
Birthday:
01-18-1883
Deathday:
12-29-1958 (75 years)
Birthplace:
Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
Edward Peil Sr. was an American stage and screen actor. He appeared in films from 1906 to 1951.
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Broken Blossoms
Act like Evil Eye
event1919 star_border 6.9
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The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
The Killer
Act like Ramon (as Edward Peil)
event1921
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Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
Teeth
Act like Sheriff (as Edward Piel)
event1924 star_border 3
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Tom Mix western film.
Stepping Fast
Act like Sun Yat (as Edward Peil)
event1923
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Mix is Grant Malvern, a rancher who befriends scientist Quentin Durant (Tom S. Guise) after rescuing him from a trio of Chinese crooks. The crooks want to find Durant's Arizona gold mine, and the map to the location is contained in a pair of rings. After the crooks track down Durant and kill him, one of the rings winds up with Durant's daughter, Helen (Adams), and the other falls into Malvern's hands.
Arabia
Act like Ibrahim Bulamar (as Edward Piel)
event1922
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Tom Mix travels from the desert of the American West to the Sahara desert in this picture, which is as much farce as it is Western
Tumbling River
Act like Roan Tibbets
event1927
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Tom heroically saves rancher's daughter Dorothy Dwan from both a raging river and a gang of cattle rustlers led by popular western villain Wallace McDonald.
Code of the Rangers
Act like Ranger Captain (as Ed Pier Sr.)
event1938
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A Texas Ranger is faced with the task of bringing his outlaw brother to justice.
The Local Bad Man
Act like Sheriff Hickory (as Edward Peil)
event1932 star_border 8
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The Murdock's bank is in trouble. So they ship money on the train and rob it to get back the money plus the insurance, Bonner and his two pals recover the money only to be thrown in jail.
The Girl of the Golden West
Act like Townsman in Sheriff's Office
event1938 star_border 4.6
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A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
Whose Wife?
Act like John Herrick (as Edward Peil)
event1917
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Mary marries Claude, a rich playboy, to please her invalid mother who becomes ill before they leave for a South American honeymoon.
The Serpent's Tooth
Act like Jack Stilling
event1917 star_border 1
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Four lifelong friends share one very special summer. They develop an enduring bond despite their distinctly different emerging personalities.
Souls in Pawn
Act like Etienne Jaccard
event1917
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Chief of the German secret service in Paris has been ordered to secure for his government the service of the most clever and beautiful woman obtainable.
The Eyes of the World
Act like James Rutledge Jr.
event1917
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Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
The Man from Sundown
Act like Sheriff Wiley
event1939
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The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leader.
Three Daring Daughters
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1948 star_border 5.7
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Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Act like Coolie Spy (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 5.5
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The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
Gangster's Boy
Act like Editor
event1938
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A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger.
Gunsmoke Ranch
Act like Dam Engineer Rankin
event1937 star_border 3.6
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A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
The Shuttle
Act like Ughtred Anstruthers
event1918
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American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriving at their dilapidated estate, Betty finds that Nigel not only has wasted Rosalie's fortune but has treated his wife and their little son cruelly. Betty jumps into action promptly repairing the estate with her own money and seeking to offer some relief to her sister by introducing her into English society. In the process, she meets Lord Mount Dunstan, a proud but penniless nobleman who lives in the adjacent estate. Strongly attracted to Betty, he nonetheless avoids her so as not to appear a fortune hunter. When an epidemic breaks out among the farmers it leads to life changing consequences for both sisters and the men in their sphere.
You Can't Believe Everything
Act like Jim Wheeler
event1918
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Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries to kiss Patricia , whereupon she leaps from the car and walks home. While Amy, disguised in Patricia 's clothing, accompanies Arthur to a roadhouse, Patricia , walking near the beach, sees her invalid friend, Jim Wheeler, jump into the ocean intending to kill himself. After rescuing him, Patricia persuades Jim to visit a specialist, but when she later is accused of spending the night with Arthur, she refuses to defend herself in order to conceal Jim's attempted suicide.
The Pleasure Buyers
Act like Kildare
event1925 star_border 1
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Joan Wiswell, Ted Workman, and wholesome Helen Ripley are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own, murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas.
Branded
event1950 star_border 5.8
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A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
The Hunted Woman
Act like Charlie
event1925
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Joanne Gray goes North to find out whether her husband is dead or alive and to attempt to obtain the release of her innocent brother from jail. She becomes enamored of a youth who has staked out a gold claim but remains chaste until her husband is found and killed, meeting death in a fight with the youth's partner.
Show Boat
event1936 star_border 6.7
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Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Two Moons
Act like Lang Whistler
event1920
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A fight breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the upstart sheep men, whose fences were seen as a threat to the freedom of the West.
Blue Steel
Act like Malgrove
event1934 star_border 4.8
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When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. Just as he is about to arrest him, the man saves his life. Still suspicious, he joins up with the man and later they learn that Melgrove, the towns leading citizen, is trying to take over the area's ranches by having his gang stop all incoming supply wagons. With the ranchers about to sell to Melgrove, the two newcomers say they will bring in provisions.
