Robert Ellis
| Known For | Writing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.273 |
| Birthday | 1892-06-25 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Robert Ellis du Reel, |
1932
American Madness
6.898/49
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank r...
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American Madness
1933
Police Call
10/1
A professional fighter decides to quit the sport and go to college, but he finds out that his sister has gotten mixed up with gangsters.
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Police Call
1925
Forbidden Cargo
9/1
A vivacious young woman known only as Captain Joe captains a rum-runner operating between the Bahamas and the United States. Jerry Burke, a Secret Ser...
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Forbidden Cargo
1925
Lady Robinhood
9/1
Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolut...
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Lady Robinhood
1917
The Lifted Veil
1/2
Overcome with guilt after having an affair with her best friends husband, Clorinda hopes to escape her past by moving to Europe, where she meets Malco...
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The Lifted Veil
1922
The Infidel
8/1
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her m...
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The Infidel
1931
The Last Parade
9/1
During the war two friends love the same nurse. After the war one becomes a detective, the other a racketeer.
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The Last Parade
1930
The Squealer
8/2
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husban...
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The Squealer
1916
The Lurking Peril
7/1
Directed by Robert Ellis.
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The Lurking Peril
1931
The Deadline
10/1
On parole from prison for a murder he did not commit, and not allowed to carry a gun, Buck sets out to find the real killer. His clue is a corner torn...
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The Deadline
1932
A Man's Land
7.5/2
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their c...
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A Man's Land
1922
Wild Honey
10/1
Lady Vivienne is implicated in a murder as a result of refusing the romantic suit of Henry Porthen. Years later, in South Africa, she encounters the m...
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Wild Honey
1923
The Flame of Life
9/1
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' l...
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The Flame of Life
1923
The Wanters
8/1
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; Elliot finds her, proposes marriage, and returns ho...
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The Wanters
1932
The Phantom Express
5/8
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
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The Phantom Express
1916
The Menace
10/1
Episode of Grant, Police Reporter
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The Menace
1929
Broadway
5.688/16
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
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Broadway
1932
Officer Thirteen
6.6/5
A motorcycle policeman's partner is deliberately run off the road and killed by a member of a syndicate that controls the gambling--and much of the ju...
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Officer Thirteen
1932
The Penal Code
6.667/3
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.
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The Penal Code
1916
The Trail's End
0/0
Through his mirror vocograph The Wolf learns that Marguerite is carrying the codebook with her to a reception at the home of Col. West. The Wolf and h...
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The Trail's End
1915
The Cabaret Singer
7/1
The Denton's marital happiness brings home to Randall the loneliness of his own existence. Shortly afterwards, the young man meets Pearl Eltinge, a ca...
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The Cabaret Singer
1918
Brown of Harvard
0/0
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th...
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Brown of Harvard
1934
A Girl of the Limberlost
3/3
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she...
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A Girl of the Limberlost
1931
The Good Bad Girl
6.5/4
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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The Good Bad Girl
1932
Women Won't Tell
7/2
A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actu...
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Women Won't Tell
1933
The Constant Woman
5/6
When a wife and mother abandons her family for the footlights of Broadway, then dies in a tragic accident, revealing long-held secrets, the husband tu...
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The Constant Woman
1928
Varsity
7/1
The story deals with college life at Princeton with a different angle of situations and romance than is usually served from the screen (Tampa Times, N...
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Varsity
1932
Slightly Married
6.333/6
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up...
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Slightly Married
1933
The Important Witness
7.5/2
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she...
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The Important Witness
1931
Caught Cheating
7/1
Joe Cabrone vows to kill Sam after believing him to be having an affair with his wife.
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Caught Cheating
1930
Undertow
6.5/2
Johnny Mack Brown stars as Paul, who wants nothing more out of life than to take charge of a lighthouse. Falling in love with Sally (Mary Nolan), Pa...
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Undertow
1924
A Cafe in Cairo
0/0
When her British parents are killed when an Arabian desert bandit launches an attack on their encampment, their young daughter is spared and brought u...
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A Cafe in Cairo
1934
I've Got Your Number
6.75/8
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
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I've Got Your Number
1931
Murder at Midnight
5.692/13
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologis...
