DeWitt Jennings

DeWitt Jennings

출생 : 1871-06-21, Cameron, Missouri, USA

사망 : 1937-03-01

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia DeWitt Clarke Jennings (June 21, 1871 – March 1, 1937) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 17 Broadway plays between 1906 and 1920, and in 153 films between 1915 and 1937. In 1935, Jennings played Sailing Master Fryer in Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. He died in Hollywood, California at the age of 65.

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DeWitt Jennings

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Thru Different Eyes
Paducah
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
That I May Live
Chief of Police
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Slave Ship
Snodgrass
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Fifty Roads to Town
Captain Galloway
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.
This Is My Affair
Bradley Wallace
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
We Who Are About to Die
Mike Brannigan
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
The Accusing Finger
Prison Warden
A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and sentenced to die. The woman he loves and his investigator rival for her affections rally to find the real killer, while he is confronted by the misery of life on death row.
Sing, Baby, Sing
Mr. Lee, the Landlord
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Kelly the Second
Judge (as DeWitt C. Jennings)
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Sins of Man
Twichelesko
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.
I Dream Too Much
Man Yelling for Food (uncredited)
Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
바운티호의 반란
Fryer
1787년 영국 포츠머스. 유럽 식량경제를 뒤 바꿔 놓을 지도 모르는 경제 작물인 빵나무의 종자나무를 가져오기위해 영국 포프머드 항구에서 바운티호가 역사적인 출범을 한다. 빌리이 선장 이하 부선장 크리스찬 및 80명의 선원들은 지구의 반을 돌아야하는 대장정을 시작한다. 출발하자마자 치즈 절도 사건이 일어나고, 선장의 부탁으로 선장의 집에 갖다준 밀즈라는 선원이 죄를 뒤집어쓰게 되나 곤란해진 선장의 억지에 의해 상관 모독죄로 밀즈에게 채찍 24대의 체벌이 가해지게 된다. 항상 독재적인 권위로 선원들을 다스리는 발리이 선장은 선원들에게 두려움 외에도 반항심을 불어넣어 주었다. 그리고 빌리이 선장은 부하들을 다스리는 일에서 크리스찬과 부딪치게 된다. 마침내 킹조지 섬에 닿게 되고 항해의 목적인 빵나무 종자를 채취하는 동안 무단 이탈한 선원을 체벌하여 가둔다. 이에 불만 느낀 선원들과 크리스찬은 선상 반란을 일으키게 되고 크리스찬은 선장을 죽이려는 선원들을 만류하고 일주일분의 식량과 나침판 지도 등을 주어 구명정에 태워 망망대해에 내려놓는다. 그리고 바운티호는 타이티섬으로 항로를 돌리는데...
The Daring Young Man
Mayor's Committee Official
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.
Front Page Woman
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Ace reporter Curt Devlin and fellow reporter Ellen Garfield love one another, but Curt believes women are "bum newspapermen". When a murder investigation ensues, the two compete every step of the way, determined to not be scooped by the other.
Village Tale
Sheriff Ramsey
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy.
Mary Jane's Pa
Sheriff
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
A Dog of Flanders
Carl Cogez
Adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Murder on a Honeymoon
Captain Beegle
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
A Wicked Woman
The Sheriff
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.
Secret of the Chateau
Louis Bardou
Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.
The President Vanishes
Cullen
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman and produced by Walter Wanger. Starring Edward Arnold and Arthur Byron, the film is an adaptation of Rex Stout's political novel of the same name.
Death on the Diamond
Patterson
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Kelly to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, mobsters are trying to prevent the wins, and as the pennant race nears the end, Pop's star players begin to be killed, on and off the field. Can Larry romance Pop's daughter, win enough games, and still have time to stop a murderer before he strikes more than three times?
Take the Stand
Police Commissioner
A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.
Charlie Chan's Courage
Constable Brackett (as DeWitt C. Jennings)
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.
A Man's Game
Chief Jordan
During one blaze, Firefighters Tim and his partner Dave (Ward Bond) rescue pretty stenographer Judy (Evelyn Knapp). Falling in love with the girl, the boys try to save her from getting mixed up in an embezzlement scheme.
Little Man, What Now?
