Kingsley Benedict
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Birthday: November 14, 1878
Deathday: November 27, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Stampede
Overview: Easterner Robert Wagner has been lured West by the Government's announcement of new land grants. As he prepares for the approaching land rush he make the acquaintance of Westerner Jim Henderson and his wild daughter, Tex. Tex is a true daughter of the frontier unhampered by conventions or skirts and while she finds herself smitten with Wagner, he however is hampered by his New England sensibilities and can't abide a woman that behaves as Tex does. It takes a truly grim turn of events before Tex can prove herself to this reserved New Englander.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Terry of the 'Times'
Overview: Terry Macy (Reed Howes), the son of a newspaper's founder, is assigned to investigate a mysterious warning signed '30' (newspaper term for 'The End)that has been sent to a local politician. Terry is captured at a clandestine meeting of the 'Mystic Medicants", an outlaw band, where he overhears the plans of a plot to kill his uncle, Robert Macy, publisher of the newspaper. Terry must also, according to his father's will, get married within a short period of time is he is to inherit the newspaper.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-11
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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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Gay and Devilish
Overview: Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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Arizona Sweepstakes
Overview: Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee, a small-time crook who stages phony "fights" to amuse the tourists. During one of those frights a man is killed and Coot gets blamed for it. Stuffy hides him out, but when he gets arrested Coot hightails it back to Arizona. with Stuffy's three children. To earn some money, he enters the Arizona Sweepstakes, a horse race with a large purse and one on which Col. Savery--the father of the girl Coot loves--depends on to save his ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-10
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Perils of the Secret Service
Overview: A 9-part movie serial
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-09
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The Clash of Steel
Overview: Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce.
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-16
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The Human Target
Overview: Harrison Craig, with the aid of a woman who has lost her husband through the sinking of a ship, uses her wiles on a member of Saxonia's royal family and obtains valuable drawings. The Prince and his lieutenant plot to demolish the block house in which Craig is a prisoner, but one of the artillery shots frees his bounds and he escapes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-03
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The Kentucky Derby
Overview: Posing as relatives, Ralph and Helen Gordon visit Col. Moncrief Gordon's Kentucky mansion, hoping to marry Helen to the colonel's son, Donald. The colonel agrees, but Donald balks at the suggestion, then reveals his secret marriage to Alice Brown. The colonel turns them out, and Ralph conspires with Bob Thurston to frame Donald for theft of Colonel Gordon's wager money and to shanghai him. After 3 years Donald discovers the source of his misfortune, returns, finds his wife, hears of a plot against his father's best racehorse, wrings a complete confession from Thurston, and saves the Derby for his repentant father.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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The Love Girl
Overview: A girl is hypnotized and kidnapped by the swami her aunt is devoted to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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White Thunder
Overview: The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-23
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Vagabond Love
Overview: Vitturo Caggoni is a gay-hearted, rollicking Italian troubadour. He meets a young woman, Marjorie Holbrook, and falls in love with her, serenades her, and courts her in the old romantic troubadour way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-03
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Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings
Overview: Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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The Bugler of Algiers
Overview: Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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The Crippled Hand
Overview: Diminutive heroine Ella Hall dreams that she's Cinderella, and that a wealthy gentleman of her acquaintance (played by Leonard) is her Prince Charming. All of this takes place during a musical stage production of Cinderella, a sequence distinguished by its authentic backstage atmosphere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-01
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Love Never Dies
Overview: Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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Man and Beast
Overview: During the great drought on the South African veldt, bitterness erupts between the von Haagen and Townsend families when they quarrel over a cattle spring. Nevertheless, a romance grows between Gretel von Haagan and Ned Townsend, who, to escape their families' opposition, marry and leave for the interior.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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Who Will Marry Me?
Overview: Rosie Sanguinetti's parents arrange her marriage, against her will, to Antonio Mosconi, "Tony the Barber." At the wedding ceremony in her Little Italy, New York neighborhood, Rosie flees to the settlement house where she meets Jerry Van Tyne, a wealthy young man who agrees, in a drunken state, to marry her. The next day Jerry realizes the consequences of the situation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-27
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Fast and Furious
Overview: When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-12
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The Plow Woman
Overview: After her mother's death, Mary not only becomes the household slave of her overbearing father, Scottish American Andy MacTavish but also becomes a mother to her little sister Ruth at their home on the Dakota plains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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What Love Can Do
Overview: Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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A Man of Action
Overview: Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate administrator, Eugene Preston, that he is going east for a meeting. Instead, Bruce dons a disguise and infiltrates the San Francisco underworld. Mistaken for master criminal "The Chicago Kid", he finds himself leading the gang in a robbery of his own fortune in diamonds. Discovering Eugene's intention to steal the jewels for himself he engineers it so the loot changes hands many times. Getting wise, Helen summons the police, the criminals are apprehended, and she sees Bruce in a new light.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-03
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The Last Cigarette
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Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-09
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