Richard Dix

Richard Dix

Richard Dix was a major leading man at RKO Radio Pictures from 1929 through 1943. He was born Ernest Carlton Brimmer July 18, 1893, in St. Paul, Minnesota. There he was educated, and at the desires of his father, studied to be a surgeon. His obvious acting talent in his school dramatic club led him to leading roles in most of the school plays. At 6' 0" and 180 pounds, Dix excelled in sports, especially football and baseball. These skills would serve him well in the vigorous film roles he would go on to play. After a year at the University of Minnesota he took a position at a bank, spending his evenings training for the stage. His professional start was with a local stock company, and this led to similar work in New York. The death of his father left him with a mother and sister to support. He went to Los Angeles, became leading man for the Morosco Stock Company and his success there got him a contract with Paramount Pictures. His rugged good looks and dark features made him a popular player in westerns. His athletic ability led to his starring role in Paramount's Warming Up (1928), a baseball story and also the studio's first feature with synchronized score and sound effects. His deep voice and commanding presence were perfectly suited for the talkies, and he was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1929, scoring an early triumph in the all-talking mystery drama, Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929). In 1931 he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his masterful performance in Cimarron (1931), winner of the Best Picture Oscar that year. Throughout the 1930s Dix would be a big box-office draw at RKO, appearing in mystery thrillers, potboilers, westerns and programmers. He appeared in the "Whistler" series of mystery films at Columbia in the mid-40s. He retired from films in 1947. He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933. He then married Virginia Webster on June 29, 1934. They had twin boys, Richard Jr. and Robert Dix and an adopted daughter, Sara Sue. Richard Dix the actor, died at age 56 on September 20, 1949.

  • Title: Richard Dix
  • Popularity: 2.224
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1893-07-18
  • Place of Birth: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ernest Carlton Brimmer
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Richard Dix Movies

  • 1942
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    American Empire

    American Empire

    3.8 1942 HD

    Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men...

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  • 1923
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    The Ten Commandments

    The Ten Commandments

    6.571 1923 HD

    The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden...

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  • 1947
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    The Thirteenth Hour

    The Thirteenth Hour

    5.824 1947 HD

    In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.

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  • 1943
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    The Ghost Ship

    The Ghost Ship

    6.254 1943 HD

    Captain Stone's newly recruited officer, Tom Merriam, idolizes his senior who treats him like a friend. But when a couple of his crew members die...

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  • 1944
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    The Whistler

    The Whistler

    5.9 1944 HD

    A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at...

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  • 1935
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    The Tunnel

    The Tunnel

    5.3 1935 HD

    An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

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  • 1946
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    Mysterious Intruder

    Mysterious Intruder

    5.8 1946 HD

    A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.

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  • 1946
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    The Secret of the Whistler

    The Secret of the Whistler

    5.912 1946 HD

    A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

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  • 1944
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    The Mark of the Whistler

    The Mark of the Whistler

    5.9 1944 HD

    A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner,...

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  • 1945
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    The Power of the Whistler

    The Power of the Whistler

    5.8 1945 HD

    A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on...

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  • 1945
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    Voice of the Whistler

    Voice of the Whistler

    5.7 1945 HD

    A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.

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  • 1931
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    Cimarron

    Cimarron

    5.54 1931 HD

    When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...

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  • 1921
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    The Poverty of Riches

    The Poverty of Riches

    1 1921 HD

    John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family...

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  • 1922
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    Yellow Men and Gold

    Yellow Men and Gold

    1 1922 HD

    Parrish, a young author, leaves his study during a storm to answer a call for help. He discovers a dying man and is rewarded with a treasure map,...

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  • 1922
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    Fools First

    Fools First

    1 1922 HD

    Tommy Frazer is one of a gang of crooks lead by "Tony the Wop". Frazer gets caught and is sent up the river for three years on a forgery rap. When he...

