Robert Frazer
Also Known As: Robert William Browne
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert W. Frazer born Robert William Browne on 29 June 1891 in Worcester, Massachusetts, US was an American actor that appeared in some 224 shorts and films from the 1910s until his death on 17 August 1944, aged 53 in Los Angeles, California, US due to leukemia. In 1912 he played the title role in the 1912 silent film version of Robin Hood and a year later he played Jesus Christ in Thus Saith the Lord. After leaving school he studied to be an electrical engineer but acting captured his fancy and he turned to the stage where he spent several years before going into silent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Frazer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 28, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 17, 1944
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Gun Cargo
Overview: A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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The Price Paid
Overview: Tim Clancy was a politician. He was a contractor incidentally. He wanted and secured, by breaking down a good man's moral code, the contract to build the new city water system. Specifications called for the best. He put in the cheapest.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-12
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White Zombie
Overview: In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-28
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The Trail Beyond
Overview: Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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My Friend the Devil
Overview: George Dryden, an atheist since he saw his mother struck and killed by lightning as a kid, becomes a prominent surgeon and marries a woman who soon dies of heart disease. Years later, on his daughter's wedding day, he discovers that his wife had a serious love affair with an artist. Infuriated, he drives his daughter away. She becomes ill, suffering an emotional collapse. The doctor exhausts his knowledge trying to save her and finally, in desperation, he calls upon God. The girl is miraculously cured and George Dryden's faith is restored. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-19
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The Mine with the Iron Door
Overview: This epic Western-melodrama was based on the popular novel by Harold Bell Wright. Two old prospectors, Thad Grove and Bob Hill find an infant in the cabin belonging to Sonora Jack, a notorious bandit. The girl, Marta, grows to womanhood.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-02
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The Golden Strain
Overview: Lt. Milt Mulford graduates from West Point and is assigned to a cavalry outpost in the West, near an Apache reservation. One day the Apaches, tired of being cheated by a crooked Indian agent, break the reservation and Mulford is sent after them with a patrol. Unfortunately, he cracks under the pressure of his first firefight, and is thrown out of the army. His fiancé, disgusted, ends their engagement. He sets out to prove that he is not a coward and regain his fiancé's love.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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The Fighting Trooper
Overview: When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to after LaFarge. Working undercover, he saves LaFarge's life and this gets him into LaFarge's gang. He then arrests LaFarge and brings him in only to learn that LaFarge is not only innocent but is now a prisoner of the real killer.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Mystery Trooper
Overview: Jack Logan is the heir to half of a map to a hidden Indian mine. The trader and villain Jean Gregg sends his chief henchman Mack to make life difficult for Jack. Jack is aided in his quest by the heirs to the other half of the map: Helen Holt and her younger brother Billy, and by a uniformed mystery man known as "The Mystery Trooper".
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-01
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The Dawn Express
Overview: A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Yellow Men and Gold
Overview: Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map, which he shows to Carroll, a retired sea captain. They plan a quest for the treasure; but before Carroll's ship sails, Parrish is drugged, relieved of the map, and thrown from the dock.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-20
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Inside the Law
Overview: A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Overview: Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-05
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The Isle of Retribution
Overview: Five people are stranded on an island off the coast of Alaska. The poor girl, Bess Gilbert, competes with the rich girl, Lenor Harderworth, for the attentions of the heroic Ned Cornet. A snow-slide resolves a few issues.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-25
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The Fighting Marines
Overview: Corporal Larry Grant and Sergeant "Mac" McGowan, of the United States Marine Corps, are rival for the love of Frances Schiller, but team up to hunt down "The Tiger Shark," a mad, scientific wizard who is holding Sergeant William Schiller, Frances' brother, a prisoner on a wild, jungle island in the Pacific.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-22
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Broken Barriers
Overview: A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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Sioux Blood
Overview: One of John Waters' two Tim McCoy westerns made with MGM in the last years of the silent era. A print is preserved at the George Eastman House in New York but it hasn't been made available to the public and there don't seem to be any plans for it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-20
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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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The Silent Hero
Overview: Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup with her that he has named "Phantom." Wade Burton is anxious to win Mary and her father's money. Later, Wade follows Bud to Alaska and attempts to claim-jump Bud's gold strike, but is foiled by Bud and "Phantom."