Storm Warning
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.6
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A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
Slaves in Bondage
Act like Detective Captain
event1937 star_border 2.6
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Mary Lou manages to escape abduction by a prostitution ring. She tells the Chief of Detectives they were planning to take her to the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Jim Murray and beautician Belle Harris are using her beauty shop to recruit floozies for their road house circuit. Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon, is falling in love with young reporter wanna-be Phillip, but Murray gets jealous and makes life rough for him. Meanwhile Dona begins to figure out the racket, but becomes threatened by Murray's unwanted advances.
The Dragon Painter
Act like Kano Indara
event1919 star_border 6.3
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A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
The Girl from Montmartre
Act like Messenger
event1926
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A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while on furlough during WWI. Convinced that Emilia is of noble birth, Hautrix tracks her down after the war, determined to trace her family tree. In the process, the two mismatched souls fall in love.
Exclusive Story
Act like Newspaperman (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.
Queen o'Diamonds
Act like Crook
event1926
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Chorus girl Jerry Lyon, is persuaded to pose as her look-alike, Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband, LeRoy Phillips, is a diamond thief. The impersonation results in Jerry's becoming innocently involved in a theft ring, and consequently she is suspected of murder. After a series of misadventures, Jerry proves her innocence.
Idol of the Crowds
Act like Det. Sgt. Baker (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4.1
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Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to the game and leads his team into the championship series. Just before the series starts, he is offered a bribe to throw the games but refuses. An attempt is made on his life which results in Bobby, the team's mascot, being injured. Written by Les Adams
Bandits of the Badlands
Act like Malgrove
event1934
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A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Blue Steel', complete with contemporary, pulse pounding music. The re-edit brings 'Blue Steel' down to a 22 minute short version. Melgrove, the town's leading citizen, is intending to deviously buy the worthless town, which actually stands on top of a huge gold mine.
Clearing the Range
Act like Sheriff Jim
event1931 star_border 4.2
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A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.
The Galloping Ghost
Act like Coach of Baxter Team
event1931 star_border 2
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A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate Grange from playing. Grange's buddy Buddy is himself vulnerable to blackmail, since he has broken team rules by marrying. The crooks use all their wiles to keep Grange and Buddy from leading their team to victory.
The Hatchet Man
Act like Bing Foo
event1932 star_border 4.9
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When he's forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man's daughter.
The Mystery Squadron
Act like Andrew Martin
event1933 star_border 6
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Hank Davis, foreman on a huge dam project, enlists the aid of his two flyer friends when a sinister figure known as The Black Ace leads his Mystery Squadron of masked pilots in an attempt to destroy the dam.
Isobel or the Trail's End
Act like Scottie Dean
event1920 star_border 10
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In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
Desert Command
Act like Ratkin
event1946 star_border 3.8
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Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. Feature version of the movie serial, The Three Musketeers (1934).
The Man Who Came Back
Act like Sam Shu Sin
event1924
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Henry Potter is the irresponsible playboy son of a New York millionaire. Fearing he will disgrace the family name if he stays in New York, the father sends him to San Francisco to work in the family shipyards and, to make a man out of him, he is told he will have to start at the bottom and work his way up. Henry decides this is not a good idea and resents it to the point he will indeed start at the bottom but will work his way down from there, and disgrace the family name in San Francisco.
At Piney Ridge
Act like Mark Brierson
event1916
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When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity.
Manhattan Love Song
Act like Employment Agent
event1934 star_border 5.2
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After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they are unable to pay. They're forced to let their former employees live in their luxury apartment in lieu of paying the money they owe them.
The Texas Rangers
event1951 star_border 5.7
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It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Love on a Bet
Act like Mr. Bligh, at Hutchinson's Meeting
event1936 star_border 7
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An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-country trip with no money.
The Pride of the Yankees
Act like Policeman (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7.4
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The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
Destry Rides Again
Act like Frank Warren
event1932 star_border 3.5
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The story about a man framed for a crime he didn't commit, who returns to wreak havoc following his release from prison.
The Three Musketeers
Act like Ratkin
event1933 star_border 5.6
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Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Fiery Circle; 2. One For All, All For One; 3. The Master Spy; 4. Pirates of the Desert; 5. Rebel Rifles; 6. Death's Marathon; 7. Naked Steel; 8. The Master Strikes; 9. The Fatal Cave; 10. Trapped!; 11. The Measure of a Man; 12.The Value of Comrades.
Come on, Cowboys
Act like Thomas Rigby
event1937 star_border 5.5
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Harris and Rigby own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit and get a confession from one of his men only to lose the case when the man is murdered in jail. The Mesquiteers try again and send Lullaby to try and win some of the fake bills in a card game.
The Pagan God
Act like Wah Kung
event1919
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Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actually a secret United States government operative sent to quell a Chinese rebellion led by Tai Chen.
