Frank Butler
Also Known As: Frank Russell Butler
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 27, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 10, 1967
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The Fighting Buckaroo
Overview: There's gold in them thar hills and Larry Crawford must fight the unscrupulous Bradley and his men to keep it safe.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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Don Key (Son of Burro)
Overview: The head of a big movie studio is pulling his hair out because the company is bankrupt unless they can find a writer for a smash comedy. An aspiring writer is awaiting outside the office and the producer agrees to see him. He listens while the writer tells his story and acts the numerous parts. The story is rotten, but the producer lets him escape while vowing vengeance on any other author who would read his story aloud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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30 Below Zero
Overview: Don Hathaway Jr. goes to Alaska to escape Follies girl and meets with an accident. The girl helps him and takes him to her home where jealous rival accuses him of being a bootlegger, when he is the culprit himself. Hero proves innocence and defeats rival for affection of girl.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-31
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A Tailor-Made Man
Overview: A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-05
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Variety Girl
Overview: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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Seeing the World
Overview: In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-13
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Made for Love
Overview: A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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Beyond the Rocks
Overview: A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-07
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The Great Outdoors
Overview: The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police. The Great Outdoors is the fourth episode of The Spat Family series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Wild Papa
Overview: The story revolves around two brothers-in-law as business partners in a cloak and suit establishment with a ravishing model as go-between. The married member of the firm scoffs at his partner's declaration that the beautiful model vamp is in love with him. He is soon proven otherwise when he sees her enter the room.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-17
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My American Wife
Overview: Manuel La Tessa, son of a wealthy South American family, meets Natalie Chester, a young Kentucky woman whose horse has won a race at a South American track. Manuel gives a party in her honor, where she is insulted by one of the guests. Manuel knocks down the offender. The offender, whose father is a powerful figure in the country's politics, challenges Manuel to a duel, but also hires a man to hide in ambush and kill his opponent. Manuel is only wounded and Natalie nurses him back to health. Natalie loves Manuel and seeks to uncover the mystery of the bullet fired at him during the duel. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-31
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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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A Self Made Wife
Overview: Tim Goodwin and his wife Corrie are living in poverty when Tim's oil well strikes it rich. He soon works his way to the top of the social scale, but Corrie doesn't change at all--she stays a dour, drab woman with no social skills whatsoever. Tim gets so embarrassed by her that he hires a "social secretary" for her to teach her how to function in the social strata in which they find themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-08
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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Overview: John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when he is in Paris, Mona de Briac comes into his life. Mona comes from an noble family who is facing ruin.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-05
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Hot Stuff
Overview: In the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, the Spats order a fire engine from a mail catalogue-- and soon they'll need it!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-01
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Heavy Seas
Overview: Second release in 'The Spat Family' series of 2-reel comedies. In this episode the three of them win a yacht in a tombola and quarrel over the captaincy while Mrs TS goes swimming and risks getting lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-07
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Let's Build
Overview: Newlyweds Angelica and J. Tewkesbury Spat along with Mrs. Spat's brother Ambrose decide to build a house. It is finished in only 48 hours, but their carpentry skills may not be up to snuff. The first episode of The Spat Family series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-16
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The Tiger's Claw
Overview: Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but is badly wounded himself. The girl, Chameli Brentwood, nurses him back to health and out of gratitude he marries her, ignoring the fact that he has a fiancée, Harriet Halehurst (Eva Novak), back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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The Great Moment
Overview: Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-03
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: A dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-22
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Satan in Sables
Overview: A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-14
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