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-01
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Jazzmania
Overview: The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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Love Past Thirty
Overview: When a woman's boyfriend dumps her for a younger girl, she hatches a scheme to get revenge by going after the girl's former boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-14
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The Ballet Girl
Overview: Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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A Night for Crime
Overview: A dark night in war time, with several black-outs, it's just a night for murder. Susan Cooper, a fast-talking girl reporter, doubles as amateur sleuth solving yet another mystery among Hollywood's famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-18
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Crashing Thru
Overview: Renfrew of the Mounties hunts brother-and-sister gold hijackers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-11
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Discarded Lovers
Overview: In this murder mystery, sexy blonde film star Irma Gladden is found dead in her car after shooting the last scene in her film, "Falling Star" at Eminent Studios. The suspects are numerous due to her free and easy lifestyle and messy romantic affairs. Among them are Grace Sibley the jealous wife of her director, Warren Sibley, her drunken actor husband, Andre Leighton, her screenwriter boyfriend, Rex Forsythe, and her first husband, Robert Worth. Also on hand to help solve the mystery are visiting reporter Bob Adair, Irma's secretary, Valerie Christine, and policemen Captain Sommers and Sergeant Delaney.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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The Mystery Squadron
Overview: Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-21
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The Splendid Road
Overview: Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Desert Command
Overview: Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Monte Carlo Nights
Overview: A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
Genres: Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-20
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The Miracle Rider
Overview: In 1930s Texas, following the murder of his father, Tom Morgan joins the Texas Rangers to avenge his father's death and to follow in his path as a proponent of Indian rights. His task as a Ranger is to stop the evil Zaroff and his gang, who are smuggling the elements for a powerful explosive from a mine on Indian land.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-11
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What Becomes of the Children?
Overview: Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood! Originally intended to warn America's youth of the perils of drugs, sex, and alcohol, these outlandish and unintentionally hilarious tales have heartache, tragedy, crime, and even insanity, lurking around every corner!
Genres: Drama Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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We're in the Legion Now
Overview: Two petty gangsters trying to elude their enemies join the French Foreign Legion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-13
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Overview: 15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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Easy Money
Overview: Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-13
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Found Alive
Overview: When a California mother loses custody of her young son to her ex-husband, she flees with the child to the jungles of Mexico with hopes of starting life anew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-11
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It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Overview: When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 1
Overview: Radio announcer Lloyd Hamilton tries on straw boaters while various performers do things on the mythical station STAR. They include Dorothy Burgess, Donald Kerr, Carlotta King, and Ruth Hiatt.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-01
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The Fighting Parson
Overview: A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-01
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Never Too Late
Overview: A young man gets mixed up with a stolen necklace and a gang of ruthless jewel thieves.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-27
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Public Opinion
Overview: A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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The Fighting Pilot
Overview: An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-12
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The Black Coin
Overview: Government agents try to thwart smugglers, while some sort of plot unfolds, about a hidden treasure revealed by cursed coins.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Her Code of Honor
Overview: A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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Daughter of the Tong
Overview: A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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On the Great White Trail
Overview: Death stalked Garou's Landing, in the Canadian frozen north, but who was the killer who murdered two men and left them huddled in the snow. Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, accompanied by his dog, Silver King (Silver King the Dog), and Kay Larkin (Terry Walker) the daughter of the man, Andrew Larkin (Robert Frazer) accused of the crime, sets out to solve the crime and bring the real killer to justice.
