Claire McDowell
Biography: Claire McDowell (2 November 1877 – 23 October 1966) was an American actress. She appeared in 360 films between 1908 and 1945. Still somewhat of a youthful beauty when she started in early silent films, McDowell appeared in numerous films, eventually graduating to playing character and mother types. She can be seen to good advantage in Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 The Mark of Zorro. McDowell appeared in two of the biggest films of the silent era, The Big Parade (1925) and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), both in which she played mothers. She was married to silent screen character actor Charles Hill Mailes from 1906 to his 1937 death. The couple appeared in numerous silent films together, including The Mark of Zorro. They had two sons, Robert Mailes and Eugene Mailes. Claire McDowell died, aged 88, in Hollywood, California. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Birthday: October 31, 1877
Deathday: October 23, 1966
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The New York Hat
1912-12-05
The New York Hat
Overview: To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-05
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The Big Parade
1925-11-05
The Big Parade
Overview: The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-05
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Overview: Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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Ponjola
1923-10-28
Ponjola
Overview: Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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The Flaming Forest
1926-11-21
The Flaming Forest
Overview: North-West Mounted Police Sgt. David Carrigan takes a breather from fighting as he brings a convict to trial and woos the lovely Jeanne-Marie.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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The White Raven
1917-01-14
The White Raven
Overview: William Baldwin, ruined in business by his partner, John Blaisdell, implores Blaisdell's aid, and receives in answer a five-dollar bill across the face of which is written, "Spend this for a gun and use it on yourself."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
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Captain of His Soul
1918-02-10
Captain of His Soul
Overview: At the suggestion of his sons Horace and Henry, aging Ebenezer Boyce turns over control of his pistol factory to Martin. However, when Ebenezer discovers the extent of Martin's dishonesty and corruption, the shock gives the old man a heart attack and he dies. Soon afterward Martin is discovered dead, and the brothers begin to suspect each other of the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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Murder by Television
1935-10-01
Murder by Television
Overview: James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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The Feud
1919-12-07
The Feud
Overview: Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lynch and Betty Summers from falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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The Fatal Wedding
1914-01-19
The Fatal Wedding
Overview: The hero, Howard, has just married his sweetheart Mabel. Howard's ex-flame Cora remains in love with Howard, but she despises Mabel. With the help of her old acquaintance Robert, Cora breaks up Howard and Mabel's marriage. On the verge of wedding Howard herself, Cora is exposed for the viper that she is by the careless Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-19
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The Switchtower
1913-06-15
The Switchtower
Overview: "He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture." —Moving Picture World synopsis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-15
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Tillie the Toiler
1927-06-05
Tillie the Toiler
Overview: Tillie is a secretary always dressed in the height of fashion who tries to capture a millionaire named Pennington Fish. Once she gets a stenographic position at Mr. Simpkins's company she sets her cap for the general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple. Eventually Tillie announces that she is going to "catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-05
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The Baby and the Stork
1912-01-01
The Baby and the Stork
Overview: Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Baby and the Stork
1912-01-01
The Baby and the Stork
Overview: Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Mark of Zorro
1920-12-05
The Mark of Zorro
Overview: Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-05
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Rent Free
1922-01-01
Rent Free
Overview: A penniless artist moves into an abandoned house, but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Quitter
1929-04-01
The Quitter
Overview: Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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When the Fire-Bells Rang
1912-05-08
When the Fire-Bells Rang
Overview: They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company arrives, and. in putting on a Roman tragedy, needs twenty "supers" to play "Roman soldiers." "Props" engages the members of the fire company, who are rehearsed and dressed in Roman costumes. Everything goes fine until the fire-bells ring out an alarm, then, well...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-08
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The Big House
1930-06-14
The Big House
Overview: Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
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You Can't Believe Everything
1918-06-23
You Can't Believe Everything
Overview: Patricia Reynolds, the belle of the summer resort she is visiting with her friend, Amy Powellson, attracts the attention of Arthur Kirby, whom Amy loves. On an evening drive, Arthur tries to kiss Patricia , whereupon she leaps from the car and walks home. While Amy, disguised in Patricia 's clothing, accompanies Arthur to a roadhouse, Patricia , walking near the beach, sees her invalid friend, Jim Wheeler, jump into the ocean intending to kill himself. After rescuing him, Patricia persuades Jim to visit a specialist, but when she later is accused of spending the night with Arthur, she refuses to defend herself in order to conceal Jim's attempted suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-23
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Prisoners of Love
1921-01-16
Prisoners of Love
Overview: Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-16
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
1922-12-04
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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Silks and Saddles
1929-01-20
Silks and Saddles
Overview: Jockey Johnny Spencer loses his job with Mrs. Calhoun for throwing a race. An adventuress named Sybil, who made Johnny hold back Mrs. Calhoun's horse, Lady, leaves him, and he becomes a racetrack bum. Johnny returns to Mrs. Calhoun's stable when the new jockey proves unable to manage Lady. Johnny wins the next race, thereby regaining Mrs. Calhoun's confidence and winning the love of her attractive daughter, Lucy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-20
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Wild Boys of the Road
1933-10-07
Wild Boys of the Road
Overview: At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-07
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The Sands of Dee
1912-02-21
The Sands of Dee
