Clifford Bruce
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: January 01, 1885
Deathday: August 27, 1919
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Devil's Daughter
Overview: "My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on Grabriele D'Annunzio's 1898 story La Gioconda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-16
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Lady Audley's Secret
Overview: Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-04
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A Fool There Was
Overview: John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him. On the ship to England, Schuyler meets the notorious Vampire - a relentless gold digger who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then draining the very life from her victims.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-12
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The Siren
Overview: After being unfaithful to "The Stranger", who committed a murder on her account, Cherry Millard, known as "The Siren", leaves to work in a dance hall in the Western town of Nugget. When Burt Hall arrives in town to deliver a will to the heirs of Bruce McClade, he is captivated by Cherry, who learns of Burt's mission. Discovering that the will dictates that Dr. Langdon, a friend of the family, is to receive $25,000, Cherry decides to impersonate Langdon's daughter Rose and thus gain possession of the money. In the meantime, The Stranger, who has been freed from jail, returns, recognizes Cherry as The Siren and kills her. This frees Burt from her evil spell, and The Stranger, now insane, follows The Siren's spirit into the desert.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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The Marriage Trap
Overview: The Marriage Trap is a 1918 silent film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Weakness of Strength
Overview: Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-20
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Blue Jeans
Overview: June, a young orphan, is befriended by Perry Bascom when he shares his lunch with her on the road to Rising Sun. They soon fall in love and marry, only to find out that a woman in Perry's past has come to town to make trouble. Teaming up with the local political bully, the schemers set out to make Perry's life miserable, but June sticks by her husband to the end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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Seven Deadly Sins: Passion
Overview: One in a series of seven films with the subject of the Seven Deadly Sins. The film makers decided not to use the title "Lust"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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The Perils of Pauline
Overview: The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her character more resourceful and less helpless than the classic 'damsel' stereotype. Nine episodes (from a condensed 1916 re-release) survive to this day.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-31
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The Racing Strain
Overview: Lucille Cameron, the spirited daughter of a Kentucky colonel, discovers that her father is nearly bankrupt as a result of his dealings with New York horseman and stock promoter Jim De Luce....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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Breakers Ahead
Overview: After young Ruth Bowman's mother dies, the child is raised by Agatha Pixley, and in time, the girl falls in love with Agatha's son, Eric. While Eric is at sea with Captain Scudder on a boat owned by Jim and Hiram Hawley, a jealous villager spreads the tale that Ruth is illegitimate, and the townspeople inevitably snub her. Jim Hiram sets his boat on fire after its arrival in port so that he can collect insurance money, and Ruth, believing that Eric is on board, tries to rescue him. When Ruth and Eric escape safely, Captain Scudder reveals that he, Ruth's long-lost father, was legally married to her mother, which re-establishes Ruth's good name and enables her to marry Eric.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-25
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Devil-May-Care
Overview: A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman's bedroom and winds up butler.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-27
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From the Valley of the Missing
Overview: A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of Governor Floyd Vandecarm whose twin children, Floyd Jr. and Fledra, were kidnapped in early infancy. Their abductor was Lon Cronk, a man sent to prison by Vandecar when the latter was a district attorney of the county. The twins grow up in Cronk's shack as "Flea" and "Flukey." Despite her rough surroundings Fledra/Flea grows into lovely young womanhood and she and her brother run away from Cronk's cruelty. They reach Tarrytown and peer into the lighted windows of the home of siblings Horace and Anne Shellington. Anne brings the two young vagrants into the house and ultimately adopts them. But Cronk, aided by Everett, wages a long, evil campaign to regain possession of the children.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-22
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Riders of the Night
Overview: Another of a successful string of Metro features directed by the vastly underrated John H. Collins, Riders of the Night was set in Kentucky hill country. Collins' wifeViola Dana stars as Sally Castleton, a country girl in love with a brooding and idealistic aristocrat. When her sweetheart joins a night-riding vigilante organization, Sally is temporarily dismayed but resolves to hide the man from the authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-15
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When Rome Ruled
Overview: Nydia, an Early Christian girl seemingly singled out for exclusive persecution by the despotic empress of Rome. The empress' ire seems to have been aroused by the fact that her erstwhile sweetheart, handsome centurion Caius (a very young Ernest Truex) is in love with Nydia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-20
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Black Is White
Overview: A man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning anew. Years later, they meet, but the husband does not know it is she. They marry, with the wife hoping that time has changed her husband for the better.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-07
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A Weaver of Dreams
Overview: Unrequited love rules the day as both wealthy Judith Sylvester and her invalid aunt pine for men who got away, but happiness lays ahead for one while hopeful dreams sustain the other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1918-03-02
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The Devil at His Elbow
Overview: Young mechanical engineer John Ashton is trying to complete the plans for a new submarine. Under pressure to meet a deadline he has been leaning on whiskey to handle the stress which his friend Robert Gray warns him against, but to no avail. His fiancée, Grace, telephones wanting him to take a break and attend a dinner party with her. Against his better judgement and still drinking he accepts but nods off while getting ready. What follows are booze infused visions of loss and degradation so horrifying that upon awaking he swears off "the devil at his elbow”!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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The Barricade
Overview: Debutante Hope Merrill (Mabel Taliaferro) returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill (Frank Currier) on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook (Clifford Bruce), Hope's sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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