Gaston Glass
Also Known As: Gaston-Jacques Glass, Gaston J. Glass, Jacques Gaston Oscar Glass
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: December 30, 1899
Deathday: November 11, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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She Got What She Wanted
Overview: Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop keeper, dreams of a prosperous future from the book he is writing. Their boarder, Dave, a partner in a gambling establishment, makes a play for Mahyna; she is tempted to leave with him when Eddie, a former admirer, arrives on the scene, and the two get into constant arguments over her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-09
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I Am the Law
Overview: Brothers Tom and Bob Fitzgerald are both members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Bob falls in love with schoolteacher Joan Cameron when he saves her from an attack by Fu Chang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-01
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The Bad Lands
Overview: Patrick Angus O'Toole is a military officer assigned to investigate a gang of gunrunners operating near Fort Sumner in the Dakota Bad Lands. At the fort, O'Toole comes to the aid of Mary Owen, who is being harassed by Captain Blake. The irate Blake gives Mary's cowardly brother, Hal, 24 hours to pay his gambling debt. In desperation, Hal robs the Pony Express, a crime for which O'Toole is arrested.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-15
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Tiger Rose
Overview: A mountie pursues a man wanted for murder.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-21
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Name the Woman
Overview: Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-25
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Jewish Prudence
Overview: Papa Gimplewart, father to three children is unimpressed by the young lawyer who wants to marry his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-27
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Pilot X
Overview: Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Trouping with Ellen
Overview: Ellen Llewellyn is a chorus girl who is loved by orchestra leader Andy Owens, a genuinely nice guy. When Ellen meets the aristocratic Tony Winterslip, she's impressed by his family tree and vast wealth. When Winterslip's car breaks down during a rainstorm, Ellen gets drenched and contracts pneumonia. It takes much persuasion, but finally Ellen agrees to recuperate at the Winterslip country home.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-05
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Becky Sharp
Overview: The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book "Vanity Fair", the film looks at the English class system during the Napoleonic Wars era.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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Little Miss Smiles
Overview: The Jewish Aaronson family lives in simple neighborhoods in the ghetto of a big city. Esther spreads the sun with her smile and when her mother goes blind and is taken to hospital, she takes on the role of head of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-01-15
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Glass Houses
Overview: When a wealthy young lady loses her inheritance, she decides to apply for work in disguise. In prim and proper working girl attire she becomes the respectable companion of a woman looking to reform her wayward nephew.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-06
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Obey Your Husband
Overview: An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-15
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I Am the Man
Overview: A jealous politician tries to force a woman to marry him by framing her father for a crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand
Overview: 15-Chapter Serial about a scientist that discovers a formula for making synthetic gold and the people that want it.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-17
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Just Like Heaven
Overview: Tobey is a headstrong peddler who sells balloons on the streets of Paris. A traveling dog circus usurps his corner and a power struggle ensues between Tobey and the circus's beautiful ballet star, Mimi. Intent on ruining the circus's chances at success, Tobey sabotages their performances. But after a tragedy befalls Mimi, Tobey has a dramatic change of heart and views Mimi in a completely new way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-21
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Mothers of Men
Overview: Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to the safety of her French cousins, the De La Mottes. There she falls in love with their eldest son Gerome. On the night before their wedding, Marie sends a letter to Gerome confessing her indiscretion with the Prussian, but the letter is returned unopened. Soon after, she recognizes a new household servant to be Von Pfaffen, who demands that Marie disclose war secrets in return for his silence about her past. Torn, she passes on false information, which disgraces the Prussian. In revenge, he attempts to kill Marie, but she shoots him in self-defense. Shaken by remorse, Marie presents Gerome with her confession, which, he then reveals, he had read the night of their wedding. Their life thus unclouded, Marie announces she is expecting Gerome's child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-10
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The Big Trail
Overview: A large caravan of settlers attempt to cross the Oregon Trail. French-language version of The Big Trail (1930) with an alternate cast and co-director.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-29
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There Are No Villains
Overview: In San Francisco, California, Rosa Moreland of the Secret Service is unable to obtain evidence against suspected opium smuggler George Sala. She then advises Detective Flint of her plan to develop a relationship with John King, an impoverished, disabled ex-soldier who Rosa met in George's office. After claiming to have lost her home in a fire, Rosa is invited to stay in John's modest flat. He receives money from a mysterious source, enabling them to afford a more expensive apartment, and they soon fall in love. Although Rosa secretly witnesses John receiving a package from George, she tells the skeptical Flint that her lover is above suspicion. John agrees to end his association with George if Rosa will marry him, and, realizing that a wife cannot legally testify against her husband, she agrees.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-14
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The Faker
Overview: Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-02
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Monte Cristo
Overview: A film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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Desire
