Charles K. French
Birthday: 1860-01-16
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Charles K. French (born Charles Ekrauss French; January 17, 1860 – August 2, 1952) was an American film actor, screenwriter and director who appeared in more than 240 movies between 1909 and 1945.
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Beyond
Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death t...
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The Meddlin' Stranger
Popular B-Western hero Wally Wales (later known as Hal Taliaferro) went up against none other than B...
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The Midnight Patrol
Officer Terence Shannon is the head man of the Los Angeles Flying Squadron. In this capacity, Shanno...
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The Marriage Ring
Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brut...
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Green Eyes
Southerner Pearson Hunter (Jack Holt) marries Shirley, a Northerner (Dorothy Dalton), and brings her...
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Hands Up!
Jack, a southern spy during the Civil War, must try to capture a shipment of gold. His task is compl...
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The Rainmaker
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned...
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Oh, You Tony!
This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better conditions...
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Mile-a-Minute Romeo
Three men, Lucky Bill ( Tom Mix ), Landry ( J. Gordon Russell ), and Morgan ( Jim Mason ) are in lov...
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The Daredevil
When Timothy Atkinson arrives in a rough Western town to become the telegraph operator, the locals p...
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The Speed Maniac
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But...
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo...
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The Terror
Bat "No Limit" Carson, U.S. deputy marshal has to battle all types of varmints, including crooked da...
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Desert Love
Murderous bandits shoot up a town and kill the sheriff. But before he dies, the lawman leaves behind...
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The Road Demon
Tom Mix trades horses for cars. Tom Higgins meets Patricia O'Malley whose father is a car manufactur...
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The Untamed
A cowpuncher by the name of Whistling Dan is adopted by a rancher, Joe Cumberland (James O. Barrows)...
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The Night Horsemen
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Da...
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The Flaming Frontier
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to lea...
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War of the Range
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range u...
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Custer's Last Fight
Custer's Last Fight chronicles George Armstrong Custer's final battle against the forces of Sitting ...
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Love or Justice
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal wor...
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West of Chicago
West of Chicago is a 1922 American silent western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Buck...
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Let 'er Buck
A young cowboy falls in love with the daughter of a rich rancher, and they plan to marry. However, t...
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The Last Trail
The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and ...
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The Perfect Crime
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all....
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Being Respectable
Wealthy young Charles Carpenter is pressured by his family to marry Suzanne, even though he is reall...
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The Adventurous Soul
The owner of a shipping line arranges to have his waster son shanghaied on one of his vessels comman...
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Her Own Money
After five years of marriage, Mildred comes to the realization that her husband, Lew, is going nowhe...
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The Sheriff's Son
Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. Bu...
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Square Shooter
Chick Crandall, half owner of the Flying A Ranch, returns home after a five-year absence and, becaus...
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Good as Gold
Buck Brady is the son of a prospector whose valuable claim was stolen when Buck was a child. Brady g...
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The Throwback
When Buck is young his cattle stealing father is killed. Now grown Buck returns home still carrying ...
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Hell's Hole
Cowboy Tod Musgrave and his pal Del Hawkins steal a ride on a train after being kicked out of a salo...
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Under Western Skies
Bob Erskine, the son of a wealthy New York banker, falls in love with Ella Parkhurst, the daughter o...
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The Secret of Lost River
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom ...
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Hearts and Swords
Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mot...
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The Iron Strain
The story is set in Alaska, where spoiled and pampered heiress Octavia Van Ness has come for her hea...
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The Weaker Sex
Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, ...
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The Vamp
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus gi...
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What Every Woman Wants
Poor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a r...
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The Girl of Gold
Lucius Merrimore is the wealthy owner of a mine called "the Gold Girl," and as a result his daughter...
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The Live Wire
A sailor (Richard Talmadge) journeys to a remote island in search of a rare urn. The film also stars...
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The Texas Trail
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their pro...
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Men with Steel Faces
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of...
