Tom Santschi
Also Known As: Paul William Santschi, William T. Santschi, Wm. T. Santschi, W.T. Santschi, W. T. Santschi, William Santschi, Bill Santschi, Wm. T. Santshi, Thomas Santschi, Paul W. Santschi, Paul William "Tom" Santschi
Biography: Tom Santschi was an American leading man and character actor of the silent film era. Additionally, he directed numerous films during the mid 1910s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Crystal City, Missouri, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 24, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 09, 1931
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Paradise Island
Overview: The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundrels and cut-throats.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-15
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Vultures of the Sea
Overview: When his father is falsely convicted and sentenced to die for a murder committed aboard ship, the man's son signs on as a crewman to discover the real killer and clear his father.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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3 Bad Men
Overview: Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-28
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Who Shall Take My Life?
Overview: A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim is not dead at all, but working as a prostitute in a Western city. Scenario was written for the screen by Maibelle Heikes Justice, who was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-01
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King of the Wild
Overview: Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa.
Genres: Adventure Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-01
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My Own Pal
Overview: My Own Pal takes Tom Mix out of his customary western surroundings and plunks him in the middle of New York City.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-28
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Three Bags of Silver
Overview: The chance-shot fired by the villainous but keen-sighted Umballah, makes a bone-bruise upon the fair arm of Kathlyn.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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In Old California When the Gringos Came
Overview: In Old California When the Gringos Came is a 1911 silent film
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-04
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Greater Wealth
Overview: John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Sharon's only son is a drunken disappointment, his wife becomes alienated from him, and his daughter falls critically ill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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Briton and Boer
Overview: The story opens just before the Boer War at the farm house of Jobe De Larey, just outside Kimberly, S.A. Jobe's family are Boers with all the strange customs and fierce hatreds of this transplanted people, all except his oldest daughter Gretchen. She has attended the English school at Kimberly, and while there met and fell in love with Allen Hornby
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-25
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Mike's Brainstorm
Overview: Mike Rosenberg, a ne'er-do-well, is broke, but still is undenied the pleasure of imagination. A circus comes to town, and he is without the price of admission. He retires disgusted to the solitude of the bar, where he dreams that he possesses unlimited wealth. His first investment is a pet elephant that leads him into a vast variety of expensive difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-22
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Monte Cristo
Overview: An unauthorised adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Produced by Selig with the intent of beating Adolph Zukor's adaptation to the screen, Zukor successfully sued and the prints were ordered to be destroyed. The film is now lost.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-14
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Old San Francisco
Overview: In San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-04
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The Adventurous Soul
Overview: The owner of a shipping line arranges to have his waster son shanghaied on one of his vessels commanded by the tough Captain Svenson. But the son discovers in time and gives them the slip. Instead a clerk working for the company Dick Marlow, engaged to his sister Miriam, is taken instead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-29
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
Overview: The serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn resided in a mythical India, fighting off unwanted advances from a handsome native, Umballah, when not battling an endless array of ferocious jungle fauna.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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The Two Ordeals
Overview: Kathlyn quickly recovers from the curious sensation of being forced to occupy an unwelcome throne in compliance with the scheming councilors of a fanatical people. The high priest prepares to go on with the ceremony of marrying her to Umballah, who is the mainspring of all her troubles
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-12
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The Garden of Brides
Overview: The vengeful Umballah, having delivered his three bags of silver and secured Col. Hare as his prisoner, departs for the Palace of Allah, leaving Kathlyn and Bruce tied to the tiger cart with their backs to the savage beast and facing another death, at the hands of the brutal brigands.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-23
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The Royal Slave
