violet La Tour collapses during a performance in Sagebrush, Texas, and is taken to the ranch of Lon Dixon. They fall in love and are married. Feeling deserted when Lon joins a posse in search of rustlers, she returns to New York. There, she is wooed by her agent, Maurice Kane, but confirms her love for Lon when he comes to claim her.
Genres: Western Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-10
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The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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A Pound for a Pound
Overview: Starvation faces the little post of Red Gold. Jack Thorpe, in a final effort to obtain food for his wife and baby, offers all his gold for one pound of meat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-16
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The Mystery of the Silent Death
Overview: Within less than five months after the mysterious death of her mother, Adene Maintland wakes in the early morning to learn that her father has also died silently and mysteriously. She suspects her step-father, Wainwright.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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Flirting with Love
Overview: When Wade Cameron, chairman of the Better Plays Society, stops the production of actress Gilda Lamont's first stage success, she attempts to revenge herself by affecting another personality and earning his confidence. He assigns her a role in an improvised production of a new play as an unknown actress, derails her attempt to expose him, and ends by winning her heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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A Man's Country
Overview: Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town. He is scorned by the miners, gamblers and "loose women" of the place, especially Kate, who resents that Bowen calls her a "scarlet woman".
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Her Unwilling Husband
Overview: In this farce, Mavis Jerome, is an actress who has just broken up with her fiancé, Homer Owen. She goes to her brother-in-law's island retreat, but her stay is interrupted by one of his pals, John Jordan. Her rest is further disturbed when Owen shows up on her doorstep during a storm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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Cleopatra
Overview: The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a small fragment of this film survives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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Hello Trouble
Overview: After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits suicide. He and Janet Kenyon then become the new half owners. At first, he refuses to wear a gun and is believed to be a coward, but as trouble mounts, he straps it on once again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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Salome
Overview: Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah. (Film presumed lost.)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-10
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The Chorus Lady
Overview: When her latest show closes, Pat O'Brien returns home. The stable owned by her fiancé, Dan Mallory, catches fire, and Pat helps save his prize horse, Lady Belle, who is blinded. Because of the fire, Pat and Dan have to put their wedding plans on hold, and Pat returns to the stage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-23
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Breach of Promise
Overview: A pre-Code drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-23
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The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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The Girl of Gold
Overview: Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter, Helen, has an endless number of suitors. Needless to say, she gets tired of being courted only for her money, so she attends a party under an assumed name. There she meets Schuyler Livingstone, and they are immediately attracted to each other. What Helen doesn't know is that her father has paid Livingstone to marry her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-16
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Long Pants
Overview: Harry Shelby has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood sweetheart Priscilla... but instead, Harry's first heady whiff of manhood has got him panting after Bebe, a "fast" woman from the big city. Mistakenly thinking that Bebe fancies him too, Harry risks everything to help her out when she lands in jail, only to end up in hot water himself. Through it all, sweet Priscilla waits for her man to come to his senses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Flight
Overview: Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Evangeline
Overview: In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-19
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Dynamite Ranch
Overview: Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-07
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Danger Lights
Overview: Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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The Fall Guy
Overview: Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-15
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Lucky Devils
Overview: Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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Hurricane
Overview: Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-30
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The Sideshow
Overview: Melrose's circus is being threatened by his competitor, who's angry that Melrose has outmanuevered him in bookings; what he doesn't know is that the competitor has also planted a saboteur who creates accidents in hopes of reducing the value of the circus. Meanwhile, he's also hired a beautiful young woman as the magician's assistant, with eyes toward more - but he realizes that, as a midget, she won't have him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-11
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Untamed
Overview: In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-23
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The Sin Ship
Overview: A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-18
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Hell-Fire Austin
Overview: Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him and he must hide both himself and the horse until race time.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-02
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The Pay-Off
Overview: A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-14
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The Paliser Case
Overview: A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-15
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The Last of the Mohicans
Overview: As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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The Branding Iron
Overview: Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-31
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The Vagabond Lover
Overview: A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-25
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The Public Defender
Overview: A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The Texas Streak
Overview: Chad Pennington, a movie-cowboy from Hollywood, gets into trouble when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas named Tommy Hawk.
