Russ Powell

Russ Powell

Birthday: 1875-09-16

Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russ Powell (September 16, 1875 – November 28, 1950) was an American film actor. He appeared in 186 films between 1915 and 1943.

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Theodora Goes Wild
Theodora Goes Wild

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little...

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The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady

Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out ...

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Soft Cushions
Soft Cushions

Douglas MacLean stars as The Young Thief, who falls in love with The Girl, played by Sue Carol. Alas...

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To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

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Earthworm Tractors
Earthworm Tractors

A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl....

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No Place to Go
No Place to Go

Starry-eyed heiress Mary Astor yearns for a "cave man" who will treat her rough and make her like it...

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Dynamite Smith
Dynamite Smith

Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees ...

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Wedding Present
Wedding Present

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involve...

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only ...

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I Dream Too Much
I Dream Too Much

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evenin...

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The House on 56th Street
The House on 56th Street

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a d...

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Come and Get It
Come and Get It

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years l...

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The Night of Nights
The Night of Nights

A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left hi...

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The Emperor's Candlesticks
The Emperor's Candlesticks

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia....

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The Mysterious Lady
The Mysterious Lady

A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When s...

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The Grand Parade
The Grand Parade

No one suffered more magnificently in the early-talkie era than the inimitable Helen Twelvetrees. In...

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If I Had a Million
If I Had a Million

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...

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Downstairs
Downstairs

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristo...

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The Ropin' Fool
The Ropin' Fool

"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk....

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Kindled Courage
Kindled Courage

Andy Walker, bullied and taunted with being a coward, leaves town on a freight. The brakeman shoots ...

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Broken Lullaby
Broken Lullaby

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik...

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Flesh and the Devil
Flesh and the Devil

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo ...

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The Wrong Road
The Wrong Road

A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to ...

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The Sin Ship
The Sin Ship

A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and he...

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Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold f...

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Burning Up
Burning Up

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love...

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Ambassador Bill
Ambassador Bill

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and ...

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The Slim Princess
The Slim Princess

Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family...

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Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels

When theatrical agent Sterling, a ladies man known for signing his latest paramours onto his agency'...

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The Affairs of Cellini
The Affairs of Cellini

The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke....

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Sailor's Holiday
Sailor's Holiday

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling ...

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History Is Made at Night
History Is Made at Night

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her ...

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Safety in Numbers
Safety in Numbers

Before handing over a large inheritance, a guardian hires three chorus girls to educate his charge a...

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The Sin of Madelon Claudet
The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her i...

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Man Of The People
Man Of The People

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks....

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Sutter's Gold
Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

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Fatal Lady
Fatal Lady

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of...

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Give Me Your Heart
Give Me Your Heart

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman....

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Draegerman Courage
Draegerman Courage

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners....

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Sweepstakes
Sweepstakes

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race....

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Storm at Daybreak
Storm at Daybreak

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...

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Son of Frankenstein
Son of Frankenstein

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and re...

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Union Pacific
Union Pacific

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...

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Tower of London
Tower of London

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate...

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The Spellbinder
The Spellbinder

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending crim...

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Chicken Wagon Family
Chicken Wagon Family

Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine and her sister Cecile roam...

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The Call of the Savage
The Call of the Savage

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula....

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Everything Happens at Night
Everything Happens at Night

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter....

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beaut...

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She Loved a Fireman
She Loved a Fireman

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman....

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Modern Times
Modern Times

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

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Riley the Cop
Riley the Cop

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a y...

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Parachute Jumper
Parachute Jumper

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depr...

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Paradise Express
Paradise Express

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gan...

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Check and Double Check
Check and Double Check

Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a so...

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A Blind Pig
A Blind Pig

A French perfume salesman is mistaken for a bootlegger. Partially missing two-reeler with 11 minutes...

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Arabian Tights
Arabian Tights

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan....

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When the Daltons Rode
When the Daltons Rode

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto...

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The Return of Frank James
The Return of Frank James

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....

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The Red Mill
The Red Mill

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on...

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Mockery
Mockery

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is ...

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I Married a Doctor
I Married a Doctor

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the towns...

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Man Hunt
Man Hunt

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber....

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Quick Millions
Quick Millions

A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally ...

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The Arizonian
The Arizonian

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and d...

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...

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The Florentine Dagger
The Florentine Dagger

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect....

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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the ...

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Champagne Waltz
Champagne Waltz

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its ...

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Are These Our Children?
Are These Our Children?

A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, f...

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Fashions in Love
Fashions in Love

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Music for Madame
Music for Madame

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks wh...

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Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...

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Two Alone
Two Alone

Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie...

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Open All Night
Open All Night

Therese Duverne (Viola Dana) is bored with her even-tempered husband, Edmond (Adolphe Menjou). Isabe...

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The Son of Davy Crockett
The Son of Davy Crockett

Dave Crockett (Bill Elliott) comes to the aid of ranchers living on the Yucca Strip, who want their ...

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Napoleon's Barber
Napoleon's Barber

Arthur Caesar's classic about the barber who held the fate of France in his hands, has been produced...

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Surrender
Surrender

Lea Lyon, the daughter of a rabbi, lives happily with her father in their Gulicinu village, but ther...

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That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir Willi...

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The Show
The Show

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. ...

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A Night at the Ritz
A Night at the Ritz

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef....

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I Stole a Million
I Stole a Million

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....

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The Texan
The Texan

Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow's son and falls in love with a cousin....

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One Sunday Afternoon
One Sunday Afternoon

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush an...

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That Certain Thing
That Certain Thing

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and sta...

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Vamping Venus
Vamping Venus

A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receivi...

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The Conquering Horde
The Conquering Horde

Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific r...

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Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil
Heaven Will Protect A Woiking Goil

Nell leaves for the big city in search of her missing father, followed by a helpless boyfriend hopin...

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Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic

Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged wi...

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The Wild Party
The Wild Party

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, S...

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Goldie Gets Along
Goldie Gets Along

A small-town girl schemes to get to Hollywood only to run into the man she left behind....

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The Jury's Secret
The Jury's Secret

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia...

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If I Were King
If I Were King

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...

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Joy of Living
Joy of Living

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel B...

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Public Hero Number 1
Public Hero Number 1

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...

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The Public Enemy
The Public Enemy

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...

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When a Man Loves
When a Man Loves

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in...

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The Merry Frinks
The Merry Frinks

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter....

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The Concert
The Concert

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's ...

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One Rainy Afternoon
One Rainy Afternoon

Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young...

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A Boy of Flanders
A Boy of Flanders

An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing....

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An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder....

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Mad Love
Mad Love

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's han...

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The Soul of Youth
The Soul of Youth

Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living t...

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Divot Diggers
Divot Diggers

When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money....

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Me and My Gal
Me and My Gal

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley....

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The Big Trail
The Big Trail

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get...

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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent

To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with...

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Savage Fury
Savage Fury

Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage....

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Zoo in Budapest
Zoo in Budapest

Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true frien...

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Roman Scandals
Roman Scandals

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asl...

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Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...

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Smoldering Embers
Smoldering Embers

When John Conroy's wife takes his infant son Jack and runs away with another man, Conroy becomes a t...

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