The Pierce Construction Company has gone wildly over budget on a questionable land-development project, and head man Joe...
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1964
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1964
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Boxing manager Arthur "The Professor" Duffy (Robert Keith) is saddled with a punch-drunk pug named Soldier Fresno...
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1962
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Capone lieutenant Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) attempts to bribe Chicago mayor Anton...
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1960
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When mobster Little Dandy Dorf (Frankie Darro) makes a pass at sultry nightclub singer Georgia (Linda Lawson), he is punched...
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1960
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Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces...
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1959
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Fired by wealthy rancher Gil Borden (Stuart Whitman), shiftless Ed McKay (Murray Hamilton) decides to get even by pulling off...
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1958
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George Baxter (Jack Raine), a courier for the South African Diamond Company, arrives at his firm's California office to find...
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1958
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In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle...
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1958
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline...
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1956
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1954
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Produced, directed and cowritten by former child star Wesley Barry, Racing Blood was distributed in the US by 20th...
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1954
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The redoubtable Johnny Carpenter is producer, author and star of the low-budget western Lawless Rider. Exploiting his slight...
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Jim Bascom
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1954
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Pat (Katharine Hepburn), a college phys-ed instructor, enters into professional competition as a golf and tennis player. Mike...
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1952
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Clark Gable is the largely nonheroic hero of the sprawling western Across the Wide Missouri. A cunning trapper who lives...
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1951
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Stanley Clements stars in Republic's Pride of Maryland as an ambitious jockey named Frankie (an inside joke: most movie...
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Steve
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1951
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Though Frank Capra wrote the original story treatment for MGM's Westward the Women, he was too busy to direct the film, and...
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1951
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1951
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Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey...
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1950
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Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl...
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1950
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an...
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1950
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Hold That Baby! was the 14th entry in Monogram's money-spinning "Bowery Boys" series. Ever in search of spare change, the...
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Bananas
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1949
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In this entry in the long running comedy-drama series, the boys get into the world of prizefighting. When one of Slip's pals...
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Johnny Higgins
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1949
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Gig Jackson
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1949
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Republic's heartwarming Heart of Virginia has the homey charm of a 1930s "regional" picture. In one of his rare late-1940s...
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Jimmy Easter
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1948
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In this musical comedy, a group of clean-cut teens desire to turn an abandoned warehouse into a youth center. Unfortunately...
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Roy
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1948
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Angels Alley was the ninth entry in Monogram's Bowery Boys series. This time around, Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey) welcomes his...
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Jimmy
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1948
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In this entry in the long-running "Bowery Boys" series, Slip Mahoney and his boys witness a murder, but cannot identify the...
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1948
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1947
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A man's addiction to gambling almost destroys his life in this racetrack adventure. Joe Grange is nearly broke when he buys...
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1947
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Band singer Freddie Stewart stars in the pure-'40s frivolity Vacation Days. It's a high-school musical romance, with some of...
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1947
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The fun in this musical comedy begins when a popular swing singer mysteriously vanishes and a group of prank-loving college...
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1946
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1946
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High School Hero is all about a high school hero (what else?), played by Monogram musical star Freddy Stewart. A student at...
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Roy
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1946
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The Dead End Kids take on a sinister gang of Japanese terrorists in this 12-chapter followup to the 1940 Universal serial...
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1942
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Its sophisticated title notwithstanding, Tuxedo Junction is another heap o' cornpone from hillbilly-music favorites The...
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Sock
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1941
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In this collegiate drama, a team of college oarsmen promise their gals that they will win the big race. Unfortunately, it...
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Frankie
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1941
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The Monogram publicity machine advertised Gang's All Here as a story of "Young Americans Fighting for Their Rights." Young...
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Frankie
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1941
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The curious but harmonious screen team of Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland are back again in You're Out of Luck. Elevator...
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Frankie
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1941
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When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings...
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Lampwick
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1940
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As conceived, Monogram's On the Spot was meant to be purely a Frankie Darro vehicle, with black comedian Mantan Moreland as...
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Frankie
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1940
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In this fast paced mystery, an eager page boy for a radio station tries to convince the owners to let him do a comedy show...