Overview: After Kathlyn's seemingly marvelous escape from the Temple of the Lion, where she almost became a victim of fanatical men, not to remark the hungry and marauding lion, she is still followed by the wild beasts that rove in that vicinity in search of prey.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-09
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A Colonel in Chains
Overview: With Kathlyn's revelations of herself as a slave, Prince Umballah, her purchaser, has her imprisoned in the dungeon of the royal palace. There she finds her father, whom she was led to believe had been dead.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-23
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The Cruel Crown
Overview: Pandemonium follows the escape of the leopards, placed to guard the treasure-room in Umballah's palace.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-06
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Hands Across the Border
Overview: Cattle rancher John Drake sends his son, Ted, to the Mexican border to stop the smuggling that is using Drake's land as the crossing point. Ted meets Ysabel Castro, the daughter of the rancher just across the border-river, when he saves her from a mad-bull.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Mother o' Dreams
Overview: Mother o' Dreams
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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The Warrior Maid
Overview: Kathlyn and her sister, Winnie, have hardly disappeared through the trap leading from the big animal cage to the tunnel that had been burrowed beneath, than the hungry and frenzied lions that were in the arena swarmed onto the stage and began clawing at the trap, excited to ferocity by the fresh scent of human beings.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-14
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The Spellbound Multitude
Overview: Kathlyn's sister, Winnie, has been cowed and terrorized, is forcibly crowned Queen of Allaha, to serve the sinister purpose of the scheming Umballah.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-20
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The King's Will
Overview: Fast following the death of the King of Allaha, Prince Umballah, dethroned by the revolution, manages to reinstate himself and orders Kathlyn and her father brought to the palace in order that one of them may be made the reigning sovereign.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-01
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The Forged Parchment
Overview: The captain of the guards, who was deposed by Umballah, observes Kathlyn in a perilous plight in the third balcony of a burning building, and immediately rushes to Colonel Hare's residence, informing Bruce and the colonel of her tragic position.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-18
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Siberia
Overview: Officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Petroff, is in love with Sonia, a schoolteacher who casts her lot with revolutionaries. During a time of suppression, she is exiled with her brother to Siberia. There Petroff is sent in the discharge of his official duties and secretly renews their romance. When the Bolsheviki overthrow the government, Sonia is freed and aids in the escape of Petroff, who incurs the enmity of Egor, the revolutionary leader, because he is a royalist. Together they escape across the frozen wastes in a sledge, pursued by wolves and Egor, who has used patriotism as a cloak to conceal personal ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-28
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Lassoing a Lion
Overview: Simon Valjon is inordinately jealous of his pretty, young wife, Mary, who, however, never gives him cause to doubt her fidelity and affection. The young couple have their home on a South African ranch in a neighborhood infested by wild beasts, particularly lions. Kimball, an artist, seeks their hospitality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Red Blood of Courage
Overview: Professor Duane, an ethnologist, and his assistant, Roscoe Harding, plan a journey into the wilds of Hindustan. Harding is in love with Lydia, the daughter of Professor Duane, and they are engaged to be married. Lieutenant Tavish, a British army officer, is attracted to Lydia and plans to take her away from Harding by fair means or foul.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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His Fighting Blood
Overview: In the mountains and hills of Kentucky, a feud has raged for many years between the McTriggers and the Sampsons. In vain did the authorities intervene, threaten arrests and endeavor to patch up the mimic war; all these efforts were of no avail.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-18
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The Primitive Way
Overview: Mildred Manning is the spoiled daughter of wealthy parents. She has a host of admirers, but does not permit them to become serious. Jimmie Blake, who frequents the household more than anybody else, is a rattle-brained young chap who fancies that he is in love with Mildred and insists that he wants her to marry him. Mildred jokes him and refuses to take him seriously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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The Sealed Package
Overview: Brian Godfrey and Arnold Lambert are clerks in the diamond broker's office, both interested in Mildred St. Pierre, the daughter of an old employee. For a while she is impartial but Arnold is too impetuous in his addresses and she repulses him. Gilbert Howell, a traveling salesman of the firm, puts into the vault a sealed package containing valuable private papers. On the same day is placed in the vault, a number of fine uncut stones in a similar package. When Howard starts on his usual tour, he takes from the vault what he thinks are his papers. That same evening, old St. Pierre, recalling the fact of leaving some very important papers on his desk is worried and decides to make sure by going back to the office alone to place them in the vault.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-22
