Billy Franey
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.657 |
Birthday | 1889-06-23 |
Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Also Known As | William Gerald Franey, William Franey, Wm. Franey, Bill Franey, Billie Franey, |
1940
The Fargo Kid
6.5/4
The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...
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The Fargo Kid
1932
Dumb Dicks
0/0
Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.
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Dumb Dicks
1932
Guests Wanted
0/0
Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs, bellho...
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Guests Wanted
1920
The Cameraman
0/0
Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the...
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The Cameraman
1940
Bullet Code
5.6/5
Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has w...
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Bullet Code
1937
Tramp Trouble
0/0
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man....
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Tramp Trouble
1937
Dumb's the Word
0/0
Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin Ro...
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Dumb's the Word
1920
The Water Plug
5/1
Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up t...
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The Water Plug
1938
Beaux and Errors
0/0
To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them. In...
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Beaux and Errors
1938
The Dummy Owner
0/0
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of reco...
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The Dummy Owner
1916
She Wrote a Play and Played It
5/1
Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested writin...
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She Wrote a Play and Played It
1921
The Plumber
0/0
A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!
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The Plumber
1929
Cheyenne
0/0
Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help h...
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Cheyenne
1928
The Glorious Trail
0/0
After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out...
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The Glorious Trail
1928
The Canyon of Adventure
0/0
Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian aren'...
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The Canyon of Adventure
1933
The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
0/0
Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a bur...
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The Fiddlin' Buckaroo
1929
No Children
0/0
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
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No Children
1930
Love Among the Millionaires
6/2
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he and...
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Love Among the Millionaires
1939
Baby Daze
0/0
Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he dis...
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Baby Daze
1938
Next Time I Marry
6.8/6
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would s...
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Next Time I Marry
1937
Exclusive
6/1
When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C...
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Exclusive
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
7/36
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
The Marshal Of Mesa City
8/1
A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.
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The Marshal Of Mesa City
1940
Mutiny in the County
0/0
53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.
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Mutiny in the County
1921
The Bath Dub
0/0
Billy Franey comedy
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The Bath Dub
1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
4/2
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysteriou...
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1931
Forgotten Women
0/0
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article re...
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Forgotten Women
1940
The Saint's Double Trouble
5.6/11
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
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The Saint's Double Trouble
1934
The Dancing Millionaire
0/0
The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition
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The Dancing Millionaire
1940
Triple Justice
6/1
Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...
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Triple Justice
1925
Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
0/0
When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit Car...
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Kit Carson Over the Great Divide
1920
The Paper Hangers
0/0
Even the story is pretty much a retread of something out of a lesser Keystone from 1915. They eat paste. They make a general mess and they get involve...
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The Paper Hangers
1935
Border Brigands
0/0
Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.
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Border Brigands
1934
The Star Packer
4.4/33
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.
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The Star Packer
1936
Give Us This Night
7/1
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Meriv...
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Give Us This Night
1931
The Avenger
5.8/4
Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three,...
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The Avenger
1932
Come On, Tarzan
5/1
Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who gathers...
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Come On, Tarzan
1933
The Gallant Fool
0/0
The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the cit...
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The Gallant Fool
1927
She's a Sheik
0/0
The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.
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She's a Sheik
1940
'Taint Legal
0/0
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wif...
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'Taint Legal
1929
The Broadway Hoofer
1/1
Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bob...
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The Broadway Hoofer
1931
Freighters of Destiny
0/0
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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Freighters of Destiny
1932
The Night of June 13
7/2
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudi...
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The Night of June 13
1936
Dummy Ache
4/3
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Mis...
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Dummy Ache
1938
Ears of Experience
0/0
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...
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Ears of Experience
1940
Sunk by the Census
0/0
Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to sup...
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Sunk by the Census
1939
Clock Wise
0/0
Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.
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Clock Wise
1936
Wholesailing Along
0/0
Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.
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Wholesailing Along
1915
A Millionaire for a Minute
0/0
Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.
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A Millionaire for a Minute
1938
A Clean Sweep
0/0
Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to...
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A Clean Sweep
1940
A Trailer Tragedy
0/0
Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance comp...
