Bernard Siegel
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Birthday: April 19, 1868
Deathday: July 09, 1940
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928-04-14
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Overview: A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-14
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Thundergate
1923-10-15
Thundergate
Overview: Robert Wells is an American born in China who, unbeknownst to him, has an Oriental half-brother. Wells' uncle sends him to help Ray Williams build bridges in China. Williams is in league with Chinese reactionaries and he discredits Wells by turning him into a drug addict. Wells eventually becomes an outcast and is in a stupor when he is found by his half-brother, Kong Sue, the son of the Lord of Thundergate, a powerful Mandarin reactionary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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Against All Odds
1924-07-27
Against All Odds
Overview: Chick Newton's friend, Bill Warner, is arrested for murdering his uncle. However, Bill has been framed by a blackmailer who has plotted with the uncle to have him disappear in order to avoid creditors and collect insurance. Newton unmasks Tom Curtis as the culprit and rescues Warner from a hanging.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-27
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Guardians of the Wild
1928-09-15
Guardians of the Wild
Overview: A forest ranger comes to the aid of his fiance and her father when a crooked rancher and his gang try to force them off their land.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Blazing Days
1927-03-27
Blazing Days
Overview: While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to that of Dutton, known as "Dude".
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-27
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The Birth of a Soul
1920-01-01
The Birth of a Soul
Overview: Mountain families feud.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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Redskin
1929-09-22
Redskin
Overview: Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-22
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The Fortieth Door
1924-05-25
The Fortieth Door
Overview: Aimee is a young girl betrothed to a rascal, Hamid Bey. An American archeologist, Jack Ryder, arrives to help the girl escape ending up in Bey's harem, but it takes the boy ten episodes to finally succeed.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Drums of the Desert
1927-06-04
Drums of the Desert
Overview: John Curry is a friend of the Navajos who fails in his attempts to keep the white man from exploiting the tribe's secret altars. Realizing that there is oil to be found on the reservation, evil Will Newton gains entry to the area by posing as a trail guide for Elias Manton, an archeologist, and his daughter Mary.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-04
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The Divine Sinner
1928-07-15
The Divine Sinner
Overview: Lillia is a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested by police prefect Nigel De Brulier, Lillia agrees to seduce a politically important foreign prince Ernest Hilliard in exchange for her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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The Ogre and the Girl
1915-12-09
The Ogre and the Girl
Overview: This Ogre was not he of the fairy tales, but a kindly wealthy man of forbidding face to whom those who did not know him gave the name. Tiring of loneliness he decided to marry, and wooed the Girl who lived at the foot of the hill. On account of his great wealth the Girl's parents encouraged his suit, but she shrank from him
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-09
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The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch
1915-10-25
The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch
Overview: A royal princess gives her time to the Red Cross, and works alongside a young American doctor.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-25
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Apartment 29
1917-04-09
Apartment 29
Overview: Drama critic Stanley Ormsby, after giving a new play a negative review finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery involving some of the play’s troupe all occurring around Apartment 29.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Song of the Soul
1918-03-04
The Song of the Soul
Overview: Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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The Far Call
1929-04-28
The Far Call
Overview: A greedy poacher travels to a small island in the Bering sea to rob a seal rookery. There he falls for the governor's daughter who learns that the poacher is the estranged son of a prominent citizen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-28
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Open Range
1927-11-05
Open Range
Overview: Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco. Meanwhile, Indian chief Brave Bear despises the encroachment of white people and conspires with Sam Hardman to steal the town's cattle during a rodeo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-05
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The Wolf
1914-01-01
The Wolf
Overview: Upon his father’s death Jules Beaubien's is left a rich man but also one with a mission. Find his until now unknown half-sister, take her in and educate her. After investigating he discovers she has met a tragic fate after falling for a roue who had abandoned her. Swearing vengeance, he set off in a quest for justice in her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Beau Geste
1926-08-24
Beau Geste
Overview: Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-24
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Shadow of Doubt
1935-02-15
Shadow of Doubt
Overview: When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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The Message of the Mouse
1917-07-02
The Message of the Mouse
Overview: A wealthy financier is tricked by a pair of spies into giving millions to foreign powers. His daughter is suspicious and hires a Detective, who is able to foil the foreign agent's plans. Meanwhile, the daughter has fallen in love with a fellow from the enemy camp, but all ends well as his true identity is revealed as a member of the U.S. secret service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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The Spaniard
1925-05-04
The Spaniard
Overview: In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-04
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The Stolen Treaty
1917-06-16
The Stolen Treaty
Overview: At a reception given for the vacationing Prince Zarl of Zorania, secretly the emissary of Zorania set on negotiating a treaty with the United States, Geoffrey Wynne, apparently a society dandy, but in reality a secret service agent, meets the prince. During the reception, Wynne is summoned to Washington where he learns that the treaty has been stolen and is being held for $15,000,000 ransom. Discovering that one of the thieves is an Italian named Farnelli, Wynne enlists the aid of his fiancée, Irene Mitchell, in apprehending the thief. Irene meets the Italian who offers to accompany her to New York. En route, Wynne overtakes them, chloroforms Farnelli and rips off his disguise to reveal Prince Zarl. Zarl then admits that he has stolen the treaty in order to cover his gambling debts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-16
