William Russell
Also Known As: William E. Russell, William Lerche
Biography: From Wikipedia William Russell (April 12, 1884 – February 18, 1929), born William Francis Lerche, was an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He appeared in over two hundred silent era motion pictures between 1910 and 1929, directing five of them in 1916 and producing two through his own production company in 1918 and 1925. Russell began his screen career in New York with the Biograph Company, where he worked for nine months before signing with the Thanhouser Company. He was also part of the company of players for the American Film Manufacturing Company and their Flying "A" Studios in Santa Barbara. In 1917, he and actress Charlotte Burton were married. They divorced in 1921. He and actress Helen Ferguson were married on June 21, 1925, at the Wilshire Boulevard Congregational Church, after a six-year romance. William Russell died at age 44 from pneumonia at Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: April 12, 1884
Deathday: February 18, 1929
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Flying to Fortune
Overview: A wealthy old man, who has been a semi-invalid for years, is informed by his physician that his case is hopeless. The invalid decides to put "his home in order." Therefore it is a matter of gratification to him when he sees that his only daughter and the young partner in whom he implicitly relies seems to be mutually attracted. The partner is called to Europe just before the doctor gives his verdict, hut the invalid makes "everything all right" in his will. He provides that the bulk of his estate shall go to the girl, if she marries the partner within one year from the hour of her father's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-12
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The Girl of the Grove
Overview: The girl was young, pretty, and also a good businesswoman; When her father died she took up the reins of management and ran an orange grove with successful results. Her capable hands were so busy that she had no time to think of love. One day, however, "the prince" appeared.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-04
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The Smugglers of Santa Cruz
Overview: Langdon, a revenue officer in search of smugglers operating along the coast of Santa Cruz Island, Cal., meets Verna. the daughter of the lighthouse keeper and they fall deeply in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-28
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The Beloved Brute
Overview: A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-09
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A Rough Shod Fighter
Overview: A Rough Shod Fighter
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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Under Western Skies
Overview: The girl gives herself to one of the men to escape a worse fate, though she separates from another lover to do it. Later she discovers in a dramatic way that her lover was a poltroon and turns to her husband for protection.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-06
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The Railroad Builder
Overview: The construction of a new railroad, designed to bring prosperity to a section of the country, brings sorrow to one home. An aged invalid finds that his home must give way to progress, as the line is designed to cut through his homestead, which has been in his family for generations. He fights, of course, but the property is condemned and a legal battle ends in defeat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-09
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Lorna Doone
Overview: Lorna Dugal, the little daughter of an English nobleman, is carried off by her father's enemies, the Doones, when she is five years old. Sire Ensor Doone had been banished from court, and he and his family had established themselves in a well-protected valley, becoming outlaws and highwaymen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-29
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His Younger Brother
Overview: A young clerk, employed by a wealthy broker, weakly yields to the temptations of city life, and embezzles some of the money entrusted to his care.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-14
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The Stepmother
Overview: When the two little daughters of a young widower are told that he is preparing to bring up to the house to see them, a young lady who is to be their new mamma, they are at once plunged into the depths of despair. They feel that their home will be no longer bearable if they are to have a stepmother, so they run away to go out in the world to earn their own living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-06
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Their Burglar
Overview: In the course of a fashionable reception at her home, a young girl quarrels with her suitor. Piqued by a fancied wrong, the girl with complaisance accepts the proposal of a foreign nobleman and determines to forget The Man forever. As time progresses and the day set for her wedding to the sallow baron approaches, she is obsessed by a feeling of discontent and a yearning for her former lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-03
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For Sale -- A Life
Overview: A nervous, fault-finding invalid decides that his health requires that he shall live in the South, and manages to exchange his place "Up North," for a shack and an orange grove in Florida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-26
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The Little Shut-in
Overview: His home was a dreary room in a basement; he was hopelessly crippled; his widowed mother was just able to keep their home together by steady work as a washerwoman; and he had no toys or other boys to play with. Despite his sickness and poverty the little shut-in was a cheery chap, and invented games of his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-17
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Jilted
Overview: Age old tale of a couple marooned.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-14
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Jess