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The Lion's Mate
Overview: Hamad, an Arab half-breed, is in command of the ivory traders. Allan Deane is sent to take charge of the ivory traders' camp, and Hamad is told that he can serve as assistant hereafter. Allan Deane and Naila love each other. She informs Allan that Hamad is a slave trader and sells the native men and women like beasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-08
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The Great Experiment
Overview: John Morning, rich, without family, dreams of things that might have been. He discovers a poverty-stricken woman who is fatally injured, takes her to her home in the slum district, where she dies, and John Morning assumes charge of the woman's daughter of fourteen, Ritta. He determines to try his "great experiment," and Ritta is unaware of whom her benefactor is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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The Girl and the Reporter
Overview: Billie Benton, a cub reporter, goes to the home of Violet Reynolds, a society girl and settlement worker, and asks for an interview, which is refused. Billie returns to the reportorial room, expresses his failure and the city editor assigns Ned Pelton, another reporter, to get the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-28
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The Two Natures Within Him
Overview: The Rev. William Morris is the director of a small church near a state penitentiary. He is convinced that a criminal is only a good man gone wrong. Dr. Bishop, a friend of the minister, has made a life-long study of this very subject. The doctor has a daughter whom the minister loves and to whom he is engaged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-20
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How Callahan Cleaned Up Little Hell
Overview: When Jimmie Collins, a pickpocket, is arrested and brought before Captain Callahan of the Tenth, he is surprised because he is lodged in a cell. Jimmie claims acquaintanceship with Bill McFarlin, a corrupt political boss, and he sneers at Captain Callahan when he is ordered to be placed behind the cell bars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-03
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The Jaguar Trap
Overview: Joe Grant is the renegade husband of Lengua, a beautiful South African native girl. John Lewis is a South American trader, living with his daughter Grace. Ned Singleton helps Lewis in his work. Grant steals from Lewis' trading post and orders the abused Lengua to aid him in secreting the loot, and she refuses. She tells Lewis of Grant's misdeeds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-24
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The Octopus
Overview: Archie Sheldon, determining to go to New York City, is given a letter by his mother to Thatcher Thole, Gotham's most unscrupulous financier. She tells her son that Thole is an old friend of the family, and will undoubtedly give him a start in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-15
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In Search of Arcady
Overview: To escape the title-hunting suitors with whom her mother and aunt have surrounded her, Barbara Chichester disguises herself as a gypsy, and after buying a gypsy wagon, roams the countryside "in search of Arcady."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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In the King's Service
Overview: Rupert returns to his Canadian home after five years, an officer of the Royal Mounted Police, under orders to capture some illicit distillers. Jacques, an invalid, being unable to make farming pay, has, unknown to his sister, Philomel, been induced by Antoine, a suitor for the hand of Philomel, to join him in the illicit whiskey traffic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-16
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The Blood Seedling
Overview: Farmer Allen Golyer finds his romance with his naïve sweetheart Susie usurped by Bertie Leon, a traveling salesman. Leon's slick, citified ways win the girl's heart and she leaves Golyer for him . Just then Golyer's friend, Colonel Blood, shows up with a sapling which he presents to him. Leon meanwhile leaves the little country village and is never heard from again. Susie, believing that he was fickle, agrees to marry Golyer. For the next 20 years they are happy, until Golyer goes to a seer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-23
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The Heart of Paro
Overview: Paro, a half-breed Indian, overcome with liquor, encounters Grace, the pretty daughter of James Lathrop, a mine owner. She is sorry for his condition and gives him a cross of black jet. Dick Graham is a ne'er-do-well, who has been sheep raising in the low lands and lost his fortune.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-24
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
Overview: Feature version of the thirteen episode serial, Adventures of Kathlyn, released three years earlier.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-14
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The Garden of Allah
Overview: When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in the Sahara. At the desert hotel, she meets and falls in love with Boris Androvsky, a tormented man of mystery. Abruptly announcing his departure one day, Boris bids farewell to Domini in the Garden of Allah
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The New Superintendent
