J.P. McGowan
Also Known As: John Paterson McGowan
Biography: From Wikipedia John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America). Born in the then-bustling railway centre of Terowie in South Australia, McGowan grew up in Adelaide (Islington) and Sydney. He was a capable horseman and served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special dispatch rider. McGowan directed and often acted in the first 33 episodes of Kalem's 1914 adventure film series, The Hazards of Helen, which eventually ran to 54 episodes, some still with McGowan's participation. While filming he began a relationship with Helen Holmes, the film's star, and the two married. They left Kalem to set up their own production company, Signal Films, which successfully made a series of railroad melodramas but lost out when their distributor (Mutual) failed. The collaboration ended when they divorced in 1925. There was an adopted daughter, Kaye. McGowan successfully made the transition from silent film to talkies. While never a major star, in a busy career that spanned four decades he is credited with acting in 232 films—mostly strong roles like sheriff or villain—writing 26 screenplays and directing 242 productions. In 1932 he directed a young John Wayne in the 12-episode rail vs airplane serial The Hurricane Express for the independent Mascot Pictures. From 1938 to 1951, as Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors Guild, he fought to secure recognition for the director within the studio systems of the film and emerging television industry. J.P. McGowan died in 1952 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Terowie, Australia
Birthday: February 23, 1880
Deathday: March 26, 1952
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Gender: Male
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Covered Wagon Trails
Overview: Deputy Sheriff "Smoke" Sanderson (Bob Custer) is after a gang of smugglers, led by Brad Vogel (J.P. McGowan) operating along the Texas/Mexico border but he does not know that Chet Clayton (Perry Murdock), the brother of his sweetheart, Wanda Clayton (Phyllis Bainbridge), is one of the gang members.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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The Canyon of Missing Men
Overview: Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Arizona Days
Overview: A Cattlemen´s Association hires a detective (Bob Custer) to look into a series of cattle rustlings. To dismantle the plot, an undercover agent will be infiltrating the gang as a bandit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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'Neath Western Skies
Overview: Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wants the property wage a sabotage and theft war against him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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The Railroad Raiders
Overview: A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A Woman's Wit; 6. The Overland Disaster; 7. Mistaken Identity; 8. A Knotted Cord; 9. A Leap for Life; 10. A Watery Grave; 11. A Desperate Deed; 12. A Fight for a Franchise; 13. The Road Wrecker; 14. The Trap; 15. The Mystery of the Counterfeit Tickets.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Hazards of Helen
Overview: The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February 24, 1917. Most episodes of this serial are presumed lost.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-24
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Two Outlaws
Overview: Human cowboy hero is teamed with Rex, King of Wild Horses, an ornery critter but a magnificent animal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-18
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Plunging Hoofs
Overview: Jed Campbell, a "skypilot," and Nanette, a dance hall girl, meet when each goes to rescue Rex, "King of the Wild Horses," from a trap.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-10
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Stormy Seas
Overview: Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Breezy Bill
Overview: A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-24
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A Texas Cowboy
Overview: Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett to forge a letter saying Dick relinquishes his inheritance in the ranch and then he tries to get Dick's mother to relinquish hers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-26
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The Invaders
Overview: Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and are soon separated. An army officer adopts the boy, and the girl is taken to live with Indians and renamed Black Fawn. When the boy grows up he joins the cavalry and finds himself in the middle of an Indian war as he searches for his long-lost sister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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When Lightning Strikes
Overview: Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-18
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No More Women
Overview: Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even the bottom of the ocean. All day long they fight to salvage sunken gold at forty fathoms deep in the ocean, and all night long they fight over dames. This situation continues even when they both go to work for Helen Young, the owner of a tug-boat and a salvage business.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-03
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Perils of the Rail
Overview: A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-22
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Silver Spurs
Overview: Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holden to the Sheriff, the Sheriff gives Holden an alibi. Janet and Jim Fentriss then find Holden's secret hideout. When Janet returns the next day to meet Jim, Holden makes her a prisoner and waits in ambush for Jim to arrive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-29
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Whispering Smith
