Bob Steele stars as Dick Carlysle, who returns home to his family ranch after almost a year away in Texas to discover that...
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Director, Brute Kettle
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1942
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Hunted Men is part of Paramount's unofficial B-picture series based on the J. Edgar Hoover book Persons in Hiding....
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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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Directed by the veteran J.P. McGowan, Where the West Begins was the fourth of 22 Westerns -- some with music -- starring Jack...
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Director
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1938
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1938
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Heart of the Rockies launched Republic's second season of popular "Three Mesquiteers" westerns. Returning to the fold are...
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1937
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In this mystery, a railroad agent is blamed for a terrible train crash. Actually, just before the crash, the agent was...
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1937
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In this romance, a new man comes to a logging camp and learns of a conspiracy with a competitor. Unbeknownst to the other...
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1937
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Hit the Saddle has enjoyed more latter-day attention than most of Republic's "Three Mesquiteers" western films thanks to the...
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1937
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The Warner Bros. custom of casting their Dick Foran singing Westerns with whomever was available from the studio's large...
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the talented brother of cowboy legend Ken Maynard, stars in this low-budget horse opera. The elementary story...
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Director
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1937
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1937
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An above-average "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry, Borderland has Hoppy (William Boyd) going undercover as a bandit in a tough...
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1937
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Kermit Maynard, the less-popular but arguably more talented brother of cowboy star Ken Maynard, heads the cast of Roaring Six...
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Director
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1937
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Despite the claim of "an original screenplay by Edward Earl Repp," this entry in Warner Bros.' Dick Foran "singing cowboy"...
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1937
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In this crime drama, a cop is ashamed because a fearful moment prevented him from stopping a bank robbery. He feels so bad...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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1936
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The 12-episode Universal serial Jungle Jim was based on the Alex Raymond comic strip of the same name. Grant Withers stars as...
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1936
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Guns and Guitars could have served as the title of any Gene Autry picture released in 1937. In this one, medicine-show...
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1936
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Warner Baxter plays Dr. Samuel Mudd, American history's most famous victim of circumstance. In 1865, Dr. Mudd, a known...
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1936
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After a couple of false starts, William Colt MacDonald's "Three Mesquiteers" stories were converted into a western film...
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1936
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Buck Jones was producing as well as starring in his own western series by the time Ride 'Em Cowboy hit the screen. A heady...
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1936
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Stampede was the first of western star Charles Starrett's "northerns," filmed through the facilities of Columbia's Canadian...
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1936
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Every so often, Columbia's resident cowboy hero Charles Starrett would head to the studio's facilities in British Columbia to...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Bar 20 Rides Again was the 3rd of William Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy flicks. As with most early entries in the Cassidy series,...
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1936
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Mae West is Goin' to Town in this elegant post-Production Code vehicle. West plays Cleo Borden, a nouveau riche cattle...
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1935
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In this comedy with musical numbers set in the Old South, Bing Crosby plays a singer (talk about a casting stretch!) from...
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1935
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Westerner Buck Jones heads to the Great White North in Border Brigands. Jones plays Canadian Mountie Tim Barry, who always...
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1935
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Having starred in two earlier Westerns produced by Harry S. Webb, Tom Tyler signed with Webb's new company Reliable, where...
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1934
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Filmed between the original Thin Man and the first of its sequels, Evelyn Prentice re-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as...
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1934
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The rivalry between two deep-sea diver is chronicled in this adventure. The trouble begins when a young woman inherits one...
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1934
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1934
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The fifth of eight low-budget Westerns starring Lane Chandler, this Willis Kent production was apparently filmed at...
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Director
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1934
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The last of three Tom Tyler Westerns produced by Gower Gulch regular John R. Freuler, War of the Range featured the strapping...
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Director
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1933
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In this western, John Wayne plays a bronc buster who flees to Mexico after he is falsely accused of rigging a stagecoach...
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1933
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The second in a series of six projected Lane Chandler westerns produced by H&H Productions, this film featured the rugged...
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Director
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1933
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In this romantic western, a daring masked outlaw steals the gold from a crooked mining company and uses the loot to pay the...
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Director
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1933
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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Director
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1933
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Filmed at the Mack Sennett Studios, the future home of Republic Pictures, this obscure western starred rugged Lane Chandler...
