Alphonse Ethier
Also Known As: Alphonz Ethier, Альфонсе Этье
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Virginia City, Nevada, USA
Birthday: December 10, 1874
Deathday: January 04, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Voice in the Night
Overview: Tim Dale is the son of the president of a big-city telephone company and quits his job following a dispute with his father over company policy. He takes up polo playing. Circumstances force him to give up his polo-playing and take on the job of helping a small-town telephone company overcome a plan by a gang to force the company out of business. He calls in his telephone-company pals Bob Hall and Jack to aid him against the crooks led by Matthews and Jackson, working for crooked lawyer Thomas Benton.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-06
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Baby Face
Overview: A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-13
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The Donovan Affair
Overview: Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-11
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The Forbidden Path
Overview: Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), uses her as model when he paints a portrait of the Madonna for a church. His friend Robert Sinclair (Hugh Thompson) corrupts Mary so that her father (Walter Law) casts her from his home. She goes to live with Sinclair in his mountain lodge, but after the birth of a child, he callously casts her aside. Subsequently, her baby dies and she sinks to the depths of despair.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-03
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Wild Girl
Overview: Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-09
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The Boss Rider of Gun Creek
Overview: A man impersonates his double to clear himself of a murder conviction.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Overview: A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-03
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The Baroness and the Butler
Overview: A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-29
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The Patriot and the Spy
Overview: Two young people marry in a Continental village and receive the congratulations of all save the rejected suitor. He bides his time while the couple live happily and are blessed twice with children. War is declared after the husband has suffered an injury for life and the rejected suitor enlists.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-07
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She
Overview: She was the first attempt in film to depict the story of H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel She: A History of Adventure.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-25
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The Midnight Flyer
Overview: The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Smoke Bellew
Overview: A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
Genres: Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-25
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Rough and Ready
Overview: In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the situation and believes Bill to be unfaithful to her. She breaks her engagement, and Bill, in remorse, goes to Alaska. In the town of Yellow Gulch, Bill meets "Silver" Jack Belmont, the man responsible for nearly ruining the marriage of Bill's friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-24
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Men Of America
Overview: Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Transgression
Overview: When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-27
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British Agent
Overview: In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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I Want to Forget
Overview: Prior to the declaration of World War I, dancer Varda Deering was a member of the Austrian secret service, but later became a loyal citizen of the United States. In America, she captivates many men but cares for none of them until she meets Lieutenant John Long. At first, he regards Varda as little more than a social butterfly, but gradually comes to recognize her goodness and falls in love with her. While John is away on a war-related diplomatic mission, Varda agrees to aid the U.S. Secret Service in procuring classified documents from August Von Grossman, an agent whom she had known in Austria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-15
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The Fighting Eagle
Overview: The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-28
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Ex-Lady
Overview: Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-15
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Red Morning
Overview: A captain's daughter become marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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The Alaskan
Overview: An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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A Message from Mars
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Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-10
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Secret of the Chateau
Overview: Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-03
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The Frontier of the Stars
Overview: East Side gangster Buck Leslie attempts to stop a fight between chemist Gregory and a tough and is pursued by detective Phil Hoyt to a tenement roof where he takes refuge. On the roof he meets crippled Hilda Shea, who shelters him, and they eventually fall in love, the appeal of her innocence causing him to reform. Buck antagonizes the gang, however, and they try to frame him. Hoyt finds Buck on the roof, and during the ensuing fight the tenement catches on fire. Buck rescues Hilda, and she miraculously regains use of her limbs. The detective abandons his pursuit, leaving the lovers happy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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Sunset Trail
Overview: Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Bordertown
Overview: An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-23
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His First Command
Overview: A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Overview: The Lone Wolf Returns
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-15
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The Storm
Overview: Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becomes stranded with them in their cabin during a raging blizzard.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-17
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Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U
Overview: Brave and good-natured cowboy Sandy Burke saves young Dolly after her father is killed in the saloon. He entrusts the girl to kindly Widow Mackey, who is having trouble paying her mortgage and decides he is responsible for the pair so he best start earning some money. Soon he is seeking work at the U-Bar-U ranch but who could predict the trouble he will have with the rancher's daughter, Molly, or the surly foreman, Jim Diggs!
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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Golden Harvest
Overview: A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-21
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Cinderella
Overview: Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-21
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Say It with Sables
Overview: In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-13
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Honor of the Family
Overview: Intrigue and greed come between an immoral woman and the man who loves her. This film is believed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-17
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Fair Warning
Overview: This George O'Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistlin' Dan Barry, our hero rides into a passel of trouble in a wide-open town. Warned to leave the premises or else, Whistlin' Dan refuses to do so, sticking around long enough to whomp villain Jim Silent (Mitchell Lewis) and romance heroine Kate Cumberland (Louise Huntington).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-01
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Lightnin'
Overview: Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-28
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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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Romance of Louisiana
Overview: A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-08
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The Big Shakedown
Overview: Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-06
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In Old Arizona
Overview: Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot on Tonia, the woman he loves, not realizing that she is being unfaithful to him in his absence. Soon, with her oblivious paramour off plying his trade, Tonia falls in with Dunn, drawn by the allure of a substantial reward for the Kid's capture -- dead or alive. Together, they concoct a plan to ambush and do away with the Cisco Kid once and for all.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-25
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David Copperfield
Overview: Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-17
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Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Alias the Lone Wolf
Overview: Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-22
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Shadows of the Night
Overview: Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-26
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Law and Order
Overview: A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-09
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The Woman and the Beast
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-17
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