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Frankie
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1940
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Diminutive Frankie Darro was always a lot of fun to watch when given his head in a leading role. In Monogram's Chasing...
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1940
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In hopes of cashing in on the popularity of "Number One Cowboy" Gene Autry, a fly-by-night firm called Times Pictures...
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Frankie Baxter
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1940
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Monogram's Laughing at Danger finds page-boy Frankie Kelly (Frankie Darro) trying to solve a murder at a fancy beauty salon....
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Frankie Kelly
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1940
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Irish Luck was one of a handful of Monogram actioners starring Frankie Darro as a crimesolving bellboy. The son of...
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Buzzy O'Brien
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1939
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A bad seed tries to keep his older brother from making the same mistakes in this crime drama. The latter is a prize fighter...
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1939
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Boys' Reformatory was the third of Frankie Darro's tough-guy vehicles for Monogram Pictures. Darro is cast as orphaned...
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Tommy
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1939
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Baby Face
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1938
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Diminutive Danny (Frankie Darro) is Wanted by the Police in this Monogram actioner. Danny is basically a good boy, but he's...
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Danny
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1938
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Stubby Adams
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1938
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In this socially conscious drama, a man is appointed warden at a boys reformatory on the condition that he can keep unwanted...
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1938
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Co-directed by former supporting player Mack V. Wright and Sam Nelson, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is considered...
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1938
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Inasmuch as diminutive Frankie Darro was Hollywood's foremost portrayer of jockeys, it should come as no surprise that Darro...
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Frankie Reynolds
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1938
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In this youthful adventure, a young brother and sister dream of becoming newsreel photographers. They get their chance when...
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Dan Mallory
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1937
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Jean Harlow offers her final screen performance in this witty and -- in retrospect -- quite moving racetrack comedy-drama...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a newsboy and a reporter join forces to stop the racketeer who has been bilking lottery winners. The...
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Michael Sanford
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1937
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Young Roger Calverton (Ronald Sinclair) and his uncle Sir Peter Calverton (Sir C. Aubrey Smith) bring their prize race-horse...
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1937
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Jimmy Tallant
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1937
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Following the capture of jewel thieves, two detectives encounter danger. ~ Rovi...
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1937
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In this drama, a Boy Scout leader hosts a local gossip show. Trouble ensues when he predicts a politician's murder just...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a newly deputized state trooper gets killed on his very first day. His younger brother, desiring to...
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Freddie
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1937
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1937
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Stodgily directed by actor Russell Hopton, this low-budget oil-drilling melodrama was one of three action-adventures teaming...
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Clifford "Fishtail" O'Riley
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1936
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En route from Honolulu to Los Angeles by steamship, Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) is pressed into action when a fellow...
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1936
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1936
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The hero of The Pay-Off is somewhat denser than usual, making his ultimate victory all the more amazing. James Dunn plays...
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1935
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Despite the deadly radium beam, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) manages to pull the lever that opens the surface entrance to...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) manage to parachute to safety. Meanwhile, 25,000 feet below the...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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In the opening chapter of the Mascot serial The Phantom Empire, a stagecoach is held up for its content -- musical...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Although the Thunder Riders sever his rope, Gene Autry manages to grab hold of a tree limb, climb to safety and return to...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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On Queen Tika's orders, a lifeless Gene Autry) is brought to Murania's Radium Reviving Room, the queen (Dorothy Christy)...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Both Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) survive the airplane crash no worse for wear but are quickly picked...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Saved from electrocution by the sudden appearance of a trap door operated by the traitorous Lord Argo (Wheeler Oakman), Gene...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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In his first starring role, Gene Autry must perform daily on Radio Ranch or forfeit his contract. Meanwhile, local kids...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Gene Autry is saved in the nick of time by Frankie Frankie Darro, who smartly pulls him off the conveyor belt. Murania is now...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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The indomitable May Robson is firmly in the driver's seat of this Runyonesque comedy-drama. While riding through Central...
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Blackie
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1935
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1935
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This racetrack drama centers upon a horse breeder with a strong aversion to orphans. Howard Chamberlain, himself an orphan,...