Overview: A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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Two Daughters of Eve
1912-09-19
Two Daughters of Eve
Overview: Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned the other woman simply because of her profession, an actress. While out on a shopping tour, the wife and her husband enter a store, leaving their little child in the auto in the care of the chauffeur. This gentleman pays but scant attention to the child, so the little one wanders off and strolls into the stage door of a theater during the matinee. The parents upon their return to the auto discover the child's absence and trace him to the theater stage, where they find him in the arms of one of the show girls. The mother matches the child from the girl's arms, scornfully exclaiming, "How dare you contaminate my child with your touch?" For this remark, together with the derisive laughter it occasions, the girl vows to be avenged.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-19
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In the Aisles of the Wild
1912-10-14
In the Aisles of the Wild
Overview: A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt in the neighborhood. As fate will have it, both trappers love the same girl, the elder sister, but she loves Bob, while the younger girl is attracted by Jim. The elder girl, however, through a woman's whim, pays marked attention to Jim simply to arouse jealousy in Bob. He, in temper, cannot reason her motive and leaves, so through pique she accepts and marries Jim. Later Bob revisits the place, feeling that the girl loves him best, and tries to induce her to go away with him. He finally succeeds and, as you may imagine, fate brings about justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-14
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A Cry for Help
1912-12-23
A Cry for Help
Overview: Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-23
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The Wrong Bottle
1913-03-06
The Wrong Bottle
Overview: Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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A Misappropriated Turkey
1913-07-27
A Misappropriated Turkey
Overview: His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot to do away with the owner of the iron works, an infernal machine stuffed in a turkey's breast. The story tells how the turkey found its way to a table where there was more love than plenty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-27
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The Tenderfoot's Money
1913-05-05
The Tenderfoot's Money
Overview: The tenderfoot came into camp with his ill-gotten money intending to purchase a claim. The faker salted a claim, hoping thereby to secure the money. But the gambler got ahead of him through cheating at cards. Later the tenderfoot sought to regain his money and in the struggle it fell into worthier hands.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-05
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The Ranchero's Revenge
1913-06-02
The Ranchero's Revenge
Overview: The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress soon discovered she was not as heartless as she at first imagined. She learned to love and when the other man appeared to perpetrate the infamous design, true woman nature came into the struggle, saving both herself and the ranchero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-02
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The Stolen Loaf
1913-05-10
The Stolen Loaf
Overview: A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-10
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A Gamble with Death
1913-06-30
A Gamble with Death
Overview: The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the bet came together again, one now an outlaw but through a woman's subterfuge the money fell to the less likely of them all, Reed, declared to be "on his last legs."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-30
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The Well
1913-06-12
The Well
Overview: Success is often coveted instead of honestly earned. Through honest effort the farmer was enjoying the fruits of his labor. A large irrigation well was among his new acquisitions. Therein his designing helpers held him prisoner while they left with his wealth and his daughter. There is an old saying, however, that an evil purpose always defeats its own end by some committing act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-12
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The Enemy's Baby
1913-06-10
The Enemy's Baby
Overview: A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When he learned his act had made him liable to the law he fled with his family, but came back after a lost baby, now in the hands of the enemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-10
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A Gambler's Honor
1913-07-14
A Gambler's Honor
Overview: The brother at cards failed to make up the shortage at the express office, but the gambler determined to save him. His intention, however, was misconstrued until the sheriff's investigation brought the truth. The gambler then awoke to the justice of the girl's plea against his previous life and the tragedy of a dead brother's weakness was lightened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-14
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The Mirror
1913-07-24
The Mirror
Overview: The girl's lessons from the young station agent on the manipulation of the telegraph code served her in good stead. By it, hemmed in on all sides at the lonely farmhouse, she was able to save both herself and her father's money from desperate tramps, an experience which is grippingly illustrated in this Biograph melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-24
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The Vengeance of Galora
1913-07-28
The Vengeance of Galora
Overview: In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought to save his life from moral disaster and won. So the vengeance of Galora worked for the common good; one man was saved in a moment of weakness, while through many thrilling adventures the real offenders were brought to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-28
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Don't Marry
1928-06-13
Don't Marry
Overview: A flapper masquerades as her strait-laced cousin to try and impress a potential suitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-13
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Under the Shadow of the Law
1913-08-07
Under the Shadow of the Law
Overview: In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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I Was Meant for You
1913-08-01
I Was Meant for You
Overview: Theron is Lavina's natural choice, though she imagines herself in love with Luke, who is secretly loved by Lavina's sister, Susan. Susan sees that the couple are ill-suited to each other and adopts her own means to break the match. She is successful, but it is not until all have passed through a stirring and leavening experience that each couple realizes they were meant for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-01
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The Crook and the Girl
1913-08-25
The Crook and the Girl
Overview: In the guise of a gardener he came to steal the paper telling the whereabouts of the second will. That was so the nephew might enjoy the inheritance alone. Then the girl learned his true mission, but in the end he restored her confidence and beat her enemies at their own game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-25