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  • 1922
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    The Sin Flood

    The Sin Flood

    1 1922 HD

    Stratton's café is a popular place with the people of Cottonia, a wealthy cotton town on the banks of the Mississippi, installs flood-proof...

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  • 1922
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    The Glorious Fool

    The Glorious Fool

    1 1922 HD

    Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his...

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  • 1923
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    Quicksands

    Quicksands

    5 1923 HD

    Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U....

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  • 1923
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    The Woman with Four Faces

    The Woman with Four Faces

    1 1923 HD

    The woman with four faces is a movie about a woman who happens to be both a thief and a con artist and who cannot be arrested because she is faceless.

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  • 1923
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    Racing Hearts

    Racing Hearts

    1 1923 HD

    Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him...

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  • 1926
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    Say It Again

    Say It Again

    1 1926 HD

    Bob Howard, a WWI wounded soldier in a army hospital, meets and falls in love with Princess Elena. When the Armistice is signed, he is quickly...

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  • 1927
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    Paradise for Two

    Paradise for Two

    1 1927 HD

    Steve Porter, a young American bachelor and fully intending to remain as such, inherits a fortune but must get married in order to claim it.

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  • 1927
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    Man Power

    Man Power

    1 1927 HD

    Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an...

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  • 1927
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    Shanghai Bound

    Shanghai Bound

    1 1927 HD

    Landing at a Chinese port, tough sea captain Bucklin and his passengers are threatened by a marauding war lord, who intends to kill the captain and...

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  • 1927
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    The Gay Defender

    The Gay Defender

    1 1927 HD

    Real-life outlaw Joaquin Murietta, who (according to this film, anyway) is a latter-day Robin Hood, dedicated to driving land-grabbers and corrupt...

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  • 1928
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    Sporting Goods

    Sporting Goods

    1 1928 HD

    Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets...

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  • 1929
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    The Love Doctor

    The Love Doctor

    1 1929 HD

    Gerald Sumner, a young physician and confirmed bachelor, opens his office and finds that he is without patients until a fond mother brings him her...

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  • 1943
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    The Kansan

    The Kansan

    5.2 1943 HD

    Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He...

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  • 1941
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    Badlands of Dakota

    Badlands of Dakota

    5.6 1941 HD

    In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson....

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  • 1932
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    Hell's Highway

    Hell's Highway

    6.1 1932 HD

    A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.

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  • 1932
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    The Lost Squadron

    The Lost Squadron

    6.2 1932 HD

    When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a...

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  • 1936
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    Special Investigator

    Special Investigator

    5.8 1936 HD

    A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

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  • 1939
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    Twelve Crowded Hours

    Twelve Crowded Hours

    5.2 1939 HD

    An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

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  • 1938
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    Blind Alibi

    Blind Alibi

    5.8 1938 HD

    A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.

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  • 1942
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    Eyes of the Underworld

    Eyes of the Underworld

    4 1942 HD

    Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.

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  • 1940
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    Men Against the Sky

    Men Against the Sky

    4.4 1940 HD

    A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane...

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  • 1938
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    Sky Giant

    Sky Giant

    4.7 1938 HD

    Given the job of training young pilots for important post-war cargo flights, hard-boiled Col. Stockton forces ex-officer Stag Cahill back into the...

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  • 1933
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    Ace of Aces

    Ace of Aces

    5.6 1933 HD

    A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the army. He becomes a fighter pilot, and...

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  • 1929
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    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    Seven Keys to Baldpate

    6.3 1929 HD

    A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of...

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  • 1943
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    Buckskin Frontier

    Buckskin Frontier

    6 1943 HD

    A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.

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  • 1925
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    The Vanishing American

    The Vanishing American

    6.4 1925 HD

    A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.

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  • 1929
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    Redskin

    Redskin

    5.2 1929 HD

    Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos...

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  • 1929
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    Nothing But the Truth

    Nothing But the Truth

    5 1929 HD

    A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.

