Frank McGlynn Sr.

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Gaunt-looking American character actor Frank McGlynn Sr. is best remembered for his many portrayals in 1930s and 1940s historical films of US President Abraham Lincoln. McGlynn began performing on stage in 1896. Prior to that, he had been a practicing lawyer, a graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

  • Title: Frank McGlynn Sr.
  • Popularity: 1.88
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1866-10-26
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
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  • Also Known As: Frank McGlynn, Franklyn McGlynn
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Frank McGlynn Sr. Movies

  • 1936
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    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    6.403 1936 HD

    The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with...

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  • 1931
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    The Secret Six

    The Secret Six

    5.8 1931 HD

    Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

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  • 1916
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    Gloria's Romance

    Gloria's Romance

    6 1916 HD

    An adventurous young girl in Florida gets herself lost in the Everglades and finds terror and excitement, as well as the rivalry of two men in love...

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  • 1930
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    The Jazz Cinderella

    The Jazz Cinderella

    1 1930 HD

    Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love...

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  • 1934
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    Little Miss Marker

    Little Miss Marker

    6.455 1934 HD

    Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

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  • 1938
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    The Girl of the Golden West

    The Girl of the Golden West

    4.6 1938 HD

    A bandit disguises himself as an officer in an attempt to woo a saloon singer.

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  • 1937
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    Broadway Melody of 1938

    Broadway Melody of 1938

    6.25 1937 HD

    Steve Raleight wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee. But Caroline Whipple forces...

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  • 1935
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    The Littlest Rebel

    The Littlest Rebel

    6.3 1935 HD

    Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

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  • 1936
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    King of the Royal Mounted

    King of the Royal Mounted

    1 1936 HD

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant King protects a girl who has come to claim a mine left by her father. An evil lawyer plans to keep the mine...

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    Captain Blood

    Captain Blood

    7.2 1935 HD

    Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

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  • 1934
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    Are We Civilized?

    Are We Civilized?

    4 1934 HD

    1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. This film...

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  • 1940
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    Third Finger, Left Hand

    Third Finger, Left Hand

    6.8 1940 HD

    Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

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  • 1937
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    Sudden Bill Dorn

    Sudden Bill Dorn

    1 1937 HD

    Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have...

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  • 1936
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    The Prisoner of Shark Island

    The Prisoner of Shark Island

    6.9 1936 HD

    After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14,...

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  • 1941
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    Three Girls About Town

    Three Girls About Town

    5.3 1941 HD

    Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

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  • 1915
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    Through Turbulent Waters

    Through Turbulent Waters

    1 1915 HD

    The west is the stamping ground for Paul Temple and his thespian associates. He is talking with his sweetheart, Jane Dinsmore, as Alice Robinson,...

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  • 1918
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    Rough and Ready

    Rough and Ready

    1 1918 HD

    In New York, Bill Stratton saves a friend's marriage, but Bill's fiancée, Evelyn, misinterprets the situation and believes Bill to be...

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  • 1918
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    Why America Will Win

    Why America Will Win

    1 1918 HD

    This is not a romance but the biography of the man who now leads our vast forces in France. It shows him from boyhood to his present high command,...

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  • 1915
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    The Life of Abraham Lincoln

    The Life of Abraham Lincoln

    5 1915 HD

    This short 1915 Edison film stars Frank McGlynn as the famous president from his marriage to assassination by Booth.

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  • 1938
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    Strange Glory

    Strange Glory

    4 1938 HD

    During the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant carries out the 'Tennessee Plan,' which involves stopping the Confederate supply line on the...

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  • 1937
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    Western Gold

    Western Gold

    1 1937 HD

    President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed shipments of gold. There he meets his boyhood...

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  • 1936
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    Career Woman

    Career Woman

    6 1936 HD

    A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend...

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  • 1938
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    The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

    1 1938 HD

    In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and rule it as a dictator. In one of his first...

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  • 1933
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    Hello, Everybody!

    Hello, Everybody!

    6 1933 HD

    The setting is a farm. Kate Smith and Sally Blane play sisters; assorted relatives live with the sisters, but everyone at home, and in the whole...

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  • 1944
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    Rogues' Gallery

    Rogues' Gallery

    4.9 1944 HD

    Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening...

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  • 1930
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    Good News

    Good News

    5 1930 HD

    A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.

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  • 1934
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    Search for Beauty

    Search for Beauty

    5.9 1934 HD

    Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and...

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  • 1934
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    Massacre

    Massacre

    5.8 1934 HD

    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...

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  • 1918
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    The Caillaux Case

    The Caillaux Case

    1 1918 HD

    Based on an international scandal that hit prewar France, when the editor of the Paris daily LE FIGARO, Gaston Calmette was shot to death by Madame...

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  • 1917
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    The Poor Little Rich Girl

    The Poor Little Rich Girl

    5.779 1917 HD

    Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned...

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  • 1935
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    Folies Bergère

    Folies Bergère

    5.5 1935 HD

    An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

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  • 1936
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    The Plainsman

    The Plainsman

    6.2 1936 HD

    Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

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  • 1933
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    Unknown Valley

    Unknown Valley

    6.3 1933 HD

    Looking for his missing father, Joe Gordon heads into the desert where Elders from a secret village find him unconscious. Attracted to Sheilla...

