Edmund Burns
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Birthday: September 27, 1892
Deathday: April 02, 1980
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Out of the Storm
1926-04-10
Out of the Storm
Overview: Out of the Storm is a 1926 silent drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-10
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Fifty Candles
1921-12-11
Fifty Candles
Overview: Sentenced to be deported from Hawaii, Hung Chin Chung pledges twenty years of service to Henry Drew to escape the certain death that awaits him in China. Rage at his humiliation and inability to marry as a free man smolders in him throughout his servitude, near the end of which he sails to San Francisco with the Drew family. Also on board is Ralph Coolidge, who tries to retrieve from Drew his share of their gold mine, and who loves Drew's secretary, Mary-Will Tellfair. Shortly after their arrival, Henry Drew is murdered; suspicion falls on Ralph, the owner of the murder weapon, a curious Chinese dagger; but subsequent events lead Hung Chin Chung to confess to the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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Rusty Rides Alone
1933-05-25
Rusty Rides Alone
Overview: Bart Quillan and his sons are after Martin's ranch. Burke arrives to help Martin but being outnumbered he hopes to get help from Powers. But no one is sure which side Powers and his gang are on.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-25
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Dangerously Yours
1933-02-24
Dangerously Yours
Overview: A playboy asks his friend to borrow his yacht to entertain his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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The Love Burglar
1919-07-13
The Love Burglar
Overview: A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more a part of gangland than he, but with similar reasons for disguising herself.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Phyllis of the Follies
1928-06-01
Phyllis of the Follies
Overview: As a favor to her old chorus pal Mrs. Dexter, Broadway dancer Phyllis Sherwood agrees to play a joke on a client of Mrs. Dexter's lawyer husband. The client, a roving rogue named Clyde Thompson, has a habit of romancing married women and has already made up his mind to make Mrs. Dexter -- whom he's never met -- his next conquest. Phyllis poses as Mrs. D. to throw Clyde off the track, leading to an unending supply of humorous complications.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-01
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The Slave
1917-06-03
The Slave
Overview: Caroline works at a hair dressing parlor. A wealthy man falls in love with her, takes her home and proposes to her. Caroline has a dream where she marries the man, who turns vicious and keeps her locked up in his mansion. He finally dies, and Caroline starts out having a good time with his money, but she sees the folly of her ways. She wakes up from the dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-03
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The Guilty One
1924-06-08
The Guilty One
Overview: The Guilty One is a 1924 mystery film.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-06-08
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Tanned Legs
1929-11-10
Tanned Legs
Overview: Peggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fairly quickly, but Janet's the one with real problems. It seems she sent some compromising love letters to a worthless cad, and now the bounder wants to use the letters for blackmail. Peggy's friend Roger and his flapper sweetheart Tootie hatch an elaborate plan to retrieve the incriminating letters and salvage Janet's reputation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-10
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Under the Greenwood Tree
1918-12-08
Under the Greenwood Tree
Overview: Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a band of roving gypsies. One of Mary's suitors, Sir Kenneth Graham, follows the two young women into the woods, dressed in gypsy garb, but when Jack Hutton decides to rid his forested land of gypsies, Sir Kenneth is thrown into jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-08
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The Danger Mark
1918-07-07
The Danger Mark
Overview: Scott Seagrave and his sister Geraldine are left the family estate when their wealthy alcoholic father dies. Unfortunately, they've also inherited his problems with alcohol, so they stay at the estate in seclusion. When Geraldine reaches "coming-out" age, Scott throws her a coming-out party. However, one of the men after her hand in marriage, Jack Dysart, tricks her into taking a drink, and she winds up embarrassing and humiliating herself in front of an old family friend, Duane Mallett, whose daughter Sylvia is in love with Jack, even though he's treated her shabbily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-07
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After the Fog
1929-12-15
After the Fog
Overview: Millionaire Joshua Barker insists that his daughter, Faith, must marry Phil Langhorne, a man that neither likes, and Faith is in love with and eager to marry her childhood sweetheart, John Temple.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-15
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Male and Female
1919-11-23
Male and Female
Overview: When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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The Wasp
1918-03-11
The Wasp
