
Birthday:
01-31-1889
Deathday:
11-07-1959 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
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Let It Rain
Act like Crook (as James Mason)
event1927
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Let-It-Rain Riley (MacLean) is a devil-may-care Marine sergeant who falls in love with a girl (Shirley Mason) who he assumes to be rich. His rival for the girl's affection is his pal, Kelly (Wade Boteler). The guys find out that the object of their affections is but a modest switchboard operator but she proves to be invaluable when she deciphers a code and discovers that a mail train is about to be robbed.
The Penalty
Act like Frisco Pete (as James Mason)
event1920 star_border 6.8
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Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
The Squaw Man
Act like Grouchy (as James Mason)
event1918 star_border 5.8
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Framed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film. It is considered to be a lost film with only one reel still extant.
The Story of Temple Drake
Act like Van
event1933 star_border 6.5
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The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
Mile-a-Minute Romeo
Act like Morgan (as James Mason)
event1923
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Three men, Lucky Bill ( Tom Mix ), Landry ( J. Gordon Russell ), and Morgan ( Jim Mason ) are in love with the same girl, pretty Molly ( Betty Jewel ). Lucky Bill finally wins her with his skillful horsemanship and dogged determination.
Why Worry?
Act like Jim Blake
event1923 star_border 6.5
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A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.
For Heaven's Sake
Act like The Gangster
event1926 star_border 6.9
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An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
Fighting Shadows
Act like Horn - Randall's Partner (as James Mason)
event1935 star_border 6
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Mountie Tim O'Hara is sent to Indian River to investigate a fur trading racket. But he quickly finds himself in trouble when he is accused of shooting a prisoner in the back and is then put in jail by a fellow Mountie.
The Girl of the Golden West
Act like Townsman in Saloon
event1938 star_border 4.6
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A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
The Flaming Forties
Act like 'Jay-Bird' Charley
event1924
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A young cowhand befriends a disreputable gambler and pulls him out of some trouble. Hoping to square things with his new friend, the gambler seeks to warn him about the cowhand's fiancée, about whom the gambler knows some unsavory details.
The Big Killing
Act like First Beagle Son (as James Mason)
event1928
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The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
Rugged Water
Act like Wally Oakes
event1925
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After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment goes instead to Bartlett, a religious fanatic who has been the recipient of a good deal of favorable newspaper publicity. Calvin hands in his resignation.
A Race for Life
Act like Bruce Morgan
event1928
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Rinty becomes the best pal of juvenile "human" hero Danny O'Shea. Their devotion to one another is proven beyond doubt when Danny is threatened by kidnappers.
Us
Act like Margaret's Pilot
event1927 star_border 0.5
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Short comedy about airplanes.
The Silent Call
Act like Luther Nash
event1921
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A wolfdog is wrongly accused of sheep killing. Based on the novel by Hal G. Evarts.
The Footlight Ranger
Act like Al Brownley
event1923
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Cowboy Bill sells his prize dogs to pay Janet's way back to New York and, in love with the girl, follows her to Manhattan where he obtains a job as a construction worker.
The Dude Ranger
Act like 'Hawk' Stevens (as James Mason)
event1934 star_border 5.7
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An Easterner Inherits a cattle ranch, only to discover that thousands of cattle have been stolen. He secretly signs on as a hired hand at his own ranch to discover who's stealing them.
Whispering Smith
Act like Du Sang
event1926
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Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransacking wrecks. Sinclair along with his henchmen, retire to his ranch and forays against the railroad. "Whispering Smith," engaged by the railroad to restore order, is hesitant in dealing with Sinclair when he falls in love with Marion, Sinclair's wife, who is separated from her husband and operates a small shop in Medicine Bend. Dicksie, McCloud's sweetheart, overhears Sinclair threaten McCloud, and she rides through a storm to warn him; Smith, with the aid of Bill Dancing, tracks down Sinclair and his men, and Bill kills the villain. Dicksie and McCloud marry and take Marion under their protection.
The Old Homestead
Act like Lem Holbrook
event1922
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Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
Along the Sundown Trail
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1942
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Three lawmen hunt down thieves who are robbing a tungsten mine.
The Mysterious Rider
Act like Jack Bellounds
event1921
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Hell Bent Wade is the victim of an attack in which is wife is killed and daughter kidnapped. A couple of decades later, he is a sheriff known only as the "mysterious rider," because of his nighttime prowls in search of cattle rustlers.
Across to Singapore
Act like Finch
event1928 star_border 6.8
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While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.
The Concentratin' Kid
Act like Art Campbell
event1930
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A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.
Love on a Bet
Act like Hobo Trading Clothes
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.
