Charles West
Also Known As: Charles H. West
Biography: From Wikipedia Charles West (November 30, 1885 – October 10, 1943) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1908 and 1937. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 29, 1885
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 10, 1943
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For the Son of the House
Overview: In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist the sordid way of poverty and sin. The woman's indulged son, overcome by his weakness and debt, robs his mother. It is then the girl saves the home from disgrace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-20
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A Welcome Intruder
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-24
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The Flash of Fate
Overview: When his father commits suicide after being ruined by dishonest stockbroker Abner Hinman, Randolph Shorb resolves to gain revenge and rebuild his fortune by whatever means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-18
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The White Man's Law
Overview: Japanese leading man Sessue Hayakawa stars as John A. Ghengle, the Oxford-educated son of an Arab chieftain. Entering into a business partnership with Sir Harry Falkland (Jack Holt), a notorious roue, Ghengle relocates to Sierra Leone, where he falls in love with French-Sudanese girl Maida Verne (Florence Vidor.) Upon proposing marriage, Ghengle is turned down and hotly demands to know why.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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What the Daisy Said
Overview: Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the fortune so as to serve his own purposes, complications soon develop.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-11
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The Woman Michael Married
Overview: Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand dollars for lawyers' fees. Since she has no money of her own, the only way she can think of raising the funds is to marry someone wealthy. When she gets the attention of Michael Ordsay (Jack Holt), she quickly asks him to marry her. It seems to be a mismatch, so Mira obtains the needed money from his kindly father (Tom Guise), and heads for Rome, where she undergoes voice training and becomes an operatic star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-27
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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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Polly of the Storm Country
Overview: Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-04
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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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A Temporary Truce
Overview: A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-10
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Go and Get It
Overview: Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-18
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The Switchtower
Overview: "He was a regular boy and his father a switchman. The boy determined to be like his dad and spent his play hours around the switch-tower. Thus at the crucial moment he was able to save his father's honor as a switchman, when the struggle between love and duty came and later to come to the aid of his parents in the hands of the desperate counterfeiters, eventually causing their capture." —Moving Picture World synopsis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-15
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The River's End
Overview: In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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A Terrible Discovery
Overview: A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-21
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The Baby and the Stork
Overview: Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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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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Wife or Country
Overview: Sylvia Hamilton rehabilitates an alcoholic attorney and marries him. When World War I breaks out, she is persuaded to help the German cause and later commits suicide rather than compromise her husbands career.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-29
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The Man Trailer
Overview: When an ex-outlaw becomes Marshall he must face up to his old gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-24
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The Skyrocket
Overview: In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. In the story we see Sharon as a young Hollywood star whose quick rise to fame leaves her self-centered, superficial, and a spendthrift. Ironically, the film that skyrocketed her to fame was written by Mickey. But her success is brief; and when it comes crashing to earth, Mickey is there to pick up the pieces.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-14
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Shackled
Overview: A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in a luxurious apartment and promises to marry her. After his fortune has been squandered, however, he woos and marries wealthy Edith Danfield while her sweetheart, James Ashley, is fighting in the trenches overseas. Embittered, Lola decides that from now on she will use men to her own advantage and travels to Florida to seek her first victim. She soon loses heart, however, and is about to commit suicide when Edith's invalid father, Thomas Danfield, convinces her to begin her life anew. The two become close friends and together return home, where they find that Edith, neglected and abused by Walter, has realized her mistake and is longing for James. To provide Edith with grounds for divorce, Lola allows Walter to enter her room, but when he rushes to attack her in a drunken rage, he falls down the stairs and is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-20
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A Frightful Blunder
Overview: An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the same eye strain placed the girl in grave danger, the danger being averted merely through the ingenuity of the young business man with the help of his friend, the power superintendent of the city's street-car lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-17
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A Misappropriated Turkey
