Vester Pegg
Also Known As: Sylvester House Pegg, T. Peg, Vesta Peg, Vesta Pegg, Vester Perry
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Appleton City, Missouri, USA
Birthday: May 22, 1887
Deathday: February 19, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Canyon of the Fools
Overview: Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
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Man of the Forest
Overview: Nancy Raynor (Georgia Hale) is arriving from the East to see her dying uncle. Clint Beasley (Oland) and his gang are determined to kidnap her before she reaches him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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Hell's Fury Gordon
Overview: Hell's Fury Gordon
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-01
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The Cowboy and the Rajah
Overview: The Cowboy and the Rajah
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-01
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The Galloping Devil
Overview: Andy Green, a colorful cowboy, finds work at the Flying U cattle ranch, owned by Chip. Chip's foreman Dunk, who is Elsie Gray's guardian, attempts to force her to sign papers releasing him, but she refuses because he has stolen some of her money. Chip fires Dunk, who buys an adjoining sheep ranch, cutting off Chip's water supply and endangering his cattle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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Vanishing Trails
Overview: A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune. Silent Joe (Farnum) arrives in an effort to discover the murderer and prove that he is the true heir. He and the heroine Lou (Anderson) have their adventures in the mountainous terrain with its "vanishing trails." They are aided by The Shadow (Orlamond), a demented scientist with his trained dog, and several remarkable, death-dealing inventions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-10
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The Fighting Stranger
Overview: After being released from prison, "Australia Joe" attempts a bank robbery and escapes. Out west, his gang robs the town-hall and steals papers for some mysterious person "higher up." Joe learns the identity of this man and prevents his marriage to the daughter of a man he has framed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-25
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The Last Chance
Overview: Black Sparr, a hard-fighting, hard-drinking rancher, puts his son, Rance, through rigorous experiences to learn the ways of men. Rance thinks himself in love with Vivian Morrow. Vivian, an ambitious girl, longs for a life of finery away from the ranch and succumbs to the proposal of Braden, who offers her luxury.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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The Raiders
Overview: Northwest Mounted Policemen Fitzgerald and Herrick, who are later joined by Indian guide Uncas, have been detailed to track down a gang of whiskey-runners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Tearin' Loose
Overview: Jim Dorn, owner of the Bar X Ranch, is accused of crime he actually committed by Bud Deering, his girlfriend Ann's brother.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-04
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The Hurricane Horseman
Overview: When a bank is robbed, the cashier is killed and suspicion for the murder unjustly falls on Jim Marden. He gives himself up, and his brother, Wally, promises to run down the killer. Wally, who suspects Mike Wesson, the foreman of the Flying X Ranch, of the crime, goes to the ranch and talks to him. While at the ranch Mike meets June Mathews, owner of the ranch, and he falls in love with her. When Wally and June are out riding, they are ambushed by Wesson, and Wally is wounded. One of Wesson's confederates later exposes Wesson's perfidy, and Wally brings the homicidal foreman to justice. Wally then weds June.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-14
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Bucking the Truth
Overview: Slim Duane, a wandering cowpuncher in search of his stolen horse, is forced by a fugitive to exchange clothes and finds himself stranded and broke in a town. He is seen by Eben Purkiss, who mistakenly identifies him as the fugitive (Matt Holden) and rides for the sheriff.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-18
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The Two Doyles
Overview: Second of 12 in the Franklyn Farnum two-reel Western series produced by Canyon Pictures Corp.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-01
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Vengeance and the Girl
Overview: Silent romantic cowboy western short was billed as "A story of an inheritance of hatred!"
