George C. Pearce
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 26, 1865
Deathday: August 13, 1940
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A Hollywood Theme Song
1930-12-07
A Hollywood Theme Song
Overview: During the war, a hick soldier bursts into song at every turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-07
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Road to Hollywood
1947-07-04
Road to Hollywood
Overview: Exploitation film-maker Bud Pollard appears on screen to tell us of Bing Crosby's rise to fame, using scenes from four early Crosby shorts to illustrate his fictional biography.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-04
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Wandering Husbands
1924-04-20
Wandering Husbands
Overview: Diana Moreland, suspecting that her husband is cheating on her with Marilyn Foster, catches the two of them having a rendezvous at a roadhouse. Instead of screaming at them, she invites Marilyn back to her home. However, Diana has prepared a test to see just who it is that her husband really loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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A Jewel in Pawn
1917-04-16
A Jewel in Pawn
Overview: Widow Martin struggles to rear her little daughter Nora amid the squalor of the slums yet imbue her with the refinement to which she had been accustomed in her girlhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-16
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The Revenge Rider
1935-03-18
The Revenge Rider
Overview: Cowboy Tim McCoy becomes an instrument of revenge when he discovers his parents have been killed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-18
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Hold 'er Sheriff
1931-06-07
Hold 'er Sheriff
Overview: A sheriff's daughter, and deputy sheriff, falls for a handsome stranger. who cracks a joke about robbing a bank. When a robbery then takes place, he must be the bandit--right?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-07
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The Lone Rider
1930-07-13
The Lone Rider
Overview: Lanning heads a vigilante group till Farrell digs up some dirt which turns the vigilantes on him. To save his own reputation, Lanning must bring Farrell to trial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-13
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British Agent
1934-09-15
British Agent
Overview: In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Lone Cowboy
1933-12-02
Lone Cowboy
Overview: Young Scooter O’Neal, orphaned after his father’s suicide, is sent out West to live with family friend Dobe Jones. Unaware of his father’s fate Scooter longs to return to his home in Chicago especially after discovering Dobe is an embittered ranch hand hellbent on seeking revenge on his duplicitous wife Eleanor and the man she ran off with. Dobe is dogged in his pursuit until he unwittingly puts Scooter’s life in danger. Seeing the error of his ways the pair ride off together in search of a new adventure.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934-10-28
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Overview: The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-28
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Masquerade
1929-07-14
Masquerade
Overview: The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the master criminal Anisty.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-14
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Traveling Salesman
1921-06-05
Traveling Salesman
Overview: A practical joke makes a man get off before his intended stop, leading to all sorts of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-05
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The Drop Kick
1927-09-25
The Drop Kick
Overview: College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-25
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Black Beauty
1921-01-01
Black Beauty
Overview: Anna Sewell's "autobiography" of a horse named Black Beauty is here expanded to include the adventures of the humans who surround the horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Dynamite Ranch
1932-07-07
Dynamite Ranch
Overview: Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-07
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Quarantined Rivals
1927-02-28
Quarantined Rivals
Overview: Elsie Peyton’s parents favor two different men for her. Dad likes Bruce Farney, as does Elsie while Mom prefers Bob Howard. The domineering Mrs. Peyton sees to it that football player Bruce is discouraged from taking Elsie to the game. Bruce stops in a barbershop where Minette, the manicurist flirts with him to make barber Ed jealous. Disappointed when he sees Elsie with Bob at the game Bruce follows them in his car. Meanwhile, Mrs. Peyton calls Minette to the house for a manicure. When the trio arrive from the game the house is suddenly placed under a 2-week quarantine for smallpox. Hilarious complications ensue as Bruce is obliged to room with his rival, but by a clever trick Bruce marries Elsie despite the quarantine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-28
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Vengeance
1930-02-22
Vengeance
Overview: John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-22
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The Midnight Alarm
1923-08-19
The Midnight Alarm
Overview: Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip but dies in an auto accident. The daughter is rescued but disappears. Her grandparents spend years looking for her, as does the executor who killed her father--if she's found she'll inherit the estate and he won't get a penny. He aims to see that she's never found, and if she is he plans to see that she doesn't live long enough to make a claim to the estate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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A Fair Rebel
