Joseph W. Smiley
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 18, 1870
Deathday: December 02, 1945
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Joan of Plattsburg
1918-03-05
Joan of Plattsburg
Overview: Joan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at Plattsburg, reads the story of "Joan of Arc" and soon imagines that she is the reincarnation of the peasant-soldier. As she sits in the cellar reading, she hears voices plotting against the government. She thinks the voices are from another world but they actually belong to a group of German spies. The agents plan to acquire the important invention of a young man named Ingleton, who is staying at the camp under the guardianship of Captain Lane. Joan relates this information to the captain, with whom she is in love, but he at first refuses to believe her. Later, however, he learns that the plot is real, and with Joan's help, he captures the spies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-05
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Experience
1921-08-07
Experience
Overview: Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-07
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Broadway Jones
1917-04-02
Broadway Jones
Overview: An arrogant young man leaves his Ohio home to make it big on Broadway in New York City when he inherits the family business and $1-million. However, things don't go quite according to his plans. After he blows most of the money, he returns to Ohio to try to sell the family business to raise more money, but complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-02
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Heart of the Wilds
1918-09-01
Heart of the Wilds
Overview: In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians. Val's friend Pierre resolves to win Jen, even though she is in love with Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the Mounted Police. When Val tries to retrieve some liquor sold illegally by the elder Galbraith to an Indian named Grey Cloud, the Indian insults Jen and Val shoots him. Tom is assigned to track down the murderer, but after he arrives at the tavern, Galbraith and Pierre drug him. Jen delivers the papers he is carrying to police headquarters, but when she discovers that they contain orders to arrest her brother, she shoots Tom to prevent him from going after Val.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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Luck and Pluck
1919-02-02
Luck and Pluck
Overview: Professional thief Joe Grim is killing time in New York City's Central Park before he robs the Wall Street subtreasury. He spots pretty young Laura White on a runaway horse. He manages to rescue her. Falling for her, he tries to steal a photo of her but is discovered and held at gunpoint by Laura's friend Countess Briand--who, unbeknownst to Laura, is actually the head of a German spy ring, among whose members if Laura's fiance Karl Richter. The countess convinces Joe to steal plane for a new airplane by telling Joe that they're papers that are being used to blackmail Laura. But things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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The Road to France
1918-10-14
The Road to France
Overview: Tom Whitney, well connected but a social derelict because of his weakness for drink, is released from the draft because of an old football Injury, but a policeman persuades him that he can still do his bit in the shipyards. He takes a job in the yard owned by the man to whose daughter he was engaged in happier times. Three German propagandists seek to foment a strike to delay the work, and largely through Tom's efforts the plan goes amiss and the strike is called off. Rehabilitated by work, the launching of The Liberty is a forecast of his own rebirth.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-14
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Threads of Destiny
1914-10-21
Threads of Destiny
Overview: Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-21
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A Daughter of Two Worlds
1920-01-05
A Daughter of Two Worlds
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-05
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
1917-10-16
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-16
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The Gray Horror
1915-04-13
The Gray Horror
Overview: American horror movie from 1915.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-13
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The Old Oaken Bucket
1921-11-01
The Old Oaken Bucket
Overview: A Wall Street financier fed up with the city drives to the old country homestead where he was born and takes a walk through the orchard. Full of memories he joins in a baseball game with some youngsters during which he sees his boyhood sweetheart passing. Recognizing each other they stroll off together down the rustic lane happy in each other’s company once more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Wild, Wild Susan
1925-08-04
Wild, Wild Susan
Overview: Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod Waterbury, who, under another name, is working as a cab driver (in search of story material for a novel), and the two fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-04
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The Isle of Conquest
1919-10-26
The Isle of Conquest
Overview: A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-26
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The Blonde Vampire
1922-04-01
The Blonde Vampire
Overview: Marcia Saville, thought to be a hopeless flirt by her sweetheart, Martin Kent, shows him that she prefers Tom Smith, a man from the underworld, because Tom is more authoritative. Tom is induced to enter a scheme to rob Marcia's father in a crooked deal instigated by Simon Downs. Downs plans to have Tom marry Marcia and divide the spoils, as she is to receive a sum of money when she marries. Tom is too smart for them and refuses to get involved. Meantime, Kent proves his strength of character, and Marcia is won over. Downs is exposed to her father and discharged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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The Potters
1927-01-15
The Potters
Overview: Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?
Genres: Comedy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
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The Woman God Changed
1921-07-03
The Woman God Changed
Overview: In a jealous rage dancer Anna Janssen shoots her common-law husband Alastair De Vries in a cafe when she discovers him with a chorus girl. Fleeing to Tahiti she is tracked by detective Thomas McCarthy who arrests her. On their return journey they are marooned on a deserted island. After 2 years together, they realize their love and take marriage vows, but when a ship is sighted, she insists, against his wishes, that she return to face trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-03
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The Lesson
1918-05-01
The Lesson
Overview: Bored by the slow pace of life in her little home town, Helen Drayton rebels when her friends and relatives assume that she will marry her friend and escort, Chet Vernon. Helen is so anxious to experience life in the big city that she falls in love with visiting New York architect John Galvin almost immediately after his arrival. Several weeks later, the two marry and move to New York, where, after a series of painful experiences, Helen finally realizes John's selfishness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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The Untamed Lady
1926-03-14
The Untamed Lady
Overview: A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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Aloma of the South Seas
1926-05-15
Aloma of the South Seas
Overview: A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education. He returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-15
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The Wild Goose
1921-06-05
The Wild Goose
Overview: While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners, an architect who is away on business in San Francisco, and they become involved. The husband returns unexpectedly and learns that his wife loves Fenn. When Diana and Fenn go to the latter's cabin near New York, Mrs. Hastings, who though married loves Frank, persuades him not to interfere because of the effects on his child. Mr. Hastings, learning of his wife's own infidelity, motors to the cabin, forces Fenn into his car, and drives the vehicle over a steep embankment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-05
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The Rich Slave
1921-06-18
The Rich Slave
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-18
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Hitting the Trail
1918-12-02
Hitting the Trail
Overview: Kid Kelly, a gangster in New York's Lower East Side, attempts to rob Goldberg's millinery store. When the police arrive, Flo Haines, who had come to the building to look at an apartment, hides. When the police find her, they charge her with the crime, but the Kid turns himself over to the law instead. After his release, he again meets Flo, who works in an artificial-flower factory by day and at Reverend Roberts' relief mission by night. The Kid soon falls in love with Flo, and his jealous sweetheart Mamie tricks her into coming to her apartment, where she drugs her and turns her over to Joe Carelli, the flower factory's lustful owner. The Kid saves Flo, but when Carelli is found murdered the next day, he is arrested for the crime. The confession of Annie, who had stabbed Carelli in a jealous rage, frees The Kid, who reforms himself and marries Flo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-02
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The Law of the Yukon
The Law of the Yukon
Overview: A young newspaper man from San Francisco arrives in the Yukon to start a newspaper and conflict ensues. Based on the poem by Robert W. Service.
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Original Language: en
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Break the News to Mother
1919-06-08
Break the News to Mother
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-08
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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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As a Man Thinks
1919-04-20
As a Man Thinks
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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