Allan Forrest
Also Known As: Allan Forrest Fisher, Alan Forrest, Alan Forest, Allen Forrest
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 01, 1885
Age: 139 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 25, 1941
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The Master Key
Overview: A movie serial from 1914
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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The Little Sister
Overview: The brother, a ne'er-do-well, is strongly influenced by the crook, who in turn has designs on Little Sister who works in a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-24
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The Heart Specialist
Overview: Because he believes that romance is dead, the city editor wants to can the "advice to the lovelorn" column. Rosalie Beckwith, the column's author, naturally disagrees with him. The editor suggests that she prove him wrong by seeing if she can find romance within a 40-mile radius of the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-09
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Powers That Prey
Overview: Publisher Burton exposes politician Jarvis as a crook and is run out of town. He asks his daughter Sylvia to turn the newspaper over to his editor Frank. Instead, Sylvia fires Frank and takes the publisher’s duties herself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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Discord and Harmony
Overview: Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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The Hole in the Wall
Overview: When spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-12
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Social Briars
Overview: Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-13
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The Winged Horseman
Overview: Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-24
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Riding for Fame
Overview: A champion bronc buster is hired to break horses, but winds up accused of stealing money from his boss. He has to clear his name and find the real thieves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-19
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The Wild West Show
Overview: "Rodeo" Bill is a hard-nosed, fun-loving cowboy who likes a lot of action and will go out of his way to create some if things are going too dull to suit him. He attends a circus/wild west show and stirs up some trouble with both the locals and the troupers but, after seeing Ruth Henson, the daughter of the show's operator/owner, he decides to join up and travel with the circus. He also manges to take care of some trouble not of his doing.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-20
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The Phantom Bullet
Overview: When Click's father is killed by a phantom bullet, he returns home to find the killer. To put the killer off guard he poses as a dude with a camera. Unknown to Click, the camera will reveal the killer's identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-09
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Summer Bachelors
Overview: Derry Thomas is a pretty girl from a good family who earns her own living, but is disillusioned about marriage and is firmly set against ever getting married. Nothing against men, just marriage. She is drawn into the company of some rich businessmen whose wives have gone away for the summer. Parties follow in New York nightclubs, road-houses, country clubs and fashionable estates. Situations and contradictions follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-18
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Doctor's Orders
Overview: Doctor's Orders is a 1932 comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-08
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When Joe Went West
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1913-12-01
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Ankles Preferred
Overview: Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-27
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The Eyes of Julia Deep
Overview: The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story by the same name, written by Kate L. McLaurin. It is one of the few films starring Minter which are known to have survived.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-01
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Captain Blood
Overview: Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Genres: War Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-21
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The Prince of Pilsen
Overview: Frederick, Prince of Pilsen, rebelling against his coming marriage with Princess Bertha of Thorwald, meets Hans Wagner, a brewer, and his daughter Nellie. The brewer, mistaking the prince for the son of a friend, asks him to join in a banquet. Hans becomes intoxicated, dresses up in a uniform, and is then mistaken by a coachman for the prince and brought to the palace
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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The Ghost of Rosy Taylor
Overview: George Periolat plays a dual role in this film, initially as Joseph Sayles a sickly old man who has taken his daughter, Rhoda (played by Mary Miles Minter), overseas after a quarrel with his family. She yearns to return home, but he has disowned his past. After his death, Rhoda ventures to America on her own. She nearly becomes destitute for a lack of money but happens upon some questionable fortune as she takes on the chores of Rosy Taylor after inadvertently finding an envelope with money in it. Rosy had been hired as a housekeeper (thus the money), but has passed away before actually showing up for employment.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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The Sleeping Beauty
Overview: Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip. To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora, Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him. The good fairies are the last hope to free Phillip so that he can awaken Aurora.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-26
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The Invisible Fear
Overview: A young woman mistakenly believes she has killed a man in a struggle to repel his unwanted advances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-10
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Captivating Mary Carstairs