Man in the Saddle
event1951 star_border 6.5
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A small rancher is being harassed by his mighty and powerful neighbor. When the neighbor even hires gunmen to intimidate him he has to defend himself and his property by means of violence.
Dancing Sweeties
Act like Tommy Evans (uncredited)
event1930 star_border 5.5
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Bill is a hot shot dancer who partners with Jazzbo, until he sees Molly at the dance. He enters the Waltz with Molly and wins first prize - and they wind up being married that same night. Now they are free of their parents nagging and their own bosses. 24 hours - no dancing as in-laws are visiting. 24 days - the Apartment is finished so off to the Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace. Molly can only dance the Waltz and not the hot new jazz dance so she leaves and Bill follows. They are both unhappy, Bill has two left feet when it comes to romance.
The Phantom City
Act like Joe Bridges
event1928 star_border 5
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A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
Where Trails Divide
Act like Henchman Red
event1937
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Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.
The Phantom Rider
Act like Dirk
event1936
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The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
Dead Man's Curve
Act like Derne
event1928
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A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
The Good Bad-Man
Act like Bandit
event1916 star_border 6.3
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An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
The Renegade Ranger
Act like Hank
event1938 star_border 5.2
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Two Texas Rangers have their worlds rocked by a wrongfully accused female bandit.
Shooting Straight
Act like Spot Willis
event1930 star_border 6
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A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
Flame of the Desert
Act like Desert Sheik
event1919
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An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates things by falling in love with the sheik, unaware of his true identity.
Drum Taps
Act like Henchman Stubby Lane
event1933 star_border 4.5
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Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the Sheriff is on Ken's side, and with the help of his brother Earl's Boy Scout troup they go after the gang.
The Unknown Cavalier
Act like Henry Suggs
event1926
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Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community.....
Texas Gun Fighter
Act like Henchman Drag
event1932 star_border 5
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Bill Dane and Banty quit Kell's outlaw gang. When Dane prevents Kell and his men from getting a bullion shipment, he is made Sheriff. Learning Dane is Sheriff, Kell and gang return, force Dane to give them the bullion, and make Dane a prisoner. Escaping, Dane trails the gang and engages them in a gunfight while his horse Tarzan goes for help.
The Painted Desert
Act like Shotgun Rider for Bill's Wagon
event1931 star_border 5.1
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Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Jubilo
Act like Bert Rooker
event1919 star_border 5.4
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Jubilo, a hobo, witnesses a robbery, finds work on Judge Hardy’s farm, and foils the vengeful machinations of a sinister villain.
Beggar on Horseback
Act like Homer Cady (as James Mason)
event1925 star_border 6
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Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. Can he compose himself and find the courage to seek love over comfort?
The Last of the Duanes
Act like Jim Morgan
event1930 star_border 3
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Buck Duane avenges his father's murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of the outlaw Bland. In rescuing Ruth, he becomes entangled with Bland's amorous wife.
The Shrimp
Act like Jim the Bully
event1930
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A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.
A Modern Musketeer
Act like Bandit (uncredited)
event1917 star_border 5.2
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A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out across the West in search of excitement and adventure.
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Act like Guerd Larey
event1924
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Wanderer of the Wasteland is a 1924 American color silent Western film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Jack Holt, Noah Beery, and Billie Dove.
Scarlet River
Act like Dummy
event1933 star_border 4.5
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Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
Young Dr. Kildare
Act like Lodger Going for Ambulance (uncredited)
event1938 star_border 6.5
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A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.
Sutter's Gold
Act like Miner
event1936
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Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Music Is Magic
Act like Audience Spectator (uncredited)
event1935 star_border 4
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An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
Hop-a-long Cassidy
Act like Hall
event1935 star_border 6
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An evil ranch foreman tries to provoke a range war by playing two cattlemen against each other while helping a gang to rustle the cattle. Each cattleman blames the other for missing cattle. With the help of Bill Cassidy (Hop-along, because of an earlier bullet wound) and Johnny Nelson, the warring cattlemen join forces to do in the outlaws.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Act like Cavalier (uncredited)
event1950 star_border 6.8
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France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results.
Stagecoach
Act like Tonto Express Agent Jim (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.6
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A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.
Let Freedom Ring
Act like Barfly (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 6
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A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
The Oklahoma Kid
Act like Man in Hotel (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 5.9
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McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up, he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.
The Return of the Cisco Kid
Act like Juror
event1939 star_border 5
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In Arizona a young woman who's being manipulated by an evil businessman is helped by the Cisco Kid who happens to be there on holiday.