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The Sawdust Trail
Clarence, an eastern college youth masquerading as a mild, inoffensive dandy, joins a Wild West show...
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Riding for Fame
A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his bo...
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Big Boy Rides Again
A man comes to town to claim the estate of his father, who was shot by a masked killer. He sets out ...
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Blinky
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed...
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The Ramblin' Kid
The Ramblin' Kid, a cowboy, falls in love with Carolyn June, a beautiful easterner, and wins her aft...
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The Bear Cat
The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty ve...
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The Son of His Father
A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of f...
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No Man's Range
Summoned by Ed Oliver, Jim Hale and sidekick Fuzz arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in pr...
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A Lady of Chance
A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama....
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Man, Woman and Sin
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his moth...
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Last of the Warrens
Ted Warren returns from WWI to find that everyone thinks he was dead. The culprit is Kent who interc...
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Via Pony Express
The Government has approved Betty Castelar's Spanish land grant and notification is sent via pony ex...
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The Brand of Hate
Trouble starts when Bill Larkins and his two sons move in with his brother Joe. They start rustling ...
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Where Trails Divide
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after W...
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Gun Play
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a tre...
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Rio Grande Ranger
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction ...
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The Kaiser's Shadow
French scientists are developing a secret weapon, a gun that uses the mysterious powers of X-ray and...
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Western Courage
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is w...
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Alias French Gertie
A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a noc...
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One Chance in a Million
Secret Service agent Jerry Blaine is hot on the trail of a gang of jewel thieves, Jerry briefly pose...
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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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Shell 43
William Berner is an English spy who is doing his job behind German lines. While working for the all...
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Jubilo
Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machin...
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A Woman of the Sea
Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to...
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The Cord of Life
Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic,...
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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 Texan
Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the old fa...
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Wings of Adventure
Dave Kent, a commercial aviator, and his mechanic, Skeets Smith, are forced to make an emergency lan...
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Prairie Trails
Tex Benton (cowboy star Tom Mix) wants to marry Janet McWhorter (Kathleen O'Connor), but her father ...
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Mixed Faces
Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets ...
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Wealthy young man Ramon Laredo is abducted and put into service aboard a ship commanded by a none-to...
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The Saddle Hawk
Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beauti...
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The President Vanishes
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American pol...
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quic...
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in pri...
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His Own Home Town
Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manag...
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Murder by Television
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent an...
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The Hired Man
Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to colle...
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Abysmal Brute
A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great stren...
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The Coward
Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-wi...
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The Man from Hell
A cowboy recently released from prison is determined to go straight, but he winds up in a tough west...
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Everything’s Rosie
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ro...
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The Big Squeal
Andy Wilson (Andy Clyde), a millionaire pig farmer from Kansas, comes to Chicago (unless New York ha...
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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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Slightly Honorable
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name....
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Tracy Rides
Sheriff Tom Tracy is summoned to the sheep camp where he finds Old Man Jenkins fatally wounded and,...
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The Heart of an Indian
When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replac...
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Six Feet Four
A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young ...
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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 Prisoner of Zenda
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...
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Strange Glory
During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involve...
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On the Night Stage
A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts ...
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The Torrent
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard a...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and ...
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War Paint
An Indian chief of the Arapahoe escapes the reservation where he has been living and takes along som...
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The Shadow
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible a...
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Civilization
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenge...
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The Hater of Men
Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her...
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The Vagabond Prince
Prince Tonio of Bothalia, a mythical kingdom in the Balkan Mountains, escapes an arranged marriage t...
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The Disciple
Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier ...
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Chickens Come Home
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo....
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Overland Bound
Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, whi...
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Exit Smiling
The travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company and its wardrobe lady / maid who dreams of st...
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The Typhoon
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl...
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Caught
Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and r...
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The Clodhopper
Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the...
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Gentle Julia
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia b...
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Wolf of New York
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a pol...
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The Lonely Road
Betty Austin gives up her dream of going to the city and marries Warren Wade, but she sadly finds hi...