Overview: A 1915 film directed by Bruce Mitchell.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Overview: In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-24
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The Circus Show-Up
Overview: The sixth in The Shadow series of shorts from Universal. In this one the circus trapeze artist falls to her death when someone flips the light switch just as she starts her famed triple somersault. It only takes the circus manager about fifteen minutes to figure out the obvious suspect was the guilty one.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-17
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Two Can Play
Overview: Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her fiance James Radley (Forrest), but her father disproves of him. He hires Robert McWorth (MacDonald), a former pilot, to discredit Radley by exposing indescretions in either his past or present contuct. McWorth leaves some valuable pearls for Radley to steal, but this plan fails, so he arranges for himself, Radley and Dorothy to become stranded on a desert island. Ultimately, Radley proves himself as the better man. After surviving both the elements and McWorth's scheming, he and Dorothy are married. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-02-21
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Old Clothes
Overview: Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love with him, but his mother feels she is beneath Nathan. Nathan faces disaster unless he can corner a particular stock, with which Timothy and Max's room happens to be entirely papered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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Crinoline and Romance
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-05
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Dangerous Nan McGrew
Overview: Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is invited to put on a show for the benefit of Mrs. Benson's Christmas-Eve guests. While performing her boop-a-doop songs, Eustace Macy, the saxophone-tooting nephew of Mrs. Benson falls in love with Nan. And, then, the villain, the bank-robbing Doc Foster, makes his entrance. Can Dawes of the Royal Mounted be seen slushing in pursuit behind the gangster? Could Be.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-22
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The Great Divide
Overview: Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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The Dressmaker from Paris
Overview: An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-30
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The Desert Bride
Overview: Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-26
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Long Live the King
Overview: A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people begin to rise in revolution. When the crown prince finally hears the death knell for the late king he immediately attempts to return to the palace, however is abducted by revolutionaries and held captive. Will he be rescued in time to restore order?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Pampered Youth
Overview: An silent adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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The New Teacher
Overview: Society girl Constance Bailey becomes a schoolteacher in New York's Lower East Side, telling her fiancé, Bruce Van Griff, that she is sailing to Europe.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-20
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The Great Air Robbery
Overview: A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-28
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The Siren Of Seville
Overview: Young Gallito (Allan Forrest) wants very badly to become a matador. His sweetheart, Dolores (Priscilla Dean), does everything she can to help him and she wheedles Pedro, a renowned bullfighter (Matthew Betz), into helping him, too. Gallito becomes a success, but he is vamped by Ardita (Claire Delorez) after Pedro is killed in the ring.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-17
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Beauty and the Rogue
Overview: Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and eventually sells a brooch to her boyfriend, Richard, who unknowingly gives it to her as a present.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-29
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Li Ting Lang
Overview: In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-24
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Cheated Love
Overview: Sonya Schnoema, a Jewish girl, comes to the United States as an immigrant and works in her father's ghetto grocery store, where she gains the affections of a young settlement worker, David Dahlman. But she loves Mischa, a young doctor who soon arrives from Odessa, and to aid him financially, she distinguishes herself in the local Yiddish theater.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-16
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The Amazing Impostor
Overview: Rich young Joan Hope is ashamed of how her father made his money--as a chewing gum magnate. While taking a train trip, she meets the Countess of Crex, a member of the Russian nobility--who is, in reality, a jewel thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-02
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Peggy Leads the Way
Overview: A small-town girl returns home from schooling in the East to find that her father's small store and indeed the whole town are in danger of being eliminated by a ruthless land developer. The developer has a son who falls for the young girl, and together they try to come up with a plan to save her father's store and the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-28
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Fifth Avenue
Overview: When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-24
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Her Fatal Millions
Overview: Mary Bishop, a clerk in a jewelry store, finds out that her ex-boyfriend Fred Garrison, who left town to make his fortune, is coming back and wants to see her. Having heard that Fred has married a wealthy society girl and is quite rich, Mary borrows some jewelry from the store, dresses up in her finest and when she sees Fred, tells him that she has married the richest man in town and is now quite well-off. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-09
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Seeing's Believing