Overview: Silas Croft was a kindly old Englishman who had a farm in South Africa. With him resided his two nieces, whom he had taken from their drunken, worthless father when they were of a tender age. Jess, the elder, was brilliant and educated; Bess, the younger was beautiful, but frankly admitted that she did not possess the mental attainments of Jess. The two were great friends, and Jess, although the senior by only three years, had almost a motherly affection for her pretty little sister. Croft, finding old age stealing upon him, advertised for a partner, stipulating that he must be a gentleman. Probably it was his secret idea that the right man might come along, and fall in love with his favorite, beautiful Bessie.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-21
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A Niagara Honeymoon
Overview: A well-to-do family, living in a suburban town, was annoyed on receiving word that the wife's sister-in-law intended to pay them a visit. When she arrived, she was greeted coldly, compelled to perform menial services, and treated more like a servant than a relation. Naturally, she was very unhappy. About this time the family was thrown into excitement by the news that the father's old chum in college, who had gone to Australia to make a fortune, had returned, with $1,000,000, and intended to marry and settle down. The parents figured that this was an excellent chance for their only child, and planned to marry her to the millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-19
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The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
Overview: A romantic young girl, visiting St. Augustine, finds that she must make the choice which means happiness or misery for life. She has two suitors, one an everyday young American who has made his way in the world and is proud of it. He has money, will have more, and in every way would seem desirable. But the other man had ancestors!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-24
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Pa's Medicine
Overview: Willie West, a small boy, is very fond of his pet rabbit. He is unhappy because Hank (the rabbit) seems to be losing his former good health. When Willie tries to obtain assistance from his family, he quickly discovers that he has chosen the wrong time, for his father is feeling bad himself, and has no sympathy to waste on rabbits. A doctor is also hard-hearted. Willie is sent to the drug store to fill a prescription for his father, and he decided to see if the medicine will not cure the rabbit. To hide his wrongdoing from his parents, Willie fills the bottle with water. In the meantime the druggist has discovered that he has made an awful mistake, and put poison in the dose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-09
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Put Yourself in His Place
Overview: The story concerns the love of Henry Little for Grace Carden and its reciprocal sentiment, with the time-honored interference of those who attempt to arrange the affairs of Cupid to suit social exigencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-29
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Undine
Overview: In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, enchanted forests grew and mythical creatures lived among us.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-24
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The Forest Rose
Overview: Forester and Maywood, two wealthy neighbor planters, volunteered their services to defend their country when the war of the Revolution broke out. Forester was made colonel of his regiment, while Maywood became a captain. The men mortgaged their plantations and gave the benefits to the government, which was hard pressed for funds. Colonel Forester was mortally wounded at the battle of Cowpens, but before he passed away, Captain Maywood promised that he would care for Forester's motherless little girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-29
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For Her Boy's Sake
Overview: The son of a poor widow fell in love with a heartless showgirl who spurned the simple gifts he gave her. In a moment of desperation he tried to rob the box office of the theater in which he was employed as a stage hand, but was detected by the night watchman who shot and wounded him mortally. Before he expired he wrote a letter to his mother saying, "Many a man is tempted to sin for the woman he loves." The widow in order to maintain herself, obtained work as a scrub woman in an office building where she became acquainted with a prepossessing young clerk who wife she learned was dangerously ill and was told by the physician to go to Arizona.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-25
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Lucile
Overview: Lucile is a 1912 drama film short.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-27
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The Repeater
Overview: The story's hero, a reformer in politics, has been accused and convicted of "padding the registration lists," but on procured evidence and on a frame-up, made by the ring leader's heeler, William Russell. He is sent to prison and the story works out to his coming home, a cleared and rehabilitated man, on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-22
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While Baby Slept
Overview: The young farmer's wife had one trial, her husband's father. He was old and peevish, and so racked and crippled by illness that he could not walk a step. The woman declared that something must be done and on numerous occasions pleaded with her husband to send the old man to the poor house. The farmer long, resisted, but at last he yielded and the woman drove away triumphantly, to make her arrangements at the alms house. The old man knew what was contemplated. Helpless and friendless he sat in his chair, and prayed for death. Who could blame him? The wife, as has been stated, was on her way to the alms house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-10
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The Caged Bird
Overview: The beautiful young princess was weary of the formality and ceremony that encompassed her. She had read many books and from them had gained the idea that she would be far happier as a simple peasant than as the daughter of a king. Even when it came to her marriage, she sadly reflected, there was no romance, for her father had arbitrarily contracted an alliance for her with a neighboring prince. The princess was taking her drive one day and was sadder than ever. She saw a wedding procession issue from a neighboring cottage, and pityingly watched the mother of the bride, as she turned into her lonely house. In a field the princess noticed a young farmer, and she thought that the romance which had been denied her might come into her life. By the time she had returned to the castle she was pitying herself exceedingly, and had decided to be a caged bird no longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-06