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1935
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This follow-up to RKO Radio's near-perfect adaptation of Little Women was produced by small but enterprising Mascot Pictures...
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1935
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In the final chapter of The Phantom Empire, Gene Autry is saved by Oscar (Smiley Burnette) and Pete (William Moore), who...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Seconds before his automobile crashes over a cliff, Gene Autry is saved by Frankie (Frankie Darro), Betsy (Betsy Ross King)...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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Gene Autry, Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy (Betsy Ross King) all escape the tunnel explosion courtesy of the Junior...
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Frankie Baxter
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1935
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In this romance, a social worker employed by Traveler's Aid finally is able to show her love to a construction foreman...
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1935
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In this action film, Wallace Storm, ace race car driver, gets into real trouble when he is accused of killing his partner...
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Johnny
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1935
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Three convicts bust out of prison in this drama. One of the fugitives is an innocent man. Fortunately, his former employer's...
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1935
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A serialized remake of a popular 1919 film, the 12-chapter Burn 'Em Up Barnes was simultaneously released as a 74-minute...
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Bobbie
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1934
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A tough youth gang leader learns the true meaning of courage in this moving and thoughtful drama. He is the leader of a...
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Feri Ats
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1934
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Showmen's Productions, a miniscule poverty-row firm, issued its one-and-only release The Big Race in 1934. Heading the cast...
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Jockey
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1934
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Just after completing It Happened One Night, director Frank Capra churned out a bread-and-butter picture titled Broadway...
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1934
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In this odd-ball comedy, a self-sacrificing but eccentric mother attempts to guide her equally eccentric family. She has two...
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1934
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At first concentrating exclusively on westerns and serials, up-and-coming Mascot Pictures began branching out in the early...
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1933
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1933
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Gangster Cagney allows his powerful political connections to appoint him "deputy inspector" of a state reform school. There...
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1933
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This earnest, socially-conscious road drama centers on two California teenagers who find their comfortable lives thrown into...
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Eddie Smith
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1933
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Marie Dressler plays the title character, tugboat captain Annie Brennan, in this 1933 Hollywood box office hit. Her husband...
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1933
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This adventure film consists of a 12-part serial that has been spliced together. The story basically follows the travails of...
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Mildred Cram's novel Scotch Valley was transformed by the scenarists at Fox into the Warner Baxter vehicle Amateur Daddy....
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1932
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Filmed on-location at Lone Pine, CA, and thus looking a lot better than the average cheapie Western, Cheyenne Cyclone was the...
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1932
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Filmed at Newhall, CA, with exteriors shot at Universal City, Mascot Pictures' The Vanishing Legion became the little...
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Billy Williams
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1931
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown...
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1931
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In the space of 74 minutes, Helen Hayes goes from naïve French country lass to elderly harridan in Sin of Madelon Claudet. Is...
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1931
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This western serial features the famous trained German Shepherd Rin-Tin-Tin. Rinty gets involved in an Indian uprising caused...
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Jimmy Carter
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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1931
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Though it eventually collapsed under the weight of mounting debts, the small firm of Sono Art-World Wide managed to turn out...
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Gene Williams
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1930
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New York-born Tom Tyler, one of the late silent era's more realistic screen cowboys., exposes a counterfeit ring run by his...
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Tadpole
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1929
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Rejected as husband material by a snobbish rancher (Ethlyne Clair), cowboy Tom O'Brien (Tom Tyler) nevertheless comes to the...
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Buster Brown
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1929
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Flint-eyed Tom Tyler is on the Trail of Horse Thieves in this FBO western. Once again, Tyler is aided an abetted by his...
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1929
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In this drama, a singer finds himself stuck with his best friend's newly orphaned son. Now he must juggle both parenthood and...
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Billy Ryan
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1929
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For some reason, this potentially very interesting silent Western from FBO remains the most obscure of the poverty row...
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1928
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Though conceived and executed as a silent film, The Circus Kid was outfitted with a sound prolog and music and sound-effects...
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Buddy
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1928
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FBO's handsome New York-born cowboy Tom Tyler plays a pacifist lawman who only uses his fists and a dangerous-looking whip to...
