Edward Dillon
Also Known As: Eddie Dillon , Ed Dillon
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1878
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 11, 1933
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The Power of the Camera
Overview: Two convicts escape from the city jail and manage to elude their pursuers for quite a while, by contriving a fake motion picture machine and posing as picture producers. But, like many of us, they become over-confident and are finally apprehended by the guard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-17
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Help! Help!
Overview: A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-10
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
Overview: Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he meets Dolly that he wants to win her for himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-20
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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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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 Would-Be Shriner
Overview: Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends, practical jokers, who make him believe that they can effect his participating in the grand pageant. He telephones his wife to be on the grandstand to see him march by. Mrs. Hopkins receives a great disappointment, but it is slight to what Hank receives when he attempts to get into line.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-25
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The Nihilists
Overview: A happy Russian family is broken up when their patriarch is arrested for treason. His distraught wife joins the secret society of nihilists and is assigned to commit an act of terror. Based on the play "Vera; or, The Nihilists" by Oscar Wilde.
Genres: Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1905-03-27
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When Knights Were Bold
Overview: Two noblemen fight over a lady.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-05-20
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The Suicide Club
Overview: One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presumed to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-03
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Love in an Apartment Hotel
Overview: In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment. He was her ideal, and the all-adoring bell-boy was firmly but gently given to understand that maids who read "Heliotrope Glendening's Advice to Young Ladies" look higher than ice-water toters. A compromising complication, however, with an unexpected visit from a beautiful lady, quite convinces the aspiring one that wealthy young bachelors may be the grandest men ever, but their aspirations, when it comes to the crucial test, are not for chambermaids. Science influences his actions so much that he gets into trouble with the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-27
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Red Hicks Defies the World
Overview: Hard as nails and as strong winded as a gale in March, Red Hicks may have been a bit "chesty," but he was in perfect trim. The town depended on the champion, O'Shea, the fighting Irishman, to make soft putty of the world famous pugilist, but on the day of the fight there was no O'Shea. The supposition was he did not have the price: and other domestic difficulties interfered. O'Shea's trainer, however, solved the problem and Bed Hicks found his Waterloo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-09
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Fighting Blood
Overview: After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a band of Indians attacking a neighboring homestead, and he races back to warn his family as the Indians chase him.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-28
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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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Mixed Babies
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-12
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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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With a Kodak
Overview: Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking for Hobbs' secretary. Both are fired for an offense of which they are quite innocent, and while strolling in the park taking pictures with a Kodak, they hit upon a scheme which secures for them a reinstatement in their former positions, but not for long.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-25
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Pa Says
Overview: First Pa said Theodore was a lizzy-nizzy. He let that go, but when Pa said he was too sporty because he spent a nickel for a ticket for a voting contest for the fairest girl in town, Pa's daughter, of course, then Theodore decided to settle Pa. He played at being a lady. Then Pa said he might not be as young as he used to be, but Ma came along. So Pa said all on the sly, "Go to it, Theodore."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-21
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The Fugitive
Overview: Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective sides, the Union soldier shoots the Confederate, but he has to escape and look for refuge in the house of his enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-07
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When a Man Loves
Overview: Mr. Bach, a wealthy man, visits the scenes of his boyhood days in his auto and meets farmer Brown, his boyhood friend. Brown is the father of a very pretty daughter named Tessie. Bach becomes deeply smitten with the artless little country lass, and secretly hopes to win her. Tessie, however, has a host of admirers in the little village, the favored one being John Watson.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-05
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The Villain Foiled
Overview: A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-30
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An Interrupted Elopement
Overview: This is quite like "Helen's Marriage" which came out a few months earlier in 1912. Once again, Edward Dillon is trying to elope with Mabel Normand, but papa interferes. The big joke is when Ford Sterling and Elmer Booth kidnap the minister in order to marry Dillon and Normand. They mistakingly get Papa instead. It is the one strong gag in the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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The Black Viper
Overview: A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnapping the rescuer. The girl runs home and gets help from several neighbors. They track the ruffians down to a cabin in the mountains where the gang has trapped their victim and set the cabin on fire.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-21
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The Sculptor's Nightmare
Overview: At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There he has a nightmare, wherein three busts are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-05-06
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A Voice from the Deep
Overview: Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-21
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Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Overview: A scrappy lad from the skids attempts to court a well-to-do maiden. During his visits to her family estate, he upsets the Uplift committee that's weaseled their way into the home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-30
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The Lady in Black
Overview: Behold in this film the villain up to his dirty work again, but if you watch the persistent young hero carefully, you will see him gallantly rescue the lady in black about to be burned at the stake, while at the same time he saved the fair heroine from the mad ambition of her father about to marry her to the dastardly ex-governor of Utah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-11
