Helen Gibson

Helen Gibson

Birthday: 1892-08-27

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Biography: Helen Gibson (born Rose August Wegner) was an American film actress, vaudeville performer, radio performer, film producer, trick rider, and rodeo performer; and is considered to be the first American professional stunt woman.

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Hollywood Story
Hollywood Story

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns...

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The Lightning Warrior
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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Loot
Loot

Wade Hildreth is sent to New York from London to receive a diamond necklace for Lady Gwendolyn from ...

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The Broken Trestle
The Broken Trestle

The Broken Trestle is a silent action Western....

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One Chance in a Hundred
One Chance in a Hundred

Billy Warren, timekeeper on the construction job, arouses the enmity of Brent and Easton when he res...

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The Mysterious Cipher
The Mysterious Cipher

Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defraudi...

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The Treasure Train
The Treasure Train

"Red" Byrd and his aides succeed in learning that a large treasure is being shipped on a certain fre...

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The Capture of Red Stanley
The Capture of Red Stanley

Red Stanley's band has successfully robbed the express car and the members are making good their esc...

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The Chinatown Mystery
The Chinatown Mystery

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for th...

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Thorobred
Thorobred

Helen Martin takes her father's place when he is too ill to carry out his duties as Sheriff, and fol...

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The Wrong Man
The Wrong Man

A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits....

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The Trapping of 'Peeler' White
The Trapping of 'Peeler' White

Dick Benton is making a game attempt to start life all over again, after escaping from prison where ...

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The Record Run
The Record Run

The story is built around the rivalry of two railroads, and the record run that is to decide the awa...

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The Bridge of Danger
The Bridge of Danger

The new superintendent's first order on taking the post eliminates the men whom he terms old, which ...

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The Human Telegram
The Human Telegram

To prevent a three mile journey around the mountain the telegraph wires at the construction camp hav...

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The Race for a Siding
The Race for a Siding

Through an accomplice the band of conspirators preying on railroads succeed in having the boxcar loa...

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The Detective's Peril
The Detective's Peril

Hanging from a rope over the track, the detective seems certain to plunge to death when the oncoming...

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Danger Ahead
Danger Ahead

Tom Covington, a freight train conductor, who tries to get his rival Ralph Lasher into trouble by pu...

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A Mile a Minute
A Mile a Minute

Hume and Frintz, while riding in a boxcar, see a trunk in the unguarded baggage car of a passenger t...

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The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children
The Rescue of the Brakeman's Children

Discharged for drinking, Coleman attempts to get even by releasing the brakes on an empty boxcar, to...

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The Girl and the Special
The Girl and the Special

Disguised as baggage man, Burgess and Whelan board the train to which is coupled the special carryin...

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Danger Ahead!
Danger Ahead!

Sterling and Ella steal a jewelry salesman's sample bag and make their getaway by boarding a passeng...

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The Tramp Telegrapher
The Tramp Telegrapher

Beaten by Dun and Corson, Trent is hurled unconscious to the tracks. Helen, who witnesses the attack...

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The Girl on the Bridge
The Girl on the Bridge

Communicating with his pals outside, Daly informs them as to the date upon which he is to be taken f...

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The Dynamite Train
The Dynamite Train

The shifting of the dynamite contained in a boxcar causes the latter to be cut from the freight and ...

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Crossed Wires
Crossed Wires

Crossed telephone wires enable Helen to overhear a plot between Joe and Bill, escaped convicts, to j...

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A Boy at the Throttle
A Boy at the Throttle

Climbing into a cab of a freight engine, Bobbie Layson, the son of a station pulls the throttle open...

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The Broken Brake
The Broken Brake

This short action drama is a compilation of at least two films with Helen Gibson....

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Winning the Franchise
Winning the Franchise

Helen's father is the President of a railroad company competing for a very lucrative government cont...

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The Switchman's Story
The Switchman's Story

Number 68 in the Hazards of Helen series....

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The Haunted Station
The Haunted Station

A fall from a semaphore weakens Wood's mind and when he later disappears circumstances point to suic...

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The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve
The Girl Telegrapher's Nerve

Steve Nelson, a clever crook, arrives at the little station where Helen is operator. He lives quietl...

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The Broken Wire
The Broken Wire

When the Limited is forced to stop because of an obstruction on the tracks, the passengers alight fo...

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The Perilous Swing
The Perilous Swing

Helen is enjoying a ride on her horse, "Hazard," after her day's work, when news comes that "Red" Pu...