Overview: Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-11
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Gimme
Overview: A young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she--not liking to ask her husband for money--writes a check on her husband's account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-14
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Sutter's Gold
Overview: Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Fatal Lady
Overview: On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-15
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Custer's Last Stand
Overview: Kit Cardigan seeks the killer of his father...among other plot threads leading up to the famous historical incident.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Geraldine
Overview: Ambitious social climber Mr. Wygate hires charming rogue Eddie Able to polish his shy daughter Geraldine into a dazzling debutante. Geraldine, smitten with the aloof lawyer Bell Cameron, initially embraces Eddie's lessons. However, Eddie falls for her genuine spirit and clashes with Mr. Wygate's aspirations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-20
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The Red Mark
Overview: A pickpocket has finally earned his release from the South Seas penal colony ruled with calculated cruelty by Monsieur De Nou, but Bibi Ri won’t return to Paris without his girl. When De Nou, known for dispatching all problems via guillotine, claims her as his own, only one terrible outcome seems possible. Stunning photography, potent compositions, and a chilling performance by Gustav von Seyffertitz as the mercilessly corrupt governor make this recently restored jewel a must-see—even before the dramatic plot twist.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-26
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Espionage
Overview: Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Humoresque
Overview: Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-29
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The Midnight Flower
Overview: Mary is called the "Midnight Flower" because each evening at midnight she does a wild dance atop a gaming table in a local gambling den. A young Spaniard in love with Mary, who would rescue her, stages a holdup at the most profitable table and passes the money on to her. In attempting to escape, she is caught, arrested, and jailed. While she is in prison, she meets a young evangelist who runs a mission in the slums. They fall in love, and on her release Mary joins him in the missionary work. This sets the local tongues wagging and complicates the affair until it is revealed that Mary is the daughter of a wealthy family--lost to a kidnapper when she was an infant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-09
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The Princess Comes Across
Overview: A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Genres: Comedy Romance Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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The Mad Marriage
Overview: Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive writer Walter Butler. They are about to marry when he is revealed to be her natural father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-30
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Sweet Daddies
Overview: Stage comedian Patrick O'Brien is fired from his job because of his drinking celebration of his son, Jimmy, graduating from college. After the show he meets his son on a cabaret and there meets Abel Finklestein and his daughter, Miriam, and the two fathers form a business alliance, suspected of being bootlegging. They are arrested but are released after it is found they were importing molasses - but Miriam has to promise to marry Sam Berkowitz to secure the release. Jimmy and both fathers are unhappy with this turn of events. This film is lost.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-06-12
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The Kingdom Within
Overview: Silent film directed by Victor Schertzinger
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-24
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Two in the Dark
Overview: Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-10
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The Call of the Klondike
Overview: A desert prospecter, Dick Norton, decides to head to the Klondike in search of gold. In the Klondike, Norton becomes a mining engineer whose honesty upsets a crooked Mortimer Pearson. Norton's girlfriend, Violet Winter and her father suddenly arrive in town.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-24
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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The Branded Woman
Overview: A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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Tentacles of the North
Overview: Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice. (Silent Film)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-25
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Her Sacrifice
Overview: A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-26
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The Gorilla
Overview: An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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The Song of Life
Overview: A woman abandons her husband and baby to look for a better life in the big city. Years later, as an elderly woman, she finds her son living in the big city and tries to make amends by moving in with him without revealing her secret identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-02
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Flying Fool
Overview: Adventures and romance in the initial era of aviation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Overview: A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-25
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Subway Sadie
Overview: A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to accept a much dreamed for work transfer to Paris, or stay and get married.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-12
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Exclusive Rights
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-15
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The Corsican Brothers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-01-26
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The Lost Battalion
Overview: World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-02
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Parisian Nights
Overview: American sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-27
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Behind Closed Doors
Overview: Behind the doors of a foreign government's embassy in Washington D. C., a group of royal loyalists is attempting to raise funds to aid a counter-revolution and restore the deposed emperor in a new republic. They are led by an unknown leader called 'The Eagle."
