Charles Ray

Charles Ray

From Wikipedia Charles Edgar Ray (March 15, 1891 – November 23, 1943) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Ray rose to fame during the mid-1910s portraying young wholesome hicks in silent comedy films. Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and moved to Springfield as a child where he attended elementary school. He then moved to Arizona for a time before finally relocating to Los Angeles where he finished his education. He initially began his career on the stage before working for director Thomas H. Ince as a film extra in December 1912. He appeared in several bit parts before moving on to supporting roles. Ray's break came in 1915 when he appeared opposite Frank Keenan in the historical war drama The Coward. Ray's popularity increased after appearing in a series of films which cast him in juvenile roles, primarily young hicks or "country bumpkins" that foiled the plans of thieves or con men. In March 1917, he signed with Paramount Pictures and resumed working with director Thomas H. Ince. By 1920, he was earning a reported $11,000 a week. Around this time, he left Paramount after studio head Adolph Zukor refused to give him a pay raise. Zukor later wrote in his autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, that Ray's ego had gotten out of hand and that Ray "...was headed for trouble and  did not care to be with him when he found it." After leaving Paramount, Ray formed his own production company, Charles Ray Productions, and also used his fortune to purchase a studio in Los Angeles where he began producing and shooting his own films. On November 23, 1943, Ray died of a mouth and throat infection at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles for which he had been hospitalized six weeks prior. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Charles Ray has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard.

  • Title: Charles Ray
  • Popularity: 1.534
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1891-03-15
  • Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: Charles Edgar Alfred Ray, Charles E. Ray, Charles Edgar Ray
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  • 1916
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    The Wolf Woman

    The Wolf Woman

    1 1916 HD

    An narcissistic woman with the ability to charm, Leila Aradella reaps delight from preying upon weak men. Her first victim is John Morton, a talented...

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  • 1918
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    The Family Skeleton

    The Family Skeleton

    1 1918 HD

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  • 1926
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    Sweet Adeline

    Sweet Adeline

    1 1926 HD

    A shy and sensitive young man is disregarded by his parents and his older brother. Bill becomes jealous and schemes to send his brother away when Ben...

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  • 1935
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    Welcome Home

    Welcome Home

    1 1935 HD

    A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to...

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  • 1918
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    Playing the Game

    Playing the Game

    1 1918 HD

    Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the...

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  • 1925
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    Percy

    Percy

    1 1925 HD

    Western melodrama about a sheltered youth who makes his way out West by playing the fiddle.

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  • 1915
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    The Grudge

    The Grudge

    1 1915 HD

    A Western tale of revenge and redemption.

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  • 1915
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    The Conversion of Frosty Blake

    The Conversion of Frosty Blake

    1 1915 HD

    Rev. Horace Brightray, pastor of a New England village church, is ordered by his physician to seek another climate. He goes to Agua Caliente, where...

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  • 1918
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    Staking His Life

    Staking His Life

    1 1918 HD

    In this re-edited, re-titled version of 'Conversion of Frosty Blake, The (1915)', some character names are changed but the story, of a New England...

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  • 1919
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    The Sheriff's Son

    The Sheriff's Son

    1 1919 HD

    Sheriff's son Royal Beaudry is thought a coward, even by the young woman he has his heart set on. But he disproves cowardice when he rescues his...

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  • 1931
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    Stars of Yesterday

    Stars of Yesterday

    1 1931 HD

    Stars of Yesterday documentary film.

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  • 1961
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    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

    1 1961 HD

    A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

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  • 1913
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    The Boomerang

    The Boomerang

    1 1913 HD

    Virginia Chester visits her Aunt Betty who resides near an army post. Lieut. Calhoun falls in love with Virginia, and after a whirlwind courtship...

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  • 1913
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    Old Mammy's Secret Code

    Old Mammy's Secret Code

    1 1913 HD

    Jim Black, learning that his rival, David Durard, son of Colonel Durard, wealthy Southern wholesale grocers, has won the heart of Marion, plans to...

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  • 1913
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    For Mother's Sake

    For Mother's Sake

    1 1913 HD

    For Mother's Sake is a 1913 silent film.

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  • 1915
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    The Renegade

    The Renegade

    1 1915 HD

    A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.

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  • 1913
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    The Transgressor

    The Transgressor

    1 1913 HD

    A story of Puritan village life. The son of a minister wins a girl away from her devoted fisherman. Orphaned, she is adopted by the minister, and...

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  • 1914
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    The Gangsters and the Girl

    The Gangsters and the Girl

    1 1914 HD

    Molly Ashley, a child of the slums, is charged with being an accomplice to a shoplifter. Although innocent, she is convicted of shoplifting and...

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  • 1915
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    The Cup of Life

    The Cup of Life

    1 1915 HD

    Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a...

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  • 1916
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    Honor Thy Name

    Honor Thy Name

    1 1916 HD

    The pride of his aristocratic Southern family, a young man shatters his family's hopes by marrying a Broadway vamp known as "The Moth." The young...

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  • 1915
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    The Forbidden Adventure

    The Forbidden Adventure

    1 1915 HD

    Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess,...

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  • 1917
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    The Weaker Sex

    The Weaker Sex

    1 1917 HD

    Jack Harding, a wealthy ne'er-do-well, becomes involved with a Broadway vamp. When she is murdered, Jack is falsely accused of the crime and must...

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  • 1916
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    Home

    Home

    1 1916 HD

    Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her...

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  • 1923
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    The Courtship of Miles Standish

    The Courtship of Miles Standish

    1 1923 HD

    A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious...

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  • 1920
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    45 Minutes from Broadway

    45 Minutes from Broadway

    1 1920 HD

    Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his...

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  • 1934
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    The Camera Speaks

    The Camera Speaks

    4 1934 HD

    In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.

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  • 1942
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    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    7 1942 HD

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...

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  • 1917
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    The Son of His Father

    The Son of His Father

    1 1917 HD

    A young man with little ambition is given an opportunity to set himself up in business by means of financial support from his father. But the young...

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  • 1926
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    The Fire Brigade

    The Fire Brigade

    3.5 1926 HD

    Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that...

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  • 1915
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    The Coward

    The Coward

    5.7 1915 HD

    Set during the American Civil War, Keenan stars as a Virginia colonel and Charles Ray as his weak-willed son. The son is forced, at gunpoint, by his...

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  • 1935
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    Just My Luck

    Just My Luck

    1 1935 HD

    Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formula for an indestructible rubber, called Durex,...

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  • 1934
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    By Your Leave

    By Your Leave

    3 1934 HD

    A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

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  • 1934
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    Ticket to a Crime

    Ticket to a Crime

    4 1934 HD

    After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the...

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  • 1927
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    Getting Gertie's Garter

    Getting Gertie's Garter

    7.3 1927 HD

    Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his...

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  • 1931
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    The House That Shadows Built

    The House That Shadows Built

    7 1931 HD

    The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of...

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  • 1918
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    The Claws of the Hun

    The Claws of the Hun

    1 1918 HD

    An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.

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  • 1922
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    Gas, Oil and Water

    Gas, Oil and Water

    1 1922 HD

    George Watson may seem like a harmless gas-station attendant, but in reality he is a secret government agent, intent on ferreting out a gang of...

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  • 1913
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    The Grey Sentinel

    The Grey Sentinel

    1 1913 HD

    Tom Carson, a southerner, with his daughter, Grace, is the keeper of the Grey Sentinel Lighthouse. John Adams, the sweetheart of Grace, returns from...

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  • 1916
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    The Dividend

    The Dividend

    1 1916 HD

    Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into...

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  • 1919
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    The Busher

    The Busher

    5.1 1919 HD

    A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.

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  • 1927
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    Vanity

    Vanity

    1 1927 HD

    Barbara Fiske, a beautiful girl of social standing, is about to be married to Lloyd Van Courtland. On the eve of their marriage, she foolishly pays a...

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  • 1928
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    The Garden of Eden

    The Garden of Eden

    5.6 1928 HD

    Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually...

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  • 1926
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    The Auction Block

    The Auction Block

    1 1926 HD

    Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane,...

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  • 1918
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    His Own Home Town

    His Own Home Town

    1 1918 HD

    Jimmy Duncan, the son of the well-respected Reverend Duncan, takes over his local newspaper as manager. He takes on the criminal element in town with...

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  • 1918
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    String Beans

    String Beans

    1 1918 HD

    Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the...

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  • 1917
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    Sudden Jim

    Sudden Jim

    1 1917 HD

    James Ashe sends his son James Jr. off to manage a family-owned logging mill. While attending to his duties, James Jr. falls in love with a beautiful...

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  • 1918
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    The Hired Man

    The Hired Man

    1 1918 HD

    Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to college. But when his girlfriend's brother gets in...

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  • 1917
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    The Millionaire Vagrant

    The Millionaire Vagrant

    1 1917 HD

    Wealthy young man Steven du Peyster encounters more adventures than he might have expected when he accepts a wager that he can live successfully on...

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  • 1936
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    Hollywood Boulevard

    Hollywood Boulevard

    2.5 1936 HD

    With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

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  • 1941
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    The Lady from Cheyenne

    The Lady from Cheyenne

    5.2 1941 HD

    Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

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  • 1917
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    The Clodhopper

    The Clodhopper

    5 1917 HD

    Everett Nelson is a naive young farmboy. Following unjust treatment on the farm, he runs away to the big city. There he encounters a showman who...

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  • 1913
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    The Quakeress

    The Quakeress

    1 1913 HD

    The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart. The local minister,...

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  • 1915
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    The Lure of Woman

    The Lure of Woman

    1 1915 HD

    John Found, a well-educated American Indian, works as an interpreter on an army post in the West. Although John Lane, a post officer, loves Katie...

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  • 1934
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    Ladies Should Listen

    Ladies Should Listen

    5.8 1934 HD

    The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over...

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  • 1941
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    The Man Who Lost Himself

    The Man Who Lost Himself

    4 1941 HD

    John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

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  • 1943
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    Slightly Dangerous

    Slightly Dangerous

    5.8 1943 HD

    Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

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  • 1922
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    The Deuce of Spades

    The Deuce of Spades

    1 1922 HD

    Amos, a Boston beanery owner inherits a restaurant out West and goes out to make his fortune. Unfortunately, the local card sharps take his last dime...

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  • 1927
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    The American

    The American

    1 1927 HD

    Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots...

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  • 1925
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    Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    1 1925 HD

    Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money...

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  • 1917
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    Back of the Man

    Back of the Man

    1 1917 HD

    Larry Thomas works as a minor employee in a large insurance company. He loves Ellen Horton, who has great faith in him. When Larry is falsely accused...

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  • 1916
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    Plain Jane

    Plain Jane

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1920
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    A Village Sleuth

    A Village Sleuth

    1 1920 HD

    A bumbling would-be detective always seems to reach the wrong conclusion, but one day accidentally stumbles across a real crook, guilty of a real...

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  • 1915
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    In the Tennessee Hills

    In the Tennessee Hills

    1 1915 HD

    In an impoverished Tennessee hill town, Jim cares for his dangerously ill mother in a run-down shack he rents from the ruthless landlord John...

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  • 1920
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    Alarm Clock Andy

    Alarm Clock Andy

    1 1920 HD

    Andy is a timid young man who lives his life completely in the power of his friends, his boss, and his family. But fortune suddenly smiles on him,...

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  • 1920
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    An Old Fashioned Boy

    An Old Fashioned Boy

    5.8 1920 HD

    David Warrington is an old-fashioned boy, not very familiar with modern girls. When the girl of his dreams lets her kiss him, he thinks that seals...

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  • 1920
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    Homer Comes Home

    Homer Comes Home

    1 1920 HD

    Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two...

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  • 1917
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    The Pinch Hitter

    The Pinch Hitter

    1 1917 HD

    Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star...

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  • 1919
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    Bill Henry

    Bill Henry

    1 1919 HD

    Bill Henry Jenkins is a country boy on the lookout for a good career. He faces numerous obstacles, including losing his sales job when his bicycle is...

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  • 1917
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    His Mother's Boy

    His Mother's Boy

    1 1917 HD

    After his father dies amidst rumors that he was an oil swindler, Matthew Denton goes to Texas to discover the truth. But he has been spoiled by his...

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  • 1942
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    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita

    5.8 1942 HD

    Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

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  • 1919
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    Greased Lightning

    Greased Lightning

    10 1919 HD

    Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is...

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  • 1920
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    Paris Green

    Paris Green

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1916
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    Peggy

    Peggy

    1 1916 HD

    The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is...

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  • 1926
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    Paris

    Paris

    7 1926 HD

    The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.

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  • 1934
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    School for Girls

    School for Girls

    6 1934 HD

    After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder....

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  • 1941
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    Appointment for Love

    Appointment for Love

    5.2 1941 HD

    Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her...

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  • 1916
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    The Deserter

    The Deserter

    1 1916 HD

    Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him,...

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  • 1922
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    A Tailor-Made Man

    A Tailor-Made Man

    1 1922 HD

    A tailor tries to pass himself off in high society by wearing some of his rich customer's clothes.

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  • 1919
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    Hay Foot, Straw Foot

    Hay Foot, Straw Foot

    1 1919 HD

    Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from...

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  • 1921
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    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    The Old Swimmin' Hole

    1 1921 HD

    The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and as he relaxes in the country is depicted.

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  • 1919
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    The Egg Crate Wallop

    The Egg Crate Wallop

    1 1919 HD

    Assistant to freight express agent Dave Haskell in the town of Pitt's Junction, Jim Kelly develops strong biceps lifting egg crates onto the daily...

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  • 1924
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    Dynamite Smith

    Dynamite Smith

    1 1924 HD

    Gladstone Smith, a fearful young reporter, gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska, along with the killer's wife, who is...

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  • 1923
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    The Girl I Loved

    The Girl I Loved

    1 1923 HD

    John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But...

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  • 1942
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    The Mad Martindales

    The Mad Martindales

    5 1942 HD

    A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

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  • 1922
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    Gas, Oil and Water

    Gas, Oil and Water

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1914
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    The Gangsters and the Girl

    The Gangsters and the Girl

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Deuce of Spades

    The Deuce of Spades

    1 1922 HD

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