Overview: Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is nothing of the bully or braggart about him. He is only a man who knows instinctively what is right and never falters in his steps to see that justice is given where it is deserved and crime punished on the same basis. Originally shot as a serial to be called "Whispering Smith", distributor Mutual Films decided to release it as two separate films - this film, which was released first, and Medicine Bend (1916).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Somewhere in Sonora
Overview: John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-27
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The Fast Freight
Overview: Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by J.P. McGowan for Anchor distribution.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
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Dust of the Desert
Overview: Dust of the Desert is a 1912 short film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-03
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An Arabian Tragedy
Overview: Ayub Kashif becomes embittered toward his wife, Fatima, because their union has been childless. He eventually determines to divorce Fatima and free her slave, whom he then will wed. Fatima, who still loves her husband, lives a life of sorrow, praying that her husband's love will return to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-19
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The Poacher's Pardon
Overview: A gamekeeper's daughter is shot while warning a poacher.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-30
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The Little Gluers
Overview: The Kerry Gow is a 1912 short
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-18
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Ireland, the Oppressed
Overview: The story of the Emerald Isle years ago. Showing the struggle against poverty, evictions by hard-hearted landlords, hill fighting and the final triumph of the downtrodden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-14
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The Shaughraun
Overview: Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the greedy Kinchella. Conn the Shaughraun comes to his rescue, helps him to escape from the prison ship and return to Ireland where he is united with his sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-23
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King of the Circus
Overview: Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by genre specialist J.P. McGowan and released in 18 chapters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Do or Die
Overview: A 1921 movie serial directed by J.P. McGowan. Chapters: 1. The Buccaneer's Bride 2. The Hornet's Nest 3. The Secret of the Sea 4. The Hidden Danger 5. The Bandit's Victim 6. The Escape 7. In Hiding 8. The Trap 9. Under Sentence 10. The Secret Cavern 11. Satan's Twin 12. The Lost Ring 13. The Cipher Key 14. The Midnight Attack 15. The Race for Life 16. The Crystal Lake 17. A Fight to the Finish 18. Hidden Treasure
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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The Chinatown Mystery
Overview: Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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The Flying Freight's Captive
Overview: Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Helen's pluck wins Billy's heart, but, as usual, she refuses, with an eye on next week's adventure.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-12
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The Black Diamond Express
Overview: When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamond Express.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-19
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The Escape on the Limited
Overview: Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, cuts the wires of Helen's telephone to prevent her from calling for help, binds and gags her, and boards the outgoing Limited. Freed by Detective Sheridan, the two of them get into a gasoline speeder standing on the sidetrack and pursue the Limited.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
Overview: Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three year old daughter, who has ventured onto the tracks of the oncoming Elwood Express, and just in the nick of time, grasps the girl off the tracks, but in so doing, must leap off a trestle into a river thirty feet below
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
Overview: Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his arm. The Civil War flashback sequences consist of archive footage from Kalem's Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911), rather than newly filmed footage.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-20
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Helen's Sacrifice
Overview: In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lone Point, relieves Benton, the day operator, several hours ahead of time, because he is caring for his sick child. Receiving an order to sidetrack a freight until the fast mail passes, Helen mounts a horse, takes a short cut, leaps from a fifty foot cliff into a river
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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His Nemesis
Overview: With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the crash. The scoundrel cleverly contrives to throw suspicion upon Reynolds, an old and faithful employee. Reynolds receives a three-year sentence. Beatrice, the daughter of Manning's victim, believes in her father's innocence. Led to believe Manning the real cause of her father's tribulations, Beatrice vows to wreak vengeance upon the scoundrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-18
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The Broken Train
Overview: Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps into a racing auto and takes off in pursuit. In the meantime, the freight's brakes fail, and the train breaks in two. Helen, on a road parallel to the tracks, leaps onto a flat car, runs forward, informs the train crew what has happened, and captures the crooks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-22
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A Railroader's Bravery
Overview: When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs the wire being tapped, boards a freight train, uncouples the engine, and pursues the tappers, who are in a gasoline speeder. She eventually rescues Henry and captures Noyes, the head of the gang, who is then placed under arrest.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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The Broken Rail