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The Work Habit
1913-08-21
The Work Habit
Overview: After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease under his enforced idleness, he makes a deal with a disabled old street cleaner to keep his job. Finding him out, the young folks give in, and it's "back to the farm" for Dad.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-21
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The Stolen Treaty
1913-09-13
The Stolen Treaty
Overview: On the day of the meeting which should settle the controversy regarding the Panama Canal, the Japanese Embassy commissioned Olga to obtain a copy of the agreement. The young Secretary to the Secretary of State became her dupe, but the detective succeeded in recovering the stolen treaty by a clever unwinding of threads taking thereby a desperate and thrilling chance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-13
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The Van Nostrand Tiara
1913-10-20
The Van Nostrand Tiara
Overview: When Mrs. Van Nostra returned from Europe her new tiara was much advertised. A new lady's maid arrived, highly recommended, but following events proved that she was but the accomplice of Raffles. His crafty substitution of the diamonds on the famous tiara was discovered by the society detective, who captured the offenders in spite of their clever ruse.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-20
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The Law and His Son
1913-09-22
The Law and His Son
Overview: In this film one is shown the contrast of two fathers. One father refuses to believe his son guiltless, while the other, fully realizing the weakness of his son, struggles to save him from further disgrace. In this attempt he exonerates the innocent youth, but at the same time exposes the guilt of his own son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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The Stopped Clock
1913-11-01
The Stopped Clock
Overview: No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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For Her Government
1913-12-22
For Her Government
Overview: He was one of a league whom society thought honest. The little French lady who became his wife believed him a diplomatic spy for her government, so she sailed quite contentedly off to America to work with him. Far from home and friends, she learned his true character, but the crisis was met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-22
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The Detective's Stratagem
1913-11-20
The Detective's Stratagem
Overview: In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwinding of threads saved both his own and his sweetheart's happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-20
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Concentration
1914-01-12
Concentration
Overview: The dead man's decentralized life is exemplified in a half-finished will and an incompleted invention of a printing press. The mother impresses upon her two sons the power of concentration by a magnifying glass held to the sun's rays. One accepts the lesson and finishes the work of the father. The other becomes the tool of the rival printer. His lesson was to come through experience and the suffering of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-12
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The Abandoned Well
1913-12-27
The Abandoned Well
Overview: From his hard and lonely life with his foster father, the adopted son finds solace in Cynthia, the neighbor's daughter. Father promises to give them money to start their happy married way, but forgets when a widow, with a little girl, comes home with him as a bride. Then it is that the abandoned well comes into play and father's eyes are opened to his neglect.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-27
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All for Science
1913-11-24
All for Science
Overview: After all, the young chemist proves himself quite human. He would have ended his life because he had not the money to spend on his desired research for a cancer cure, had not his uncle prevented. The old man became a thief "for science, not personal gain." The young man, however, fell in love with the very girl who was sent to track him, and thus forgot his original intention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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The Working Man
1933-04-20
The Working Man
Overview: A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-20
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The Phantom Express
1932-08-15
The Phantom Express
Overview: Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-15
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Under Eighteen
1932-01-02
Under Eighteen
Overview: Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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The Massacre
1912-12-19
The Massacre
Overview: The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Genres: Action War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-19
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A Nest Unfeathered
1914-02-14
A Nest Unfeathered
Overview: At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the foreman intends to get rid of the boy. He brings a physician to prove him demented. Kate refuses to believe this. Later, the foreman is a worthless husband to another and for the sake of the son that might have been hers, Kate demonstrates the golden rule.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-14
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Waifs
1914-01-17
Waifs
Overview: The waif came to live with the unsuspecting old shoemaker. Then a homeless newsboy followed. One friendly heart bred another. That was too much for the proud, wealthy widowed sister. She declared she would have no orphans wished on her. Stilling her conscience, she took the children's legacy, but one Sunday morning after the war, peace silenced all conflict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-17
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His Fireman's Conscience
1914-01-26
His Fireman's Conscience
Overview: Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of the freight is closed upon her. She falls into the discharged fireman's hands. He is quite in love with her, and when he learns whose daughter she is, concludes to keep her from the exasperated parents. That's where his conscience came in, leading to regeneration and better days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-26
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Her Father's Silent Partner
1914-02-23
Her Father's Silent Partner
Overview: After his daughter's return the jeweler attempted to break the partnership he had with the crook. His partner, however, won the girl's love, and threatened to expose the father if he attempted to break off the match. By a clever ruse the father set the gangsters against their leader. His plan did not prove altogether successful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-23
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Her Hand
1914-03-12
Her Hand
Overview: Olga, true to the cause their hearts held so dear, stole the evidence which would send her friends to Siberia, hut Orlanof, of the Russian police, sentenced the prisoners without it. Ivan, Olga's brother, in hiding, volunteered to do away with Orlanof. Olga now loved that most hated man and saved him with her own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-12
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The Gambler's I.O.U.
1915-04-12
The Gambler's I.O.U.
