Frank Brownlee
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 11, 1874
Age: 150 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 10, 1948
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Romance Land
Overview: This silent action comedy features Tom Mix donning a suit of armor to battle an unscrupulous ranch foreman in a style that would appear familiar to King Arthur and his knights.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-11
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Paid in Advance
Overview: In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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The Double Standard
Overview: Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting the dives and cabarets of the city, and promises equal justice for all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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Desert Gold
Overview: In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (Margery Wilson) from the clutches of notorious outlaw Rojas (Walter Long). Mercedes' fiancé, Captain George Thorne (Edward Coxen), entrusts her to Gale's care when he returns to duty.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-21
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Vanity Pool
Overview: A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence with political boss Jarvis Flint could help him win the election. Carol agrees to speak to Diana on condition that Gerald temporarily assume her work in the city's tenements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-07
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Terror Trail
Overview: A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is stolen, he steps in to break up the gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-02
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$5,000 Reward
Overview: A wealthy old man is murdered after deciding to write his nephew out of his will. Fearing that he will be accused of the murder his nephew takes flight but, with the help of a young woman whose life he saves, he has to try and track down the real murderer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-25
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Bigger and Better Blondes
Overview: Charley is mistakenly assumed to be a thief
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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The Beloved Brute
Overview: A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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The Midnight Patrol
Overview: Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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The Lightning Warrior
Overview: A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
Genres: Action Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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Call of the Cuckoo
Overview: Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-15
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The Hole in the Wall
Overview: When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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The Vanishing Legion
Overview: A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
Genres: Action Mystery Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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The Galloping Ghost
Overview: A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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Tombstone Canyon
Overview: A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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Straight Through
Overview: O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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The Half-Breed
Overview: In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF-BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by Allan Dwan. Fairbanks stars as Lo Dorman, who has been ostracized from society because of this mixed ethnicity - his Native American mother was abandoned by his white father. When Lo catches the eye of the rich white debutante Nellie (Jewel Carmen), he becomes a target for the racist Sheriff Dunn (Sam De Grasse), who wants to break them up and take Nelli for his own. This love triangle becomes a quadrangle with the arrival of Teresa (Alma Rubens), who is on the run from the law. Through fire and fury Lo must decide who and what he truly loves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-30
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Gangs of Sonora
Overview: Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-10
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Boston Blackie
Overview: Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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His Own Law
Overview: An American marries the widow of one of his French army friends, who never got back from the front. They live their lives together and take care of the child, who was born soon after the Frenchman was called for duty. Years after, the Frenchman returns from his release from a German Prisoners-of-War camp and is confronted with the dramatic changes in his matrimonial situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Rough Seas
Overview: On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-24
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Man's Best Friend
Overview: Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-20
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The River of Romance
Overview: Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just hates violence and accordingly refuses a duel. As this is the only way in the South to settle a dispute between gentlemen, Tom's father is so infuriated by his behavior that Tom has no other choice but leave. Away from Magnolia Landing, Tom learns bravery and returns seven years later as "the notorious Colonel Blake", the terror of the Lower Mississippi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-28
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South of Tahiti
Overview: Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard. The others try to devise a plan to rob the tribe's gold.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-17
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Arizona Terrors
Overview: A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics. A pair of horse sellers pitch in to help a customer, his daughter, and the other "tenant" ranchers after being roughed up by toll collectors when they refuse to pay the assessed toll.
Genres: Action Western Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-13
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The Inspirations of Harry Larrabee
Overview: A playwright revives a murdered girl
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-01
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Mysterious Doctor Satan
Overview: A mad scientist named Dr. Satan plots to steal key pieces of technology to enable him to build an army of robots based on his prototype to conquer America. The only one standing in his way is Bob Wayne, who fights Satan as the enigmatic Copperhead. Mysterious Doctor Satan is a 1940 film serial named after its chief villain. Doctor Satan's main opponent is the masked mystery man, "The Copperhead", whose secret identity is Bob Wayne, a man searching for justice and revenge on Satan for the death of his step-father. The serial charts the conflict between the two as Bob Wayne pursues Doctor Satan, while the latter completes his plans for world domination.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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A Missouri Outlaw
Overview: Don "Red" Barry is unjustly accused of being a Missouri Outlaw. The real bad guys are a gang of crooks who've been conning the local merchants and farmers out of their hard-earned dollars. Barry decides to use his bad reputation to his advantage by infiltrating the criminal gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-25
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The Apache Kid
Overview: Don "Red" Barry, Republic's answer to Jimmy Cagney, stars in The Apache Kid. Barry plays Pete Dawson, a pugnacious cowboy who dons a mask and becomes a stagecoach robber. It's all in a good cause, however: Dawson is stealing from the town boss (Leroy Mason) who has ripped off a group of miners. Heroine Lynn Merrick is the daughter of the local judge, so naturally she misunderstands Barry's motives, at least until fadeout time.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Do Detectives Think?
