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poster Danger Lights

Danger Lights

74mn - Adventure, Drama

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes…

poster His New Job

His New Job

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he fina…

poster Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

96mn - Horror, Mystery, Short

When a gentle but mentally disabled man is wrongfully accused and murdered by vigilantes, their sense of justice becomes their nightmare as a vengeful scarecrow begins hunting them down one by one in this…

poster Rage at Dawn

Rage at Dawn

87mn - Action, Western

In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serve…

poster His New Profession

His New Profession

Charlie takes care of a man in a wheelchair.

poster Goodbye Charlie

Goodbye Charlie

116mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance

When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend a…

poster The Masquerader

The Masquerader

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.

poster The Mighty

The Mighty

72mn - Action, Drama, Crime

A hardened gangster's life transforms when he's drafted into World War I, rising from mob enforcer to decorated war hero. Upon returning home, he must honor a dying promise to a fallen comrade while accep…

poster The Roaring Road

The Roaring Road

58mn - Drama, Comedy

"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his dau…

D.O.A.

83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery

Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…

poster The Laird of McGillicuddy

The Laird of McGillicuddy

Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her engagement to Charles. Out of revenge, Charles and his friends turn Kees the milkman into a Scottish lord,…

poster The Coward

The Coward

69mn - Drama, War, History

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 father to enlist in the Confederate army. He is terrifi…

poster Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

67mn - Action, Adventure, Mystery

Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.

poster Rector's to Claremont

Rector's to Claremont

When a group of diners boards a carriage, one man is left behind and chases after them on foot.

Sand

Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preyin…

A Woman

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the ben…

poster Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight

61mn - Comedy, Crime, Horror

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a s…

poster Chinatown Nights

Chinatown Nights

83mn - Drama, Action, Crime

When bored socialite Joan Fry ventures into San Francisco's Chinatown seeking excitement, she becomes caught in the violent crossfire of a brutal gang war and falls for Chuck Riley, the ruthless white lea…

Dinty

72mn - Adventure, Comedy

Dinty is a newsboy whose fight to care for his ailing mother leads him into conflicts with the other boys on the street and then with drug smugglers in Chinatown.

poster By the Sun's Rays

By the Sun's Rays

11mn - Western, Action

The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigati…

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