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The Bargain
After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight fro...
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The Honor of the Press
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the o...
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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home ...
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The Crimson Trail
A ranch owner mistakenly believes that a neighboring rancher is involved with cattle thieves....
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Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady....
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend....
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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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State Street Sadie
Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank ro...
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The Aryan
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rag...
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The Despoiler
Movie mogul Thomas H. Ince may well have been the director of The Despoiler as indicated by the cred...
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Little Annie Rooney
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city...
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The Phantom Empire
When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns ...
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Fast Work
Charley Chase is obsessed with a woman, however his attempt to meet her father is complicated by an ...
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Saturday's Millions
Jim Fowler is Western University's football hero and is constantly besieged by reporters. Jim's fath...
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The Last Warning
A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the a...
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Cross Fire
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight i...
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The Bugler of Algiers
Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village ...
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The Big Hop
Jones plays Buck Bronson, a ranch hand taking to the air as a barnstorming pilot....
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Stronger Than Death
Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again....
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The Cruise of the Hellion
Ranch hand Jack Harlan comes to the aid of his girlfriend’s father when his ranch is threatened by a...
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The Tiger Man
Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of ...
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Frenzied Flames
Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is op...
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King of the Rodeo
A Montana cowboy battles lowlifes while preparing for a competition in Chicago....
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Marked Woman
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangste...
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Dangerous Waters
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an a...
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The Patriot
Family relationships of a New Mexico family are just one part of this silent cowboy western about a...
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Hands Off!
Tex Robert rescues beautiful Ramona Wadley from the gang-leader of cattle rustlers. Later, he saves...
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Fast and Furious
When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an ac...
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The Flyin' Buckaroo
Bill Mathews mistakenly comes to believe that his sweetheart, Sally Brown, prefers the company of hi...
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The Runaway Express
Joe Foley, charged to deliver a trainload of cattle to his employer, is forced to commandeer the eng...
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What Would You Do
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells ...
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The Deserter
Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his ...
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The Red Kimona
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive....
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The Unfoldment
Katherine Nevin and her brother Jack are given positions on the newspaper of James Osborne following...
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Wee Lady Betty
Wee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Rog...
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Make Mine Memories
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-e...
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The Devil Bear
A ship's captain keeps a tame gorilla as a pet. During a mutiny the captain is injured by a blow and...
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An Even Break
Claire Curtis, Jimmie Strong and Mary have spent their childhood together in the country. Upon reach...
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The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America...
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Pals of the Prairie
Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery....
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Trail of Terror
Manning breaks out of prison and joins Blake's gang of outlaws. Later a paroled Muggs arrives to rej...
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Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store o...
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce...
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The Woman He Loved
Russian Jews Nathan & Esther Levinsky, along with son, David, escape to the U.S. Nathan’s life as a ...
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Come Again Smith
Joe Smith Jr., the son of a millionaire, is challenged by his father to earn his own living instead ...
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This Hero Stuff
War hero Captain November Jones tries to sneak into his hometown of Gold City, Nevada undetected but...
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The Medicine Man
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help....
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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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The Spark Eternal
Don McFadden, an East Side gunman and member of the Gopher gang, of which Schwartz is the leader, is...
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The Honorable Algy
Algy, a British youth of ideals, is sent to America for an arranged marriage with a wealthy heiress....
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If You Believe It, It's So
The story of a crook who achieves regeneration through association rather than reformation through f...
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Too Much Youth
Jimmy Kenton, a young wastrel with an addiction to jazz, falls in love with Marguerite Crandall when...
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The Yosemite Trail
Cousins Jim and Ned Thorpe are best friends, but that comes to an end when they both vie for the aff...
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White Shoulders
Mrs. Pitman seeks a wealthy husband for her daughter, Virginia. The first prospect, Colonel Singleto...
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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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A Corner in Colleens
When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. H...
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Speed Mad
Bill Sanford (William Fairbanks), a daredevil race-car driver, is abducted by his main competitor Al...
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