Wedgwood Nowell
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 24, 1878
Deathday: June 17, 1957
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Known For
Theodora Goes Wild
1936-11-12
Theodora Goes Wild
Overview: The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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The West~Bound Limited
1923-04-14
The West~Bound Limited
Overview: The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more importantly, to tie all the thrillingly on-the-spot railroad footage together. Railroad buffs will enjoy all the atmospheric detail director Johnson has obtained by filming in real freight yards and inside and alongside real steam engines and rolling stock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-14
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Hell Bent for Love
1934-05-19
Hell Bent for Love
Overview: As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-19
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Kitty Kelly, M.D.
1919-10-12
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
Overview: Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is pretty, all the miners come up with various ailments just so they have a chance to spend time with her. The one that wins her heart is ranch foreman Bob Lang (Jack Holt), but a wrench is thrown into the romance when Kitty comes to the conclusion that he drinks too much.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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Heroes of the Street
1922-12-24
Heroes of the Street
Overview: When a smart-alec street kid's father, a policeman, is killed in the line of duty, the boy turns over a new leaf and goes to work to support his mother, brothers, and sisters. He gets a job as an usher in a theater but really wants to become a policeman to avenge the death of his father. He soon finds himself involved in a fake kidnapping, real gangsters and a tip on the identity of the man who killed his dad.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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The Lord Loves the Irish
1919-12-14
The Lord Loves the Irish
Overview: Miles Machree (J. Warren Kerrigan) meets Irish-American Sheila Lynch (Fritzi Brunette) when she travels through Ireland with her father (James O. Barrows). Soon after the Lynch's return to the States, Miles follows, and through his uncle's connections, gets a job on the New York City police force.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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813
1920-11-14
813
Overview: Robert Castleback is in possession of secret papers which could bring a certain prince to power under conditions which would make Castleback a ruling force in Europe. Master crook Arsene Lupin becomes aware of Castleback's bid for power and, in the interests of France, begins a search for the plans.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-14
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Ashes
1922-02-24
Ashes
Overview: A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-24
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I Dream Too Much
1935-11-29
I Dream Too Much
Overview: Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, Jonathan encourages the talented Annette to sing — yet when his own attempt at an opera fails, Jonathan lashes out at Annette's success. Despite her husband's jealousy, Annette embarks on a successful career that allows her to secretly fund Jonathan's opera, bringing their marriage to a crisis.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Teddy the Rough Rider
1940-02-21
Teddy the Rough Rider
Overview: This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-21
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A Night at the Opera
1935-11-15
A Night at the Opera
Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Lost Horizon
1937-03-03
Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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The Hoodlum Saint
1946-04-04
The Hoodlum Saint
Overview: A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-04
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Adventure in Manhattan
1936-10-08
Adventure in Manhattan
Overview: The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-08
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Stolen Holiday
1937-02-06
Stolen Holiday
Overview: A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-06
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Don't Marry for Money
1923-08-19
Don't Marry for Money
Overview: Don't Marry for Money is a 1923 silent drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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A Doll's House
1922-02-12
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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-12
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A Man's Fight
1919-08-10
A Man's Fight
Overview: An impertinent son of a wealthy New Yorker, Roger Carr takes the blame for the murder of Norman Evans, whom Roger believes his sister Ethel shot when Evans assaulted her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-10
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The March of Crime
1936-01-22
The March of Crime
Overview: The March of Crime (1936) was a series of exploitation stories produced by Dwain Esper of famous gangsters of the 1930s.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-22
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Racket Busters
1938-07-16
Racket Busters
Overview: A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-16
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
1937-06-08
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Overview: A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-08
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Homicide Bureau
1939-01-05
Homicide Bureau
Overview: After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect. Detective Jim Logan is ordered to meet the incoming new-head of the Police Department lab and internal affairs, J.G. Bliss, and takes an instant dislike to her over her attitude toward criminal's rights.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-05
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Naughty But Nice
1939-06-23
Naughty But Nice
Overview: Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Personal Maid's Secret
1935-10-26
Personal Maid's Secret
Overview: A longtime maid for New York socialites watches from afar as the daughter she once gave up is raised by others. Director Arthur Greville Collins' 1935 film stars Ruth Donnelly, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Warren Hull, Frank Albertson, Arthur Treacher, Ronnie Crosby, Henry O'Neill, Lillian Kemble Cooper and Gordon Elliott.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-26
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Adam's Rib
1923-09-24
Adam's Rib
Overview: Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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Start Cheering
1938-03-03
Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Black Orchids
1917-01-01
Black Orchids
Overview: Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive. The movie was Rex Ingram’s directorial debut, and he later remade the film as Trifling Women in 1922. Black Orchids is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Women in the Wind
1939-04-15
Women in the Wind
Overview: A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-15
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Dark Victory
1939-04-20
Dark Victory
Overview: Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Each Dawn I Die
1939-08-19
Each Dawn I Die
Overview: A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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Reno
1939-12-01
Reno
Overview: A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Roaring Twenties
1939-10-28
The Roaring Twenties
Overview: After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-28
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Holiday
1938-05-26
Holiday
Overview: Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-26
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The Man Beneath
1919-07-05
The Man Beneath
Overview: The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-05
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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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Diane of the Green Van
1919-02-09
Diane of the Green Van
Overview: An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Calling Philo Vance
Overview: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-03
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939-05-13
Torchy Runs for Mayor
Overview: Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-13
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The Woman in the Window
1944-10-25
The Woman in the Window
Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-25
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Boom Town
1940-08-30
Boom Town
Overview: Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-30
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Virginia City
1940-03-23
Virginia City