Overview: James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough element in the works. Jack Hartway asks for a position, and Mr. Hastings discharges Morley. Hartway is duly installed as the new superintendent, and his first act is to put up a sign that Rooney, the bully, has formerly resented. Rooney tears the sign down, goes to the office to confront Hartway, is knocked down, and is made to nail the sign up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-16
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Honor Bound
Overview: When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-29
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In the Sultan's Power
Overview: Jack Thornton, an American traveler, while touring Europe meets the daughter of an old French nobleman and falls in love with her. He is persistent in his suit for her hand, but outside of a seemingly cordial friendship the lady apparently does not return his affections. There is a reason for this. Osman Bey, a Turkish nobleman, desires the hand of this charming girl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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The Sergeant
Overview: In this Western, the sergeant takes his commander’s daughter on a horseback ride along the Merced River (which actually might be Oregon's Clackamas River). When their horses are stolen by a renegade, they are forced to travel back to headquarters by foot and lose the trail. In the first clip, mounted troops search for the lost couple. The two are found the next day and the sergeant is disgraced. However, the sergeant proves his mettle when he escapes during an Indian attack and leads reinforcements to the rescue. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project in 2012.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-21
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The Pride of the Force
Overview: The Pride of the Force s a 1925 silent crime film
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-11
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The Primrose Path
Overview: Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more responsible, after a drinking accident causes him to cripple little brother Pat Moore (as Jimmy Armstrong). Still, the lure of liquor makes him to sneak drinks at home, and go out partying with carefree showgirl Clara Bow (as Marilyn Merrill). He's promised Ms. Bow he'll quit drinking and gambling. Further complicating Mr. MacDonald's life are the bad checks he's been accumulating. Nasty Stuart Holmes (as Tom Canfield) and Tom Santschi (as "Big Joe" Snead) force MacDonald to join their diamond smuggling racket, in lieu of payment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-14
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River's End
Overview: Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. When they catch up with him in the farthest reaches of Northern Canada, Keith turns out to be a dead ringer for Conniston. On the way back, the sled overturns, Keith grabs the gun and leaves them to die in the snow. After second thoughts he comes back and brings them to safety at an RCMP emergency cabin. Conniston dies of a frozen lung and Keith takes his place.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Alas! Poor Yorick!
Overview: A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-21
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Ben's Kid
Overview: Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
Genres: Drama Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-01
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The Heart of Doreon
Overview: Doreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who has skipped town to avoid arrest. Doreon vows to find Blake and bring him back. King, a corporal in the Mounties, aids Babette in returning Doreon to her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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The Cradle of Courage
Overview: Former crook 'Square' Kelly serves in the First World War. When he returns from the war, one of his comrades-in-arms convinces him to join the police force. But Kelly finds himself confronting the very criminals who made up his old gang.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-19
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Brass Commandments
Overview: "Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady." Campan, the leader of the rustlers, hoping to lure Lanning into a trap, kidnaps both girls. Lanning rescues the girls, punishes Campan, and indicates to Gloria that she is the girl for him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-28
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The Overland Stage
Overview: At a trading post in the Northern Dakotas, Hawk Lespard, an unscrupulous trader, is opposed by Jack Jessup, posing as a gambler but actually a scout for the Overland Stage Co., and Kunga-Sunga, a wizard with the lariat.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-31
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The Land Beyond the Law
Overview: Deputy Marshal Jerry Steele (Ken Maynard) heads off to Oklahoma where a gang of nasty cattle rustlers is terrorizing the local ranchers. After a bit of detective work -- greatly aided by a motley group of would-be outlaws deputized for the occasion -- Steele unmasks a supposedly upstanding citizen Bob Crew (Tom Santschi) as the leader of the rustlers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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The Wagon Master
Overview: Bill Hollister (Jack Hanlon) organizes a wagon train to break the unfair monopoly held by Jake Lynch (Tom Santschi) on food prices in the mining camps. The Rambler (Ken Maynard) joins the train when it leaves for Gold Hill, and takes command when Hollister is killed from ambush. Jacques Frazelle (Al Ferguson) schemes to get rid of The Rambler and win Sue Smith (Edith Roberts). He plots with Lynch to disrupt the train, but The Rambler beats him in a whip-fight...
