Chester A. Lyons
Nacimiento : 1885-05-26, Westfield, New York, USA
Muerte : 1936-11-27
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Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death...
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Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
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In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Americans who killed her and is branded an outlaw. The reward for his capture is increased as he subsequently kills the men who brutally murder his brother. Joining with bandit Three Fingered Jack, Murrieta raises an army of disaffected Mexicans and goes on a rampage against the Americans, finally forcing his erstwhile friend, Bill Warren, to lead a posse against him.
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Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
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El Doctor Gogol se enamora de Yvonne Orlac, la esposa del pianista Stephen Orlac. Cuando éste sufre un accidente de tren, y sus manos son amputadas, Yvonne pide ayuda a Gorgol, que le transplanta las manos de un asesino. La operacion parece funcionar, y el organismo de Orlac no rechaza las nuevas manos. Sin embargo, Orlac descubrirá unas nuevas tendencias que nunca había tenido: la necesidad de matar. Su mujer Yvonne tambien descubre el cambio de su marido. Mientras tanto, Gogol sigue enamorado de Yvonne, con un amor cada vez más obsesivo... (FILMAFFINITY)
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A wilderness girl raises a deer and a mountain lion to be friends.
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A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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Modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
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Época de la Gran Depresión (años 30). Un electricista y una modelo se casan y esperan su primer hijo, pero las dificultades económicas harán peligrar su matrimonio. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
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Lightnin' y Mary son propietarios de un hotel en la frontera entre Nevada y California, muy utilizado para parejas que quieren divorciarse. Cuando unos gangsters quieren apoderarse del establecimiento, obligan a su mujer a divorciarse de él...
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A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.
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Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Mary Tucker, una desaliñada campesina que vive en la miseria, conoce a Martin y a Tim, dos jóvenes que trabajan en un equipo de instalación de líneas eléctricas. Cuando, en 1917, los Estados Unidos entran en la Primera Guerra Mundial, Martin y Tim son enviados al frente. En las trincheras reciben una carta de Mary, ante la que reaccionan de manera muy distinta: Tim se siente conmovido por la generosidad de la chica, en cambio, Martin se burla de ella. Cuando Tim regresa, Mary empieza a frecuentar su casa.
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El reportero Clem Rogers está ansiando como nunca una primicia que lo saque del anonimato... y ésta le llega cuando se entera de que su novia, Jane Atwill, hija del sonado candidato a la alcaldía de la ciudad, está implicada en un crimen que acaba de cometerse, y que tiene que cubrir al ser el único periodista que estaba en ese momento de guardia.
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A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Anders Randolf, Lesle Fenton, and Noble Johnson.
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Historia de una pobre emigrante que llega a América y consigue trabajo para que su hijo pueda estudiar en un buen colegio.
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One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds organise for an important financial partner of the husband's.
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A comedic deja vu story of runaway young love.
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Las aventuras de una joven dependienta que aprende que tener dinero no es la clave de la felicidad.
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A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
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El hijo de un aristócrata de origen español vuelve de la guerra, en 1918. Al llegar, se entera que su padre acaba de morir arruinado y que el rancho El Palomar está en manos de un especulador inmobiliario que trata de vender la tierras familiares a un rico japonés. Este último está preparando en secreto la colonización nipona de todo el país.
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Silent directed by Victor Schertzinger
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This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and goes to New York in search of a grander life. There she becomes the lover of a wealthy and unscrupulous businessman. But when Jerry returns blinded and dying from the war, Hester must choose between her new life and the man whose loyalty to her has never failed.
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Two confidence men pose as investors to fleece the denizens of a small town. They build a carpet-tack factory with the funds, but some stockholders are suspicious. Eventually, someone tries to take over the business by buying it from them. The film is presumed lost.
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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 lost. A bigtime poker game turns out to be the key to Bill Henry's success.
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Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.
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Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery. - From IMDB
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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 great vigor, until he realizes that his own father is in league with those devils. - From IMDB
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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 mother and he has a hard time adjusting to his rough surroundings.
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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 girl.