William Stowell
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 13, 1885
Deathday: November 24, 1919
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The Millionaire Cowboy
1913-02-03
The Millionaire Cowboy
Overview: In the mistaken belief that he has killed a cab driver, a dissipated Eastern scion flees West in this inventive silent Western starring former football hero Maurice "Lefty" Flynn and based on an original story by Darryl F. Zanuck. Charles Christoper Meredyth, Jr. -- known to his friends as "Gallop" -- arrives in a small Southwestern town owned by inventor Granville Truce (Charles Crockett). The only other inhabitants are Truce's pretty daughter, Pauline (Gloria Grey), and a gang of Mexican bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-03
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In Remembrance
1914-03-24
In Remembrance
Overview: Jack Sterling from up York State marries the daughter of old Squire Merton, takes her back to the big city and later becomes affluent in business, but is not as attentive to his wife as he should be. Easily won wealth seems to lead him from home rather than attach him to it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-24
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Dad's Girls
1911-09-12
Dad's Girls
Overview: Dad, a likable old pioneer character, lived among the foot hills of the western mining region, on a ranch with his two daughters, Rose and Madge. As sort of a side issue he had been doing a little prospecting, and about the time the story starts, we see him carrying some of his quartz to Andy Thomas, a young assayer located in a nearby village.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-12
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The Wheels of Justice
1911-09-14
The Wheels of Justice
Overview: James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple to Hazen's new home in the country. Hazen has isolated himself here in the hope of finding security in complete loneliness.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-14
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The Girl at the Cupola
1912-08-07
The Girl at the Cupola
Overview: SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees. His workmen have grown old and antiquated in his employ. Through the influence of his daughter, the general managership is passed over to her fiance,—one Jack Berry —a young man, well trained in the school of modern methods.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-07
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A War Time Romance
1912-07-26
A War Time Romance
Overview: Among the many beautiful and exciting romances that saw birth, blossomed and grew, during the dark and foreboding days of our great Civil War period, was that of Arthur Deming, the young Confederate officer, and his Southern sweetheart, Alice Munroe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-26
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The Girl o' Dreams
1918-01-01
The Girl o' Dreams
Overview: After his young wife dies, Phillip Fletcher, a millionaire and sculptor, makes his home on an uncharted desert island. Harry LeRoy, a cad who is courting the widow Mrs. Hansen, desires the widow's convent-bred daughter Norma and persuades mother and daughter to accompany him on a sea cruise. When the ship catches fire, Norma, abandoned by LeRoy and her mother in the confusion, is washed ashore on Phillip's island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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All on Account of Checkers
1912-03-29
All on Account of Checkers
Overview: Smith & Smith, publishers, in a letter, notify Professor Bernard that they will accept his latest story if he will alter the enclosed paragraph: "Marry me and I will do away with my wife as I did her father." The absent-minded professor leaves this paragraph on his study table while he goes to the store to secure some cloth for his wife. The Professor, however, is very absent-minded, and forgets his mission when he meets a group of firemen who induce him to play a game of checkers. In the meantime, Ellen, the cook, is having her troubles with the butcher boy, who brings liver instead of chops, as ordered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-29
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The Wreck of the Vega
1912-08-12
The Wreck of the Vega
Overview: Five years ago the world was shocked to hear of the sinking of one of the finest and fastest ore boats on the Great Lakes. During one of the worst storms in the memory of sailors this great boat, the Vega, became suddenly lost and almost without warning, was driven ashore on the rocks near the Fox Islands in Northern Lake Michigan.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-12
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The House of His Master
1912-09-09
The House of His Master
Overview: The blight of Sylvia Steem's otherwise happy young life, is her husband's crave for drink.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-09
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The Fire Cop
1912-12-02
The Fire Cop
Overview: Andy Brannigan was a good-natured policeman, large of frame, but limited in nerve. He has, however, been very successful in posing as a hero, and deceives all but his wife, who laughs at him when he tells her that he has been awarded a medal for bravery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-02
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A Husband Won by Election
1913-03-07
A Husband Won by Election
Overview: Edna Dusenberry, the charming twenty-year old daughter of Senator Dusenberry, is in love with handsome young Walter Force. John Cartwright, a corrupt politician and candidate for mayor, makes a deal with the Senator whereby he is to receive the hand of Edna in marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-07
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The Lost Inheritance
1912-11-13
The Lost Inheritance
Overview: 1912 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-13
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The False Order
1913-01-09
The False Order
Overview: The sensational crux of jealous revenge in "The False Order" is a head-on collision of two enormous locomotives. A realistic effect that heavily discounts any stage device ever materialized to thrill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-09
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Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
1913-03-24
Pauline Cushman, the Federal Spy
Overview: Pauline Cushman leaves the theater to become a Federal spy. Working with Henry Holmes of the Secret Service, she escapes execution twice and helps Gen. Rosencrans in battle against Confederate generals Bragg, Forrest, and Morgan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-24
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A Change of Administration
1913-04-05
A Change of Administration
Overview: The story concerns the difficulties of a clerk in the war department, betrothed to the daughter of an ambassador, who loses his position by the change of administration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-05
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Dixieland
1913-04-16
Dixieland
Overview: A minstrel troupe is embarking for a tour of the South. Henry Clay appears on the scene wearing the frayed coat of a Confederate General. He borrows a guitar from one of the minstrel men and begins singing "Way down South in Dixie," and the story unfolds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-16
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The Suwanee River
1913-06-05
The Suwanee River
Overview: The poetic and sentimental theme of the old Southland song is the moving crux investing an interesting story of love and comedy daring the reconstruction period, south of Mason and Dixon's Line.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-05
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Granny's Old Armchair
1913-07-18
Granny's Old Armchair
Overview: Granny Willard, seeing the end of her days approaching, begs to leave her bed and sit in her old armchair, the bumble throne about which three generations have assembled. Her favorite grandson, Tom Willard, has come in from the farm with his buxom wife to visit. So the strong arms of youth carry old age gently to the armchair in the sunlit room for a last meeting with all her kith and kin. There came the rural types known to that modest old cottage, and then that more sacred circle of grandsons with their wives and little ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-18
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Through Another Man's Eyes
1913-08-01
Through Another Man's Eyes
Overview: A young man addicted to liquor; he becomes a drunkard and later a felon. After serving time he returns to his home and, looking through a window, sees his old-time sweetheart married to the worthy man she should have married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-01
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Sweeney's Dream
1913-07-16
Sweeney's Dream
Overview: While many men think they can manage a hotel, a theater, or a newspaper, they are in the minority compared with those low-browed addle-pates who believe they could run the government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-16
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The Devil and Tom Walker
1913-08-04
The Devil and Tom Walker
Overview: Tom Walker, a miserly man, is much beaten and bullied by his Amazonian wife, Dame Walker. The action of the piece takes place in New England, early in the eighteenth century, when the Puritans were still in power.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-04
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The Water Rat
1913-08-25
The Water Rat
Overview: Two young collegians, Anthony Markham, an enigmatic person, and Alan Strange, whose temperament is the direct antithesis of his friend, compete for the honors of swimming. Both men are aspirants for the hand of Rosalie Latimer, the daughter of the banker, Latimer, to whom Alan is the confidential secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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The Ex-Convict's Plunge
1913-05-29
The Ex-Convict's Plunge
Overview: Elton Gates, having served seven years for submitting to temptation with a bank's funds, is released. His uncle John sends him $500.00, with which to start life anew. He has hardly rested in a cheap lodging house when Detective Doolittle spies him and commences to make him an object of special scrutiny.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-29
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The Ex-Convict
1913-03-20
The Ex-Convict
Overview: Wilbur Stone is falsely accused of a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and "railroaded" to the penitentiary. As an odd coincidence. Frank Fink, a hardened degenerate, is sent up at the same time and he becomes a prison parasite on Stone. Both men are released about the same time.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-20
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Meller Drammer
1914-08-14
Meller Drammer
Overview: Goldie, the bright young daughter of Farmer Meadows, is engaged to marry Harold Montaine, a romantic young farm hand. Along comes Jim Bludsoe, a regular villain, whose polish and citified manners impress Goldie so that she is induced to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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The Lion's Mate
1915-05-08
The Lion's Mate
Overview: Hamad, an Arab half-breed, is in command of the ivory traders. Allan Deane is sent to take charge of the ivory traders' camp, and Hamad is told that he can serve as assistant hereafter. Allan Deane and Naila love each other. She informs Allan that Hamad is a slave trader and sells the native men and women like beasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-08
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The White Rosette
1916-02-05
The White Rosette
Overview: In the romantic days of the Eleventh Century the prologue of this picture shows us, Sir Errol, a victorious knight, returns to the castle of his liege lord, the Baron Edward, where he renews his vows with Lady Maud, his betrothed mistress. During Sir Errol's absence from the realm, the Baron has married Lady Elfrieda, daughter of an impecunious nobleman. Edward loves Elfrieda, but for her the marriage was solely one of expediency. She loses her heart to the handsome young knight.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-05
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The Heart of Humanity
1918-12-21
The Heart of Humanity
Overview: The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-21
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A Freight Train Drama
1912-12-05
A Freight Train Drama
Overview: Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-05
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The Cowboy Millionaire
1909-10-20
The Cowboy Millionaire
Overview: Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-20
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The Rose of Old St. Augustine
1911-05-31
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
Overview: Captain Lafitte receives word that Alicante, a young Spaniard, is to wed Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine, whom he has not seen since childhood. He objects to the wedding. Lafitte captures Alicante, dresses in his clothes, and with Dalroy, his lieutenant, dresses as his valet, and Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian of his band, go to St. Augustine and pose as the suitor Alicante. Dolores falls in love with him as Alicante. Dalroy falls madly in love with her, is refused and betrays Lafitte to her father, the commandant. Lafitte is made prisoner and while Dalroy leads her father and soldiers to capture the camp of the Privateers, Black Hawk and Dolores rescue Lafitte from the dungeon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-31
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Triumph
1917-09-02
Triumph
Overview: This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-02
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Broadway Love
1918-01-21
Broadway Love
Overview: A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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Hell Morgan's Girl
1917-03-05
Hell Morgan's Girl
Overview: Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a painter, Roger finds himself drunk and on the skids in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. At a dive run by Hell Morgan (Alfred Allen), he meets Lola (Dorothy Phillips), who nurses him back to physical and moral health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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Bondage
1917-10-17
Bondage
Overview: Dorothy Phillips was starred as Elinor Crawford, a small-town girl who becomes a reporter on a big-city newspaper -- and immediately plunges into the "Bohemian" lifestyle. Assigned to interview a condemned murderer, Elinor must first obtain permission from criminal lawyer Evan Klavert (William Stowell), who happens to hail from Elinor's hometown and who prudishly disapproves of her current mode of living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-17
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Fires of Rebellion
1917-07-02
Fires of Rebellion
Overview: Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the pattern by marrying Dan Mallory (Edward Brady). The new foreman, John Blake (William Stowell), fires Mallory. Mallory attacks him, but because of his alcohol abuse, his heart gives out and he dies. Blake asks Joe for Madge's hand, and he accepts for her. Madge longs for something better, when Cora, a former stenographer from the company (Golda Madden), writes her from the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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The Piper's Price
1917-01-08
The Piper's Price
Overview: After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The news reaches his devoted wife who has discovered she is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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A Doll's House
1917-06-11
A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-11
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The Flashlight
1917-05-21
The Flashlight
Overview: Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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The Rescue
1917-07-23
The Rescue
Overview: After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs. Wetherall decides to journey to the Jerrold's home in the town of Wheaton to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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The Risky Road
1918-04-08
The Risky Road
Overview: Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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The Man in the Moonlight
1919-07-28
The Man in the Moonlight
Overview: Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme, the daughter of an innkeeper. After O'Farrell receives a message that Rosine's wayward brother Louis has escaped from prison with the notorious devil-may-care outlaw Rossingnol, O'Farrell postpones the wedding to find the convicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-28
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat
1917-04-23
The Girl in the Checkered Coat
Overview: When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroundings while Fannie, inheriting her father's disposition, remains and is raised as a thief.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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The Grand Passion
1918-01-28
The Grand Passion
Overview: Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own financial ambitions; however, Jack envisions The Trumpet as an instrument of good and soon persuades Dick to clean up Powderville.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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The Right to Happiness
1919-08-30
The Right to Happiness
Overview: The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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Paid in Advance
1919-09-01
Paid in Advance
Overview: In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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When a Girl Loves
1919-02-15
When a Girl Loves
Overview: A minister and his young daughter Bess, journey west where he hopes to regain his health. They become involved with notorious outlaw 'Eagle' Ryan. The outlaw becomes influenced by the power of religion along with Bess's gentle persuasion, he is reformed from his life of crime and forgiven by all the townspeople.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-15
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The Talk of the Town
1918-09-28
The Talk of the Town
Overview: Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Pay Me!
1917-09-01
Pay Me!
Overview: During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-01
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Fighting Mad
1917-11-18
Fighting Mad
Overview: Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon dumps her, and she comes back and dies giving birth to a baby girl. Lambert, out of his mind with rage, leaves the baby on a doorstep and vows to never have faith again. He returns to the mining town fifteen years later a drunkard. He meets young, kind Lily Sawyer and is greatly impressed by her compassionate nature. Meanwhile, the gambler has returned and decides to abduct Lily, but his partner recognizes Lambert and tells him Lily is his daughter. He kills the gambler before he can harm Lily and soon his faith returns.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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Cinderella
1912-12-01
Cinderella
Overview: According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-01
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Immediate Lee
1916-11-13
Immediate Lee
Overview: Immediate Lee, employed on the ranch owned by one Masters, is discharged by the manager through the influence of one of his men, who is in the brand blotting game with Masters. Beulah, a dance-hall girl, has attracted the attention of Hurley, a brand blotter, but prefers Lee. Hurley entraps Lee and cuts his mouth open with a wide gash, which leaves a permanent scar. Lee vows vengeance and follows the man all over the country. He at last meets him face to face, but Hurley is saved by the intercession of Beulah. He later is killed in a fierce encounter. The brand blotters are discovered and punished by the aid of Immediate Lee, and Beulah receives the reward of loyalty and devotion by becoming Lee's wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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