Overview: At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way home two observers of his luck held him up. Badly wounded, he contrived to reach the mine and died in his partner's arms. Dick Smith found the gambler's I.O.U. in his pocket
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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The Canceled Mortgage
1915-05-17
The Canceled Mortgage
Overview: Two road agents hold up the stagecoach and rob the passengers. In making their getaway, one of the road agents is shot by the stage driver. They stop at a lonely cabin, where a miner's widow lives with her little daughter, and ask for aid.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-17
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
1915-05-29
Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Overview: Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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The Sheriff's Dilemma
1915-04-02
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Overview: Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff, is appointed sheriff by the mayor. In the girl's home he sees a picture of her father, whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac, a notorious desperado. He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father, but sends his deputy, the ex-sheriff, to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border. The bandit, badly wounded by the deputy's bullets, reaches his daughter's house, and she thinks the sheriff false to his word.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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The Miser's Legacy
1915-04-09
The Miser's Legacy
Overview: Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring son. They trail the doctor home, overpower him, and in their search for the money, terrify his wife and child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-09
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A Day's Adventure
1915-05-08
A Day's Adventure
Overview: Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley arrived the girl scraped his acquaintance by the simple means of losing her bag, and decoyed him to the crooks' rendezvous, where he was overpowered, bound and gagged
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-08
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Her Dormant Love
1915-06-04
Her Dormant Love
Overview: The discontented wife of the young rancher does not realize that the unsatisfactory state of things is her fault. She has not ceased to love her husband because she has not yet begun to love him. His tenderness and courtesy antagonize her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-04
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The Way Out
1915-06-19
The Way Out
Overview: While packing her trunk preparatory to leaving home for the adjoining county, where she has been called to teach, the young schoolteacher discovers that one of her rings is broken. Her father volunteers to have the ring mended and bring it to her. On her first day at school a new pupil is enrolled, the motherless daughter of a resident, who personally escorts the child to school. The acquaintance thus begun ripens into love. The girl's father writes that he is coming to visit her. He does not come, but is brought in, dead, by men who have found his body on the trail, a victim of bandits. When the girl resumes her school work, her lover's daughter, among others, brings her a little token of sympathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-19
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Her Convert
1915-06-24
Her Convert
Overview: The old inventors daughter is a mission worker. She makes a convert of a young crook and eventually becomes engaged to marry him. But her father does not approve of him, and shows him the door when he learns from a detective the record of his daughter's suitor. The inventor's plans are stolen by an unscrupulous manufacturer, and the crook volunteers to recover them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-24
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Old Offenders
1915-07-10
Old Offenders
Overview: Under police espionage, Crooked Joe is living with his wife and baby when Norris, his former pal, tries to interest him in a job. He refuses, and subsequently earns his old pal's animosity when Norris makes advances to his wife. Norris "frames" Joe, and he is sent to prison on a charge of robbing his employers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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As It Happened
1915-07-12
As It Happened
Overview: The new foreman falls in love with the ranchman's daughter, and notes with jealousy her joy over a letter which her father receives.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-12
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The Midnight Flyer
1925-12-06
The Midnight Flyer
Overview: The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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The Black Diamond Express
1927-06-04
The Black Diamond Express
Overview: Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs. Harmon, does not approve of the blue-collar, rough-at-the-edges Dan Foster as a suitable husband for Jeanne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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The Old Actor
1912-05-06
The Old Actor
Overview: An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives him a five dollar gold piece, thinking that it was a smaller coin. A chase ensues with a policeman, the daughter, and her beau in hot pursuit. When caught he is recognized by his shocked daughter, but is quickly forgiven by all. Meanwhile the actor hired to replace him has already been fired and a messenger is dispatched to rehire the Old Actor to the delight of his wife, daughter, and fellow actors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-06
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Bedside
1934-01-27
Bedside
Overview: Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-27
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His Trust
1911-01-16
His Trust
Overview: A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-16
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The House of Discord
1913-12-13
The House of Discord
Overview: In her youth the mother was saved from the fatal mistake by an accident, but it caused her years of separation from child and husband. It had occurred primarily through her self-righteous sister-in-law's domination and interference. A like fate and downfall threatened the daughter, now reaching maturity. The mother's insistence separated the child from her environment. Love and understanding did the rest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-13
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The Cracksman's Gratitude
1914-07-04
The Cracksman's Gratitude
Overview: The young lawyer took the cracksman's part when he was falsely accused. Later, the chemist, in revenge for his fancied wrong, refused the lawyer's wife the serum which would save her husband's life. It was then the cracksman showed his gratitude.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-04
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Men and Women
1914-08-01
Men and Women
Overview: Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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What Shall We Do with Our Old?
1911-02-13
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Overview: An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-13
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The Right to Be Happy
1916-12-25
The Right to Be Happy
Overview: Considered to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The Second Floor Mystery
1930-04-26
The Second Floor Mystery
Overview: In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-26
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Redemption
1930-04-05
Redemption
Overview: In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-05
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The Sunbeam
1912-02-26
The Sunbeam
Overview: Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-26
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The School Teacher and the Waif
1912-06-26
The School Teacher and the Waif
Overview: Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-26
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A Country Cupid
1911-07-23
A Country Cupid
Overview: Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of the trash and sends it to her fiancé. Later, Edith is alone grading papers when a man bursts in and threatens her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-23
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His Trust Fulfilled
1911-01-18
His Trust Fulfilled
Overview: Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-18
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August Week End
1936-02-17
August Week End
Overview: At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and not-so-wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-17
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Judgment of the Storm
1924-01-06
Judgment of the Storm
Overview: Mary Heath's brother Dave is accidentally killed in a gambling den. Mary’s sweetheart, John Trevor, discovers the joint is secretly owned by his mother and he denounces her. As Dave was the head of the Heath household, John, knowing that Dave was head of the Heath household, feels responsible for the boy's death and offers himself as a replacement. Treated badly initially, eventually the family takes him into their hearts.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-06
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Keeper of the Flame
