Cullen Landis
Also Known As: James Cullen Landis, J. Cullen Landis
Biography: Cullen Landis (July 9, 1896 – August 26, 1975) was an American motion picture actor and director whose career began in the early ears of the silent film era. James Cullen Landis was the middle of three siblings (two sons and a daughter) raised by Lulan and Margaret (née Cullen) Landis in Nashville, Tennessee, where his father supported his family as a stock broker. As a boy, James was a train enthusiast and dreamed to be an railroad engineer. Though the ambition eventually faded, his interest in railroads did not, and some years later he helped design for himself a model train set powered by steam. He began working in the fledgling film industry at age 18 around the time his older sister, Margaret Landis, appeared in her first film. In 1928 Cullen Landis starred in the first ‘all talking’ motion picture, Lights of New York. He once confided in a friend that talkies were perfect for musicals and that he was no "song and dance man". He left Hollywood for Detroit in 1930 to produce and direct industrial films for automobile companies. Landis began as a movie director, only turning to acting after his lead player broke a leg and it was discovered that the actor’s costumes fit him. He went on to become one of the more popular lead actors of the silent era, appearing in some one hundred films over 14 years. During World War II, he served as a captain with US Army Signal Corps producing training films in the South Pacific. By war’s end he was twice decorated and promoted to major. In the post war years he made documentaries for the US State Department that took him to the far corners of the world. James Cullen Landis died on August 28, 1975, aged 79, at a nursing home in Bloomfield, Michigan, three months after the death of his wife, Jane. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: July 09, 1896
Deathday: August 26, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Convict's Code
Overview: Just before the scheduled electrocution of stockbroker Kenneth Avery for the murder of Mazie Lawrence, Nan Perry makes one last plea to the governor for a stay of execution and relates the incidents that led to Mazie's death. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-01
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Wasted Lives
Overview: After the death of her brother, "Tommy" Carlton makes the acquaintance of a neighbor, Harold Graypon, who invites her to a party. Tommy, who is a bit of a hoyden, attends the party in overalls and shocks the guests. Tommy is later ejected from her home and takes refuge in a shack in the mountains, where she makes rustic furniture for a living. Despite the interference of Grace, Tommy and Harold finds happiness with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-07
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Gay and Devilish
Overview: Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-14
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The Little Wild Girl
Overview: Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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Bunty Pulls the Strings
Overview: A woman named Bunty Bigger struggles to keep her family in line in a small Scottish village. For one, her brother Jeemy faces jail time for robbing a bank. Meanwhile, her father, Tammas, pays back the stolen money with funds given him by Susie Simpson, a woman who hopes to marry him. Susie gets angry, so Bunty borrows money to pay her back. Things turn out well when Bunty gets married in a double-wedding ceremony—during which her father not only gives her away but gets married himself. The movie is based on a play by Graham Moffat. The film is lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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Two to One
Overview: A two-reel version of 1925's Pampered Youth. Included on Criterion's Blu-ray release of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-31
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One Law for the Woman
Overview: A naive youngster is sold a phony mine.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Over the Garden Wall
Overview: Mary's sweetheart, Jack, is in the village jail for speeding, and Mary's dad, who didn't like Jack, saw that he was kept there. Mary captured two burglars and forced them to liberate Jack and put dad in jail. They then proceed to smoke out father with a smudge-pot until he consents to the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-07
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Life in Hollywood No. 5
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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With Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo
Overview: Focuses on Davy Crockett before & during his time at the Alamo as one of the defenders, and ultimately, one of those who gave their lives.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-01
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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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Born Rich
Overview: When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds out about her husband's affair. In order to make him jealous, she leads him to believe she has fallen for a jazz musician. However, instead of making him jealous it drives him into depression and he takes refuge in booze and even more affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-07
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Crashin' Thru
Overview: Gracia, a half-breed Indian girl, plots with Cons Saunders to steal cattle from Blake because he is oblivious to her charms. With his stock gone, he cannot repay the money he owes his Uncle Benedict, and when Benedict is murdered, Blake is suspected. Because Blake has taken care of Saunders (Cons's father) for the many years he has been without the use of his legs, the latter is finally conscience-stricken and confesses to the crime, thus freeing Blake to marry Diana.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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Lights of New York
Overview: Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-18
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Snowblind
Overview: Hugh Garth hides from the law in the frozen Canadian northwest along with his young brother Pete and Pete's former nurse, Bella, who loves Hugh unrequitedly. When a lost and snowblind girl stumbles into their camp, Hugh falls in love with her and misleads her as to the age and relationship of Pete and Bella, in hopes of keeping the girl's attentions directed at himself. But when the girl's sight returns, she realizes the truth and discovers that Pete has fallen in love with her. But Hugh's cruel nature now threatens them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-22
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The Old Nest
Overview: A mother raises her six children and one by one lets them go out into the world. Their failures and successes fill her life, but she grows lonely without them. Then when one of the children has a surprise to announce, they all return home to be with their mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-28