Unto Those Who Sin
Act like Stokes
event1916
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Nadia, a stenographer, must give her meager earnings to her drunken father. When he shoots his wife's lover, Nadia decides to move in with her flashy girl friend Mabel, who soon introduces her to the fast life.
Heroes of the Alamo
Act like General Sam Houston
event1937 star_border 6
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In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.
The Singing Cowgirl
Act like Tom Harkins
event1938 star_border 5
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Tolen is after the Harkins ranch where his men have found gold. After they kill Harkins, Dorothy and Dick step in and discover that the gold actually washes down from Tolen's own ranch. When Harkins' brother arrives to take over they test Tolen by having the brother offer to swap ranches.
King of the Sierras
Act like Rancher Blake
event1938 star_border 4.3
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An unusual film in that it was composed of new film footage tacked onto an original film produced by M. H. Hoffman Sr. and Jr.,and never released because of the collapse and merger of the Hoffman's Liberty Company into the newly-formed Republic operation in mid-1935, and consequently has two different sets of actors and production crew members.
You Can't Take It with You
Act like Neighbor Helping with Move (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 7.5
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Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Reckless
Act like Man Raising Stage Curtain (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 5.3
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A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Cock o' the Walk
Act like Ortega
event1930 star_border 3.2
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Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
My Favorite Blonde
Act like Policeman
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
Riders of Pasco Basin
Act like Jones (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 2
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Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Act like Jailer (uncredited)
event1936
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A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
Boots
Act like Nicholas Jerome
event1919
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Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot to blow up a government official, she takes it on herself to foil the plot.
As No Man Has Loved
Act like Capt. Kearney
event1925
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Also known as The Man Without a Country
Fury of the Jungle
Act like Molango Villager (uncredited)
event1933
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Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Yellow Fingers
Act like Kwong Li
event1926
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Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden). When Shane rescues English lass Nona Deering (Claire Adams) from white slavers, the jealous Saina begins plotting Nona's demise.
$50,000 Reward
Act like Buck Scofield
event1924 star_border 5
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Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
Peppy Polly
Act like Judge Monroe
event1919
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Polly has herself arrested and committed to a reformatory in order to investigate conditions at the institution, after the committee charged with the investigation whitewashes the facts.
I'll Get Him Yet
Act like Robert Hamilton (as Edward Peil)
event1919
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A young woman is in love, but the man of her affections wants only her and no part of her vast wealth.
The Avenger
Act like Ike Mason
event1931 star_border 5.8
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Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three, Joaquin becomes the notorious Black Shadow.
Framed
Act like Moola
event1927
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Wrongfully court martialed from the French Army Captain Hilaire heads to Brazil. Upon arrival he is hired as a foreman in a Diamond mine eventually falling in love with the boss’s daughter, Diane. Remsen who wants both Hilaire’s job and Diane frames him for stealing from the company while Hilarie is away. Convicted, he is sent to a Devil's Island-like prison camp. Eventually, Remson, too is sent there, where he confesses on his death bed, freeing Hilaire.
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Act like Bill Tolfree
event1926 star_border 5.8
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Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang he enlists the help of the hobo DeLuxe Harry.
Shadow of the Law
Act like Usher
event1930 star_border 6.4
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John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Water Rustlers
Act like Weylan's Lawyer
event1939 star_border 4
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Shirley Martin finds that Weylan has diverted the water from the valley and her cattle are dying. First she and her foreman Bob Lawson go to court. This fails when Weylan's men keep the ranchers from testifying. But Shirley has a second plan to return water to the valley.
Wild Horse
Act like Sheriff
event1931 star_border 6.5
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Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for Skeeter's murder. But unknown to them, an outlaw witnessed the killing
Six Shootin' Sheriff
Act like Andy
event1938 star_border 5.7
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Cowboy star Ken Maynard is Jim "Trigger" Morton, in town undercover while pursuing the man who framed him for robbery. But a well-placed shot tames a band of scofflaws and gains Morton the sheriff's badge. Now, he's riding on both sides of the law. The line is further blurred when old buddy Chuck offers evidence of Morton's innocence in exchange for a blind eye to Chuck's impending postal heist in this classic Western.
I Am Suzanne!
Act like Newspaper Reporter
event1933 star_border 6.2
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A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Dick Tracy's G-Men
Act like Price
event1939 star_border 3.7
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A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
College Holiday
Act like Cop in Park
event1936 star_border 5.2
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College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.
Broadway to Hollywood
Act like Stage Manager
event1933 star_border 4.6
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In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Journal of a Crime
Act like Jailer (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Pirates of the Skies
event1939
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Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang, posing as passengers, that robs airplanes carrying valuable items and money, and parachuting their escape from the scene of the crime.
The Nitwits
Act like Eddie the Detective
event1935 star_border 6.1
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A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
The Outlaw
Act like Swanson (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.4
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Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Act like Turnverein Terror
event1919 star_border 5.3
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Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
Everything’s Rosie
Act like 1st Sheriff
event1931 star_border 4
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A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Act like Judge Webster
event1937 star_border 2
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This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
Let Us Live
Act like Bank Cashier (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.8
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When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.
