John Davidson
John Davidson (25 December 1886 – 16 January 1968) was an American film actor. He appeared in 148 films between 1915 and 1963.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9825 |
| Birthday | 1886-12-25 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | J.W. Davidson, Jack Davidson, |
1921
Fool's Paradise
6.75/4
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explo...
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Fool's Paradise
1929
The Time, the Place and the Girl
10/1
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a...
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The Time, the Place and the Girl
1932
Arsène Lupin
6.905/21
A charming and very daring thief known as Arsene Lupin is terrorizing the wealthy of Paris. He even goes so far as to threaten the Mona Lisa. But the...
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Arsène Lupin
1935
Charlie Chan in Egypt
6.864/33
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed in...
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Charlie Chan in Egypt
1921
No Woman Knows
9/1
In Winnebago, Wisconsin, a Jewish family comprising Molly and Ferdinand Brandeis and their two children, Fanny and Theodore, run a modest dry goods st...
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No Woman Knows
1918
The Spurs of Sybil
0/0
Heiress Sybil Drew is told by her Aunt Annabelle she must earn her own living for a year or be disinherited. Setting out for New York she finds many a...
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The Spurs of Sybil
1916
Romeo and Juliet
0/0
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fa...
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Romeo and Juliet
1917
The Wild Girl
10/1
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. Th...
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The Wild Girl
1944
Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
6.618/17
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
1963
A Gathering of Eagles
5.865/26
A B-52 commander must prepare his men to pass a grueling inspection.
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A Gathering of Eagles
1944
Wilson
5.577/26
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...
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Wilson
1949
You're My Everything
4.833/6
In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and...
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You're My Everything
1915
The Secret of Lost River
0/0
Pierre Vignol, an artist wintering in Arizona, is bitten by a snake. He is taken by his friend, Tom Hornby, to Padre Francisco, who prescribes for the...
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The Secret of Lost River
1915
Hearts and Swords
7/1
Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mother being the widow of a Rebel general. He is purs...
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Hearts and Swords
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.632/19
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is tran...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1921
The Bronze Bell
10/1
In the 1850s, a young prince in India promises his dying father he will lead a revolt against the English colonial masters of India. However, since he...
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The Bronze Bell
1949
Slattery's Hurricane
5.227/11
A pilot wants a life of ease, flying for drug smugglers and looking the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a woman he has misused. The story...
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Slattery's Hurricane
1916
The Brand of Cowardice
0/0
Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by rescuing a Cavalry colonel's daughter Marcia West f...
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The Brand of Cowardice
1948
The Luck of the Irish
6.135/26
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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The Luck of the Irish
1945
The Purple Monster Strikes
4.625/4
A Martian invader crashes his spaceship conveniently close to the workshop of a scientist who is developing an interplanetary craft. If the extraterr...
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The Purple Monster Strikes
1934
The Scarlet Empress
6.908/142
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Gran...
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The Scarlet Empress
1932
Docks of San Francisco
5.25/4
Barbary Coast, San Francisco. The gangster moll Belle gets deeply entangled with gangsters led by her boyfriend Vance. The professional writer John Ba...
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Docks of San Francisco
1937
Jungle Menace
7/2
Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.
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Jungle Menace
1929
The Rescue
7.5/2
The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a s...
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The Rescue
1952
We're Not Married!
5.907/27
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally m...
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We're Not Married!
1922
Saturday Night
5.9/5
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class diff...
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Saturday Night
1916
The Wall Between
0/0
John Kendall was brought up in a wealthy family, but when his father loses the family fortune and then dies, John is left penniless. He joins the army...
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The Wall Between
1920
The Great Lover
8/1
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the...
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The Great Lover
1919
The Stronger Vow
8/1
During the Easter Carnival, Dolores de Cordova flirts with Juan Estudillo, not knowing that he is a member of the family with whom her ancestors have...
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The Stronger Vow
1919
Through the Toils
7.5/2
Author Noel Graham goes to the little village of Mondon, where his ancestors lived, for solitude to write. While searching for a lost puppy, Noel meet...
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Through the Toils
1934
Hollywood Mystery
5.75/2
A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the le...
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Hollywood Mystery
1937
Live, Love and Learn
5.625/8
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...
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Live, Love and Learn
1933
The Devil's in Love
6/5
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. When military doctor Andre Morand is wrongfully convicted of a murder, he e...
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The Devil's in Love
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
5.655/29
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1948
One Touch of Venus
6.662/37
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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One Touch of Venus
1936
Mummy's Boys
5/8
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...
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Mummy's Boys
1929
The Thirteenth Chair
5.467/15
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium....
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The Thirteenth Chair
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6.786/14
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1939
Miracles for Sale
6.471/17
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
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Miracles for Sale
1935
The Call of the Savage
6/2
Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.
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The Call of the Savage
1930
The Life of the Party
6.583/6
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
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The Life of the Party
1940
King of the Royal Mounted
7.5/2
The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns tha...
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King of the Royal Mounted
1951
The Sword of Monte Cristo
4.571/7
In 1858 France, Emperor Louis Napoleon sends Captain Renault of the Royal Dragoons, Minister La Roche and Major Nicolet to Normandy in search of the m...
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The Sword of Monte Cristo
1959
A Stranger in My Arms
4.2/5
An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
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A Stranger in My Arms
1940
The Great Dictator
8.281/3680
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
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The Great Dictator
1929
Skin Deep
3.333/3
Skin Deep is a 1929 American talking drama film directed by Ray Enright and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Brother...
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Skin Deep
1944
Call of the Jungle
6.167/3
A beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, Tana, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing sacred jewels.
