Charles Brinley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yuma, Arizona, USA
Birthday: November 15, 1880
Deathday: February 17, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Covered Wagon Trails
Overview: Deputy Sheriff "Smoke" Sanderson (Bob Custer) is after a gang of smugglers, led by Brad Vogel (J.P. McGowan) operating along the Texas/Mexico border but he does not know that Chet Clayton (Perry Murdock), the brother of his sweetheart, Wanda Clayton (Phyllis Bainbridge), is one of the gang members.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Riders of the Plains
Overview: B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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Liberty
Overview: A 20 part 2-reel Western film serial.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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Idaho!
Overview: Frank Leon Smith's well-written story told of Carter's Creek, a bustling mining camp, and of how Beth Cameron (Rich) seeks to avenge the murder of her father (Frederick Vroom) by donning men's clothing and raiding the vicinity.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-01
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The Fighting Smile
Overview: A cowboy who has been away from home for a long time returns, only to find that the area he grew up in has been taken over by a vicious gang of cattle rustlers--and that his closest friend from boyhood is one of them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-04
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Treason
Overview: It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he does she is found guilt and sentenced to hang. Earlier Jeff learned that her assistant Colonel Jedcott is the real culprit and rides to the Governor for a pardon only to be waylaid by Jedcott on the return trip.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Lawless Men
Overview: Steve McKay, a cowboy, is falsely accused of murdering the father of his girlfriend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-15
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Beau Bandit
Overview: Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.
Genres: Action Adventure Western Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-02
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The Mad Genius
Overview: A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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Go Straight
Overview: Young minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky and finds that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-17
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'If Only' Jim
Overview: Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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The Lone Hand
Overview: A government detective poses as a holdup, on the trail of masked riders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-13
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The Double Hold-Up
Overview: The hero impersonates a "spook" bandit and aids in bringing the band to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-20
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The Boiling Point
Overview: Jimmy's uncle gives him 30 days probation on Kirk's ranch to control his temper or lose his inheritance. There he gets tangled up with a gang of robbers whose boss is his rival for Kirk's daughter. With one day left in his probation, they goad him into a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-15
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In the Days of Daniel Boone
Overview: Presumed lost. 15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. A trailer is included in the DVD More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-25
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The Best Man Wins
Overview: A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-14
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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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Hills of Missing Men
Overview: A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of crazed followers, who are setting up their own criminal empire spreading from Mexico into the United States.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-26
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It Happened in Hollywood
Overview: A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-07
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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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Moran of the Lady Letty
Overview: Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-too-scrupulous smuggler. When the ship encounters the foundering "Lady Letty," some of the Letty's crew is brought aboard, including Letty 'Moran' Sternerson, feisty daughter of the Letty's captain. Moran and Ramon have little use for each other, but when trouble erupts and the smuggler Captain Kitchell turns his evil eye on Moran, it is Ramon who comes to her rescue.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-05
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Desert Valley
Overview: Seeing cattle dying of thirst, a stranger shoots a hole in Hoades water pipeline. Hoades is hoarding water trying to drive the ranchers away. Hounded by the law for stealing a pie, the stranger sees a chance to redeem himself by forcing Hoades to sell his pipeline and leave the area.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-25
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Six Shootin' Sheriff
Overview: Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Cavalier of the West
Overview: Burgess and Greeley are rustling horses and shooting Indians. When they kill Manual they frame Lieutenant Allister. His older brother John now attempts to defend him at his murder trial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-15
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Unknown Valley
Overview: Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla O'Neill, the two plan an escape from the village where no one is allowed to leave. But then he learns his father is being held prisoner and finding him, he is also made a prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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The Defense Rests
Overview: A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-15
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Overview: This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-14
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Heritage of the Desert
Overview: John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin. Naab's daughter, Marian, falls in love with John but is about to marry Snap Thornton to keep a promise made by her father. She runs away on her wedding day but is captured and held hostage by outlaw Henry Holderness. John, the Naabs and fellow ranchers rush to her rescue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Heroes of the West
Overview: Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-19
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Phantom of Santa Fe
Overview: A band of renegades attacks and loots a mission, stealing some priceless treasures. Local citizens blame an outlaw known as "The Hawk," who is also called "The Phantom of Santa Fe."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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The Crime of Helen Stanley
Overview: An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-20
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Adventure in Sahara
Overview: Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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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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The Red Rider
Overview: "Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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The Pony Express
Overview: The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze and starred his wife Betty Compson along with Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-03
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Overview: Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-09
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The Frontiersmen
Overview: The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-16
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Song of the Saddle
Overview: Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Patria
Overview: Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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The Crimson Trail
Overview: A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves.
Genres: Romance Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-11
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Stone of Silver Creek
Overview: In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Young Blood
Overview: A reformed gunfighter battles a crooked sheriff who used to be a member of his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-05
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Fargo Express
Overview: When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identified by his palomino horse. Ken tries to clear him by robbing a stage while riding a palomino, but he also gets caught.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-20
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The Sheik
Overview: Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-20
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The Beautiful Gambler
Overview: After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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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 White Squaw
Overview: A stranger (Leo Willis) turns out to be a revenue agent and Texas' brother, Tom, turns him out. But when a gang of moonshiners captures the stranger, Texas takes matters into her own hands. There is a climactic shootout between the moonshiners and the "revenoo" agents, during which Texas is wounded. When the smoke settles, the agent proposes to his guardian angel and she accepts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-20
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In Spite of Danger
Overview: Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who runs a roadside lunch-wagon and she helps him get a job as a truck driver. They fall in love and get married. He gets a contract to haul a load of dynamite and, when coming down a steep mountain, he finds his truck's brakes have been sabotaged, just as were the brakes on his race-car.
Genres: Action Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-27
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The Spirit of the West
Overview: To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Riding Wild
Overview: It's roundup time and Stevens is out to start a range war between the big ranchers and the nesters. Tim Malloy is elected to head the roundup but is unable to stop the war and joins the nesters. With the nesters now well organized, Stevens finds a Malloy look-alike and makes a plan to use him to trap the nesters and wipe them out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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