Billy Franey

Billy Franey

  • Title: Billy Franey
  • Popularity: 2.722
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1889-06-23
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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  • Also Known As: William Gerald Franey, William Franey, Wm. Franey, Bill Franey, Billie Franey
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Billy Franey Movies

  • 1924
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    The White Panther

    The White Panther

    1 1924 HD

    Australian star Rex "Snowy" Baker stars in this military melodrama. This was the first of a series of four films Baker made for producer Phil...

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  • 1929
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    Anne Against the World

    Anne Against the World

    1 1929 HD

    Shirley Mason plays the title-role, a glamorous musical star having a hard time escaping the clutches of her lecherous producer (Tom Curran). The...

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  • 1926
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    She's a Prince

    She's a Prince

    1 1926 HD

    Starring comedienne Alice Ardell, whose persona included wearing traditionally masculine garb, who finds herself initiated into a secret flapper...

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  • 1926
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    Code of the Northwest

    Code of the Northwest

    1 1926 HD

    A Mountie and his dog must bring in his wanted brother.

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  • 1927
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    Red Signals

    Red Signals

    1 1927 HD

    Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to...

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  • 1933
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    War of the Range

    War of the Range

    1 1933 HD

    Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against...

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  • 1926
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    The Dead Line

    The Dead Line

    1 1926 HD

    An old prospector, is found murdered and Sonora Slim is accused of the crime. The real killer is actually Silver Sam McGee.

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  • 1922
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    A Western Demon

    A Western Demon

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1926
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    King of the Saddle

    King of the Saddle

    1 1926 HD

    A cowboy discovers that his stock is all but worthless due to the bankruptcy of a ranch owner. The supposedly worthless stock certificate bears the...

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  • 1932
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    The Iceman's Ball

    The Iceman's Ball

    1 1932 HD

    Clark & McCullough are arrested for disturbing the peace. They steal the police car and return it to the station. The new police commissioner...

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  • 1940
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    The Fargo Kid

    The Fargo Kid

    6.5 1940 HD

    The Fargo Kid is mistaken for a killer and is hired to kill another man...

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  • 1928
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    Romance of a Rogue

    Romance of a Rogue

    1 1928 HD

    A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.

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  • 1926
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    Fangs of Vengeance

    Fangs of Vengeance

    1 1926 HD

    A short film starring "Fearless" the dog and directed by William Bertram.

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  • 1922
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    Quincy Adams Sawyer

    Quincy Adams Sawyer

    1 1922 HD

    Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.

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  • 1934
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    No More Women

    No More Women

    4.5 1934 HD

    Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at...

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  • 1932
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    Partners

    Partners

    1 1932 HD

    A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.

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  • 1929
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    The Royal Rider

    The Royal Rider

    1 1929 HD

    Dick Scott takes his Wild West show to the Balkan kingdom of Alvania where the boy king of the country commands the troupe to give a performance....

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  • 1934
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    Western Racketeers

    Western Racketeers

    1 1934 HD

    Cattlemen use Alamo Pass in order to get their cattle to market. A gang has taken it over and charges a toll to go through it. When one rancher...

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  • 1926
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    The King of the Turf

    The King of the Turf

    1 1926 HD

    Genteel southern horse-breeder Col. Richard Fairfax is framed on the charge of embezzlement by Martyn Selsby, his business partner, and sentenced to...

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  • 1934
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    The Shadow Gang

    The Shadow Gang

    1 1934 HD

    A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'The Star Packer', complete with contemporary, pulse...

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  • 1925
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    The Iron Mule

    The Iron Mule

    5.8 1925 HD

    A train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays....

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  • 1932
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    Dumb Dicks

    Dumb Dicks

    1 1932 HD

    Two incompetent private detectives pose as swamis in order to infiltrate a gang of bank robbers.

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  • 1932
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    Guests Wanted

    Guests Wanted

    1 1932 HD

    Benny Rubin is a New York City vaudeville performer who inherits a hotel in California, and takes all of his ham-actor friends there, as chefs,...

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  • 1920
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    The Cameraman

    The Cameraman

    1 1920 HD

    Billy is hired by the local newspaper as a cameraman. Billy gets involved in many messes and despite his efforts he cannot escape the presence of the...

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  • 1940
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    Bullet Code

    Bullet Code

    5.6 1940 HD

    Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has...

