Lon Chaney
Also Known As: Leonidas Frank Chaney, Man of a Thousand Faces, Лон Чейни, Lon Chaney Sr.
Biography: Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques that he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces". Description above from the Wikipedia article Lon Chaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Birthday: March 31, 1883
Deathday: August 26, 1930
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Gender: Male
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-22
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The Monster
Overview: A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-16
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The Unknown
Overview: On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-29
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West of Zanzibar
Overview: A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-24
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A Blind Bargain
Overview: Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-03
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Overview: A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-14
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The Unholy Three
Overview: Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-20
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The Unholy Three
Overview: A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-12
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The Penalty
Overview: Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-15
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He Who Gets Slapped
Overview: After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-22
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While Paris Sleeps
Overview: Lon Chaney plays a Parisian sculptor who falls in love with his model (Mildred Manning). She, however, cares nothing for him. The film is considered lost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-21
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Damon and Pythias
Overview: The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-23
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The Horror Show
Overview: A history of horror movies.
Genres: Horror Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-06
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The Ace of Hearts
Overview: A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-17
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Fast Company
Overview: Lawrence Percival Van Huyler, a society fop, protests against the necessity of living up to his snobbish family's blue-blooded traditions. His fiancée, Alicia Vanderveldt, abandons him for Richard Barnaby, who ridicules the pampered Lawrence and brags of his own daring exploits in foreign countries. While the Van Huyler estate is undergoing renovation, Lawrence uncovers a box containing a confession written by the family's founder, Peter Van Huyler. In it, the patriarch admits that he was actually an Irishman of humble birth who made his fortune engaging in piracy on the high seas. Delighted, Lawrence takes a construction job and adopts a fighting attitude, challenging those who had previously made fun of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Bondage
Overview: Dorothy Phillips was starred as Elinor Crawford, a small-town girl who becomes a reporter on a big-city newspaper -- and immediately plunges into the "Bohemian" lifestyle. Assigned to interview a condemned murderer, Elinor must first obtain permission from criminal lawyer Evan Klavert (William Stowell), who happens to hail from Elinor's hometown and who prudishly disapproves of her current mode of living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-17
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Overview: In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-20
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Yesterday and Today
Overview: A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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London After Midnight
Overview: The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-03
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Shadows
Overview: Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathen', only to reveal hypocrisy amid the self-righteous township.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-10
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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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Poor Jake's Demise
Overview: Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-16
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The Stool Pigeon
Overview: Walter Jason, a young man from the country, comes to the big city to find a position, but fails to do so. Oswald Trumble, so known to society, though in reality a master crook, strolls through the park, his mind busy with a scheme to steal the jewels of Mrs. Crosby Moore, a leader of society, whose forthcoming fancy-dress ball is the talk of the town. As Trumble approaches the bench where Jason is seated, the young man arises, shows exhaustion and then slowly continues on his way. Struck with Jason's clean-cut appearance, Trumble follows the young man, trails him to the river, and prevents him from committing suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-19
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The End of the Feud
Overview: For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-12
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A Ranch Romance
Overview: Raphael Praz kidnaps heroine Kate.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-08
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The Oyster Dredger
Overview: Vera, an heiress, while on a trip to the seaside, sees and admires Jack, an oyster dredger. She takes a fancy to his mode of living and through her lawyer proposes to change places and life with him for a time, placing all her property in trust with her lawyer. Jack finally agrees to the proposition and is installed in the wealthy girl's home
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-14
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The Measure of a Man
Overview: Helen MacDermott, daughter of the Factor at Bear Lake, has been carefully and religiously brought up by her widowed father. Bob Brandt, a dashing young gambler and adventurer, stops at Bear Lake in his wanderings, and having occasion to visit the post to buy supplies, he becomes acquainted with Helen. She quickly surrenders to his charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-28
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For Those We Love
Overview: Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-01
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A Man's Country
Overview: Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town. He is scorned by the miners, gamblers and "loose women" of the place, especially Kate, who resents that Bowen calls her a "scarlet woman".
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
Overview: Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-04
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Life in Hollywood No. 3
Overview: Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-25
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-06
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The Road to Mandalay
Overview: Joe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a pockmarked, disreputable divekeeper in Singapore where he indulges in shady operations with Herrick, known as The Admiral. They ship for Mandalay, where Joe's daughter lives with a priest, Father James, and tends a curio shop, unaware that her father regularly sends money to Father James for her support. Although his daughter clearly finds him abhorrent, Joe determines to take her away until he learns that The Admiral has fallen in love with her and plans to marry her. He persuades Father James (actually his brother) not to perform the ceremony, and The Admiral is shanghaied by Joe's men. The girl, suspecting Joe, goes to his brothel in Singapore and is about to be assaulted by Charlie, a lecherous Chinaman, when Joe intervenes and is stabbed. The Admiral comes to her rescue and escapes with her on a boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-26
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Mockery
Overview: There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-13
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The Ways of Fate
Overview: Two men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-19
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Mr. Wu
Overview: When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-03-26
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Alas and Alack
Overview: A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-10
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The Blackbird
Overview: Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-13
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The Wicked Darling
Overview: A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-12-25
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: Reissued version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' with a synchronized score, sound effects, new dialogue sequences, and footage reshot by directors Ernst Laemmle and Frank McCormick.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-27
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The Scarlet Car
Overview: Paul Revere Forbes, an descendant of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-24
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The Shock
Overview: A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-10
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The Light in the Dark
Overview: A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief is told by the girl of a goblet, that could be the Holy Grail, which has healing powers and could help her. The thief, touched by her predicament, sets out to steal the goblet and bring it to her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-03
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Flesh and Blood
Overview: A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-22
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Outside the Law
Overview: Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-06
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Where East Is East
Overview: A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left behind in Southeast Asia and then moves in on her daughter's (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-04
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Overview: Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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While the City Sleeps
Overview: A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-15
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When Bearcat Went Dry
