Henry West

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The Dictator
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The Dictator

Jun 21, 1915
On the lam from the New York Police because of a false murder charge, playboy Brooke Travers escapes to a Central American banana republic.
Adventure
Men of Steel
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Men of Steel

Jul 11, 1926
Jan Bokak is a self-educated steelworker who finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle. Two different girls -- wealthy socialite Claire Pitt and blue-collar worker Mary Berwick -- simultaneously fall for Bokak. It later develops that Claire and Mary are actually sisters, the first of a series of surprising plot twists leading to Bokak being accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Drama
The Road to France
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The Road to France

Oct 14, 1918
Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.
Drama
The Heart of a Hero
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The Heart of a Hero

Nov 06, 1916
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).
Drama
The Girl on the Barge
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The Girl on the Barge

Feb 03, 1929
The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.
Drama
The Rail Rider
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The Rail Rider

Aug 21, 1916
The Rail Rider is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring House Peters, Bertram Marburgh, and Henry West.
Drama
Le Fantôme de la vitesse
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«Eclair Bleu» Billings, un pilote de course populaire, revient à Westwood, ville où Betty, la fille dont il est amoureux, vend un modèle de voiture, la Comet 6. Hélas, ce tacot a une réputation déplorable, d'autant que l'élection du shérif local interfère dans cette situation, le shérif actuel étant le père de Betty. Billings imagine alors un plan infaillible pour rendre la Comet enfin populaire...
Comedy
The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
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During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margaret Moncrieffe. Fast-forward several years and they again find themselves on opposite sides, this time about compensation for the properties of Tories--colonists who sided with the British--during the war. Hamilton falls for Maria Reynolds, who it turns out is secretly the wife of prominent pawnbroker Jacob Clingman, a friend of Burr's. The pair conspire to destroy Hamilton, who is now Secretary of the Treasury and married to the daughter of a prominent army general, by making public several love letters Hamilton had written to Mrs. Reynolds.
Drama
The Half-Way Girl
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The Half-Way Girl

Aug 16, 1925
When her traveling theatrical group goes broke, Poppy, an actress in the troupe, finds herself stranded in Singapore. She's reduced to working in a bar in the seedy part of town as a "hostess", where she meets a down-on-his-luck Englishman. While drunk he gets into a fight, and is forced to kill his opponent in self-defense. The girl helps him escape and goes to Sam, a shady plantation owner, to try to get them out of Singapore. However, Sam has his own plans for Poppy, and they don't include potential rivals for her affections.
Drama