Ruth Stonehouse
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Birthday: August 28, 1892
Deathday: May 12, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Fifth Avenue Models
Overview: A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-26
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The Phone Message
Overview: The Phone Message
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-21
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Lights Out
Overview: Notorious crooks "Hairpin" Annie and Sea Bass steal a suitcase on the train and discover that it is filled with scenarios. Its owner, Egbert Winslow, agrees to write a screenplay about the underworld with Sea Bass's help. Sea Bass, seeing a chance to expose a pal who has double-crossed him, describes "High-Shine" Joe and some of his underworld activities. Joe sees the film in a South American theater and recognizes himself. He goes to the motion picture studio determined to kill Egbert Winslow, but bank president Peyton, who has been robbed by Joe, appears simultaneously with the police and saves Winslow.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-12
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The Land of Jazz
Overview: Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-01
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The Hour and the Man
Overview: A lawyer defends a woman accused of murdering her husband without knowing that the murdered man was his own brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-09
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Jane
Overview: Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-09
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A Romance of the Night
Overview: Bob Halran, while riding in his machine, is struck by a small slipper which is thrown from a passing limousine. He suspects that the owner is in trouble, so speeds up, and by using a wrench as a revolver, forces the driver to stop. He then helps the girl into his car and they speed back to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-09
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The Creed of the Clan
Overview: Jim Bradley is on trial for murder, and at the eleventh hour, Sandy O'Connell furnishes an alibi, swearing that Bradley was with him at the time the murder was committed. Sandy is a very common sort of fellow, and when Bradley asks him why he did it, he replies that when he was a homeless kid of the gutter, Jim Bradley was pointed out to him as the man who gave money for the burial of his mother and father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-02
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The Slim Princess
Overview: Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the Princess Kalora, fat, synonymous with beauty in that country, have failed. Popova, the Princess's tutor, devises a terrible revenge because the count called him a Christian dog. He feeds the princess pickles to keep her thin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-24
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Broken Barriers
Overview: A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-18
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The Man Outside
Overview: While Ruth is on a visit of charity to one of the poor quarters of the city she is saved from insult by a young fellow of the slums. Out of gratitude she takes him to her home with the intention of having her father help him. Her father, however, forbids her to have anything to do with him and orders her to send him away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-11
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Autumn Love
Overview: Kathleen Clifford, a wealthy widow, is undecided whom to marry. Ralph Fenton, a man of her own age, or George Rosslyn, a youth in his twenties.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-02
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The Heart of the Law
Overview: Detective William Burke is assigned to capture George Watson, an escaped criminal. Six years of sleuthing discovers nothing, and Burke reports to the chief that he is unable to capture the fugitive from justice. During the six years Watson has prospered, and with his wife and family settles in a quiet dignified neighborhood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-09
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The Ghost of Self
Overview: Frank Johnson, a wealthy landlord, without a heart, has no mercy for the poor. His cold attitude towards the public in general has a great influence in his life, and when he proposes marriage to Eleanor Groves, his manner is indeed anything but that of love. Eleanor, although she cares for Johnson, reprimands him and tells him that she could never marry a man as cruel as he is. Her last line of rebuff, "The ghost of your better self will appear to you and make you realize what a beast you are," gets Johnson to thinking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-30
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Hearts and Flowers
Overview: As the result of a mistaken marriage, Mrs. Russell, broken in spirit and body, becomes ill and is ordered to the hospital by her physician. While her mother is ensconced in the hospital, her little daughter, Ruth, wanders aimlessly through the corridors and strikes up an acquaintance with Mr. Swift, a wealthy clubman, who is convalescing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-06
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The Conqueror
Overview: Bess abhors the sinfulness of her brothers, who are crooks of the worst kind, so one day, while they are planning some villainy, she takes some money which one of the brothers had placed on the table, leaves the house and disappears as if the earth had engulfed her. Bess goes to a distant part of the city, and rents a furnished room from a kindly-faced old lady, resolved to start life anew in a different environment. She secures employment in a large shirt factory and by diligent attention to work, becomes forelady and assistant to Williams, the owner of the factory. Jack, the weakling, completely worn out by the life he has led, is in the last stages of tuberculosis, when he accidentally meets Bess, and through helping him, her other brother, Frank, finds out where she is employed, and going to Williams, her employer, plays the "worried brother" part and tells him how Bess took the money and ran away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-20
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Nearly Married
Overview: Russell Shirley calls on Harriet Gorman, to whom he is engaged, and they happily plan for their wedding, which is to take place in a few days. On the night of the wedding the guests are assembled and the minister is half through with the ceremony, when Russell suddenly discovers that the ring with which to seal the marriage is not on his person and is nowhere to be found.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-28
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Speak No Evil
Overview: Ralph Murray and his wife are devoted to each other, yet they have their usual lovers' quarrels. One afternoon, Murray calls to see a friend, Jack Carson by name, who insists that Murray take his wife to luncheon. It so happens that Mrs. Murray sees her husband with "the other woman." The gossips spread the news fast, which develops into a suicide and a death by a broken heart. Speak no evil and the world is a song; speak thou evil and the world goes wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-10
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White Lies