Emil Kleninholz
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
Massacre
Sheriff Jennings
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reservation of his youth, only to discover that his people are dying of various diseases and are being systematically cheated of their possessions and basic rights by crooked Indian agents. He heads to Washington in hopes of righting these wrongs, only to experience prejudice and hatred all along the way.
The Meanest Gal in Town
Police Chief (uncredited)
A stranded actress turned manicurist affects the lives of people in a small American town.
Police Car 17
Captain T. J. Hart
Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
I Loved a Woman
Banker (uncredited)
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.
Golden Harvest
Sheriff (uncredited)
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
One Year Later
Deputy Russell
A man is convicted of killing his boss, whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife. On board the train taking him to prison for his execution are a reporter, who is dying of lung cancer and wants to interview the condemned man--and who also has some inside knowledge of the circumstances of the man's case. Also aboard is the prisoner's wife, who doesn't believe her husband is a killer and desperately wants to talk to him about it but he refuses to speak to her.
Strictly Personal
Captain Reardon
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.
Reform Girl
Capt. Balfour
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.
A Lady's Profession
Mr. Stephens
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
밀랍 박물관의 비밀
Police Captain, 12th Precinct
영화는 아이반 아이고어라는 조각가가 세운 런던의 밀랍 인형 박물관에서 시작된다. 박물관의 상업적 성과에 실망한 그의 동업자는 화재 보험으로 투자한 돈을 회수하기 위해 박물관에 불을 지르고 아이고어는 그 안에 갇히고 말죠. 프롤로그가 끝나면 영화는 십여년의 세월과 대서양을 건너뛰어 1933년의 뉴욕으로 관객들을 끌고 갑니다. 기삿거리가 떨어져 해고 직전인 맹렬 신문기자 플로렌스는 조운 게일이라는 여자의 살인사건을 수사하다가 지난 몇 개월 동안 일어난 일련의 연쇄 살인사건과 마주치게 되는데, 이 사건의 공통점은 살인사건 이후 모두 시체들이 사라졌다는 것이었죠. 화재로 불구가 된 아이반 아이고어가 뉴욕에 세운 밀랍 인형 박물관에 조운 게일과 이상할 정도로 닮은 잔 다르크의 인형이 전시되어 있다는 걸 알아차린 플로렌스는 아이고어가 그 살인사건들과 어떤 관련이 있다고 믿게 됩니다. 그러는 동안 아이고어는 플로렌스의 룸메이트인 샬롯에게 마리 앙트와네트 밀랍 인형의 모델이 되어달라고 부탁하죠.
Ladies They Talk About
Detective Tracy
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
On Your Guard
Joshua Perkins
An ex-con makes for a backwoods town intending to rob the bank, and becomes involved in protecting three orphans from land swindlers instead.
The Match King
Bodensky (uncredited)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Silver Dollar
George, the Mine Foreman
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
Central Park
Police Desk Sergeant Monahan (uncredited)
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Movie Crazy
Mr. Hall
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Midnight Morals
Dan McKennan
A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.
By Whose Hand?
City Editor (uncredited)
A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
Night Court
Court Policeman (uncredited)
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
Dancers in the Dark
Police Sergeant McGroody
A bandleader tries to romance a dancer by sending her boyfriend, a musician, out of town. However, things get complicated when he finds out that a gangster has designs on her too.
애로스미스
B.W. Tozer (uncredited)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
A Dangerous Affair
City Editor
Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.
The Squaw Man
Sheriff Bud Hardy
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
Caught Plastered
Police Chief H.A. Morton
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
Salvation Nell
McGovern
Young Nell loses everything and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out....
The Secret Six
Chief of Police Donlin
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
The Primrose Path
Joe Malone
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
The Criminal Code
Yard Captain Gleason
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
참극의 선착장
Groot
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
The Bat Whispers
Police Captain
Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.