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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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Almost a Wild Man
Overview: Rooly, Pooly and Dooly were "picture sandwiches," but hardly shining lights, even in that capacity. Consequently they were "canned" by the management. A brilliant idea; one would play the wild man in the village square, a real live show of their own. Rooly and Pooly then basked in the society of fair country belles, but Dooly at length was rescued by Miss Smart, looking for excitement. She was not disappointed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-19
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The Tragedy of a Dress Suit
Overview: A Mack Sennett comedy short starring Dell Henderson & Mabel Normand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-14
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The Nickel Nurser
Overview: Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-12
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The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled
Overview: As a newsboy is playing a game on the sidewalk with a friend, two men come near to them, and then stand in a position where they cannot be seen from the sidewalk. When an attractive woman walks past them, the two men follow her. Sensing that they have bad intentions, the newsboy follows them to see what they are up to. When his suspicions are confirmed, he tries to come up with a plan to protect the woman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-03-11
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While Paris Sleeps
Overview: To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-08
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Let's Do Things
Overview: Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-06
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Catch-As Catch-Can
Overview: Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-22
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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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Lilac Time
Overview: In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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Only a Messenger Boy
Overview: Keystone silent comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-23
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The Lesson
Overview: Short drama about the commandment "honour your father and your mother".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-19
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Getting Rid of Trouble
Overview: The Newlyweds move into their new flat and prepare to entertain their uncle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-05
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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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For His Son
Overview: A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-21
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The Speed Demon
Overview: An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-14
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Thompson's Night Out
Overview: William Thompson and John Smith occupied offices in the same New York skyscraper, and both being seized with an irrepressible desire to cut loose and paint things crimson, arranged it as follows in this Biograph picture. Thompson sent a message to his wife that his friend Smith was ill, and it was his duty to perform that spiritual work of mercy, "comfort the afflicted," hence he would not have her wait up for him as he might be late. Smith did likewise, using Thompson as the object of his humane consideration. This done, they start off to make a night of it. First they visit the gilded throne room of a temple of Bacchus, where they moisten their parched spirits with dry Martinis. They are soon in a most glorious condition. Smith suggests the show where "Amateur Night" is on. - Written by Moving Picture World synopsis
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-05-26
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Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a charity worker in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-03-28
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The Kentuckian
Overview: Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-07
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Deceived Slumming Party
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-31
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The Man in the Box
Overview: A poorly compensated bank clerk is, we may say, to that trying position of "Tantalus" in sight of tons of money but not a dollar of his own. This became more torturing as time went on, until at last, when the bank was arranging to ship a large quantity of cash to the West to relieve the recent money stringency, he made up his mind to heed the solicitude of that specter which had haunted him. Listening to the instructions given to the bank's messenger as to the shipment of the funds, he hustles off to a gang of crooks in whose company he had fallen.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-19
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The Invisible Fluid
Overview: Had the poor melancholy Dane, Hamlet, lived in this, the twentieth century, he would never have given voice to the remark, "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" No indeed! He would have procured some of the mysterious fluid compounded by an erudite scientist by which things animate and inanimate were rendered non est, for ten minutes at least, by simply spraying them with it. In an atomizer, he sends a quantity, accompanied by a letter, to his brother. In the hope of his putting it on the market. The brother regards it as a joke, and, while toying with the atomizer, accidentally sprays himself. Presto! he is gone, to the amazement of the messenger boy who has carried the package thither. The boy reads the letter, and at once sees the amount of fun he can get out of it, so he nips it.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-16
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Over the Hills to the Poor House
Overview: The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-06-26
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Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-04
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The Stage Rustler
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in a bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-10
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Where the Breakers Roar
Overview: A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent seaside fun becomes a struggle against a maniac on the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-22
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After Many Years
Overview: A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-03
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An Indian's Loyalty
Overview: Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-15
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Overview: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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The Welcome Burglar
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-25
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Love Pains
Overview: Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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Fifty Million Husbands
Overview: An estranged couple visit their old apartment, which is now occupied by Charley and his wife. Charley's wife, however, misunderstands the purpose of their visit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-23
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Iron Man
Overview: Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-29
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Oh, Sammy!
