Donald Keith
Also Known As: Francis Thornton Feeney, Francis Feeney, Eugene O'Brien
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: September 06, 1903
Deathday: August 01, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
Overview: Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-04
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Baree, Son of Kazan
Overview: Wolfdog pup, Baree, is nursed back to health by a trapper's daughter after being caught in one of the traps.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-18
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The Way of All Flesh
Overview: The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Broken Coin
Overview: A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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Parisian Love
Overview: Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel takes Armand in after a botched robbery. Marie, a fiery Apache, swears revenge on Marcel for taking her lover away from her.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-01
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Guilty Parents
Overview: A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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Twisted Rails
Overview: A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose the crook's name, he is shot and killed. A passenger aboard the train volunteers to go after the killer and bring "The Wrecker" to justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-01
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The Plastic Age
Overview: Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party, and finds that it's impossible to please her and still keep up with his studies and athletic training. Soon the two face some difficult decisions.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-15
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Branded Men
Overview: When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-07
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The Midnight Lady
Overview: The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds herself accused of murdering her daughter's no-good boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-15
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The Big Bluff
Overview: In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be from British royalty who is an "old friend".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Overview: Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-14
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The Arm of the Law
Overview: A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Just Off Broadway
Overview: Tom Fowler watches in horror as his brother Ed is gunned down in cold blood. With his dying breath, Ed asks his brother to bring the killer to justice. Discovering that the hit was ordered by the city's top mobster, Marty Kirkland, Tom takes an undercover job at the racketeer's Broadway nightclub. Avenging his brother is momentarily forgotten when he falls in love with a gorgeous chorus girl, Nan Morgan. But Tom is shocked to learn that Kirkland is the flapper's boyfriend. Now with the life of the woman he loves at stake, Tom vows to take down the mob boss once and for all...even if he has to punch out every crook from Brooklyn to the Bowery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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Berlin Via America
Overview: Phil Kelly, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, serves as an American spy during World War I unknown to his mother, fiancée Rose Lockely and friends, who sadly question his loyalty when he fails to enlist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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Top Sergeant Mulligan
Overview: During World War I a vaudeville entertainer, Mickey, is helping to recruit officers for the army and finds himself in the service along with his female partner, who is also his girlfriend. At training camp he comes up against Top Sergeant Mulligan, who proceeds to make life miserable for him. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that Mulligan, the captain and a YMCA worker are all making a play for his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-15
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Special Delivery
Overview: The second and last of Eddie Cantor's silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn't truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by "William Goodrich," who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-06
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The Phantom of the North
Overview: In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-27
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We're in the Navy Now
Overview: "Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with Percival "Sailor" Scruggs. Hansen pursues him him a U.S. Navt recruiting office, and, the next thing they know, both are in the Navy and aboard an overseas transport ship. Madelyn Phillips is on board and Scruggs is the the ship's Master-of-Arms. They overhear a mysterious conversation between Madelyn and the ship's radio officer. Later, Madelun induces the pair to take her off the ship and into a row boat. She disappears and they are picked up by a French ship, which sinks a German U-Boat. When the war ends they learn that Madelyn was an operative of the U.S. Secret Service.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-06
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Outlaw Justice
Overview: A man accused of murdering a sheriff, escapes a posse and joins a gang at the Bar-O-Ranch. The mistress of the ranch is about to be cheated out of her land, but the wanted man helps her against the gang and bests the leader in a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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My Lady of Whims
Overview: Aspiring author Prudence "Prue" Severn leaves her staid home for the wild life in New York's artistic Greenwich Village community. Her concerned family hires two thrill-seeking ex-doughboys, bow-tied Bartley "Bart" Greer and his trigger-happy buddy Lee, to look after her and, hopefully, persuade her to come home. They move into Prue's apartment building, where she lives with a sculptress pal. Although interested in Bart, Prue senses he is being paid to watch over her-- so she decides to elope with the handsome Rolf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-09
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Speed Madness
Overview: More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilder facing financial ruin. Bob Stuart takes charge of the company's development of a new speedboat - unaware that gangsters and saboteurs want to thwart them and won't stop at murder. Filled with gymnastic action-packed fights, Speed Madness is "a knockout for fans who cheer the hero and hiss the villain.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-29
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Free to Love
Overview: An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minister. Trouble ensues when a criminal gang catch up with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-19
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Bare Knees
Overview: A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister, a single "flapper" who causes a scandal in town with her bobbed hair and short skirts. She attracts the attentions of some of the local men, which causes an even greater scandal--which is made worse when her sister abruptly leaves her boorish husband for another man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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The Cruise of the Hellion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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The Devil's Cage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-26
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K - The Unknown
Overview: Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-17
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Wild Geese
Overview: Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-15
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Overview: Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-18
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The Whirlwind of Youth
Overview: 18-year-old Nancy Hawthorne, a young English girl is raised in seclusion by her artist father, but finally goes to Paris to study and meets Cornelia Evans, an American art student. At a party for Cornelia's brother Nancy meets Bob Whittaker and falls hard for him. They spend a weekend together at the beach, where their feelings for each other intensify, but Bob feels unworthy of her and contrives to be seen in an affectionate pose with another girl, Heloise, which demolishes Nancy's illusions. Heartbroken Nancy enlists as an ambulance driver at the outbreak of war eventually reuniting with Bob on the battlefields of France. They marry before his regiment leaves for the front.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-30
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With This Ring
Overview: Stranded on a desert isle, Donald and Cecilie become man and wife in the eyes of God. Donald is attacked by a mad Portuguese and is knocked unconscious; Cecilie mistakes him for dead and leaves him behind on the island when a rescue party arrives. She returns to the United States and goes to see Donald's wealthy family. They not only refuse to recognize her as Donald's wife but also refuse to recognize her baby as Donald's child. Donald's brother offers to take her as his mistress, however; when she refuses, he attempts to bribe her into giving up all claims on the Van Buren name. John Wendell, the family lawyer, takes pity on Cecilie and offers her the protection of his name in marriage; she accepts, with the provision that it be in name only but trouble is on the horizon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-05
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The Boomerang
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-28
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