Dodge City
Act like Mr. Turner (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.9
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In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
The Night Riders
Act like Rancher Harper
event1939 star_border 5.4
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Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
White Fang
Act like Minor Role
event1936 star_border 6
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A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.
Union Pacific
Act like Laborer (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6.5
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One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Girl from Rio
Act like William W. Wilson, Lawyer
event1939 star_border 2.8
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A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Act like Express Agent Frank (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 8
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A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Mutiny in the Big House
Act like Prison Gate Guard
event1939 star_border 4.4
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A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...
Bride of Frankenstein
Act like Villager (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 7.5
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Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experiment business, but when a mad scientist, Dr. Pretorius, kidnaps his wife, Dr. Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new creature.
Men with Steel Faces
Act like Dr. Cooper (archive footage)
event1940 star_border 5
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Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
You're Not So Tough
Act like Carstens
event1940 star_border 4.3
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The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters their minds until Halop is egged on by Grey to show his capabilities. Before long, he and Hall are working on the ranch of Galli, an elderly Italian woman who treats her workers like human beings instead of animals. Galli's son disappeared as an infant, and Halop tries to convince her that he is that long lost son, thus possibly sharing in her wealth. Galli is such a good person that Halop is soon motivated by respect instead of greed, so he devises a plan to help her when truckers and a labor organization band together to keep her crops from making it to market.
The Texas Marshal
Act like Sam Adams
event1941
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Local "patriot's league" leader secretly kills off ranchers, buys up their estates, which are undermined with tin ore; Marshal and singing cowpoke team up to find villain and motive.
Kid Millions
Act like Assistant Bartender
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Love Crazy
Act like Sun Valley Private Investigator (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 7.1
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Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.
Society Fever
Act like Booker
event1935 star_border 6
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A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.
Emma
Act like Man (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.5
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After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Paradise Express
Act like Sheriff (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7
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A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
The Awful Truth
Act like Bailiff (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.2
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Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
The Lincoln Highwayman
Act like Steele
event1919
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Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on their way to a party. While the masked highwayman holds them up at gun point and steals the women's jewels, the banker's daughter Marian (Lois Lee) finds herself strangely attracted to him. When the family finally arrives at the party, they tell the guests their tale. Secret Serviceman Steele takes an interest in their encounter and starts working on the case. Jimmy Clunder (William Russell) arrives late and while talking to Marian a locket falls out of his pocket. Marian recognizes it, but Clunder claims that he found it on the Lincoln Highway. She begins to suspect that he is the Lincoln Highwayman, as does Steele, Clunder's rival for Marian's love.
The Shadow
Act like Inspector Joe Cardona
event1940 star_border 6.5
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The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Legion of the Lawless
Act like Speaker at Meeting (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 5.2
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Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.
I Take This Oath
Act like Police Sergeant Riley
event1940 star_border 4.3
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The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
The Greatest Thing in Life
Act like The German Officer
event1918
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A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he is soon in love with the little shop girl. Leo is homesick for his native France, but lacks the funds to make the passage. Edward, learning of their plight, sends $1,000 with a note saying that the money is payment for a good deed. Leo accepts the money and he and Jeannette embark at once.
The Devil Horse
Act like The Sheriff (as Edward Peil)
event1932 star_border 4
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Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
The Lady from Shanghai
Act like Guard (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 7.3
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A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Captains Courageous
Act like Fisherman (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 7.4
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Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
Trapped in Tia Juana
Act like Capt. Davis
event1932 star_border 4
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An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
The Border Legion
Act like Barfly
event1940 star_border 5.2
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Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
Forbidden Trails
Act like Dealer with Visor
event1941 star_border 5.4
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Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
The Gay Buckaroo
Act like Hi - Clint's Servant (as Edward Peil)
event1931
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Rancher Clint Hale wants to marry Mildred Field, but so does very bad guy gambler Dave Dumont.
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Act like Dave Barlow
event1940 star_border 4
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Escaping from the law once again, Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff ride to the ranch of Jeff's uncle only to find another family living their. They soon learn of Cobb Allen's scheme where he sells a ranch, makes sure the rancher can't pay off his note, kicks him out, and resells the ranch. But Billy has a plan to recover the ranchers' money and he sends Fuzzy to town with a fake map to a gold treasure.
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Act like Clark
event1941 star_border 5
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Tom and Fuzzy investigate a ghost town which, in this case, is supposedly haunted by real ghosts. The town is an outlaw gang's hideout, and they scare folks away to protect their mine.
The Showdown
Act like Man Wearing Visor
event1940 star_border 6
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European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
Deadwood Dick
Act like Sears
event1940 star_border 6
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Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
The Cowboy Star
Act like Clem Baker (as Ed Piel Sr.)
event1936
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Tired of being a cowboy movie star, Yorke quits the movies and buys a ranch so he can be a real cowboy. But just as in his films trouble arrives. This time it's bank robber Sampson and his two cronies.
