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.

Heroes of the West

58/100

Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath.

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.

Peggy

46/100

Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her uncle. Her American ways both...

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 »

The Return of the Riddle Rider

43/100

The Last of the Ingrams

48/100

Jules Ingram ( William Desmond ), the sole survivor of an old Puritan family, seeks solace and forgetfulness in drink. Unable to pay his debts, Jules is driven from his house when banker ... See full summary »

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...

Kilmeny

34/100

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.

Fighting Back

Cashiered out of the army by what he believes was an unjust court-martial, the man known as The Weakling wanders aimlessly in the desert and is found by cowboys from the Lazy Y Ranch. They ... See full summary »

Paws of the Bear

Barriers of the Law

When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's leader locks her up in a brothel. She ... See full summary »

Blood Will Tell

Young Samson Oakley III is the only son of Samson Oakley II, the distinguished head of a prominent Wall Street firm. When he is expelled from college--although for an offense he didn't ... See full summary »