Overview: Spang, a tramp telegrapher, is knocked down by a freight car while walking up the siding near Lone Point. Helen witnesses the accident and by quick work saves him from being run over. The girl is later transferred to the shop's office and, due to her influence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-04
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The Mettle of Jerry McGuire
Overview: Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fireman, are both rivals for the hand of the girl. Jerry is preferred and Tom tries to get Jerry to take to liquor again, a habit that he has overcome. Tom is unsuccessful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-06
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A Desperate Leap
Overview: As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station at Hynes, the tramps steal the mail bag which had been placed on the crane by the postmaster of that place. They jump from the train in a secluded spot and start to rifle the bag.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-27
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Medicine Bend
Overview: Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-03
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Hit the Saddle
Overview: Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to substitute for the real leader of the herd and cause havoc and death among the ranches. With the government about to drop the restrictions on rounding up the herd, the Three Mesquiteers find themselves in the middle of the controversy after their friend, Sheriff Miller is killed by Volcano.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Guns and Guitars
Overview: A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-22
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Elmo the Fearless
Overview: Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick of time!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Stampede
Overview: A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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Secret Patrol
Overview: RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless. A "quota quickie" filmed in Canada.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-02
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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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Railroad Raiders of '62
Overview: Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase was based.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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Jungle Jim
Overview: Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-18
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Kaintucky Bill
Overview: The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge joke, Kaintucky Bill takes the oath of office.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-07
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Lawless Valley
Overview: A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-03
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The Girl and the Game
Overview: Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the plans for a new railroad. Happily, Helen's childhood sweetheart, Paul Storm, now an engineer, is right there to protect the damsel-in-distress through the serial's 15 exciting chapters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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Dugan of the Dugouts
Overview: A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any action, he and his girlfriend are kidnapped by enemy soldiers, and devise an unusual method of escape from capture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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Hills of Missing Men
Overview: A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of crazed followers, who are setting up their own criminal empire spreading from Mexico into the United States.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-26
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Senor Daredevil
Overview: Don Luis O'Flagherty (Ken Maynard), a daredevil comes to the rescue of his long-lost father, "Tiger" O'Flagherty (George Nichols), the supervisor of a supply-wagon train destined for the miners in Sonora. Tiger is being terrorized by Jesse Wilks (J.P. McGowan), who hopes to starve the miners out of their claims. Falling in love with Tiger's ward, Sally (Dorothy Devore), Don Luis manages to turn the tables on Wilks, who is killed attempting to rob the supply train.
Genres: Action Western Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-01
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The Red Raiders
Overview: Lone wolf, who is stirring up the Indians against the wishes of his elders, gets the job of scout at the fort. When he hears of the approval of the new reservation, he sends his men to trap Scott and his troop before they can deliver the information.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-27
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Gun Gospel
Overview: From Death Valley in the Mojave Desert to Mount Whittier, the outlaw gangs are wreaking havoc on the gold and money shipments from the mines and ranches. Wells Fargo organizes an express service that will insure the shipments and ensure a guaranteed delivery. Granger Hume is hired to help Wells-Fargo deliver on their promise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-06
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The Code of the Scarlet
Overview: Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang. Through a ruse, Kenton manages to infiltrate the gang, which is holed up in the lawless community of Caribou Flats. While in the employ of villainous trading post operator Jack Blake, Kenton discovers that Blake is not only the leader of the gang but also the man who murdered Helen's brother.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-01
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The Lawless Legion
Overview: Cal Stanley goes undercover as a beef buyer in order to catch the gang responsible for stealing the area's cattle.