1943-04-01
Keeper of the Flame
Overview: Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Ashes of Vengeance
1923-08-06
Ashes of Vengeance
Overview: This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-06
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The Empty Gun
1917-09-04
The Empty Gun
Overview: Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into safe keeping. Dave the agent hears him, and when he finally appeared, disappointment awaited Frank. "I can't take charge of the money," says Dave. "I'm sorry, Frank, but the train is late, and the gold can't go on tonight. I saw two suspicious-looking characters hanging around here, and I won't take the responsibility."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-04
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Heart o' the Hills
1919-11-30
Heart o' the Hills
Overview: Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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The Tower of Lies
1925-10-10
The Tower of Lies
Overview: After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-10
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The Shamrock Handicap
1926-05-02
The Shamrock Handicap
Overview: Because he refuses to collect rent payments from his impoverished tenants, kindly Irish nobleman Sir Miles Gaffney is in danger of losing his estate. He is forced to sell off part of his racing stable to a wealthy American, who takes along Gaffney's jockey Neil Ross as part of the bargain. When Neil is crippled in a racing accident, Sir Miles and his daughter Sheila sail to America with their prize horse "Dark Rosaleen" in tow. The first film having an Irish motif that John Ford directed, a six reel delight set in Eire's County Kildare and in the United States, with a steeplechase background, mixing charged elements of comedy and sentimental drama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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Muggsy Becomes a Hero
1910-09-01
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
Overview: Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends Muggsy a note asking him to meet her after the service so he may walk home with her. Muggsy is there on time, however, the old ladies are afraid to make the return trip unaccompanied. The pastor asks that a man escort them home. Poor Muggsy gets chosen, and when the trio reach the deserted part of the road, the tramps again appear.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-01
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By Appointment Only
1933-07-06
By Appointment Only
Overview: When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter, and makes her his ward, but his fiancé doesn't particularly like it. After he returns from a three-year engagement in Europe, the doctor discovers that his ward is now a beautiful, full-grown woman, and finds himself falling for her--even though she's engaged to his fiancé's brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-06
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Nice People
1922-07-12
Nice People
Overview: Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a storm with her intoxicated companion, Scotty. A stranger (Billy Wade) also seeking shelter saves her from Scotty's unwelcome attentions but not from the scandal which results from her father's discovery of her and Scotty--alone--the next morning. Hurt by the snubbing she receives from her friends, Teddy settles down and agrees to become an old-fashioned wife to Billy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-12
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Midsummer Madness
1921-01-23
Midsummer Madness
Overview: Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels the romance has ebbed away from their marriage. One night, while Meredith is at the office, family friend Julian Osborn (Conrad Nagel) -- whose own spouse (Lila Lee) is out of town -takes Margaret to a dance. They wind up at a hunting lodge and begin to get carried away, but stop before things get out of hand. The pair agree to keep their encounter a secret, but unfortunately, they've been seen and word gets back to their spouses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-23
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The Viking
1928-11-02
The Viking
Overview: In this historical adventure based on traditional legend concerning Leif Ericsson and the first Viking settlers to reach North America by sea, Norse half-brothers vie for a throne and for the same woman.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-02
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Secrets
1924-03-24
Secrets
Overview: An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. They live a hardscrabble life there and suffered deprivation, hunger, Indian attacks, and the death of her baby. Although they eventually make a go of it, her husband becomes involved with another woman. Now that he is on his deathbed, will she forgive her husband after 40 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-24
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His New Lid
1910-11-24
His New Lid
Overview: A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-24
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Swords and Hearts
1911-08-27
Swords and Hearts
Overview: A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
Genres: Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-27
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Almost Human
1927-12-26
Almost Human
Overview: John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is broken-hearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human ", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his 'human', John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-26
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Man's Genesis
1912-07-10
Man's Genesis
Overview: An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-10
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Small Town Girl
1936-04-10
Small Town Girl
Overview: Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Two Heads on a Pillow
1934-10-02
Two Heads on a Pillow
Overview: A lawyer handing a divorce case discovers the attorney for the opposition is his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-02
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British Agent
1934-09-15
British Agent
Overview: In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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The Flying Fleet
1929-01-19
The Flying Fleet
Overview: Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-19
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A Flash of Light
1910-07-17
A Flash of Light
Overview: An experiment goes wrong and blinds a newly married chemist. The chemist's wife does not want to take on the burden of caring for the blind chemist, and her younger sister take her place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-17
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Manhattan Parade
1931-12-24
Manhattan Parade
Overview: Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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The Shield of Honor
1927-12-10
The Shield of Honor
Overview: Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-10
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A Night at the Movies
1937-11-06
A Night at the Movies
Overview: A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-06
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Journal of a Crime
1934-03-10
Journal of a Crime
Overview: A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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The Primal Call
1911-06-21
The Primal Call
Overview: A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-21
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Three Comrades
1938-06-02
Three Comrades
Overview: A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-02
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The Gift Supreme
1920-03-30
The Gift Supreme
Overview: Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinherits his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-30
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Stand Up and Fight
1939-01-06
Stand Up and Fight
Overview: A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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The Famous Ferguson Case
1932-04-19
The Famous Ferguson Case
Overview: A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
1937-06-14
Two-Fisted Sheriff
Overview: This is a remake of Columbia's 1932 "Cornered" that starred Tim McCoy. Bob Pearson saves the life of his friend, Sheriff Dick Houston, who has captured two stagecoach bandits and is about to be shot from ambush by a third. Bob is found a few days later near the murdered body of cattleman Herrick with a gun in his hand.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-14
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Idiot's Delight
1939-01-27
Idiot's Delight
Overview: A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-27
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Mothers Cry
1930-12-04
Mothers Cry
Overview: Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-04
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Thunder Afloat
1939-09-15
Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Miracles for Sale
1939-08-10
Miracles for Sale
Overview: A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-10
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Love Never Dies
1921-11-11
Love Never Dies
Overview: John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-11
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Hangmen Also Die!
1943-04-15
Hangmen Also Die!