빅 트레일
Captain Hollister (uncredited)
미국 각 지역에서 모인 사람들이 서부로 향하기 위해 미시시피 강가에 모였다. 이들은 새로운 땅을 찾아 멀리 오래곤 북부까지 4천 킬로가 넘는 긴 여정을 시작할 것이다. 뛰어난 칼솜씨를 가진 사냥꾼 브랙 콜먼은 길을 안내해 달라는 사람들의 제안에도 불구하고 무법자들에게 희생된 친구의 복수를 위해 그들을 잡으러 가려 한다. 떠나기 전 리지 부인의 집을 찾아가 인사를 하려했던 그는 남부에서 온 아름다운 여인 루스를 그만 다른 사람으로 오해하고 키스한다. 그의 무례함에 루스는 화가 나고 콜먼은 그녀의 오해를 풀어주려 하지만 쉽지 않다. 콜먼은 일행을 이끄는 리더 레드 플렉을 보고 그가 자신이 찾던 무법자라는 확신에 함께 합류하기로 한다. 또한 루스에게 청혼한 도르프도 그녀를 돌봐주겠다는 이유로 합류하지만 사실 그는 레드 플렉과 한 패거리. 그들의 여행은 강과 협곡을 지나고 인디언을 만나는 등 힘들고 지친 하루하루를 보내지만 서부개척의 꿈을 지닌 사람들은 계속 서부로 향한다. 콜먼은 새침한 루스에게 조금씩 관심을 갖게 되고, 루스 또한 콜먼이 무례한 사람이라며 함부로 대하지만 조금씩 그에게 이끌려가는데...
The Big House
Wallace
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Those Who Dance
Captain O'Brien
A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.
Captain of the Guard
Priest
A captain of the king's guards secretly works for the rebels.
The Night Ride
Capt. O'Donnell
Just after newsman Rooker and Ruth Kearns are married he covers a double murder during a bank robbery. Cigarettes at the scene implicate gangster Tony Garotta. Garotta kidnaps Rooker and another reporter, intending to kill them.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Jim Cargan
A writer rents what he believes is a deserted lodge in order to complete his novel. But then six other people show up one-by-one, each for reasons of their own.
The Trial Of Mary Dugan
Inspector Hunt
A woman is tried for the murder of her lover. Director Bayard Veiller's 1929 courtroom drama stars Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, Lilyan Tashman and H. B. Warner.
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Jay Darrell
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
The Valiant
Warden Holt
A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Alibi
Officer O'Brien
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
Thru Different Eyes
Paducah
Harvey Manning is placed on trial for the murder of Jack Winfield, his closest friend, whose body was found in the Manning home. During the trial, the prosecuting and the defense attorneys put forward sharply different versions of the character of Manning and his wife, Viola, and of the events leading up to the murder. The jury returns a verdict of guilty, but a young girl then comes forward and confesses that she killed Winfield for having wronged her.
Seven Footprints to Satan
Uncle Joe
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Red Hot Speed
Judge O'Brien
A newspaper publisher's daughter is arrested for speeding. In order to avoid embarrassing her father, since his newspaper is in the midst of an anti-speeding campaign, she uses an assumed name. She is paroled into the custody of an assistant district attorney, who doesn't know who she really is.
Me, Gangster
Police Chief
Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.
The Air Mail Pilot
A high-flying action film involving a pilot battling air mail robberies.
The Night Flyer
Bucks
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on the old locomotive No. 99, loves Kate Murphy, daughter of the proprietress of the local lunch counter. His rival, Bat Mullins, is engineer of the new mail train scheduled to make a competition run. When Mullins overturns the new train, Bradley completes the run and earns the contract for his company by delivering the mail in record time on No. 99. A promotion to engineer helps him win Kate.
The Crash
Supt. Carleton
The Crash (1928)
미인국 2인 행각
American Consul
During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
The Great Mail Robbery
Captain Davis
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbery. Theodore von Eltz stars as Marine lieutenant Donald Macready, assigned by his commanding officer to squelch a train-robbery gang. Going undercover, Macready infiltrates the gang and monitors their every move.
The Fire Brigade
Fire Chief Wallace
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
While London Sleeps
Inspector Burke
Rinty is a police-dog assigned to a young Scotland Yard police-officer who covers the Limehouse district of London.
Exit Smiling
Orlando Wainwright
Silent comedy about the travails of a third-rate traveling theatre company.
The Ice Flood
Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his father sends him there to take charge of a large lumber camp, filled with brawny he-men who spend their time drinking, gambling and brawling when not cutting timber. Once there, Jack establishes himself by winning a fight against "Dum-Dum" Pete, the toughest man in those parts. Along the way he sees to it that a needed operation is performed on the camp's mascot, a crippled young boy, and saves his sweetheart, Marie O'Nei, that daughter of a rival lumber company, from drowning in the river when the spring thaw causes an ice-break flood.