Genres: Action Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Señor Americano
Overview: A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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The Royal American
Overview: Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where his brutish captain intends to sell guns and ammo to a band of revolutionaries. Besting the villains, Jack gets into the thick of things himself, ultimately rescuing the heroine -- likewise "shanghaied" by the captain -- from Certain Doom.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-01
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The Leap from the Water Tower
Overview: Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen's heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-09
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From the Manger to the Cross
Overview: The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-03
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Fury and the Woman
Overview: A tough Irishman tries to help a logging company owner on Vancouver Island who is being sabotaged by a nearby competitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-22
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The Silent Code
Overview: Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district before and had been mysteriously transferred, disrupting his romance with Helen Brent, the niece of Peter Barkley, the Factor at the trading post. An accountant of the company Berkley works for threatens to expose him when his account is found $10,000 short. Barkley pleads for more time to raise the money. His opportunity arises when he learns that Helen's father and his brother-in-law, Nathan Brent, has struck it rich and is on his way to visit Helen. Barkley instructs his henchmen Carney and Breen to lie in wait and rob Brent of his gold. Brent has a premonition of trouble and buries his gold, making a map of the location. Barkley is disturbed by the arrival of Corporal Hale and goes to warn his men, and finds them already engaged in the attack on Brent. Brent's dog Wolfgang (played by a dog named Rex, or maybe the other way around)...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-20
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Ships of the Night
Overview: In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-27
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The Last Roundup
Overview: There is trouble on the Bar D ranch as cowhand Mile Ahead plans to rustle the herd. He starts a fire on the opposite side of the ranch to keep the hands busy and also kidnaps the new school teacher. Fighting the fire, Foreman Denver leans the cattle are gone and going after Mile Ahead, learns the teacher is a prisoner in the school and the fire that is now out of control is heading her way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-30
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Robin Hood of El Dorado
Overview: In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
Genres: Action History Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-17
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Code of the Fearless
Overview: When it appears that Fred Jamison is a member of Red's gang, he is kicked out of the Rangers. But it's just a plot between Fred and the Ranger Captain. Fred then gets into Red's gang and makes plans that will enable the Rangers to bring them all in. But his message to the Captain is intercepted and the hoax revealed.
Genres: Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Overview: A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-20
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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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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Stagecoach
Overview: A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-02
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The Call of the Savage
Overview: Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Bar 20 Rides Again
Overview: Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
Genres: Music Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Murder in the Fleet
Overview: A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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The Outlaw Tamer
Overview: A masked bandit being chased by a posse is wounded but manages to lose them. He is taken in by a female saloon owner and nursed back to health.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-15
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Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Whispering Smith Speaks
Overview: O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is determined to learn the business from the ground up, so he gets a job as a track walker for his dad's rail line. While going about his duties, he meets Nan Roberts (Irene Ware), who is about to sell her Colorado ranch. Smith finds out that there are valuable tungsten deposits on her land and makes certain she won't be cheated by the villains
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-15
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Quick Trigger Lee
Overview: Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a note for ten thousand dollars instead of the one thousand that Saunders borrowed to work his "Rose o' My Heart" mine. Saunders tells his problem to Phil Lee, a prosperous young rancher, whose method of settling problems has gained him the nickname of "Quick Trigger."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-24
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The Red Rider
Overview: "Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
Genres: Comedy Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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Empty Holsters
Overview: Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for Clay. Since Ace is a crook, he holds up the stage and has his cronies swear that Clay was the bandit which gets Clay 10 years in jail. After he gets out in 5 for good behavior, Clay sets out to find who framed him and stole the stage strongbox. Since the sheriff does not like Clay, he takes his guns away as part of his probation and it makes Clay a target for the Ace gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-10
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Slim Jim's Last Chance
Overview: The prison doors open and Tom Benton, a first timer, and Slim Jim, alias Red Davis, of the underworld, are liberated. Tom learns that the prison odor clings by being ceremoniously turned away wherever he applies for work. Slim Jim immediately on his release beats his way west. Eventually Tom goes west and finds his work. Several months later Slim Jim gets a job at the same place Tom is employed. Slim Jim, being caught at his old tricks and exposed by Tom, reveals Tom's past. The several thrilling scenes that follow show Tom's genuine manhood and gives Slim Jim an opportunity to prove that even the underdog has at least a spark of good lying dormant under the rough exterior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-13
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The Three Mesquiteers
Overview: When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.