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Director
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1933
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Produced by Poverty Row company KBS (formerly Sono Art-World Wide), this above-average B-Western starred Ken Maynard as an...
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Director
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1933
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Former silent teenage star Buzz Barton headlines this juvenile Western from low-rent Big 4 Film Corp. directed by the veteran...
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Director
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1932
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Based on a story in Golden West magazine by Frederick Ryter, this rather pedestrian Monogram Western starred handsome...
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Director
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1932
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The second of two projected John Wayne serials produced by genre expert Mascot Pictures, this film used the budget-saving...
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Director
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1932
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In a last desperate effort to stay afloat in an industry suffering from the Great Depression, John R. Freuler's tattered Big...
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Director
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1932
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In the last of four low-budget Westerns for the ill-named Big 4 Film Corp., Bob Custer plays Bud Bryson, a young cowboy...
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Director
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1932
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Directed by the mediocre J.P. McGowan, Tim McCoy's second Western for Columbia was a rather tedious affair in which McCoy...
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Director
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1932
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Director
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1932
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Director
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1932
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1931
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Produced by cameraman Burton King for ill-named Poverty Row company Big 4 Film Corp., this western starred laconic silent...
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Director
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1931
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Laconic silent screen cowboy Bob Custer starred in this cheap Syndicate Film Exchange early sound Western as a wrangler...
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Director
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1931
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Like many "Big Four" westerns of the early talkie era, The Cyclone Kid spotlights a popular cowboy star of the silent era, in...
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Director
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1931
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J.P. McGowan directed this weak Western featuring former silent cowboy Bob Custer as Sgt. Ned Stone, a Canadian Mountie...
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Director
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1931
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From low-budget (and rather ill-named) Big 4 Film Corp. comes Headin' for Trouble, starring former silent cowboy Bob Custer...
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Director
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1931
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Western Honor was one of the last silent Bob Steele westerns for low-budget Syndicate Pictures. The story follows the...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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Poverty row company Syndicate released this early sound western starring silent-screen refugee Mahlon Hamilton as a reformed...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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Producer-director J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange, a forerunner of Monogram Productions, Inc., caught action heroes on...
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Director, King Kincaid
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1930
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Bob Steele's talkie debut was the usual story of cattlemen versus sheepmen. Steele, the son of a cattle rancher, naturally...
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Director
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1930
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Director
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1930
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Veteran action specialist J.P. McGowan both produced and directed this very late silent western released by his own...
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Director
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1930
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Bantam-weight cowboy hero Bob Steele made his talkie debut in a series of westerns for Syndicate Films, one of the several...
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Director
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1930
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Penny-pinching producer-director J.P. McGowan splurged on canned music and special effects for this otherwise standard...
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Director
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1930
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This inexpensively produced early sound Western was diminutive cowboy star Bob Steele's second to last for poverty row...
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Director
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1930
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This cheap western produced by J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange was given an almost too prophetic title. One of the...
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Director
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1929
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By 1929, strapping cowboy Ken Maynard had become First National's ace western star. The former stunt rider was being afforded...
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1929
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Produced by a company bearing the hilariously ill-fitting moniker of Big Productions, Inc., this parsimonious silent Western...
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Director
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1929
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Diminutive cowboy Bob Steele starred as a cowboy tracking down his father's killer in this modest silent Western produced by...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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Director
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1929
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Veteran producer-director J. P. McGowan helmed this minor western starring one of the very best of the late silent-era...
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Director
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1929
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Together with the local sheriff, Oklahoma Adams (Bob Custer) rids a ranch of a gang of cattle rustlers. As a reward, he wins...
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Director
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1929
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Gower Gulch entrepreneur Trem Carr produced this inexpensive little oater starring one of the lesser silent screen cowboys,...
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Director, George Stilwell
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1929
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Director
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1929
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The third western released by poverty row company Syndicate Film Exchange, this film starred the strapping Tom Tyler in the...
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Director
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1929
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In one of his last starring roles, stunt-man turned silent cowboy star Yakima Canutt battled bad guys such as...
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Director, Screen Story
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1929
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In this western, a wagon train is massacred by Indians and the only survivors are two children, a brother and a sister. They...
