William Desmond Movies

The Rawhide Terror

39/100

Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering... See full summary »

The Vanishing Legion

71/100

A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.

The Phantom of the West

62/100

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's ... See full summary »

Battling with Buffalo Bill

59/100

A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the ... See full summary »

The Last Frontier

58/100

A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of ... See full summary »

The Phantom of the Air

63/100

An adventure serial presented in 12 chapters. Inventor Thomas Edmunds uses a super plane, 'The Phantom,' to protect his new anti-gravity invention, the Contragrav, from theft.

Jungle Mystery

42/100

In Africa, two hunters meet a girl and her father who are searching for her lost brother. Their search is complicated by rival hunters who are after ivory and by a tribe of hostile natives.

Courage of the North

50/100

One of three films made in the six-announced "Morton of the Mounted' series: Sergeant Bruce Morton (John Preston (I)'), in charge of the Three Rivers Post of the Royal Northwest Mounted ... See full summary »

Clancy of the Mounted

74/100

A Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in his brother, who was framed for the murder of a gold mine owner.

The Prince and Betty

52/100

Society for Sale

84/100

Successful model, Phyllis Clyne, convinces a down-and-out nobleman, Billy, to pass her off in society as titled gentry...

The Mints of Hell

A Gamble in Souls

Arthur Worden, who runs a mission on San Francisco's Barbary Coast, is derided by chorus girl Freda Maxey when he asks her to attend services. These two meet again on board a ship when ... See full summary »

McGuire of the Mounted

Five Bad Men

A Broadway Cowboy

Her Code of Honor

The Vanishing Rider

Beasts of Paradise

The Pretender

The Winking Idol

A Sagebrush Hamlet

The Criminal

A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young ... See full summary »

Paws of the Bear

The Mystery Rider