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  • 1937
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    It Happened in Hollywood

    It Happened in Hollywood

    6.2 1937 HD

    A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

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  • 1931
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    The Public Defender

    The Public Defender

    6 1931 HD

    A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

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  • 1933
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    Day of Reckoning

    Day of Reckoning

    5 1933 HD

    In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a...

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  • 1939
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    Man of Conquest

    Man of Conquest

    5.2 1939 HD

    The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.

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  • 1925
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    Womanhandled

    Womanhandled

    7 1925 HD

    Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to...

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  • 1934
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    Stingaree

    Stingaree

    5.9 1934 HD

    A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by...

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  • 1935
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    The Arizonian

    The Arizonian

    1 1935 HD

    Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore...

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  • 1931
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    Secret Service

    Secret Service

    6 1931 HD

    In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.

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  • 1929
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    A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic

    A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic

    4 1929 HD

    A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually...

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  • 1934
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    His Greatest Gamble

    His Greatest Gamble

    5 1934 HD

    A man escapes from jail in France to free his daughter from her mother's hold.

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  • 1930
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    Lovin' the Ladies

    Lovin' the Ladies

    3 1930 HD

    A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to...

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  • 1932
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    The Conquerors

    The Conquerors

    5.7 1932 HD

    A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

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  • 1939
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    Reno

    Reno

    6 1939 HD

    A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

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  • 1943
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    Top Man

    Top Man

    1 1943 HD

    In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

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  • 1939
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    Here I Am a Stranger

    Here I Am a Stranger

    7 1939 HD

    The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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  • 1932
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    Roar of the Dragon

    Roar of the Dragon

    6.2 1932 HD

    A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the...

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  • 1930
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    Shooting Straight

    Shooting Straight

    6 1930 HD

    A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.

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  • 1940
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    The Marines Fly High

    The Marines Fly High

    5.5 1940 HD

    Marine lieutenants Dan and Jim fight bandits in the South American jungle, while competing for the attention of beautiful Joan Grant.

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  • 1925
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    Men and Women

    Men and Women

    1 1925 HD

    Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market. With his newfound...

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  • 1924
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    Icebound

    Icebound

    1 1924 HD

    Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she...

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  • 1923
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    The Christian

    The Christian

    1 1923 HD

    Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery....

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  • 1928
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    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    1 1928 HD

    Dix plays radio announcer Robert Parker, working at a station run by his girlfriend's father. Becoming a bit overexcited on the air, our hero lets...

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  • 1937
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    The Devil Is Driving

    The Devil Is Driving

    1 1937 HD

    In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly...

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  • 1936
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    Yellow Dust

    Yellow Dust

    4 1936 HD

    After he's accused of a series of stagecoach robberies, an innocent man has to find the real crooks.

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  • 1923
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    Souls for Sale

    Souls for Sale

    6.2 1923 HD

    A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

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  • 1933
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    The Great Jasper

    The Great Jasper

    1 1933 HD

    Generational saga about a failed streetcar conductor, who finds success as an Atlantic City fortune teller, and his son. Drama.

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  • 1937
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    Devil's Playground

    Devil's Playground

    6 1937 HD

    A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris....

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  • 1936
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    Devil's Squadron

    Devil's Squadron

    6 1936 HD

    In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies,...

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  • 1934
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    West of the Pecos

    West of the Pecos

    1 1934 HD

    Richard Dix stars as Pecos Smith, a strong, silent Westerner suspected of cattle rustling.

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  • 1940
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    Cherokee Strip

    Cherokee Strip

    4.5 1940 HD

    Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy...

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  • 1933
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    No Marriage Ties

    No Marriage Ties

    4.8 1933 HD

    An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.

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  • 1941
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    The Roundup

    The Roundup

    8 1941 HD

    Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's The Roundup was first filmed in 1920 with Fatty...

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  • 1942
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    Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

    Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

    5.4 1942 HD

    Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

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  • 1931
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    The Stolen Jools

    The Stolen Jools

    5.6 1931 HD

    Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists...