Overview: His mind perverted by the many lies forced upon him, Lang becomes an outcast from the Labor Union. In order to reinstate himself he conceives a plot to do away with the owner of the iron works, an infernal machine stuffed in a turkey's breast. The story tells how the turkey found its way to a table where there was more love than plenty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-27
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The Hero of Little Italy
Overview: It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mild flirtation with Joe, his enemy. At first Tony's jealousy was aroused, but reasoning that it was no time nor place for anything but enjoyment, he smothered the feeling. However, Maria carried the flirtation too far and a tragedy was imminent. This tragedy, though, was averted through a small boy's daring, the girl fully realizing what might have been the result of her thoughtlessness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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The Wrong Bottle
Overview: Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into her life, the girl was perhaps blind to true values. She became indifferent to her life and its surroundings. Accordingly she accepted the stranger and his doubtful promises. Honest love and duty were forgotten, until, caught near life's uncertain edge, she was called back by her blind sister's peril. Thus was true love separated from blind infatuation and life's lesson learned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-06
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Just Gold
Overview: The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love, and love was his reward: in the happiness of two old parents and the heart of a sweet girl. But those in the gold regions, each for himself, seeking just gold, found their ill rewards in the sordid earth of the Bad Lands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-24
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A Modest Hero
Overview: It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but husband hires a man, while he goes fishing. Our hero substitutes himself for the cleaner and appears to rob the lady of her silver. He is kept too busy, and later proves a hero in spite of himself by rescuing the fair young housewife from the drunken cleaner, who walks in late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-08
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The Left-Handed Man
Overview: The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was great and in unraveling the mystery the detective she engaged used the scientific methods of today, making a brilliant detective story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-21
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Lord Chumley
Overview: After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for another robbery. The scheme, which requires La Sage to pose as a gentleman, fails. Blunk is arrested, but La Sage goes free. Some time later, La Sage goes to England where he blackmails Lt. Hugh Butterworth, an officer who misappropriated money intended for the widow of a fellow officer, and who owes La Sage money for gambling debts. As payment, La Sage wants Hugh to arrange for him to marry Eleanor, Hugh's sister. Hugh tells his friend Lord Chumley about La Sage, however, and Chumley is able to learn about La Sage's past when he overhears Blunk, now out of jail, threaten his former friend. After La Sage intensifies his suit for Eleanor, Chumley is finally able to discredit him by tearing open his shirt and revealing the mark of the prison. With La Sage out of the way, Chumley and Eleanor announce their engagement as do Hugh and his faithful sweetheart, Jessie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-14
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In Diplomatic Circles
Overview: The reporter assigned to obtain a copy of the message from the Japanese Government unraveled the mystery of its disappearance in a clever manner. Every foreign government naturally was eager for a copy ahead, while the meeting of the Japanese Ambassador and Secretary of State was surrounded with greater risk than they imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-26
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A Gamble with Death
Overview: The stakes were to go to the one who outlived the other two. In a quarrel one ended the chance of another. In the mountain the two survivors of the bet came together again, one now an outlaw but through a woman's subterfuge the money fell to the less likely of them all, Reed, declared to be "on his last legs."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-30
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The Mirror
Overview: The girl's lessons from the young station agent on the manipulation of the telegraph code served her in good stead. By it, hemmed in on all sides at the lonely farmhouse, she was able to save both herself and her father's money from desperate tramps, an experience which is grippingly illustrated in this Biograph melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-24
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When Love Forgives
Overview: Bessie, the bookkeeper, and Harry, the confidential clerk, are sweethearts. Harry does not fully realize the strength of Bessie's affection, but later, on the eve of a false step, he is made to appreciate her devotion and grit.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-02
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The Vengeance of Galora
Overview: In her own outraged sense of injury Galora sought to bring the young express agent into the justice that men might give, while the other woman sought to save his life from moral disaster and won. So the vengeance of Galora worked for the common good; one man was saved in a moment of weakness, while through many thrilling adventures the real offenders were brought to justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-28
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Under the Shadow of the Law
Overview: In this picture it is shown how a convict's life still remains under the ban of the law, even after the expiration of his term. With the detective continually on his track, he is able to save both a young woman's honor and her weak brother from the hands of a designing employer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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I Was Meant for You