Genres: Action Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Gangs of Sonora
Overview: Commissioner Tredwell is the law of the land and he gets whatever he wants with the help of hired guns and lackey lawyer Conners. The only one who publicly stands up to Tredwell is Beecham of the Clarion. Beecham has his paper burned to the ground and when he starts a petition to make Wyoming a state, taking the power away from Tredwell, he is killed. But when Kansas Kate comes in to visit her son Conners, she sees what is going on and she takes over the paper and keeps the pressure on Tredwill. With this Conners has mixed emotions, but the boys do everything they can to protect Kate and the paper. Written by Tony Fontana
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-10
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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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The Crooked Circle
Overview: A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-25
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Miss Bluebeard
Overview: Director Frank Tuttle's 1925 silent mistaken-identity comedy, adapted from the 1923 play "Little Miss Bluebeard", stars Bebe Daniels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-26
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Two-Gun Caballero
Overview: A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans on seeing if he can make things a bit easier for them.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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Religious Racketeers
Overview: A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-07
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Phantom Ranger
Overview: A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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The Aztec Treasure
Overview: Short directed by Webster Cullison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-02
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Secret Orders
Overview: At the outbreak of the World War, Janet Graham, a telegrapher, is persuaded by Eddie Delano, a crook masquerading as a salesman, to marry him. She agrees, but upon discovering his duplicity, she turns him over to the police. Janet enters the U. S. Secret Service and is detailed to uncover the source of a "leak" in the sailing of troop transports
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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The King Murder
Overview: A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective investigating the case finds out that she was involved in a lot more than just blackmail.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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Condemned to Live
Overview: After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-15
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Partners Of The Sunset
Overview: Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's offer to live on his Texas ranch, which is desired by an unscrupulous neighbor, Jim Worth. Young geologist David Brooks (who sells windmills) happens along and persuades the girls to refuse Worth's offer to buy the ranch. Worth has Vi kidnaped, and he gets the upper hand when Brooks rescues her. The geologist turns the tables, however, and Worth does not live to see either Brooks's windmill strike oil or happiness come to Brooks and Patricia.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-01
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The Saddle Buster
Overview: A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-18
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Bread
Overview: To relieve the burden placed on their mother, Alice Sturgis (Wanda Hawley) marries and has several children, while her independent sister, Jeanette (Mae Busch), goes to work as a stenographer. Eventually, she is forced to marry a persistent salesman to avoid a scandal. Becoming disillusioned with married life, Jeanette leaves the salesman, but after 3 years' separation she realizes her need for a family and returns to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-04
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Daredevils of the West
Overview: A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier territory.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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Bolshevism on Trial
Overview: Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-19
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The City
Overview: The City is a lost 1926 silent film produced and released by the Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Roy William Neill and is based on Clyde Fitch's 1909 Broadway play. A previous film on Fitch's play appeared in 1916. This version has been updated to contemporary 1926
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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Smashing the Rackets
Overview: Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-08
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The Curtain Falls
Overview: In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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Exile Express
Overview: A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-27
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Without Orders
Overview: At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison. Len dates her sister Penny who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-22
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Seeing Hands
Overview: This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-03
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One in a Million
Overview: A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a romantic relationship with the boss's son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-21
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Navy Secrets
Overview: After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-08
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Six-Gun Rhythm
Overview: Western - When football player Tex fletcher arives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity - Tex Fletcher, Joan Barclay, Ralph Peters
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Juarez
Overview: The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-10
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Law of the Wolf
Overview: When a man is wrongly accused of murder, a dog helps clear his name.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Murder at Glen Athol
Overview: A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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You Can't Buy Luck
Overview: When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Wagon Tracks West
Overview: Cowboys side with an Indian doctor against crooks and bad water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-18
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The Tiger Woman
Overview: Greedy oil speculators, led by Morgan, are trying to force Tiger Woman and her band of warriors from their jungle home. Allen Saunders of Inter-Ocean Oil wants to develop the oil, too, but fights with Tiger Woman to stop the bad guys.