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1928
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Duke Carlton (Tom Tyler), a former ranch-hand-turned-touring-company-actor, finds himself stranded when his manager takes off...
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1928
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The chemistry between cowboy hero Tom Tyler and juvenile sidekick Frankie Darro saved this otherwise commonplace FBO Western...
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1928
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In this one of his many well-made but routine FBO Westerns, Tom Tyler played a federal agent impersonating "The Raven" (Harry...
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1928
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Frankie Sheridan
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1928
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Prizefighter Danny Martin (Danny O'Shea) wants to marry pretty Charlotte Hamilton (Mary Brian), but her wealthy father John...
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1927
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Few comedies of the 1920s were as bizarre and surreal as Harry Langdon's Long Pants. Having recently come of age,...
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Harry. as a Small Boy
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1927
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Pint-sized juvenile actor Frankie Darro essays the title role in FBO's Little Mickey Grogan. Though officially the leading...
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1927
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Tom Tyler (billed as "Tom Taylor" in several newspaper reviews) was the star of the modestly-budgeted western The Flying "U"...
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1927
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Strapping Tom Tyler starred as a rancher coming to the aid of some European refugees in this unusual silent western from...
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Alexis, King of Roxenburg
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1927
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Although Virginia Valli is given top billing in this drama about World War I, Orville Caldwell has the biggest role, and the...
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Tud Dennison
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1927
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Thoroughly geared for the small fry, this pleasant silent western starred the strapping Tom Tyler, freckled boy actor...
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Frankie Butler
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1927
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1926
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The popular screen team of cowboy hero Tom Tyler and diminutive child athlete Frankie Darro was back in Out of the West. As...
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1926
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This fast-paced, low-budget Western was typical of cowboy star Tom Tyler's output. As usual, little Frankie Darro plays his...
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1926
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Hearts and Spangles stars Wanda Hawley, formerly the "baby vamp" of the pre-1920s, as a gorgeous circus bareback rider....
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1926
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On the verge of his greatest success with MGM, personable young William Haines starred in the energetic Columbia programmer...
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1926
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1926
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Poverty-row studio Film Booking Office (the later RKO) had a winning combination in the strapping Tom Tyler and freckle-faced...
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Frankie Smith
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1926
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1926
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A typically streamlined silent action melodrama from poverty row company FBO, The Cowboy Cop starred Tom Tyler and a very...
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1926
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The "carnival girl" of the title is played by Marion Mack, most fondly remembered as Buster Keaton's bird-brained lady love...
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Her Brother
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1926
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Leon Kent (Walter McGrail) is a ne'er-do-well who throws wild parties. His wife eventually tires of him. She finds sympathy...
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Owen Elliot (boy)
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1925
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The little FBO studio always liked to cast child actors in their westerns, assuming that kids liked watching other kids have...
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1925
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Fearless Lover was produced by a company called Perfection Films. It's not quite perfection, but it isn't bad....
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1925
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This low-budgeter was adapted from A Wise Son, a novel by Charles Sherman. Bryant Washburn plays wealthy wastrel Hal Whitney,...
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Billy
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1925
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The Phantom Express is the sole asset of a small railway company. Its chief engineer is old John Lane (William Rooker), the...
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1925
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Director Victor Sjöström gave MGM this well-crafted adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's novel, Kings in Exile. The King of...
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1925
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Horatio "Racy" Manly (William Haines) spends his time partying, much to the dismay of his father, Judge Manly (David...
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Mickey
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1925
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The Palmer School of Photoplay Writing decided to try its hand at film production, and this drama was its first release. John...
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1924
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This routine auto adventure finds Jack Grant (William Fairbanks) agreeing to drive in the big race in order to save his...
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1924
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Although Universal billed this tense drama as a "Super Jewel," there's nothing epic about it -- it's a straightforward,...
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Sonny Tolliver
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1924
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1924
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Cowboy star Harry Carey occasionally appeared in films that weren't Westerns, and this heavily sentimental action-drama...
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Little Bill
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1924
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When she is deserted by her husband, the Stranger (Anna Q. Nilsson) leaves her baby on a doorstep with half a dollar bill...
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1923
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