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Murder at Midnight
1933
Notorious But Nice
6.667/3
A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag gamble...
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Notorious But Nice
1920
The Daughter Pays
7/1
For revenge, wealthy Osbert Gault marries Virginia Mynors, the daughter of a woman who had jilted him years earlier. Unaware of Gault's motives, Virgi...
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The Daughter Pays
1934
Dancing Man
6.5/2
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result.
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Dancing Man
1929
Night Parade
5.167/6
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensna...
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Night Parade
1924
Lovers' Lane
10/1
Silent film comedy drama...
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Lovers' Lane
1928
Restless Youth
8/1
Innocent co-ed Dixie is unjustly expelled for unladylike activities by college chairman John Neil, (who also happens to be the local District Attorney...
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Restless Youth
1924
Silk Stocking Sal
8/1
Silk Stocking Sal is discovered burgling a palatial townhouse by its owner, Bob Cooper. Intrigued with her poise and daring, he offers to find her an...
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Silk Stocking Sal
1934
A Very Honorable Guy
6/2
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to se...
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A Very Honorable Guy
1934
Friends of Mr. Sweeney
6.75/4
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten dow...
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
1933
The Thrill Hunter
6.5/4
A blowhard cowboy talks himself into a job as a movie stunt man.
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The Thrill Hunter
1913
A Modern Jekyll and Hyde
8/1
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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A Modern Jekyll and Hyde
1923
Dark Secrets
9/1
Ruth Rutherford, crippled as a result of being thrown from a horse, breaks her engagement to Lord Wallington. Dejected, he returns to his regiment in...
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Dark Secrets
1915
The Secret Room
0/0
A scientist tries to transfer the personality of a man into his mentally retarded son.
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The Secret Room
1925
The Northern Code
8/1
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him,...
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The Northern Code
1931
Aloha
8/1
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir...
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Aloha
1932
Speed Demon
6/2
A mechanic works for his sweetheart's father, who builds racing boats. He begs for and gets the chance to race a new-design boat, but his rival gets h...
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Speed Demon
1933
Treason
8/2
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle. Jeff Conners is sent to bring her in and when he...
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Treason
1931
One Man Law
6.333/3
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranc...
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One Man Law
1934
Madame Spy
7.5/2
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak...
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Madame Spy
1929
Tonight at Twelve
4/2
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Tonight at Twelve
1933
The Sphinx
5.059/17
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was l...
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The Sphinx
1931
The Fighting Sheriff
10/1
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage ho...
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The Fighting Sheriff
1931
The Devil Plays
4.5/12
A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
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The Devil Plays
1919
Upstairs and Down
7/1
Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at th...
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Upstairs and Down
1921
Ladies Must Live
9/1
Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally p...
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Ladies Must Live
1932
White Eagle
9/1
Gregory is a phony government agent issuing worthless checks. To keep from being exposed he has his men dress as Indians and attack anything bringing...
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White Eagle
1932
Come on Danger!
10/1
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An...
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Come on Danger!
1929
The Love Trap
5.917/12
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family i...
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The Love Trap
1919
The Spite Bride
9/1
Tessa Doyle, an innocent country girl who has come to New York and joined a vaudeville sister act, becomes embroiled in a scheme to earn money at her...
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The Spite Bride
1922
Hurricane's Gal
8/1
Allen Holubar silent seafaring pirate ship adventure thriller
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Hurricane's Gal
1926
Brooding Eyes
10/1
Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estat...
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Brooding Eyes
1924
The Law Forbids
7/1
Paul and Rhoda Remsen, having marital difficulties, separate; and each is awarded custody of their child Peggy for 6 months of the year. Rhoda and Peg...
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The Law Forbids
1926
The Girl from Montmartre
10/1
A Parisian cabaret dancer Emilia finds herself under the scrutiny of aristocratic British military officer Jerome Hautrix, who catches her act while o...
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The Girl from Montmartre
1925
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
9.5/2
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Picture...
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S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
1933
Reform Girl
7/3
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daugh...
