Russell Simpson
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Russell McCaskill Simpson (June 17, 1880, Danville, California – December 12, 1959, Woodland Hills, California) was an American character actor who appeared in over 500 movies. He is best known for his "grizzled old man" appearances. Gaunt, lanky, and rustic-sounding, Simpson was a familiar character actor for almost forty-five years, particularly as a member of the John Ford Stock Company.
At age 18 Simpson prospected for gold in Alaska. He began taking acting classes in Seattle, Washington. In 1910 he married Gertrude Alter from New York City.
By 1909, he had gone into the theatre. He appeared in at least two plays on Broadway between 1909 and 1912, and made his motion picture debut in Cecil B. DeMille's 1914 original film version of The Virginian in a bit part. By 1923, when the film was remade, Simpson had progressed to playing the lead villain.
Throughout his career, Simpson worked for 12 years in road shows, stock companies, and on Broadway. He didn't usually perform lead roles, but he did star in many movies throughout the silent movie era. He performed a lead role as the grandfather in Out of the Dust (1920).
Simpson is best known for his work in the films of John Ford and, in particular, for his portrayal of Pa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His final film was The Horse Soldiers, his tenth film for Ford. Simpson worked up to 1959, the year of his death.
He was the president of the Overseas Phonograph Accessories Corporation.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4194 |
| Birthday | 1880-06-16 |
| Place of Birth | Danville, California, USA |
| Also Known As | Russell McCaskill Simpson, Russel Simpson, |
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
7.811/1095
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...
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The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Santa Fe Trail
5.81/63
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assign...
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Santa Fe Trail
1946
My Darling Clementine
7.45/478
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They deci...
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My Darling Clementine
1957
The Tin Star
7.028/142
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.
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The Tin Star
1926
The Earth Woman
8/1
The story is set in the hills of Tennessee, where practically everybody gets smashed on rotgut moonshine. A drink-benumbed hillbilly tries to rape her...
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The Earth Woman
1921
Bunty Pulls the Strings
8/1
A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a...
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
1934
Carolina
6.667/3
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joa...
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Carolina
1919
Desert Gold
9/1
In this adaptation of Zane Grey's novel, adventurer Dick Gale (E.K. Lincoln) is traveling through the Southwest. He helps rescue Mercedes Castanada (M...
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Desert Gold
1927
Now We're in the Air
7.5/3
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps an...
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Now We're in the Air
1950
Wagon Master
6.686/156
Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, a...
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Wagon Master
1948
Coroner Creek
6.2/30
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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Coroner Creek
1938
The Girl of the Golden West
5.3/5
A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.
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The Girl of the Golden West
1918
The Border Legion
0/0
Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the L...
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The Border Legion
1935
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
4.333/6
Right after the Civil War, an ex-Union soldier sets out to become a schoolmaster in his small town, even though many locals still harbor a resentment...
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The Hoosier Schoolmaster
1932
Hello Trouble
7/2
After killing a friend in a gunfight, Jeff Douglas quits the Texas Rangers. He arrives at the Kenyon ranch just as Jonathan Kenyon apparently commits...
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Hello Trouble
1943
Border Patrol
6.25/4
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by...
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Border Patrol
1945
Along Came Jones
5.8/36
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman...
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Along Came Jones
1932
Silver Dollar
6.2/5
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
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Silver Dollar
1948
Joan of Arc
6.134/86
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
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Joan of Arc
1933
The Power and the Glory
5.882/17
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In...
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The Power and the Glory
1954
Broken Lance
6.524/82
Tensions erupt within an Arizona cattle baron's household when his three sons vie for control of the ranch.
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Broken Lance
1932
Law and Order
5.375/8
A legendary lawman and his cohorts set out to restore order to the dangerous streets of Tombstone, Ariz.
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Law and Order
1953
The Sun Shines Bright
6.5/47
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a yo...
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The Sun Shines Bright
1952
Feudin' Fools
5.5/4
Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillb...
