William Desmond
Birthday: 1878-01-23
Place of Birth: Horseheads, New York, USA
Biography: Starting out in dramatic parts, Desmond soon switched to westerns and action serials, and became a major western star. When the sound era began Desmond was almost 50 years old, and was soon relegated to supporting roles.
Movies
The Prince and Betty
Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keit...
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The Vanishing Rider
William Desmond plays Jim Davis, a secret service agent by day and masked avenger by night. Ethlyne ...
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Peer Gynt
A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in vari...
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Captain of His Soul
At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pisto...
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The Rustler's Roundup
Winters is after the Brand ranch, and his man Brett who is foreman there is rustling the Brand stock...
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When Lightning Strikes
Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama....
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Phantom of the Opera
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i...
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The Mummy's Ghost
An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka...
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The Policeman and the Baby
A crook returns home to find his mother dead and about to be buried in Potters Field. This prompts h...
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Master of His Home
Unhappy with her daughter's choice to marry a miner instead of her choice, a man of wealth, a mother...
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The Return of the Durango Kid
A masked outlaw steals from bank robbers to help the poor....
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Mr. Broadway
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the p...
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The Lightning Warrior
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a ...
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Song of the Gringo
In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The...
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Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove he...
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Wild Waters
A young man and his trusty dog go up against a gang of crooks that are building a dam out of shoddy ...
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The Extra Girl
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a pi...
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The Last Frontier
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to dri...
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Crack-Up
Daredevil flyer David flirts with a waitress. An orphan accidentally takes off in a biplane requirin...
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The Broken Coin
A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings....
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Frisco Kid
After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him ris...
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The Vanishing Legion
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Co...
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The Vanishing Shadow
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicia...
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Desert Command
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after ...
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The Burning Trail
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. H...
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Straight Through
O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but...
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The Meddler
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her...
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Born to Battle
Good-natured troublemaker "Cyclone" Tom Saunders is hired by a ranchers' association manager to inve...
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I Can't Escape
An ex-convict, unable to get a good job because of his prison record, gets mixed up in a phony stock...
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The Vigilantes Are Coming
A masked hero called "The Eagle" leads California ranchers in a struggle against Russian Cossacks wh...
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Pirate Treasure
An accomplished aviator sets out to locate treasure hidden by one of his ancestors. He encounters i...
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The Strings of Steel
The Strings of Steel is a silent Action serial. Episode titles: 1. The Voice on the Wire 2. The Firs...
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Courage of the North
A Mountie (John Preston) catches fur thieves with the help of his horse, Dynamite, and dog, Captain....
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The Three Musketeers
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after ...
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Winners of the West
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va...
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Her Code of Honor
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art stu...
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Frontier Days
Henry Jethrow is after the Wilson ranch. He has George Wilson unknowningly sign a note for the ranch...
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The Rawhide Terror
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar ...
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Laughing at Life
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities a...
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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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Strawberry Roan
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the tit...
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Fargo Express
When Mort loses his and Ken's money at poker, Goss gets him to rob the stage. He is captured, identi...
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Paws of the Bear
In Belgium, at the outbreak of the war, Russian agent Olga Raminoff shoots at a German general when ...
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Border Guns
A cowboy drifting around the border gets mixed up with Mexican revolutionary gun smuggling when he b...
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No Children
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies....
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Shadows of the North
Ben Darby and Pancake, his father, are owners of a mining claim in Northwest Canada. Ben goes to war...
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Battling with Buffalo Bill
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to ...
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The Extra Girl
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a pi...
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The Cowboy and the Bandit
Bill travels to a new state after the outlaw Scarface saves him from a lynch mob. There he takes a j...
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Custer's Last Stand
Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous hist...
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Cyclone of the Saddle
Sent by the Army, Andy Thomas poses as a renegade to find out who has been harassing the wagon train...
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Treachery Rides the Range
The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from ...
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Heroes of the West
Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12...
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Gordon of Ghost City
A cowboy is hired to track down a gang of rustlers, but gets involved with a beautiful girl trying t...
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The Call of the Savage
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula....
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Headin' for the Rio Grande
Singing cowboy Tex Saunders finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local g...
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A Scarlet Week-End
A woman's cheating husband is murdered at their country estate, and suspicion immediately falls on h...
