Charles Kent
Biography: Charles Kent was an American actor and director in silent films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 17, 1852
Deathday: May 21, 1923
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Known For
The Birth of a Soul
1920-01-01
The Birth of a Soul
Overview: Mountain families feud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Jean the Match-Maker
1910-09-19
Jean the Match-Maker
Overview: Bent on having a summer’s vacation, two working girls hire a tent and pitch their camp on the shore of a beautiful lake. As fate would have it, two farmer lads, living with their widowed mother and their pet border collie Jean, unexpectedly come onto the tent of the girls.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-19
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War
1911-12-08
War
Overview: In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in the enjoyment of their several pursuits of life, an Arab rushes upon the peaceful scene, announcing that Italy has declared war against Turkey and that the Italian warships are now in the harbor, shelling the city.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-08
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The Death of King Edward III
1911-08-05
The Death of King Edward III
Overview: King Edward III reigned from 1327 to 1377. He was a son of Edward the Second and he was born at Windsor Castle, November 13th, 1312. He was celebrated for his wars with the Scottish king and his battles with France. He started the "One Hundred Years' War." In his invasions of France, he was accompanied by his eldest son, "The Black Prince,"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-05
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Arbutus
1911-11-08
Arbutus
Overview: Carleton Holt locates at one of the mountain inns. On one of his daily trips he hears a mountain maid singing in the woods. Jumping from his horse, he makes his way to where she is sitting to find her holding a bunch of arbutus in her hands. He is fascinated. It is mutual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-08
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Madge of the Mountains
1911-10-31
Madge of the Mountains
Overview: Harry Brownley, son of a rich New Yorker, reads a newspaper account of U.S. Revenue officers' plan to raid an illicit distillery in the Tennessee mountains. The young fellow asks his father's permission to join the forces under Sheriff Jackson, of Pikesville, Tennessee. The father reluctantly consents and the son starts out to satisfy his adventurous nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-31
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A Reformed Santa Claus
1911-12-22
A Reformed Santa Claus
Overview: The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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The Party Dress
1912-08-24
The Party Dress
Overview: Lydia Borne picks up the only party dress she possesses and finds it full of wrinkles. A dance to which she is invited is to be held that evening. Time is precious, so hurriedly beating an iron, she is pressing the skirt and accidentally scorches it. Her dress is ruined. She goes to the attic, where she picks up an old daguerreotype of her grandmother in a very pretty, old-fashioned gown, which is exactly the same style of the present period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-24
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The Prodigal Judge
1922-02-19
The Prodigal Judge
Overview: The story takes place in the pre-Civil War era South. Judge Price has a fondness for liquor which really goes into overdrive after his wife runs away with another man and she takes their boy with her. He then spends his time wandering around the country with his tee-totaling pal, Solomon Mahaffy. Years pass and the judge learns that his wife has died and her lover is trying to get his hands on her son's inheritance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-19
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An Easter Lily
1914-04-09
An Easter Lily
Overview: The third in the series, An Easter "Lily" takes on upstairs/downstairs race relations with childhood candor. Following his family’s African American maid to the laundry, Sonny Jim befriends her daughter Lily and shares his teddy bear. With Easter approaching, Mother Dear buys her boy a new outfit and readies her home for relatives. Sonny Jim talks about the coming festivities with his playmate. When he learns that she does not have holiday clothes, he appropriates the white frock of his visiting cousin and invites Lily to join his family for Sunday worship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-09
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A Window on Washington Park
1913-04-29
A Window on Washington Park
Overview: From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, he instructs him to go down and tell the old man he would like to see him. When the butler approaches the elderly man the old fellow is somewhat skeptical, but finally consents to go with him. Alan receives his guest cordially and tells him why he has requested him to come and invites him to dinner. During the meal the old man tells his life's story: how he married a young woman, and after the birth of a little daughter, she died. How his daughter had married a young fellow and gone to live in New York, and how he had lost his money. The last news he had received of her was of her death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-29
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Etta of the Footlights
1914-05-23
Etta of the Footlights
Overview: Etta Lang, a chorus girl, is the principal support of an invalid mother and her sister and brother, not only working at the theater, but looking after their small boarding house. Among their lodgers is Brutus Bellamy, an old actor. He becomes interested in the girl, and offers to teach her acting. She learns rapidly. She arrives at the theater late and is abused by the stage manager, Joseph Burton. Cecil Wentworth, one of the backers of the theater, takes her part and becomes interested in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-23