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Call of the Jungle
1932
6 Hours to Live
4.778/9
The victim of a political assassination is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must...
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6 Hours to Live
1938
The Fighting Devil Dogs
7.333/3
Two marine lieutenants battle a masked would-be world conqueror who uses electricity as a weapon.
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The Fighting Devil Dogs
1940
Saps at Sea
6.814/86
Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. His doctor prescribes a restful sea voyage. Mayhem...
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Saps at Sea
1940
The Devil Bat
5.3/87
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He deci...
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The Devil Bat
1940
Turnabout
6.036/14
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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Turnabout
1941
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
6.75/4
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
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Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
1949
A Letter to Three Wives
7.195/172
A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify...
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A Letter to Three Wives
1938
Storm Over Bengal
6/7
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...
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Storm Over Bengal
1934
Bombay Mail
7.5/2
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and Bombay.
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Bombay Mail
1956
Around the World in 80 Days
6.656/572
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in 80 Days
1934
Hold That Girl
9/1
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses a...
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Hold That Girl
1934
The Moonstone
4.571/7
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the...
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The Moonstone
1929
Queen of the Night Clubs
8/1
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
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Queen of the Night Clubs
1929
Kid Gloves
10/1
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injur...
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Kid Gloves
1934
Murder in Trinidad
0/0
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spa...
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Murder in Trinidad
1932
Grand Hotel
6.991/345
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Grand Hotel
1941
Singapore Woman
7.167/6
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Singapore Woman
1956
Savage Fury
7/1
Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.
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Savage Fury
1924
Ramshackle House
7/1
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit. Riever is holdin...
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Ramshackle House
1923
His Children's Children
8/1
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil...
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His Children's Children
1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
5.76/25
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1922
Under Two Flags
8/2
On the run from punishment for a crime committed by his brother, Bertie Cecil (alias Lewis Victor) joins the French Foreign Legion. In Algeria, he bec...
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Under Two Flags
1945
Circumstantial Evidence
5.167/9
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
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Circumstantial Evidence
1933
Perils of Pauline
6.5/4
A famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil...
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Perils of Pauline
1915
The Green Cloak
0/0
Future Pulitzer Prize winner Owen Davis was one of the scenarists for this Kleine-Edison production. ene Fenwick stars as Ruth McAllister, one of two...
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The Green Cloak
1915
The Sentimental Lady
0/0
When he wasn't churning out "Curses, foiled again!" melodramas, playwright Owen Davis Sr. specialized in such social dramas as The Sentimental Lady. I...
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The Sentimental Lady
1921
Cheated Love
10/1
Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affectio...
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Cheated Love
1949
Dancing in the Dark
6/3
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...
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Dancing in the Dark
1939
Duel Personalities
7.5/2
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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Duel Personalities
1946
Shock
5.962/65
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a nex...
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Shock
1933
Dinner at Eight
6.764/125
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...
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Dinner at Eight
1935
A Shot in the Dark
6/4
An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.
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A Shot in the Dark
1917
The Power of Decision
9/1
Artist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much distress of course!
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The Power of Decision
1944
Captain America
5.386/35
Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of...
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Captain America
1917
The Awakening
0/0
Abandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally heading to Paris to fulfill his dream of being an artis...
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The Awakening
1951
People Will Talk
7.141/96
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.
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People Will Talk
1924
Monsieur Beaucaire
5.563/8
The Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
1955
All That Heaven Allows
7.344/333
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, pro...
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All That Heaven Allows
1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
5.292/12
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...
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Stand Up and Cheer!
1915
The Wonderful Adventure
1/1
Wealthy New York contractor Wilton Demarest falls victim to the wiles of beautiful adventuress Mazora. Soon, he becomes addicted to drugs, neglects hi...
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The Wonderful Adventure
1918
The Grouch
9/1
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The Grouch
1919
Forest Rivals
10/1
Julie Lamont is the only white woman in the French-Canadian woods where she lives with her Uncle Henri, a trader who smuggles whiskey to the Indians....
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Forest Rivals
The Tiger's Cub
10/1
Queen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maiden named Tiger's Cub.
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The Tiger's Cub
1915
The Danger Signal
0/0
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The Danger Signal
1917
The Beautiful Lie
5/2
Believed to be a lost film. A woman's reputation is sullied, and then recovers. Based on the poem "Reveries of a Station House" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox...
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The Beautiful Lie
1932
Jewel Robbery
6.511/46
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
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Jewel Robbery
1915
The Ruse
0/0
"Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked...
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The Ruse
1943
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
7/3
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
1917
Shame
9/1
John Grey enlists when the Spanish-American War begins, not knowing that his sweetheart Mary is pregnant and then perishes before they can legalize th...
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Shame
1918
The Winning of Beatrice
0/0
John Maddox, Sr., who directs the Equity Trust Company with James Buckley, sends Henry Jenkins to steal a note of security from Buckley's safe, and in...
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The Winning of Beatrice
1919
The Black Circle
0/0
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The Black Circle
1935
Death from a Distance
5.2/5
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detecti...
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Death from a Distance
1922
The Woman Who Walked Alone
8/1
When Iris Champneys’ marriage to the Earl of Lemister ends in divorce she moves to Africa to operate a tavern. Seven years later she becomes reacquain...
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The Woman Who Walked Alone
1916
Man and His Soul
0/0
Man and His Soul is a 1916 American silent melodrama film directed by John W. Noble.
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Man and His Soul
1916
A Million a Minute
0/0
Philip and Miles Quaintance quarrel over the love of Ellen Sheridan; Miles is rejected, while Philip is successful. Philip dies soon after his son is...
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A Million a Minute
1948
The Iron Curtain
5.974/27
The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to t...
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