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Director
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1929
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John R. Freuler's highly misnamed Big Productions released this modest oater starring stolid silent screen hero Bob Custer as...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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Veteran action specialist J.P. McGowan both produced, wrote, directed and co-starred in this late silent western starring the...
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Director
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1929
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Director, Screen Story
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1929
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Also-ran silent screen cowboy Jack Perrin starred in this minor western from the Universal assembly line. Perrin is cast as a...
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Jim Wales
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1929
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Though Universal temporarily abandoned its western product when talkies came in, a few of its 1929 silent sagebrushers were...
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1929
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In this, the first Western released by J.P. McGowan's Syndicate Film Exchange, Tom Tyler starred as a cowboy seeking revenge...
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Director
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1929
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Director
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1929
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It's the Hatfields and the McCoys out West again in this commonplace silent western from poverty-row company Syndicate. The...
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Director
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1929
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Minor cowboy star Bob Custer finds his newly purchased land overrun by outlaws and claim-grabbers in this minor silent...
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Director
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1928
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The once-popular, now-forgotten western star Bob Custer heads the cast of Law of the Mounted. Custer dons the red coat of the...
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Director
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1928
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Handsome newcomer Don Coleman starred in this independently produced silent Western about a Texas Ranger whose foster-father...
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"Draw" Evans
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1928
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A handsome French trapper must chose between an Indian girl and a pretty white orphan in this Northwoods melodrama produced...
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1928
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Director
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1928
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Released in December of 1928, this low-budget silent Western catered to small theaters not yet equipped with sound. Dour...
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Director
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1928
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New York playboy Bob Custer gets into trouble with the cops when he drunkenly steals a cabdriver's coat. The judge decides to...
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Director
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1928
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A typical Poverty Row potboiler, this minor silent action melodrama featured Jacqueline Logan as a young woman searching for...
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1928
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Director
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1928
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Two Outlaws was apparently a follow-up to the low-budget but high-grossing western Guardians of the West. Once again, human...
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1928
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Veteran action producer-director-actor J.P. McGowan committed this little Western indiscretion starring lethargic silent...
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Director
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1928
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Popular Western star Ken Maynard donned the scarlet uniform of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer in this thrilling...
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1928
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Capt. Standing
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1928
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A long-lost service comedy from Poverty Row entrepreneur Morris R. Schlank, Dugan of the Dugouts starred Danny O'Shea in the...
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Screenwriter, Captain von Brinken
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1928
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1927
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Rin Tin Tin wannabe Ranger is the canine hero of When a Dog Loves. The story gets underway when both Ranger and a valuable...
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Director
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1927
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Better known for his good looks than any acting capabilities, former male model Reed Howes starred in this silent action...
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Director
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1927
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It's too bad that most of Ken Maynard's silent westerns for First National apparently no longer exist. From all accounts, Gun...
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1927
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The Outlaw Dog stars Ranger, one of the better Rin-Tin-Tin rivals, in the title role. When his master is attacked and left...
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Director
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1927
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Director
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1927
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In his final film for poverty row company FBO, silent screen Western star Fred Thomson played a miner who finds himself...
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1927
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James Pierce is one of the lesser-known film Tarzans, partly because this picture -- his debut as an actor -- has apparently...
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Director
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1927
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The fast-paced FBO programmer Aflame in the Sky rather resembles a Tom Mix production -- with Jack Luden standing in for the...
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Director
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1927
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Director
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1927
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This minor oater was the penultimate silent western starring the strapping Tom Tyler. Produced by poverty-row company...
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Director, Producer
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1926
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In his first Western for First National and producer Charles J. Rogers, Ken Maynard played Don Luis O'Flagherty, a daredevil...
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Jesse Wilks
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1926
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Universal cowboy Jack Hoxie's lesser known brother, Al, starred in a series of extremely low-budget westerns produced by...
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Director
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1926
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Helen Holmes, who had specialized in railroad melodramas since her days with the Kalem series The Hazards of Helen, once...
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Director
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1926
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Yet another long-lost silent railroad melodrama from the husband-and-wife team of J.P. McGowan and Helen Holmes, Peril of the...
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Director, Producer
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1926
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Lower-echelon Western star Bob Reeves headlined this parsimonious silent oater directed by veteran J.P. McGowan. Reeves and...