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-15
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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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A Failure at Fifty
1940-07-01
A Failure at Fifty
Overview: The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-01
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Under Burning Skies
1912-02-21
Under Burning Skies
Overview: Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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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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The Devil's Circus
1926-02-14
The Devil's Circus
Overview: In 1913, Carl is released from prison, where he served a sentence for stealing. Spurned by his circumstance, Carl rejects God and resumes his fast life of crime. Before long, his fate intersects with that of Mary, a devout orphan, prompting a romance and a reevaluation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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The Manicure Lady
1911-05-18
The Manicure Lady
Overview: The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-18
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Rose o' Salem Town
1910-09-25
Rose o' Salem Town
Overview: A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-25
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Avarice
1917-02-09
Avarice
Overview: Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-09
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A Sailor’s Heart
1912-11-25
A Sailor’s Heart
Overview: A short film directed by Wilfred Lucas for the Biograph Company.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-25
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Young Tom Edison
1940-03-15
Young Tom Edison
Overview: Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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Something to Think About
1920-10-16
Something to Think About
Overview: Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-16
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The Devil
1908-10-02
The Devil
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-02
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Love Among the Roses
1910-05-08
Love Among the Roses
Overview: In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-08
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The Jack-Knife Man
1920-07-31
The Jack-Knife Man
Overview: A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-31
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Young Desire
1930-06-08
Young Desire
Overview: A carnival sideshow dancer falls in love with a handsome young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-08
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Billy's Stratagem
1912-02-12
Billy's Stratagem
Overview: While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpowder and tricks the Indians into entering the cabin, while he and his sister escape.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-12
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944-05-04
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Overview: Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he sees her. Andy is clueless. On the train Andy meets Kay and Dr. Standish who are both headed for Wainwright. Andy likes Kay, but Dr. Standish also seems to take an interest in her. Things are going well at College with Kay, but the blonde is nice one minute and ignores Andy the next. When Andy finds out that the blonde is really identical twins, he tries to help them out with their father but gets caught at their rooming house after midnight.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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The Strong Man's Burden
1913-09-05
The Strong Man's Burden
Overview: A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-05
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This Land Is Mine
1943-05-07
This Land Is Mine
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-07
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Wild Company
1930-07-05
Wild Company
Overview: The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-05
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The Unknown Soldier
1926-05-29
The Unknown Soldier
Overview: The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, and George Cooper. The film was released on May 30, 1926, by Producers Distributing Corporation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-29
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The Golden Fleecing
1940-08-16
The Golden Fleecing
Overview: A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
1940-09-06
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
Overview: A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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The Golden Supper
1910-12-12
The Golden Supper
Overview: Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-12
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An American Tragedy
1931-08-22
An American Tragedy
Overview: A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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A Successful Calamity
1932-09-17
A Successful Calamity
Overview: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-17
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Dr. Monica
1934-06-23
Dr. Monica
Overview: A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-23
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Central Airport
1933-04-15
Central Airport
Overview: Aviator Jim Blaine and his brother Neil are rivals not only as daredevil flyers, but also for the love of parachutist Jill Collins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-15
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Angel of Mercy
1939-05-20
Angel of Mercy
Overview: This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-20
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Michael O'Halloran
1923-06-10
Michael O'Halloran
Overview: Orphan newsboy Michael O'Halloran "adopts" Peaches, a little crippled girl, when her grandmother's death leaves her alone in the world. A chance acquaintance with lawyer Douglas Bruce draws Michael into contact with the Hardings, a farm couple, who bring Michael and Peaches to the country. Wholesome food and good fresh air give Peaches the strength to walk. Also friends of Douglas Bruce are the James Minturns, a wealthy young couple whose marriage breaks up over Nellie Minturn's neglect of their children for a society life. Nellie eventually realizes her error, devotes herself to hospital work, and is reunited with James while bird-calling in the woods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-10
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Test Pilot
1938-04-16
Test Pilot
Overview: Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-16
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Enemies of Children
1923-12-13
Enemies of Children
Overview: A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, which follows the successful attempt to expose the mystery of her birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-13
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The Reckless Sex
1925-02-05
The Reckless Sex
Overview: Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and sends his son, Robert Jr., to investigate. During his journey west, Robert meets Mary Hamilton, a stranded actress from a roadshow company of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Because Mary is still in costume as the character, “Little Eva,” Robert mistakes her for a child and takes her with him to the ranch. He ultimately discovers the identity of the arms smugglers and, with the help of the Mexican Rurales, brings the gang to justice. Robert then realizes that Mary is not a child and wins her for his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-05
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The Dixie Merchant
1926-03-07
The Dixie Merchant
Overview: Goodnatured J. P. Fippany loses his home and takes to the road on a chicken-wagon with his wife and daughter. The wagon is wrecked in an automobile collision involving Jimmy Pickett, who falls in love with daughter Aida, and through a misunderstanding involving Marseillaise, Fippany's racehorse, his wife Josephine and Aida go to live with relatives. The disconsolate Fippany sells Marseillaise to Jimmy's father, sends the money to his wife, then disappears. Meanwhile, Jimmy finds Aida and convinces her of his love. Marseillaise, badly driven in a race, loses a heat, but Fippany emerges and rides her to victory, following which there is a reconciliation between husband and wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-07