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Threads of Destiny
1914-10-21
Threads of Destiny
Overview: Ivan Mussak, the head of the Russian secret police, is responsible for the murders of thousands of Jews and the forced exile of thousands more. Isaac Gruenstein and his infant daughter Miriam are the only members of his family to survive one of Mussak's massacres, and Isaac is exiled to Siberia. Miriam, however, becomes Mussak's ward and is raised by nuns in a convent. Eighteen years later Isaac dies in Siberia, but before he does he writes a note to his daughter and gives it to fellow prisoner Rachel Shapiro, who manages to escape and, by chance, finds Miriam. However, circumstances have changed in the past 18 years--and Miriam is now Mussak's mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-21
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
1917-04-09
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Overview: When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-09
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The Rescue
1929-01-12
The Rescue
Overview: The English adventurer Tom Lingard gets involved with islanders on a South Seas island, and he also gets involved with Lady Edith and Mr. Travers, a sailing English couple. Tom has an unexpected love affair with Edith and while they are having this affair, Lady Edith husband's boat is destroyed and he is killed.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-12
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Ebb Tide
1937-11-17
Ebb Tide
Overview: In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are commissioned to sail a Yankee schooner called The Golden State , whose captain and crew have died of smallpox. From Tehua in the South Seas to Australia, they are to deliver a cargo of champagne. Thorbecke decides to head for Peru, however, so he can sell the merchandise and pocket the money. While sailing, Faith Wishart, daughter of the deceased captain, comes out of her hiding place on board and, by briefly holding Thorbecke at gunpoint, demands he make the delivery.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-17
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Wells Fargo
1937-12-31
Wells Fargo
Overview: In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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The Younger Generation
1929-03-04
The Younger Generation
Overview: Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-04
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Broadway Serenade
1939-04-07
Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Arsene Lupin
1917-03-12
Arsene Lupin
Overview: Story of the gentleman thief.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-12
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Beau Ideal
1931-01-25
Beau Ideal
Overview: An American joins the French Foreign Legion in order to rescue a boyhood friend.
Genres: War Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-25
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The Wedding Night
1935-03-08
The Wedding Night
Overview: While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Trilby Frilled
1916-05-29
Trilby Frilled
Overview: Trilby parody with several key characters' names altered. Presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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Wild Horse Mesa
1925-09-13
Wild Horse Mesa
Overview: Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-13
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Confession
1937-08-19
Confession
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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The Next Corner
1924-02-18
The Next Corner
Overview: While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-18
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Going Crooked
1926-12-12
Going Crooked
Overview: A young women is part a jewel theft ring, but opts out of a robbery because guns will be used. A man gets killed in that operation and the district attorney convicts an innocent man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-12
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East of Java
1935-12-01
East of Java
Overview: Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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The Glory of Yolanda
1917-01-20
The Glory of Yolanda
Overview: A Russian peasant girl becomes a member of the Imperial Ballet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-20
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The Phantom of the Opera
1925-09-22
The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-22
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Freedom of the Press
1928-10-28
Freedom of the Press
Overview: When a newspaper owner is murdered, his son takes over his crusade against a corrupt politician with criminal associations.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-28
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Mad Love
1935-07-12
Mad Love
Overview: An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
1930-02-23
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Overview: This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-23
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The Man Who Paid
1922-03-01
The Man Who Paid
Overview: In her first leading role, a very young Norma Shearer played Jeanne, a wild girl of the Canadian Northwest who marries and has a child with a mystery man, Oliver Thornton
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-01
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The Wizard's Apprentice
1930-02-07
The Wizard's Apprentice
Overview: This one has it all, the apprentice, the multiplying brooms, the buckets of water, everything that the Fantasia sequence has.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-07
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
1920-11-01
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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The Heart of Maryland
1921-05-01
The Heart of Maryland
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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The Heart's Tribute
1916-04-20
The Heart's Tribute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-20
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Where Is This West?
1923-09-17
Where Is This West?
Overview: John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take her half of their shared inheritance. Together, Harley and Sallie fight for ownership of the ranch with foreman Buck Osborne and his gang, who, to scare off the new owners, stage fake holdups, Indian battles, and gunfights.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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Unseen Foes
1922-11-01
Unseen Foes
Overview: Nick Carter, called to a prominent New York hotel room by a wealthy mine owner, finds him dead when he arrives. His investigation involves a number of supposed reputable business men, but he solves the mystery and brings all to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-01
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None So Blind
1923-02-19
None So Blind
Overview: Aaron Abrams' daughter Rachel died broken-hearted after her marriage was cruelly annulled by her father-in-law Roger Mortimer, and so years later, his oath of revenge remembered, Abrams has plans to destroy Mortimer's son Russel, unaware and uncaring how the happiness of the people he loves most has became intertwined with the Mortimer family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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