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Feudin' Fools
1944
The Big Bonanza
6.333/3
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid b...
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The Big Bonanza
1956
Friendly Persuasion
6.684/141
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...
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Friendly Persuasion
1950
Saddle Tramp
6.545/11
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck real...
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Saddle Tramp
1936
Ramona
5.75/6
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by t...
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Ramona
1935
Motive for Revenge
6.5/2
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in...
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Motive for Revenge
1937
Paradise Isle
6/2
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
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Paradise Isle
1932
Lena Rivers
7/3
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their d...
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Lena Rivers
1925
The Splendid Road
7/1
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had...
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The Splendid Road
1917
Blue Jeans
5.9/4
June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, onl...
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Blue Jeans
1937
That I May Live
7.333/3
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...
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That I May Live
1930
Billy the Kid
4.538/13
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garr...
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Billy the Kid
1948
Sundown in Santa Fe
10/1
Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been left in every robbery by Walter Durant, fugitive leader...
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Sundown in Santa Fe
1921
Snowblind
9/1
Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequ...
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Snowblind
1935
Way Down East
4.333/3
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret i...
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Way Down East
1936
The Harvester
9/1
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the tow...
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The Harvester
1937
Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
6.667/3
The old west range war story transported to Georgia, with Autry as the hero.
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Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
1949
Tuna Clipper
7.75/2
Hoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a debt. This turn of events puts Alec on the outs with his t...
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Tuna Clipper
1937
Mountain Justice
6.333/3
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
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Mountain Justice
1931
The Great Meadow
6/2
Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.
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The Great Meadow
1951
Comin' Round the Mountain
6/22
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, S...
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Comin' Round the Mountain
1927
The First Auto
5.6/5
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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The First Auto
1919
The Brand
0/0
A dancehall girl struggles to make a life for herself in the mining camps of Alaska, despite the obstacle of a villainous gambler.
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The Brand
1959
The Horse Soldiers
6.959/279
A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes insta...
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The Horse Soldiers
1933
Face in the Sky
5.75/4
Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her f...
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Face in the Sky
1929
After the Fog
8/2
Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager t...
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After the Fog
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
6.95/10
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1...
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Gold Is Where You Find It
1925
Thunder Mountain
7/1
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and...
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Thunder Mountain
1931
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
6.1/21
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome enginee...
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1930
Man to Man
6.286/7
A young man attempts to overcome the memory of his father, who was sent to jail for committing a murder.
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Man to Man
1915
The Old Homestead
0/0
When Josiah Whitcomb's son gets into trouble with bad companions in New York City, Josiah leaves the farm and goes into the city to find the boy. Ther...
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The Old Homestead
1929
Innocents of Paris
8/1
A Parisian junk dealer has to choose between love and fame after he rescues a boy.
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Innocents of Paris
1930
Abraham Lincoln
5.538/39
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early ye...
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Abraham Lincoln
1932
The Cabin in the Cotton
6.333/21
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.
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The Cabin in the Cotton
1937
Wild West Days
8/1
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry M...
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Wild West Days
1941
Tobacco Road
6.753/59
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe...
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Tobacco Road
1941
Wild Geese Calling
6.5/3
In the 1890s lumberjack John leaves Seattle for Alaska to look for gold. After he marries dancehall girl Sally, he finds she used to be in love with h...
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Wild Geese Calling
1923
Defying Destiny
6.667/3
Set in the small town of Riverdale, Defying Destiny opens with Jack Fenton (Monte Blue) being scarred while saving the life of his sweetheart Beth Ald...
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Defying Destiny
1952
Lone Star
5.652/23
Cattle baron Devereaux Burke is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight st...
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Lone Star
1920
The Branding Iron
7/1
Pierre Landis is insanely jealous of his beautiful young wife Joan, and his jealousy makes him take a branding iron to her to mark her as his property...