Chip of the Flying U
J.G. Whitmore
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
The Splendid Road
Capt. Bashford
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
The Mystic
Director of Police
A good Tod browning movie but without Lon Chaney. Anyway, the story sounds here quite strange and dark. Mystery and drama fans will be delighted by this story of a young eastern european woman hired to the new world. This one is quite rare on TV, so if you can don't miss it !
Go Straight!
The Hunter
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywood to begin anew but the old gang follows behind. Can she stop them from ruining her new life?
The Deadwood Coach
Jim Shields - in play
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
The Deadwood Coach
Jim Shields
A man searches for the villains who murdered his parents
Merton of the Movies
Jeff Baird
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out.
The Enemy Sex
Harrigan Blood
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
The Desert Outlaw
Doc McChesney
A prospector is falsely accused of murder.
Hit and Run
Joe Burns
Big league baseball scout Red McCarthy signs up "Swat," a bush leaguer from a desert town, and Swat becomes a success because of his exceptional hitting. When Swat begins a romance with the scout's daughter, he and the girl are kidnapped by gamblers intent on winning the series.
Name the Man
Dan Collister
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes involved in an intrigue with local girl Bessie Collister, becomes the deemster on his father's death, and is forced to try Bessie for killing her illegitimate child.
Blinky
Col. 'Raw Meat' Islip
Blinky, the bespectacled son of Col. "Raw Meat" Islip, is scorned by his fellow cavalrymen stationed on the Mexican border because his previous military experience was as a Boy Scout.
Circus Days
Daly
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
Out of Luck
Capt. Bristol
Believing he has committed murder, Sam Pertune, a simple westerner, enlists in the Navy, then cannot get released when he learns that his "victim" is alive.
Within the Law
Inspector Burke
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law.
Mixed Faces
Murray McGuire
Flesh and Blood
Detective Doyle
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
Sherlock Brown
The secret formula for the world's most powerful explosive has been stolen from the U.S. government. William Brown, a clerk who aspires to be a detective, has just received his badge from some anonymous Midwestern agency, and manages to get himself embroiled in the intrigue.
The Right That Failed
Mr. Talbot
The Right That Failed
There Are No Villains
Detective Flint
In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then advises Detective Flint of her plan to develop a relationship with John King, an impoverished, disabled ex-soldier who Rosa met in George's office. After claiming to have lost her home in a fire, Rosa is invited to stay in John's modest flat. He receives money from a mysterious source, enabling them to afford a more expensive apartment, and they soon fall in love. Although Rosa secretly witnesses John receiving a package from George, she tells the skeptical Flint that her lover is above suspicion. John agrees to end his association with George if Rosa will marry him, and, realizing that a wife cannot legally testify against her husband, she agrees.
The Poverty of Riches
Lyons
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
Alias Ladyfingers
Lt. Ambrose
When Rachel Stetherill's daughter marries a man of whom she disapproves, Rachel disowns her. Five years later her daughter, now widowed, is killed. Her young son comes under the influence of a professional safecracker and is soon on his way to becoming a hardened criminal. Twenty yeas later the Stetherill family lawyer learns that the infamous thief known as Ladyfingers bears a striking resemblance to Rachel's husband--and has fallen in love with Enid, Mrs. Stetherill's young ward. Complications ensue.
Beating the Game
G.B. Lawson
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
The Golden Snare
'Fighting' Fitzgerald
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
The Hillcrest Mystery
Tom Cameron
During a party held in honor of his daughter Marion, Thomas Sterling announces that he will turn over his shipbuilding plant to the United States government for the duration of World War I. Sterling wants Marion to marry his partner, Hugo Smith, but she prefers Gordon Brett, who proposes to her after the party. Marion's father catches the two in an embrace and orders Gordon out of the house. Later that night, Sterling is found murdered. Gordon is the principal suspect, but Marion refuses to believe he is guilty and hides him in the house. Later she discovers Smith sending a message to the Germans on a wireless hidden in the attic.
The Little American
English Barrister
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Don't
Mr. Moffat
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy