Frankie Darro
Also Known As: Frank Johnson, Frank Darro, Frankie Darrow, Frank Darrow, Frank Johnson, Jr.
Biography: Frankie Darro (December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor. Born into a show-business family - his parents were circus aerialists - Darro appeared in his first film at age six. Due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. Always a physical performer, Darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity - his small stature made it difficult to find stunt doubles his size. He was an accomplished horseman and, in addition to westerns, made several films where he played jockeys. In 1933 he played the lead as a troubled teen in a major film for Warner Brothers, "Wild Boys Of The Road." It is a pre-code film with a realistic look at "The Great Depression," from the point of view of the youth of the time. This film seems to have been rediscovered only recently and has received critical acclaim.That same year, he played a troubled youth in the James Cagney classic, "The Mayor Of Hell". Later in 1935, he had a key role in the cult serial classic "The Phantom Empire"(1935). As Darro got older, however, he found it increasingly difficult to secure employment, and by the late 1940s was doing uncredited stunt work and bit parts. He had a recurring role on The Red Skelton Hour (1951), unrecognized by his fans, he played "Robby The Robot" in the groundbreaking sci-fi film "The Forbidden Planet" (1956), though Marvin Miller, best remembered as Michael Anthony of TVs "Millionaire"(1955-60), was the robot's voice. After that Frankie appeared sporadically in films and on TV .
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 22, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 25, 1976
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Tuxedo Junction
Overview: The Weaver Brothers and Elviry have migrated from their usual hard-scrabble digs in the Ozarks and have taken up truck-farming.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-25
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The Movie Orgy
Overview: Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Pinocchio
Overview: A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Overview: When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-07
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Reformatory
Overview: A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-20
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Unwelcome Stranger
Overview: Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around. This is bad news when 'Gimpy", an orphan, shows up at Chamberlain's horse-ranch in search of a place to stay. But Howard's soft-hearted wife, Madeline, allows the young boy to stay on and work in the barn with the horses. And "Gimpy" breaks Chamberlain's "orphan-jinx" in a big way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Born to Battle
Overview: Dennis Terhune, ranch foreman for John Morgan, an eastern capitalist, discovers that there is oil on Morgan's ranch shortly after Morgan has deeded the ranch to Daley, western manager for the Morgan properties. Dennis rides after Daley and retrieves the deed, saving Morgan's ranch and securing for himself the love of the financier's daughter, Eunice.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Three on a Match
Overview: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-29
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Little Men
Overview: The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Saratoga
Overview: A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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Hearts and Spangles
Overview: Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-15
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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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The Public Enemy
Overview: Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-23
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Wild Boys of the Road
Overview: At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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The Girl on the Late, Late Show
Overview: A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Dead End Kids Go To War
Overview: The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air. The fiendish Black Dragon Society, led by the sinister Baron (perennial B-movie villain Lionel Atwill) plots to pave the way for an Axis invasion of the U.S.A. by destroying America's defenses. When their plans are discovered by the Dead End Kids, the gang is too suspicious of "the coppers" to ask for help. The FBI send in their Junior G-Men to stop the spies, but when one of the Dead Enders is kidnapped, the two groups must work together to smash the Black Dragons once and for all!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Broadway Bill
Overview: Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Up in the Air
Overview: A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-09
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The Mayor of Hell
Overview: Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-24
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Westward the Women
Overview: There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-16
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Angels' Alley
Overview: Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-07
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Hook, Line and Sinker
Overview: Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-06
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Wyoming Mail
Overview: In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay. Prizefighter Steve Davis, a former army intelligence man, is hired to track down the gang and save the Territorial Mail Service. Steve goes undercover in territorial prison, leans Morse Code from a fellow prisoner, breaks jail, infiltrates the gang...and finds time to romance dance-hall singer Mary, who proves to have hidden depths...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-18
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The Midnight Flyer
Overview: The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Junior Prom
Overview: A rich man's son runs for student president at the local high school, and the father tells the school principal that if his son wins, he'll make a sizeable donation that will cover the football team's uniforms.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-28
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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 Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Overview: A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Riding High
Overview: A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Racing for Life
Overview: Jack Grant agrees to drive in the big race in order to save his brother Carl from being charged with embezzlement.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-08
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Men with Steel Faces
Overview: Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-02
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The Mad Genius
Overview: A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
Genres: Drama Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-30
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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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No Greater Glory
Overview: A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Valley of Wanted Men
Overview: Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-19
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The Phantom Empire
Overview: When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Way Back Home
Overview: A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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Juvenile Court
Overview: Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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Black Gold
Overview: Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly falls to his death from a well tower sabotaged by Anderson's strong-arm thugs, his teenage son 'Fishtail' inherits the property and the troubles that come with it. With the help of his geologist pal, Hank Langford, the boy fights to bring in a gusher before the deed to the well-site expires.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-19
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Born to Fight
Overview: An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out. Thinking he's killed him and believing that the police are after him, the horrified boxer runs off and takes to the road, promising never to box again. However, one day he comes upon a small but scrappy young kid who has the potential to be a champion. The former boxer takes the kid under his wing and trains him, but the kid's ensuing success starts to go to his head. Pretty soon he finds himself mixed up with gamblers, too.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-02
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Racing Blood
Overview: Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-14
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Overview: Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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The Gang's All Here
Overview: Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-11
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The Payoff
Overview: An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-09
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Judgment of the Storm
Overview: Mary Heath's brother Dave is accidentally killed in a gambling den. Mary’s sweetheart, John Trevor, discovers the joint is secretly owned by his mother and he denounces her. As Dave was the head of the Heath household, John, knowing that Dave was head of the Heath household, feels responsible for the boy's death and offers himself as a replacement. Treated badly initially, eventually the family takes him into their hearts.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Overview: Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being the desert playground for the movie stars, the women are introduced to the cavalcade of stars vacationing in Palm Springs at the time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-05
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Headline Crasher
Overview: The popular B-flick team of Frankie Darro and Kane Richmond star in the slick quickie Headline Crasher. Little Frankie and Big Kane play a pair of roving journalists who investigate a politician (Richard Tucker) up for re-election. When it seems as though the politico is being set up for a fall by yellow journalists, Darro and Richmond try to get to the truth of the matter. The original story for Headline Crasher is credited to Peter B. Kyne, creator of the "Broncho Billy" western stories.
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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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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The Devil Diamond
Overview: A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Genres: Drama Crime Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Mind Your Own Business
Overview: Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Tough to Handle
Overview: A young reporter's grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the phony-sweepstakes racket, so he and his young brother set out to track down the gang responsible and expose them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-24
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You're Out of Luck
Overview: An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-20
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Trouble Makers
Overview: Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Young Dynamite
Overview: A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman. John and Tom set out in their patrol cars in hopes of capturing the killers, followed by Freddie who hopes some day to qualify as a trooper. Freddie encounters the two two bandits, Spike Doland and Butch and manages to get away with the bag of gold they had stolen. While chasing Freddie they are recognized by John who they kill when he tries to arrest them. Freddie then takes matters into his own hands in seeking to capture the killers of his brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-15
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The Signal Tower
Overview: A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-19
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The Wolf Dog
Overview: The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine. Their journey is aided by Pal, a wolf dog.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Across the Wide Missouri
Overview: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
Genres: Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure the success of the mission.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Laughing at Life
Overview: Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done. Here, also, he encounters his own son, on track to waste his own life in pursuits similar to Easter's.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-12
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Wanted by the Police
Overview: A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Irish Luck
Overview: A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-22
