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Hollywood Halfbacks (1931)
Character: N/A
Johnny Harron is watching the Hollywood fire department football team playing a game and decides that he can round up some Hollywood actors that could beat the firemen. Since Johnny Mack Brown is about the only person in the film that even looks like he could play football other than Johnny and stuntman Joe Bonomo, it’s doubtful that the team Harron put together could even beat the Our Gang football team! So, Betty Compson, anxious to see her Hollywood friends win the game, keeps phoning false alarms to the fire department. A Hollywood Thalians Club short.
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The Golden Stallion (1927)
Character: Ewart Garth
The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.
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The Phantom of the North (1929)
Character: Pierre Blanc
In the great white north, a trapper searchers for the thief who has been stealing his furs while a local trader seeks to take advantage of the situation.
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The Chinatown Mystery (1928)
Character: Joe Masters
Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some of the biggest names of the era: director J.P. McGowan, actors Francis Ford and Joe Bonomo (a carnival strongman-turned-actor), producer Trem Carr (who would later help found Monogram Pictures), and a slew of silent-era supporting icons such as Ruth Hiatt, Grace Cunard, and more. Chapter names like “The Clutching Claw,” “The Devil’s Dice, “Galloping Fury,” and “The Invisible Hand” offer all one needs to know of the film’s concerns: to promise and deliver as much action and suspense as possible, and move our intrepid hero and heroine from one perilous situation to another. One of the biggest stars of the early silent era and a successful serials director in his own right, Francis Ford was the brother of director John Ford.
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Heroes of the Flames (1931)
Character: Henchman
Fireman Bob Darrow invents an original chemical fire extinguisher, and his rival, Dan Mitchell, for June Madison, also has his eyes on Bob's invention.
Chapter 1: The Red Peril, Chapter 2: Flaming Hate, Chapter 3: The Fire Trap, Chapter 4: Death's Chariot, Chapter 5: The Avalanche, Chapter 6: The Jaws of Death, Chapter 7: Forest of Fire, Chapter 8: Blank Cartridges, Chapter 9: The House of Terror / The House of Horror, Chapter 10: The Depths of Doom, Chapter 11: A Flaming Death, Chapter 12: The Last Alarm.
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The Sign of the Wolf (1931)
Character: Bud
John Farnum returns from India with the 'secret of the jewels', two small chains that turn sand into jewels. Outlaws know about the chains and are after them. But Tom, sidekick Bud, and the wonder dog King are there to repeatedly fight off their attempts.
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Beasts of Paradise (1923)
Character: Big Jack
Philip Grant attempts to reclaim five million dollars in gold stolen from his fathers' steamer by a submarine.
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Dude Ranch (1931)
Character: Gangster (uncredited)
Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the West isn't wild anymore and most of Carr's guests are bored and about to leave. He is in despair when a caravan carrying a broke-down-and-out troupe of actors---Jennifer, Judd, Mrs. Merridew and her daughter, Alice---crashes down the hill and wrecks the hotel sign.
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The Great Circus Mystery (1925)
Character: Welles 'Red' Landow
Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope artist Trixie Tremaine, and such studio stalwarts as Slim Cole, Sam Polo, Monte Montague, and Albert Prisco
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Noah's Ark (1928)
Character: Aide to Leader of Soldiers (uncredited)
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Character: (uncredited)
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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Heroes of the Wild (1927)
Character: John Kemp
The only key to a young woman's fortune lies in a marking on the leg of a horse called The Ghost of the Gauchos. But the woman's guardian, her uncle, plots to steal her wealth.
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The Last Frontier (1932)
Character: Henchman Joe
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. Presented in serial form in 12 episodes.
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Character: Beast (uncredited)
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
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Vamping Venus (1928)
Character: Simonides the Strongman / Hercules
A present-day stereotypically-Irish American politician is vaulted into ancient Greece after receiving a bump on the head. This film is lost.
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The Lost Special (1932)
Character: Joe
A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.
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The Sea Tiger (1927)
Character: Sebastiano
Julian Ramos is a fisherman in the Canary Islands. As the guardian of his hotheaded younger brother Charles, Julian regards it as his duty to protect the boy from women -- and vice versa. When Charles begins pitching woo at aristocratic Amy, Julian runs interference by pretending to be in love with the girl himself. As time passes, of course, he stops pretending.
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The Flaming Frontier (1926)
Character: Rain-in-the-Face
Bob Langdon, a young Pony Express rider, is given an appointment to West Point, but is forced to leave the academy as the result of political intrigue stirred up by enemies of his friend, General George A. Custer. Bob returns to the west and is made a scout for Custer's 7th Cavalry. At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Custer sends Bob with a message for aid, and Bob becomes the only survivor of the battle.
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The Vanishing Legion (1931)
Character: Stuffy
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
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The King of the Kongo (1929)
Character: Gorilla
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
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Wolves of the North (1924)
Character: Pierre DuPree
Serialized adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other.
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Afraid to Talk (1932)
Character: Party Guest
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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The Phantom of the West (1930)
Character: Keno - Beefy henchman [Chs.1-4, 7-9]
A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Character: Gorilla (uncredited)
In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets failure as the abducted women die.
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You Never Know Women (1926)
Character: The Strong Man
On her way to the theater, Vera, star of a Russian vaudeville troupe, is rescued from a falling girder by Eugene Foster, a wealthy broker who persists in his efforts to win the girl. Foster engages the troupe to perform at his home, and Vera, stunned by a fall, awakens to find Foster pleading his love, while Norodin, her partner who loves her, sees them embrace. Norodin, who performs an underwater stunt, asks Vera not to be present for his act and causes her to believe him dead; heartbroken, Vera tells Foster of her mistake; and enraged, he attempts to seize her. The magician appears, pins Foster to the wall with knives, and advises him to leave before the last blade is thrown.
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