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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The Uphill Climb
Overview: A dying lady tells a woman she must marry Frank Cameron. She unknowningly marries the almost always drunken Ford Cameron by mistake and immediately flees. Ford takes a job of ranch foreman and gives up drinking. Only after being attacted to a woman on the ranch does he suddenly remember he is already married.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-03
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The Puncher and the Pup
Overview: The Puncher and the Pup
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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Brother Bill
Overview: Brother Bill is a 1919 silent Western
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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The Flying Horseman
Overview: Mark Winton is a wanderer who takes up the cause of a band of ragamuffin's bullied by nasty loan shark Bert Ridley. In between buying the youngsters Boy Scout uniforms, the irrepressible Winton comes to the aid of lovely rancher June Savary , whose father is in financial trouble because of Ridley.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-05
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The Fighting Gringo
Overview: Disturbed by the separation of his friends Mary Smith and Arthur Saxon, who really love each other, William "Red" Saunders resolves to reconcile the couple. Discovering that Belknap, a missionary with political aspirations, exercises a destructive hypnotic influence over Mary, Red schemes to eliminate Belknap.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-26
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The Joke on Yellentown
Overview: The new minister en route to a new western town to preach loses one of his suitcases containing his clerical robes. It is found on the road by Pete and Ike, cowboys of the Bar X Ranch, who decide to play a huge joke on the boys of their town.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-16
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Blood Money
Overview: The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the capture of Cheyenne Harry, accused of holding up a Wells Fargo shipment. Shortly after they have tacked the sign to a tree Cheyenne Harry removes it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-06
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The Bad Man of Cheyenne
Overview: Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-13
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The Outlaw and the Lady
Overview: Major Carter, owner of the Sunset mines, reads of a reward offered for Cheyenne Harry if captured. The butler gives him a telegram telling of the flooding of several shafts in his mine. He is soon on the way to the mine in his car. Ruth, his daughter, follows in her roadster.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-10
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Goin' Straight
Overview: Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States. The authorities are unable to apprehend them, so "Pinnacle" Bill and "Cheyenne" Harry of the Arizona Ranger Service are sent to assist the sheriff, Dan Beckham, and the inspectors in their search.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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Hair-Trigger Burke
Overview: Before dying, a man's friend asks him to do his best to keep the truth that he was a robber from his son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-10
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The Struggle
Overview: Spirited story of West, which begins after the hero has spent four years overseas and has left the army so much of a fighting devil that he becomes embroiled in a mix-up. Learning that his antagonist has died from wounds is the reason for the hero going West, when he meets a tramp who is on his way to join a gang of outlaws and who invites the ex-soldier to join.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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A 44-Calibre Mystery
Overview: A 44-Calibre Mystery is a Silent Western short.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-22
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The Almost Good Man
Overview: The Almost Good Man is a 1917 Western short.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-05
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The Golden Bullet
Overview: A bandit tries to incriminate an innocent man for his own crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-26
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The Wrong Man
Overview: A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-07
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The Black Horse Bandit
Overview: Helen's father, the sheriff, is murdered and she successfully undertakes the task of bringing his murderer to justice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-15
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Their First Acquaintance
Overview: Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him that evening for a real estate deal he had made in Talbot's absence. It was after banking hours and Talbot slept with the money under his pillow. The next morning he went off in a tearing hurry and forgot the roll of bills.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-16
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The Tavern of Tragedy
Overview: Maximillo Corto, a Mexican crook, keeps a tavern on the Mexican border and has a daughter whom he abuses and who has to do all the hard work around the place. One day, Bob Jamison, really an American spy in the service, comes to the inn and stops overnight. He falls in love with the daughter of the innkeeper. She is infatuated with him, as he is the first human being who has ever been kind to her. He goes away but promises to return. While he is away a large reward is offered for his capture, dead or alive. The innkeeper tells the messenger of the news that if Bob ever comes back, he will put him into room seven and hold him. The daughter overhears this, and when Bob returns, unable to warn him, she changes the number on the door of room seven to that of six. When Bob is sent up to his room by Corto, he goes in what he thinks is seven but the daughter afterwards shifts the door numbers back to their original positions. Corto decides to kill Bob in his sleep and steals upstairs.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-09
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His Lesson
Overview: This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-05
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Straight Shooting
Overview: Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-27
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Bucking Broadway
Overview: On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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Elinor Norton
Overview: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Kickback
Overview: A silent Western about a rough rider, that winds up in jail and the adventure begins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-30
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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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Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-02
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Frontier Pony Express
Overview: In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-11
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3 Bad Men
Overview: Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-28
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Under Texas Skies
Overview: The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new sheriff (Henry Brandon) resents the arrival of the Mesquiteers, going so far as to frame Tucson on a murder charge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-29
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The Ranger and the Lady
Overview: While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1940-07-30
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Colorado
Overview: Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-15
