Joseph W. Girard
Birthday: 1871-04-01
Place of Birth: Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Joseph W. Girard was an American screen actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1911 and 1944. He was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
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Radio Patrol
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing hou...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000...
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The Whirlwind
After years of wandering due to a charge of murder, Tim Reynolds returns to Sagebrush to find the Sh...
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The Midnight Man
Bob Gilmore, a young clubman, is called by telephone to his home, where his parents are giving him a...
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Nan of the North
A Canadian Mountie and a young girl team up to prevent an evil couple from finding a fallen meteorit...
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The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, mastermind...
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Whispering Sage
This silent Western featured a group of Basque settlers terrorized by a greedy land baron (Joseph W....
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A Soul for Sale
After Neila Pendleton's father dies, leaving his wife and daughter penniless, the avaricious Mrs. Pe...
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What Am I Bid?
Betty Yarnell lives with her drunkard father in the North Woods mountains. Betty is shunned by the v...
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Silent Men
In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He i...
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A Yankee Go Getter
Popular action heroine Neva Gerber played the dual roles of Lucia and Vera Robilant in this low-budg...
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Aces and Eights
A card sharp steps in when a Mexican family's ranch is threatened by swindlers and cheats....
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Outlawed Guns
Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers...
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The Fighting Trooper
When the Ranger Sergeant returns murdered with a note that LaFarge did it, Trooper Burke sets out to...
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Flying High
While taking a joyride with his sweetie Patricia, daredevil pilot Roy Cummins witnesses the aerial h...
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Jack O'Clubs
A tough policeman who patrols the city's worst beat loses his nerve when he believes he has hurt the...
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His Fighting Blood
A cowboy's brother falls in with a gang of thieves; when he tries to get his brother out of the gang...
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The Third Alarm
The story of the firemen at Engine House No.8, where widower Frank "Dad" Brooks is the beloved veter...
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Fireman, Save My Child
Two firemen must put up with a variety of travails in their job, especially their chief's spoiled an...
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The Hurricane Express
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker w...
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The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the ...
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The Big Stampede
Deputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off al...
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The Silent Hero
Bud Taylor loves Mary Stoddard but is leaving for Alaska in search of gold, leaving a police-dog pup...
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The Ladder of Fortune
Wandering minstrel Louis d’Angelo must flee his homeland to America after a duel over the hand of hi...
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The Blue Fox
Silent adventure serial starring Ann Little. Episodes: 1) Message of Hate, 2) Menace from the Sky, 3...
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Shotgun Jones
Thomas Lattier is a well-to-do westerner in the cattle business. One fine day he sells a herd of cat...
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The Eagle's Talons
A stirring drama of Wall Street manipulation of the world's wheat supply, which leads the characters...
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Frontier Scout
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John)...
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Frontier Justice
When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on ...
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Whirlwind Horseman
Ken and Happy, looking for their friend Cherokee, run into an outlaw gang led by Ritter who have bee...
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Courtin' Wildcats
College boy Clarence Butts has been sent west by the Doctor to join McKenzie's circus. There he find...
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Officer Thirteen
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndic...
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Step on It!
Brother of Lorraine Leighton is falsely accused of rustling and murder and shipped off to jail. Desp...
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Strictly Dishonorable
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boor...
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The One Woman Idea
He was a great Persian Prince. His Harem was filled with seductive beauties. Yet he loved one woman-...
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The Tonto Kid
Lawyer Creech is after the ranch of the dying Cartwright. First he brings in Cahill to pose as the o...
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The Green Archer
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the w...
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Lightnin' Bill Carson
A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to ...
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What Becomes of the Children?
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hol...
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The Heart of Humanity
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in lov...
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the peop...
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Sealed Lips
The Shadow's third movie short, an adaptation from a Donald Van Riper story, "Dying Lips," which app...
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The Drag-Net
A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss...
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Ride 'em, Cowgirl
Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X ...
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The Crusader
Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughte...
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Clipped Wings
Mickey Lofton, young half-brother of famed war-aviator Jerry, fails in his attempt to enter the Cana...
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The Final Extra
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-s...
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The Outlaw Deputy
While searching for his friend's killer, a former outlaw thwarts a robbery and becomes a lawman....
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Troopers Three
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and...
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Perils of the Yukon
A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fat...
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The Murder in the Museum
When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a some...
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Held For Ransom
A female detective investigates the kidnapping of a wealthy businessman....
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Defenders of the Law
A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and th...
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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' object...
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The Code of the Scarlet
Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan wh...
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Sons of the Saddle
Jim Brandon, foreman of the Wind River Ranch, owned by Martin Stavnow, is in love with Ronnie, the r...
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Partners in Crime
After being dismissed for imitating his boss's voice on radio, former Assistant District Attorney Ri...
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Captain Midnight
Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright ...
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is...
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Wild West Days
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Bento...
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We're in the Navy Now
"Stinky" Smith makes off with the prize money when his buddy, "Knockout" Hansen loses a fight with P...
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Racing Luck
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a riv...
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The Night Hawk
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enoug...
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The Silent Code
Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-offic...
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While the City Sleeps
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi ...
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Zenobia
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage...
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A Tenderfoot Goes West
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate ...
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The Shield of Honor
Diamond thieves have infiltrated the staff of O'Day Jewelry. The Los Angeles Police Dept. employs th...
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Navy Secrets
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investig...
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The Oregon Trail
Army Captain takes a leave of absence to find out what happened to his missing father........
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Man Of Action
The Sheriff shoots the robber of the Bank and recovers the money bag only to find it empty. Ranger T...
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'49–'17
A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experienc...