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A Trailer Tragedy
1921
The Chef
10/1
Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.
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The Chef
1920
The Moonshiner
0/0
A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.
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The Moonshiner
1921
Why Worry
0/0
George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a you...
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Why Worry
1925
Salute
0/0
Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.
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Salute
1933
Somewhere in Sonora
5/11
John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
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Somewhere in Sonora
1927
Custard's Last Stand
0/0
A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.
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Custard's Last Stand
1939
Panama Lady
5.6/5
A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pa...
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Panama Lady
1930
Loose Ankles
4.4/5
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the appr...
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Loose Ankles
1925
The Great Sensation
0/0
Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful...
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The Great Sensation
1924
Circus Lure
0/0
Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a st...
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Circus Lure
1939
Maid to Order
0/0
Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Min...
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Maid to Order
1937
Edgar & Goliath
0/0
Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his neighb...
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Edgar & Goliath
1939
Kennedy the Great
0/0
A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life...
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Kennedy the Great
1924
Let Him Buck
0/0
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Let Him Buck
1925
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
10/1
S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia Picture...
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S.O.S. Perils of the Sea
1915
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
0/0
First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in...
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery
1927
Out All Night
0/0
A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.
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Out All Night
1921
The Janitor
0/0
Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get lou...
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The Janitor
1916
A Shadowed Shadow
5/1
A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock
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A Shadowed Shadow
1928
Under the Tonto Rim
0/0
Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who after...
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Under the Tonto Rim
1915
Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
5/1
This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On th...
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Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry
1937
Quick Money
4/3
Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying...
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Quick Money
1924
The White Panther
0/0
Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil Goldston...
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The White Panther
1929
Anne Against the World
0/0
Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The prod...
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Anne Against the World
1926
She's a Prince
0/0
Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper socie...
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She's a Prince
1926
Code of the Northwest
0/0
A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.
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Code of the Northwest
1927
Red Signals
0/0
Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to ear...
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Red Signals
1933
War of the Range
0/0
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against so...
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War of the Range
1926
The Dead Line
0/0
An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.
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The Dead Line
1922
A Western Demon
0/0
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A Western Demon
1926
King of the Saddle
0/0
A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the na...
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King of the Saddle
1932
The Iceman's Ball
1/1
Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner believes...
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The Iceman's Ball
1928
Romance of a Rogue
0/0
A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.
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Romance of a Rogue
1922
Quincy Adams Sawyer
0/0
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
1926
Fangs of Vengeance
0/0
A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.
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Fangs of Vengeance
1934
No More Women
4.5/2
Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at...
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No More Women
1932
Partners
0/0
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
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Partners
1929
The Royal Rider
0/0
Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance. The...
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The Royal Rider
1934
The Shadow Gang
0/0
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse poundi...
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The Shadow Gang
1926
The King of the Turf
0/0
Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to j...
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The King of the Turf
1925
The Iron Mule
5.8/12
A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. Th...
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The Iron Mule
1916
The Inspector's Double
5/1
It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and M...
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The Inspector's Double
1916
Bashful Charley's Proposal
0/0
The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a daugh...
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Bashful Charley's Proposal
1917
The Masked Marvels
5/1
Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to see...
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The Masked Marvels
1917
When Damon Fell for Pythias
0/0
The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both are...
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
1936
Ride 'Em Cowboy
0/0
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
1927
The Royal American
0/0
Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where hi...
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The Royal American
1934
'Neath the Arizona Skies
4.569/30
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease....
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'Neath the Arizona Skies
1920
Trouble
3/1
A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.
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Trouble
1940
Stage to Chino
4.8/3
To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.
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Stage to Chino
1919
The Yellow Dog Catcher
0/0
The misadventures of a dog catcher
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The Yellow Dog Catcher
1934
Western Racketeers
0/0
Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher doesn'...
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Western Racketeers
1934
The Fuller Gush Man
0/0
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
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The Fuller Gush Man
1932
The Miracle Man
5.6/5
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and use...
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The Miracle Man
1921
The New Member
0/0
After getting involved in a series of fist fights, Billy Franey scrawls into a reunion from the Order of Wriggle Fingers.
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