1914-05-21
A Fair Rebel
Overview: Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-21
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Little Meena's Romance
1916-04-09
Little Meena's Romance
Overview: Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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Watch Your Step
1922-02-16
Watch Your Step
Overview: Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-16
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Daring Youth
1924-02-01
Daring Youth
Overview: On the eve of the marriage of her daughter, Alita, Mrs. Allen, unhappily married for 25 years, advocates writer Fannie Hurst's widely publicized mode of living with her husband: only two breakfasts a week together and complete freedom otherwise.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-01
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Three Word Brand
1921-10-15
Three Word Brand
Overview: Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-15
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Scandal Sheet
1931-01-31
Scandal Sheet
Overview: Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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The Valiant
1929-05-19
The Valiant
Overview: A man condemned to execution tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-19
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The Man Called Back
1932-07-16
The Man Called Back
Overview: Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-16
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Nerve Tonic
1924-05-17
Nerve Tonic
Overview: Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Al Christie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-17
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'49–'17
1917-10-15
'49–'17
Overview: A judge who had taken part in the gold rush of 1849 hires an acting troupe to recreate the experience in this rather fanciful silent Western. The make-believe turns serious when a real gold mine is discovered nearby and a local girl is kidnapped by a nasty gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-15
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You Can't Take It with You
1938-09-01
You Can't Take It with You
Overview: Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-01
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The Awful Truth
1937-10-21
The Awful Truth
Overview: Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-21
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Heart of the Rockies
1937-09-06
Heart of the Rockies
Overview: Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the criminals' deeds. But when a ranger is shot and Stony is framed for the crime, it's up to Lullaby and Tucson to prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-06
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Billboard Girl
1932-03-20
Billboard Girl
Overview: Bing and a buddy drive to the college town where Bing's penpal, a billboard model, goes to school. Little does he know he's being pranked by one of her male classmates.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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The Children in the House
1916-04-29
The Children in the House
Overview: A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-29
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The Primitive Lover
1922-04-30
The Primitive Lover
Overview: A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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Martha's Vindication
1916-02-20
Martha's Vindication
Overview: A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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Hold Your Breath
1924-05-24
Hold Your Breath
Overview: When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The Right of Way
1930-12-11
The Right of Way
Overview: Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his airs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-11
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The Right to Love
1930-12-27
The Right to Love
Overview: A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-27
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Home, James
1928-10-03
Home, James
Overview: An artistic salesgirl falls in love with a chauffeur not realising he is actually the heir to a huge fortune.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-03
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Woman in Distress
1937-01-17
Woman in Distress
Overview: Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen by a gang of art thieves who plan to kill the spinster to prevent her from later identifying it.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-17
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Daphne and the Pirate
1916-03-04
Daphne and the Pirate
Overview: Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-04
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Court Plaster
1924-09-28
Court Plaster
Overview: Process server Neal Burns raids a hospital to bring a reluctant doctor to trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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The Sea Flower
1918-12-23
The Sea Flower
Overview: A secret service agent disguises himself as a sailor.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-23
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Treason
1917-05-14
Treason
Overview: The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position. The spy is intercepted and killed by Pettrus Baariot, the telegraph operator, who then succeeds in sending a message that saves the Stratiria forces from defeat. For his heroism, Pettrus is promised a promotion, but after his recovery from his severe wounds, he is humiliated through the treachery of Danick Rysson, a government official who desires to marry Floria Natarre, Pettrus' beloved. Bitter, Pettrus listens to the overtures of one of the enemy and steals the new telegraph code.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-14