Overview: An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-20
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The Lincoln Highwayman
Overview: Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on their way to a party. While the masked highwayman holds them up at gun point and steals the women's jewels, the banker's daughter Marian (Lois Lee) finds herself strangely attracted to him. When the family finally arrives at the party, they tell the guests their tale. Secret Serviceman Steele takes an interest in their encounter and starts working on the case. Jimmy Clunder (William Russell) arrives late and while talking to Marian a locket falls out of his pocket. Marian recognizes it, but Clunder claims that he found it on the Lincoln Highway. She begins to suspect that he is the Lincoln Highwayman, as does Steele, Clunder's rival for Marian's love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-29
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Midnight Rose
Overview: Midnight Rose, a dancer in the Gold Coast Cabaret, loves Tim Regan, an underworld gang leader who decides to go straight in spite of entreaties from other gang members. A dying gangster requests that Tim adopt his 4-year-old son, Sonny; and realizing that the boy needs a mother, Tim induces Rose to marry him. She soon tires of housework, grows jealous of Tim's fondness for Sonny, and consequently returns to the cabaret, where Corbin, her former suitor, rehires her. When Tim, disillusioned, participates in a gang robbery, Corbin informs the police, whereupon Tim is caught and sent to prison. A lost film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-26
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Be Your Age
Overview: Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-13
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Trail of the Vigilantes
Overview: A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Arizona
Overview: Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-25
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Love Never Dies
Overview: John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-11
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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 Chaser
Overview: A wife, tired of her husband's non-stop carousing, sues him for divorce. The judge, however, comes up with a novel solution--he makes the husband take his wife's place in the household--including dressing like her--for 30 days to see what it's like to be his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-12
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Three Faces West
Overview: Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-03
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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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Sold for Marriage
Overview: A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her lover, an returning immigrant visiting Russia from the U.S., sails on the same ship. When they arrive he learns, to his surprise, that the American police, unlike those of his native country, are not oppressors of the poor, but friends that will aid in securing the release of his beloved Marfa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-15
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Big Calibre
Overview: Intent on avenging his father's murder, Roy Neal and his sidekick Rusty find themselves in the border town of Gladstone where Neal is mistakenly arrested for the robbery of a mail truck. After escaping, Neal joins up with pretty June Bowers whose father has apparently also been murdered. Neal, suspecting two of the town's leading businessmen of being the murderers, tries to flush them out before the sheriff can lock him up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Man from Cheyenne
Overview: Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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Sons of the Pioneers
Overview: A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
Genres: Western Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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South of Santa Fe
Overview: To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1942-02-17
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Romance on the Range
Overview: Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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In Old California
Overview: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-31
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Riders of Death Valley
Overview: The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-01
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The Whistle
Overview: Robert must avenge his son who was killed in a workplace accident.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-08
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The Mysterious Mrs. M
Overview: A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-05
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The Little Pirate
Overview: In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Baird refuses his request and, upon overhearing his lawyer advising him to utilize the bonds without consulting her, she decides to place them in the hands of George Drake, an old friend. Drake hijacks the securities, however, and their disappearance leads to the break up of the Baird's marriage, resulting in Virginia leaving the house. Attempting to console her father, Margery sets out on her pony to bring her mother home. But she is held up on the road by Captain Kidd Jr., who adopts her as his first mate, and the two children take up residence on a grass hut on a nearby island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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Brass Buttons
Overview: Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is a lady's maid. So the wealthy Hollister disguises himself as the cop so he can meet her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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The Empty Cab
Overview: A cub reporter investigates a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-06
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Overview: Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramon Mordant and his accomplice known as "the Face" because of his twisted and hideous countenance.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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The Desert Flower
Overview: A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the making of this rousing sagebrush melodrama. The pert Moore, an idol of her generation, quickly regained her mobility but was reportedly forced to sleep in a leather neck support for nearly ten years.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-21
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Beggars of Life
Overview: After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
Genres: Adventure Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-22
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Her Moment
Overview: In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-01
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Sailors, Beware!
Overview: A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Under Crimson Skies
Overview: The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed up in a mutiny at sea and a revolution.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-05
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Stagecoach Buckaroo
Overview: Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
Genres: Action Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-13
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Mentioned in Confidence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-08
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