John P. Wade
Actor · 1876 – 1949 · Madison, Indiana, USA
Movies19
Movie8.0WesternIn this entry in the long-running series of westerns, the Three Mesquiteers transform their ranch into a prison farm to provide a model for prison reform. They are opposed by a local contractor who wants to build a standard prison.
Heroes of the Hills
1938 · 2 votes
Movie6.9DramaAn Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Sister Kenny
1946 · 19 votes
Movie7.0WesternRiders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert Livingston), Tucson (Ray Corrigan) and Lullaby (Max Terhune) are on the case when rancher Peg Garth's (Maude Eburne) prize racehorse is abducted by bookie Rod Stevens (Tom London) and a secret cohort to prevent it from winning an important race.
Riders of the Black Hills
1938 · 1 votes
Movie4.0HorrorAn ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Maniac
1934 · 60 votes
Movie5.2RomanceDramaA sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
The Bride's Play
1922 · 13 votes
Movie8.0DramaBilly Clifford, who has served a sentence in reform school for devoted friend Talbot, later in life becomes a successful gambler. He meets and falls in love with Helen Morely, daughter of the mayor. His partner, advised that the mayor intends to raid his establishment, kidnaps Helen and holds her prisoner as security against the raid.
A Wide Open Town
1922 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaStephen Browning, a minister in a small city, is unable to cope with the strong opposition in his parish, which is fostered and led by Raphael Creeke, his rival for the love of Irene Manton.
Other Men's Shoes
1920 · 4 votes
MovieDramaAdventureA criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
The Eagle's Eye
1918
MovieWarComedyBig Steve and Little Lefty, a pair of hobos, are happily drifting through life until the First World War comes and enter it and find their lives forever changed.
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeAfter millionaire Erastus Browning and his daughter Charlotte, a playwright, attend a crime play, Charlotte complains that the crook characters are not true to life. To prove her point, aided by supposed criminal Bidwell Wright, Charlotte invites a number of notorious criminals to her home for a party. The crooks all believe they have been invited to form an international family of thieves, headed by Charlotte and her father.
Too Many Crooks
1919 · 1 votes
Movie9.0MysteryA playwright, Wakefield, Jr., turns detective when his father is killed after nearly capturing two brothers in possession of four rubies belonging to the British Museum. An investigation suggests that "the Breen girl" is responsible for Wakefield's death, and the younger Wakefield pursues her across the ocean to the United States.
The Wakefield Case
1921 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Woman God Sent
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaAlice, a little newsgirl known as "Sticks", spends her time fighting for her territory against a lot of tough kids.
A Bit of Kindling
1917 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThrough negotiations with the neighboring monarch, the King of Zollenstein arranges for his son to marry the Princess of Saxonia, but later discovers that the prince already has wed Lady Maulfrey Le Fay in secret.
Zollenstein
1917
Movie7.0CrimeDramaAn expose of the methods used by a police-department to extract a confession from a suspect, regardless of innocence or guilt, and the effect and consequences on a family when an innocent member breaks under the interrogation methods and confesses to a crime he did not commit.
The Third Degree
1919 · 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
- Movie8.0Mystery
After serving fifteen years of a twenty-year prison term for embezzlement, Joe Moore is released early for good behavior. In New York, he finds Matthew Owens and James Horton, his former business associates, and demands that they pay what they owe him.
The Open Door
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0WesternThe story of a girl who for months was in perpetual peril; on land, on sea, everywhere, Orient, Occident, and the Antipodes.
Trailed by Three
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaWhen Bob Stokes, a wealthy New York clubman, loses his fortune, he is jilted by his fiancée Marcia Fontaine. He then wanders to an upstate lumber camp where he impresses the owner, Henry Willard, with his leadership and fighting abilities. After Stokes quells a strike engineered by the previous foreman, Robert Brummon, who is really a Bolshevik agitator, to prevent shipments of lumber for government contracts, Brummon, seeking revenge, sets the forest on fire, but Stokes controls it. Willard then sends for Stokes to oversee his New York shipyards where a government "mystery ship" is under construction. After Stokes and Willard's daughter Helen fall in love, Brummon gets Marcia to attempt to seduce Stokes. Marcia lures Stokes to her apartment, where Brummon plans to kill him, but he escapes when he learns that a time bomb is set to destroy the ship.
Virtuous Men
1919 · 1 votes