Jack Cunningham

Jack Cunningham

Date of Death 4 October1941, Santa Monica, California  (cerebral hemorrhage) One the more prolific and fast working screenwriters in Hollywood. He once completed ten five-reel films in ten-weeks. Between 1918 and 1925 he turned out one hundred full-length films. Had been the editor of The Pittsburgh Leader and The New York Evening Sun. Was working for the publicity department of an Eastern US film company when he decided to try his hand at scenario writing. His father, Maurice Frederick Cunningham (c.1861-1937), was a building contractor who had built many of the Hollywood studios constructed in the early 1920s. Never recovered from a stroke he suffered while working on the film Union Pacific (1939).

  • Title: Jack Cunningham
  • Popularity: 0.609
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1882-04-01
  • Place of Birth: Ionia, Iowa
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Jack Cunningham Movies

  • 1919
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    All Wrong

    All Wrong

    4.5 1919 HD

    Salesman Warren Kent develops the idea of "The Unending Courtship" and manages to convince his new wife Betty of his theory, which entails their...

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  • 1920
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    The House of Whispers

    The House of Whispers

    1 1920 HD

    Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers. Upon undertaking an...

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  • 1919
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    The World Aflame

    The World Aflame

    1 1919 HD

    Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a...

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  • 1920
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    The Green Flame

    The Green Flame

    1 1920 HD

    Country bumpkin Frank Marham comes to New York City to work in a world-famous jewelry store. At the hotel where he lives, Frank meets Ruth Gardner, a...

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  • 1917
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    The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man

    1 1917 HD

    A stagecoach robbery leads to a desperate attempt to round up the bandits.

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  • 1938
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    Professor Beware

    Professor Beware

    6.1 1938 HD

    Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

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  • 1931
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    Clearing the Range

    Clearing the Range

    4.2 1931 HD

    A cowboy rides by night to catch the man who killed his brother.

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  • 1934
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    Wagon Wheels

    Wagon Wheels

    5.1 1934 HD

    A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy...

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  • 1933
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    The Thundering Herd

    The Thundering Herd

    3.8 1933 HD

    A buffalo hunter tries to stop a thief and his minions from stealing hides.

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  • 1918
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    Limousine Life

    Limousine Life

    1 1918 HD

    After leaving her sweetheart Jed Bronson, and small country town life, Minnie Wills (Olive Thomas) obtains a job as a model in a stylish Chicago shop...

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  • 1933
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    Man of the Forest

    Man of the Forest

    5.5 1933 HD

    Beasley, who is after Gayner's land, plans to kidnap his daughter. But Dale overhears their plan and kidnaps her himself. When Gayner arrives to...

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  • 1934
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    Double Door

    Double Door

    6.8 1934 HD

    A domineering money-bags' suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy...

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  • 1933
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    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man

    5.9 1933 HD

    In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for...

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  • 1934
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    The Last Round-up

    The Last Round-up

    1 1934 HD

    Randolph Scott plays Jim Cleve, one of several volunteers keeping the US-Mexican border safe on behalf of American settlers. Ostensibly the hero,...

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  • 1927
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    Captain Salvation

    Captain Salvation

    6.8 1927 HD

    A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.

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  • 1933
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    Sunset Pass

    Sunset Pass

    6 1933 HD

    A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.

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  • 1914
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    In the Fall of '64

    In the Fall of '64

    1 1914 HD

    At a military hall in a Southern mansion the Confederate officers are amusing themselves. Captain Ford is the officer in charge and Virginia, the...

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  • 1932
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    The Rider of Death Valley

    The Rider of Death Valley

    7 1932 HD

    Rigby, Larribee, and Grant each have one third of Bill Joyce's map locating his gold mine. The three plus Joyce's sister Helen head for the mine. An...

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  • 1928
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    The Viking

    The Viking

    6.4 1928 HD

    In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse...

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  • 1923
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    A Gentleman of Leisure

    A Gentleman of Leisure

    1 1923 HD

    Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly...

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  • 1921
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    The Call of the North

    The Call of the North

    1 1921 HD

    Galen Albret (Noah Beery) is the factor, or manager, of an important trading post of the Hudson Bay Company. He's also a jealous and vindictive man,...

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  • 1932
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    The Texas Bad Man

    The Texas Bad Man

    1 1932 HD

    The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of...