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  • 1916
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    The Inspector's Double

    The Inspector's Double

    5 1916 HD

    It was all because John was the image of Frank, the health inspector. John lost his purse and Frank found it. Then he went to the former's house and...

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  • 1916
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    Bashful Charley's Proposal

    Bashful Charley's Proposal

    1 1916 HD

    The widow lives in a houseboat near one of the beaches. Charley is her devoted lover, but his bashfulness prevents him from proposing. She has a...

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  • 1917
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    When Damon Fell for Pythias

    When Damon Fell for Pythias

    1 1917 HD

    The emperor issues a counterblast against liquor and the "wets" try to kill him. Damon saves Pythias from the headsman's axe and the lives of both...

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  • 1917
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    The Masked Marvels

    The Masked Marvels

    5 1917 HD

    Cook Gale Henry and butler Milton Sims are arguing in the kitchen about who would make the best detective, until the lady of the house comes in to...

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  • 1937
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    Tramp Trouble

    Tramp Trouble

    1 1937 HD

    Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. ...

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  • 1920
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    The Water Plug

    The Water Plug

    5 1920 HD

    Billy is on the bum. He sees a copper writing a ticket to a driver parked in front of a fire hydrant. The driver slips the cop some money to tear up...

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  • 1938
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    Beaux and Errors

    Beaux and Errors

    1 1938 HD

    To make Edgar do something about his physical condition, his wife has invited her old boy friend, in tip-top shape, to spend the weekend with them....

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  • 1938
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    The Dummy Owner

    The Dummy Owner

    1 1938 HD

    Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of...

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  • 1937
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    Dumb's the Word

    Dumb's the Word

    1 1937 HD

    Edgar finds some gold in his attic and the guy working on his roof tells him he could go to jail for having it!! This is because President Franklin...

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  • 1934
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    The Fuller Gush Man

    The Fuller Gush Man

    1 1934 HD

    Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.

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  • 1916
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    She Wrote a Play and Played It

    She Wrote a Play and Played It

    5 1916 HD

    Gale Henry, at that time famous as big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick. Here as a prominent villager too interested...

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  • 1936
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    Ride 'Em Cowboy

    Ride 'Em Cowboy

    1 1936 HD

    A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.

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  • 1921
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    The Plumber

    The Plumber

    1 1921 HD

    A delivery man is mistaken for a plumber; violence ensues!

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  • 1933
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    The Fiddlin' Buckaroo

    The Fiddlin' Buckaroo

    1 1933 HD

    Government man Fiddlin' has joined Wolf's gang and Banty has become his friend. When Fiddlin' objects to Wolf's kidnapping of Ann, he is left in a...

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  • 1928
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    The Canyon of Adventure

    The Canyon of Adventure

    1 1928 HD

    Steven Bancroft, a young officer in the U. S. Calvary, is given the assignment of ensuring that dirty-work by agents of Spain, Mexico or Russian...

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  • 1928
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    The Glorious Trail

    The Glorious Trail

    1 1928 HD

    After a work crew stringing telegraph wires across the Great Plains is slaughtered by Indians, Pat O'Leary, the company superintendent, must take out...

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  • 1929
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    1 1929 HD

    Cal Roberts can ride anything with four legs. He enters the contests held at big rodeo. He wins all honors and meets a girl who races horses to help...

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  • 1927
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    The Royal American

    The Royal American

    1 1927 HD

    Story of a young shanghaied sailor. Forced to work as a deckhand on a rough-and-tumble transport vessel, the sailor ends up in South America, where...

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  • 1929
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    No Children

    No Children

    1 1929 HD

    Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

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  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.6 1932 HD

    A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

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  • 1930
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    Love Among the Millionaires

    Love Among the Millionaires

    6 1930 HD

    A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with he...

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  • 1934
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    'Neath the Arizona Skies

    'Neath the Arizona Skies

    4.5 1934 HD

    Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil...

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  • 1939
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    Baby Daze

    Baby Daze

    1 1939 HD

    Edgar starts out in a non-unfamiliar grumpy mood and tells some people off obnoxiously, then becomes overcome with joy and kindheartedness when he...

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  • 1920
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    Trouble

    Trouble

    3 1920 HD

    A slapstick comedy starring Al St. John.

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  • 1938
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    Next Time I Marry

    Next Time I Marry

    6.8 1938 HD

    Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would...