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A Wife on Trial
1917-07-30
A Wife on Trial
Overview: Phyllis Narcissa, an underpaid children's librarian, eagerly accepts a dinner invitation from Horace de Guenther, one of her patrons, and happily entertains his invalid wife. Later, Mrs. de Guenther encourages Phyllis to meet with Mrs. Harrington, a dying rich woman whose son Allan, once a vigorous young man, was paralyzed in an auto accident. When Mrs. Harrington proposes to the librarian that she marry and take care of Allan in exchange for his wealth, Phyllis reluctantly consents. While struggling to cheer up the eternally gloomy Allan, Phyllis welcomes the visits of his friend, a doctor who informs her that her husband's paralysis may be psychosomatic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-30
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The Narrow Street
1925-01-04
The Narrow Street
Overview: Simon Haldane works in the office of the Faulkner Iron Works, but he has been raised by his two maiden aunts in an extremely sheltered manner and is basically afraid of everyone and everything. One morning he finds a strange girl shivering in his bedroom, and although he's terrified of her, he manages to call a doctor for her. This starts a rumor that Simon is married. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-04
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The Sable Lorcha
1915-11-28
The Sable Lorcha
Overview: In China, a man is arrested and tortured for a crime committed years before by his twin brother.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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Every Woman's Husband
1918-07-17
Every Woman's Husband
Overview: A young woman whose domineering mother almost ruins her marriage eventually learns that mother does not always know best when her father commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-17
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This Reckless Age
1932-01-09
This Reckless Age
Overview: Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son Bradley comes home from college with ideas that they consider to be outrageous. His parents would like him to get involved with Mary Burke, a prim and proper young lady. More complications ensue because Bradley's sister Lois is attracted to the flapper lifestyle, but she isn't sure whether she can handle its emotional demands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-09
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Man's Desire
1919-07-20
Man's Desire
Overview: Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-20
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Fresh from the Farm
1921-11-27
Fresh from the Farm
Overview: William Beaudine silent romantic slapstick comedy short
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-27
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The Storm Woman
1917-10-02
The Storm Woman
Overview: Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-02
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The Printer's Devil
1923-08-23
The Printer's Devil
Overview: Brick Hubbard, a "printer's devil", convinces his friend Sid Fletcher to invest in "The Gazette", a local newspaper. Sid pens an editorial that infuriates Ira Gates, a local banker and a power in the town--and who also happens to be the father of Vivian Gates, whom Sidney is in love with. To complicate matters, the bank is robbed and Sidney is suspected of the crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-23
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The Country Kid
1923-10-29
The Country Kid
Overview: Ben Applegate's father dies, leaving him and his brothers Joe and Andy orphans and having to run the family farm. Their Uncle Grimes is their legal guardian, but he's only concerned with getting his hands on the farm. He has Ben declared incompetent and packs off Joe and Andy to an orphanage. When things look darkest for the three boys, help comes from an unexpected source.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-29
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A Yankee Princess
1919-04-21
A Yankee Princess
Overview: A Yankee Princess is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It was directed by David Smith and stars Bessie Love, who also wrote the screenplay. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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The Reed Case
1917-07-09
The Reed Case
Overview: When, after three years of active service, ace detective Jerry Brennon is ordered by his doctor to take a rest, Senator Reed, Jerry's staunch supporter since he arrested two crooks burglarizing the Reed home, prevails upon the detective to stay at his cabin in the mountains. Warned that the cabin is haunted, Jerry's suspicion is aroused when a bullet whizzes past his head.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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Easy Payments
1919-01-26
Easy Payments
Overview: Jimmy, who buys everything on the Easy Payment plan, wants to marry Betty, whose dad believes Cash Is King.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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Three Weeks
1914-10-08
Three Weeks
Overview: A young English nobleman is sent to Switzerland by his parents, where he meets a mysterious older woman with whom he has a torrid three-week romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-08
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
1919-04-15
Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Overview: After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-15
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Mills of the Gods
1934-12-15
Mills of the Gods
Overview: Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-15
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