Overview: Theron is Lavina's natural choice, though she imagines herself in love with Luke, who is secretly loved by Lavina's sister, Susan. Susan sees that the couple are ill-suited to each other and adopts her own means to break the match. She is successful, but it is not until all have passed through a stirring and leavening experience that each couple realizes they were meant for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-01
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The Work Habit
Overview: After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease under his enforced idleness, he makes a deal with a disabled old street cleaner to keep his job. Finding him out, the young folks give in, and it's "back to the farm" for Dad.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-21
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The Detective's Stratagem
Overview: In his moment of weakness, the bank thieves prevented the young cashier from becoming that against which his heart rebelled, a thief. Evidence however, was against him. The detective's clever unwinding of threads saved both his own and his sweetheart's happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-20
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The Stopped Clock
Overview: No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was reported by the detective and he was discharged. In truth, he had gone to find the senior clerk, who owed him money which he needed for his mother, hovering close to the edge of life. By sharp detective work, the designs of the senior clerk were frustrated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-01
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The Source
Overview: A young man of social standing chooses instead to live as a hobo. He gets work in a lumber camp, and there uncovers intrigue by German agents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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His Desperate Deed
Overview: The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the pistol- to give up his horse.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-18
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The Heart of a Bandit
Overview: With a price upon his head. Texas Pete takes to the open country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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The Lesser Evil
Overview: A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-29
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Manslaughter
Overview: Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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The Miser's Legacy
Overview: Hiding from the police in an alley, two crooks see, through a window, the dying miser entrust to the doctor the fortune he bequeaths to his erring son. They trail the doctor home, overpower him, and in their search for the money, terrify his wife and child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-09
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A Double Winning
Overview: Out of the talk at the Sportsmen's Club arises a wager between the globe-trotter and his friend, who bets that he will not be able, within a fixed time, to find his way out of an isolated mountain location to which he will lead him.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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The Sheriff's Dilemma
Overview: Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher, the young minister becomes an evangelist and, after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff, is appointed sheriff by the mayor. In the girl's home he sees a picture of her father, whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac, a notorious desperado. He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father, but sends his deputy, the ex-sheriff, to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border. The bandit, badly wounded by the deputy's bullets, reaches his daughter's house, and she thinks the sheriff false to his word.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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The Gambler's I.O.U.
Overview: At the assay office in town, Jim Bevins turned his gold into dollars, then sat into a game because he felt lucky, and broke the gambler. On the way home two observers of his luck held him up. Badly wounded, he contrived to reach the mine and died in his partner's arms. Dick Smith found the gambler's I.O.U. in his pocket
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-12
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The Love Transcendent
Overview: John Gage loves Ruth West, but she marries his friend, Charles Grey. The young couple are apparently happy; a child is born to them. Suddenly Ruth discovers that her husband has been systematically robbing his employer. Threatened with imprisonment unless he refunds the money he has stolen, Grey is at his wits' end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-25
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Truth Stranger Than Fiction
Overview: Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-29
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A Day's Adventure
Overview: Over Bentley's shoulder, the crook read the lawyer's letter telling the young man of his inheritance. He immediately wired his pals. When Bentley arrived the girl scraped his acquaintance by the simple means of losing her bag, and decoyed him to the crooks' rendezvous, where he was overpowered, bound and gagged
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-08
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Her Dormant Love
Overview: The discontented wife of the young rancher does not realize that the unsatisfactory state of things is her fault. She has not ceased to love her husband because she has not yet begun to love him. His tenderness and courtesy antagonize her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-04
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Old Offenders
Overview: Under police espionage, Crooked Joe is living with his wife and baby when Norris, his former pal, tries to interest him in a job. He refuses, and subsequently earns his old pal's animosity when Norris makes advances to his wife. Norris "frames" Joe, and he is sent to prison on a charge of robbing his employers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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Her Convert
Overview: The old inventors daughter is a mission worker. She makes a convert of a young crook and eventually becomes engaged to marry him. But her father does not approve of him, and shows him the door when he learns from a detective the record of his daughter's suitor. The inventor's plans are stolen by an unscrupulous manufacturer, and the crook volunteers to recover them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-24