Genres: Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-27
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Black Aces
Overview: When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is believed to be a member of the Black Aces gang. Ted finds the probable location of the gang's hideout and sets out to clear himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-04
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Beyond the Law
Overview: A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-01
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Counsel on De Fence
Overview: New lawyer Harry defends a woman charged with poisoning her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-24
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Music in My Heart
Overview: A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-04
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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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Pals of the Pecos
Overview: Dan Burke is after a mail contract and Stevens through his henchman Keno is out to stop him. When Burke's son Larry brings the payroll he is murdered and the Three Mesquiteers blamed. Young Tim Burke breaks them out of jail and they start the timed mail run to obtain the contract. But Keno and his men plan to stop them by using dynamite to make a road block.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-07
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The Gunman From Bodie
Overview: The Rough Riders are after a gang of rustlers. Marshal Roberts is posing as a wanted outlaw, McCall is the Marshal supposedly after him, and Sandy is on hand as a cook. Roberts hopes his joining the gang will help bring them in.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-19
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Below the Deadline
Overview: After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to expose the real killers.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-07
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Million Dollar Haul
Overview: Special Insurance-Investigator Dan Kennedy and his wonder dog, Tarzan the Police Dog, are called in to investigate the persistent robbing of a shipping-and-storage warehouse in Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-02
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The Little Snob
Overview: May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Aleck B. Francis), a Coney Island employee, save enough money to send her to an expensive, snobby all-girl finishing school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-11
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The Charmer
Overview: A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite ( followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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Law Men
Overview: U.S. Marshals "Nevada" Jack McKenzie and "Sandy" Hopkins go undercover to bust a gang of stagecoach robbers in this vintage Western serial. Nevada infiltrates the gang, while Sandy works as a cobbler in town, keeping an ear open for local gossip as they try to flush out the inside man tipping off the crooks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-25
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Trails of the Wild
Overview: An agent tracking down a man who disappeared in the mysterious "Ghost Mountain" area discovers discovers the hideout of a gang of murderous outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-31
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Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Overview: A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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Swanee River
Overview: A power company floods a sleepy Tennessee Valley for a dam to run a hydraulic power plant. Garry, a Northern engineer on the project, falls in love with Caroline, Colonel Bradford's adopted daughter.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-15
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Forty Thieves
Overview: When he runs for sheriff, Hoppy is beaten by Jerry Doyle, the gutless wonder voted for by every crook in town. When Hoppy moves to have the new sheriff impeached, outlaw leader Tad Hammond hires forty gunslingers to stop him. Stop Hoppy? Hah!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-23
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Fascination
Overview: A young woman with a Spanish father and an American mother living in Spain under the supervision of a strict aunt slips out to attend a bullfight. There she becomes fascinated by the toreador Carrita. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
Overview: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Grand Ole Opry
Overview: Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-21
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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The Vampire Bat
Overview: A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-21
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One Man's Law
Overview: In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-29
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Dawn on the Great Divide
Overview: Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder are out to stop them by using white men dressed as Indians for the attacks.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-18
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The Stranger From Pecos
Overview: Brown fights a swindler and his pal, Hatton, finds a way to help a robbery victim buy back his property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-10
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Riders of the West
Overview: Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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The Kansan
Overview: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-10
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Criminals Within
Overview: A young soldier uncovers a ring of spies when he investigates his brother's mysterious murder.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-27
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Devil Pays Off
Overview: A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Genres: Crime War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Desert Gold
Overview: George Thorne is a young army lieutenant at a border post. He is in love with Mercedes Castanada who, in the lawless life about the fort, is always in danger of falling into the hands of Snake Landree's bandit gang that is the terror of the region. Into the life of the post comes Dick Gale, a man from the East who is soon engaged in a battle for the heart of the girl, whom he has quickly come to love. He aids her in a battle with the desperados. They escape onto the desert and are lost in a sandstorm. They are rescued by the lieutenant, whom, the young woman confesses to the other man, she loves. The Easterner accepts his defeat in the struggle for her affections. According to silentera.com the film survives while Arne Andersen Lost Film Files has it as a lost film.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-22
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Roar of the Press
Overview: While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-17
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Careers
Overview: In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