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-08
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In the Long Ago
Overview: A picture which illustrates an Indian myth, a poetic love story of the long ago, in which a despised musician is refused the privilege of marrying the belle of the tribe. He proves himself not only strong enough to kill his rival, the tribe's stalwart warrior, in a struggle for the girl, but is able to make a magic flute which can and does restore the girl, now lying dead. In the closing scenes, the picture shows a short glimpse of modern life which suggests that the old myth is being played, in part, again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-15
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The Hidden Way
Overview: The film tells the tale of three ex-cons who finally go straight, through the redemptive power of love. After rescuing Mary from certain death, the “three bad men” meet her saintly mother and stay on to help on their farm. In The Hidden Way, two of the ex-cons conspire to steal the family’s tiny nest egg, but through plot twists involving a medicinal spring, a wronged woman, a villainous Casanova, his avaricious father, and government inspectors (!), the pair eventually see their error and join the third in turning over a new leaf.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-26
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The Hell Cat
Overview: Pancha O'Brien, the beautiful and spirited daughter of an Irish ranch owner, is loved by two men, Sheriff Jack Webb, whom she loves, and outlaw Jim Dyke, whose attentions she repeatedly rebuffs. Jim and his men attack Pancha's ranch, burning it to the ground and killing her father. The outlaw carries her to his cabin, where Wan-o-mee, his jealous squaw, tries to stab the girl....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-24
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The Stronger Vow
Overview: During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have long feuded. Dolores' cousin, Pedro Toral, jealous of her attentions to Juan, kills her brother that night and after leaving Juan's handkerchief by the body, makes Dolores swear to avenge the death with her own hands....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Hills of Kentucky
Overview: Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"
Genres: Drama Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-26
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The Utah Kid
Overview: The Utah Kid eludes a sheriff's posse and takes refuge in Robber's Roost, a hideout for outlaws running from the law where he meets and falls for a waylaid school teacher.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-27
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The Maid at the Helm
Overview: The voyage of the "Minnehaha" ends in disaster, and everyone, with the exception of Captain Barker, his daughter Elizabeth, and the mate, Bill, perish. Picked up by the whaler "Dakota" all seems well at first but Bill, half-crazy from exposure, becomes insanely jealous of the ship’s Captain Treavor. He accosts Elizabeth, who fights him off with Treavor coming to her aid. At one point he overpowers the remainder of the crew by taking them unawares and orders the ship to be put under way. Elizabeth, however, releases her father and the crew and retakes the ship. With Bill safely captured and bound with ropes the men give rousing cheers of thanksgiving for preservation from a sudden death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-07
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Trapped
Overview: A police captain investigating a ring of bank robbers falls in love with a nightclub entertainer suspected of being involved with the gang.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-13
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Back to the Primitive
Overview: John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises her of the fact that Lord Thurlow sails on the same ship and is to act as her escort. At the same time telling her he will meet them at Cape Town. After a hurried preparation for the departure the long journey is begun. Lord Thurlow is attentive to his charge that he may fulfill the wishes of his friend and confidant, John Wilton. Will Carson, a fellow passenger aboard, much admires the young and handsome Helen and seeks an introduction through the ship officer. The admiration becomes mutual and they are seen on the promenade deck enjoying fresh sea air. Their action causes much uneasiness on the part of Lord Thurlow, who interferes in the discharge of his duty, and is in turn insulted by Will, much to the disgust of Helen, who regrets the publicity of the incident. The approaching storm rivets the attention of all on board and for a time the unfortunate affair is forgotten.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-10
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Eve in Exile
Overview: Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by her father after he loses all his money in speculation. There she falls in love..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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When a Man Loves
Overview: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-21
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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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Little Orphant Annie
Overview: Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-31
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Tracked by the Police
Overview: The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-07
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Is Divorce a Failure?