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The Branding Iron
1933
Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1/2
When the fiendish Sinclair Sable arranges the kidnapping of the beautiful Benecia Beamish, only the members of the Beer and Bicycle Club can save her.
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Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles
1929
The Sap
10/1
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.
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The Sap
1945
Roughly Speaking
6.8/5
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and m...
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Roughly Speaking
1941
Last of the Duanes
6.5/2
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
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Last of the Duanes
1932
The Honor of the Press
8/2
Cub reporter Daniel Greely gets a job on a big city newspaper. A string of robberies occur and the owner of the paper blames the police for not roundi...
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The Honor of the Press
1922
The Kingdom Within
10/1
Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger
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The Kingdom Within
1918
Breakers Ahead
0/0
After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric i...
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Breakers Ahead
1957
The Lonely Man
6.132/19
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his...
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The Lonely Man
1936
Paddy O'Day
7/2
A wealthy, eccentric collector of stuffed birds and a beautiful Russian singer provide refuge to an orphaned Irish child who has arrived illegally in...
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Paddy O'Day
1925
The Eagle
6.318/55
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a w...
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The Eagle
1940
Virginia City
6.243/35
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confedera...
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Virginia City
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
6.571/7
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
1934
Ever Since Eve
9/1
Neil Rogers, a young man who owns a substantial share of a Western gold mine, comes East and falls in love with the rather wild Elizabeth Vandegrift.
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Ever Since Eve
1939
Dodge City
6.926/108
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.
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Dodge City
1939
Young Mr. Lincoln
7.203/190
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 l...
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Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.827/1185
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new...
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1942
Nazi Agent
6.679/14
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and...
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Nazi Agent
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
6.484/126
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosper...
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Drums Along the Mohawk
1947
The Fabulous Texan
6.5/2
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land...
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The Fabulous Texan
1938
Heart of the North
5.2/5
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.
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Heart of the North
1939
Western Caravans
7/1
A caravan of settlers is arriving and the ranchers intend to keep them out. It looks like a range war but Sheriff Jim gets the ranchers to accept the...
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Western Caravans
1949
Free For All
6.333/3
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
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Free For All
1955
The Last Command
6.7/10
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't h...
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The Last Command
1948
The Untamed Breed
6.5/2
A cowboy sets out to capture an escaped Brahma bull that is terrorizing local ranchers. Based on a story by Eli Colter that appeared in The Saturday E...
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The Untamed Breed
1931
Alexander Hamilton
4.375/8
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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Alexander Hamilton
1927
The Frontiersman
9/1
John Dale and Abner Hawkins are members of Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Militia, assigned to make peace with the Creek Indian tribe in general and the t...
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The Frontiersman
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
1936
Man Hunt
10/1
A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.
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Man Hunt
1938
Valley of the Giants
6.667/6
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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Valley of the Giants
1946
Death Valley
5.667/3
A dance hall girl is murdered and her body robbed of a quantity of gold obtained illegally. The killer flees into Death Valley and encounters the righ...
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Death Valley
1947
Bowery Buckaroos
6.6/5
The Bowery Boys head west to clear Louie of an old murder charge that he had killed his gold-mine partner. Sach has the map to the gold mine painted o...
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Bowery Buckaroos
1942
Shut My Big Mouth
8.333/3
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
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Shut My Big Mouth
1941
Citadel of Crime
9/1
A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.
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Citadel of Crime
1940
Wyoming
6.7/5
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
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Wyoming
1940
Brigham Young
4.563/16
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settl...
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Brigham Young
1927
Annie Laurie
6.75/8
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
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Annie Laurie
1939
Desperate Trails
5.667/3
A young man helps a marshal in his battle against outlaws.
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Desperate Trails
1934
Frontier Marshal
7/3
Thinly veiled reworking of the Wyatt Earp story with the renamed Michael Wyatt rolling into Tombstone, becoming acquainted, teaming up, and cleaning u...
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Frontier Marshal
1946
Bad Bascomb
7.286/7
A western bandit is reformed by his love for a little girl.