Overview: Romance blooms between two Jewish employees in a sweatshop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-15
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Thundering Tenors
Overview: Charley is invited to a high class party, where he feels ill at ease and has no idea how to act, yet he wants to impress his young lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-07
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Home, Sweet Home
Overview: John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-16
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Classmates
Overview: Two students at college were friends until a girl appeared and by the workings of fate was beloved by both. The girl has given her heart to one of the classmates, unknown to the other. The youth confesses his love, and is plunged into despair when told that her heart is another's. Coldly the classmates part, when the next day they start on their divergent paths of life. Years later, they meet again and while the trio enjoy a pleasant chat, a message calls the husband away, leaving his wife to entertain. The chum takes advantage of his absence to renew his protestations of love, which are spurned by the wife, who attempts to avoid him. He follows, whereupon the wife sends him reeling down the stairs, just as the husband reenters. The woman's denunciation of the friend brings about a terrific combat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-02-01
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The Little Teacher
Overview: A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes interested in him. Soon she learns that he has a wife. Dave, an older pupil, offers the teacher solace and it becomes apparent that he is smitten with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-11
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Josh's Suicide
Overview: Josh doesn't like the way things go at home and decides to quit and get out. Later, his wife gets what purports to be his farewell letter, which is intended to lead her to believe he has committed suicide. He, however, goes to New York to have a good time, and he does, "by gosh." The wife, believing herself a widow, makes a trip to New York with her admirer. Well, you may guess the rest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-12
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The Making of a Man
Overview: A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-04
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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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Enoch Arden
Overview: Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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Enoch Arden
Overview: Moving Picture World described the film: "There is a small need to describe this subject as the poem of Lord Tennyson is so well known, so suffice it to say that this Biograph subject is an unusually faithful portrayal of that beautiful romance of Enoch Arden, Annie Lee and Philip Ray, taken in scenes of rare beauty".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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The Sorrows of the Unfaithful
Overview: In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts. Ten years roll by, and the boy, now a young man, gives the girl a ring and they now renew their vows. They are both very happy until fate interferes. Bill, while strolling on the shore, espies a raft with an object on it that looks like a human being, far out at sea. He swims to the raft and finds an exhausted fisherman lying prone upon it. Pushing the raft to the shore, he, with the aid of others, revives the stranger. Joe is the stranger's name and he and Bill become staunch friends. Mary becomes smitten with Joe and cruelly casts Bill aside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-22
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A Lucky Toothache
Overview: Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of candy and other little offerings. Not long after the girl is seized with a jumping toothache. Each boy suggests a cure, but without success. Tom, however, now appears and offers a cure. He leaves her a note stating if she will submit to his treatment he will guarantee to cure her toothache. She is in such agony that she is inclined to submit to anything, and so, though not knowing what the cure may be, consents. After great preliminaries Tom administers a resounding kiss upon her cheek..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-13
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White Roses
Overview: Harry loved Betty, and vice versa, but Harry was very shy. No matter how he tried, he never could muster up sufficient courage to propose, despite the fact that Betty always endeavored to help him out. An idea! He writes his proposal, and invents a sentimental code of signals. The letter reads: "If you will accept me, wear red roses; if you are in doubt, the pink. If you do not love me and reject me, wear the white."
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-22
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Won by a Fish
Overview: Papa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his daughter's sweetheart, who tease him about it. The next day he starts out with the hope of better luck, and the young couple sees a chance of getting back at him. Their scheme succeeds to such an extent, that Papa is forced to accept Harry as his future son-in-law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-22
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Sunshine Sue
Overview: A country girl follows a city suitor, but is left alone and must fend for herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-14
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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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The Little Tease
Overview: The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. But that was before the man from the valley lost his way and later found it back again, bearing away the little tease to the valley. While she suffered the qualms of broken faith, her father passed through a like struggle, for he felt the precepts of the "beloved book" had failed him. He closed the door of his cabin upon the world and the light from his window, lighting the wayfarer over the mountain path, disappeared. The struggle over, it came hack in its place in time to beckon the little tease as she left the valley behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-12
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The Lonedale Operator
Overview: A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.
Genres: Thriller Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-23
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His Sister-In-Law
Overview: Eva and Blanche are inseparable sisters living with a maiden aunt. But Eva marries a suitor named John, to Blanche’s great dismay, and starts married life in a nearby apartment. Blanche lives with the newlyweds for a while, but her constant presence soon irritates the bridegroom. Feeling unwanted, Blanche returns to her aunt’s home despite Eva’s entreaties. Later, when Eva gives birth to a child, the sisters are reconciled.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-15
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Falsely Accused!