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The Midnight Alarm
Overview: Shortly after being made the executor of a wealthy man's estate, a man murders his benefactor. He then makes a play for the widow, who rebuffs him. To escape his arduous pursuit, she takes her little daughter on a trip but dies in an auto accident. The daughter is rescued but disappears. Her grandparents spend years looking for her, as does the executor who killed her father--if she's found she'll inherit the estate and he won't get a penny. He aims to see that she's never found, and if she is he plans to see that she doesn't live long enough to make a claim to the estate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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Almost a Husband
Overview: A New England schoolteacher arrives in a small Southern town. He becomes the savior of several local people in time of emergency, including a young who is oppressed by the unwelcome romantic intentions of a local ne'er-do-well. The teacher pretends to marry the girl to fool the unwanted suitor, but then finds that the marriage was inadvertently legal....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-11
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Pinto
Overview: When Pinto reaches her eighteenth birthday, the five wealthy Arizonans who adopted her upon the death of her parents decide that ranch life will never make a lady of her. Their old friend Pop Audry, formerly of Arizona and now a member of New York society, agrees to provide Pinto with the necessary education. Accordingly, Pinto and her cowboy nursemaid Looey are dispatched to New York where they lose Audry's address. ...
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-10
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Who Is Number One?
Overview: A silent 15-part movie serial.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-29
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Watch Your Step
Overview: Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-16
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Remembrance
Overview: Although he graduated from that time-worn university, the college of hard knocks, the tireless efforts of John P. Grout have paid off. He owns a number of department stores and his wife and children are well provided for. However, his family is completely ungrateful and takes him -- and his money -- for granted. Grout's attempts to keep them all happy are driving him to bankruptcy and he eventually becomes seriously ill. Eventually his wife and kids come to realize how badly they've treated Pops.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-01
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Sunny Jane
Overview: Tomboy Jane Dwight’s father strikes oil on their farm and becomes smitten with young millionaire James Thornton when he comes to purchase the land. She heads off to a posh boarding school, returning a year later with fancy airs thinking it will impress James, but he preferred the original Jane. Will she realize in time to keep his interest?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-26
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Upstairs
Overview: While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a boy's uniform, wealthy Lemuel Stallings wagers a friend that he can get Elsie onto the dance floor....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-03
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The Famous Mrs. Fair
Overview: A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-19
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Soul of the Beast
Overview: This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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Somebody's Widow
Overview: A comedy in which the widow Mary makes a bet with her friends that she can win over a writer named Jack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-29
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Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
Overview: Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a millionaire, he returns home and robs his former employer, then returns to Veronica and begins a career of reckless spending. When he is unable to pay for a diamond necklace, Garry is threatened with arrest and is betrayed by Veronica.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-05
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The Broken Mask
Overview: Pertio, an Argentine dancer, has a severely scarred face that has kept him from succeeding in his chosen career. He is persuaded by Caricia, an Argentine dancer who has become a star, to have a plastic surgeon repair his face. The surgery is successful and the two dancers team up both professionally and personally. However, the doctor who performed the operation has fallen madly in love with Caricia, and his determination to have her leads him to perform a procedure on Pertio that makes his scars reappear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Her Rustic Romeo
Overview: A Billie Rhodes comedy produced by Strand. Billy Bevan plays the farmer's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-28
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The Dixie Flyer
Overview: The railroad is building a new line, but the workers are unhappy. That's because one of the board members, hoping to oust the man in charge of the project (Rapley), has a saboteur on site. Rapley's daughter, Rose, sneaks out to the project to become their telegraph operator and, with the help of the supervisor, "Sunrise" Smith, eventually discovers the plot and helps catch the bad guys amid several thrilling train chases.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-29
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My Old Dutch
Overview: The story that inspired Albert Chevalier to write his immortal Costermonger song, 'My Old Dutch', is the story this picture tells of London's quaint and sturdy tradesmen - her humble vegetable peddlers
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-23
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With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail
Overview: When Buffalo Bill Cody learns that the Union Pacific railroad is making its way through Kansas, he and other heroes of the Wild West join forces to build a town along the route.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Christine of the Big Tops
Overview: When her circus-performer parents die in an accident, Christine (Pauline Garon) is raised by other circus-performers, including Hagan, a balloon-vender, and Pete Barman as her guardians. When she grows up, she asks to also become a performer, and Barman agrees. Bob Hastings (Cullen Landis) joins the traveling circus as its doctor, and he and Christine fall in love. This angers Barman, who is also in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-08-20
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Voices of the City
Overview: Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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The Ace of Hearts
Overview: A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-17
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A Girl of the Limberlost