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Bad Bascomb
1914
The Virginian
5.6/12
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend,...
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The Virginian
1922
Human Hearts
10/1
Innocent country boy Tom Logan is taken in by the scheming Barbara Kay, a city woman who knows Tom is set to inherit his fathers farm which sits on a...
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Human Hearts
1932
Ridin' for Justice
10/1
More a romantic melodrama than a true Western, this Buck Jones vehicle from Columbia starred Jones as Buck Randall, a carefree cowboy whose popularity...
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Ridin' for Justice
1944
Texas Masquerade
6.5/2
A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman co...
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Texas Masquerade
1941
Swamp Water
6.333/43
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to to...
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Swamp Water
1940
Three Faces West
5.529/17
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threate...
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Three Faces West
1923
The Virginian
6.5/2
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he w...
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The Virginian
1922
Rags to Riches
10/2
A rich young boy has to prove his worth to the gang he has just joined by during all sorts of hardships, including a kidnap attempt, before they'll ac...
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Rags to Riches
1926
Rustlin' for Cupid
9/1
Bradley Blatchford, returning to his father's ranch from college, meets Sybil Hamilton, who is coming to the ranch town as a schoolteacher. Later, Bra...
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Rustlin' for Cupid
1939
Geronimo
5.333/6
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 betwee...
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Geronimo
1941
Meet John Doe
7.324/282
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The p...
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Meet John Doe
1934
West of the Pecos
7/1
Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.
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West of the Pecos
1926
Lovey Mary
8/1
Lovely Mary, an orphan girl, reluctantly takes charge of her sister's child when her sister Kate is jailed.
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Lovey Mary
1950
Call of the Klondike
7.333/3
A brother and sister are running a phony gold mine scam in the Klondike, which leads to murder. A Canadian Mountie sets out to bring them to justice.
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Call of the Klondike
1946
California Gold Rush
7.5/2
California Gold Rush is set in 1849. Ryder heads to Sutter's Mill, where he must contend with claim-jumping and treachery.
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California Gold Rush
1920
Lahoma
10/1
In Oklahoma, kindhearted outlaw Brick Willock rescues little Lahoma Gledware and her father Henry from certain death at the hands of his outlaw band....
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Lahoma
1949
The Gal Who Took the West
5.958/12
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
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The Gal Who Took the West
1952
The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
9/1
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
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The Ghost of Crossbone Canyon
1942
Lone Star Ranger
5.333/3
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth, mak...
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Lone Star Ranger
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
5.5/4
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1948
Albuquerque
6.8/20
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whos...
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Albuquerque
1941
Bad Men of Missouri
6.167/6
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buyin...
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Bad Men of Missouri
1948
Tap Roots
6.864/11
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the con...
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Tap Roots
1942
The Spoilers
6.246/63
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle wit...
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The Spoilers
1924
Painted People
10/1
Ellie Byrne and Don Lane, chums, living in the poor section of a factory town, go away to make their fortunes. Ellie wishes to become a lady so that s...
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Painted People
1923
The Huntress
8/1
Bela, reared by Indians, learns that she is a white orphan and runs away from the Indian village to avoid marrying a brave from the tribe. She determi...
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The Huntress
1943
The Woman of the Town
6.4/5
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
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The Woman of the Town
1943
Colt Comrades
5.875/8
Hoppy, California and Johnny partner up with brother and sister ranch owners, two of several who are having their access to water blocked by a dam own...
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Colt Comrades
1956
The Brass Legend
6.278/9
During a ride with his new pony Sinoya, the young Clay Gibson by chance finds the secret housing of the multiple murderer Tris Hatten. He reports imme...
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The Brass Legend
1925
Faint Perfume
7/1
After a stormy six year marriage, Barnaby Powers divorces his wife Richmiel. She returns home, taking their young son Oliver with her. Barnaby follows...
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Faint Perfume
1936
San Francisco
6.6/80
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 19...
