Percy Marmont
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percy Marmont (25 November 1883 – 3 March 1977) was an English film actor. Marmont appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1968. He is best remembered today for playing the title character in Lord Jim (1925), the first film version of Joseph Conrad's novel, and for playing one of Clara Bow's love interests in the Paramount Pictures film Mantrap (1926).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 25, 1883
Deathday: March 03, 1977
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Secret Agent
1936-05-31
Secret Agent
Overview: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-31
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Young and Innocent
1937-11-01
Young and Innocent
Overview: Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Lord Jim
1925-11-15
Lord Jim
Overview: Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Away Goes Prudence
1920-07-01
Away Goes Prudence
Overview: Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her own kidnapping, but Hewitt discovers the ruse and arranges a real abduction to teach her a lesson. His plan backfires, and the kidnappers rob him and capture Prudence. In order to save herself, Prudence pretends to join the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-01
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Rich and Strange
1931-12-10
Rich and Strange
Overview: Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-10
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
1948-04-15
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Overview: Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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Fascinating Youth
1926-03-17
Fascinating Youth
Overview: Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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Broadway Broke
1923-10-26
Broadway Broke
Overview: Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-26
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If Winter Comes
1923-03-07
If Winter Comes
Overview: Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the front wounded, he finds that Mabel has fired Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having no place to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town shuns him for what they believe is going on with Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to desperation, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown--and then things get worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-07
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Mantrap
1926-07-24
Mantrap
Overview: A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-24
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
1920-11-01
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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The Lady of the Lake
1928-12-08
The Lady of the Lake
Overview: In 15th century Scotland, a woman of an outlaw clan tries to rescue both her father and her lover when they're captured by the king's men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-08
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The Lie
1918-04-08
The Lie
Overview: Elinor Shale's happiness at being engaged to Gerald Forster is interrupted by the arrival of her sister Lucy, who confesses that she will soon give birth to an illegitimate child. Elinor goes into seclusion with her sister until the baby is born and then tries to find a foster mother. Seeking to estrange Gerald from Elinor so that she may marry him herself, Lucy convinces him that Elinor is the child's mother. After Lucy and Gerald's marriage, Elinor learns of her sister's perfidy and resolves to tell Gerald the truth, but at the sight of their happiness, she relents and returns home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-08
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Lisbon
1956-08-17
Lisbon
Overview: For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment -- sneaking an imprisoned American out of communist-controlled territory. The job seems challenging enough, but when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife, Sylvia, he realizes his mission comes with a startling catch: Not only must he rescue this man, he must bring him back from the dead.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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The Midnight Alarm
1923-08-19
The Midnight Alarm
Overview: Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip but dies in an auto accident. The daughter is rescued but disappears. Her grandparents spend years looking for her, as does the executor who killed her father--if she's found she'll inherit the estate and he won't get a penny. He aims to see that she's never found, and if she is he plans to see that she doesn't live long enough to make a claim to the estate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Monsieur Ripois
1954-09-30
Monsieur Ripois
Overview: While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend, Patricia, over for dinner. Over the course of the evening, Andre shares his entire romantic history since first coming to London as a young man, including his liaisons with his former boss, a marriage-minded young girl and a kindhearted Frenchwoman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-30
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You Can't Get Away with It
1923-11-18
You Can't Get Away with It
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-18
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The Turn of the Wheel
1918-09-01
The Turn of the Wheel
Overview: While visiting Monte Carlo with her aunt, Rosalie Dean meets a young man, Maxfield Gray who is ready to kill himself because of his losses at the roulette wheel. She stops him from doing so, and lends him some money to win back what he's lost. He does, but they're only happy for a short while before Max is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife in the States.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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The Street of Forgotten Men
1925-07-24
The Street of Forgotten Men
Overview: Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-24
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San Francisco Nights
1928-05-01
San Francisco Nights
Overview: Young lawyer John Vickery is in love with his wife, but he thinks she is in love with another man...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-01
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Action for Slander
1937-07-21
Action for Slander
Overview: A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew
1924-03-31
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
Overview: Although the dance troupe of which she is leading lady is successful in South America, Lou urges her husband, Jim, to seek another environment for the sake of their 2-year-old son. When Dan McGrew offers to put Lou on the New York stage and beats Jim in a fight, she runs away with him to Alaska, where she becomes a decoy in the Malamute saloon. Learning that Lou has been duped by her abductor, Jim follows them to the Klondike and kills McGrew. Husband, wife, and child are then reunited.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-31
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The Gambler and the Lady
1952-12-26
The Gambler and the Lady
Overview: A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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Yellow Stockings
1928-10-01
Yellow Stockings
Overview: 'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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Say It with Music
1932-11-14
Say It with Music
Overview: 'Ex-pilot bandleader helps starving composer regain memory.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-14
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Cross Roads
1930-02-18
Cross Roads
Overview: 'Mother thwarts daughter's elopement with story of how wife shot her errant husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-18