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The Ghost Rider
Jim Bullard escapes from prison and returns to settle matters with the Rascob's that framed him. He ...
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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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Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...
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Code of the West
Knowing the railroad is coming, Carter is after the rancher's land. Bob and Chito return just in tim...
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The Red Rider
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his ...
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his ...
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Timber Terrors
Inspector Dawson promises "Morton of the Mounted" a long-awaited vacation as soon as he solves the m...
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
A young mining engineer sets out to catch the killers of both his brother and a beautiful young girl...
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Song of the Saddle
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get ...
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The Boys from Syracuse
The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys fr...
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Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery
A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs a...
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Junior G-Men
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join fo...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Tim Tyler's Luck
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He...
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The Phantom of the Air
An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phant...
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The Phantom of the West
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note i...
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Fightin' Mad
Returning to his father's cattle ranch after the excitement of serving in combat overseas, Bud McGra...
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Society for Sale
Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in societ...
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The Last of the Ingrams
Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forge...
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Down Rio Grande Way
Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-1...
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The Silver Bullet
A cowboy heads for the town where his father was murdered to find out who was responsible....
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Overland Mail
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep be...
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Rustlers of Red Dog
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of ...
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The Lone Star Trail
Rancher Blaze Barker returns to Dead Falls after being framed by land-grabbers and spending two year...
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Cheyenne Roundup
Johnny Mack Brown's Universal western series was drawing to a close when Cheyenne Roundup was releas...
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No Defense
No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent...
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The Iced Bullet
A "scientific detective" story about the attempted murder of a wealthy New Yorker in his mountain lo...
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The Child Thou Gavest Me
On her wedding day, Norma Huntley wants to tell Edward Berkley, her husband-to-be, her secret -- tha...
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Savage Fury
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage....
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Where Did You Get That Girl?
In this musical comedy, a motley band of musicians have only their extreme poverty in common. They e...
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Outwitted
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfei...
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Ridin' Pretty
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing exp...
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Barriers of the Law
When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, t...
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A Sage Brush Hamlet
Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is ...
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The Naughty Nineties
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act...
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Peggy
The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a publi...
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The Way of the West
Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit ...
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Kilmeny
Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy,...
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The Dawn Maker
Half-breed Joe Elk wavers between the "civilized" nature of his white father and the passion of his ...
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Naughty Marietta
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escape...
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The Sunset Trail
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Co...
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The Majesty of the Law
The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later h...
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The Climax
Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...
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The Roaring West
A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc....
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Night Life in Hollywood
A picture depicting the engrossing adventures of a small town youth in Hollywood and showing the int...
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Strange Confession
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who relea...
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Perils of Pauline
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the...
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The Egg and I
World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and movin...
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Thunder Mountain
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud sti...
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The Marriage Bubble
An actor is mistaken for a look-alike, a drunken millionaire, and is taken in by the millionaire's s...
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The Breathless Moment
Unwilling to arrest Billy Carson, a crook who once befriended him, Officer Quinn forces him and Dan,...
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Women Men Love
Prosperous architect David Hunter, lives with his wife Evelyn, who loves gambling and admiration, as...
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Clancy of the Mounted
A Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in his brother, who was framed for the murder of a gold mine...
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Flying Colors
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in busi...
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Married in Name Only
Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, w...
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The Ace of Spades
15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral su...
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The Measure of a Man
Overcoming his addiction to drink, John Fairmeadow leaves the Bowery for a western logging camp posi...
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Bullets and Brown Eyes
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies,...
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Red Clay
John Nisheto, a Native American, saves Senator's son Jack Burr during World War I. Upon returning to...
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Hi, Beautiful
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film i...
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Flash Gordon
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth....
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Big Timber
Walter Sandry, holder of a mortgage on timber lands in the Pacific Northwest, arrives to claim his p...
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Tall in the Saddle
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been...
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Jungle Mystery
In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their sear...
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Beasts of Paradise
Philip Grant attempts to reclaim five million dollars in gold stolen from his fathers' steamer by a ...
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The Blue Bandanna
Jerry Jerome, a rich young Wall Street broker, follows doctor's orders and goes West to relieve stra...
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Twin Beds
A young husband just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zan...
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The Criminal
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs ...
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An Honest Man
When Benny Boggs, a good-natured hobo, is rejected by the U.S. Army, he decides to overcome his aver...
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