Overview: Grace Culver's sharp tongue, has garnered her with the nicknamed "The Wasp." A spirited disagreement with her canning magnate father, John Culver, results from Grace's refusal to marry Kane Putnam, her father's business partner, and she orders her new chauffeur, Tim Purcell, to take her and her maid Miller on a drive. On their return, they are captured by Brazsos, a German spy who plans to blow up her father's munitions factory. Grace learns of the hidden tunnel Brazsos has excavated to the factory, and as Miller escapes to alert the police, Grace unties the chauffeur and leads him to the tunnel. When the bomb explodes prematurely, Grace and Tim become trapped, and facing death, they confess their mutual love. The two are rescued, after which Grace discovers that Tim actually is wealthy Yale football star Harry Cortland, a revelation that delights her father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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She Goes to War
1929-06-07
She Goes to War
Overview: A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-07
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Made for Love
1926-01-26
Made for Love
Overview: A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old bones and mummies than he is in the fact that she's traveled thousands of miles to see him. However, there are three men at the site who don't share her boyfriend's attitude towards her, and they make their intentions known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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Broadway After Dark
1924-05-19
Broadway After Dark
Overview: Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-19
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The Love Racket
1929-12-08
The Love Racket
Overview: A beautiful girl exposes her shameful past to save the life of a girl she has never met.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-08
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Paris at Midnight
1926-04-17
Paris at Midnight
Overview: In a Paris boarding house, a mysterious stranger seems to somehow solve the problems and conflicts of the residents, all the while hiding a secret of his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-17
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The Green Temptation
1922-04-01
The Green Temptation
Overview: Genelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbing their homes while they are watching the show. When the First World War breaks out, Genelle volunteers as a Red Cross nurse and renounces her criminal ways. She travels to America, but re-encounters Gaspard, who is determined to use her new contacts in the upper class to continue their larcenous partnership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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One Night at Susie's
1930-10-19
One Night at Susie's
Overview: A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-19
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The Chinese Parrot
1927-10-23
The Chinese Parrot
Overview: The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1934-01-12
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Overview: Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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It Happened One Night
1934-02-22
It Happened One Night
Overview: A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-22
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Men Call It Love
1931-03-14
Men Call It Love
Overview: Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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Those Who Dare
1924-11-15
Those Who Dare
Overview: Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected with it. The captain, who lives alone, visits the Mariner's Home and relates the story of how he came into possession of the schooner. Manning was the first mate on the yacht of a wealthy man when it encountered the Swallow at sea. He went on board, accompanied by the drug-addicted son of his employer, and discovered a mutinous crew and a disabled captain fighting for control of the ship. Manning took charge and brought the ship safely to port, after successfully putting down the mutineers by humiliating their leader, who had kept them in fear by practicing voodoo in the ship's hold. Manning later married the captain's daughter. Now he controls the ship.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-15
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Hollywood Boulevard
1936-08-20
Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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The Quitter
1934-02-05
The Quitter
Overview: When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Call Her Savage
1932-11-24
Call Her Savage
Overview: A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-24
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Murder with Pictures
1936-09-24
Murder with Pictures
Overview: Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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Hard to Get
1929-08-04
Hard to Get
Overview: A dress shop employee falls in love with a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-04
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Western Limited
1932-08-05
Western Limited
Overview: A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-05
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The Manicure Girl
1925-07-06
The Manicure Girl
Overview: A manicurist in the beauty shop of a large metropolitan hotel, is engaged to Antonio Luca an electrician. However she a meets James Morgan a wealthy guest who wants to go out with her, but she declines so he sends her ten dollars for theater tickets.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-06
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Sea Devils
1931-01-15
Sea Devils
Overview: An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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The Lavender Bath Lady
1922-11-13
The Lavender Bath Lady
Overview: Young shop-girl Mamie Conroy and wealthy Jeanette Gregory become close friends. When Mamie foils an attempted abduction of Jeanette, the latter's grandfather, Simon Gregory, brings Mamie into his home and treats her like a member of the family. But she is again involved in a kidnapping attempt and is herself accused of robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-13