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Kiki
Overview: Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-04
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That's My Man
Overview: A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Let's Go Collegiate
Overview: Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had. Unfortunately, he gets drafted into the army before he's able to join the team. Two of the team's members get the bright idea of passing off a burly truck driver as the "athlete". Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-12
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Texas Tornado
Overview: Briscoe leases land from Latimer. When oil is found Latimer tries to stop Briscoe from renewing the lease. Tom arrives and fights off Latimer and his men to renew the lease. But Latimer is not done. Now he shoots Briscoe, kidnaps Buddy, and blames Tom who is arrested and put in jail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-24
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The Circus Kid
Overview: In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-07
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Overview: Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-15
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Red Hot Tires
Overview: An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-02
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Anything for a Thrill
Overview: Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-15
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Men of Action
Overview: A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-13
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The Cowboy Musketeer
Overview: A cowboy saves his female employer from a villainous foreman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-13
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Overview: Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-23
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Hollywood on Parade
Overview: A short featuring many stars
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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Roaring Rails
Overview: A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-20
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The Merry Frinks
Overview: An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-26
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Operation Petticoat
Overview: A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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The Lawless Rider
Overview: Johnny Carpenter plays a taciturn sheriff who disguises himself as a notorious gunslinger. His mission: to stem a series of violent raids on local cattle ranchers.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Mike
Overview: A Modest Comedy Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-10
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Chasing Trouble
Overview: A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-30
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Two Gun Marshal
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Confessions of a Queen
Overview: The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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Sons of New Mexico
Overview: Not quite as memorable as his previous Riders in the Sky, Gene Autry's Sons of New Mexico is still well up to the star's standard. This time, Gene tries to reform Randy Pryor, a would-be juvenile delinquent, played by Autry-protégé Dick Jones (who later starred in the Autry-produced TV series Range Rider and Buffalo Bill Jr). To this end, Pryor is enrolled at the New Mexico Military Institute, where much of this film was lensed. The kid chafes at the school's regimen and escapes, heading back to his criminal mentor Pat Feeney (Robert Armstrong).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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Tugboat Annie
Overview: Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec. Annie continually loses business because of Terry's drunken mistakes. Alec wants to quit school to work on the tug full time, but Annie will not sacrifice her son's education. A grown Alec has followed in his mother's footsteps and becomes a mariner, but a more upscale one as the captain of a luxury liner. Alec returns home with his fiancée, Pat - the boss' daughter - with a grand plan to save Annie from the life that drunkard Terry has provided her. But ultimately, it's Annie and Terry that need to be Alec's savior, and by their move show him the meaning of true commitment.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-04
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Pat and Mike
Overview: Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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The Devil Horse
Overview: Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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Tough Kid
Overview: Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a gambling syndicate and is put on the spot to throw the fight.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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Laughing at Danger
Overview: Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter. She had been shot just before she was to give Detective Dan Haggerty information about a blackmail gang. Since Mary Baker, Frankie's girl friend saw her last, she is suspected, and Frankie determines to clear her using his own sleuthing methods. He has hardy begun when Pierre, another member of the staff, and Florence's fiancée is found dead.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-12
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Amateur Daddy
Overview: Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch Valley and take care of his surviving wife and children. When Jim arrives in the small town, he is told that there are two Fred Smith families in Scotch Valley, the rich Smiths and the poor Smiths. Jim assumes that the Smiths he is looking for are the poor ones, and is directed to a house where four children live in poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-10
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So Big
Overview: After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-28
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Junior G-Men of the Air
Overview: A group of street kids battle a terrorist gang led by a Japanese spy.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-30
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Forbidden Planet
Overview: Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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Hold That Baby!