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Girl of the Limberlost is a 1924 American silent film, produced by Gene Stratton-Porter and directed by James Leo Meehan. It stars Gloria Grey, Emily Fitzroy, and Arthur Currier, and was released on April 28, 1924. The first adaptation of Stratton-Porter's famous novel, this silent film is considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-28
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The Fighting Coward
Overview: Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men kill over issues of honor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-14
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The Man Life Passed By
Overview: Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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Peacock Feathers
Overview: Jerry Chandler falls for the lovely Mimi Le Brun and she with him. He proposes marriage but Mimi wants money and security which he cannot provide so she becomes engaged to a wealthy man whom she does not love. When Jerry’s uncle dies leaving him a ranch and what is said to be a castle Mimi changes her tune and the pair elope. Disillusionment comes though when they see the shack that was called a castle, but Mimi accepts the situation until the rejected wealthy man appears on the scene. Conflicts arise until an accident befalls Jerry and Mimi realizes her true feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-18
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: The owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love with her, but he must decide whether to let her go to his best friend, with whom he believes her to be in love, or to try to win her for himself.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-29
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Pampered Youth
Overview: An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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Cupid In Quarantine
Overview: Eleanor Field and Cullen Landis are in love, but her father, Billy Bevan, objects because.... hey this is a one-reel comedy and we don't have time for things like that. After he sneaks past Bevan, the young couple decide to force the issue. The pastor next door has small pox, so they paint marks on each other's face. Bevan catches on and with the aid of a cooperative beat officer, he does his best to scare them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-10
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We're All Gamblers
Overview: The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney Howard, the story concerns a refugee of the Lower East Side who rises to the uppermost rungs of the nightclub world, all for the sake of a "dame." Boxer Sam McCarver (Meighan) falls in love with society girl Carlotta Asche (Mariette Mische).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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On to Reno
Overview: This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over money matters. A stenographer, Vera, overheats her bosses’ client say she cannot stay in Reno the necessary three months to get a divorce, offering $1,000 to the one who will impersonate her there. Vera takes the job - but the woman’s husband, not knowing, also comes...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Where the West Begins
Overview: William Russell plays Cliff Redfern, a hard-ridin' Westerner who takes a liking to Easterner Ned Caldwell (Cullen Landis), the dissolute son of a wealthy cattle rancher. Certain that all Caldwell needs to become a "real man" is a dose of frontier life, Cliff kidnaps Ned and brings him back to the wide open spaces.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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The Devil's Skipper
Overview: The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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A Broadway Butterfly
Overview: Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets up with Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene for his own--and he doesn't much care how he does it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-29
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The Fighting Failure
Overview: Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-02
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Frenzied Flames
Overview: Cullen Landis stars as rookie fireman Danny Grogan. Though well-liked by his colleagues, Danny is openly despised by one of the smoke-eaters, who has a yen for our hero's sweetheart.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-01
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
Overview: This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-16
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The Fog
Overview: Silent World War I (WWI) romantic melodrama (based on the novel by William Dudley Pelly) .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-18
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Pioneer Trails
Overview: Jack is orphaned as a young child when his wagon train is ambushed by Indians. Twenty years later, he rescues Rose from a runaway stagecoach. The two fall in love, much to the displeasure of Blaney. To put him out of the way, Blaney kills Jack's adoptive mother and frames Jack for the crime.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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Cheap Kisses
Overview: Refusing to join his family in their new social life when Henry Dillingham suddenly becomes wealthy, Donald Dillingham causes even greater disapproval by marrying chorus girl Ardell Kendall. Learning that famous sculptor Gustaf Borgstrom wishes to use Ardell as model, the Dillinghams suddenly welcome Donald and Ardell to their estate. Donald surrenders to both the jazzy pleasures and the attentions of Maybelle Wescott, but Ardell remains aloof and in order to pay off Maybelle threatens Mr. Dillingham with exposure of his infatuation with a chorus girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-21
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It's a Great Life
Overview: At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-29
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Forsaking All Others
Overview: Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some near-disastrous situations with Enid's suspicious husband, Penelope comes to Oliver's rescue at Mrs. Newell's request.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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Jinx
Overview: The circus comes to town, and the town's orphans are treated to a day at the circus. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she has to run away. She mingles with the orphans and runs away to join an orphanage.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-13
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Love in the Dark
Overview: "I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an accident at a young age. The journey into complete blindness was a torment to him. Yet, he doesn't want his struggle and vulnerability to be seen. It is not until he meets Iris that light seems to come into his sight again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-20
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