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  • 1915
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    Vanity Fair

    Vanity Fair

    1 1915 HD

    "Vanity Fair" is a historical drama, based on the classic English novel written by William Thackeray, featuring Shirley Mason. Shirley Mason was 15...

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  • 1935
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    Outlawed Guns

    Outlawed Guns

    1 1935 HD

    Outlawed Guns stars Buck Jones as Reece Rivers, the nice-guy older brother of headstrong Babe Rivers. When Babe gets mixed up with outlaws, Reece...

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  • 1937
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    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo

    5.091 1937 HD

    In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

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  • 1941
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    Marry the Boss's Daughter

    Marry the Boss's Daughter

    1 1941 HD

    Young man from Kansas goes to New York to work for his tycoon-hero. His superiors won't listen to his ideas about business, but the boss and his...

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  • 1912
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    Two Men

    Two Men

    1 1912 HD

    A smuggler is conflicted between saving his wounded captor or letting him die.

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  • 1930
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    Min and Bill

    Min and Bill

    6.273 1930 HD

    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.

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  • 1935
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    It's A Small World

    It's A Small World

    4.5 1935 HD

    Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which...

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  • 1939
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    Love Affair

    Love Affair

    7.042 1939 HD

    A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed...

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  • 1939
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    Second Fiddle

    Second Fiddle

    5 1939 HD

    Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

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  • 1939
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    Lincoln in the White House

    Lincoln in the White House

    1 1939 HD

    This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

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  • 1915
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    Across the Great Divide

    Across the Great Divide

    5 1915 HD

    Short western melodrama. A cash-strapped operator is working far from his beloved. A criminal and his accomplice trying to force him to cooperate...

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  • 1931
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    Huckleberry Finn

    Huckleberry Finn

    8 1931 HD

    A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

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  • 1917
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    The Argyle Case

    The Argyle Case

    1 1917 HD

    When multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are cast upon Mary Mazuret, his adopted daughter who...

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  • 1936
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    For the Service

    For the Service

    1 1936 HD

    Cowboy star Buck Jones made his directorial debut with the Universal western For the Service. Jones is cast as Indian scout Buck O'Bryan, trying his...

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  • 1947
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    Hollywood Barn Dance

    Hollywood Barn Dance

    3.5 1947 HD

    Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the...

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  • 1937
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    Sing and Be Happy

    Sing and Be Happy

    1 1937 HD

    Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

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  • 1942
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    Syncopation

    Syncopation

    6.8 1942 HD

    A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

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  • 1940
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    Boom Town

    Boom Town

    6.9 1940 HD

    Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil...

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  • 1913
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    By Fire and Water

    By Fire and Water

    5 1913 HD

    A dramatic one-act film. The wife of the captain of a canal boat chooses the nicer boat and nicer uniform of another captain. She reconsiders her...

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  • 1941
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    Sergeant York

    Sergeant York

    7.212 1941 HD

    Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep...

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  • 1941
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    A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

    A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob

    4.7 1941 HD

    Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as...

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  • 1940
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    Hi-Yo Silver

    Hi-Yo Silver

    1 1940 HD

    Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."

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  • 1942
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    In Old California

    In Old California

    5 1942 HD

    Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the...

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  • 1936
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    North of Nome

    North of Nome

    6 1936 HD

    John Raglan is a seal hunter being hounded by hijackers, so he strands himself on an isolated island in the Bering Sea that is owned by a...

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  • 1933
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    Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

    Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

    6 1933 HD

    When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's...

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  • 1936
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    These Three

    These Three

    7.2 1936 HD

    Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students...

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  • 1942
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    March On, America!

    March On, America!

    4.7 1942 HD

    The story of America from the Pilgrims in 1620 to the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans always working for freedom.

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  • 1919
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    The ABC of Love

    The ABC of Love

    5.6 1919 HD

    Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.

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  • 1932
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    The Wet Parade

    The Wet Parade

    5.8 1932 HD

    The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

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  • 1939
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    The Mad Empress

    The Mad Empress

    5.6 1939 HD

    The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.

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  • 1938
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    Joaquin Murrieta

    Joaquin Murrieta

    1 1938 HD

    This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.

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  • 1935
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    The Roaring West

    The Roaring West

    1 1935 HD

    A 15-episode serial involving the land rush, gold mines, stolen maps, etc.

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  • 1944
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    Delinquent Daughters

    Delinquent Daughters

    4 1944 HD

    A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among...

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  • 1913
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    Alexia's Strategy

    Alexia's Strategy

    1 1913 HD

    Walter Young and John Osgood are both in love with Alexia Trexell, daughter of the president of the trust company where both young men work.

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  • 1937
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    The Great Barrier

    The Great Barrier

    5 1937 HD

    The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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  • 1934
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    Lost in the Stratosphere

    Lost in the Stratosphere

    4.7 1934 HD

    Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries. But...

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  • 1913
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    Who Will Marry Mary?

    Who Will Marry Mary?

    1 1913 HD

    Six part adventure serial starring Mary Fuller as the sought after heroine. Episodes: 1) A Proposal From The Duke; 2) A Proposal From The Spanish...

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  • 1913
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    The Bells

    The Bells

    1 1913 HD

    At the express wish of her father, Lucy Martin marries Leo Noakes, a stingy man and one twice her age. When they are at church one Sunday a fire...

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  • 1915
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    The Truth About Helen

    The Truth About Helen

    1 1915 HD

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