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The Peril of the Rails
The Peril of the Rails

Apparent carelessness causes Conductor Lawton and his train crew to be laid off for thirty days. A g...

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When Seconds Count
When Seconds Count

#61 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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At the Risk of Her Life
At the Risk of Her Life

Tony, a half-breed Mexican is kicked from pillar to post, but he grasps a chance for revenge on soci...

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Tapped Wires
Tapped Wires

After binding Helen to prevent her from stopping the express train to have it await an armed guard, ...

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A Race for a Life
A Race for a Life

A college boy's prank imperils the life of the railroad president's son who has worked his way up to...

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To Save the Road
To Save the Road

The vote stands a tie on the railroad bill that will mean ruin to the Western line should it pass th...

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The Broken Brake
The Broken Brake

In a scuffle between the assistant foreman and a discharged employee at the mountain construction ca...

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In Death's Pathway
In Death's Pathway

Burkett, superintendent of the Western Railway, opposes his daughter's friendship for Dick Benton, o...

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A Plunge from the Sky
A Plunge from the Sky

Agents of a foreign power are seeking to get possession of the plans of a new aeroplane motor invent...

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The Girl Who Dared
The Girl Who Dared

The smugglers seem in a fair way to escape on a stolen engine when Helen, unhitching a team from a n...

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The Trail of Danger
The Trail of Danger

Following the wreck of the pay-car, it is rifled by a band of conspirators. All but one of the band ...

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A Mystery of the Rails
A Mystery of the Rails

Jud Hendricks, foreman of the construction camp, is being blackmailed by Gypsy Joe, who knows of a d...

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The Spiked Switch
The Spiked Switch

Trent returns to the throttle too soon after his recovery from illness. On the following day Ruth, h...

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A Race Through the Air
A Race Through the Air

The 84th film in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Engineer's Honor
The Engineer's Honor

Circumstances make Helen think that Jack, the engineer and son of the road's auditor, is guilty of t...

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Hurled Through the Drawbridge
Hurled Through the Drawbridge

Learning that the driver of the Comet car has been disabled on the eve of the big race, Sinton, a ga...

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The Secret of the Box Car
The Secret of the Box Car

Escaping after an early morning bank robbery, Gentleman Joe and his pal succeed in boarding a freigh...

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With the Aid of the Wrecker
With the Aid of the Wrecker

Greggs, returning from abroad with a large consignment of precious stones, thwarts the first attempt...

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Ablaze on the Rails
Ablaze on the Rails

Helen, by a courageous leap from a motorcycle, reaches the burning boxcar in which the detectives ar...

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At Danger's Call
At Danger's Call

Helen, discharged by the superintendent without justification, comes to the rescue when a flat car, ...

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Defying Death
Defying Death

Dick Benton, a young attorney of the railroad, is on his way to the Capitol to deliver evidence invo...

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The Hoodoo of Division B
The Hoodoo of Division B

The new superintendent scoffs at the men's fear of Engine 3615, and declares that it must be put int...

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The Death Swing
The Death Swing

Stallings' plot to spoil the demonstration of Dick Benton's newly invented safety stop for trains se...

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The Blocked Track
The Blocked Track

On a visit to the State Prison with Superintendent Melvin of the construction camp near Lone Point. ...

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The Death Siding
The Death Siding

Helen, the telegraph operator at the Lone Point Station, shields Miguel, a greaser, under suspicion ...

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The Sidetracked Sleeper
The Sidetracked Sleeper

Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point,...

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The Prima Donna's Special
The Prima Donna's Special

Helen, station agent and telegraph operator at Lone Point, is in despair over a broken sounder when ...

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To Save the Special
To Save the Special

Film 101 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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A Daring Chance
A Daring Chance

Film 102 in the Hazards of Helen series....

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The Lost Messenger
The Lost Messenger

Film 103 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Gate of Death
The Gate of Death

Film 104 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Lone Point Mystery
The Lone Point Mystery

Film 105 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Forgotten Train Order
The Forgotten Train Order

107th film in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Trial Run
The Trial Run

Film 108 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Runaway Sleeper
The Runaway Sleeper

Film 106 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Lineman's Peril
The Lineman's Peril

Film #109 in the Hazards of Helen series...

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The Midnight Express
The Midnight Express

Film #110 in the Hazards of Helen series....

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A Race with Death
A Race with Death

Film #112 in the Hazards of Helen series....

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The Vanishing Box Car
The Vanishing Box Car

Film 111 of the Hazards of Helen film series...

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The Mogul Mountain Mystery
The Mogul Mountain Mystery

Bert Morgan and "Squint" Booth are freight agents for rival railroads concerned in getting the contr...

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The Fireman's Nemesis
The Fireman's Nemesis

Joe, the Wop, employed in the roundhouse near Lone Point is notified that he has been promoted and w...

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The Drunkard
The Drunkard

An unscrupulous lawyer uses alcohol to swindle an innocent family....

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The Way of the West
The Way of the West

Government agent Gordon, working undercover, is investigating a cattleman sheepman war. The Culprit ...

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The Vanishing West
The Vanishing West

A boy's father is an unjustly accused fugitive, and the boy's scheming uncle plots to become the you...

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The Wrecked Station
The Wrecked Station

Helen, the telegraph operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram for Sydney Wayne, superintendent of...

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The Silver Lining
The Silver Lining

A women in prison tale. One's rich, one's poor. Can they prosper after prison?...

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Heroes of the Wild
Heroes of the Wild

The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of ...

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Nine Points of the Law
Nine Points of the Law

Bruce McLeod returns from the goldfields to find that his wife has left home with another man, takin...

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The Railroad Claim Intrigue
The Railroad Claim Intrigue

Barstow, a crook, conceives the idea of buying old automobiles, staging "accidents" with them, and s...

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The Midnight Flyer
The Midnight Flyer

One of two former convicts is the brother of a girl station agent. The second ex-convict tries to bl...

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Play Straight or Fight
Play Straight or Fight

Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who ha...

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The Black Horse Bandit
The Black Horse Bandit

Helen's father, the sheriff, is murdered and she successfully undertakes the task of bringing his mu...

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The Branded Man
The Branded Man

A group of law-abiding cowboys work together to drive cattle rustlers off their range....

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Ace High
Ace High

Ace High is a silent Western short....

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Custer's Last Stand
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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Danger Valley
Danger Valley

When Temple's miners strike gold they send Jake to file the claim. Dana is in the Recorder's office ...

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Fighting Caballero
Fighting Caballero

Desperados menace a mining operation....

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Gun Play
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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The Open Track
The Open Track

"The Open Track" is a short action film from the action series of short films "The Hazards of Helen"...

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Law and Lawless
Law and Lawless

Montana and sidekick Pancho hire on at the Lopez rancho to fight Daggett and his outlaw gang. But Lo...

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The Ghost of the Canyon
The Ghost of the Canyon

Two railroad companies compete for a very lucrative contract. Helen's father is the first in command...

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The Wrong Train Order
The Wrong Train Order

In this episode everything goes wrong. Helen ends up on the rear observation deck of a runaway expre...

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The Governor's Special
The Governor's Special

The film is directed by James Davis from a story by Edward T. Matlack. In this episode Helen Gibson ...

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Payroll Pirates
Payroll Pirates

A thrilling dramatic story of a woman's invincible courage....

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The Luck of Roaring Camp
The Luck of Roaring Camp

When the miners of Roaring Camp become Godfathers to a motherless baby, they name the boy Luck and p...

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Saga of Death Valley
Saga of Death Valley

When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy a...

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Cyclone of the Saddle
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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The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail

Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Orego...

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Stagecoach
Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo...

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Southward Ho!
Southward Ho!

Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the...

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New Frontier
New Frontier

The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which...

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The Marshal Of Mesa City
The Marshal Of Mesa City

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption....

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Bride of Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The...

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a sma...

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Young Bill Hickok
Young Bill Hickok

Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi...

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Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed....

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City That Never Sleeps
City That Never Sleeps

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his st...

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Cowboys from Texas
Cowboys from Texas

Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman...

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The Treasure of Lost Canyon
The Treasure of Lost Canyon

Young David, orphaned en route to California, falls into the hands of medicine-show rascal Baltimore...

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The Rustlers
The Rustlers

Disguised as a peaceful sheepman, Clayburn is actually a government ranger sent to Point Rock to fin...

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Gun Law
Gun Law

Secret Serviceman Allen takes a job at Bart Stevens' mine in order to find evidence proving that Ste...

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Sheriff of Tombstone
Sheriff of Tombstone

The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the ...

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King of the Arena
King of the Arena

Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent...

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Cheyenne Cowboy
Cheyenne Cowboy

Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's r...

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Fighting Mad
Fighting Mad

Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife...

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The Climax
The Climax

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

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The Hazards of Helen
The Hazards of Helen

The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes...

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Horizons West
Horizons West

Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling a...

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The Man from the Alamo
The Man from the Alamo

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to hel...

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The Horse Soldiers
The Horse Soldiers

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center....

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