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The Courage of Collins

Sep 4, 1927

0h 20m

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Overview

In this rare surviving two-reeler for Edmund Cobb's Universal series, the taciturn star plays Constable Collins, a Northwest Mounted police officer assigned to help pretty Rose Foster (Helen Foster) and her brother, Jack (Newton House), who are in trouble with a gang of claim jumpers. Unbeknownst to Rose, the gang is headed by Jim Murdock, whom the girl considers her only friend. Collins, who pretends to be a drifter, immediately becomes suspicious of Murdock's motives and the villain strikes back by having Rose kidnapped. There is a climactic fight in an abandoned shack in the wilderness but young Jack arrives in the nick of time with the Mounties.

Genres

Western

Production Companies

Universal Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Constable Collins

Edmund Cobb

Rose Foster

Helen Foster

Jim Murdock

Walter Shumway

Dave Foster

Newton House

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The Man Tamer

Aug 26, 1927

Ed Cobb is in love with very cute Barbara Worth but she won’t marry him until he lowers his temper and stops fighting. When his rascally cousin forces Ed’s horse off the road, Ed falls and, unconscious for a while, develops amnesia and nearly marries a love-starved widow woman.

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Sweedie the Swatter

Jul 13, 1914

Mrs. Highstrung's maid leaves her at a very inopportune time, as she has just received a telegram from some friends that they will arrive in the city in time for luncheon. Jim, the hired man, tells her of a good Swedish cook and Mrs. Highstrung sends him post haste after her.

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Sweedie's Hero

May 20, 1915

Sweedie gets a job as mop artist in a hotel. She starts out from home encumbered with baggage and a pet dog of uncertain ancestry. Arrived at the hotel, she is given two pails and a mop and she starts to work.

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The New Teacher

Feb 1, 1915

The country school board assigns a new teacher, and the lot falls to none other than Sweedie.

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Sweedie and the Hypnotist

Dec 7, 1914

Sweedie is the scrub lady in the theater. She makes eyes at the stage manager and the hypnotist and is put out of the theater for being so impertinent. Next day while she is out feeding her chickens, she falls asleep and dreams that she has been left an immense fortune by her uncle and that the stage manager and the hypnotist are rivals for her hand.

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Countess Sweedie

Nov 16, 1914

Countess Von Swatt goes on a slumming party and loses one of her calling cards in the "hash house" where Sweedie works. Sweedie finds the card. Next day an invitation to a ball to be given by Mr. Wealth is delivered by Sweedie by mistake.

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Fighting Blood

Mar 18, 1923

Al Santell silent sports boxing comedy series starring George O'Hara, and all star cast: Kit Guard, Al Cooke, Clara Horton, Mabel Van Buren, and Clark Gable (in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this was one of a series of boxing films with the same characters, and each new film in the series was called a "round" (appropriate for a series of boxing movies!), but these movies were not serials, just connected by having the same characters. This card is the 3rd round, "Six Second Smith".

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Sweedie the cook adorns herself in her employer's jewels and goes to the skating rink where she is the most popular lady on the floor.

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She Landed a Big One

Oct 19, 1914

Sweedie tells her beau that her love has grown cold, so he decides to jump in the lake and end it all.

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Sweedie's Finish

Jun 10, 1915

Sweedie, the servant girl, is in love with a fireman, but her affections are not returned. The fireman escapes her caresses and gains the firehouse and loses her seven hours later when a fire breaks out. The next day she finds him with another woman and administers punishment. Then she opens a lady barber shop and her first customer is the faithless fireman.

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The Surprise Fight

Mar 15, 1925

Episode #5 in the Flying Fists series featuring real-life boxer Benny Leonard.

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The Come-Back

Mar 1, 1925

Talented boxer Benny Leonard suffers a series of personal and professional setbacks and must find the inner strength and physical discipline to return to the ring to reclaim his title and prove his worth to his skeptics and his love interest, Helen.

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Hitting Hard

Feb 1, 1925

The second of six episodes in the "Flying Fists" boxing series sometimes listed as "Hit Hard" starring pugilist Benny Leonard.

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Flying Fists

Nov 23, 1924

A series of six boxing dramas, each a complete story in its own right. The episode titles are: #1: Intrusion; #2: Hit Hard; #3: Soft Muscles; #4: The Return; #5: The Surprise Fight; #6: The Jazz Fight.

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Faster Foster

Jul 19, 1924

Eleventh episode in 'The Telephone Girl' 2-reel comedy series.

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Money to Burns

Mar 30, 1924

After having difficulty coming up with a new story idea, a writer pays a fellow to allow him to follow him around in hopes it will encourage his literary juices to flow. Unfortunately, he gets more than he bargained for.

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The Fickleness of Sweedie

Oct 5, 1914

Henry Bigger, a short fat fellow, and Danny Slimson, short but slim, are rivals for the hand of Sweedie. One day while Danny is peeking in the window at Sweedie, he sees her reading a letter and immediately takes it for granted that it is from Henry. Instead, it is a notice from the landlord requesting her to pay her rent.

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