Overview: Greg Hamilton, a young artist, decides to go east and try his fortune. He finds his work unappreciated, and is unable to earn a living. One day while strolling in the park with his wife, Helen, he saves a little girl's life by stopping her runaway horse, but breaks his finger in doing so. He is then unable to paint, and is forced to take a position in a factory, but tells his wife that he is writing stories for a magazine. A few days later, Helen tells him she has accepted a position as governess. Things go on nicely, but one day they discover they are both employed in the same factory but in different departments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-29
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Mother o' Dreams
Overview: Mother o' Dreams
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-18
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Mother o' Dreams
Overview: A poor orphan's dream of luxuries and a mother's love, which eventually becomes a reality
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-20
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An Unplanned Elopement
Overview: A young woman lingers too long on the boat seeing her sweetheart off, and the two embark together on an unplanned elopement to Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-17
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Fires of Fate
Overview: Dick Fellows is jilted by his sweetheart and is left with a beautifully furnished little apartment. He locks up the flat and moves to a hotel. Months pass and a mysterious girl in the hotel interests him. She is alone and evidently has some great sorrow. Discovering that she is unable to pay her bill, Dick is more interested than ever. One night fire sweeps the hotel. Dick risks his life to rescue her, and learns that she has been deserted by the man she came to marry. Amidst the roar of the flames their sorrows are united in a bond of common love, and they are saved from death only after a terrific struggle several stories above the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-03
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An Angel Unaware
Overview: Mrs. Dixon had an ungovernable temper which finally brought about a separation between her and her husband. She moved to other parts, taking her child with her. In the years that passed, he longed for the companionship of his wife and finally seeks pleasure in the company of one of the factory girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-02
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Yarn a-Tangle
Overview: They loved each other when they were young. They were about to elope when Frank met with an accident which caused the loss of his memory. She pined for a while and then married. He forgot about her. Years later, Margaret lost her husband and Frank lost his wife. Business brought the two of them together and they married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-28
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The Little 'He and She'
Overview: Celia had been married only a few months. Her husband received a small salary, and Celia could not understand why it was she did not have the pretty things her friends had. One day, while on a shopping tour with her chum, Rose, she is persuaded to buy two beautiful statuettes. The price was a little more than she could afford, but she thought she could pay her chum for them, thereby not creating the suspicions of her husband. Her conscience gets the better of her, however, and she confesses all to him. They quarrel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-16
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The Daring Young Person
Overview: James Ward, a prosperous young lawyer, falls in love with a pretty girl he sees passing in a limousine. Later, he meets her quite accidentally and is surprised when she enlists his aid in securing a letter for her from the home of a wealthy broker, that necessitates his burglarizing the place at midnight.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-30
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The Servant Question
Overview: Ellen, a heiress, becomes tired of living an idle life so applies for a position as a maid to Mrs. Newlyrich. She is accepted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-08
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From the Submerged
Overview: A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman. When she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-12
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Follow the Girl
Overview: Orphan Hilda Swanson's prayers are answered when a Swedish-American colonization company agrees to send her to America. Aboard the steamer, she meets Olaf, a young Swede, and Donna, an enemy courier who is posing as a passenger. Learning that the secret service is on her trail, Donna sews secret documents into the hem of Hilda's skirt. She then sends a wire to her comrade Felix Martinez, notifying him to intercept the Swedish girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-06
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Two-Fisted Sheriff
Overview: A heroic lawman rescues Midge Blair from a runaway stage. Returning to town, Jerry is assigned to safeguard a valuable shipment of platinum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-12
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Straight Through
Overview: O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-05
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The Crimson Wing
Overview: The hero is a young soldier who is in love with two girls simultaneously. While on the battlefield, the soldier learns that one of his sweethearts has committed suicide. Only temporarily taken aback, he begins to dream of the blissful domesticity which he will enjoy with the other girl upon his return.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the error of her ways.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-07
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The Laird of McGillicuddy
Overview: Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her engagement to Charles. Out of revenge, Charles and his friends turn Kees the milkman into a Scottish lord, who is meant to make a big impression at the ball. He dances very rudely with Louise, and out of nervousness admits that he is only a milkman. Charles responds angrily, and pretends that this was a joke that his friends had arranged; he then tries to hit Kees and his friends. Louise stops him, and they kiss, once again in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-23
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The Ape
Overview: A supposedly tame ape suddenly goes on a rampage in a small town. Based on a true story.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-28
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The Masked Rider
Overview: The setting of the story is Mexico. Violent bandit and cattle rustler Pancho, his rude henchman Santas and a group of raiders have sworn to drive the settlers out of the Border country. In the conflict that follows, Harry's father Bill is mortally wounded, and Pancho's hands are crushed, supposedly by the ranchers, though the act is actually committed by his traitorous and vengeful lieutenant Santas and his equally slimy compatriot Rodriguez, whom Pancho has offended by denying one his daughter's hand, and the other permission to pursue Rancher's daughter Ruth Chadwick. Pancho swears bitter revenge on the Burrels and the two factions resolve to destroy each other.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-07
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When Soul Meets Soul
Overview: An archeologist discovers an ancient parchment inside a mummy case, and realizes that he is the reincarnation of the lover of an Egyptian princess who took her own life many centuries earlier.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-03