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The Girl from Havana
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a mu...
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Social Error
A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled fro...
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Back to the Primitive
John Wilton cables his sister Helen in London to leave for South Africa via S.S. China and apprises ...
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Blazing Guns
After Slug Raton takes Brady's horse, hat, and gun, the Sheriff arrests Grady thinking he is the out...
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Trapped in Tia Juana
An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know ...
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Deadwood Dick
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed....
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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Men of Action
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam....
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Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....
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The Spider Returns
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spi...
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Unashamed: A Romance
A woman who is in love with her boss entices him to join her at a nudist camp, but his affection soo...
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Bare Fists
Harry's father is killed in a gunfight, and his mother makes him swear he'll never again use his gun...
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Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious ...
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The Terror
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror"....
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Renegades of the West
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father....
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The Secret Code
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial l...
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The Girl of the Golden West
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catch...
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From Headquarters
United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Mari...
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The Fleet's In
A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it i...
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Wolves of the North
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements ...
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Outlaw Rule
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop i...
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Red Courage
Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is...
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Hello Cheyenne!
Rival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings an...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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The Sky Spider
The three Morgan brothers, Glenn, Jim and Buddy are all air mail pilots. The plane flown by Jim is s...
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Hell Morgan's Girl
Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire t...
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Three Jumps Ahead
John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical wes...
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A Huntress of Men
Upon hearing about a woman dubbed The Huntress because of her wild attention craving ways, Fleming H...
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The Bride's Awakening
A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair wi...
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The Risky Road
Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Pa...
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Fear Not
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addicti...
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Her Body in Bond
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes...
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The Boaster
Angered by his son Dick's boastful ways, which in one incident lead him to lose a business deal, an ...
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Treason
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous ...
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The Two-Soul Woman
Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers fr...
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Danger, Go Slow
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "th...
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King of the Rodeo
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago....
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Paid in Advance
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band o...
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The Sin of Nora Moran
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that sh...
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Kentucky Blue Streak
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence...
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Lovebound
Besse Belwin works as a stenographer for district attorney John Mobley. It doesn't take long for Mob...
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Doughboys
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly...
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The Brass Bullet
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial...
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My Woman
A devoted wife helps her husband achieve success as a radio comic, but stardom comes at a price....
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Soft Boiled
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns ...
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The Marriage Lie
Left alone and penniless after her father dies, Eileen Orton attempts suicide. Douglas Seward, who m...
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The Crowd
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start...
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Society's Driftwood
When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears...
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The Sealed Envelope
Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at ...
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The Ivory-Handled Gun
Buck Ward and the Wolverine Kid, who each own one of the ivory handled guns, continue the feud start...
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Racetrack
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted in...
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Ten Days
Dick Van Buren, a wealthy young man with a penchant for breaking traffic laws, is arrested for speed...
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Conscience
Inventor George Grant and his partner, financier John Benson, accept an offer of $200,000 for the ri...
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Gambling Wives
Bank clerk Vincent Forrest loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe and her provider, V...
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Love's Pilgrimage to America
Lulu, the bishop's daughter, and Tom, the Duke of Bilgewater's nephew, are in love and want to marry...
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The Double Standard
Newly elected police court judge John Fairbrother is impassioned when it comes to the laws affecting...
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Loot
Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from ...
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The Lords of High Decision
Even though he disapproves of the harshness with which his father, the Colonel, treats his employees...
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The Lair of the Wolf
Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife. ...
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The Leatherneck
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win...
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Laughing at Danger
A young fellow, down in the dumps after a belle breaks his heart, believes his father is setting up ...
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Dishonored
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians....
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The Man from Nowhere
Although Dorenzo murders Betty Herron, a jury convicts her brother James, and sentences him to life ...
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Thrown to the Lions
Linnie Carter, a cabaret entertainer, struggles to remain innocent in the midst of the fast life. Ha...
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Forlorn River
A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on ...
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The Narrow Path
Bessie Allen, a girl of the slums, dances in the streets of the Lower East Side of New York to the d...
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Where Is This West?
John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Salli...
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A Seashore Romeo
Dolly’s father disapproves of her boyfriend Ben, thinking he is only interested in athletics and not...
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Rene Haggard Journeys On
Rene, condemned to execution for murder in the first degree tells his mother the story of the crime....
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The Other Woman's Story
Robert Marshall’s dying utterance seems to point to Colman Colby (Robert Frazer) as his killer. Colb...
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The Night Message
The Lefferts-Longstreet feud is renewed when young Harney Lefferts is shot accidentally by Lem Beema...
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Twin Husbands
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating...
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Ladies of Leisure
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but ...
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Youth and Adventure
Reggie Dillingham, a spendthrift socialite, is challenged by his lawyer to support himself for six m...
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The Western Wallop
Parolee Bart Tullison becomes foreman of Anita Stillwell's ranch near the Nevada border. While Anita...
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Beloved Jim
Jim Brockton has three interests in life: His nephew, Donald: the Trinity, three friends of differen...
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When Seconds Count
Following a rift with his wealthy father, Billy Mathewson, a young Broadway wastrel, escapes with hi...
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The Law Rustlers
Phil Stanley (William Fairbanks) and Harry Hartley (Edmond Cobb) are traveling toward Alaska when th...
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The Wild Party
Leslie Adams, secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, persuades him to let her write up a socie...
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Broken Barriers
When a mayoral candidate finds out that he will be exposed in a newspaper article, he goes to the po...
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Stolen Secrets
Noted criminologist Miles Manning captures a gang of crooks by posing as a super-criminal--a mysteri...
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