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She Never Knew
1912-04-02
She Never Knew
Overview: Left with the care of his little grandchild through the death of his daughter, old Mr. Blinn tries in every way to give her the cure and attention which she needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-02
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The Toymaker
1912-10-24
The Toymaker
Overview: An old German toymaker, Hans Greyburg, living in a little flat on the east side of New York, while engaged one day making and dressing dolls, is visited by Dot Avery, the little girl from the flat above. He is fond of children and makes friends with her and gives her an old doll.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-24
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Counterfeit
1919-11-30
Counterfeit
Overview: In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of counterfeiters and gain the reward money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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A Tale of Two Cities
1911-02-20
A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-20
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The Christian
1914-03-16
The Christian
Overview: Glory Quayle, a natural-born mimic, leaves her country home, reaches London, goes on the stage, gains fame and affluence. John Storm, her country sweetheart, believing he has lost Glory forever, enters a monastery, tries to forget her, cannot kill his love, returns to the world, becomes a famous slum worker and friend of the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The Tiger Lily
1913-07-02
The Tiger Lily
Overview: Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, than to her, Cleo Morin runs away with Henri Mordan. On the afternoon of their elopement, Morin, who is a ballet master, is seriously injured on the stage, and the doctor tells him that his spine is so affected that he will never be able to walk again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-02
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The Swan Girl
1913-12-04
The Swan Girl
Overview: A wealthy young fellow during vacation becomes infatuated with a poor country girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-04
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Pawns of Mars
1915-04-24
Pawns of Mars
Overview: Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, receives a visit from Rizo Turbal, secretly acting as spy for the emperor of a foreign country. Lefone's friend, John Temple, is experimenting with a discovery he has made of a new wireless wave, with which he expects to explode bombs at long range.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-24
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Miss Dulcie from Dixie
1919-03-24
Miss Dulcie from Dixie
Overview: To receive the $5,000 promised in her Uncle Stephen's will, Dulcie Culpepper must live with her Uncle John in New York for six months so that her father, a Confederate colonel, will be reconciled with his brother whose marriage to a Northern woman long ago caused a breach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-24
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The First Endorsement
1914-02-19
The First Endorsement
Overview: An adjutant comes in and lays before Colonel Allen, the charges against John Wild, a young soldier accused of theft. When the adjutant goes out, the Colonel remembers about his own wayward son, how he had left his home one evening, after a quarrel, never to return, shipping as a stoker on a big liner, and how, later, he had received word of his death in a shipwreck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-19
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The Blue Envelope Mystery
1916-10-23
The Blue Envelope Mystery
Overview: Leslie Brennan, an heiress, suddenly discovers that she is almost penniless, and faces the ordeal of making her own living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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Benedict Arnold
1909-11-16
Benedict Arnold
Overview: Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray West Point into the hands of the British, and to that end enters into negotiation with Major Andre, as the representative of the British General.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-16
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A Florida Enchantment
1914-08-10
A Florida Enchantment
Overview: Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian's when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When she can take no more, Lillian discovers a box forgotten at an old curiosity shop in which lies a hundred-year-old secret: a vial of four rare and exotic African seeds that promises to transform whoever swallows one from a woman to a man or vice versa.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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The Bond of Music
1912-08-30
The Bond of Music
Overview: Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-30
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Kennedy Square
1916-02-21
Kennedy Square
Overview: At a dance on his parents' plantation in the early nineteenth century, Harry Rutter wins a duel with Langdon Willetts, but loses his fiancée, Kate Seymour, who disapproves of fighting. He is thrown out of his family home and forced to stay with others. Tired of accepting charity, Harry leaves for South America. Now he returns a rich man to a ruined home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-21
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The Life of Moses
1909-12-04
The Life of Moses
Overview: Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910. A Vitagraph advertisement in the Moving Picture World (31 Dec. 1909) refers to The Life of Moses as a "Biblical Film-de-Luxe". It is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-04
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The Battle Cry of Peace
1915-08-05
The Battle Cry of Peace