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  • 1933
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    Terror Trail

    Terror Trail

    1 1933 HD

    A gang of horse thieves are able to operate because the crooked local sheriff is in cahoots with them. When Tom Mix's beloved horse Tony Jr. is...

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  • 1932
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    The Texas Bad Man

    The Texas Bad Man

    1 1932 HD

    The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of...

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  • 1920
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    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    The Adventures of Daredevil Jack

    1 1920 HD

    Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he...

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  • 1923
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    The Covered Wagon

    The Covered Wagon

    6.1 1923 HD

    Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience...

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  • 1932
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    Flaming Guns

    Flaming Guns

    6 1932 HD

    A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico.

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  • 1933
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    Silent Men

    Silent Men

    1 1933 HD

    In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are...

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  • 1919
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    Playthings of Passion

    Playthings of Passion

    1 1919 HD

    Helen Rowland is indifferent towards her wealthy husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial...

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  • 1928
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    1 1928 HD

    American mining engineer Jim McClellan is in love with Dolores de Silva, daughter of the deposed president of a Latin American country. He becomes...

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  • 1926
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    The Black Pirate

    The Black Pirate

    6.802 1926 HD

    A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

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  • 1926
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    Rocking Moon

    Rocking Moon

    1 1926 HD

    Sasha Larianoff lives on Rocking Moon Island where she runs a blue fox farm with the help of Gary Tynan. Nash, a trader, has a mortgage on the farm,...

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  • 1919
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    Todd of the Times

    Todd of the Times

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1919
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    Todd of the Times

    Todd of the Times

    1 1919 HD

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  • 1931
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    The Guilty Generation

    The Guilty Generation

    6 1931 HD

    The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

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  • 1918
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    The Goddess of Lost Lake

    The Goddess of Lost Lake

    1 1918 HD

    Mary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned from college and when a pair of hunters, Mark Hamilton...

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  • 1918
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    A Law Unto Herself

    A Law Unto Herself

    1 1918 HD

    The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to...

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  • 1919
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    Adele

    Adele

    1 1919 HD

    Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army...

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  • 1924
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    The Man Who Fights Alone

    The Man Who Fights Alone

    1 1924 HD

    John Marble, a construction engineer is stricken by paralysis and begins to envision the growth of love between his wife Marion and his best friend,...

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  • 1934
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    The Old-Fashioned Way

    The Old-Fashioned Way

    7 1934 HD

    The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

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  • 1932
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    The Fourth Horseman

    The Fourth Horseman

    1 1932 HD

    Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly...

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  • 1933
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    Under the Tonto Rim

    Under the Tonto Rim

    1 1933 HD

    Western comedy.

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  • 1921
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    The Rowdy

    The Rowdy

    1 1921 HD

    When retired New England skipper Captain Purcell finds Kit as a baby in a storm, he adopts the child, who grows up to be an adventurous youngster of...

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1918
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    The Bells

    The Bells

    1 1918 HD

    A murderer is driven slowly insane by a sequence of coincidences and suggestive events which will not allow him to escape his own sense of guilt for...

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  • 1931
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    Shanghaied Love

    Shanghaied Love

    1 1931 HD

    Captain Angus Swope (Noab Beery), known as The Black Yankee, skipper of the Golden Bough, treats his crew shamefully and he treats women no better,...

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  • 1931
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    The Guilty Generation

    The Guilty Generation

    6 1931 HD

    The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

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  • 1925
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    Don Q Son of Zorro

    Don Q Son of Zorro

    6.6 1925 HD

    Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heiress. When the officer frames the...

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  • 1939
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    Union Pacific

    Union Pacific

    6.5 1939 HD

    One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

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  • 1923
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    The Light That Failed

    The Light That Failed

    1 1923 HD

    About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places....

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  • 1918
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    Hands Up

    Hands Up

    1 1918 HD

    A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.

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  • 1917
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    A Stormy Knight

    A Stormy Knight

    1 1917 HD

    While relaxing in his cabin one stormy night, John Winton, a rising young businessman who has successfully resisted the institution of marriage, is...

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  • 1923
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    The Heart Raider

    The Heart Raider

    1 1923 HD

    A young troublemaker sets her eyes on a confirmed bachelor.

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  • 1920
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    The Devil to Pay

    The Devil to Pay

    1 1920 HD

    Small town politician and banker Brent Warren is responsible for a murder, but only George Roan is sent to the gallows for it. Roan, however, is...

