Joseph Levering
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 20, 1874
Age: 150 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 27, 1943
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Sporting Chance
Overview: A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-25
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The Lass of Gloucester
Overview: With a parting kiss, Betty Lane, a fisherman's daughter, and John Monroe, promise to meet later in the day at their trysting place on the seashore. Betty returns to keep the appointment and is waiting but a moment when a wealthy young yachtsman comes ashore for provisions. He flits with Betty and Betty's heart is lost. John arrives to find his sweetheart in the stranger's arms. Betty ignores John's protests and agrees to the newcomer's proposal that she pack her things, meet him in half an hour and elope. John hides and awaits their return. The yachtsman is the first to arrive. He has his provisions and has not forgotten a bottle of stimulant, most of which he has already consumed. John thrashes him for stealing his girl, throws him into his rowboat, and orders him to get aboard his yacht and not to return. On board the yacht the intoxicated yachtsman drops a match near the oil tank.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-16
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Overview: Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-09
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The Dream Woman
Overview: In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arrives at his destination too late. Forced to retrace his steps, he seeks shelter in a little inn, forgetting that the hour of his birth is approaching. In the middle of the night he awakens, terrified with fright… Based on Wilkie Collins' novel “The Dream Woman”.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-01
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The Temptations of Satan
Overview: Satan decides to ruin the innocence of ambitious Everygirl , who has a beautiful voice and wishes to pursue a career singing in opera. He thus assumes human form and follows her in order to make sure that she accepts his terms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-01
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Brennan of the Moor
Overview: The film carries the slogan: ‘He Stole From the Rich to Give to the Poor’. It is a story of the ‘nobleman-bandit’, Brennan O'Malley, who is captured and imprisoned, but an attempt to drown him through flooding his cell fails. Recaptured after his escape from prison, he overwhelms a soldier and escapes again. He then holds up Lord Hastings and changes into his clothes. He escapes through a secret passage with Betty, Lady Lorrequer whom he had earlier rescued and with whom he had fallen in love. The couple cross a chasm with the aid of a human chain to elude Lord Hastings' troop of soldiers. In the pursuit, Hastings falls into the sea and is killed, while Brennan and Betty escape by ship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-07
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Shadows of the Moulin Rouge
Overview: A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Kelly from the Emerald Isle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-03
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The Fight for Millions
Overview: A New York detective solves the kidnapping of a rich banker by a gang of criminals, and clears the daughter's fiancé from being involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-01
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The Rogues of Paris
Overview: An heiress is saved from the predations of a gang of gentleman crooks by a female detective and her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-24
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How Sir Andrew Lost His Vote
Overview: A tale of English political intrigue. A certain member of Parliament, whose voice and vote would have passed an objectionable measure, is prevented from reaching the house in time by the opposition's subterfuge of a girl calling for assistance just as he passed her house. The young lady being an actress merely re-enacts a scene from the amateur theatricals she appeared in. The plan works holding him until it is too late to take part in the debate or vote upon the question and the bill did not pass.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-22
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The Awakening of John Bond
Overview: A slumlord learns just how important it is to maintain clean living quarters when his wife contracts tuberculosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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