The Old Wyoming Trail
Act like Edward Peil Sr.
event1937
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In an effort to compete with Republic's popular songfest Westerns, fours music numbers -- including Tumbling Tumbleweeds -- were added to The Old Wyoming Trail, an otherwise average Charles Starrett vehicle. No singer, Starrett left the vocalizing to his sidekick Donald Grayson and the popular Sons of the Pioneers. En route to purchase a herd of cattle, Bob Patterson (Starrett) and his sidekick Sandy (Grayson) get in the way of a scheme to defraud the local ranchers of their possessions.
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Act like Opera House Assistant manager (uncredited)
event1941 star_border 4.7
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Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
A Million to One
Act like Mac
event1936 star_border 3
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The son of a disgraced Olympic decathlete prepares to become a star in his own right. His quest is complicated by a beautiful girl and a bitter rival.
Two Girls on Broadway
Act like Man Saying 'Give Him His Five Bucks' (uncredited)
event1940 star_border 6.8
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Eddie Kerns sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly Mahoney who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly and Pat dance, the producer picks Pat for the show and gives Molly a job selling cigarettes. A wealthy friend of the producer named "Chat" Chatsworth also has his eye on Pat. Pat is teamed with Eddie in the specialty number as Kerns and Mahoney. Pat and Eddie soon realize that they are in love and must tell Molly. Pat balks at hurting Molly and goes out with Chat who already has five ex-wives. Remake of The Broadway Melody (1929).
Red, Hot and Blue
Act like Piano Tuner (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 5.8
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In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob.
Geronimo
Act like John A.J. Cresswell
event1939 star_border 5
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The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Road Gang
Act like Guard in Sleeping Quarters (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 6.5
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A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.
Masked Emotions
Act like Lee Wing
event1929
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Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chinese into the United States. Bramdlet's younger brother Thad is enamored with daughter of the captain of the smuggling ship. A struggle over the smuggling ensues. Masked Emotions is a 1929 American sound adventure crime drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation starring George O'Brien and Nora Lane. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
It Can't Last Forever
Act like Detective
event1937 star_border 5.3
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Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get involved with gangsters when one of Larry's radio-program future-predicting cons gets out of hand.
Shut My Big Mouth
Act like Hotel Proprietor
event1942 star_border 10
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A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Madame Racketeer
Act like Train Passenger
event1932 star_border 4.8
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International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Act like Hardy
event1941 star_border 6
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Billy, Fuzzy, and Jeff are on the run from the law again. This time they travel to a new town where Fuzzy is made Marshal. But Hardy and his outlaw gang control the town and none of the previous Marshals survived for very long.
Tombstone Canyon
Act like Replaced by Bob Burns (credit only)
event1932 star_border 3.5
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A range lawman (Ken Maynard) unmasks a black-cloaked phantom killer (Sheldon Lewis).
Canyon City
Act like Jim Hardy (as Ed Peil Sr.)
event1943
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A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, robberies, and threats to destroy their new power dam in the first days of electrification of the wild west.
One Man's Law
Act like Joel Winters
event1940
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In this old-time Western from director George Sherman, peaceable cowpoke Jack Summers takes the job of sheriff to help his adopted town in its bid to beat out a nearby settlement for a lucrative railroad contract. Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens' men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack's escorts and they rob him. With the Railroad Officials due to arrive, Jack must retrieve the money.
Border Roundup
Act like Sheriff
event1942
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In this " Lone Rider" B-Western series entry, Tom Cameron and his pal Fuzzy Jones are deputy sheriffs helping their friend Sheriff Smoky Moore rid the territory of a nasty claim jumper, Blackie.
Tonto Basin Outlaws
Act like Photographer
event1941
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Number 10 in Monogram's series of 24 "Range Busters" westerns, Crash Corrigan, Dusty King and Alibi Terhune, the Range Busters,enlist in Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, but are mustered out and sent to Wyoming to clean up a cattle-rustling situation that is affecting the Army's meat supply. Arriving in North Butte, Crash's home town, they all get separate jobs. Jane Blanchard, a reporter from the Denver Daily, also arrives in town in search of a story, and is posing as a waitress. They learn that Jeff Miller is behind the huge combine of rustlers, but Miller also learns that they are the Range Busters and are on his trail. He and his henchmen engage the out-numbered Crash and Alibi in a fight, but Dusty stampedes a large herd of Miller's stolen cattle into the midst of the fray.
Texas Justice
Act like Ed Hannigan
event1942
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Tom Cameron and Fuzzy Q. Jones come to the aid of their old friend Smoky, who is having trouble with power hungry cattle rancher Huxley.
Riders of Black Mountain
Act like George Harris
event1940
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Marshal Tim Donovan has been sent to investigate a series of holdups. Posing as a card sharp he soon believes he knows who is tipping off the outlaws. So he sets up a fake shipment knowing that if the stage is robbed the contact person will be identiifed. But the day the stage is due the Sheriff arrests the gang Tim was expecting to do the robbery.