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The Old Actor
Overview: An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the theatre he panics at the thought of telling his family the bad news and decides to disguise himself as a beggar. His daughter's beau accidentally gives him a five dollar gold piece, thinking that it was a smaller coin. A chase ensues with a policeman, the daughter, and her beau in hot pursuit. When caught he is recognized by his shocked daughter, but is quickly forgiven by all. Meanwhile the actor hired to replace him has already been fired and a messenger is dispatched to rehire the Old Actor to the delight of his wife, daughter, and fellow actors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-06
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Woman Against Woman
Overview: Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two. While "doing the town," Miriam is lured into the apartment of a pair of letches named Crooke and Craven, who ply her with drugged liquor, then have their way with her. Holding Bessie's libertine friend, Rachel, responsible for all this, she heads to Rachel's flat and tries to strangle the life out of the woman. She also sees to it that Crooke and Craven are thrown out of their lodgings for their wanton behavior
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-27
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The Battle
Overview: Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-06
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The Chief's Blanket
Overview: When the Great Chief's body is placed before the funeral pile by his mourning braves, his sacred blanket is covered over it and a sentinel left to watch that this, his last resting place, is not desecrated. The tribe has just departed for their village when a mountain outlaw appears and succeeds in stealing the blanket, having given the sentinel doctored whiskey. When the Indians discover this they exile the unfaithful sentinel until he can recover the blanket.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-10
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The God Within
Overview: The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and does not return. Target of the camp's jeers, she lives alone until her child is born dead. The doctor fears for her reason if she discovers that all her shame and anguish have been in vain. He has another maternity case on the outskirts of the camp, where the Saint, as the trapper's wife is known, dies in giving birth to a child...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-26
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Through Darkening Vales
Overview: Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and gives a doctor the money he was saving for his own operation, so her sight can be restored.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-16
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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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The Last Drop of Water
Overview: A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-26
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Overview: Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-24
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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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Fate's Turning
Overview: A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-22
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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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Along Came Youth
Overview: Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-20
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A Child of the Ghetto
Overview: After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where she meets a young farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-06
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For the Defense
Overview: William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, thus springing criminals out of prison. He is romantically involved with dancer Irene Manners, who is two-timing him, although she wants to marry him. She kills a man driving while out with her other man, Jack Defoe, who takes the blame. Unfortunately, a ring Foster had just given Irene is found at the crime scene. Foster ends up defending Jack, but when the ring is found, he thinks he is protecting Irene, so pleads guilty to jury tampering.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-19
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Held to Answer
Overview: John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become a minister in a western town. Marian appears, and failing to win him back she tries to ruin his reputation. Hampstead is accused of stealing some jewelry though actually he is protecting the scapegrace brother of his current sweetheart, Bessie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-22
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The Man from Hell's Edges
Overview: A man escapes from prison, then joins up with a gang of stage robbers while at the same time working as a deputy in a distant town, hoping to ultimately find the outlaw who killed his father during a robbery years ago.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-05
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Bob Hampton of Placer
Overview: Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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The Wife
Overview: A story of duplicity, ambition and misunderstandings when four peoples lives become intertwined in a quest for a political appointment.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-28
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A Fair Rebel
Overview: Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-21
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The Burned Hand
Overview: Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced. Father is refused the request for his daughter, and in turn kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, one of the graduated college boys who is in love with the girl, with his two companions, traces the girl and steal her away. In doing so his hand is burned with a poker and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-13
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The Road to Yesterday
Overview: Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-13
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Swords and Hearts
Overview: A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter.