Overview: Because of a storm wealthy Diana Webster and Jimmy Harrison, her Aunt Sue's fiancé, must stay all night at a country hotel. Getting a single room, they pretend they are married to satisfy the concerns of the hotel manager though Jimmy sleeps on a cot in the hall. Another hotel guest, Bruce Terring misconstrues the situation and later when he meets Diana his scandalous interpretation of her escapade infuriates the young woman. She decides to teach him a lesson and show him that "seeing is not always believing" by placing him in a similar unusual position. She hires an acting couple to frame a badger game on Bruce, but they double-cross her, forcing Diana into an extorting scheme from which Bruce must rescue her, resulting in a snappy but happy ending for Bruce and Diana.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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Rose of the World
Overview: In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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The Mate of the Sally Ann
Overview: A crusty old sea captain, who hates society, lives in the hulk of his ship with his granddaughter whom he prevents from meeting people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-26
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Tillie
Overview: Tillie Getz, the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz, a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz, an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-30
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Sally of the Scandals
Overview: Sally of the Scandals is a 1928 American silent crime drama film produced and released by Film Booking Offices of America. It was directed by Lynn Shores and starred Bessie Love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-15
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Heritage
Overview: Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-29
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The Silent Command
Overview: Unable to pay for the operation that cured his daughter, a man promises to surrender her to the doctor on her eighteenth birthday. Knowing that the physician wishes to make her the subject of his experiments with hypnotism, the distressed father ultimately reneges on his promise, whereupon the doctor attempts to hypnotize the girl from afar.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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Partners Again
Overview: Goldwyn produced a 1923 film adaptation of Potash and Perlmutter, and a 1924 sequel called In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter. In Partners Again the two are in the automobile industry -- This is a lost Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-15
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The Man Between
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-15
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The Purple Cipher
Overview: Jeanne Baldwin, Leonard Staunton, Alan Fitzhugh and Jack Baldwin are guided on a tour of underground dens in Chinatown by Hop Lee. During their trip, Wang Foo abducts Jeanne, and she and her companions are rescued through the intervention of private detective Frank Condon. Three months later, Fitzhugh is missing, supposedly murdered by the Chinese. Jack Baldwin is threatened, poisoned and his body disappears. Next, a threat against Jeanne is received by Staunton. To save her life, he is to meet the blackmailers at a bay in the harbor. Enlisting the aid of a submarine, Staunton captures the three conspirators, who turn out to be the missing victims in the case, led by Condon. The three had planned the escapade to extort money from Staunton. The mystery thus resolved, Staunton and Jeanne are married. A lost film.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-11
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The Stolen Master
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-06
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Love Is Law
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-22
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The Scapegrace
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-08
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Prisoners of Conscience
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-26
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A Bachelor's Wife
Overview: Mary O'Rourke, an Irish immigrant, arrives in America to find her friend Norah and their baby deserted by Norah's husband, John Stuyvesant, later claiming to be his cousin and finding a way to prove John married Norah, leading to a happy ending for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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The Intrusion of Isabel
Overview: Bankrupt when their father dies Isabel and Bert Trevor sell their Southern home and move to New York where Bert finally finds employment as butler to wealthy Jack Craig. Ashamed of his job Bert tells Isabel that he is Craig’s partner. When Bert impulsively absconds with some of Craig’s cash to Montana Isabel thinking half the Craig residence is hers moves in. Jack smitten says nothing and they draw close. When a returning Bert exposes gold digger Lois Randall as trying to trap Jack into marriage and returns the money he took, all is forgiven.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-13
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Rosemary Climbs the Heights
Overview: Rosemary van Voort lives in the countryside with her elderly Dutch parents. The wooden dolls she carves so beautifully catch the eye of a group of artists who are having a picnic in the area. Among them is aspiring opera singer Ricardo Fitzmaurice. Rosemary is convinced to move to New York City where she becomes wildly successful, but when the temperamental Madame Fedoreska, who is in love with Ricardo, becomes insanely jealous of his growing affection for Rosemary she threatens to kill her. When Madame turns up shot to death, the police look at Rosemary as a suspect--and even worse, she has no alibi.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-01
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Her Country's Call
Overview: A mountain girl with an army-hating father, meets a handsome army captain, who teaches her how to love her country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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Don't Doubt Your Husband
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-24
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