
05 Jan 1943

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
Madge Clayton, a society girl, mysteriously disappears. The police suspect a master criminal is behind the girl's abduction, but her brother, Bob, and fiancé, Bert Moore, help with the search. They unearth a scheme to kidnap another girl, Natalie Van Cleef, and the evidence takes Bob and Bert to an estate on Long Island.
Natalie Van Cleef
Robert 'Bob' Clayton
Madge Clayton, his sister
Dr. Vining
Mrs. Fawcette
Ivan Invanovitch
Police Inspector Cabot
Paul Mannering, The Emperor
05 Jan 1943
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
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A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
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Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.
29 Aug 1929
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
26 Jan 1946
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looters.
13 Oct 1941
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
18 Aug 1916
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Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
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An American adventure film serial comprised of fifteen episodes of two reels (24 min) each. All chapters are presumed lost.
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