John St. Polis
Also Known As: John M. Sainpolis, Johnny Sainpolis, John Sainpolis, John Saintpolis, John M. St. Polis, John Marie Sainpolis
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor. St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play's revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre. He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to "talkies" with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 24, 1873
Age: 151 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 08, 1946
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Genres: Drama Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-22
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Mr. Wong, Detective
Overview: A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors
Overview: Incidents depicted in the life of Joseph of Canaan include: the conspiracy of his brothers to sell him into slavery and strip him of the coat of many colors given to him by his father Jacob; Jacob's grief upon seeing the torn coat and hearing from the brothers that Joseph died under a lion's claw; Joseph's hardships as a slave; his arrival in Egypt; his life as a slave in the house of Potiphar, an Egyptian official, whose wife Zelikah tries to seduce Joseph; his imprisonment; his prophecy, which comes true, telling of life for one fellow prisoner and death for another; his interpretation for the Pharoah of the dream of the seven lean and seven fat kine; the seven years of famine in Egypt; and the reconciliation with his father, brothers, their wives and children in Egypt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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The Bad One
Overview: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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The Criminal Code
Overview: After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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Shadows
Overview: Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-10
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Those Who Dance
Overview: A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-27
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A Woman's Way
Overview: Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-18
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The Three Sisters
Overview: A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-20
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Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand
Overview: The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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Coquette
Overview: A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-30
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Symphony of Six Million
Overview: A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-29
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Sapho
Overview: Sapho, whose real name is Fanny Legrand, is the daughter of poor people, her father being a coachman, and her early home is little more than a hovel in the slums of Paris. She is a flower seller on the streets of Paris, earning a few sous daily, which she uses to support her family. She meets famous sculptor, Caoudal, who recognizes her wonderful beauty and persuades her to pose for him. The luxury of his studio awakens in her an unsuspected love for the beautiful things of life. It's not long before she becomes the most talked of and sought after model of Paris. She is content to live in this way, reveling in beauty and the admiration of her friends and Caoudal himself. Until a poet named Dejoie, moved by her beauty, writes verses to her which make both himself and her still more famous, winning her away from Caoudal. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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The Fortunes of Fifi
Overview: Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving Louis Bourcet tries to woo her because he wants her money. But Fifi wants nothing to do with him, and ultimately she gives up her money and returns to Cartouche. But Cartouche, believing he is too old, refuses to marry her until Napoleon himself orders him to do it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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A Night at the Opera
Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Heartbreak
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-08
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The Shadow Strikes
Overview: Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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On the Spot
Overview: Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-11
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The World Gone Mad
Overview: A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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The Match King
Overview: Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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If I Had a Million
Overview: An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Paradise Isle
Overview: Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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Lena Rivers
Overview: Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-27
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Saleslady
Overview: A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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International Crime
Overview: The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
Genres: Mystery Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-23
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The Dark Hour
Overview: A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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Party Girl
Overview: Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls' and trapped into an unhappy marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Boys' Reformatory
Overview: A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-01
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Held to Answer
Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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The Crusader
Overview: Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-04
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The Gay Diplomat
Overview: Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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Jungle Menace
Overview: Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-30
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Phantom Ranger
Overview: A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the ranch and soon becomes involved in Folsom's cattle rustling and a chance to settle an old score.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Transgression
Overview: When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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Notorious But Nice
Overview: A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gambler. When the scum bag is shot and killed, the little goodie good is the prime suspect. Can her old beau come to the rescue and save her from the death penalty? Hell, its the least he can do, or is he a scum bag too!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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King of the Arena
Overview: Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-01
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Death from a Distance
Overview: While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-03
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The Lady in Scarlet
Overview: When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-20
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False Faces
Overview: The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-12
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The Public Defender
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-03
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The Great Lover
Overview: Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-15
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They Shall Have Music
Overview: The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Genres: Family Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-18
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Three Weeks
Overview: A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-10
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A Devil with Women
Overview: Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-17
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Mademoiselle Midnight
Overview: Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-14
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All Woman
Overview: Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a run-down inn with an attached saloon. As she struggles to make something of her new operation, she becomes involved in the life and difficulties of her new community....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-09
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Laughing Bill Hyde
Overview: Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but upon discovering that it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth...
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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Three Wise Fools
Overview: Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Alias the Doctor
Overview: Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When Stephan's actions causes the death of Anna, Karl is the one who takes the wrap and three years in prison. When he gets out, he finds Stephan is dead and a sick child needs an operation and he does brilliant surgery. This gets him noticed and his mother tells them that he is Stephan Brenner, not Karl Brenner. She tells Karl that he must cure sickness in the world. But, being that he is Stephan, he can no longer marry Lottie, as she is now his sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-25
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Overview: Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-06
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The President Vanishes
Overview: The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-17
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Why Be Good?
Overview: A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-28
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The Alaskan
Overview: An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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Borderland
Overview: Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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The Gambling Sex
Overview: A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-21
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Call of the Prairie
Overview: Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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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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Captain Thunder
Overview: A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.