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-16
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The Blacksmith's Love
Overview: The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother and answer the call of duty to his country. The misfortunes of war claim Mace, and at night as Joe, sorely wounded, limps off the battlefield, he leaves Mace for dead. Soldiers burying the dead, discover life in Mace and he is hurried to the hospital, where the surgeons succeed in reviving him. Thinking Mace dead, Joe writes to his mother of this tragedy, and she sadly shows the letter to the wife. Joe returns. Mace's widow calls for the details of his death. After recovering from the operation it is found that Mace's mind is affected, and he is taken to an asylum for treatment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-16
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Kings of the Forest
Overview: A romantic drama that unfolds in part in British India. Sona, who leaves home with her child because of the quarrel between her two suitors, is threatened along the way by wild animals. The quarrelling suitors put their dispute behind them, and rescue her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-11
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Lost in the Jungle
Overview: Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on her father's farm, is her only pet and in the first part of our story we see her befriend him from a cruel keeper. Hans, a neighboring Boer farmer calls and asks for Meta's hand in marriage. The girl is ordered by her father to accept Hans' attentions. She has been taught to obey and when Hans gives her a love offering, a huge necklace of beads, she meekly offers her cheek for the betrothal kiss. Sir John's nephew, Hirshal, comes for a visit from England and Sir John brings him for a friendly call on the Krugas. Meta's heart awakens at the sight of the handsome, young Englishman, and she returns Hans's necklace. The father, however, orders her to marry Hans, or never darken his door again.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-25
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Overview: The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-04
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Shipwrecked
Overview: Annie Jackson, living with her uncle, Horace Gregory, an old fisherman on Val Dez Island, is injured by an automobile. John Kingdon, who happens by, takes her in his machine to the hospital. There he learns to love her, but his advances are not wanted by her uncle, for his choice for his niece's hand is John Runyon. So when Annie returns to her home, and is told to marry Runyon, she refuses. In the meantime, Kingdon leaves for Honolulu. The vessel is wrecked. Kingdon, cast into the sea, clings half exhausted to a spar. By a trick of Fate, the wreck occurs on the rocks of Val Dez Island, and Annie sees the spar, rows out and succeeds in dragging it to shore, where Kingdon is recognized. The young people declare their love for each other, but Runyon plans to get Kingdon out of his way. The "best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglee," and so Kingdon escapes the trap laid for him, and taking Annie with him to the mainland, they get married.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-21
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Thor, Lord of the Jungles
Overview: John Brant, his only daughter, Gene, and Jan Karl, a farmhand, live on a farm in Central Africa, near the border of the jungle. The monotony of their lives is stirred by the arrival in the neighborhood of a hunting party, about to enter the jungle to secure wild animals for an American circus. Henry Barium, the young circus owner, heads the party. He prevails on old John Brant to accompany him on the trip and, in turn, agrees that Gene and Jan Karl shall join the expedition. Jan and Gene are "as good as engaged." as the saying goes. Young Barium pays marked attention to Gene as they journey, and Jan grows jealous. One day he comes on the young people when Barium is trying to force a kiss from Gene. In the trial of strength that follows, Barium is worsted. Gene, who loves Jan, does not show that worthy due appreciation of his interference, with the result that he leaves the expedition for the Transvaal mines. Next day a noble, shaggy-maned lion is caught.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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Paths to Paradise
Overview: Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-28
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The Phantom of the West
Overview: A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
Genres: Action Western Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-10
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Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Overview: Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted by a pool of water, she disrobes and plunges in. Cosse de Brissac, a handsome private in the King's Guards, comes to her rescue and they become sweethearts. Meanwhile, Jean Du Barry, a shrewd roué, takes note of her at the millinery shop and tricks her into staying at La Gourda's, where she soon becomes a favorite among the men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Overview: A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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The Eyes of the Totem
Overview: After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-15
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Alone in the Jungle
Overview: The Brown family, which consists of Hon. John Brown, his wife, two sons, Harold and Billy, and a young sister named Helen, has settled on an isolated plantation in the Jungles. Jack Arden, son of another English planter, who comes over frequently to hunt with the boys has fallen in love with Helen. But Papa Brown discourages the lovers, saying that Helen is too young to be married. Jack agrees to wait. Some time afterward the Browns receive a letter from Jack stating that he is coming for another week-end of shooting- with the Brown boys. On his way to the Brown's home, Jack knocks down Concho, an overseer, for being cruel to one of the slaves. His action is approved of by the Browns. In honor of Jack the family starts on a lion hunt, and, after a long trip, they return by the river route. They espy a lioness drinking at the river's edge. She is killed by Jack and taken aboard. That night Jack again asks Mr. Brown for Helen's hand and is again told to wait.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-14
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Isle of Lost Men
Overview: The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-02
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The Cruise of the Hellion
Overview: Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by an outlaw gang led by a woman known only as "The Hellion".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-10
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Are You a Failure?