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  • 1926
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    The Quarterback

    The Quarterback

    6 1926 HD

    Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University....

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  • 1925
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    Too Many Kisses

    Too Many Kisses

    5.8 1925 HD

    Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure...

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  • 1925
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    The Lucky Devil

    The Lucky Devil

    6.5 1925 HD

    Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store...

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  • 1926
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    Fascinating Youth

    Fascinating Youth

    1 1926 HD

    Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases...

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  • 1926
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    Let's Get Married

    Let's Get Married

    1 1926 HD

    College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout...

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  • 1928
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    Warming Up

    Warming Up

    1 1928 HD

    Bert, a pitcher for a baseball team in a small town, is given the opportunity to try out for a team in the big leagues. Unfortunately, he incurs the...

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  • 1924
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    The Stranger

    The Stranger

    1 1924 HD

    "The Stranger," an outcast who works in a saloon frequented by Peggy Bowlin, a poor girl suffering through hard times. She finds romance with Larry...

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  • 1931
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    Young Donovan's Kid

    Young Donovan's Kid

    1 1931 HD

    A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

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  • 1923
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    To the Last Man

    To the Last Man

    1 1923 HD

    Feuding ranchers and sheepherders.

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  • 1923
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    The Call of the Canyon

    The Call of the Canyon

    1 1923 HD

    Returning from World War I, Glenn Kilbourne travels to Arizona to regain his health. He meets a local girl, Flo Hutler, who helps him recover. His...

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  • 1925
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    The Shock Punch

    The Shock Punch

    6 1925 HD

    Dan Savage prepares his son, Randall to fight in the business world by having him trained as a pugilist. Randall shows a flare for fisticuffs, so he...

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  • 1928
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    Moran of the Marines

    Moran of the Marines

    1 1928 HD

    Adventures of a marine in China.

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  • 1927
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    Knockout Reilly

    Knockout Reilly

    1 1927 HD

    A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out...

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  • 1925
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    A Man Must Live

    A Man Must Live

    1 1925 HD

    Jeff Farnell, forced by circumstances to take a job on a New York scandal sheet while he awaits the settlement of his claim against a steel company....

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  • 1922
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    The Bonded Woman

    The Bonded Woman

    3 1922 HD

    Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco...

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  • 1929
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    The Wheel of Life

    The Wheel of Life

    1 1929 HD

    British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat is at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan, the wife of his commanding officer, Yeullat...

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  • 1922
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    The Wall Flower

    The Wall Flower

    1 1922 HD

    Idalene Nobbin attends a village dance but, due to the constant nagging of her mother, she believes herself to be a constitutional wallflower. By...

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  • 1924
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    Unguarded Women

    Unguarded Women

    1 1924 HD

    Unguarded Women is a lost 1924 silent film drama. In a battle during the World War, Douglas Albright has a moment of cowardice which causes the...

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  • 1924
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    Sinners in Heaven

    Sinners in Heaven

    1 1924 HD

    Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal island when their plane crashes on the way to...

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  • 1917
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    One of Many

    One of Many

    1 1917 HD

    The home of Mrs. Bryson and her two daughters is happy except for the poverty that prevents the girls from sending their sick mother away to the...

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  • 1921
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    Not Guilty

    Not Guilty

    1 1921 HD

    A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.

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  • 1921
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    All's Fair in Love

    All's Fair in Love

    1 1921 HD

    While golfing, Natalie Marshall meets and falls in love with Bobby Cameron, and after a brief courtship they are married. Just as they are about to...

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  • 1921
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    Dangerous Curve Ahead

    Dangerous Curve Ahead

    1 1921 HD

    Engaged to Harley Jones, fickle Phoebe Mabee flirts with Anson Newton. She and Harley, as a result, break their engagement, but within six months...

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  • 1924
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    Manhattan

    Manhattan

    6 1924 HD

    A wealthy New Yorker falls in love with a burglar's sister.

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  • 1921
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    Not Guilty

    Not Guilty

    1 1921 HD

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