The Kid Rides Again
Act like John Ainsley
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Billy the Kid has been wrongfully arrested for robbing a train. In order to prove his innocence, the Kid breaks out of jail and hits the trail to search for the real robbers. Along the way, he discovers that an outlaw band has been impersonating upstanding ranchers.
Fugitive Valley
Act like Jailer Ed
event1941 star_border 6
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The Range Busters have a plan to get into the outlaw's hideout in Fugitive Valley.
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Act like Mr. Harper - Cattle Rancher (as Ed Piel Sr.)
event1941 star_border 5
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A honest cowboy is falsely accused of the murder of a rancher.
Robin Hood of the Range
Act like Grady (as Ed Peil Sr.)
event1943 star_border 4
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Inasmuch as western star Charles Starrett gained screen fame as the Robin Hood-like "Durango Kid", it stands to reason that Starrett would head the cast of Robin Hood of the Range. The star plays Steve Marlowe, the foster son of railroad manager Henry Marlowe (Kenneth McDonald). When it becomes apparent that the railroad is using underhanded methods to drive local homesteaders off their land, Steve adopts the guise of "The Vulcan", a legendary champion of justice.
The Fighting Heart
Act like Flash Fogarty
event1925 star_border 5
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This film is the story of a small-town boy and girl. The hero, Denny Bolton, thrashes the town bully only to meet him later in the boxing ring in New York City. Ambition has swept him to Broadway, but the search for love brings him back to the Main Street of his home town.
Foreign Agent
Act like Robert Nelson, fifth columnist
event1942 star_border 4
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Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
Valley of Fear
Act like Jamison Forbes (as Edward J. Peil)
event1947
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Johnny Williams (Johnny Mack Brown) returns to his home town of Beaufort, and finds himself when being chased by banker Henry Stevens (Tristram Coffin), Grangers Association head Les Travers (Ed Cassidy as Edward Cassidy) and real estate agent Frank Wilkins (Ted Adams.)
Down Rio Grande Way
Act like Commissioner Adams
event1942
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Slightly more elaborate than most Charles Starrett westerns, Down Rio Grande Way is set in the mid-19th century, when the Republic of Texas was poised to join the Union. Starrett plays Texas Ranger Steve Martin, who is dispatched to a "renegade" Texas country that refuses to become part of the good old USA. He discovers that the crux of the problem is a local tax collector who, with the help of a crooked newspaper editor, is systematically robbing the citizens of their hard-earned cash, all the while fomenting anti-American sentiments.
Sundown on the Prairie
Act like John
event1939
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Tex and Ananias are sent by the government to capture some Santa Fe rustlers. Tex recognizes Hendricks as an outlaw, captures him and learns that Hendricks intends to meet a rustler named Dorgan. Tex goes instead and finds out that Dorgan plans to move rustled cattle through the ranch owned by Graham and his daughter Ruth. Dorgan has Graham Pass set to be dynamited to stop any pursuit.
In Old Cheyenne
Act like Train Conductor
event1941 star_border 4.1
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Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
Jesse James at Bay
Act like U.S. Marshal
event1941 star_border 5
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When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
Red River Valley
Act like Cattle Rancher
event1941 star_border 7.7
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To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
Man from Cheyenne
Act like Rancher
event1942 star_border 7.5
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Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
Sunset Serenade
Act like Party Guest
event1942 star_border 5.5
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Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
Underground Rustlers
Act like Mr. Ward
event1941 star_border 5
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Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt to corner the gold market.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Act like Minor Role (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 5.8
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Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
King of the Arena
Act like Police Chief
event1933
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Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show but when he realizes that Bargoff is involved, Bargoff has fled and taken Mary Hiller as a hostage. The trail leads to Baron Petroff who concocted the deadly chemical and Ken quickly finds himself the Baron's prisoner.
Riders of the West
Act like Investigator Jim Dodge
event1942 star_border 4
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Ma Turner of Red Bluff sends for U.S.Marshal Buck Roberts to investigate a series of wide-spread rustling in the area. Town banker Miller, saloon-owner Duke Mason and the crooked sheriff are in cahoots with rancher John Holt, but they double-cross and kill him. His son Steve witnesses the murder and kills the sheriff. Buck arrives and arrests Steve. Marshal Tim McCall, posing as an outlaw, gains the confidence of the gang and engineers the escape, with Buck's knowledge, of Steve from the jail. Sandy Hopkins, the third Marshal of the trio, poses as a peddler and learns that the gang intends to do away with Buck and rides to the Turner ranch to warn him. Red, a Turner ranch hand but also a member of the gang, overhears Buck telling Ma that Tim is really a U.S. Marshal, and he has Miller and Mason informed. Written by Les Adams
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Act like Freighter Captain [Chs. 7-8]
event1943 star_border 5
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A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Hoppy Serves a Writ
Act like Card Player
event1943 star_border 6.5
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Posing as a cattle buyer, Hoppy crosses over into Oklahoma where the Jordan brother's and their outlaw gang operate outside the law. After receiving an unfriendly reception when he finds them, he, California, and Johnny rustle their cattle and drive across the river into Texas. He hopes they will cross over to retrieve their cattle and then he can arrest them.