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Director
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1926
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A gang of counterfeiters are using the mountain division of the Pacific Coast Railroad for their nefarious purpose in this...
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Director
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1926
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Reed Howes, the original Arrow Collar man, stars in the action-packed Danger Quest. Set amongst the African diamond mines,...
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Colonel Spiffy
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1926
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Director
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1926
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Director, Screenwriter
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1925
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Director
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1925
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Director
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1925
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Boxing manager Jim Curtis (J.P. McGowan) insists that if Billy Griffin (Billy Sullivan, real-life nephew of heavyweight...
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James Curtis
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1925
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Old Thorpe
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1925
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This obscure silent Western was one in a series of ultra-cheap oaters produced by Jesse J. Goldburg's Independent Pictures....
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Director
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1925
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A young man is looked upon as a coward because of an affliction that causes him to tremble in this bizarre silent melodrama....
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1925
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Yet another white-washing of the legendary outlaw, this long-lost silent Western featured Franklin Farnum (presumably in the...
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Director
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1925
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In one of his better efforts, silent screen cowboy Bill Cody plays Larry O'Donnell, the "Sheriff" of the title, who comes...
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Director
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1925
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J.P. McGowan, who specialized in directing low-budget action pictures during the silent era, focuses on bootlegging here....
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Director, Producer, Steve Redding
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1925
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Jesse J. Goldburg's small-scale Independent Pictures scooped the competition when they managed to hire such proven box-office...
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Director
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1925
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Director
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1924
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Even if the seal of the American Legion didn't appear at the beginning of this Monogram feature, it would be pretty obvious...
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Director
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1924
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A hero, his horse, a girl, a villain, a moppet and a black sidekick were the main ingredients of this minor silent western...
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Director
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1924
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Silent screen Western star Franklyn Farnum played a stagecoach agent in this inexpensive oater from Jesse J. Goldburg's...
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Director
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1924
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This melodrama about jewel smugglers -- a starring vehicle for J.P. McGowan, who also directed and wrote the screenplay --...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1923
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Alcoholic Captain Morgan (J.P. McGowan) promises his girlfriend, Mary Weems (Helen Holmes), not to touch the devil hop while...
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Director, Capt. Morgan
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1923
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J.P. McGowan certainly knew how to make his adventure films exciting on a shoestring budget. Even though this picture was...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Captain Brandt/The Dragon
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1922
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Usually laboring in the netherworld of poverty row, actor-director J.P. McGowan was assigned solid production values and a...
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Director
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1921
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Universal's top serial queen, Grace Cunard was all set to start this sequel to the popular Elmo the Mighty (1919) when felled...
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1920
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Helen Holmes and Leo Maloney, who battled their way through quite a few chapters of the seemingly endless The Hazards of...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1917
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The popular star-director team of Helen Holmes and J. P. Gowan (they were also husband and wife) once more delivered the...
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Director
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1916
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Having left the lucrative Kalem series The Hazards of Helen, energetic Helen Holmes founded her own company, Signal Film...
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Director
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1916
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Although this picture was adapted from a novel by Vaughn Kester, it was shot primarily because of controversy over a...
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Director
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1916
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In this action-packed crime adventure, Helen Holmes plays adventuress Helen, who works with a gang of diamond smugglers....
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Director
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1916
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Director
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1915
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In The Leap from the Water Tower, the ninth installment of Kalem's The Hazards of Helen action series, railroad maintenance...
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Director
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1915
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A rare extant episode in the long-running series The Hazards of Helen, The Pay Train starred the original "Helen,"...
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Director
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1915
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One of the few surviving chapters in the 119-episode railroad series The Hazards of Helen, In Danger's Path features future...
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Director
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1915
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The Wild Engine was episode 26 in the long-running The Hazards of Helen series of railroad two-reelers starring Helen Holmes...
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Director
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1915
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Thomas Webb (Donald Brian), a modest haberdashery clerk in London, finds out that he has inherited a small sum, plus the...
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Director
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1915
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Kalem's serial The Hazards of Helen has been the source of controversy over the years, though mainly such controversy has...
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Director
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1914
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During its brief but colorful history, the pioneering Kalem company turned out a number of box-office successes. Foremost...
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1912
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