Genres: Western Action Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-22
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Heart of the Rockies
Overview: Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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Rough Riding Rhythm
Overview: When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have just robbed the stage and two dectectives arrive looking for them. Finding Jim and Scrubby instead, they assume them to be the outlaws and arrest them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-14
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By a Woman's Wit
Overview: Captain Jasper, a Union officer, is sent on a secret service mission to the Confederate headquarters. Safe through the lines Captain Jasper, disguised as a Commissary Supply Agent, meets old friends who are Northern sympathizers. Visiting Confederate headquarters, information is supplied him by an ally. Suspicion is eventually aroused against the Captain and he is arrested. Pamela, a Southern girl with Northern sympathies, decides to aid the Captain's escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-04
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Prairie Thunder
Overview: To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells rifles to the Indians, Rod Farrell captures Lynch and his gang. But Lynch's Indian friends free him and this time Farrell finds himself the prisoner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Headin' Westward
Overview: Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where she briefly encounters drifters Oklahoma Adams and Sneezer Clark. They follow her back to Arizona, go to work on the Benson ranch, and discover the ranch foreman to be responsible for the rustling and the robbery of a rodeo box office.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-15
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Border Brigands
Overview: Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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Diamond Jim
Overview: A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-01
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Sinner Take All
Overview: A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Rustlers of Red Dog
Overview: A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Lost Express
Overview: Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-28
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Flaming Gold
Overview: Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-28
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The Lad from Old Ireland
Overview: A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-23
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Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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The Cowboy and the Outlaw
Overview: Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-01
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The Buccaneer
Overview: French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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When the Dead Return
Overview: acques and Antoine are both in love with the same girl, but Jacques proves the winner and marries Marcele. Three years after the wedding an accident deprives Jacques of his memory. Not knowing where or who he is, he wanders far from home and takes up a new life, all memory of the old having forsaken him. Years later, Marcele, convinced that Jacques is dead, marries Antoine. After ten years of happiness with Antoine, Marcele dies, leaving a little daughter. About this time, through an accident, Jacques' memory is restored and he arrives back at his old home just as his daughter is about to marry. Not realizing the lapse of years he attempts to stop the wedding, believing that his daughter is his wife Marcele. Explanations take place and Jacques is taken to the grave of his sweetheart and wife Marcele.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-05
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Below the Deadline
Overview: Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested, his sister Claire--aka "Lady Byron"--swears to get revenge. The gang frames Donald, the best friend of the detective who arrested Mike, for a jewelry store robbery. The detective gives Donald--and his new love, Claire--a short time to find the thieves and clear his name before he takes him in.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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The Colleen Bawn
Overview: A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-16
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The Accusing Finger
Overview: A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Genres: Crime Action Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-17
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The Lady and the Bandit
Overview: Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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East of Java
Overview: Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Outwitted
Overview: After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by his old gang. Vowing to get even with Jack, Tiger kidnaps the young man's fiancée, Helen (Holmes), bringing the girl to his hideout, a fancy yacht owned by Lucy Carlisle.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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The Fighting Terror
Overview: Bill attempts to apprehend the villain who killed his brother. Unfortunately, a crooked border-town sheriff is in his way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-01
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Crack O' Dawn
Overview: The Thompson-Thorpe automobile was once a great car but dissension between the owners led to the break-up of the company, and Thompson and Thorpe have each started their own car-manufacturing company. Not knowing his true identity, Earle Thorpe Jr. has been hired by Henry Thompson to drive his new car in an upcoming race. Unknown to Thompson has two crooked mechanic/engineers on his payroll who plan to make their own car, using Thompson's plans, and win the big race themselves. Etta, Thompson’s daughter, and Earle team up to re-unite Thompson and Thorpe Sr. by taking the best features of both cars and combine them into one super car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-16
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Barriers of the Law
Overview: When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She escapes and hides in the apartment of a man who turns out to be the chief of the government agents pursuing her gang. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-26
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The Black Ace
Overview: Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
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When Lovers Part
Overview: A young couple’s love is forbidden by the girl’s father. He forces her to write a farewell letter. Three years later, the Civil War begins and the father dies. At the end of the war, her boyfriend comes to visit her and all the suffering is forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-23
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The Fiddler’s Requiem
Overview: The old musician playing his fiddle in his garret home dreams of his youth and his lost love. As the past unfolds itself he sees his sweetheart, Dolores, forced by her parents to sign a contract of marriage with Don Carlos, and he again reads over in memory her message of farewell: "My on Love, This is my marriage ever, the death day of my soul. I cannot go without one last farewell to you, whom I will never see again. Wait for ma by the lake until you hear the bells chime. Yours in spirit until death, Dolores." Meeting her at the lake as requested, she gives him her old violin, saying, "I have breathed my soul into this violin. Whene'er it plays, it is my soul that speaks."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-03