Young Mr. Lincoln
Act like Juror (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 7.2
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In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Tower of London
Act like Beggar
event1939 star_border 6
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In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Frontier Marshal
Act like Townsman
event1939 star_border 6.1
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Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Border Law
Act like Shag Smith (as James Mason)
event1931 star_border 5.7
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When Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting.
Laughing Boy
Act like Cowboy
event1934 star_border 3.6
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A young Navajo defies tribal custom to marry an outcast.
Headin' for the Rio Grande
Act like Red Dugan
event1936
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Western - Singing cowboy Tex Saunders (Tex Ritter) finds himself in a heap of trouble when he agrees to investigate local gangsters at the behest of a lovely lady (Eleanor Stewart). As payment for his pains, he's framed by a saloon owner (Warner Richmond) for killing bad guy Red Dugan (James Mason) and forced to sweat it out in jail. Will his faithful sidekick, Chilo (Syd Saylor), show up to save his skin … or will Tex have a date with the gallows? - Tex Ritter, Warner Richmond, Eleanor Stewart
Bar 20 Rides Again
Act like Henchman
event1935 star_border 6
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Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.
The Cisco Kid and the Lady
Act like Barfly
event1939 star_border 4.9
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An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Act like Man Shot by Cliff (uncredited)
event1939 star_border 8
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A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
Lucky Cisco Kid
Act like Barfly
event1940 star_border 5.6
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Cisco and Gordito arrive to find there is an outlaw operating in the area who is assumed to be the Cisco Kid. When a reward is offered for his capture and a large shipment of money goes out, Cisco is on hand. Seeing the gang rob the stage he goes after them only to be wounded. The gang leader leaves Cisco's handkerchief at the scene and now he is wanted for the murder he tried to break up.
Viva Cisco Kid
Act like Henchman Lem
event1940 star_border 5.5
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Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
Midnight Court
Act like Police Detective
event1937 star_border 4.8
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After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Call of the Prairie
Act like Hoskins
event1936 star_border 5
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Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into Linda. He takes a liking to her only to learn her father Shanghai is one of Porter's gang. Going after Shanghai, he gets captured by the gang and Porter now plans to kill him. But Hoppy is near by and Johnny will get unexpected help from Shanghai.
Missing Witnesses
Act like Convict (uncredited)
event1937 star_border 5.5
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A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
Hills of Old Wyoming
Act like Deputy Henchman
event1937
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An evil deputy is using Indian half-breeds to rustle cattle. This causes trouble between the cattlemen and Indians. Hoppy, Windy and Lucky see that justice is served. Songs abound.
Something to Think About
Act like Country Masher
event1920 star_border 6.5
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Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Alias the Lone Wolf
Act like Popinot (as James Mason)
event1927
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Michael Lanyard, aka the Lone Wolf, is sailing to America when he meets pretty Eve de Montalais. Eve wants to sneak her valuable necklace through U.S. customs so that she can use the money from its sale to help straighten out her brother. The only problem is that there is a gang of jewel thieves on board who are just as determined to steal the necklace.
Renegades of the West
Act like Blackie
event1932 star_border 5.5
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A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
20 Mule Team
Act like Third Barfly Counting Bill's Money
event1940 star_border 6
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It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will save the company is a new deposit of high grade Borax, and Skinner Bill Bragg has a pouch of it that he got from a dead prospector he buried on the road. Stag Roper knows the value of the strike could be worth millions, but he needs Bragg to find the prospector's claim so they can record it and become rich partners. While Roper has no intention of cutting Bragg in on the millions, he also has his eye on young Jean Johnson. Josie Johnson, Jean's mother, sees Roper as the scalawag he is, and that means trouble in Furnace Flat.
Caught
Act like Scully
event1931 star_border 6
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Calamity Jane is a tough and rowdy woman in the old West who owns a saloon and gambling joint (and runs a cattle rustling operation as a sideline). One day she hires a pretty but naive young woman to work as a saloon girl, and finds that the girl is bringing out the maternal instincts she never knew she had. Those instincts are put to the test when a US army cavalry troop arrives to clean up the town and the girl and the young lieutenant in charge of the troop fall in love, and Calamity Jane may know something about the lieutenant that the girl doesn't.
Li'l Abner
Act like Townsman
event1940 star_border 5.9
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Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
To the Last Man
Act like Colby Man Joe (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 5.9
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In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Nevada and when Colby gets out of prison he heads there also seeking revenge. The head of the Hayden family tries to avoid more killing but the inevitable showdown has to occur, complicated by Lynn Hayden and Ellen Colby's plans to marry.
In Old Monterey
Act like Henchman
event1939 star_border 5.3
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The U.S. Army takes over a large area of land, over the objection of citizens and corporations who live and work there.