Genres: Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-27
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Revenge
Overview: Easterner Alva Leigh arrives in the mining town of Magnet just after her fiancé, Donald Jaffray, has been murdered. Because Alva has sworn vengeance, "Sudden" Duncan, the real murderer, accuses Donald's partner, Dick Randall, of the crime. Knowing that Dick is planning a journey across the desert, Duncan fills his canteen with poison, but Alva, who also is determined to kill Dick, drills a hole in the canteen so that the water will drain out. After Dick's departure, Alva learns from "Tiger Lil'," who is jealous of Duncan's attention to the Eastern newcomer, that it was Duncan who killed Donald. Frantic, Alva immediately mounts a horse and rides into the desert to save the man she now recognizes as her true love. Tiger Lil' shoots Duncan in a dance hall quarrel, and Alva marries Dick.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-25
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The Heart of Nora Flynn
Overview: Nora is nursemaid to a wealthy family and in love with their chauffeur Nolan. When she hides her mistress' lover in her room, jealous Nolan shoots him and Nora, who refuses to tell about her mistress affair, is dismissed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-22
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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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Red Lights
Overview: A mysterious figure attempts to keep a daughter from reuniting with her father.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-30
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Her Terrible Ordeal
Overview: A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-10
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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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Father's Chicken Dinner
Overview: Clarence Barr comes home to discover that Sylvia Ashton and Charles West are getting ready to butcher a chicken for his dinner… but he thinks they're talking about him and not a bird! Fortunately, Charles Murray has prepared his squad of policemen for rapid response by equipping them with roller skates…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-17
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Under Burning Skies
Overview: Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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The Grapes of Wrath
Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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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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A Sailor’s Heart
Overview: A sweetheart at every port has ever characterized the sailor, but it is believed that the sailor in this comedy carries the tradition a trifle further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-25
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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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Duck Soup
Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-12
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Love Among the Roses
Overview: In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-08
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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 American Consul
Overview: Country lawyer Abel Manning is very passionate about his political party. Through the force of his oratory, he helps elect James Kitwell to the U.S. Senate. Kitwell has promised to reward Manning an important post. No job is forthcoming until a scheme is offered to the unscrupulous Kitwell by Pedro Gonzales. Gonzales plans a revolution in Mexico and needs a corruptible American consul.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-02
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A Thousand to One
Overview: Finding himself deeply in debt, William Newlands reluctantly marries Beatrice, the wealthy daughter of an old friend. When their honeymoon train is derailed, Beatrice loses sight of her husband but manages to save the life of mine owner Steven Crawford. Newlands is reported burned in the wreck and Beatrice returns with Crawford to his cabin, where she nurses him back to health. Meanwhile, Newlands has escaped death and, filled with remorse, decides to make a new man of himself. Disguising his appearance by the addition of a beard, he finds work at the Crawford mine, but determines to stay out of Beatrice's life. Eventually, Newlands becomes foreman, brings law and order to the discontented miners and discovers a rich vein of ore, thus averting Crawford's financial ruin. His job completed, Newlands is about to leave when Beatrice recognizes him and begs him to give their marriage another chance.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-05
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The Rose of Kentucky
Overview: A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead.