Overview: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A Confederate sympathizer and a Mexican bandit, each with their own stake in the loot, stand in his way.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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The Disciple
1915-10-16
The Disciple
Overview: Jim Houston, the "Shootin' Iron" Parson, comes to Barren Gulch to reform the morals of the frontier community.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-16
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Gentleman Jim
1942-11-14
Gentleman Jim
Overview: As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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Brides Are Like That
1936-04-18
Brides Are Like That
Overview: Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-18
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No Time for Comedy
1940-09-14
No Time for Comedy
Overview: An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-14
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The Man with Nine Lives
1940-04-18
The Man with Nine Lives
Overview: Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-18
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My Love Came Back
1940-07-13
My Love Came Back
Overview: Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so that Julius can escort Amelia to every musical event in the city. The trouble begins when he cannot meet her one night and Tony goes in his place. Tony believes that Julius and Amelia are a couple and then son Paul thinks that Tony and Amelia are a couple as he is sending her the money. The worst part is that Amelia might leave classical music for swing music with classmates Dusty, Joy and the band.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-13
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Sporting Blood
1940-07-11
Sporting Blood
Overview: Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-11
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Johnny Apollo
1940-04-19
Johnny Apollo
Overview: Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Adele
1919-01-26
Adele
Overview: Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army officer, Capt. Fraser. While traveling by ship to France with her father, she meets Count von Schulling, a German diplomat who is an acquaintance of her father. Von Schulling falls for the pretty young Adele. While in France, Adele organizes a rescue party to save Capt. Fraser, who has been on a secret mission behind enemy lines and has been wounded. In a twist of fate, Adele finds the wounded Fraser and takes him to a hospital, but Count von Schuling, who has also been wounded, is placed in the same room as Fraser. When the hospital is overrun by German forces, Adele is placed in a delicate position by von Sculling: either spy for the Germans or Fraser will be shot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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Enter Madame
1922-11-13
Enter Madame
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-13
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The Eternal Flame
1922-09-17
The Eternal Flame
Overview: A 1922 film directed by Frank Lloyd.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-17
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Remember the Day
1941-12-25
Remember the Day
Overview: Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-25
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The Chalice of Sorrow
1916-10-09
The Chalice of Sorrow
Overview: Isabel Clifford sits to be painted. Her artist is Marion Leslie, a man distracted by matters of the flesh. Not Isabel’s flesh but Lorelei’s, the same Lorelei who wows the corrupt police chief, Sarpina, with her virtuoso vocal performances. She is Mexico’s most celebrated opera diva, Marion’s fiancé, and Sarpina’s passion, yet she boils with petty suspicion over Marion’s friendship with Isabel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-09
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The Go-Getter
1937-05-22
The Go-Getter
Overview: A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-22
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Cleopatra
1934-10-05
Cleopatra
Overview: The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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What Every Woman Knows
1934-10-18
What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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The Reward of the Faithless
1917-02-12
The Reward of the Faithless
Overview: A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-12
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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917-05-13
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Overview: A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-13
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The Velvet Hand
1918-09-30
The Velvet Hand
Overview: On a beach in southern Italy, Gianna Russelli practices her dancing with her devoted brother Russino, looking forward to the day when she will begin formal dance studies. One day the beautiful Countess Michetti comes to the village and engages in a flirtation with Russino, but when her former lover, Prince Viscomte, arrives with his closest friend, Count Paul Trovelli, the countess resumes her affair with the prince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-30
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The Pulse of Life
1917-04-09
The Pulse of Life
Overview: Lisetta, the daughter of a fisherman, lives with her father and brother on the island of Capri. When Serrani, an Italian who has grown wealthy in New York, visits the island, he induces Lisetta to accompany him to America. There he abandons her and she becomes a dancer in an underworld café owned by "Dago" Joe, where she meets the artist Stanford Graham, who employs her as a model. Meanwhile, Lisetta's brother Domenic comes to New York to avenge his sister's dishonor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Corsican Brothers
1920-02-22
The Corsican Brothers
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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The Chaser
1938-07-29
The Chaser
Overview: A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Hard to Get
1938-11-05
Hard to Get
Overview: When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-05
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The Song of Life
1922-02-02
The Song of Life
Overview: A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the big city and tries to make amends by moving in with him without revealing her secret identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-02
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The Dream Cheater
1920-04-04
The Dream Cheater
Overview: An adaptation of Balzac's novel set in the roaring twenties, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Études philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels, La Comédie humaine.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-04
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917-09-17
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Overview: Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramon Mordant and his accomplice known as "the Face" because of his twisted and hideous countenance.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Gold Is Where You Find It
1938-02-12
Gold Is Where You Find It
Overview: Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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Here Comes Happiness
1941-03-15
Here Comes Happiness
Overview: Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-15
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The Deserter
1916-07-09
The Deserter
Overview: Parker, an Army lieutenant at a Western outpost, falls in love with Barbara Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer. But when Barbara rejects him, Parker fights with another soldier and deserts. An Indian attack gives him a chance to redeem himself.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-09
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They Were Expendable
1945-12-07
They Were Expendable
Overview: After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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The Ghost Comes Home
1940-03-08
The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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The Flower of Doom
1917-04-15
The Flower of Doom
Overview: The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell, and Nicholas Dunaew. A reporter has to rescue a singer kidnapped in Chinatown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-15
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A Wife's Romance
1923-09-19
A Wife's Romance
Overview: Joyce Addison, wife of an American attache in Madrid, looks to her painting as sole entertainment, as her husband neglects her for business. One night late, while driving, she meets and is robbed by a bandit who proves sufficiently chivalrous to see her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-19
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Fast Company
1938-07-05
Fast Company
Overview: Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-05
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