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San Francisco
1946
My Dog Shep
6.25/8
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and wh...
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My Dog Shep
1946
A Boy and His Dog
5.867/15
11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constant...
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A Boy and His Dog
1934
Three on a Honeymoon
7/1
This romantic comedy takes place on an ocean liner. One of the few unattached passengers is heiress Joan Foster. Joan finds herself in the arms of the...
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Three on a Honeymoon
1920
Godless Men
4/3
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 re...
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Godless Men
1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7.103/564
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1937
Green Light
6.667/9
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...
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Green Light
1922
Peg o' My Heart
7.333/3
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress...
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Peg o' My Heart
1947
The Romance of Rosy Ridge
6.667/6
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
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The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1934
The World Moves On
5.906/16
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great busin...
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The World Moves On
1925
Why Women Love
9/1
An oil tanker burns at sea, and Molla Hansen, the captain's daughter, is the only survivor. Her rescuer, lighthouse-keeper Silas Martin, is fatally bu...
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Why Women Love
1930
The Lone Star Ranger
7/2
After shooting a man in self-defense, Buck Duane finds himself accused of many crimes, none of which he committed. In order to prove his innocence, he...
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The Lone Star Ranger
1945
They Were Expendable
6.5/130
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the a...
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They Were Expendable
1939
The Bill of Rights
6.333/3
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figur...
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The Bill of Rights
1952
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
6.5/9
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter i...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1936
Back to Nature
9/1
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and...
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Back to Nature
1944
Roaring Guns
10/1
Farmers take up arms against miners whose high water pressure mining operations are destroying their farms with mud and water runoff.
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Roaring Guns
1937
Maid of Salem
6.188/8
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse...
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Maid of Salem
1919
Bill Apperson's Boy
0/0
Jack Pickford got his own production company when his sister Mary signed a huge contract with First National, and this was its first product. the stor...
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Bill Apperson's Boy
1928
Tropical Nights
8/1
Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is mur...
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Tropical Nights
1918
Riders of the Night
7/1
Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill count...
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Riders of the Night
1925
Old Shoes
9/1
A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.
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Old Shoes
1929
My Lady's Past
7/1
Mamie Reynolds has been engaged to Sam Young for ten years. But when Sam's novel is published after many years of waiting, Sam falls for a gold digger...
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My Lady's Past
1923
Circus Days
7.25/4
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
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Circus Days
1925
The Narrow Street
8/1
Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is b...
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The Narrow Street
1923
The Girl of the Golden West
8/1
Not realizing he is a bandit The Girl, owner of the Polka Saloon, falls in love with Ramerrez. Trapped by a snowstorm Ramerrez is forced to stay the n...
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The Girl of the Golden West
1927
Wild Geese
10/1
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to re...
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Wild Geese
1943
Riding High
5.6/5
No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour and...
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Riding High
1936
Girl of the Ozarks
6.5/2
A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.
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Girl of the Ozarks
1920
The Deadlier Sex
7.5/2
The daughter of a railroad magnat has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business riva...
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The Deadlier Sex
1925
Paint and Powder
7/1
Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker Jimmy Ev...
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Paint and Powder
1932
The Riding Tornado
7/1
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torr...
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The Riding Tornado
1955
The Tall Men
6.395/76
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers,...
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The Tall Men
1942
Tennessee Johnson
6.389/9
The tumultuous presidency of 19th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. The story begins with Johnson's boyhood and covers his early...
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Tennessee Johnson
1953
Meet Me at the Fair
8.5/2
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions...
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Meet Me at the Fair
1918
A Weaver of Dreams
0/0
Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who got away, but happiness lays ahead for one while...
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A Weaver of Dreams
1921
Under the Lash
9/1
The wife of a tyrannical Boer husband discovers what life could be like when a handsome Englishmen visits their home.
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Under the Lash
1932
Flames
4.25/4
Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the apartmen...