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-24
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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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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 Golden Supper
Overview: Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel's grief knew no bounds when he heard "That low knell tolling his lady dead." "She had lain three days without a pulse all that look'd on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian's land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin." Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, "Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-12
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The Two Brothers
Overview: In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, they were vastly different morally. Jose was a dutiful son and upright young man, while Manuel was the black sheep. It was on Easter Sunday morning during the processional that Manuel appears in an intoxicated condition and foully ridicules the priests and acolytes as they enter the chapel of the old mission. At this the mother's pride is hurt beyond endurance and she exiles her profligate son from her forever. Manuel is shunned as a viper and while making his way along the road, meets Pedro, the notorious political outlaw, who sympathizes with him and offers him inducements to join him, and so takes him to his camp. Meanwhile, Jose woos and wins the Red Rose of Capistran and the day for the wedding is set.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-12
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In Life's Cycle
Overview: A story about two children that are made to promise they will not forget their recently departed mother. As the two children grow up the boy regularly visits his mother's grave, while the girl has forgotten her promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-14
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Martha's Vindication
Overview: A 1916 film directed by Chester M. Franklin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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Law of the West
Overview: For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots Tracy, he tells Bob that Carruthers did it and sends Bob out after him. But unknown to Bob, Morgan has put blanks in his gun.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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The Man from Headquarters
Overview: A brilliant detective is trying to break up a notorious crime ring, using part of an intercepted message. While investigating, he meets a beautiful and mysterious countess.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-27
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The House with Closed Shutters
Overview: During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her son's presence a secret for many years, though two boyhood chums stumble upon the truth...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-08
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The Wood Nymph
Overview: A silent drama film directed by Paul Powell
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-23
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The Newlyweds
Overview: A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other ideas.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-03
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In the Season of Buds
Overview: It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their adolescence together on Uncle Zeke's farm. They have never experienced any love but brotherly love, until the day they first meet Mabel, when both become deeply smitten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-02
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A Child's Impulse
Overview: Mrs. Thurston, a socially ambitious widow, is holding one of her famous Bohemian parties. To these functions are invited the leading lights of the several professions, actors, artists, musicians, etc. Surrounded by these men and women of art and letters, she was at first entertained, but they soon palled and bored. On this evening in particular, she is especially possessed of ennui, until the appearance of Raymond Hartley, a wealthy young bachelor, who is introduced into the circle by a newspaper man. An attachment immediately springs up between the widow and Raymond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1910-06-27
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Waiter No. 5
Overview: After conducting a raid on a Rebel camp, a Czarist officer discovers that his wife has joined the revolutionaries. Out of loyalty to his wife, the officer resigns his commission and escapes with her to America. Several years later, the ex-officer is gainfully employed as a waiter in a Russian restaurant. For the sake of his grown son, who is engaged to marry a wealthy socialite, our hero pretends to be a man of great wealth and prestige. The truth is revealed in the final scene, but "Waiter Number 5" is saved from disgrace by the timely arrival of his former superior officer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-03
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The Female of the Species
Overview: A man and three women leave an abandoned mining town and travel across the desert. After the man's death, his wife plans revenge against her companion, whom the wife suspects had an affair with her deceased husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-15
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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 Unchanging Sea
Overview: In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-05
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A Lodging for the Night
Overview: Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-09
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With the Enemy's Help
Overview: A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-19
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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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The House Without a Key
Overview: A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Police Car 17
Overview: Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-30
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A Midnight Cupid
Overview: Perry Dudley, a rich eligible bachelor, is bored with his life and longs for a change. Nick, a penniless tramp, has received a letter from the town where he lived as a child, asking him to return home. Through a fluke Perry finds the letter, takes Nick’s place and goes to the little town himself. The townspeople accept him as Nick, he falls in love with a farmer’s daughter, and all is going well until the real Nick shows up. When the farmer finds he has been duped he orders Perry to leave; Perry not only leaves but takes the girl with him. The farmer follows in angry pursuit, but when he learns that his daughter’s abductor is rich and has marriage in mind, he becomes much more agreeable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-03
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As the Bells Rang Out!