Overview: Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-05
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Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
1910-01-02
Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy
Overview: Directed by J. Stuart Blackton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-02
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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
1912-06-13
The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror
Overview: During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agrees to marry one of their leaders in order to save her husband’s life. But her husband finds out about this, and forbids the Duchess to do so. The girlfriend of this leader takes revenge when she learns the truth, and stabs him. The two Béracs then proceed to the guillotine with their heads held high.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-13
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Hypnotising the Hypnotist
1911-01-01
Hypnotising the Hypnotist
Overview: As a bonus to this year’s screening of The Boatswain’s Mate, festival attendees can also enjoy “Vitagraph Girl” Florence Turner in this short comedy produced in 1911, when Turner was at the height of her fame that, as Jennifer Bean puts it, “mocks cultural anxieties associated with hypnosis, with the idea that one person can control the will, spirit or behaviour of another”.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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The Old Guard
1913-02-28
The Old Guard
Overview: A short film directed by James Young and starring Charles Kent & Clara Kimball Young.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-28
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Put Yourself in Their Place
1913-06-09
Put Yourself in Their Place
Overview: A comedy short directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young and himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
2016-07-18
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film
Overview: A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Richard III and The Merchant of Venice, as well as less frequently filmed plays such as Henry VIII and The Winter's Tale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-18
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The Poor Musician
1909-02-23
The Poor Musician
Overview: Our story opens with a noted violinist practicing, his young wife sitting nearby, while their little daughter plays about on the floor, a truly happy family. The maid announces a caller, who, upon being ushered in, is presented to the wife. He is at once struck with her beauty, eyes her continually, but unnoticed by the musician or his wife. As the two men leave the room, for the first time the wife catches the expression on the caller's face and is worried. A year later in the same room we find the wife packing her suit case preparing to elope with the villain. Before their departure the wife writes a note telling her husband of her elopement and begs him to forget her. A moment after the pair leave the room the valet enters, observes them from the window, picks up the note, reads it and immediately starts for the theater to inform his master. He rushes upon the stage just as the musician is finishing his number, excitedly tells the tale and gives him the letter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-23
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As You Like It
1912-10-06
As You Like It
Overview: After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-06
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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
1908-12-01
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
Overview: Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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The Only Veteran in Town
1913-05-28
The Only Veteran in Town
Overview: More interested in automobiling than in anything else, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold are inclined to be neglectful of their little daughter, Dora, and are almost entirely unmindful of her grandfather, James Arnold, a one-armed G. A. R. veteran living with them. Dora makes up as well as she can to her grandfather for his loneliness and the two spend the greater part of their time together. On Decoration Day, Dora's parents want her to go with them to see the parade, but as they do not wish to take her granddad with them, she refuses to go and stays at home with him. After a while she coaxes the old gentleman with her into a field of daisies, where .she wreathes a crown of flowers and places it on his head. Seated thus in state, he is found by a delegation of citizens, who, having learned that he is a war veteran, bring a message that the town desires to honor him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-28
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His Official Appointment
1912-11-04
His Official Appointment
Overview: This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is an old man, who has spent all he owns on influencing a government appointment. His faithful black servant, Amber (Hal Wilson), cares for him as he waits to hear from the Capitol. No one there intends to do anything but make fun of him, even sending a false appointment, to his shame.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-04
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Fortunes of a Composer
1912-05-20
Fortunes of a Composer
Overview: A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-20
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An Innocent Theft
1912-05-27
An Innocent Theft
Overview: Out of desperation, poor Joe, who lives with his sick mother, steals money from the church’s collection. His mother finds out, and wants him to bring the money back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-27
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Vanity Fair
1911-01-02
Vanity Fair
Overview: A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India
1908-01-18