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Peggy's Invitation
Overview: A society woman who lives in the suburbs near the sea had laid her plans to insure the marriage of her daughter to a wealthy young banker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-16
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His Fireman's Conscience
Overview: Engineer Daily is forced to discharge his fireman for habitual drunkenness. His young daughter, Rosanna, wanders down to the tracks, and the door of the freight is closed upon her. She falls into the discharged fireman's hands. He is quite in love with her, and when he learns whose daughter she is, concludes to keep her from the exasperated parents. That's where his conscience came in, leading to regeneration and better days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-26
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The Power of the Press
Overview: An innocent man, serving a sentence of five years in prison through the perjured testimony of the real criminal, Steve Carson, foreman of a shipyard, strikes up a warm friendship with his cellmate, Harold Norwood, a defaulting paying teller. No less strange than their friendship is the befriending of Steve's wife, Annie, by Julia Seymour, prima donna, who is Norwood's wife. As a reward of good behavior, the men are released on Christmas morning. Annie is bewildered by the receipt of a bank book which shows that large deposits of gold have been made in her name and that of her sister, Mary, by their uncle, George Hosford, who, dying in Alaska, has entrusted the book to Joe Hawes, a fellow prospector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-01
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Under the Gaslight
Overview: Heroine Laura suffers spectacularly as her romance with her soldier sweetheart is destroyed by malicious gossip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-01
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Dora Thorne
Overview: Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but working-class woman. When Lord Earle hears of the relationship, he brings Valentine Charteris to the estate to distract his lovesick son. True to his love, however, Ronald refuses Valentine and marries Dora. After emigrating to Italy, Ronald earns a modest living as a painter, and Dora gives birth to twins. When Ronald receives a generous commission to paint a portrait, he asks Dora to pose for him, but overly preoccupied with the children, she refuses. Wounded by the rejection, Ronald calls on Valentine Charteris and quickly becomes infatuated with her, forcing Dora to return to Earlescourt with the twins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-03
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Anna Christie
Overview: A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict between her father and her suitor. What neither knows is that she has a secret that could cause her to lose both of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-24
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Sacred Silence
Overview: Lieut. Ralph Harrison is in love with Major Marston's wife, who pretends to love him. Harrison's mother implores Capt. Jim Craig to intervene to save her son from dishonor. When Craig visits Mrs. Marston, Harrison appears, precipitating a quarrel during which Harrison is wounded in the shoulder. Craig then leaves, and the major discovers Harrison. The major kills Harrison, and places the blame on Craig. To avoid a scandal, Craig runs away. Madge Summers of the Secret Service tracks him down and the two fall in love, but Craig is arrested and taken back to the army post.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-12
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The Blue Eagle
Overview: Waterfront rivals George Darcy and Big Tim Ryan are both in love with Rose Kelly, and continue their feud when they join the Navy. After the war, they call a temporary truce to take on dope peddlers who are destroying their neighborhood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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The Desired Woman
Overview: The beautiful and cultured Lady Diana Whitney marries Captain Maxwell of the British Army. When he is transferred to the Sahara, life at his remote post becomes one trial after another for Diana. Then Larry Trent, a young lieutenant, arrives to provide a pleasant reminder of days past, but Maxwell, in a jealous rage over their innocent companionship, sends Trent to a distant village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-27
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Boston Blackie
Overview: Boston Blackie is a former prison inmate campaigning to outlaw Warden Benton's infamous "Water Cross" torture. Benton, however, is successful in his attempt to have Blackie arrested and returned to the prison, but his evil schemes are ultimately thwarted by Mary Carter, Blackie's girlfriend, who manages to alert the governor. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-06
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The Head of the Family
Overview: Silent Comedy of the battle of the sexes for dominance within the home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-18
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Mixed Faces
Overview: Judge Granger, a candidate for mayor, attempts to persuade Mary Allen Sayre to marry him. She meets his double, a young traveling salesman named Jimmy Gallop, mistaking him for the judge. Granger’s opponents bribe Jimmy to impersonate the judge in public while they kidnap the magistrate almost wrecking his chances of election and nearly getting Gallop murdered. Jimmy saves himself, helps in the judge's campaign, and finds that Mary is in love with him. The judge realizes he is in love with his devoted secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-21
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The Crusader
Overview: Veteran action hero William Russell starred opposite his offscreen wife Helen Ferguson in this typical Fox oater about a miner who finds himself up against a master swindler (George Webb).
