John St. Polis

John St. Polis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John M. St. Polis (November 24, 1873 – October 8, 1946) was an American actor. St. Polis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Before starting his film career, he made a name for himself on the Broadway stage, most notably in the role of Frederik in the original production of The Return of Peter Grimm (1911–12) and the play's revival in 1921, both performed at the Belasco Theatre. He appeared in 126 films between 1914 and 1943. In all of his early roles, the actor is billed as John Sainpolis. His best-known performances are as Etienne Laurier in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and as Comte Phillipe de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (1925). St. Polis successfully made the transition from silent cinema to "talkies" with one of his most praised performances as Dr. John M. Besant, the father of Norma Besant (played by Mary Pickford) in Coquette (1929).

  • Title: John St. Polis
  • Popularity: 2.772
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1873-11-24
  • Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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  • Also Known As: John M. Sainpolis, Johnny Sainpolis, John Sainpolis, John Saintpolis, John M. St. Polis, John Marie Sainpolis
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John St. Polis Movies

  • 1925
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    The Phantom of the Opera

    The Phantom of the Opera

    7.1 1925 HD

    The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Wong, Detective

    Mr. Wong, Detective

    5.5 1938 HD

    A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So Detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two...

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  • 1914
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    Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors

    Joseph and His Coat of Many Colors

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1930
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    The Bad One

    The Bad One

    6 1930 HD

    In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a...

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  • 1931
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    The Criminal Code

    The Criminal Code

    6.04 1931 HD

    After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10...

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  • 1922
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    Shadows

    Shadows

    6.1 1922 HD

    Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin...

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  • 1924
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    Those Who Dance

    Those Who Dance

    1 1924 HD

    A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to...

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  • 1928
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    A Woman's Way

    A Woman's Way

    1 1928 HD

    Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.

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  • 1930
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    The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters

    1 1930 HD

    A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film...

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  • 1918
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    Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

    Stake Uncle Sam to Play Your Hand

    1 1918 HD

    The Kaiser is playing cards with King Albert of Italy, who loses, but is rescued by Miss Liberty Loan.

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  • 1929
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    Coquette

    Coquette

    5.615 1929 HD

    A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.

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  • 1932
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    Symphony of Six Million

    Symphony of Six Million

    5.4 1932 HD

    A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to...

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  • 1917
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    Sapho

    Sapho

    1 1917 HD

    The classic story of a flower girl from the slums who becomes Sapho.

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  • 1917
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    The Fortunes of Fifi

    The Fortunes of Fifi

    1 1917 HD

    Fifi is an actress in Napoleon-era France. She wins a lottery and leaves Cartouche, the man she loves to go live with a rich family. The conniving...

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  • 1935
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    A Night at the Opera

    A Night at the Opera

    7.4 1935 HD

    The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera...

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  • 1931
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    Heartbreak

    Heartbreak

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Shadow Strikes

    The Shadow Strikes

    4.6 1937 HD

    Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the...

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  • 1940
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    On the Spot

    On the Spot

    5.3 1940 HD

    Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into...

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  • 1933
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    The World Gone Mad

    The World Gone Mad

    4.3 1933 HD

    A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.

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  • 1932
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    The Match King

    The Match King

    6.6 1932 HD

    Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and...

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.6 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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  • 1937
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    Paradise Isle

    Paradise Isle

    5 1937 HD

    Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).

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  • 1932
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    Lena Rivers

    Lena Rivers

    5.5 1932 HD

    Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their...

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  • 1938
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    Saleslady

    Saleslady

    1 1938 HD

    A young heiress moves away from home, takes a job in a Chicago department store and weds a co-worker who's unaware of his bride's wealthy background.

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  • 1938
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    International Crime

    International Crime

    5.5 1938 HD

    The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an...

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  • 1936
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    The Dark Hour

    The Dark Hour

    5.5 1936 HD

    A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no...

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  • 1936
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    Below the Deadline

    Below the Deadline

    5.2 1936 HD

    After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to...

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  • 1930
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    Party Girl

    Party Girl

    3.3 1930 HD

    Jay Rountree, a young, rising businessman and a son of a wealthy manufacturer gets caught up in a web involving an escort service or 'party girls'...