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The Shadow of the Eagle
1932-02-01
The Shadow of the Eagle
Overview: The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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Golden Harvest
1933-09-21
Golden Harvest
Overview: A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-21
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The Birth of a Nation
1915-02-08
The Birth of a Nation
Overview: Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-08
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The Devil Plays
1931-12-15
The Devil Plays
Overview: A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Shamrock and the Rose
1927-04-14
The Shamrock and the Rose
Overview: The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-14
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The Virgin of Stamboul
1920-03-27
The Virgin of Stamboul
Overview: Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who loves her comes to her rescue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-27
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Der Farmer aus Texas
1925-10-21
Der Farmer aus Texas
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-10-21
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Jazzmania
1923-02-12
Jazzmania
Overview: The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-12
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The Million Dollar Handicap
1925-02-07
The Million Dollar Handicap
Overview: After buying the filly Dixie following a strong finish Southern horse breeder John Porter discovers she has been doped for the contest. When he is paralyzed from a fall from Dixie his son, Alan, embezzles money from the bank to save the family finances. Because of his love for Alan's sister Alis, George Mortimer takes the blame for the crime, losing his job. Disguised as a boy, Alis enters Dixie in a race and rides the horse to victory and all ends happily.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-07
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East Is West
1922-10-15
East Is West
Overview: She'd wink till hearts went on the blink. And staid professors couldn't think. And everywhere they'd stop to stare. And say "Some Chink!" when Ming Toy winked.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-15
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The Humming Bird
1924-01-13
The Humming Bird
Overview: A pickpocket falls in love with a newspaperman. When he is sent off to war and she disguises herself as a boy, joins a gang and sets out to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-13
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The Death Kiss
1932-12-05
The Death Kiss
Overview: When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-05
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False Impressions
1932-11-04
False Impressions
Overview: Lloyd, Marjorie and Dorothy work in a department store, he in the toy section and the gals sell music sheets. He's got eyes for Marjorie, but she feels she can do better, and takes up an offer to go with a rich playboy to his estate for a weekend party. Suspicious Lloyd follows, disguised as a butler, wearing his old "Ham" mustache.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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Whispering Wires
1926-10-24
Whispering Wires
Overview: A woman hears of a murder plot through a whispered voice on the telephone.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-24
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Morgan's Raiders
1918-02-18
Morgan's Raiders
Overview: "Wild Cat" Betsey Dawley, whose father, "Handsome Harry," was disowned by the proud Dawley family of Greenburgh, Kentucky, meets and thoroughly charms her snobbish cousin Virginia's fiancé, John Davidson, at a picnic. At the start of the Civil War, John becomes a Union officer, while Betsey and her father staunchly defend the South. When Confederate Colonel Morgan, the leader of the intrepid band known as "Morgan's Men," commissions a young horseman to deliver an important message to the Dawley mansion, the rider is shot and Betsey takes his place, breaking through the lines and successfully accomplishing the mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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The Lodge in the Wilderness
1926-07-11
The Lodge in the Wilderness
Overview: Jim Wallace, a young engineer, is engaged by Hammond, manager of an estate in the Northwest, to build flumes for a logging camp, but Donovan, the superintendent, dislikes him and places numerous obstacles in his way. Virginia Coulson, owner of the estate, and her maid Dot arrive, and when Hammond proposes to Virginia, she refuses his declaration in favor of Jim. Later, when Donovan is found murdered, suspicion points to Jim, who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Hammond gets evidence on the murderer, Goofus, a half wit, and plans to use it to force Virginia to marry him; Goofus wounds Hammond and, seeing he has not killed him, starts a forest fire. Jim, who has escaped from prison with the aid of his friend, Buddy, rescues Virginia from the burning lodge; Goofus confesses to the murder, and Jim is freed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-11
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Hell's Highroad
1925-10-18
Hell's Highroad
Overview: Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil engineer (Edmund Burns), is encouraging her to join him in New York, but she only goes when she is bequeathed an inheritance. Unfortunately, the amount adds up to less than ten dollars a week. When she meets banker Sanford Gillespie (Robert Edeson), she convinces him to help McKane out financially. Once McKane has become a success, Judy marries him, but then he becomes interested in another woman. Judy seeks revenge and asks Gillespie to ruin her estranged husband, offering him anything he wants in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Princess from Hoboken