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-09
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The Diamond from the Sky
Overview: This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-03
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Into the Desert
Overview: An American girl and her father were traveling in the Orient, and there they were joined by the young woman's fiancé. He knew the dangers of the country of old, but the girl laughed at his warnings and believed that the life and property were as safe as it is on Broadway, New York. The girl hired a dragoman, and took an excursion into the desert, despite her sweetheart's most emphatic warning. It does not pay to disregard the advice of the well informed, as the girl soon found to her cost, for the treacherous guide led her into the midst of a band of Arabs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-11
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Rejuvenation
Overview: A rich man who finds that there is nothing in life worth living for, is worse off than is a poor man in similar circumstances, for the poor man may he stricken with ambition, and in a last effort to attain fame and fortune, redeems himself. But what is a man to do if he has wealth, health, all the fame he desires, and yet looks at life through blue spectacles?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-22
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The Saleslady
Overview: Silent romantic drama...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-06
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Six Feet Four
Overview: A cowboy matches the description of the man who robbed the local hotel--both are 6'4". When a young woman is robbed, suspicion falls on the cowboy again. However, he discovers that the actual culprits are a local gang headed by the sheriff. He sets out to capture the robbers and clear his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-13
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The Portrait of Lady Anne
Overview: The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-23
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The Cheater Reformed
Overview: Thomas Edinburgh is secretly in love with Carol, wife of the Reverend Luther McCall, and produces evidence that her husband was once an embezzler. Leaving for Cleveland, the minister meets his twin brother, Jordan, the real embezzler, who is evading the law. Luther is killed in a train wreck, and Jordan, assumes his brother's identity....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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The Iron Rider
Overview: When law and order fade into distant memory in Angel City, the townspeople yearn for the era of the Iron Riders, a band of men who took justice into their own hands and brought order out of chaos. The organizer of the group was John Lannigan, whose son Larry decides to take up the mantle of the Riders once again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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The Challenge of the Law
Overview: A Canadian Mountie pursues an outlaw across the border into the America...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-10
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The Lincoln Highwayman
Overview: Masked bandit The Lincoln Highwayman terrorizes motorists on California highways. His latest victims are a San Francisco banker and his family on their way to a party. While the masked highwayman holds them up at gun point and steals the women's jewels, the banker's daughter Marian (Lois Lee) finds herself strangely attracted to him. When the family finally arrives at the party, they tell the guests their tale. Secret Serviceman Steele takes an interest in their encounter and starts working on the case. Jimmy Clunder (William Russell) arrives late and while talking to Marian a locket falls out of his pocket. Marian recognizes it, but Clunder claims that he found it on the Lincoln Highway. She begins to suspect that he is the Lincoln Highwayman, as does Steele, Clunder's rival for Marian's love.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-29
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Eastward Ho!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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Brass Knuckles
Overview: Zac Harrison, upon his release from prison, assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry, the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has died. He is reformed by her innocence and, in time marries her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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The Cry of the Children
Overview: An indictment of the evils of child labor, the film was controversial in its time for its use of actual footage of children employed in a working mill.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-30
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Tannhäuser
Overview: Dramatic three-reel film based on Wagner's opera of chivalry and spiritual struggle. Wandering minstrel Tannhauser wins the heart of Elizabeth, niece of the powerful Landgrave. Later, under the spell of Venus and her nymphs, Tannhauser passes into Venusberg, a netherworld of earthly pleasures. Returning to the Landgrave's court, he praises Venus in song and sparks the righteous anger of all present. His own prayers and those of Elizabeth free him from enchantment and he takes up the habit of a monk, devoting himself to God. He sets off to seek absolution in Rome while Elizabeth waits at court, ever weakening in his absence.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-14
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Little Dorrit
Overview: A short adaption of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-28
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Moths
Overview: A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-31
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King Rene’s Daughter
Overview: This elaborate and well-staged silent version of Hertz' play is exceedingly well produced for 1913: it starts off by introducing the actors by name and role, then showing them in double exposure in street clothes and in costumes. The production values are also elaborate and the look of the set designs reminds one of the elaborate backdrops that Melies used in his shots.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-01
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State Street Sadie
Overview: Unassuming clerk Tom Blake is framed for the murder of a policeman in the midst of a violent bank robbery. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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The Midnight Taxi
Overview: The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a sound copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The silent print runs just under 50 minutes. According to the Library of Congress, the film survives in British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-01
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A Sporting Chance
