Harry Solter
Also Known As: Harry Lewis Solter, Henry Lewis "Harry" Solter, Henry Lewis Solter
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 17, 1873
Age: 151 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 02, 1920
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The Zulu's Heart
Overview: A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-06
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Richard III
Overview: Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-26
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The Curtain Pole
Overview: An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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What Drink Did
Overview: A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-02
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Money Mad
Overview: The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-04
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The Fatal Hour
Overview: This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.
Genres: Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-18
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The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
Overview: The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses' residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch 'the acting bug' in this split-reel subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-18
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The Violin Maker of Cremona
Overview: A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-07
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The Cricket on the Hearth
Overview: After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-27
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Balked at the Altar
Overview: A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-25
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Betrayed by a Handprint
Overview: Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her fiancé. During the evening bridge participated in by a number of the guests, among whom is Myrtle Vane. Miss Vane is playing in wretched luck, and is advised several times by Mrs. Wharton to desist, but she still plays on in the vain hopes of the tide of fortune turning, until at last, in the extreme of desperation, she stakes her all and loses. Shame and disgrace stare her in the face. What can she do to recoup her depleted fortune? As one of the guests there is Professor Francois Paracelsus, the eminent palmister, who of course, was called upon to read the palms of those present. Sheets of paper were prepared and each imprinted their hand on a sheet to be read by the erudite soothsayer at his leisure, and so were left on the drawing room table.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-01
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The Song of the Shirt
Overview: Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-17
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A Drunkard's Reformation
Overview: A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-01
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King of the Cannibal Islands
Overview: Believed to be the first film to feature cannibals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-04-14
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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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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-10
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An Awful Moment
Overview: After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-18
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The Lure of the Gown
Overview: "Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the sweetheart of Veronica, a street singer. Enrico is so enraptured at the sight of Isabelle in her resplendent attire that he becomes her abject slave, casting aside the poor, peasant-clad little Italian street singer, who has loved him devotedly. Crushed almost beyond endurance the poor girl stands sobbing at the entrance of the park where the inconsistent lever left her. Her tears attract the attention of a wealthy young couple who happen to pass. In answer to their queries she tells them how contemptibly her sweetheart acted, and all because of the fascinating influence of a gown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-15
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The Son's Return
Overview: A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-14
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Girl and the Outlaw
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-08
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The Red Girl
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-15
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The Heart of O Yama
Overview: Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that for her. However, pretty little O Yama Sum had a will of her own, and casting tradition to the winds, insisted upon making her own choice. The Grand Daimio has long loved the pretty O Yama and presents himself before her mother in quest of her hand. His offer is scorned by O Yama, for she loves another, a low-born but worthy warrior.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-18
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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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At the Altar
Overview: At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her suitors was Grigo, a coarse Sicilian, whose advances were odiously repulsive. The arrival at the boarding house from the old country of Giuseppe Cassella, the violinist, filled the void in her yearning heart. Romantic, poetic and a talented musician, Giuseppe was indeed a desirable husband for Minnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-25
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The Devil
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-02
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Father Gets in the Game
Overview: D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-10
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Ingomar, the Barbarian
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a barbarian in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-13
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The Vaquero's Vow
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-16
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-27
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Concealing a Burglar
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-30
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The Guerrilla
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-13
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The Valet's Wife
Overview: Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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The Valet's Wife
Overview: Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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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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The Reckoning
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a lover in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-11
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The Test of Friendship
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-15
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The Christmas Burglars
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-22
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
Overview: Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit pants and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-25
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The Helping Hand
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-29
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One Touch of Nature
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-21
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The Maniac Cook
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-04
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The Honor of Thieves
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-11
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Love Finds a Way
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-11
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A Rural Elopement
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the crowd in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-14
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The Sacrifice
Overview: Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to make on this anniversary of their nativity suitable gifts, each to the other, Hardluck has a watch, but no fob. Mrs. Hardluck has a wealth of hair, but no decorative comb for her hair. What is worse, finances are low, or rather exhausted. An idea strikes Hardluck. He will pawn his watch and buy a comb; thus surprising her. Mrs. Hardluck's mind is also illumined by a bright thought. She will sacrifice her hair, and with the money buy him a fob. This they do, of course, unknown to each other. Well, here's the situation: He had no fob for his watch, and she no comb for her hair; but now he has no watch for his fob, and she has no hair for her comb. Mack Sennett appears as an extra in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-14
