Jack Baston
Actor · 1892 – 1970 · San Francisco, California, USA
Movies22
Movie6.7ActionDramaThe life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951 · 119 votes
Movie6.7AdventureFantasyA dashing merchant uses the magic sword of Damascus to free a Baghdad princess from the clutches of a grand vizier and his son.
The Golden Blade
1953 · 23 votes
Movie10.0CrimeDramaSherry Mason, the playboy son of wealthy parents, lives a life of self-indulgence until he meets Nadia Meredith, the daughter of a poor bookseller. Smitten with her, he asks her to marry him but she refuses, detecting an evil streak hidden beneath his surface. He heads to Paris with his father's crooked business partner, where they get mixed up in a murder and Mason must flee back to the US, where he once again runs into Nadia under an entirely different set of circumstances.
As a Man Lives
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaSally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's wife, to be famous, and to have a child.
Beyond Price
1921 · 1 votes
Movie9.0WesternRival telephone crews are in a race to be the first to connect telephone service between Rawlings and Cheynne, Wyoming. Lineman Tom Remington's girlfriend is the daughter of one crew foreman, who wants to win the race in order to re-establish himself in the business. However, the foreman of the other crew has his own scheme to win the race, and will stop at nothing--including kidnapping--to accomplish it.
Hello Cheyenne!
1928 · 2 votes
Movie5.7AdventureDramaBeing the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit Quaker community, and the dangerous adventures of an unwilling stowaway aboard one of the elder Morgan's harvest vessels.
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922 · 9 votes
Movie5.5RomanceDramaCarmen, a gypsy, working in a Spanish cigar factory, is flaunted by Escamillo, the bullfighter, but infatuates José, a soldier, who aids her to escape from jail and follows her to the gypsy camp. Tiring of his love, Carmen finally fascinates Escamillo and the love-crazed José kills her at a bull fight just as Escamillo is being proclaimed by the audience.
The Loves of Carmen
1927 · 8 votes
Movie8.0DramaWilliam Carter, a young Virginian in Paris, becomes enchanted with music hall dancer Fanchon La Fare. After William reluctantly returns to America, Fanchon follows him, and when she is threatened with deportation because of an irregularity in her passport, William marries her. The marriage causes consternation in the upright Carter family, which is compounded when Fanchon performs one of her dances at a church benefit. At the conclusion of her dance, Fanchon sees a stranger in the audience and faints. Later, the same man appears at the Carter residence and demands to see her. Leigh Carter, William's younger brother, becomes angered and shoots the man. At the trial, Fanchon confesses that the stranger was her estranged husband whom she had been forced to marry when she was but a child. The crime thus clarified, Leigh is freed, and Fanchon, who had been expelled earlier from the Carter house, is welcomed back by her husband and his family. (Courtesy TCM)
The Good-Bad Wife
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaIn the hills of Kentucky, Alexander McGivens, known as "the girl in pants," is reared by her father as if she were a boy. When her father, Aaron, is wounded in a fight with Bud Sellers, the girl undertakes to get her father's logs to market with the help of a crew from the lumber camp. Her numerous suitors include a young Irishman, Jerry O'Keefe, roughneck Jase Mallows, and a wealthy young easterner, Jack Halloway. After delivering the logs, she entrusts her money to the repentant Bud Sellers, and on her return trip she is captured by Mallows and his followers. She finally reaches home, where she offers her hand to O'Keefe, the soft-spoken mountaineer.
The Mountain Woman
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaQueen of the serials Pearl White gets herself into plenty of trouble up Klondike way as a young maiden named Tiger's Cub.
The Tiger's Cub
1 votes
MovieDramaNick Carter investigates the mysterious death of a man attending a Spiritualistic seance held in the home of a psychic scientist, friend of the man who suddenly died.
Movie7.0WesternTom meets his fate when a balloon goes sailing over the ranch: seeing a girl jump with a parachute, he rides to her rescue. Later, during the circus parade, he rides to her assistance, rescuing her from an elephant and thus arousing the ire of the circus manager, whose henchmen begin to chase Tom. Scrambling over the main tent, Tom falls onto the tightrope and lands in a net with the girl while the crowd wildly applauds. Kirk Mallory, who is jealous of Tom's attentions to Millie, frames Tom for a murder; he lands in jail but escapes and reaches Mallory's ranch in time to rescue the girl and administer a thrashing to the villain.
The Circus Ace
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaBy Whose Hand? is a lost 1927 American silent crime drama film directed by Walter Lang and released by Columbia Pictures.
By Whose Hand?
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceAnnette is in love with Sheriff André Porel, but her father Gaston, promises her to Paul Gerard, after Gerard witnesses Gaston kill Indian Charlie. Despondent, Annette considers suicide, but Gerard drinks the poison by mistake. Annette is convicted of murder and is being led to her execution by André when an avalanche buries the gallows and Gaston. The villagers take this as a sign of Annette's innocence; she is released and marries André.
The Snow Bride
1923 · 1 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaDesperate because a wealthy man has reduced her father to thievery, Rhoda agrees to rob the poor box of the church, although she finds the act abhorrent.
The White Moll
1920 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaPearl White is a child living alone on a South Seas island after the death of her missionary father. By a stroke of luck, she becomes an heiress, and is transplanted into modern society.
A Virgin Paradise
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0WesternA cowboy promises his dying foster-father, "Honest" John Maggert, that he will return the cattle that Maggert rustled from the local ranchers.
The Branded Sombrero
1928 · 2 votes
Movie8.0WesternThe second of four films made by Resolute Productions, Inc. that had Rex Bell, Ruth Mix and Buzz Barton billed above the title, and the basic plot is rather basic as the McGregor clan--Ross, Dan and Alex, arch-enemies of Paradise Ranch owner Jerry Vance--frame him on a murder charge, and Danny Blake, a young cowhand befriended by Jerry, and Mary Vance, an Eastern girl who co-owns the ranch with Jerry, help him clear his name.
Gunfire
1934 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WesternSteve Lannon is a retired gunman and reformed-outlaw who has left his ranch and is living in seclusion in San Francisco. He receives word that rustlers are on the rampage in the area of his ranch, and have stolen his horse, Silver. Steve returns to Nevada to take care of this matter.
Chain Lightning
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaNed Catlin, a young Kentuckian, joins the army during World War I and is sent to France, leaving his sweetheart, June Reeves, behind him. A villainous neighbor who also covets June is drafted and returns with the false news that Ned is dead.
The Fighting Kentuckians
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
Nick Carter, called to a prominent New York hotel room by a wealthy mine owner, finds him dead when he arrives. His investigation involves a number of supposed reputable business men, but he solves the mystery and brings all to justice.
Unseen Foes
1922 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ThrillerBetty, a blind girl, is the sole "witness" to the murder of a mine owner and whose mistaken testimony convicts Sid Allen her own benefactor. Years later, the adult Betty returns to the mining town, her sight restored. Fearing that she may remember the truth, the real murderer, "Bull" Snide has the girl kidnapped.
Dynamite Allen
1921 · 1 votes