Life Begins at Forty
Act like Townsman in Print Shop
event1935
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A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.
Captain Fury
Act like Settler Relaying Signal
event1939 star_border 4.8
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An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
The Tabasco Kid
Act like Sheriff
event1932
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A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Act like Townsman
event1942 star_border 4.7
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The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Overland Mail
Act like Man in Cafe
event1942
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Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Act like Barfly
event1941 star_border 5
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When Sheriff Hanley sends for Billy and his pals, they arrive to find him murdered and Ed Slade temporary Sheriff.
Billy the Kid Trapped
Act like Barfly
event1942 star_border 5
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Stanton breaks Billy and his two friends Fuzzy and Jeff out of jail. He wants them free so three of his men can impersonate them for the robberies and murders he has planned.
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
Act like Barfly
event1942 star_border 4
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A singing cowboy and his sidekick rescue miners from a bad deal.
The Kid Rides Again
Act like Gus
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.
Godless Men
Act like 'Red' Pawl
event1920 star_border 1
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On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
What Price Hollywood?
Act like Attorney Roberts (uncredited)
event1932 star_border 6.7
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Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Old Clothes
Act like Dapper Dan (as James Mason)
event1925 star_border 3
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Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered.
Captain Blood
Act like Pirate
event1935 star_border 7.2
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Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
One Sunday Afternoon
Act like Dink's Chum (uncredited)
event1933 star_border 6.3
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Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Headin' South
Act like His Aide (as James Mason)
event1918
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A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
The Fast Mail
Act like Lee Martin (as James Mason)
event1922
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The Fast Mail (1922)
Chicago After Midnight
Act like Hardy (as James Mason)
event1928
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Gangster Jim Boyd serves a 15-year prison term when Hardy, a rival crook, doublecrosses him. On his release from prison, Boyd seeks out Hardy in Chicago, where he runs a cafe and bootleg operation. He makes the acquaintance of Mona Gale, a dancer in Hardy's cafe who is engaged to marry Jack Waring, the orchestra leader. Unaware that Mona is his daughter, Boyd shoots Hardy in a brawl and leaves behind evidence implicating Waring as the murderer. After Hardy's death, Mona joins Boyd's gang to gather evidence proving her fiancé's innocence. The gang members discover that Mona has dealings with the police, and they begin to torture her. Having learned of Mona's relationship to him at the last minute, Boyd arrives at the gang's hideout in time to save her. He confesses to killing Hardy before he dies from a wound inflicted by one of his own gang, thus freeing Waring to marry Mona.
The Heritage of the Desert
Act like Snap Naab
event1924
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The year is 1876 and Holderness "tyrant of the desert" is trying to force August Naab to sell his property. Naab's feisty daughter, Mescal has been pushed into a loveless marriage, and as she is trying to escape, she is captured by Holderness' men.
The Long, Long Trail
Act like Mike Wilson
event1929 star_border 4
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Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
The King of Kings
Act like Gestas - the Unrepentant Thief (as James Mason)
event1927 star_border 6.5
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The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Welcome Danger
Act like Barry Steele / Dick the Dude (uncredited)
event1929 star_border 5.1
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A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.
Scandal
Act like Mr. Green
event1915
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The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Act like Barfly (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.
Scars of Jealousy
Act like Zeke Jacques
event1923
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Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
Bred in Old Kentucky
event1926
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Katie O'Doone is left a worthless, run-down estate and a thoroughbred race horse. She mortgages the property in order to get the money needed to enter her horse in the Derby. Dennis Reilly, a wealthy sportsman, also has a horse in the race and his jockey accidentally runs Reilly's horse into Kate's horse, causing her horse to lose. She swears vengeance on O'Reilly. She is forced to go to work for a crooked bookie, Jake Trumbull, and a crooked competitor of Reilly's,Tod Cuyler, who plan on switching a dead-ringer horse for Reilly's favored-to-win horse, and clean up betting against Reilly's horse.
Two Weeks with Pay
Act like Montague Fox
event1921
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Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises clothing made by her company. The hotel clerk mistakes her for movie actress Marie La Tour, and gossip spreads that she is staying incognito.
The Red Lane
Act like Dave Roi (as James Mason)
event1920
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After returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that her father, the leader of a band of smugglers, desires she marry Dave Roi, one of the members of the band.
All Faces West
Act like Tony/Kit Carson
event1929
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Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
Fly My Kite
Act like Dan
event1931 star_border 7
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A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.
Les Misérables
Act like Galley Prisoner
event1935 star_border 7.2
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In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Mills of the Gods
event1934
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Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Laughing at Trouble
Act like Seth Williams - Townsman in Mob
event1936 star_border 6
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A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.
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