Overview: A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography, and our story opens with the old man in his library studying out the plans of his invention. A telegram calls him hurriedly away. He replaces the papers in his safe, but, in his haste, neglects to lock it, which oversight is pardonable, as his wife and daughter are in the room at the time. The daughter's hand is sought in marriage by a worthy young man, whose attentions are looked upon with favor by herself and her parents. But he has a rival in the person of a contemptible villain, whose motives are purely mercenary, reasoning that this new invention will greatly enhance the father's already ample wealth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-01-18
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The Broadway Melody
Overview: The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-08
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The Two O'Clock Train
Overview: short subject comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-28
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Curiosity
Overview: An old fellow has been ordered by the doctor to take a powder in a glass of spring water. He puts the powder in the glass and then starts off for the spring a few blocks distant. By the time he arrives at the spring he is followed by a crowd of "rubber necks" who expect that some desperate deed is about to be perpetrated.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-01
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At the Crossroads of Life
Overview: At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man of the cloth who has no time for those in the acting profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-02
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The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter
Overview: In the lonely wilds of Southern California there stands a rural tavern, kept by an old trapper, who had been widowed years ago; his wife leaving him a most precious legacy in the being of a pretty daughter.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-24
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What Is the Use of Repining?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-30
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Hot Stuff
Overview: Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-21
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The Engagement Ring
Overview: Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on installments. He has trouble making the payments, but then he's injured in an auto accident and the settlement allows him to pay off the ring and propose to Alice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-10
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Why He Gave Up
Overview: Hubby is anxious to get away for a little time at the beach with the boys, and works up a quarrel with wifey over a new hat, the bill for which he is asked to pay. Making this excuse, he goes off with his chums. The wife is an expert swimmer and diver and is invited to attend a meet of the ladies' swimming club, of which she was formerly a member. Her husband's treatment induces her to accept the invitation. The affair takes place at the very beach to which the husband hied himself. One may imagine that hubby has not only plunged into the cooling waters of the surf, but into domestic hot water as well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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Mr. Grouch at the Seashore
Overview: This ill-tempered gentleman accompanies his wife to the seashore, but being so insanely jealous of her makes the stay there rather unpleasant. First of all, he refuses to go bathing in the surf with her, and she, despite his command not to, goes in alone. Towering with rage at his wile's defiance, he gets himself into several embarrassing positions. In fact he makes a fool of himself generally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-26
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That Chink at Golden Gulch
Overview: In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit become rivals for the girl’s affections. Suspicious of the bandit, Charlie follows him, observes him robbing a mail-carrier, and contrives to capture him, cutting off his pigtail to bind the bandit. Rewarded for the bandit’s capture, but disgraced in his own eyes for dishonouring his family, Charlie gives the cash reward to the young couple and surreptitiously leaves Golden Gulch.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-10
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The Fight for Freedom
Overview: In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro's quick temper and pistol. Pedro's wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-17
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The Miser's Heart
Overview: Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-20
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Sob Sister
Overview: Jane Ray, a very clever reporter of crimes of passion, or "sob sister," for a New York tabloid, begins to feel depressed by the sordidness of her latest assignment, the investigation of a young woman's murder by her husband. Despite her growing distaste for her profession, Jane gets her story and, with typical ingenuity, frustrates her competitors' attempts to follow her lead.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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Bobby's Kodak
Overview: A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father spanks him and smashes the camera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-02-10
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The Locked Door
Overview: On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-16
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Bill and Ethel at the Ball
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-20
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The Message of the Violin
Overview: A girl's family suddenly becomes rich and rejects her long-time sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-24
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The Princess in the Vase
Overview: In ancient Egypt, a princess is executed after being caught in an affair with a Theban warrior, with her soul sealed inside a vase. Centuries later, a professor in Boston brings the vase to his home, with chaos ensuing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-02-27
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The Root of Evil
Overview: A woman, driven by envy, is convinced that her husband loves another woman, leading her to a vengeful act that ultimately destroys her own happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-18
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A String of Pearls
Overview: A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and instead spends lavishly on a pearl necklace for his wife. The poor man recovers with the help of his community, while the rich wife falls ill and dies, the necklace ultimately proving useless
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-07
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The Voice of the Child
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-28
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The Salvation Army Lass
Overview: A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar. Her faith is real, and strong, and her former love doesn't like this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-11
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The Feud and the Turkey
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-08
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In the Border States
Overview: During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission and must run for his life, pursued by Confederate soldiers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-13
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'Ostler Joe
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-06-09
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The Outlaw
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-06-23
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Caught by Wireless
Overview: Crime drama involving an Irish couple immigrating to America
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-03-21
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