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Lawyer Man
1932-12-24
Lawyer Man
Overview: Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-24
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Cornered
1932-08-05
Cornered
Overview: Shortly after Moody Pierson saves Sheriff Tim's life, Moody is arrested for murder. Tim doesn't believe he did it and lets him get away. Kicked out as Sheriff, Tim goes after the real kiler and this leads him to the town controlled by Red Slavins.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-05
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The Unveiling
1911-10-16
The Unveiling
Overview: The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his boyhood sweetheart and her mother come to spend a few days. The too-indulgent mother, however, is blind to the fact that the boy is spending most of his evenings in full dress, which should have told her that Bohemian society was engaging his attention. A showgirl, who learns that he will soon come into great wealth, determines to win him. Unsophisticated as he is, he is an easy prey. A friend of the family warns the mother of her boy's danger,
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-16
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A Little Journey
1927-01-01
A Little Journey
Overview: A girl travelling by train to meet her boyfriend meets another young man and falls in love with him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Auctioneer
1927-01-16
The Auctioneer
Overview: Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
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Waking Up the Town
1925-03-30
Waking Up the Town
Overview: Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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The Usurer
1910-08-15
The Usurer
Overview: A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-15
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The Taxi Dancer
1927-02-05
The Taxi Dancer
Overview: A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-05
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Boys Town
1938-09-08
Boys Town
Overview: Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-08
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Waiter No. 5
1910-11-03
Waiter No. 5
Overview: After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the officer resigns his commission and escapes with her to America. Several years later, the ex-officer is gainfully employed as a waiter in a Russian restaurant. For the sake of his grown son, who is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite, our hero pretends to be a man of great wealth and prestige. The truth is revealed in the final scene, but "Waiter Number 5" is saved from disgrace by the timely arrival of his former superior officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-03
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The Female of the Species
1912-04-15
The Female of the Species
Overview: A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-15
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A Decree of Destiny
1911-03-06
A Decree of Destiny
Overview: Kenneth Marsden, a young artist in failing health is advised to go south to New Orleans, where he expects to find accommodation with an old-time friend of his mother. The old lady receives the son of her dear friend with open arms, but her two convent-bred nieces, Mary and Edith, are horrified at the thought of a man in the house. However, it isn't long after his arrival that he has made a decided impression upon the young ladies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-06
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The Unwelcome Guest
1913-03-15
The Unwelcome Guest
Overview: Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper. She and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk with them).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-15
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Lena and the Geese
1912-06-17
Lena and the Geese
Overview: A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".
Genres: Drama Comedy Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-17
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
1913-01-06
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
Overview: D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-06
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Penrod
1922-02-20
Penrod
Overview: Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nasty neighbors. He heads the ABPA (American Boys' Protective Association) and through it disrupts a number of local social events. The townspeople are pretty fed up with Penrod and his gang, but when a couple of outlaws come to town, Penrod shows his mettle.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-20
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The Long Road
1911-10-26
The Long Road
Overview: Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-26
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The Adventures of Billy
1911-10-18
The Adventures of Billy
Overview: Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-18
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A Temporary Truce
1912-06-10
A Temporary Truce
Overview: A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-10
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Fisher Folks
1911-02-16
Fisher Folks
Overview: A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-16
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Whispers
1941-02-08
Whispers
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Human Wreckage
1923-06-17
Human Wreckage
Overview: An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-17
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Song of Revolt
1937-05-29
Song of Revolt
Overview: This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-29
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Thy Name Is Woman
1924-02-04
Thy Name Is Woman
Overview: A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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What Every Woman Knows
1921-04-24
What Every Woman Knows
Overview: Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter Maggie has the option of marrying him within five years. Though not in love they marry, and John becomes successful, thanks to Maggie’s input on his speeches, in time being elected to Parliament. Eventually John strays with Lady Sybil and Maggie diplomatically arranges for them to be together. However his next speech without her assistance is a failure and Sybil leaves him out of boredom, it’s then he sees Maggie’s true worth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-24
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Heart's Haven
1922-08-08
Heart's Haven
Overview: A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-08
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The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
1932-05-28
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain
Overview: A fast-talking reporter befriends a young woman and her male companion who are wanted for a policeman's shooting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-28
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The Man on the Rock
1938-09-03
The Man on the Rock
Overview: A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.
Genres: History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-03
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They're Always Caught
1938-07-03
They're Always Caught
Overview: This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-03
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Du Barry was a Lady
1943-08-13
Du Barry was a Lady
Overview: Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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Presenting Lily Mars
1943-04-29
Presenting Lily Mars
Overview: Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-29
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A Stranger from Somewhere
1916-11-13
A Stranger from Somewhere
Overview: A rancher moves to the city, and finds competition for the affections of an heiress in the form of a doppelganger.
