Mike Donlin
Also Known As: Michael Joseph Donlin, Turkey Mike
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Peoria, Illinois, USA
Birthday: May 30, 1878
Deathday: September 24, 1933
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The General
Overview: During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Off His Base
Overview: It begins with the Mustangs in trouble in their championship series... all the players are banged up and they're being clobbered. But a sports reporter insists that his nephew, Minor, can really play ball and will help the team win.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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Fifth Avenue Models
Overview: A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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She Done Him Wrong
Overview: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou has more men friends than you can imagine. One of them is a vicious criminal who’s escaped and is on the way to see “his” girl, not realising she hasn’t exactly been faithful in his absence. Help is at hand in the form of young Captain Cummings, a local temperance league leader.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-09
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The Trouble Shooter
Overview: Tom Mix, the most popular screen cowboy of his era, played a lineman for a power company in this action melodrama which was a Western in name only.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Overview: A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of the game and the thrill of the chase, outwitting police and detectives.
Genres: Crime Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-14
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Midnight Mary
Overview: While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Air Hostess
Overview: A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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High Gear
Overview: When Mark 'High Gear' Sherrod (Murray) looses his nerve, the race car driver takes a job driving a taxi, but when he befriends a cute reporter and the young handicapped son of a deceased driver, he attempts to return to the track.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-21
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
Overview: A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-12
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The Tip-Off
Overview: A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-16
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Hit and Run
Overview: Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat becomes a success because of his exceptional hitting. When Swat begins a romance with the scout's daughter, he and the girl are kidnapped by gamblers intent on winning the series.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-10
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A Fool's Advice
Overview: An elevator operator invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician in the city's upcoming mayoral election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-20
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Swellhead
Overview: Baseball player Terry McCall is a very good baseball player, who doesn't mind bragging about his skills on the baseball diamond and also his off-the-field skills at wooing and winning women. An accident causes his luck to turn bad and results in him turning blind, but he later regains his sight after being instrumental in saving the life of Mickey Malone, the team's young mascot. He then promises Mary Malone, Mickey's sister, for whose affection he has been competing with a teammate, that he is through showing off and bragging. But, in the end, he is still blowing smoke.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-04
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The Sea Beast
Overview: Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-15
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Hot Curves
Overview: The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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Oh, Doctor!
Overview: Rufus Billings was born premature and after a lifetime of doctors doting on his frail health he is now a hypochondriac of the first order. Now an adult Rufus has learned his late father has left him $750,000 but he won't inherit the sum for three more years. Rufus is certain he is on death's door and will never last three years so his Doctor arranges for a loan of $100,000 to pay for a live in nurse. Rufus only has to sign over his inheritance to the greedy trio of Clinch, McIntosh and Peck who along with the doctor are confident he'll live long enough to pay his debt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-23
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The Unknown Purple
Overview: Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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The Primrose Path
Overview: Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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Born Reckless
Overview: In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-11
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The Widow from Chicago
Overview: A woman infiltrates a criminal mob to avenge her brother's death.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-23
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Spite Marriage
Overview: An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-24
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Ella Cinders
Overview: Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-06
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Sweepstakes
Overview: A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-10
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The Secret Witness
Overview: A wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-12
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Thunderbolt
Overview: A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-20
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Riley the Cop
Overview: In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-25
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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Overview: Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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One Way Passage
Overview: A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-04
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Iron Man
Overview: Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-29
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The Fighting Marine
Overview: As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He makes good beating up a gang of roughnecks picked for the purpose, and secures the mysterious job that is filled with danger. It is to guard the heiress Lady Chatfield, but the hero is told nothing as to the secret in back of it all. Dick poses as Lord Grantmore, wears a monocle, and otherwise acts like a titled Englishman. They proceed to the mining town of Goldbrook, where the heiress is to occupy a mysterious mansion on the occupancy of which hinges a great fortune. The engineer of the mines is deeply interested in thwarting the plans of Lady Chatfield, and with his gang of roughneck miners makes things lively for the pugilist star in a series of fights that are hair raisers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Doctor Bull
Overview: In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-22
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The Star Witness
Overview: A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Her Man
Overview: A prostitute sees a friendly sailor as a way out of Havana's grimy underworld.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-21
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The Purchase Price
Overview: Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-23
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Woman-Proof
Overview: At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Below the Deadline
Overview: Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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Goldie Gets Along
Overview: A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-27
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Up the River
Overview: Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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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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Jack Spurlock, Prodigal
Overview: George Walsh plays the "prodigal" hero in this fast-moving star vehicle from the Fox factory. An incurable cut-up, Jack Spurlock throws a college campus in an uproar when he shows up the first day of classes with his pet bear. Needless to say, Jack is immediately booted out of college, infuriating his big-businessman father (Dan Mason).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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Right Off the Bat
Overview: A dramatization of the life of real-life major league baseball player Mike Donlin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-01
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White Flannels
Overview: A smothering mother, Mrs. Jacob Politz, stands in the way of the engagement of her college son Frank Politz to local girl Anne, because she, as the wife of Jacob Politz, an ill-educated coal miner, believes their son should obtain a college education.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-19
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