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Left-Handed Law
Overview: An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-31
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Cipher Bureau
Overview: The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-25
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Women Who Give
Overview: Jonathan Swift, stern Cape Cod businessman, has ambitions for his children, Emily and Noah, which are thwarted when they take romantic interests in Capt. Joe Cradlebow and Becky Keeler, respectively. Not realizing that Becky expects a child and has been promised marriage, Swift has Noah shanghaied, while Becky stows away on Cradlebow's vessel. There is a terrific storm; but Cradlebow rescues Noah, and the fleet returns safely to shore--thanks to lighthouse keeper Bijonah Keeler, Becky's father, who sets his house afire to give the sailors light. Realizing his foolishness Swift relents allowing his children marry whom they please.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-03
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The Keeper of the Bees
Overview: A bee keeper does his best to help the army. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-06
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The Love Gamble
Overview: Peggy Mason joins her boyfriend Douglas Wyman at a secluded cabin. When he confesses his love and the fact he is still a married man Peggy is distraught and flees the cabin. But meanwhile Douglas' wife is murdered and when the police arrest him he finds he can't provide an alibi without tarnishing Peggy's reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-11
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Why Women Love
Overview: An oil tanker burns at sea, and Molla Hansen, the captain's daughter, is the only survivor. Her rescuer, lighthouse-keeper Silas Martin, is fatally burned, and begs Molla to look after his daughter, Pearl. Meanwhile, Captain Rodney O'Malley, Molla's grief-stricken fiancé, departs on a long cruise. Two years later, Pearl is seduced by rum-runner Charley Watts, although she blames engineer Ira Meers. Molla learns of Pearl's pregnancy and holds Ira at gunpoint in the lighthouse. When Pearl discovers that Charley is already married, she locks him in the lighthouse tower, floods it with gas, and hurls a lighted lantern at him. Pearl and Charley are killed, but Ira recovers. The explosion signals Rod's ship, and he and Molla are reunited. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Other Woman's Story
Overview: Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colby is arrested and at trial all testimony points to his guilt. But as the jury deliberates, the unfairly named “other woman” (Helen Lee Worthing) sets out to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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The World Accuses
Overview: When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-11
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A Chapter in Her Life
Overview: Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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The Decoy
Overview: Glory Moore, a young girl, finds herself left unprovided for after her father's death, as the farm has to be sold to pay his debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-29
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Out of the Ruins
Overview: He hid from life in the ruins -he came out of the ruins to death! A man condemned to live in the shadow of a great love-never to realize it until he makes the supreme sacrifice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-19
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Frozen Justice
Overview: Drama set in Alaska
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-13
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The Foolish Virgin
Overview: Jim Owens (Robert Frazer), a reformed thief and successful inventor, meets quiet, meek and refined Mary Adams (Elaine Hammerstein) at a jazz party. They fall in love and all goes well until she finds out about his sordid past. It's Only after he rescues her from a blazing forest fire that she forgives him and confirms her love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-15
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The Love Piker
Overview: Hope Warner, a wealthy young woman, is arrested for speeding in her roadster and meets Martin Van Huisen, a young civil engineer who helps her. Hope falls in love with Martin, but when their wedding is approaching, she is self-conscious about Martin's father's poverty and doesn't invite him to the ceremony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-22
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Without Limit
Overview: Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-20
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How Women Love
Overview: silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Rainbow Trail
Overview: The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-03
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Black Dragons
Overview: It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Fighting for Justice
Overview: Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-28
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Back to God's Country
Overview: Two men fight for the love of a young woman in the far north.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Men
Overview: Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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The Scarlet West
Overview: Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegade Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam, the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troops are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-26
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The Drake Case
Overview: Talkie about a maid who is accused of killing the lady of the house
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-01
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Gambling with Souls
Overview: Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Lightning
Overview: A film adaptation of the Zane Grey novel of the same name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-15
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The Scarlet Dove
Overview: The Scarlet Dove is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Gregor and starring Lowell Sherman, Robert Frazer, and Josephine Borio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
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When the Desert Calls
Overview: British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day a man named Richard Manners appears at their doorstep. He has some incriminating information about Eldred, who is so devastated he disappears, an apparent suicide. His wife flees into the desert, with Manners in hot pursuit. She is taken in by an unlikely rescuer and years later, after she becomes a nurse when World War I ends, she makes a startling discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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Duty
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-08
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Light At Dusk
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then taking the rap for it. However, the "fake" murder victim turns out to be really dead
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-30
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