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Through the Breakers (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Through the Breakers
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic love triangle melodrama about a London socialite who loves a man who is assigned to be a plantation manager on a South Seas island. She agrees to join him after a year, but puts it off, but later winds up shipwrecked on the same island. An island girl there is in love with him, but when he refuses to reciprocate her love and returns to his old sweetheart, she chooses to commit suicide rather than marry one of her own kind.
The Kansan (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Kansan
director: George Archainbaud actor: Richard Dix / Jane Wyatt
other title: 硝煙のカンサス / Der Sheriff von Kansas
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Abilene Town (1946) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Abilene Town
director: Edwin L. Marin actor: Randolph Scott / Ann Dvorak
other title: Banditen ohne Maske / Ville Abilene
Marshall Dan Mitchell, who is the law in Abilene, has the job of keeping peace between two groups. For a long time, the town had been divided, with the cattlemen and cowboys having one end of town to themselves, while townspeople occupied the other end. Mitchell liked it this way, it made things easier for him, and kept problems from arising between the two factions. However…