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My Little Chickadee
Overview: While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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The Soul Herder
Overview: Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-07
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Cheyenne's Pal
Overview: During World War I, westerner Cheyenne Harry is a horse seller, but he refuses to part with his favorite horse and friend, Cactus. One night, broke and drunk, he sells Cactus to an Englishman for $350 which he soon loses gambling. When Harry discovers that Cactus is being sent to the war in France and probable death, he gets a horse- tending job on the ship. When they get the opportunity Harry jumps off the ship with Cactus and they swim to shore. Harry is eventually caught but is allowed to work off his debt and keep Cactus.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-13
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The Secret Man
Overview: Convict Cheyenne Harry escapes from prison in a garbage truck and boards a train, where he eludes capture with the help of passenger Henry Beaufort. Beaufort is returning to his wealthy uncle's ranch, where earlier he had married Molly in secret because his uncle did not like her. Beaufort tells Pedro, who takes care of his child Elizabeth, to take her away because his uncle is coming, and Pedro, driving drunk, wrecks the wagon. Harry finds her and must protect her while still evading the sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-30
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A Marked Man
Overview: Bandit Cheyenne Harry reforms because of the faith placed in him by Molly Young and her father. Soon, however, Harry is lured from the straight and narrow when he meets his old friend Ben Kent and consents to participate in Kent's plan of robbing a stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-29
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The Phantom Riders
Overview: Dave Bland, head of a band of cattle rustlers operating in Paradise Valley, is defied by Cheyenne Harry who has driven his heard into the valley to graze. Bland calls his phantom riders together, routes Harry's cattle, and then seeks their owner intent on taking his life.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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Wild Women
Overview: Cheyenne Harry (Carey) and his pals, bent on helping their friend Rawhide Jack, attend a rodeo with the intent to win the prize for roping steers and to hand the winnings over to Jack.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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Thieves' Gold
Overview: Cheyenne Harry tries to help his outlaw friend Padden evade arrest after Padden has drunkenly shot another man. In the end, the two mismatched friends fight it out, leaving Padden dead. In a romantic subplot, Harry's fiancée Alice leaves him, but finally returns.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-18
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The Scarlet Drop
Overview: "Kaintuck" Ridge (Carey), refused admission to the local militia to fight on the side of Union in the American Civil War, joins a gang of marauders and at the end of the conflict finds himself a fugitive with a price on his head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-22
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A Woman's Fool
Overview: Cowboy Lin McLean's restlessness takes him to Denver, where he becomes enamored of a waitress named Katie. Intending to marry her, Lin accompanies Katie back to the ranch, but a traveling rainmaker arrives in the little town, and Katie departs with him after revealing that he is her husband. Visiting Denver for Christmas, Lin adopts Katie's abandoned son Billy, and soon afterwards, the cowboy meets and falls in love with the new station agent, Jessamine "Jessie" Buckner. Lin and Jessie marry, and the little family is happy until Katie, determined to be rid of her neglectful husband and marry Lin instead, appears and drives Jessie away. Realizing that Lin does not love her, Katie poisons herself, and Jessie returns to Lin and Billy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-17
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West of Abilene
Overview: Frontiersman Tom Garfield and his pals endeavor to save their land from the clutches of slimy easterner Forsyth. The villain hires a bit of local muscle in the form of brutish Chris Matson, but he's no match for our hero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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Steamboat Round the Bend
Overview: A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-06
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Bare Fists
Overview: Harry's father is killed in a gunfight, and his mother makes him swear he'll never again use his gun, and rely only on his bare fists. But when his little brother is branded on the chest by cattle rustlers, will Harry break his promise?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-05
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Carnival
Overview: "Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Overview: The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-07
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love with her, but he must decide whether to let her go to his best friend, with whom he believes her to be in love, or to try to win her for himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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The Ace of the Saddle
Overview: When cattle rancher Cheyenne Harry Henderson discovers that rustlers are attacking his herd, he informs Yucca County's sheriff but learns that the lawman is in cahoots with the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-18
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Rider of the Law
Overview: Jim Kyneton, once a member of an outlaw gang, joins the Texas Rangers and is forced to track down his former friends and his half brother Nick, who have been robbing a gold mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-03
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Wild and Woolly
Overview: Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
Genres: Comedy Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-19
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The Lucky Transfer
Overview: Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work. Ford and Ransom, a couple of crooks, rob a store and among the things taken are a quantity of stamped envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed thereon.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-10
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The Desert Rat
Overview: Steve Lanyon, known as the Desert Rat, returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-02
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Hell Bent
Overview: A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-29
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Victorine
Overview: Dottie gets a job in a small show as "side kick" of a famous knife thrower. The "Angel" is a nice boy who is backing the show, and who is too modest to declare his love to Dottie. She can see no one save the great, handsome "Strong Man." The knife thrower gets drunk, and the "Angel" forbids Dottie to do her act. The "Strong Man," however, locks up the "Angel" and bids the knife thrower go on with the show. Dottie, terrified but helpless, has risked her life a half dozen times from the carelessly thrown knives, when the "Angel," bursting out of his prison, rushes into the ring and flings himself between her and the weapons. He is seriously injured. At the hospital, Dottie and the "Angel" pledge their troth.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-01
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The Pretender
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-24
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They Never Knew
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-25
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The Sheriff's Prisoner
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Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-29
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