Genres: Western Drama Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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Wormwood
Overview: This picture deals with the fates of Gaston Beauvais, an aristocratic young banker of Paris, and Pauline de Chauvilles, his fiancée. Beauvais discovers that Sylvion, his best friend, has long carried on a clandestine love affair with Pauline. An artist acquaintance urges Gaston to comfort himself with absinthe. Gaston in his despair yields. From that moment the wreck of his career begins. Maddened by absinthe, he denounces Pauline at the marriage-altar on his wedding day, as Sylvion's cast-off mistress. Still driven by absinthe, he murders Sylvion and ultimately his brutalities drives Pauline, now a pitiful outcast of the streets, for she fled her home in shame after Gaston cast her off, to end her pathetic existence in the dark waters of the Seine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Overview: Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-22
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Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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Guilty Parents
Overview: A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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Three on the Trail
Overview: An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be a major outlaw himself.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Their Mad Moment
Overview: Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir Harry Congers, but in love with Basque peasant Esteban Cristera. Deciding on a final fling before wedlock, Emily goes to Esteban's village in the mountains, but is wounded in a car accident. Recuperating, she learns about the hardships endured by Basque women from Esteban's grandmother and former girlfriend, Stancia, and decides to return to Sir Harry in Biarritz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-12
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In the Next Room
Overview: The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an antiques dealer Philip Vantine (John St. Polis) has finished moving into the same house where the 1889 murder occurred.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-26
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The Untameable
Overview: The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys Walton in the dual role of Joy and her whip-toting, brutal, sadistic alter-ego Edna, and Etta Lee as her faithful Asian lesbian maid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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Haunted House
Overview: Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-21
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Rocky Mountain Rangers
Overview: Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty Joslin (Raymond Hatton) and Rico Rinaldo (Duncan Renaldo) hatch a plan: Stony poses as an outlaw dubbed The Laredo Kid to lure the bad guys into Texas. But the plan might fall apart when the real Laredo Kid arrives on the scene in this action-packed Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The Power of Silence
Overview: Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-20
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Fast Life
Overview: A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
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My Lady's Lips
Overview: A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Crossroads
Overview: A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-23
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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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The Melody Man
Overview: A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-15
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The Greater Glory
Overview: Fanny von Berg's engagement to Count Maxim von Hurtig is suddenly broken off and she is denounced by her family for a suspected indiscretion. When they are reduced to starvation by the war, the family members accept her earnings without acknowledging the source. As the hostess of a Viennese night club, Fanny becomes the mistress of a rich war profiteer. The Count, loving her still, prevents her from making further sacrifices for her or his people, and they find ultimate happiness in the prospect of a new life together. A lost film.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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The Social Code
Overview: Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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The Love That Lives
Overview: When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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The Lily
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-03
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Cappy Ricks
Overview: When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-21
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The Rose of Paris
Overview: A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been lured to Paris by one of the heirs who does know who she is; he plans to swindle her out of her inheritance so he can have everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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The Unknown
Overview: On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-29
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Folly of Vanity
Overview: This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-26
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Paint and Powder
Overview: Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Evarts (Theodore Von Eltz). Jimmy gets in a fight with an East Side tough and finds a wallet on him belonging to a big theatrical manager. Jimmy, however, is accused of being the one who stole it and is thrown in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-16
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The Dixie Handicap
Overview: Tale of a man and his horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-29
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Men of the Sky
Overview: In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-20
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-04-02
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Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Doctors' Wives
Overview: The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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The Salamander
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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The Mystic Hour
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-17
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Cocktail Hour
Overview: Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood and decides she has as much right as a man to play around.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-05
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The World Against Him
Overview: Cowboy Mark West lives on a ranch with his sister Mary, who suffers from a serious spinal disorder. Flighty East Coast socialite Violet Ridgeway flirts with Mark while vacationing at the ranch but returns to her fiancée, Dr. Welsh, when she leaves. Mark has been working hard to earn money for an operation Mary, which Doctor Welsh and Doctor Boyd agree to perform without telling him how dangerous it is. When Mary dies Mark receives a letter detailing the doctor’s risk-taking, filled with vengeance Mark kills Boyd, but Welsh flees to safety. Mark is imprisoned, but Violet convinces him to marry her, satisfying a stipulation in her late aunt's will. Mark escapes taking Welsh and Violet hostage. They are set upon by a villain and in the confrontation Welsh’s cowardly act shows Violet Mark’s true worth and the pair escapes to freedom across the Canadian border.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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Old Dad
Overview: Mr. Bretton's wife decides she would rather pursue an opera career, so they separate, leaving him to raise their young daughter Daphne (Mildred Harris). She is expelled from boarding school after Richard Wiltoner is found in her room under innocent circumstances. Her father sends her to the Adirondacks, where she meets a rogue and soon elopes with him. When her father discovers that he is a bigamist, he has their marriage annulled. Happily, Mrs. Bretton returns to her husband and Daphne and Richard fall in love and marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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The Mark of Cain
Overview: After old Trowbridge is mysteriously murdered, his nephew, Kane Langdon, is accused of the crime. Trowbridge's adopted daughter Alice makes every effort to prove Kane's innocence, but to no avail. When Kane escapes from the clutches of the law, Alice works with him to investigate the crime. They soon discover that Judge Hoyt, a great friend of Trowbridge and an ardent admirer of Alice, killed Trowbridge after forging the old man's will to read that Alice would only inherit his fortune if she married the judge. The judge, confronted with the accusation, becomes so unnerved that he confesses to the crime, and all ends happily with Alice in Kane's arms.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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