Overview: John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over a man who she has apparently killed, and since he's about to kill himself anyway, he offers to assume the blame. Throw a valuable emerald into the works, and the fact that the dead man suddenly comes back to life, and Stonehouse -- not to mention the audience -- becomes thoroughly befuddled by it all. Everything clears up, however, when Gilberte gives him a theater ticket -- it turns out that everything he went through was the plot to a stage play, enacted in real life by the actors. The critics roasted the play, saying it wasn't true to life, and this was their proof that the situations really could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-28
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Carmen
Overview: A three-reel version of the famous stage production. Don Jose, the hero of the famous book by Prosper Merimee, and Bizet's celebrated opera, was born in the Basque Provinces of Spain. He was a young, good-looking peasant, devoted to his old mother, and greatly in love with his pretty sweetheart, Mercedes. The plans of Jose and Mercedes for an early marriage were rudely dissipated by the news that the young man had been drafted for service in the Spanish army. Jose comforted his mother and Mercedes, telling them that he would soon return and they would never be separated again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-26
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The Marble Heart
Overview: Outside the door of the home of a sculptor and his mother, fell a poor, friendless young girl. They took the girl in and cared for her, and as time went on the mother began to regard her as her daughter. The son regarded the affectionate advances of the girl with only brotherly love. But there came a time when the misgivings of the son changed, for he began to pay scant attentions to a young beauty he met at a reception and who was characterized as a woman with a heart "cold as marble." This piqued the beauty, who was accustomed to abject adulation. She determined to bring him to her feet and in this she succeeded. She offered to pose for him, and, spurred on by such a splendid model and her praises, he produced a figure which was acclaimed by all the critics as a masterpiece.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-11
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The Little Girl Next Door
Overview: Helen Randall and Ruth Foster were little tots. The two children lived side by side on one of the fashionable streets in New York City. One day Helen and her parents were starting for the park when the little one suggested that they invite Ruth to go with them. The idea pleased them all, and as to Ruth, she was in an ecstasy of delight. She skipped down the steps into the Randalls' automobile, and her father (a widower), watching her as the machine whizzed off, realized more than ever the little treasure he possessed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-01
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Petticoat Camp
Overview: Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-29
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Star of Bethlehem
Overview: Following a bright wandering star, three magi from the East travel to Bethlehem of Judea to meet a very special newborn baby. Meanwhile, King Herod, driven by a hideous prophecy, orders him to be found and murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-24
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Get Rich Quick
Overview: An investment plan that tells potential investors they can "get rich quickly" turns out to be a swindle, and investors are in danger of losing all their money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-25
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The Pasha's Daughter
Overview: An American in Turkey is mistakenly arrested and thrown in jail. He escapes and is helped by the daughter of the local ruler, called the Pasha.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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The Girl from Chicago
Overview: Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces death in the electric chair for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. Determined to save him, she goes there, learns of his association with an underworld gang, and begins to suspect Handsome Joe of a connection with the crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-09
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East Lynne
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Mrs. Henry Wood (Ellen Wood).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-26
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Where the West Begins
Overview: William Russell plays Cliff Redfern, a hard-ridin' Westerner who takes a liking to Easterner Ned Caldwell (Cullen Landis), the dissolute son of a wealthy cattle rancher. Certain that all Caldwell needs to become a "real man" is a dose of frontier life, Cliff kidnaps Ned and brings him back to the wide open spaces.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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Brass Buttons
Overview: Kingston Hollister admires Bernice Cleveland from afar. He asks Officer Callahan, the policeman on the beat, about her and mistakenly believes she is a lady's maid. So the wealthy Hollister disguises himself as the cop so he can meet her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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The Masked Heart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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Big Pal
Overview: A judge's daughter spurns his wealthy lifestyle and goes to do social work in poorer neighborhoods. There she meets a boxer contending for a championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-29
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Under Two Flags
Overview: Drama of life in the foreign legion of Africa
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-02
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Woman Wise
Overview: Woman Wise is a 1928 American silent comedy drama film directed by Albert Ray and starring William Russell, June Collyer, and Walter Pidgeon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-08
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Young Lochinvar
Overview: The “gallant young Lochinvar” and his stolen bride lead their pursuers on a merry chase
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-26
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David Copperfield
Overview: Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-17
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Up Romance Road
Overview: An engaged couple, whose two fathers are millionaire ship owners, is determined to put a little life in their engagement by writing a threatening letter.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-24
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A Self-Made Man
Overview: Jack Spurlock, the lazy son of a railroad tycoon, is estranged from his fiancée, Anita Gray, because he refuses to work. When his father disowns him, Jack is forced to take responsibility and save his father from ruin with Anita's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-25
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A Doll's House
Overview: Based on the play by Henrik Ibsen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-28
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Hearts or Diamonds?