Genres: Comedy Western Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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Rain or Shine
Overview: Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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The She Devil
Overview: Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called The Tiger, Lolette prefers Maurice Tabor, a French artist who has come to Juanguera to paint. Because he refuses to take her to Paris, Lolette accepts a gift of stolen jewels from The Tiger and follows Maurice to France.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-10
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Black Shadows
Overview: A victim of hypnotism begins to have compulsions to steal.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-01
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The Thrill Hunter
Overview: A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-30
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A Strange Adventure
Overview: A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-20
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High Stakes
Overview: High Stakes is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy drama produced and released by RKO Pictures. The picture was directed by Lowell Sherman who also stars and marks the last starring screen appearance of silent screen diva Mae Murray. It is based on a 1924 Broadway play that starred Sherman playing the same role he plays in this film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-18
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The Cheyenne Kid
Overview: Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-20
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The Last Mile
Overview: Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-17
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The Sawdust Paradise
Overview: She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then Regeneration. A Drama of Lights and Shadows.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-28
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Hell Divers
Overview: The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-16
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Ladies of the Jury
Overview: Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich older husband. In court and during deliberations, Mrs. Crane proves to be a disruptive and unorthodox juror.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-02
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Heart's Desire
Overview: Henri Le Rocque's arrival in an island village causes much anger when he insists upon advanced rental for the land he owns. Accompanying Le Rocque is his nephew Paul, who is recovering from a broken heart. One day, little flower girl Fleurette visits the Le Rocque estate to make a present of a rare flower and is shot as a trespasser. She is nursed back to health at the mansion, and Paul falls in love with her. However, trouble is brewing in the village which will endanger all their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-30
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The Siren's Song
Overview: Marie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gift from the devil. Raoul Nieppe loves her, but fears marrying below his social status, and his rejection results in a suicide attempt by Marie. She is rescued by Hector Remey who was once a tenor but is now a showman. Because of his assistance, she becomes a famous singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-03
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The Royal Bed
Overview: The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Java Head
Overview: Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Why Women Love
Overview: A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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When a Woman Sins
Overview: Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two, Lilian leaves after her fiance's death. Years later, Lilian becomes known around town for her "loose morals," but what happens when she runs into Michael again?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Her Body in Bond
Overview: The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes consumptive and is ordered West to recuperate. Peggy remains in New York to maintain the couple's income but gradually becomes desperate when letters sent her by her husband request more and more money. Joe's letters actually are being intercepted and rewritten by millionaire Harlan Quinn, who has designs on Peggy and wishes to portray Joe's situation as hopeless. After receiving a particularly alarming letter, Peggy consents to sell her honor to Harlan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-20
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The Doctor and the Woman
Overview: The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe Drummond, and seeks training as a nurse. Infatuated with the head surgeon, Dr. Max Wilson, she accepts his proposal, which infuriates nurse Carlotta, who also loves Max. Carlotta lures Max to a roadhouse, where Joe, mistaking her for Sidney, shoots Max. K appears and, assuming his true identity as the famous Dr. Edwards, saves Max's life by performing his "Edwards operation."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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A Soul for Sale
Overview: After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pendleton decides to marry Neila to the highest bidder. At the cost of her daughter's reputation, Mrs. Pendleton accepts money from elderly broker Wilbur Simons, and later tries to force Neila into a marriage with a dissolute old millionaire named Hale Faxon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-30
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Graustark
Overview: While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-16
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Under the Yoke
Overview: As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Paul Winter (Roscoe) of the American troops in Manila and he comes to her assistance, but his troops are outnumbered and they are made prisoners by the revolting revolutionists. Maria and Paul attempt to escape, but they are caught and brought back. At the Manila headquarters, trouble is suspected and reinforcements are sent. Before long, the revolt is subdued and peace reigns over Maria's home, and happiness over the betrothal of Maria and Paul. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-07-09
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Lovebound
Overview: Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mobley to fall in love with his cute little employee and he proposes. Besse doesn't reveal that her father has a criminal past which he has since renounced.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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Love In The Desert
Overview: Zarah, a beautiful Arabian played by Olive Borden, saves irrigation engineer Bob Winslow (Hugh Trevor) from being abducted by bandit leader Abdullah (Noah Beery).
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
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The Net
Overview: Allayne Norman's husband Bruce is a gambler and drunkard who kills her artist cousin in an argument. Bruce flees the studio with Allayne and their son, and places his identifying documents in the pockets of an amnesiac man. To avoid the consequences of his actions, Allayne identifies the man as her husband. When Bruce returns, he tries to kill the man but is shot instead. The man regains his memory and is cleared of wrongdoing.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Pal o' Mine
Overview: Opera singer Julia Montfort (Irene Rich) returns to the stage when her husband, Verdugo Montford (Josef Swickard) loses his job...and then gives him work secretly paid for by herself. When a temperamental artist Babette Hermann (Pauline Garon) reveals the secret, Verdugo becomes disillusioned. Later, though, his faith in his wife is restored.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-15
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One Glorious Night
Overview: A 1924 silent drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-01
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The Shuttle
Overview: American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-01
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The King of the Turf
Overview: Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Laugh and Get Rich
Overview: An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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A Wife's Romance
Overview: Joyce Addison, wife of an American attache in Madrid, looks to her painting as sole entertainment, as her husband neglects her for business. One night late, while driving, she meets and is robbed by a bandit who proves sufficiently chivalrous to see her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-19
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The Mirage
Overview: Irene Martin, hoping to find fame as an opera singer, leaves her hometown for New York but ends up a chorus girl. She meets Henry Galt, a wealthy businessman, who asks her out on a date then sends her money the next day. Offended, she demands an apology, but Galt explains he often hires showgirls to entertain prospective clients on a strictly platonic basis. On those terms Irene accepts. Over time Galt falls in love with Irene and when he discovers her family has the impression she has become a fallen woman, marries her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Driftwood
Overview: Daisy Smith (Marceline Day), a floater and non-desirable citizen in most societies, seeks refuge on a tropical island in the South Seas. She meets Jim Curtis (Don Alvarado), another society-outcast and a piece of human driftwood, and a romance takes place that regenerates both and they sail back to the United States determined to start life anew.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-15
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