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Flames
1950
The Outriders
7.25/14
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raider...
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The Outriders
1934
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
4/4
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival diver, however, has other plans for him.
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Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1922
Across the Dead-Line
8/1
Gilead is a lumber town that is dominated by two branches of the Kidder family: the puritanical, ultra-conservative side led by Enoch and his son John...
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Across the Dead-Line
1943
Moonlight in Vermont
6.5/2
A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.
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Moonlight in Vermont
1929
All Faces West
9/1
Outlaw trio joins wagon train, planning to rob it.
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All Faces West
1918
The Uphill Path
7/1
Ruth Travers, the young niece and ward of Howard Mason, elopes with Chadwick Blake to escape the advances of Gilbert Hilton, whom her uncle wants to f...
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The Uphill Path
1934
Radio Scout
0/0
A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to gain...
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Radio Scout
1937
Parnell
4.556/9
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...
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Parnell
1918
The Challenge Accepted
8/1
In the Blue Ridge Mountains Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston loves Steve Carey, but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War....
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The Challenge Accepted
1955
Oklahoma!
6.632/185
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts...
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Oklahoma!
1925
Ship of Souls
5/2
Langley Barnes goes to the North Country to seek peace, after being deserted by his wife, and falls in love with Christine, the daughter of Angus Gart...
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Ship of Souls
1925
The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
7/1
To support a demanding wife, bank clerk Brian Kent embezzles a large sum of money and, overcome with remorse, attempts to commit suicide by casting hi...
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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
1923
Hearts Aflame
9/1
The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell her land unless the buyer promises to replant to r...
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Hearts Aflame
1928
The Bushranger
10/1
An Australian Bandit Story
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The Bushranger
1944
Tall in the Saddle
6.569/72
When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwar...
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Tall in the Saddle
1916
Lovely Mary
0/0
Mary Lane and her cousin Claiborne want to sell some land left to them by their family. Real-estate agent Roland Manning falls in love with her, and p...
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Lovely Mary
1925
Beauty and the Bad Man
7/1
Cassie, an orphan who sings angelically in a small-town church, marries the organist, L. I. B. Bell, when he promises to obtain singing lessons for he...
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Beauty and the Bad Man
1923
Desire
7/1
Society children Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins separate the day they are to be married. Madalyn marries her chauffeur, Jerry, while Bob falls in love...
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Desire
1919
The Blue Bandanna
0/0
Jerry Jerome, a rich young Wall Street broker, follows doctor's orders and goes West to relieve strain. He stops at the ranch of Jim Yancy, then agree...
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The Blue Bandanna
1919
Fighting Cressy
10/1
A feud over boundaries between the McKinstry and Harrison families, both from Kentucky, but squatting in California in search of gold, has caused Cres...
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Fighting Cressy
1917
The Barrier
0/0
When a cruel sea-captain named Bennett murders the mother of his child, the little girl is rescued and raised by Gale, a storekeeper. Years later, whe...
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The Barrier
1918
Oh, Johnny!
8/1
A young girl inherits half of the Lost Camp Mine when her father dies. His partner tries to help her from being cheated out of her share of the mine,...
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Oh, Johnny!
1927
The Heart of the Yukon
7/1
A girl, Anita Wayne, finds herself an heiress of her mother's estate, but learns that her father lives in Alaska. Determined to find her father she tr...
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The Heart of the Yukon
1926
The Social Highwayman
8/1
Young reporter Jay Walker is given the job of investigating Ducket Nelson, an infamous bandit. While driving in the country Walker is held up by Nelso...
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The Social Highwayman
1929
Noisy Neighbors
9/1
A family of down-and-out vaudevillians discover that they are the last of the Van Revels, heirs to a Southern plantation and a blood feud with the Car...
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Noisy Neighbors
1933
Secrets
5.214/14
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortu...
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Secrets
1928
Life's Mockery
7/1
Life's Mockery is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Betty Compson.
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