The Last Cartridge, An Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India
Overview: Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest she be taken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-01-18
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The Purple Highway
1923-08-05
The Purple Highway
Overview: Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar ( Monte Blue ), the playwright, is in love with April ( Madge Kennedy ), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-05
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The Awakening of Bianca
1912-12-07
The Awakening of Bianca
Overview: Angelo and his daughter Bianca are poor Italian immigrants. They sell fruit and vegetables on the street with the help of Nicola, who is in love with Bianca. To Nicola's dismay, a flirtatious barber by the name of Guiseppe begins to attract Bianca's attention. What Bianca does not realize is that Guiseppe is only interested in her hair, which a wig maker is willing to pay a considerable sum for. When Angelo falls ill and they find themselves without money for food or medicine, Bianca is left with little choice. - Harpodeon
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-07
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The Tiger
1913-09-11
The Tiger
Overview: Robert Bardon has searched for years for animal trainer Gamo who seduced and abandoned Brandon's daughter Gladys. Finding him at last he corners him in a room and exacts his revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-11
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Rose Leaves
1910-08-27
Rose Leaves
Overview: Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly by her husband, who lovingly speaks to his family and then shakes the rose bushes over their heads, causing the white leaves to fall upon their heads in a shower of rarest sun tints.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-27
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Twelfth Night
1910-02-04
Twelfth Night
Overview: When Viola and her twin brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and separated, Viola dresses in her brother's clothes and becomes a page in the palace of the Duke of Orsino. Thinking Viola is a boy, the Duke sends her with a message to Olivia, whom he loves. A series of complications begins when Olivia falls in love with the page 'boy'
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-04
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A Dixie Mother
1910-12-17
A Dixie Mother
Overview: Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one dies and the other marries a Northern nurse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-17
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A Million Bid
1914-04-01
A Million Bid
Overview: Agnes Belgradin is in love with a young doctor, Loring Brent. When Agnes' father dies, her mother takes her on a trip abroad. She insists that the young couple separate before they set sail, and promises that if they still love each other after a year they can reunite. But Mrs. Belgradin intercepts all the letters Agnes and Brent write one another, and convinces her daughter to marry a wealthy Australian millionaire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-01
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The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
1914-10-26
The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray
Overview: Loose adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s “Frankenstein”.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-10-26
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The Ragged Edge
1923-05-14
The Ragged Edge
Overview: Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On "the ragged edge," he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and go to an island in the South Seas where, later, his innocence is proved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-14
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Britton of the Seventh
1916-01-24
Britton of the Seventh
Overview: In 1876, Lt. Tony Britton of the 7th Cavalry is in love with pretty young Barbara Manning, but the wife of his superior, Capt. Granson, is in love with him and begs him to run away with her. Britton refuses, but is soon sent to arrest Sioux chief Rain-in-the-Face, who has murdered two soldiers from the 7th. He captures his quarry and carts him off to jail, infuriating the local Indians. When Capt. Granson learns of his wife's infatuation with Britton, he makes trouble for Britton, who is soon forced to resign his commission. He signs up as an army scout, and learns that the Indians are planning to attack and massacre the 7th under the command of Col. George Armstrong Custer. Can he get to Custer in time to warn him of the impending attack, and will he--a disgraced army officer--be believed?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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The Island of Surprise
1916-01-24
The Island of Surprise
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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The Heights of Hazard
1915-11-15
The Heights of Hazard
Overview: Miss Olivia Martindale, at a dinner, announces: "There is no longer any romance in American life," and immediately arouses a storm of protest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-15
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The Wooing of Princess Pat
1918-02-18
The Wooing of Princess Pat
Overview: To stave off war with a neighboring kingdom, Princess Pat of Paxitania agrees to marry Warburg's King Eric. Still very young and rebellious, the new queen finds it difficult to adjust to court life, and when she accepts an invitation to take a ride with the villainous Count Ladislaus, King Eric's patience gives out and he rebukes her severely. The banished count informs Pat's father, the Grand Duke of Paxitania, that she is cruelly abused, whereupon Pat's three brothers set out to bring her back home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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