Overview: If a Wall Street financier is to escape arrest, he must flee his house at once. He chooses instead to stay in order to watch his daughter get married. Thanks to kindhearted police, he is permitted to take part in the wedding while they wait discreetly in the next room, ready to take him away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-06-18
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A Salutary Lesson
Overview: During a stay at beach resort Mr. and Mrs. Randall neglect their daughter and follow their own interests. Mrs. Randall entertains the local minister, while Mr. Randall agrees to take his daughter on a walk along the beach. However, he is attracted by a flirtatious young woman, and the little girl wanders off on her own. She clambers onto a seaside rock where she falls asleep, unmindful of the incoming tide. Her parents at last notice her absence and begin searching for her. However, the incoming tide has by this time surrounded her rock, cutting her off from land. A lifeguard hears her cries and swims to the rescue just as the rising tide is about to engulf her. The child is returned to her parents, who receive from their near tragedy a salutary lesson in the importance of being more careful parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-11
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The Little Pirate
Overview: In dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Baird refuses his request and, upon overhearing his lawyer advising him to utilize the bonds without consulting her, she decides to place them in the hands of George Drake, an old friend. Drake hijacks the securities, however, and their disappearance leads to the break up of the Baird's marriage, resulting in Virginia leaving the house. Attempting to console her father, Margery sets out on her pony to bring her mother home. But she is held up on the road by Captain Kidd Jr., who adopts her as his first mate, and the two children take up residence on a grass hut on a nearby island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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The Mender of Nets
Overview: A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-15
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Love in the Hills
Overview: A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-30
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The Ghost Flower
Overview: Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-18
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Beverly of Graustark
Overview: Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel. Dantan, disguised as a simple goat hunter, has been driven into hiding in the mountains with his followers. Beverly is rescued by his band of rebels, but is mistaken for Princess Yestive. Beverly and Dantan fall in love, but their romance is complicated, not only by the hostilities between the two countries, but also because neither of them knows the true identity of the other.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Ramona
Overview: Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-23
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The Talker
Overview: Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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The Stolen Bride
Overview: The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-07
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The Phantom Melody
Overview: Count Camello lives on his fine estate in Italy, near the home occupied by Sir James Drake and his family. Gregory Baldi, a parasitical cousin of the count, is courting Mary Drake, and although the count also loves the girl, he conceals his feelings out of respect for his cousin. When war breaks out, Camello enlists while Gregory convinces Mary's brother Oliver that Oliver has killed an opponent in a duel and that the only way to escape a murder charge is to disguise himself by going to war under Gregory's name. Wounded, Count Camello returns from the front and, after Gregory is reported dead, proposes to Mary. On the eve of their wedding, Gregory returns unexpectedly and, in dire need of money, buries his cousin alive in the family vault.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-27
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Society's Driftwood
Overview: When Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Lena and the Geese
Overview: A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same age. The two children grow up as sisters. Later, upon her deathbed, the noble lady repents and sends for her child to reinstate her. Gretchen takes this opportunity to make a great lady of her own daughter Lena, the goose girl, by sending her to court instead of the real heiress. Hence Lena is taken before the noble lady, happy in the belief that she has made reparation. Lena is now a great lady, but the title does not fit well-- She longs to be back with Gretchen and her "geeses".
Genres: Drama Comedy Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-17
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A Siren of Impulse
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-14
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The Dream Girl
Overview: The father of San Francisco waif Meg runs an illegal liquor club and supports "English" Hal in scheme to blackmail a wealthy girl. Meg is put on probation to Benjamin Merton, father of the girl to be blackmailed. When she discovers her father's plan she reveals all, risking expulsion from her new home and the company of its very attractive son Tom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-17
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Overview: The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-25
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Not Guilty
Overview: A drama of a fugitive from justice and a fugitive from love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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A Beast at Bay
Overview: Mary Pickford as "The Young Woman", is quite taken with Edwin August; in fact, he is her "ideal". But Mr. August's refusal to get mixed up in a street brawl makes him look like a coward to Ms. Pickford. Meanwhile, convict Alfred Paget has escaped from prison; and, he is "A Beast at Bay". While Pickford and August go for a ride in her automobile, criminal Paget ambushes one of his guards, taking the man's clothing and gun. Pickford drops off August, still arguing he is a coward, and drives off. Alone, Pickford gets out of her car to retrieve a fallen garment; then, on-the-lam Paget moves in to carjack her. From a distance, August witnesses Pickford being taken at gunpoint - can he save his girl, and prove he's not a coward?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-26
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The Peachbasket Hat
