Frank Weed
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 03, 1869
Deathday: October 22, 1944
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Dad's Girls
1911-09-12
Dad's Girls
Overview: Dad, a likable old pioneer character, lived among the foot hills of the western mining region, on a ranch with his two daughters, Rose and Madge. As sort of a side issue he had been doing a little prospecting, and about the time the story starts, we see him carrying some of his quartz to Andy Thomas, a young assayer located in a nearby village.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-12
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The Wheels of Justice
1911-09-14
The Wheels of Justice
Overview: James Hazen, one-time crook, now wealthy and reformed, is recognized on his wedding day, by a former pal, Florrie Cook, who follows the young couple to Hazen's new home in the country. Hazen has isolated himself here in the hope of finding security in complete loneliness.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-14
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Second Hand Love
1923-08-26
Second Hand Love
Overview: Andy Hanks is an itinerant fix-it man who comes to town with his horse and dog as his only pals. He falls in love with Angela Trent, a young woman with an air of mystery about her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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The Awakening
1912-10-24
The Awakening
Overview: Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-24
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The Lesson
1913-01-30
The Lesson
Overview: Rosie Lee, the shabby, wan-faced daughter of "Daddy" Lee, a humble laboring man, becomes engaged to Jerry Brooks. Shortly afterwards, "Daddy" meets with a serious accident, and Rosie is forced to seek work as a ribbon clerk in a large department store in an effort to keep the wolf from the door and provide food and medicine for her aged father
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-30
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The Understudy
1913-02-28
The Understudy
Overview: Stella Le Vere, an ambitious but struggling actress, is abandoned by her husband and is forced to leave her baby girl, Grace, in the care of an orphan asylum. Later, the child is adopted by a well-to-do and kindly family named Thornton, who bring Grace up in ignorance of her identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-28
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The Post-Impressionists
1913-05-12
The Post-Impressionists
Overview: Dick Carew, the son of a soap-maker, and Dorothy Wilton, the daughter of a lawyer, meet in Paris, where they have gone from America to imbibe an atmosphere sicklied with artistic buncomb by the Cubists. The young man, visiting a cabaret, the meeting place of frowsy post-impressionists, is impressed with their windy theories, mainly denunciations of everything that common sense and decency understand. Dick is just ignorant enough about art to be impressed with this buncomb, and takes Dorothy to the Cubist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-12
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The Water Rat
1913-08-25
The Water Rat
Overview: Two young collegians, Anthony Markham, an enigmatic person, and Alan Strange, whose temperament is the direct antithesis of his friend, compete for the honors of swimming. Both men are aspirants for the hand of Rosalie Latimer, the daughter of the banker, Latimer, to whom Alan is the confidential secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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A Texas Steer
1915-07-26
A Texas Steer
Overview: Urged on by his wife and daughter and against his better judgment, Texas cattle-baron Maverick Brander, finds himself in Washington D. C. as an elected congressman. However, when the Brander family arrives in Washington, they are met at every junction by snobbery and ridicule. Then an investigative committee arrives from Texas to check up on how Maverick is representing their interests.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-26
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A Freight Train Drama
1912-12-05
A Freight Train Drama
Overview: Short silent crime film about a man who thrown out by his wife. He joins bandits who want to derail an express train.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-05
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The Rose of Old St. Augustine
1911-05-31
The Rose of Old St. Augustine
Overview: Captain Lafitte receives word that Alicante, a young Spaniard, is to wed Dolores, the Rose of St. Augustine, whom he has not seen since childhood. He objects to the wedding. Lafitte captures Alicante, dresses in his clothes, and with Dalroy, his lieutenant, dresses as his valet, and Black Hawk, a Seminole Indian of his band, go to St. Augustine and pose as the suitor Alicante. Dolores falls in love with him as Alicante. Dalroy falls madly in love with her, is refused and betrays Lafitte to her father, the commandant. Lafitte is made prisoner and while Dalroy leads her father and soldiers to capture the camp of the Privateers, Black Hawk and Dolores rescue Lafitte from the dungeon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-31
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The Girl at the Cupola
1912-08-07
The Girl at the Cupola
Overview: SILAS WILSON realizes that his business is being run to the ground, and that he cannot longer compete with the newer foundries unless he makes radical changes in his methods and employees. His workmen have grown old and antiquated in his employ. Through the influence of his daughter, the general managership is passed over to her fiance,—one Jack Berry —a young man, well trained in the school of modern methods.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-07
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Captain Kate
1911-07-12
Captain Kate
Overview: Two caravans meet on the desert, one headed by Howell and Clancy, two New York men, who are gathering animals for circus purposes, the other is led by an old animal tamer named Desmond and his beautiful daughter, whom the natives have nicknamed Capt. Kate. After exchanging cards, the caravans go their separate ways. Desmond is stricken and dies, leaving Kate alone. She assumes her father's perilous business, leading her party of native hunters after big game. Later, one of the hunters is stricken and the superstitious followers of Capt. Kate, recognizing the nature of the disease, abandon the hunt and their leader, one servant alone remaining faithful to his mistress. Kate, realizing that she can go no further without assistance, calls a halt and they erect a crude hut in which she is to live, while the servant goes in search of Clancy. Scene of Kate's isolated life and her dangers follow. She is besieged by wild animals, who make her life a long nightmare of peril.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-12
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Lost in the Jungle
1911-10-25
Lost in the Jungle
Overview: Jan Kruga and his daughter Meta live on a farm in the Transvaal. The nearest neighbor, Sir John Morgan, lives 20 miles away, and it is only on rare intervals that she ever goes even that far away from her isolated home. Toddles, a work elephant on her father's farm, is her only pet and in the first part of our story we see her befriend him from a cruel keeper. Hans, a neighboring Boer farmer calls and asks for Meta's hand in marriage. The girl is ordered by her father to accept Hans' attentions. She has been taught to obey and when Hans gives her a love offering, a huge necklace of beads, she meekly offers her cheek for the betrothal kiss. Sir John's nephew, Hirshal, comes for a visit from England and Sir John brings him for a friendly call on the Krugas. Meta's heart awakens at the sight of the handsome, young Englishman, and she returns Hans's necklace. The father, however, orders her to marry Hans, or never darken his door again.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-25
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Death Curse of Tartu
1966-10-17
Death Curse of Tartu
Overview: A group of student archaeologists venture into the Florida Everglades to look for fossils, but come across an area cursed by a Native American witch doctor.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-17
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The Tiger's Coat
1920-11-08
The Tiger's Coat
Overview: The film begins in the southern California home of Alexander MacAllister (Lawson Butt) where he is confronting Andrew Hyde (Miles McCarthy) who is accused of crooked dealings. Alexander threatens to expose Hyde, and Hyde defies him to do his worst. A banker friend tells MacAllister, "Why don't you get married?" They are interrupted by an unexpected caller on that rainy evening, a young lady, Jean Ogilvie, the daughter of a Scotsman family friend from Mexico. He puts her up and later remarks that she has dark skin for a Scottish lass. "Mexican sun," she explains. "I expected to find an old man," Jean remarks to herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-08
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Cinderella
1912-12-01
Cinderella
Overview: According to Vachel Lindsay, "the best film fairy-tale the present writer remembers".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-01
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Tin Pan Alley
1919-12-28
Tin Pan Alley
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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