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  • 1937
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    Exclusive

    Exclusive

    6 1937 HD

    When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government...

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  • 1921
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    The New Member

    The New Member

    1 1921 HD

    After getting involved in a series of fist fights, Billy Franey scrawls into a reunion from the Order of Wriggle Fingers.

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  • 1939
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    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

    7 1939 HD

    In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to...

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  • 1940
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    Stage to Chino

    Stage to Chino

    4.8 1940 HD

    To investigate a gold-shipping scam, a postal inspector goes undercover and tries to infiltrate the gang he believes is responsible.

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  • 1939
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    The Marshal Of Mesa City

    The Marshal Of Mesa City

    8 1939 HD

    A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption.

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  • 1919
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    The Yellow Dog Catcher

    The Yellow Dog Catcher

    1 1919 HD

    The misadventures of a dog catcher

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  • 1940
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    Mutiny in the County

    Mutiny in the County

    1 1940 HD

    53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

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  • 1921
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    The Bath Dub

    The Bath Dub

    1 1921 HD

    Billy Franey comedy

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  • 1936
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    The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

    The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

    4 1936 HD

    A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a...

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  • 1931
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    Forgotten Women

    Forgotten Women

    1 1931 HD

    Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article...

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  • 1940
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    The Saint's Double Trouble

    The Saint's Double Trouble

    5.6 1940 HD

    Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

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  • 1934
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    The Dancing Millionaire

    The Dancing Millionaire

    1 1934 HD

    The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

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  • 1940
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    Triple Justice

    Triple Justice

    6 1940 HD

    Brad Henderson arrives in Star City just in time to witness three men rob a bank of $30,000 and kill a teller. Charged for the crime and jailed, Brad...

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  • 1925
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    Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

    Kit Carson Over the Great Divide

    1 1925 HD

    When the Indians attack, a doctor is separated from his wife. The reunion is set against the heroism of the foremost Indian scout of the day...Kit...

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  • 1920
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    The Paper Hangers

    The Paper Hangers

    1 1920 HD

    Even the story is pretty much a retread of something out of a lesser Keystone from 1915. They eat paste. They make a general mess and they get...

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  • 1935
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    Border Brigands

    Border Brigands

    1 1935 HD

    Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.

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  • 1934
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    The Star Packer

    The Star Packer

    4.3 1934 HD

    John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

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  • 1936
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    Give Us This Night

    Give Us This Night

    7 1936 HD

    After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip...

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  • 1931
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    The Avenger

    The Avenger

    5.8 1931 HD

    Goss, Mason, and Kelly force Joaquin Murieta to watch as they hang his brother Juan for a crime he did not commit. To exact his revenge on the three,...

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  • 1932
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    Come On, Tarzan

    Come On, Tarzan

    5 1932 HD

    Ken Maynard's exceptionally intelligent horse, Tarzan the Wonder Horse, is the star of this western about evil cowboy Steve Frazer (Welch) who...

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  • 1933
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    The Gallant Fool

    The Gallant Fool

    1 1933 HD

    The circus arrives in Great Shows. Rainey Big Ben and Kit Denton, the star of the show, are informed that no representation will be allowed in the...

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  • 1927
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    She's a Sheik

    She's a Sheik

    1 1927 HD

    The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

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  • 1929
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    The Broadway Hoofer

    The Broadway Hoofer

    1 1929 HD

    Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter...

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  • 1940
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    'Taint Legal

    'Taint Legal

    1 1940 HD

    Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his...

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  • 1931
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    Freighters of Destiny

    Freighters of Destiny

    1 1931 HD

    A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.

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  • 1932
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    The Night of June 13

    The Night of June 13

    7 1932 HD

    Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that...

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  • 1936
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    Dummy Ache

    Dummy Ache

    4.5 1936 HD

    Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day....

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  • 1940
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    Sunk by the Census

    Sunk by the Census

    1 1940 HD

    Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to...

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  • 1938
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    Ears of Experience

    Ears of Experience

    1 1938 HD

    In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting...

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  • 1939
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    Clock Wise

    Clock Wise

    1 1939 HD

    Pop's noisy mechanical clock is driving Edgar crazy.

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  • 1915
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    A Millionaire for a Minute

    A Millionaire for a Minute

    1 1915 HD

    Gale, the Village Schoolmarm, wants to marry Ezekial Brown, but her Uncle objects to the match.