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  • 1921
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    Where Lights Are Low

    Where Lights Are Low

    5 1921 HD

    The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to...

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  • 1918
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    The Narrow Path

    The Narrow Path

    1 1918 HD

    Marion Clark, a manicurist, is unimpressed by the wealthy but dissipated men who frequent her shop, preferring city editor Dick Strong, who lives in...

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  • 1919
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    It Happened in Paris

    It Happened in Paris

    6 1919 HD

    Penniless aristocrat Yvonne Dupré ekes out a living selling her paintings to a crooked dealer, Leon Naisson, who passes them off as other more...

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  • 1918
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    The Heart of Rachael

    The Heart of Rachael

    1 1918 HD

    Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife,...

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  • 1919
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    The Midnight Stage

    The Midnight Stage

    1 1919 HD

    In this Western, Frank Keenan has a dual role -- kind-hearted gambler John Lynch and evil bandit Big Rivers. The only person who realizes there is a...

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  • 1934
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    It's a Gift

    It's a Gift

    6.5 1934 HD

    After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

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  • 1920
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    The Dream Cheater

    The Dream Cheater

    1 1920 HD

    An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his...

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  • 1918
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    Border Raiders

    Border Raiders

    1 1918 HD

    Ranch owner John Hardy becomes the dupe of Cleo Dade when he marries her and brings her home to be a mother to his daughter Rose.

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  • 1923
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    The Tiger's Claw

    The Tiger's Claw

    1 1923 HD

    Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but...

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  • 1923
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    The Tiger's Claw

    The Tiger's Claw

    1 1923 HD

    Jack Holt plays Sam Sandell, an American engineer working in India who rescues a pretty half-caste girl (Aileen Pringle) from a tiger's attack, but...

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  • 1919
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    The Silver Girl

    The Silver Girl

    1 1919 HD

    Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it...

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  • 1936
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    Easy to Take

    Easy to Take

    1 1936 HD

    To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.

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  • 1938
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    Painted Desert

    Painted Desert

    5.8 1938 HD

    A cowboy and a bandit face off over possession of a valuable mine.

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  • 1923
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    Homeward Bound

    Homeward Bound

    1 1923 HD

    A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there. (lost film)

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  • 1920
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    The Tiger's Coat

    The Tiger's Coat

    5.1 1920 HD

    The film begins in the southern California home of Alexander MacAllister (Lawson Butt) where he is confronting Andrew Hyde (Miles McCarthy) who is...

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  • 1923
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    The Heart Raider

    The Heart Raider

    1 1923 HD

    A young troublemaker sets her eyes on a confirmed bachelor.

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  • 1918
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    The Goddess of Lost Lake

    The Goddess of Lost Lake

    1 1918 HD

    Mary Thorne is the quarter-breed daughter of prospector Marshall Thorne. She has just returned from college and when a pair of hunters, Mark Hamilton...

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  • 1923
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    The Covered Wagon

    The Covered Wagon

    6.1 1923 HD

    Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience...

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  • 1933
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    Silent Men

    Silent Men

    1 1933 HD

    In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are...

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  • 1918
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    A Law Unto Herself

    A Law Unto Herself

    1 1918 HD

    The daughter of a wealthy French vintner, Justine is promised in marriage to German aristocrat Kurt Von Klassner, even though her heart belongs to...

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  • 1923
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    Homeward Bound

    Homeward Bound

    1 1923 HD

    A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there. (lost film)

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  • 1932
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    The Fourth Horseman

    The Fourth Horseman

    1 1932 HD

    Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly...

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  • 1919
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    Playthings of Passion

    Playthings of Passion

    1 1919 HD

    Helen Rowland is indifferent towards her wealthy husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial...

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  • 1923
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    The Light That Failed

    The Light That Failed

    1 1923 HD

    About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places....

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  • 1918
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    Hands Up

    Hands Up

    1 1918 HD

    A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.

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  • 1922
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    Beyond the Rocks

    Beyond the Rocks

    6.2 1922 HD

    A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her...

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  • 1926
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    The Black Pirate

    The Black Pirate

    6.802 1926 HD

    A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

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  • 1921
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    Double Adventure

    Double Adventure

    1 1921 HD

    15 part adventure serial directed by W. S. Van Dyke survives in a Russian archive.

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  • 1935
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    Mississippi

    Mississippi

    6.7 1935 HD

    A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

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