Overview: While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance. The boys determine to help the woman claim her baby's rightful inheritance from her aunts, who have hired gangsters to find and eliminate the girl, the baby and anyone who helps them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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Fighting Fools
Overview: The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-17
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Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Overview: Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Overview: Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Judgement Of The Hills
Overview: An Epic Of Passion Swept Lives! The village hero - boasted and popular- yet a coward. Lauded by every loafer- the friend of vagabonds - yet his brother's idol. Then in the crucible of war the coward became a man. Helped by a woman's trust and the love of a tiny boy!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Flesh and the Devil
Overview: When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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Sarge Goes to College
Overview: A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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The Phantom of the Range
Overview: Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a real estate agent who has been trying to swindle the rancher. A romance develops between the actor and Patsy O'Brien, the rancher's daughter, but it is interrupted by the appearance of his former stage partner, Vera Van Swank, who claims him as her husband. He clears himself of the bigamy charge, foils a plot to cheat the rancher out of a $90,000 land property, and wins the daughter's hand.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-21
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Overview: Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-06
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Heart of Virginia
Overview: Jimmy Easter is a jockey who gets shook up when he is responsible for the death of a fellow rider during a race. He gets back down to business, however, when the daughter of his ex-boss shows her faith in him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-25
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Pride of Maryland
Overview: Frankie, a young jockey with a new style of riding that brings him acclaim, is barred from the track when he starts betting on himself. Since he's been donating his winnings to an old flame and her father to help them raise a colt, the forced retirement is quite a blow.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-20
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High School Hero
Overview: The football team can't score a win, the paper is on the outs, and the musical is booting performers. Can the plucky band of Whitney High students turn it all around?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-06
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Stranded
Overview: A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-29
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Take It or Leave It
Overview: A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-17
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The Big Race
Overview: Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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Memory Lane
Overview: Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Freddie Steps Out
Overview: High school student Freddie Trimball bears an uncanny resemblance to famous radio singer Frankie Troy. When Troy goes missing, people mistake Freddie for the singer, and further complications ensue when Troy's wife and child show up.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-29
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Smart Politics
Overview: The growth of small town juvenile crime starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the mayor about buying an old warehouse and rebuilding it as the Center. However, the mayor has other plans. Freddie, Dodie, Lee, Betty, Roy and Monogram's other non-delinquent juveniles, now attending junior college, think otherwise.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-03
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Moulders of Men
Overview: In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, leader of a gang of narcotics smugglers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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Little Mickey Grogan
Overview: The main plot concerns an architect who, when he begins losing his eyesight, worries that he is on the verge of losing his girl as well. The fact that the heroine is spending time with a burly prizefighter would seem to confirm this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-27
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The Cowboy Cop
Overview: A cowboy joins the Low Angeles mounted police unit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-10
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3 Kids and a Queen
Overview: An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-21
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Vacation Days
Overview: Miss Hinklefink inherits a western ranch, and to spend the summer with Professor Townley, she invites Freddie, Dodie, Betty, Lee, and Roy to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will chaperone. Meanwhile, a real estate agent tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-25
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Tom's Gang
Overview: Dave Collins is a young man who is bequeathed a ranch on the condition that he marry the late owner's granddaughter Lucille. But when he arrives at the ranch with young sidekick Spuds in tow, Dave finds that a distant relative of Lucille's, Ray Foster, has taken his place. Foster hires tough Bart Haywood to kill his rival, and soon our hero is hogtied to a handcar in the path of an approaching train.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-10
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The Wyoming Wildcat
Overview: Cowboy Phil Stone gets a job as foreman on a ranch owned by pretty young Isabel Hastings. He discovers that ruthless rancher Jeff Kopp has a claim on Isabel's ranch, and that if she dies unmarried before she turns 21, Kopp will get her ranch. When Isabel turns down a marriage proposal by Kopp's son Rudy, Kopp decides to kill her and get the ranch for himself, and hires a notorious killer, "Cyclops", to do the deed.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-11
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Blaze o' Glory
Overview: On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-30
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Rainbow Man
Overview: The Rainbow Man is a 1929 black and white American musical film.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-16
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Fugitive Lovers
Overview: A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Trail of the Horse Thieves
Overview: Vic Stanley, a wandering cowboy, is found by Clint Taggart and his daughter, Amy, after he has escaped from a band of rustlers. Upon recovering his sight from a desert sandstorm, he sees and falls in love with Amy and becomes resolute in his decision to uncover the identity of the rustlers and particularly their leader, "The Eagle." Though blind during his capture, he nevertheless recognizes the voice of The Eagle in McElroy, a leading banker. After another escape from the gang, Vic manages to save Taggart and Amy from The Eagle's sticky clutches, exposes their operation, and proceeds on course with Amy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-13
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The Masquerade Bandit
Overview: A young woman, Molly Marble, is enmeshed in a train robbery by her crooked step-father. She meets a stranger, Jeff Morton, and suspects he knows where the loot is hidden. For the sake of her relatives, she must try to 'vamp' this information from him but, instead, she falls in love with him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-30
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Lightning Lariats
Overview: Following a political coup in the Balkan kingdom of Roxenburg, young King Alexis and his American governess Janet Holbrooke flee to America. Out west, Tom Potter, a rancher, gives them shelter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-30
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