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The Criminal Hypnotist
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-18
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Overview: Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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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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The Cord of Life
Overview: Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-28
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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 Slave
Overview: A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-29
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Hulda's Lovers
Overview: Hulda is a maiden fair to look upon. Her artless rustic simplicity, rivaling Hebe's gorgeous radiance, phlogisticates the susceptible hearts of the village swains. But alas, Hulda was a fickle maid, and seemed to have as many phases as the moon, with a smile for all and a frown for none. Her capriciousness was the cause of much unrest, both for herself and her lovers, for when her parents had departed for a visit, leaving her in charge of the kitchen, she received most effusively Jocular Jake, the village cut-up, only to hide him above stairs at the entrance of Previous-Hearted Pat, the hostler, who in turn is hidden in the Dutch oven at the approach of Handy Hank, the chore boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-04-22
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The Bandit’s Waterloo (The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora)
Overview: A gang of lawless freebooters who terrorized the country and made travel in the mountains a hazardous pastime hold up a stylish landau in which are seated an old gentleman, a duenna, and a pretty young Senora. The inevitable happens; all are relieved of their valuables, and while the gentleman and duenna are sent on their way, the girl is held a prisoner.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-04
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A Calamitous Elopement
Overview: A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are leaving, a thief discovers their plans, and he decides to turn the situation to his own advantage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-06
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The Planter's Wife
Overview: John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-20
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The Stolen Jewels
Overview: It would have taken more than the wonderful powers of deduction of a Sherlock Holmes to have dispelled the mystery that shrouded the disappearance of a case of jewels at the home of Robert Jenkins, a wealthy stockbroker, and although they were eventually brought to light, it was through a most remarkable accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-29
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A Woman's Way
Overview: The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purchases her into marriage from her father. The transaction meets with repugnance from the girl. She was entirely contented with conditions, a child of nature, carefree. However, she finds her pleading of no avail, and so pretends to accept the situation. The trapper and Canadian go into the cabin to seal the bargain with a drink, and while inside the girl closes and fastens the door on them and makes her way through the woods to escape.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-24
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The Brahma Diamond
Overview: An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and imprisoned, while he prepares to sell the diamond and make his getaway.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-04
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The Deception
Overview: A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without telling him the truth. When he discovers her lie, he is determined to leave her, until she is injured and he understands the sacrifice she made for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-22
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The Prussian Spy
Overview: Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-01
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The Roue’s Heart
Overview: Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture and places it on sale. The roué is so impressed with the work and the girl that he purchases it at once and follows her to the atelier, where he learns that she is the maid of the sculptress, whom he sees and at once falls passionately in love with her, but when he learns that she is totally blind, his feelings change to one of deepest pity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-08
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The Winning Coat
Overview: A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers show up, then he exposes the kidnapping plot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-12
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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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A Burglar’s Mistake
Overview: Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of the blackmailer's threat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-25
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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 Hindoo Dagger
Overview: Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the dagger on the wall. Jack goes out. For some time Jack has discerned a coolness in his wife, and his jealous misgivings were verified when he returned and found her in company with a stranger. Seizing the dagger from the wall he chases the recreant lover from the house and then follows the wife to the bathroom, wither she has flown in terror. Mercilessly he plunges the dagger and flies the place. The lover in hiding sees him leave and returns, and calling aid succeeds in reviving the wife, who afterwards with careful treatment recovers and marries her paramour. However, either from the baneful influence of this diabolical dagger, or the woman's capricious nature, just one year later the second husband enacts the same scene, but with fatal results.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-18
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The Renunciation
Overview: Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-19
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They Would Elope
Overview: Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-09
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The Man and the Woman
Overview: John and Tom Wilkins are brothers and most divergent in natures. John is a clergyman and a noble, upright fellow, while Tom is a scapegrace, wild, reckless and unscrupulous. Not having the parental guidance so essential in youth, his father being dead and his mother blind, he drifted into bad company, the contaminating influence deeply affecting his susceptible nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-14
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For Love of Gold
Overview: It is often said there is honor among thieves, but not so, as we shall see in this story. Two denizens of the underworld are seen in their squalid furnished room planning a robbery. Their intended victim is known to hold at all times in his safe at home a large sum of money and a wealth of jewels. Gathering together the tools of their nefarious calling, they start off, arriving at the house shortly after the master had retired for the night.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-21
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For a Wife's Honor
Overview: Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he is about to leave, Henderson, the manager, calls to pay a sum due him for royalties. At the same time, Frank Wilson, a friend of the family, drops in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-28
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A Smoked Husband
Overview: After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-25
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Her First Biscuits
Overview: A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Overview: A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-12
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The Restoration
Overview: A husband suspects his wife of an affair. The wife's cousin borrows a shawl to meet her lover in the garden. The husband spies the couple embracing, and, thinking it's his wife, he strikes the lover. The thought that he has killed a man temporarily unhinges the husband's mind until he can be convinced that the lover is still alive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-08
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The Girls and Daddy
Overview: Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-01
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A famous escape
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-04-07
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'Ostler Joe
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-06-09
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