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Reform Girl
1928
Freedom of the Press
8/1
When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
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Freedom of the Press
1926
Ladies of Leisure
8/2
Rich, spoiled Marian pressures Eric to marry her. Her brother is in love with her friend Mamie, but a scheming ex-husband tries to blackmail her. Mami...
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Ladies of Leisure
1932
Daring Danger
10/1
A wounded cowboy catches rustlers who use a trick branding iron.
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Daring Danger
1932
Behind Stone Walls
4.692/13
Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jac...
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Behind Stone Walls
1933
Soldiers of the Storm
7/1
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
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Soldiers of the Storm
1932
Call Her Savage
5.833/24
A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.
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Call Her Savage
1928
Cleopatra
8/1
An early retelling of Cleopatra’s story.
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Cleopatra
1928
The Law and the Man
7/1
A silent film from the end of the silent era.
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The Law and the Man
1933
The Curse of a Broken Heart
0/1
Columbia Pictures short.
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The Curse of a Broken Heart
1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
5/7
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.
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Broadway to Cheyenne
1930
What Men Want
3.333/3
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
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What Men Want
1922
Love's Masquerade
7/1
Russell Carrington accepts the blame for a murder charge to protect Rita, the woman he loves, from being accused of killing her husband. He escapes th...
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Love's Masquerade
1926
Devil’s Dice
7/1
A gambler shoots a man in self defense and receives a prison sentence. Upon release, he disguises as a mining engineer and pursues revenge on the judg...
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Devil’s Dice
1919
The Third Kiss
8/1
Missy, the heiress to her uncle's fortune, resolves to make atonement for the innocent lives lost when her uncle's box factory burns down because of h...
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The Third Kiss
1925
The Part-time Wife
7/1
Doris Fuller, noted screen star, marries poor newspaperman Kenneth Scott. His pride is hurt when he is called "Mr. Doris Fuller" and by the disparity...
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The Part-time Wife
1922
The Woman Who Fooled Herself
9/1
Desperate for a job, New York showgirl Eva Lee accepts an offer from Cameron Camden and Eban Burnham to go to South America to dance exotic.
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The Woman Who Fooled Herself
1923
The Wild Party
8/1
Leslie Adams, secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, persuades him to let her write up a society affair. Her efforts result in a libel suit agai...
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The Wild Party
1927
Ragtime
10/1
The romance between a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and a high society girl.
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Ragtime
1932
The Last Man
9/1
The villainous Marsden plans to sink a ship owned by Mr. Wingate to collect the insurance money, while also hoping to win over Wingate's daughter, Mar...
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The Last Man
1919
Peggy Does Her Darndest
10/1
The Honorable Hugh Wentworth, arriving from England with a valuable diamond to millionaire Edward Ensloe. Ensloe's eldest daughter Eleanor has romanti...
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Peggy Does Her Darndest
1919
In for Thirty Days
10/1
Helen Corning, a rich "Yankee" widow's daughter, antagonizes her Southern neighbors when she speeds in her roadster. After she causes Brett Page's sta...
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In for Thirty Days
1926
Whispering Canyon
8/1
Returning from the war to his father's California sawmill, Bob Cameron takes up with Hinky Dink, a cocky Englishman and man of the road. Ignoring a "n...
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Whispering Canyon
1931
Is There Justice?
7/1
Stern district attorney John Raymond sentences innocent June Lawrence to prison along with her guilty husband Dan. After she dies in prison, her broth...
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Is There Justice?
1921
Handcuffs or Kisses
9/1
Orphan Lois Walton is treated unkindly by her aunt, who has her placed in a reformatory. She and the other inmates are badly abused but are afraid to...
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Handcuffs or Kisses
1919
Louisiana
10/1
Louisiana is a mountain girl living in North Carolina. A poor girl, she is sent by her father to work in a resort hotel in order to obtain some cultur...
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Louisiana
1928
Marry the Girl
7/1
A pulsing drama of modern life centering about a young war-widow and her son.
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Marry the Girl
1931
Mounted Fury
7/1
Mounted Fury is a 1931 American drama film directed by Stuart Paton and written by Betty Burbridge.
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