Leon De La Mothe

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The Spotted Lily
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The Spotted Lily

Oct 01, 1917
Wracked with illness and discarded by a wealthy and unscrupulous aristocrat, Yvonne Lamour seeks out her former sweetheart Anatole in order to beg him to care for her infant daughter Yvonne. She finds him in a monastery, now Pere Anatole, having joined to ease the pain of her leaving him. Soon after, Yvonne dies and little Yvonne grows to adulthood and falls in love with Jean Duval, a young violinist. When the war devastates the land, Anatole flees to America, taking Jean and Yvonne with him. There, beset by poverty, Jean endeavors to earn a living by playing the violin, but fails. In desperation, he pawns his violin to buy food and falls victim to the charms of Sonia Maroff, a wealthy woman whose fancy he has captured.
Drama
Riddle Gawne
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Riddle Gawne

Aug 03, 1918
When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
Action
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre
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The story of a controversial white settlement in 1860s Spirit Lake, Iowa. Unbowed by the encroachment, Chief Sitting Bull vows to reclaim the land of his fathers. A long-thought-lost film finally surfaces after being unseen for over eight decades. Created and copyrighted by Sunset Productions in 1925 but not released until June 15, 1927, this silent epic features the superior Native American actor Chief Yowlachie (performing here under the name Chief Yowlache) as Sitting Bull.
Western
The Desert Hawk
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The Desert Hawk

Oct 25, 1924
A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.
Western
Pals
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Pals

Dec 11, 1925
The dog, Rex, finds the baby abandoned in the mountains. Unfortunately, the nearest town has no orphanage and rough cowboy and wonder-dog owner Bruce is forced to care for the infant himself.
Western
Her Moment
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Her Moment

Jul 01, 1918
In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Drama
The Road Agent
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The Road Agent

Jul 30, 1925
A rancher has left his spread to his long lost son, but only if he shows up to claim it. A mean-fisted fugitive from justice looks just like the missing heir and a plan for deception is hatched.
Western
A Desperate Chance
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A Desperate Chance

Jul 01, 1925
Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by the same person. When this man is found dead suspicion falls on girl's father but the employer of murdered man confesses.
Western
The Red Glove
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The Red Glove

Mar 17, 1919
On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.
Action
Play Straight or Fight
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Helen is a strong-minded, upright, two-handed gunwoman and the protector of a younger brother who has fallen under the evil influence of unscrupulous companions. The climax of the story comes when Helen learns that her brother is to take part in a stage hold-up. To save him she dons male attire and holds up the stage at a point several miles in advance of her brother's attempt.
Western
The Desert Hawk
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The Desert Hawk

Oct 25, 1924
A cowboy is falsely accused of killing the local sheriff. Fleeing the law, Wilson obtains a job on a ranch.
Western
The Two Doyles
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The Two Doyles

Feb 01, 1919
Second of 12 in the Franklyn Farnum two-reel Western series produced by Canyon Pictures Corp.
Western
The Uphill Climb
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The Uphill Climb

May 03, 1919
A dying lady tells a woman she must marry Frank Cameron. She unknowningly marries the almost always drunken Ford Cameron by mistake and immediately flees. Ford takes a job of ranch foreman and gives up drinking. Only after being attacted to a woman on the ranch does he suddenly remember he is already married.
Western
Las campanas de Capistrano
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In the 1830s, the tyrannical Spanish governor in old California finds himself in the midst of a rebellion and is out to get the rebel leader. A senorita, whose father is being persecuted by the governor, sets out to deliver the rebel leader in exchange for her father's freedom...but she falls in love with him.
Las campanas de Capistrano
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In the 1830s, the tyrannical Spanish governor in old California finds himself in the midst of a rebellion and is out to get the rebel leader. A senorita, whose father is being persecuted by the governor, sets out to deliver the rebel leader in exchange for her father's freedom...but she falls in love with him.
Vanishing Trails
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Vanishing Trails

Sep 10, 1920
A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune. Silent Joe (Farnum) arrives in an effort to discover the murderer and prove that he is the true heir. He and the heroine Lou (Anderson) have their adventures in the mountainous terrain with its "vanishing trails." They are aided by The Shadow (Orlamond), a demented scientist with his trained dog, and several remarkable, death-dealing inventions.
Western
The Northern Code
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The Northern Code

Oct 13, 1925
When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, flees into the white wilderness. Years later her secret comes back to haunt her.
Drama
Ridin' Wild
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Ridin' Wild

Sep 16, 1925
Like many Easterners who suffer from consumption, "The White Plague," Jim Warren goes to Arizona for the curative powers of its dry climate. When he arrives in Tucson, though, he cannot find a room because he is a 'lunger.' Ill and despondent, Jim is befriended by Betty Blake, the daughter of rancher and town sheriff Frank Blake, who suggests that he try the open desert. Wandering the desert, Jim happens upon members of the gang headed by Scar-face Jordon, a notorious rustler.
Western
The Desert Rat
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The Desert Rat

Jan 02, 1919
Steve Lanyon, known as the Desert Rat, returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it.
Western