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Jim Thorpe
Actor 1887 - 1953

Jim Thorpe

Prague, Indian Territory [now Oklahoma], USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native... Read full bio →

Filmography

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16 titles
Wagon Master

Wagon Master

John Ford 1950 1h 26m 7.7

A group of Mormons attacked by Indians is saved by two young riders,Travis and Sandy. The Mormons hire them as guides to the San Juana Valley, were they intend to settle.

White Heat

White Heat

Raoul Walsh 1949 1h 54m 8.1

A psychopathic criminal (Cagney) with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

The Vampire's Ghost

The Vampire's Ghost

Lesley Selander 1945 59m

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.

Road to Utopia

Road to Utopia

Hal Walker 1945 1h 30m 5.0

While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had been 'stolen' by thugs. In Alaska to recover her father's map, Sal Van Hoyden falls in with Ace Larson, who secretly wants to steal the gold mine for himself.

Outlaw Trail

Outlaw Trail

Robert Emmett Tansey 1944 54m

Carl Beldon has disappeared and the Trail Blazers have been sent to investigate. Arriving in town, they find that 'Honest John' controls everything. He even prints his own money. He also has a gang and they set out to finish off the heroes.

They Died with Their Boots On

They Died with Their Boots On

Raoul Walsh 1941 2h 20m 7.5

The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.

Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

Frank Capra 1941 2h 3m 7.0

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

Frontier Scout

Frontier Scout

Sam Newfield 1938 1h 1m

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).

Treachery Rides the Range

Treachery Rides the Range

Frank McDonald 1936 56m

The Indians need the Buffalo to survive and the Government has promised to keep the herds free from hunters. But Carter, of Carter and Barton, just signed a big contract for furs and Buffalo meat so they want the herds. The only way they can get them is to rile the Indians up enough to go on the warpath and break the treaty.

Trailin' West

Trailin' West

Noel M. Smith 1936 56m

A singing secret agent tracks down renegades at President Lincoln's request.

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii

Ernest B. Schoedsack 1935 1h 36m 8.0

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.

She

She

Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden 1935 1h 41m 7.5

Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality, said to be contained within a mystic fire.

Moonlight on the Prairie

Moonlight on the Prairie

D. Ross Lederman 1935 1h 3m

A singing medicine-show cowboy (Dick Foran) and his magician partner (George E. Stone) catch a killer.

Captain Blood

Captain Blood

Michael Curtiz 1935 1h 59m 7.8

Errol Flynn leads a group of slaves to freedom and piracy.

Barbary Coast

Barbary Coast

Howard Hawks 1935 1h 30m 8.0

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in San Francisco in the 1850s. She falls in love with miner Carmichael and takes his gold dust at the wheel. She goes after him, Louis goes after her with intent to harm Carmichael.

King Kong

King Kong

Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper 1933 1h 40m 8.4

An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

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