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  • 1938
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    A Clean Sweep

    A Clean Sweep

    1 1938 HD

    Edgar lost his job at the bank three months ago, but hasn't told his wife, and they have been living off their savings, while Edgar pretends to go to...

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  • 1940
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    A Trailer Tragedy

    A Trailer Tragedy

    1 1940 HD

    Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance...

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  • 1936
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    Wholesailing Along

    Wholesailing Along

    1 1936 HD

    Leon Errol buys a bathtub wholesale.

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  • 1920
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    The Moonshiner

    The Moonshiner

    1 1920 HD

    A slapstick comedy about a hobo and his moonshine.

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  • 1921
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    The Chef

    The Chef

    10 1921 HD

    Billy and his pal are bank robbers who decide to lay low by taking jobs in a diner as a chef and waiter.

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  • 1921
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    Why Worry

    Why Worry

    1 1921 HD

    George Bunny's career as a screen comedian was an attempt to cash in on his brother, John's reputation, but George is no comedian. Here he plays a...

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  • 1925
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    Salute

    Salute

    1 1925 HD

    Slapstick comedians doing what they can with various uniforms on.

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  • 1933
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    Somewhere in Sonora

    Somewhere in Sonora

    5 1933 HD

    John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.

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  • 1927
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    Custard's Last Stand

    Custard's Last Stand

    1 1927 HD

    A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.

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  • 1939
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    Panama Lady

    Panama Lady

    5.6 1939 HD

    A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to...

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  • 1930
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    Loose Ankles

    Loose Ankles

    4.4 1930 HD

    A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only receive her inheritance once she marries, with the...

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  • 1924
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    Circus Lure

    Circus Lure

    1 1924 HD

    Joe Henry, head of a one-ring circus, plays a small town and after the departure of the troupe a young girl, fascinated by the prospects of being a...

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  • 1925
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    The Great Sensation

    The Great Sensation

    1 1925 HD

    Jack Ruby (William Fairbanks), the son of a wealthy family, pretends to be a chauffeur and goes to work for Peggy Howell (Pauline Garon), a beautiful...

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  • 1937
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    Edgar & Goliath

    Edgar & Goliath

    1 1937 HD

    Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his...

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  • 1939
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    Maid to Order

    Maid to Order

    1 1939 HD

    Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When...

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  • 1939
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    Kennedy the Great

    Kennedy the Great

    1 1939 HD

    A short film about a family man who realizes he's a bore at social gatherings so he purchases a trunk full of magic tricks hoping to soon be the life...

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  • 1924
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    Let Him Buck

    Let Him Buck

    1 1924 HD

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  • 1925
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    S.O.S. Perils of the Sea

    S.O.S. Perils of the Sea

    10 1925 HD

    S.O.S. Perils of the Sea is a 1925 American silent film featuring Elaine Hammerstein, directed by James P. Hogan and released through Columbia...

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  • 1927
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    Out All Night

    Out All Night

    1 1927 HD

    A young man marries an actress, but meanwhile her uncle has signed a contract binding her to spinsterhood, many complications arise.

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  • 1915
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    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery

    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery

    1 1915 HD

    First episode in the Lady Baffles and Detective Duck one-reel comedy series. The city is being terrorized by a mysterious female Raffles. At last, in...

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  • 1921
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    The Janitor

    The Janitor

    1 1921 HD

    Billy Franey does home brew. "The Janitor" was made during Prohibition, when ANY gags about alcohol (especially the home-brewed variety) would get...

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  • 1916
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    A Shadowed Shadow

    A Shadowed Shadow

    5 1916 HD

    A 1916 Joker Comedy starring Lillian Peacock

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  • 1928
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    Under the Tonto Rim

    Under the Tonto Rim

    1 1928 HD

    Gold miner Edd Denmeade loves Lucy Watson, the sister of the official mining claim recorder. Denmeade suspects Watson of killing his father, who...

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  • 1915
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    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

    Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry

    5 1915 HD

    This is another comedy, in which trick photography plays a large part. It is a travesty on the temperance question, siding with the dry element. On...

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  • 1937
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    Quick Money

    Quick Money

    4 1937 HD

    Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years....

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  • 1915
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    What the River Foretold

    What the River Foretold

    1 1915 HD

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