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The Master Mystery
Overview: In this action-packed serial, government agent Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbed wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-18
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A Wolf Among Lambs
Overview: Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run away with him. Valeska, the sister, finds a note on the table the following morning, telling her that Giulia has gone, never to return. Months later, however, Giulia returns to her home, having been deserted by her unfaithful lover. Giulia enters the convent. The sister meets Don Fernando some time later. He tries to influence the girl to marry him. Don Fernando's life is saved by Sister Valencia, who interferes just as Valeska is about to stab the villain. Valeska is later thrown into a dungeon by Fernando, who declares he will '"have her." The pretty Spanish girl does not stay in her prison long. Sister Valencia, discovering Valeska's whereabouts, gets her out of her prison in a clever way. Valeska then enters the convent, where her sister is overjoyed at the happy meeting, and ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-03
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Dawn and Twilight
Overview: A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-03
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The Satin Woman
Overview: Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-24
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The Hope
Overview: An upper class melodrama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-07
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The Virtue of Rags
Overview: A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-17
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Love Never Dies
Overview: Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-23
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The Saintly Sinner
Overview: When her father goes broke in the stock market, Jane Lee is forced to leave her prestigious boarding school. Glad-handing John Brock, an old friend of Jane's father, arranges for the girl to be hired as his stenographer. But Brock's lecherous ulterior motives become obvious when he locks Jane in the office and tries to rape her. When she manages to escape his advances, Brock vengefully frames the girl on a robbery charge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-02-26
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Rosalind at Redgate
Overview: Returning to House of a Thousand Candles a mystery unfolds involving two lookalike girls...or is there only one very crafty one?
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-11
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Ermine and Rhinestones
Overview: Long Island socialite Billy Kershaw (Niles Welch) is engaged to wealthy Peggy Rice (Ruth Stonehouse), but she prefers to "play the field" with other men. When Billy tires of Peggy's randy behavior and returns to his ex-sweetheart Minette (Edna Murphy), the suddenly possessive Peggy heads to Minette's home, hoping to bribe the girl into giving up the boy. At that very moment, one of Minette's jealous ex-boyfriends breaks into her house, ties and gags the poor girl, and turns on the gas. Library of Congress holds a complete negative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-01
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Love Aflame
Overview: Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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The Devil's Cage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-26
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Are All Men Alike?
Overview: In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) takes her to a Greenwich Village cafe, she thinks she's found where she belongs. So she spends all her time there and gets herself in a load of trouble.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-08
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Kinkaid, Gambler
Overview: Determined to maintain her status as a star detective, Nellie Gleason goes after Jim Kinkaid, who has fled to Mexico after robbing real estate magnate George Arnold.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-04
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The Edge of the Law
Overview: Nancy Glenn is a pupil in Pop Hogland's school for crooks. When, attired as a boy named "Spider", Nancy fails at her lessons as a pickpocket, Pop decides to pair her with Pliny Drew, a graduate thief and swindler.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-24
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The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Overview: In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner that evening, but forgets to tell him she has moved from her old address. He goes to the old home where he is met at the door by Celia Thayer, a guest of the Holbrooks, who now occupy the residence. None of the family being at home, Ceclia admits him, thinking he has been invited to dinner. When her hostess does not arrive the two have dinner together and become quite infatuated. Later it develops that the house was robbed while Mr. Hartley was there and, of course, he is suspected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-19
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The Spirit of the Lake
Overview: The Spirit of the Lake is a 1921 American silent short Western drama film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-30
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The Honor of Rameriz
Overview: The Honor of Rameriz is a 1921 American silent short Western film produced by Cyrus J. Williams and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Robert North Bradbury and stars Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, and Ruth Stonehouse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-16
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The Romance of an American Duchess
Overview: The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the hand of Stephana Martin, an American heiress, defeating Marquis Ferdinand, an adventurer and his rival.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-08
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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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Fighting for Love
Overview: Two cowboys, Jim and Johnny Little Bear, discover a rich mine and decide to spend some of their money traveling. Their travels lead them to the kingdom of Queen Sylvia, who is being warred upon by the neighboring monarch Ferdinand because she will not marry him. Sympathetic to the Queen's plight, the cowboys wire to America for the rest of the gang, who arrive just in time to rout Ferdinand's attack.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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I Am Guilty
Overview: Connie (Louise Glaum) is married to attorney Robert MacNair (Mahlon Hamilton). When he leaves town on a business trip, her friend from the old days, Molly May (May Hopkins), invites her to a party. Connie, who misses her old life, decides to go under an assumed name. Teddy Garrick, the host (Joseph Kilgour), makes a play for her and she burns her shoulder trying to get away from him. Dillon, a burglar who is hiding in the house (George Cooper), surreptitiously presses a gun into Connie's hand from behind a curtain. As Garrick comes toward her he is shot dead.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Broken Threads United
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-29
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