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  • 1939
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    Boys' Reformatory

    Boys' Reformatory

    5.5 1939 HD

    A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are...

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  • 1923
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    Held to Answer

    Held to Answer

    1 1923 HD

    John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and...

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  • 1932
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    The Crusader

    The Crusader

    5 1932 HD

    Gangsters scheme to get rid of a crusading District Attorney by blackmailing him through his daughter.

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  • 1931
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    The Gay Diplomat

    The Gay Diplomat

    4 1931 HD

    Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one...

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  • 1937
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    Jungle Menace

    Jungle Menace

    5 1937 HD

    Mystery and adventure, surrounding a stolen rubber harvest.

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  • 1930
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    Kismet

    Kismet

    3.5 1930 HD

    Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the...

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  • 1938
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    Phantom Ranger

    Phantom Ranger

    4.2 1938 HD

    A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to...

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  • 1938
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    The Mysterious Rider

    The Mysterious Rider

    6 1938 HD

    Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder. Unrecognized, he gets a job on the...

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  • 1931
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    Transgression

    Transgression

    4 1931 HD

    When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

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  • 1933
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    Notorious But Nice

    Notorious But Nice

    5.5 1933 HD

    A lover selflessly steps aside to let her guy go so he can hook up with a rich dame. Sadly, the goodie good girl ends up marrying some scum bag...

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  • 1933
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    King of the Arena

    King of the Arena

    1 1933 HD

    Mysterious deaths have been occurring in the same towns as Miller's Circus and the Governor has sent Ken Kenton to investigate. Ken joins the show...

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  • 1935
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    Death from a Distance

    Death from a Distance

    4.8 1935 HD

    While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough...

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  • 1935
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    The Lady in Scarlet

    The Lady in Scarlet

    3.5 1935 HD

    When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

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  • 1932
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    False Faces

    False Faces

    4.3 1932 HD

    The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in...

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  • 1917
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    The Public Defender

    The Public Defender

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Great Lover

    The Great Lover

    1 1920 HD

    Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the...

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  • 1939
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    They Shall Have Music

    They Shall Have Music

    5.9 1939 HD

    The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in...

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  • 1924
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    Three Weeks

    Three Weeks

    1 1924 HD

    A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

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  • 1930
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    A Devil with Women

    A Devil with Women

    5.3 1930 HD

    Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's...

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  • 1924
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    Mademoiselle Midnight

    Mademoiselle Midnight

    5.8 1924 HD

    Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first...

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  • 1918
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    All Woman

    All Woman

    1 1918 HD

    Susan Sweeney inherits a country hotel. When she arrives to take possession, she discovers it to be not the palatial resort she believed, but a...

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  • 1918
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    Laughing Bill Hyde

    Laughing Bill Hyde

    1 1918 HD

    Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor,...

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  • 1923
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    Three Wise Fools

    Three Wise Fools

    1 1923 HD

    Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor...

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  • 1932
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    Alias the Doctor

    Alias the Doctor

    5.7 1932 HD

    Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while...

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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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  • 1921
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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    6.6 1921 HD

    Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being...

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  • 1934
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    The President Vanishes

    The President Vanishes

    7 1934 HD

    The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...

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  • 1929
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    Why Be Good?

    Why Be Good?

    6.5 1929 HD

    A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

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  • 1924
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    The Alaskan

    The Alaskan

    1 1924 HD

    An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.

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  • 1937
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    Borderland

    Borderland

    1 1937 HD

    Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along...

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  • 1932
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    The Gambling Sex

    The Gambling Sex

    6 1932 HD

    A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more...

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  • 1936
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    Call of the Prairie

    Call of the Prairie

    5 1936 HD

    Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like Johnny did it. When Johnny flees he runs into...

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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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  • 1930
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    Captain Thunder

    Captain Thunder

    3.8 1930 HD

    A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the...

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  • 1915
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    Wormwood

    Wormwood

    1 1915 HD

    This picture deals with the fates of Gaston Beauvais, an aristocratic young banker of Paris, and Pauline de Chauvilles, his fiancée. Beauvais...

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  • 1931
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    The Yellow Ticket

    The Yellow Ticket

    5 1931 HD

    A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...

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  • 1940
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    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois

    6.8 1940 HD

    Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

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  • 1931
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    Beau Ideal

    Beau Ideal

    4.4 1931 HD

    An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.

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  • 1934
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    Guilty Parents

    Guilty Parents

    4.8 1934 HD

    A young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was...

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  • 1936
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    Three on the Trail

    Three on the Trail

    5 1936 HD

    An evil gang is involved in both cattle rustling and the robbing of stagecoaches. Hoppy must stop them without help from the sheriff who turns out be...

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  • 1931
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    Their Mad Moment

    Their Mad Moment

    5 1931 HD

    Dorothy Mackaill stars in this old-fashioned melodrama set in the Basque country of Spain. She is Emily Stanley, betrothed to foppish Englishman Sir...

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  • 1930
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    In the Next Room

    In the Next Room

    1 1930 HD

    The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...

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  • 1923
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    The Untameable

    The Untameable

    5 1923 HD

    The Most Shocking Film of 1923! Directed by Herbert Blache, The Untameable dramatizes the then-sensational subject of dual personality, with Gladys...

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  • 1940
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    Haunted House

    Haunted House

    4.4 1940 HD

    Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

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  • 1940
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    Rocky Mountain Rangers

    Rocky Mountain Rangers

    1 1940 HD

    Frustrated by their inability to take action against a murderous gang who killed a young boy, Texas Rangers Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Rusty...

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  • 1928
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    The Power of Silence

    The Power of Silence

    1 1928 HD

    Would An Innocent Woman Keep Silent? Would the fear of a murderer's death shake her from the Sphinx-like silence that shielded- who?

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  • 1929
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    Fast Life

    Fast Life

    1 1929 HD

    A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of...

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  • 1925
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    My Lady's Lips

    My Lady's Lips

    1 1925 HD

    A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story...

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  • 1942
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    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    5.9 1942 HD

    A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

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  • 1923
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    Woman-Proof

    Woman-Proof

    1 1923 HD

    At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

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  • 1930
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    The Melody Man

    The Melody Man

    1 1930 HD

    A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young...

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  • 1926
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    The Greater Glory

    The Greater Glory

    1 1926 HD

    A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of...

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  • 1923
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    The Social Code

    The Social Code

    1 1923 HD

    Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.

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  • 1917
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    The Love That Lives

    The Love That Lives

    1 1917 HD

    When her husband Pete is shot over a craps game, Molly McGill goes to work as a scrubwoman to support her two children.

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  • 1926
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    The Lily

    The Lily

    1 1926 HD

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  • 1921
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    Cappy Ricks

    Cappy Ricks

    1 1921 HD

    When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of...

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  • 1924
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    The Rose of Paris

    The Rose of Paris

    1 1924 HD

    A French orphan who grew up in a convent sets out to see Paris. It turns out that she is the heir to a fortune but doesn't know it, and has been...

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  • 1927
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    7.5 1927 HD

    On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he...

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  • 1925
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    Folly of Vanity

    Folly of Vanity

    1 1925 HD

    This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert...

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  • 1925
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    Paint and Powder

    Paint and Powder

    1 1925 HD

    Elaine Hammerstein stars in this independently produced drama. She plays Mary Dolan, a dancer at a Bowery café, who is in love with co-worker...

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  • 1924
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    The Dixie Handicap

    The Dixie Handicap

    1 1924 HD

    Tale of a man and his horse.

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  • 1931
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    Men of the Sky

    Men of the Sky

    1 1931 HD

    In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert....

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  • 1927
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    Too Many Crooks

    Too Many Crooks

    1 1927 HD

    Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred...

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  • 1932
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    Call Her Savage

    Call Her Savage

    5.6 1932 HD

    A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

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  • 1931
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    Doctors' Wives

    Doctors' Wives

    1 1931 HD

    The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin...

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  • 1916
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    The Salamander

    The Salamander

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1917
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    The Mystic Hour

    The Mystic Hour

    1 1917 HD

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