Overview: Wealthy diamond collector Larry Hanrahan is given the opportunity to assist the beautiful, jewel-bedecked woman he admires in a Broadway café when she and her guardian are attacked by robbers. Larry is invited to visit the grateful pair, Col. Paul Gascoyne and his ward Adrienne, at the colonel's laboratory, where he is introduced to Wintermute, a chemist who produces imitation diamonds. In return, Larry asks them to view his priceless diamond collection. Although he has fallen in love with Adrienne, Larry is forced to believe that she is a thief when he is robbed by a woman wearing Adrienne's scarf. Larry finds his jewels in Gascoyne's house, but before he can escape, a group of thugs overpowers him. Adrienne assists him in contacting the police, who arrive in time to capture Gascoyne and his gang. Badly wounded, the colonel confesses that Adrienne has been his innocent dupe, whereupon Larry happily takes her to his heart.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-29
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The Bruiser
Overview: Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-23
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The Lady from the Sea
Overview: Ellida was the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, and spent many hours near the water's edge. While she was still scarcely more than a child, one of these ships put in for repairs at a fishing village near the lighthouse, and its second officer, while on a day's outing to kill time, visited the lighthouse. He there met Ellida, whose youth and beauty he admired. While his ship was still undergoing repairs, the second officer quarreled with his captain, and a fight ensued in which the captain was killed. The guilty man escaped from the ship, and making his way to the lighthouse, forced Ellida to assist in his flight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-12
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Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood and his followers aid the poor and oppressed from their hideout in Sherwood Forest, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-23
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Garden of Lies
Overview: An American girl marries the prince of a small European country. On their wedding day, the couple is involved in a car accident, the result of which is that the new bride suffers amnesia and can't remember who she is or anything about herself. While her new husband is off tending to his ailing father, the king, the woman's doctor hires a man to pose as her husband, hoping to jar her memory. She falls in love with her new "husband"; complications ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-12
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The Straight Road
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-12
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The Wrecked Taxi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-16
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The Silent Witness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-13
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Singing River
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-21
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The Lady from Longacre
Overview: To escape a loathsome marriage to the king of a neighboring principality, Princess Isabel flees her kingdom for England, where she is rescued by Lord Anthony Conway. His friends are distressed by his gay escapades, and they rebel when he encourages them to entertain the princess, assuming her to be an actress whom she strongly resembles. Returning to her country with the Englishman, she realizes that she must marry the neighboring king to save her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-02
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Snap Judgment
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-19
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Shackles of Truth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-04
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The Still Alarm
Overview: Lucy Fay leaves her husband, Richard, a fireman, for a suave politician, Perry Dunn. Richard compensates for the loss by adopting Drina, a baby girl whose mother perished in a fire. Drina develops into a beautiful young lady and becomes a model at a modiste shop owned by Dunn and managed by Lucy. Dunn is attracted to Drina and plots to get her alone by giving her a drugged drink. An untimely fire interferes with his plans, leaving Drina drugged and trapped by flames in Dunn's room, where she is sleeping.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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For the Mikado
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-18
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The Dancing Girl
Overview: Drusilla Ives, a young Quaker girl living on an isolated island, leaves to become the servant of the spendthrift Duke of Guisenberry in London, who is the Lord of her village. She finds that she is attracted to the bustling city's night life, and when the duke discovers that she is a fine dancer, he helps her turn professional. In short order she becomes known as Diana Valrose, the city's favorite dancer. Unfortunately, her strict father and her Quaker fiancee, John Christison, back on the island find out about her newfound fame and career and strongly disapprove--her father places a curse on her and her boyfriend marries her sister Faith. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-11
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