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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Her Winning Way
Overview: Ann Annington (Minter) writes book reviews for a newspaper and when a reporter fails his assignment to get an interview with the noted author Harold Hargrave (Glass), she undertakes to meet the young man. She rents the room next door to his work shop and by impersonating a maid soon wins his good graces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-02
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The Scarlet West
Overview: Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his own people. He is made captain of the U.S. army when he saves a detachment of cavalry from a group of renegade Indians, and further removes himself from his race when he develops a relationship with Miriam, the daughter of the Fort Remmington commandant. Lieutenant Parkman (Walker) gets into a fight with Cardelanche when Parkman is demoted, while General Custer's troops are slaughtered by Cardelanche's people. Cardelanche decides that his true allegiance is to his own race, and gives up Miriam to return to them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-26
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Gambling with Souls
Overview: Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Open Your Eyes
Overview: A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-24
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The World and His Wife
Overview: Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his protégé, young poet Ernesto, comes to live with them. Vicious gossip spreads false rumors of a love affair between the two young people and the evil Don Alvarez, the most bitter slanderer of all, goads Ernesto into challenging him to a duel. Don Julian, realizing that the youth is no match for one of the best swordsmen in Spain, forces the slanderer into a fight in which Don Alvarez is slain and Don Julian gravely wounded. Ernesto calls upon the dying Don Julian to convince him of his wife's innocence. Misled by his brother Severo, Don Julian believes the youth has come to visit Teodora, denouncing them both before dying, ironically driving Ernesto and Teodora from the house to face the world together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-18
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Life in Hollywood No. 2
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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God's Crucible
Overview: Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing both attracts Marjorie Menzies and earns him the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. At a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, her abuser is slain and Ivan arrested. Her escapee father confesses to the murder but both men are freed when a family servant who admits to the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-20
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The Romance of a Million Dollars
Overview: Troubled Breck Dunbarton is placed in the custody of his kindly Uncle Ezra, who trusts him, making him an equal heir with his other nephew, West. After being falsely accused of a theft at his college Breck is expelled he joins the Army and is sent to France. At the front he meets ambulance drive Marie Moore before returning home after the Armistice where he learns of his uncle's passing. Sending for Marie to be Mrs. Dunbarton's companion, both Breck and West fall in love with her. When a theft occurs Breck is suspected but he is aware that West is the culprit though he can't prove it. Marie discovers that a disguised West is the thief and rescued by Breck. When West confesses Breck is cleared gaining both Marie and a fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-07-15
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Mothers-in-Law
Overview: Farmer's son David Wingate marries city girl Vianna Courtleigh over his parents' objections. Her father gives him a job with the company; a baby is born to the young couple; but their happiness is marred by David's desire for a quiet domestic life in opposition to Vianna's love of excitement. David's mother comes to live with them when her husband dies. She observes their unhappiness and, after deciding that Vianna is at fault, determines to teach her a lesson. Eventually Vianna sees the folly of her ways and seeks forgiveness from David.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-09
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Lopez, le bandit
Overview: Lopez and his gang attack a ranch where he finds a man who once saved his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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The Danger Signal
Overview: A recently widowed and destitute young mother (Jane Novak) appeals to her wealthy and heartless father-in-law (Robert Edeson) for financial aid. Instead, he convinces her to hand over her new baby to his care so that the child will be brought up with "everything money can buy." Unbeknownst to the grandfather, we learn that there are twin sons and our heroine keeps one baby to raise herself. The narrative jumps ahead to the boy's twenty-first birthday and we see what's become of them. Not surprisingly, the wealthy son has grown up spoiled and greedy while the poor one works hard and loves his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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Compassion
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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