Movies: Josef Swickard

  • 1914
    An Incompetent Hero

    An Incompetent Hero (1914)

    An Incompetent Hero

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    Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him....

    An Incompetent Hero
  • 1925
    The Keeper of the Bees

    The Keeper of the Bees (1925)

    The Keeper of the Bees

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    A bee keeper does his best to help the army. This film is lost....

    The Keeper of the Bees
  • 1914
    Lover's Luck

    Lover's Luck (1914)

    Lover's Luck

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    A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy....

    Lover's Luck
  • 1930
    Phantom of the Desert

    Phantom of the Desert (1930)

    Phantom of the Desert

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    Horses are being stolen by a white stallion known as "The Phantom of the Desert." A cowboy sets out to find who's behind it....

    Phantom of the Desert
  • 1934
    Cross Streets

    Cross Streets (1934)

    Cross Streets

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    A man falls in love with a young woman, only to discover that she's the daughter of an ex-girlfriend who jilted him almost 20 years before....

    Cross Streets
  • 1929
    The Veiled Woman

    The Veiled Woman (1929)

    The Veiled Woman

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    A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself....

    The Veiled Woman
  • 1927
    Get Your Man

    Get Your Man (1927)

    Get Your Man

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    A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man....

    Get Your Man
  • 1915
    Droppington's Family Tree

    Droppington's Family Tree (1915)

    Droppington's Family Tree

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    Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees h...

    Droppington's Family Tree
  • 1925
    The Northern Code

    The Northern Code (1925)

    The Northern Code

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    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....

    The Northern Code
  • 1929
    The Devil's Chaplain

    The Devil's Chaplain (1929)

    The Devil's Chaplain

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    Escaping from a revolution, the King of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds a friend in the form of dashing secret service agent Yorke Norray....

    The Devil's Chaplain
  • 1924
    North of Nevada

    North of Nevada (1924)

    North of Nevada

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    When old rancher Mark Ridgeway passes away, his property goes to relatives in the East instead of to trusted foreman Tom Taylor as promised. The relatives, Reginald (Taylor Graves) and his sister Marion, arrive to take over the ranch, and Tom quickly...

    North of Nevada
  • 1937
    The Girl Said No

    The Girl Said No (1937)

    The Girl Said No

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    Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe....

    The Girl Said No
  • 1915
    Willful Ambrose

    Willful Ambrose (1915)

    Willful Ambrose

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    Marksman Ambrose accidentally shoots a beer stein his wife has bought for him as a gift, so he tries to replace it....

    Willful Ambrose
  • 1925
    The Mysterious Stranger

    The Mysterious Stranger (1925)

    The Mysterious Stranger

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    Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at ...

    The Mysterious Stranger
  • 1926
    The Unknown Cavalier

    The Unknown Cavalier (1926)

    The Unknown Cavalier

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    Tom Drury, a cowboy whose quick thinking stops a notorious outlaw, "The Hawk," from further misdeeds. The villain, as it turns out, is none other than Henry Suggs (James Mason), heretofore considered a pillar of the community........

    The Unknown Cavalier
  • 1915
    Only a Messenger Boy

    Only a Messenger Boy (1915)

    Only a Messenger Boy

    01915HD

    Keystone silent comedy....

    Only a Messenger Boy
  • 1928
    The Toy Shop

    The Toy Shop (1928)

    The Toy Shop

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    Cinematographer Ray Rennahan utilized the two-strip Technicolor process for this film, but either surviving prints have faded or the color palette was limited in the first place, for generally we see only muddy reds, dim greens, and occasional splash...

    The Toy Shop
  • 1913
    Their First Execution

    Their First Execution (1913)

    Their First Execution

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    A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the disc...

    Their First Execution
  • 1915
    Ambrose's Nasty Temper

    Ambrose's Nasty Temper (1915)

    Ambrose's Nasty Temper

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    Ambrose's nasty temper gets him in trouble when he accidentally puts his boss's attractive daughter in danger....

    Ambrose's Nasty Temper
  • 1927
    One Increasing Purpose

    One Increasing Purpose (1927)

    One Increasing Purpose

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    Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose....

    One Increasing Purpose