Cattle Stampede
Act like Banker
event1943 star_border 5.2
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Billy the Kid and Fuzzy Jones are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are warned in time by Ed Dawson, but Ed is wounded in the getaway. They get a doctor to attend to Ed. The latter tells them there is a range war in progress across the border and that he is looking for men to help make a cattle drive to the rail junction.
King of the Cowboys
Act like Townsman
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
Headline Shooter
Act like Riverport Townsman (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
The Phantom Empire
Act like Cooper (as Edward Piel Sr.)
event1935 star_border 5.5
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When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried beneath his own Radio Ranch. The Muranians have developed technology and weaponry such as television and ray guns. Their rich supply of radium draws unscrupulous speculators from the surface. The peaceful civilization of the Muranians is corrupted by the greed from above, and it becomes Autry's task to prevent all-out war, ideally without disrupting his regular radio show.
Law of the Rio Grande
Act like Second Sheriff
event1931 star_border 5
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Escaping from the Sheriff, Jim and Cookie decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blanco Kid, he tells their new boss they are outlaws and they are in trouble again.
I Stole a Million
Act like Doorman (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
The Secret Code
Act like Policeman
event1942 star_border 5.1
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A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
That Girl Montana
Act like Lee Holly
event1921
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Montana Rivers finally escapes her father who had forced her to wear men's clothing and help in robbing and cheating. She is taken in by friendly Indians and stays at their camp. Later, Akkomi, chief of the tribe, asks his friend Dan Overton to take the girl as it is not good for her to remain in the camp. Dan provides for "Tana" and falls in love with her but, because of her past, she keeps him at a distance. Jim Harris comes by and recognizes Tana as the boy robber, but when he attempts to blacken her past, Dan gives him a beating which paralyzes him. Jim then stays on with Dan, who regrets his hastiness. Eventually Tana's father appears and demands that Tana go away with him. She refuses but also does not tell Dan of this trouble.
Pacific Blackout
Act like Air Raid Warden
event1941 star_border 6.3
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Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.
Dream Street
Act like Swan Way
event1921 star_border 6.6
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Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
The Man from Utah
Act like Spike Barton (as Edward Peil)
event1934 star_border 4.7
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The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo riders who are about to win the prize money. Barton has organized the rodeo and plans to leave with all the prize money put up by the townspeople. When it appears that Weston will beat Barton's rider, he has his men prepare the same fate for him that befell the other riders.
Colorado Trail
Act like Hobbs
event1938
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In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gratitude the rancher hires him to protect his land and cattle from his violent rival. It is revealed that the gunman is the son of the ruthless rival; he therefore, loses his job and finds himself entangled in the midst of a range war. He must eventually face his father when the bad guy takes over the only trail to the market.
The Lone Star Ranger
Act like Kane (as Edward Peil)
event1923
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An outlaw named Duane ( Tom Mix ), captured by the Texas Rangers, is promised a pardon if he rounds up a gang of cattle thieves. The man he suspects as the leader is revealed to be the father of Duane's sweetheart, Helen ( Billie Dove ). Duane captures the gang, gets a pardon for Helen's father, and marries Helen.
Captive Wild Woman
Act like Jake - Handler (uncredited)
event1943 star_border 5.2
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An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Bombardier
Act like Officer
event1943 star_border 5.4
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A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
Three Jumps Ahead
Act like Buck Taggitt (as Edward Piel)
event1923 star_border 5
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John Ford both directed and wrote the story (based on his published work The Hostage), a typical western romance in which Mix falls for the daughter of an imperiled rancher. This above-average Tom Mix western contains one of the star's more spectacular stunts -- a jump on horseback across the 20-foot Beale's Cut. Truth be told, the star, who frequently did his own stunt work, was forced to use a double this time
Night Flight
Act like Airport Office Employee (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.8
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Story of South American mail pilots, and the dangers they face flying at night.
A Sage Brush Hamlet
Act like Claude Dutton
event1919
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Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is why he is known as a sagebrush Hamlet.
The Ragged Earl
Act like Lord Wildbrook (as Edward J. Peil)
event1914
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The Ragged Earl was produced by Popular Plays and Players, a New York-based firm specializing in five-reel theatrical adaptations. Repeating his stage role, Andrew Mack essays the title character, a brawling Irish boy of a few centuries back. While swashbuckling his way through the Auld Sod, the Ragged Earl meets the aristocratic Kathleen Fitzmorris (Ormi Hawley), who is disguised as a boy to escape an arranged marriage with the wealthy but decrepit Lord Wildbrook (Edward Peil Sr.). Entering into the spirit of things, our hero disguises himself as Wildbrook, escorts Kathleen back home, and marries her himself, right under the noses of her unsuspecting parents.
Borrowed Clothes
Act like George Weston
event1918
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A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other plans for her.
Midnight Faces
Act like Suie Chang
event1926 star_border 4.5
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A young man inherits a mansion in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew he had. When he, his assistant and the estate's executor arrive at the house, the audience catches sight of someone crawling in the window, though the house is supposed to be unoccupied. As the house staff begins to arrive they sense a strange presence in the house, and when a young woman no one knows runs into the house to escape a knife-wielding psycho, the occupants realize they may be in danger from both outside and inside the house.
Pretty Baby
Act like Hawkins (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6
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A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Bright Leaf
Act like Train Conductor (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.9
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Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
The Major and the Minor
Act like Stationmaster (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 7
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Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old to travel for half the price. She hides from the conductors in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor, who takes the "child" under his wing.
The Song of Life
Act like Amos Tilden
event1922 star_border 5
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A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the big city and tries to make amends by moving in with him without revealing her secret identity.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1947 star_border 6.2
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Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Two Against the World
Act like Coroner (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Blossoms On Broadway
Act like Conductor (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 4
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A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.
Black Dragons
Act like Ryder
event1942 star_border 4.8
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It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Our Daily Bread
Act like Powerhouse Employee (uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.8
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John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Oh, Susanna
Act like Mineral Springs Sheriff Cole (as Ed Peil Sr.)
event1936 star_border 5.8
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Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.
Fog Over Frisco
Act like Police Sergeant (Uncredited)
event1934 star_border 6.1
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Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.
Alibi for Murder
Act like Peters (Uncredited)
event1936 star_border 5.5
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A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.
Black Paradise
Act like Murdock
event1926 star_border 4
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In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancée, James Callahan, a reformed crook, make their getaway after Jim, disgusted with his inability to find a job, un-reforms and steals a diamond necklace. Graham, a detective, gives chase to a desolate island in the South Pacific where a rum-running gangster, Murdock, holds him captive. Callahan becomes infatuated with a native girl, Leona, and Sylvia turns to Graham for protection against the offensive Murdock. A volcano eruption causes problems for all.
The Stronger Love
Act like Jim Serviss (as Edward Peil)
event1916
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Nell, a beautiful mountain girl, is a member of the Serviss family, rivals of the neighboring Rutherford family. Nell is engaged to Jim Serviss, who is the head of their clan, but when, by accident, she meets a stranger who has come to stay with the Rutherfords, they become infatuated.
Movie Crazy
Act like Waiter (Uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.2
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After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
The Purple Dawn
Act like Wong Chang
event1923
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The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
For Me and My Gal
Act like Jim (uncredited)
event1942 star_border 6.4
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Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
The Big Cage
Act like Glenn Stoner
event1933 star_border 6
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A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
Charlie Chan's Chance
Act like Li Gung
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and New York City police.
The Road to Divorce
Act like Dr. Shaw (as Edward Peil)
event1920
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Newlyweds Mary Bird and Myron Sharpe share an idyllic life in a small New England town until the birth of their children. Myron becomes discontented as Mary's time becomes more devoted to her children than to making herself attractive for her husband. When Mary's old friend Pauline Dallas comes to visit, Myron finds himself attracted to her chic appearance. The two are on the threshold of a love affair when Mary becomes lost in a storm while boating.
Prudence on Broadway
Act like Mr. Wentworth
event1919
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Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
The Valiants of Virginia
Act like Edward Sassoon
event1916
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When his opponent is killed after a duel over the honor of Virginia belle Judith Fairfax John Valiant flees North. Before taking flight John entrusts a note of explanation for Judith to Major Bristow. Bristow, however, has designs on the belle and withholds the missive. As the years pass John founds a successful business, loses his wife in childbirth and Judith marries Tom Dandridge and has a daughter, Shirley. Many years later, John Jr., now head of the Valiant Corporation, returns to his father’s estate during a financial crisis and falls in love with Shirley Dandridge. To rekindle her romance with John, Katherine tells Shirley of the family feud and Shirley suddenly cools toward John. On his deathbed, Barstow finally gives Judith John's letter in which John reveals that Edward had shot himself during the duel. John and Shirley are happily reconciled.
Million Dollar Baby
Act like Louie
event1934
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A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple".
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Act like Jen Yu
event1935 star_border 4.2
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Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Fort Worth
Act like Citizen (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6.7
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Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Colt .45
Act like Townsman (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 5.8
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Gun salesman Steve Farrell gets two of his new Colt .45 pistols stolen from him by ruthless killer Jason Brett but vows to recover them.
Yankee Fakir
Act like Frank
event1947 star_border 5
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A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.
Yours for the Asking
Act like Waiter (uncredited)
event1936 star_border 1
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Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow Lucille onto the straight-and-narrow path, which would not be good for business. So they hire Gert Malloy and Dictionary McKinney, a pair of con-artists, to manipulate Johnny back off the path of righteousness.
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