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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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I'll Walk Beside You
1943-08-16
I'll Walk Beside You
Overview: John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-16
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Her Imaginary Lover
1933-11-01
Her Imaginary Lover
Overview: A New York socialite Celia invents an aristocratic English fiancé named Lord Michael Ware to deflect the tedious attention of would-be suitors. Celia travels to London to claim an inheritance...and meets an aristocratic Englishman called Lord Michael Ware. The imaginary romance becomes real.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Four Sided Triangle
1953-06-15
Four Sided Triangle
Overview: A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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Loyal Heart
1947-02-17
Loyal Heart
Overview: This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship. When a farmer is unsuccessful in his efforts to purchase Beth for his own, he spitefully accuses the dog’s owner of sheep stealing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-17
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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925-03-08
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Overview: Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-08
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The Branded Woman
1920-09-05
The Branded Woman
Overview: A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Squeaker
1930-06-01
The Squeaker
Overview: A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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The Captain's Table
1936-11-01
The Captain's Table
Overview: A passenger is murdered on board an ocean going liner and suspicion falls all too neatly upon her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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The Written Law
1931-09-01
The Written Law
Overview: A man is cured of blindness but conceals his recovery from his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-01
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The Silver Greyhound
1932-09-01
The Silver Greyhound
Overview: A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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David Livingstone
1936-11-01
David Livingstone
Overview: Film portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Footsteps in the Fog
1955-09-14
Footsteps in the Fog
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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The Clean Heart
1924-09-15
The Clean Heart
Overview: The Clean Heart (1924)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-15
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The Enemy Sex
1924-08-25
The Enemy Sex
Overview: A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing, their manager asks Dodo to fill in. At the party, she meets four new men. She's smart enough to steer clear of two of them -- corrupt society leader Albert Sasson and powerful newspaper publisher Harrigan Blood. Instead she becomes passionately involved with Judge Massingale. The man who really steals her heart, however, is Garry Lindaberry, who seems to be a hopeless drunk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-25
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The Man Life Passed By
1923-12-24
The Man Life Passed By
Overview: Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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The Indestructible Wife
1919-01-26
The Indestructible Wife
Overview: Romantic comedy variation on "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Alice Brady.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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The Million Pound Note
1954-01-07
The Million Pound Note
Overview: An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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The Light That Failed
1923-10-25
The Light That Failed
Overview: About Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He meets Torpenhow, a war correspondent, at Port Said, and accompanies him into battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-25
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Infatuation
1925-12-27
Infatuation
Overview: Infatuation is based on Caesar's Wife, a story by Somerset Maugham. Dazzlingly British socialite Viola Morgan falls madly in love with professional soldier Sir Arthur Little at a dinner party. The two marry, and before long Viola has relocated to Egypt with her husband. Soon bored by her hothouse existence, Viola succumbs to the attentions of young British attache Ronald Perry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-27
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Without Benefit of Clergy
1921-06-19
Without Benefit of Clergy
Overview: A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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K - The Unknown
1924-11-17
K - The Unknown
Overview: Sidney Page is a beautiful young nurse, the object of the romantic attentions of several young men in her small town. One of them, a mysterious fellow known as K, suddenly finds that the life of his rival for Sidney's hand depends upon his revealing the secret of his own past.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-17
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Sir or Madame
1928-11-13
Sir or Madame
Overview: A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-13
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The Conquest of the Air
1936-12-01
The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Penn of Pennsylvania
1942-01-24
Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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Fine Clothes
1925-08-09
Fine Clothes
Overview: The owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-09
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Wife Against Wife
1921-09-12
Wife Against Wife
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-12
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Dark Secret
1949-10-30
Dark Secret
Overview: A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-30
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Hostile Witness
1968-11-01
Hostile Witness
Overview: Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Broken Laws
1924-11-09
Broken Laws
Overview: Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood. By the time she realizes her treatment of her son has spoiled him almost beyond belief, he is on trial for manslaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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Idle Tongues
1924-12-21
Idle Tongues
Overview: After serving 5 years in prison for embezzling church funds, Dr. Ephraim Nye returns to Ostable and the scornful gossip of its residents, led by Althea Bemis. There is a typhoid epidemic, and Dr. Nye believes it to be caused by the water in a pond that Judge Copeland, the brother of Dr. Nye's dead wife, Fanny, wishes to use as the source of municipal water supply. Only Katherine Minot supports Dr. Nye, but biologists prove him correct; and Dr. Nye confronts Copeland with proof that he went to prison to protect Fanny, the actual criminal. Copeland finally consents to the marriage of his daughter, Faith, to Tom Stone, the son of his enemy; and Katherine spreads the news of her engagement to Dr. Nye through Althea.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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The Silver King
1929-05-01
The Silver King
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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What's Your Reputation Worth?
1921-03-01
What's Your Reputation Worth?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-01
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