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Rory O'More
Overview: Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-03
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A Sawmill Hero
Overview: Jim Hemminway went to college, but did not make good. He had a fine time, but flunked in his studies. His father, displeased with Jim's college experience, decided to send him to a lumber camp in order to develop the manhood he believed there was in him. Arriving at the camp Jim pulled off his coat and entered with spirit into the work, determined to prove to his father that he was a "chip off the old block." Shortly after arriving at the camp he had a falling out with big Tom Granger, one of the camp bosses, and the acknowledged bully of that section of the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-22
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Captured by Bedouins
Overview: An American officer disguises himself as an Arab in order to rescue an American woman kidnapped by Arab tribesmen.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-26
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Winning a Widow
Overview: While crossing the Atlantic, Jim White, an American tourist, is attracted by a charming young widow. He succeeds in making the lady's acquaintance through her four-year-old son and thereafter he becomes a persistent suitor and shadow. It happens that Luxor, Egypt, is the destination of both parties and when they arrive at that point Jim determines to win the widow without further delay. She does not encourage his suit and he becomes desperate. Jim hits upon a subterfuge and engages an Egyptian to help him out. However, the best laid plans often miscarry, and when the widow learns of the plot she prepares one of her own. Jim meets with a decided surprise and the little son is the means of bringing about a mutual understanding.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-05
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His Mother
Overview: An Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-25
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Law of the Plains
Overview: a cowboy seeks revenge for the murder of his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-19
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The Oklahoma Kid
Overview: A cowboy is ambushed by a gang of outlaws and later falsely accused of being one himself. He ultimately proves his innocence by displaying a tattoo depicting the state of Oklahoma!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-01
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Arizona Nights
Overview: A miner finds himself swindled by an evil horse trader named Decker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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She Had to Eat
Overview: An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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The Special Messenger
Overview: During the Civil War, a woman helps her injured husband by delivering an important message to his general.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-16
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The Whipping Boss
Overview: Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-09
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Red Signals
Overview: Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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O'Malley Rides Alone
Overview: Mounties O'Malley and Calhoun are sent to see why miners are not returning with their gold. Arriving, they recover the gold from a robbery attempt.
Genres: Action Adventure Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-01-01
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-20
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Tragedy of the Desert
Overview: An English doctor based in Egypt finds his wife in the arms of a local diplomat, and in a madness-induced frenzy departs for the desert. After being discovered by wandering Bedouins, Dr. Cochran embraces their practices and begins to fall in love with Zeinab, the daughter of a Sheik. Tragedy ensues when his forgotten wife visits the village and beckons him to take her back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-01
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Crossed Trails
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-08
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Baffled
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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A Two Fisted Tenderfoot
Overview: Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents of Bennett, an unscrupulous rival, who tries to steal the herd from him. Tom eventually proves himself by outwitting Bennett.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-13
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The Wives of Jamestown
Overview: The romance between Bryan O'Sullivan and Lady Geraldine is broken when he unjusily suspects that she is unfaithful. He sails for America, and, becoming a colonist at Jamestown, Virginia, takes the name of John Pierce. Lady Geraldine's castle is besieged by Cromwellians, and, after suffering many vicissitudes, she is sent with others to be sold as wives to the Jamestown colonists. Pierce proves of timely assistance to Geraldine in her hour of trial and both forget the unhappy past when lo e claims its own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-10
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Hunted Men
Overview: Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris accidentally hits Joe with his car, and unharmed, Joe seizes this opportunity to hide in Peter's car. Peter is so drunk that Joe is able to con him into believing that he is Charles Edwards, a fellow hardware man who was with him at a convention, and in the guise of friendship, accompanies Peter to his suburban home. The next morning, Joe gets antsy and wants to leave, but Peter's family, his wife Mary, young son Robert and daughter Jane all entreat him to stay.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Far from Erin's Isle
Overview: Kathleen leaves behind her sweetheart in Ireland to emigrate to New York, finding a position in a sweet shop, until a strike forces her to seek employment in a department store, until poor health, diagnosed as homesickness forces her to return to Ireland and her sweetheart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-14
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Vagabonds
Overview: A story of love triangle, between Nell, Big Jim and Tom.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-09
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The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
Overview: Kathleen, the daughter of a fisherman meets Henry, the son of a Wall Street Broker, her father forbids their relationship, Kathleen defies her father, and travels to New York to be reunited with Henry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-17
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The Mayor from Ireland
Overview: Shamus, humiliated at a Country Dance by Bridget leaves Kerry to travel to New York, where he meets with success. Bridget and her husband Terry read of his success and emigrate to New York, but finds it harder than anticipated
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-30
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