1927-03-01
The Princess from Hoboken
Overview: To enliven their business, the O'Tooles, restaurant owners in Hoboken, New Jersey, transform their restaurant into the Russian Inn when they hear that a famous Russian princess is stranded in Chicago. Sheila, the daughter, is persuaded to impersonate the princess, who unfortunately arrives at the restaurant on opening night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Scars of Jealousy
1923-03-05
Scars of Jealousy
Overview: Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by Thomas H. Ince and distributed through Associated First National, later First National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-05
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The Dangerous Age
1923-02-04
The Dangerous Age
Overview: Married for 22 years, Mary Emerson treats her husband, John, more like a son than a husband. He is stung by her rebuffs and, therefore, succumbs to the youthful charms of Gloria Sanderson, whom he meets on a business trip. But just after he mails a letter to Mary telling her that he will not return, John finds Gloria in the arms of her fiancé.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-04
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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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Sunny Side Up
1926-08-02
Sunny Side Up
Overview: Sunny sings in the streets to obtain funds for a country outing. A theatre owner hears her and takes her up. During a fishing trip Sunny is about to accept the theatre owner's proposal of marriage when his estranged wife turns up...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-02
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Female
1933-11-11
Female
Overview: Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-11
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To Please One Woman
1920-12-19
To Please One Woman
Overview: A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-19
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Thundering Dawn
1923-11-05
Thundering Dawn
Overview: Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-05
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The Girl from God's Country
1921-09-18
The Girl from God's Country
Overview: A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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Pegeen
1920-01-01
Pegeen
Overview: Pegeen O'Neill must fend for herself when her father Dan becomes mentally unbalanced after his wife Mary's death. Dan spends his days searching for his wife, setting fires in the belief that the flames will illuminate his Mary. The townspeople, enraged at the arson that is slowly destroying their village, track down Dan and trap him in a burning cabin. Pegeen rushes to comfort her dying father, who consoles himself at death with the hallucination that his wife has returned in the figure of his daughter. Pegeen is then rescued from the raging fire by Jimmie, who proposes to the waif as he delivers her from the flames.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Forlorn River
1926-09-27
Forlorn River
Overview: A wanted-fugitive, called "Nevada," is wounded by a pursuing posse of lawmen, and is left to die on the desert by his companion, Bill Hall. He is rescued by a young rancher, Ben Ide, who is in love with Ina Blaine, daughter of a neighboring rancher. While "Nevada" is recovering, he and Ina fall in love but, through his loyalty to Ben, he sends her away. Going home, Ina falls into the clutches of Bill Hall, now heading a gang of rustlers, but the real leader is Les Setter who is posing as an honest rancher, and he has designs on Ina himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-27
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The Adorable Outcast
1928-06-25
The Adorable Outcast
Overview: A Pacific Island romance about a young adventurer, Stephen Conn, and his love for Luya. Only several scenes survive, although heavy nitrate damage is visible. It was shot on location in the Fiji Islands with interiors at Australasian's Bondi studios in Sydney. The film had many native extras and three American players (Burns, Roberts and Long). The script for the film was written by Norman Dawn from the novel, "Conn of the Coral Seas", by Beatrice Grimshaw.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-25
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Marriage for Convenience
1919-02-03
Marriage for Convenience
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-03
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She Married Her Boss
1935-09-19
She Married Her Boss
Overview: A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Whom the Gods Destroy
1934-07-12
Whom the Gods Destroy
Overview: Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to produce a show but the ship strikes a derelict wreckage and is sinking rapidly. In the ensuing wild panic, Forrester saves many lives, until finally, panic stricken by sudden fear, he dons a woman's clothes and is among the rescued. On the coast of Newfouldland, the villagers, not aware of his true identity, curse him but he is befriended by Alec who helps him conceal his identity. With a planned story of his survival, he returns to New York but cannot face his family or friends after he sees the plaque to his heroism on his New York theatre. Deciding to remain thought of as dead, he becomes a derelict himself, surviving on odd jobs as he watches from afar his now-grown son begin his career as a producer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-12
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Her Hour
1917-11-19
Her Hour
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
Popularity:
The Queen of Hearts
1918-09-15
The Queen of Hearts
Overview:
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-15
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