Overview: Coddled by his maiden aunts and apparently unable to make decisions, Oliver Wendell Blaine signs up for a mail-order course in "Success." Oliver follows the instructions step by step, builds his self-confidence, and proves himself a hero when a log jam threatens the town. He is made river boss and marries Phyllis Thorpe, daughter of the owner of the lumber-mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-15
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Her Honor, the Governor
Overview: The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having refused to support a water power bill endorsed by Jim Dornton, the political boss of the state, the governor is threatened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-19
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The Third Degree
Overview: Alicia, a circus artist, deserts her husband and child to elope with Underwood, her handsome lover. Fifteen years later, Annie Martin, Alicia's deserted daughter, is a trapeze performer in a sideshow at Coney Island, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Chubb, and has married Howard Jeffries in spite of opposition by his wealthy parents. Jeffries, Sr., hires a man (Underwood) to separate the young couple. Underwood convinces the newlyweds that each is being unfaithful to the other, and consequently, he is threatened by Howard. Driven to fury by Underwood's uncontrollable demands, Alicia shoots him in a quarrel and makes her escape just as Howard enters; despite his innocence, Howard confesses to the crime when subjected to the third degree. Annie, realizing her mother's guilt, claims to be guilty, but Alicia then confesses. Annie is saved from suicide by Howard, and they are united by love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Land of the Lawless
Overview: A Texas Ranger insinuates himself into a murderous gang by showing off his talents. When he is taken prisoner by the ringleader, he makes a getaway and returns with a sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-25
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The Desert's Toll
Overview: Frank Darwin needs to convince Muriel he didn't kill her Father, as claimed by Jasper and Oneta.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-14
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The Spoilers
Overview: The Spoilers is a 1914 film directed by Colin Campbell. It is set in Nome, Alaska during the 1898 Gold Rush, with William Farnum as Roy Glennister, Kathlyn Williams as Cherry Malotte, and Tom Santschi as Alex McNamara. The film culminates in a spectacular saloon fistfight between Glennister and McNamara. It was adapted to screen by Lanier Bartlett from the Rex Beach novel of the same name.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-10
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The Crisis
Overview: Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-21
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Beware of Strangers
Overview: Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-10
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Land of the Silver Fox
Overview: Rin-Tin-Tin's first sound feature, in which he plays an abused dog recused by a young girl in the far north.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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The Courtship of Miles Standish
Overview: A short silent film based on the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-20
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Little Robinson Crusoe
Overview: Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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The Honor of Rameriz
Overview: The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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The Spirit of the Lake
Overview: The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-30
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Thundering Dawn
Overview: Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-05
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The Leopard's Foundling
Overview: The scene opens on the road to Kingsley as Peter Herman and his wife, Anna, are trekking slowly along, she holding the baby in her arms while Balu, their idolized seven-year-old daughter, is on the seat beside her father, holding a line.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-29
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The Law and the Man
Overview: A silent film from the end of the silent era.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Forlorn River
Overview: A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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The North Wind's Malice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-17
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Into No Man's Land
Overview: A refined criminal keeps his life secret from his daughter. When he gets trouble from the police after shooting one of his underworld associates, he enlists in the US Army and goes to fight in France during World War I. While in France, he serves alongside a young man who is in love with his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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The Haunted Ship
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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Barriers Burned Away
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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