Genres: Drama Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-13
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Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
1939-12-01
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Overview: Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Clean-Up
1917-08-06
The Clean-Up
Overview: A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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Lady Scarface
1941-09-26
Lady Scarface
Overview: A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy relationship with crime reporter Ann Rogers. One gang member is caught; eventually, others follow. But Mason hasn't a clue to Slade, principally because he's unaware she's a woman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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A Mohawk's Way
1910-09-12
A Mohawk's Way
Overview: In Colonial America a doctor refuses to "waste time on an Indian" whose daughter is ill. The doctor’s wife secretly travels to the Indian village to administer medicine. After the child’s recovery, the young Indian mother wears the medicine bottle as a necklace talisman, which the doctor roughly tries to grab back when he spots it. "The white man’s insult" leads to an Indian uprising in which the doctor is killed. His wife too is set for execution until the Indian mother intervenes and escorts her back to safety.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-12
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The Iconoclast
1910-10-03
The Iconoclast
Overview: A printer, drinking excessively and neglectful of his family obligations, is fired from his job when he offends his wealthy employer and his employer’s guests as they tour the printworks. Seeking revenge, the dismissed employee enters his former employer’s house with the intention of shooting him. There he sees the employer and his severely disabled daughter, and recognizes the strong emotional bond between father and daughter. This convincing demonstration of affection brings the printer to his senses. He asks pardon, is reinstated in his old job, and becomes a model worker, husband, and father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-03
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Rosalind at Redgate
1919-01-11
Rosalind at Redgate
Overview: Returning to House of a Thousand Candles a mystery unfolds involving two lookalike girls...or is there only one very crafty one?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-11
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The Wanderer
1913-05-02
The Wanderer
Overview: A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey, later re-released as The Wanderer), a film not directed by Griffith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-02
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So Near, Yet So Far
1912-09-29
So Near, Yet So Far
Overview: It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends-- But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-29
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A Woman Scorned
1911-11-30
A Woman Scorned
Overview: Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tells the doctor of the robbery, and helps him save his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-30
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The God Within
1912-12-26
The God Within
Overview: The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-26
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Circus Days
1923-07-30
Circus Days
Overview: 10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-30
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The Show Off
1926-08-16
The Show Off
Overview: A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-16
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The Tragedy of Youth
1928-03-01
The Tragedy of Youth
Overview: Neglected by shallow husband Dick, young bride Paula Wayne seeks male companionship outside the marital nest. She soon finds it in the form of mature lover Frank Gordon. Lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-01
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Olaf—An Atom
1913-05-19
Olaf—An Atom
Overview: Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where she lives with her husband and baby. Olaf is able to return her kindness when he overhears a plot to rob the settlers of their home. He alerts the couple and delays the would-be thieves long enough for the husband to file a claim on his land. Olaf is injured by the claim jumpers but he recovers, alone and forgotten by those he has helped. He then moves aimlessly along.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-19
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Imitation of Life
1934-11-23
Imitation of Life
Overview: A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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Adventure
1945-12-28
Adventure
Overview: A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-28
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Mixed Blood
1916-12-18
Mixed Blood
Overview: For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and repelled. In contrast, she has only a passing interest in Big Jim, the town's honest, good-hearted sheriff. Then, after Carlos kills a faro dealer, he forces Nita to make an escape with him.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-18
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Men on Her Mind
1944-02-12
Men on Her Mind
Overview: A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-12
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The Stolen Bride
1913-04-07
The Stolen Bride
Overview: The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-07
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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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The Storm Woman
1917-10-02
The Storm Woman
Overview: Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-02
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The Gates of Doom
1917-03-05
The Gates of Doom
Overview: Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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One Against the World
1939-08-19
One Against the World
Overview: This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-19
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The Woman in the Suitcase
1920-01-11
The Woman in the Suitcase
Overview: Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-11
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The Planter's Wife
1908-10-20
The Planter's Wife
Overview: John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-20
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The House of Darkness
1913-05-10
The House of Darkness
Overview: A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-10
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Union Depot
1932-01-14
Union Depot
Overview: Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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The Bronze Bride
1917-04-02
The Bronze Bride
Overview: Disgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden turns the boy out to make his own way in the world. Harvey finally lands in the Canadian North Woods, where he goes into business with Joe Dubois, a hunter and trapper. One day while Harvey is trapping, his leg is caught in a steel trap. He is rescued by A-Che-Chee, the daughter of Black Lynx the Indian Chief. A-Che-Chee takes Harvey to her cabin, where she dresses his wound. When her father and brother discover Harvey there, they insist upon an immediate marriage. Harvey protests, but finally agrees in order to maintain the good will of the Indians.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-02
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
1913-10-02
A Tender-Hearted Crook
Overview: The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-02
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The Squaw's Love
1911-09-13
The Squaw's Love
Overview: Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets out in pursuit and jealously attacks Wild Flower. They fall into the river but are rescued by Gray Fox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-13
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Wilful Peggy
1910-08-24
Wilful Peggy
Overview: Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-24
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The Oath and the Man
1910-09-21
The Oath and the Man
Overview: A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-21
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Fate's Turning
1911-01-22
Fate's Turning
Overview: A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-22
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The Follies Girl
1919-04-27
The Follies Girl
Overview: The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodruff's wealth. Since Woodruff continually calls for an imagined granddaughter, the child of his daughter who died before they could patch up a quarrel which estranged them, Nina gets Doll, a Follies girl, to impersonate the granddaughter, try to endear herself to Woodruff, and thus inherit the money. Doll would then be paid off and the relatives would get the inheritance. When Doll's administrations cause Woodruff to recover, Nina sends for Woodruff's grandson Ned, whom he disowned for marrying beneath him, hoping that Ned will send Doll away. When Ned seems to fall in love with Doll, Nina tells Woodruff that Ned and Doll are secretly meeting in the estate lodge. Woodruff investigates and finds that Doll and Ned are married and have a baby boy. Delighted, Woodruff forgives Ned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-27
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Prudence on Broadway
1919-07-06
Prudence on Broadway
Overview: Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-06
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Brothers
1930-10-19
Brothers
Overview: Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character. Eddie is a pianist in a speak-easy but a man of high character. Bob commits a murder and Eddie is blamed and faces life in prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-19
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The End of the World
1925-04-01
The End of the World
Overview: Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who is regarded as a "queer one," tell Jack that the world will end on September 1st, and gives him his savings to spend during the few remaining weeks. As a result, Jack becomes a king of power, and becomes engaged to Curt Horndyke's daughter, although he loves Mary Ellen, Abner's granddaughter. Then comes the climax - the end of the world - which, with its dénouement, makes one of the most fascinating endings ever screened.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-01
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The End of the World
The End of the World
Overview: A lost silent film from 1922. Plot unknown.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
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Winds of the Pampas
1927-10-01
Winds of the Pampas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Heart of a Bandit
1915-02-22
The Heart of a Bandit
Overview: With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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