Overview: Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-24
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
Overview: The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, but could not live without it. She decided to leave this world. Her unexpected caller had something to say about that. He did not have to read "Sarah Hardcrab's Advice to the Lovelorn" to know what to do. Being a very human and sensible person, he brought two young people together in his own original way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-02
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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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Italian Blood
Overview: In the little Italian home the wife feels she is neglected and apparently it seems that her husband's love is growing cold, for he has become decidedly indifferent. She, therefore, plans with her cousin to arouse his love through jealousy. At an Italian picnic, after repeated vain efforts to draw her husband's attentions toward her, she starts off with her cousin, passing in view of her husband. His fiery nature is violently aroused with jealousy, and rushing home in a towering rage, would have wreaked disaster to the entire family, for his terrible suspicion poisons his mind even against his two little children. He learns the truth, however, and realizes now to what extreme the result of his neglect would have driven him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-09
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The Fatal Chocolate
Overview: Upon the arrival of a young girl from the city, Zeke and Jake, brothers, each determine to win her. For a time these rival brothers are amusing to her, but when her real sweetheart appears, she is at a loss to know how to get rid of them. Her city beau, however, wants to have some fun with them, so is introduced to the rubes as her brother. He pretends to be interested in the condition of affairs, and decides they must prove their love by chancing fate for her sake. He places three chocolates on the table, stating that one of the candies contains deadly poison. To the amazement of all they take a chance, but for naught.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-19
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The Last Deal
Overview: Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of his gambling fever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-27
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The Redman's View
Overview: An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-09
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The Italian Barber
Overview: Tony, a barber, becomes enchanted by Alice, a young newsgirl, and the two quickly fall in love. However, their happiness is soon disrupted when Alice’s sister, Florence, a vaudeville performer, returns from her tour and captures Tony’s attention. As Alice struggles with the shifting affections, she faces a difficult emotional challenge. With a mix of humor and drama, the film explores themes of love, jealousy, and the complexities of relationships in a lighthearted yet poignant way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-09
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Winning Back His Love
Overview: A Husband thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. His wife shows him its not.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-25
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His Trust
Overview: A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-16
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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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Acquitted
Overview: A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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Betty to the Rescue
Overview: Henry Sherwin is led to believe by mine expert James Fleming that the mine he invested all his money in is valueless, though Fleming has discovered a rich vein of gold that he keeps secret. When Sherwin dies shortly thereafter, he leaves his daughter Betty in the care of John Kenwood and his sister, Constance, who allows Betty to believe she has an income, sending her to boarding school while they surreptitiously go to work to support her. Upon her return home Fleming pursues her but she rejects him, and he tells her the mine is worthless. However, a dream leads her to believe otherwise and after much travail she discovers the truth as well as Fleming’s duplicity. John declares his long-hidden love for her, and they are wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-15
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A Gutter Magdalene
Overview: Maida Carrington goes to the city with gambler Jack Morgan but flees after witnessing him stealing money from Steve Boyce. Joining the Salvation Army, she meets a now destitute Steve in need of help. In time they fall in love and Steve proposes, but Maida feels guilt that her past association caused his downfall. She determines to find Morgan and reclaim Steve’s money, but when she does, he refuses, and a struggle follows resulting in Maida accidentally shooting Morgan with his own gun. The sheriff, aware of the gambler reputation, releases her and she and Steve marry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-04
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The Mystery Girl
Overview: Prince Sebastian of Lurania is forced to go into hiding when German forces invade his country. His niece, Countess Therese, is an ambulance driver with the French army. Her uncle requests that she meet him in a small town in Maine and bring the crown jewels with her. Unfortunately, a jewel thief finds out and makes a deal with the Luranian pretender to the throne: he will steal the jewels and he can keep them if he kidnaps and turns over the Countess to the usurper.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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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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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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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Overview: Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-27
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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 Way of Man
Overview: A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-28
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The Prisoner of Shark Island
Overview: After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-28
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Nobody's Widow
Overview: Roxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-12
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