Overview: Bearcat Turner Stacy loves Blossom Fulkerson and promise her to give up drinking. Turner is arrested and he find Blossom in the arms of Jerry Henderson. Kindard Powers attack Handerson thinking he's a Officer. He can rescue himself and hid in Blossoms cabin. Later he is attacked again but this time rescued by Turner. He forces him into marry Blossom from hes deathbed and when he dies, Turner goes after Powers and kills him. Blossom leaves the community, but comes back and agrees to marry Turner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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Victory
Overview: Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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The Oubliette
Overview: Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-14
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By the Sun's Rays
Overview: The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-07-21
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The False Faces
Overview: During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters. However, German agents set out to stop him, headed by the man who was responsible for the death of the thief's sister.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-15
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Nomads of the North
Overview: A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-25
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The Trap
Overview: A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-08
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They Came from the Attic
Overview: A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-10
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Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
Overview: Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vaudeville routines. Later men and women, including Lon and Hazel and Lon's son, Creighton and his friends, and perhaps Eddie Parker, sit inside smoking, drinking, and talking.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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The Restless Spirit
Overview: The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories. In first is Napoleon. In the second he is a Knight. And in the third a Sultan. But in all the illusions he die. Meanwhile his wife is about to be send into the desert while refusing to remarry a Stranger. Before this could happen, the Dreamer arrives and send the Stranger into the desert. He becomes again a loved and respected member of the Town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-27
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
Overview: Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Overview: The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died in those 25 years. Finally there are tributes to the Screen Snapshots series by Cecil De Mille, Walt Disney, Louella Parsons and Rosalind Russell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
Overview: A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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The Empty Gun
Overview: Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold, which he has just brought from the mine, into safe keeping. Dave the agent hears him, and when he finally appeared, disappointment awaited Frank. "I can't take charge of the money," says Dave. "I'm sorry, Frank, but the train is late, and the gold can't go on tonight. I saw two suspicious-looking characters hanging around here, and I won't take the responsibility."
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-04
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Tell It to the Marines
Overview: U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-23
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The Tower of Lies
Overview: After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-10
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Overview: A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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The House That Shadows Built
Overview: The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the studio's founding in 1912. It was a promotional film for exhibitors and never had a regular theatrical release and includes a brief history of Paramount, interviews with various actors, and clips from upcoming projects (some of which never came to fruition). The title comes from a biography of Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, The House That Shadows Built (1928), by William Henry Irwin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Miracle Man
Overview: A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-26
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The Horror of It All
Overview: A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-23
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Overview: Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-16
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The Mark of Cain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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The Millionaire Paupers
Overview: Mrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-26
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Oliver Twist
Overview: Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver's family history waiting to come to light. Written by Snow Leopard
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-30
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London After Midnight
Overview: A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-01
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Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask
Overview: A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-02
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Overview: Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-03
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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
Overview: On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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The Gift Supreme
Overview: Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinherits his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-30
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The Forbidden Room
Overview: Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman, while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. This film is presumed lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
Overview: American silent short movie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-01
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Overview: Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to rescue a young woman from some thugs on a country road. It includes a gag featuring an exploding football. The rest of the cast includes Lon Chaney, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana, Josie Sedgwick and Herschel Mayall.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-30
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Back to Life
Overview: A gambler brings his sick wife to live in the mountains after learning she has tuberculosis and will need special care. The gambler soon tires of caring for his wife and becomes attached to a young girl at a local saloon. The gambler's wife discovers her husband's infidelity and wanders off into the forest to die. There she finds a hunted outlaw named Jim, weak from loss of blood, and she nurses him back to health. Jim, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, who then nurse her back to health. The wife decides to try to regain her husband's love, but upon returning home, she finds he has been shot dead by a rival (Lon Chaney) in a saloon brawl. She goes back to Jim, and they find happiness together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-11-24
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The Big City
Overview: Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Curly, who has been stealing jewelry from the rich and famous. Collins tricks the other crooks into turning the gems over to him, intending to use them for his own profit. But sweet heroine Sunshine eventually persuades Collins and his cohorts to turn honest. Considered a lost film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-23
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Thunder
Overview: A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-08
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The Sin of Olga Brandt
Overview: Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small salary. In addition she is handicapped by having the sole care of an invalid sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-03
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A Night of Thrills
Overview: Hazel and Jack are about to be married. At his death, Hazel's uncle, Howard Wild, has bequeathed to them as a wedding present a deed to the old Wild mansion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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Voices of the City
Overview: Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Triumph
Overview: This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-02
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A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
Overview: Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a figure more intriguing. Yet because of his numerous transformations, his face never became as iconic as that of, say, Boris Karloff. Accompanied by a soundtrack from Bernhard Lang, this “re-imagination of shots” taken from Chaney´s forty-six surviving films offers a beguiling excursion into the history of film. The director reveals surprising associations, while highlighting the enduring magic of works which are now more or less forgotten.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Richelieu
Overview: Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-09-26
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Overview: Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. But when Mark's ship arrives in port sans its captain, Joel takes over the command. His new bride, Priscilla, insists on coming along and they head for the South Seas, where Mark was last seen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-15
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The Next Corner
Overview: While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-18
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Broadway Love
Overview: A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-21
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If My Country Should Call
Overview: A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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The Place Beyond the Winds
Overview: The story of a young woman living in the wilderness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-06
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A Mother's Atonement
Overview: A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-17
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Overview: Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-24
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Hell Morgan's Girl
Overview: Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a painter, Roger finds himself drunk and on the skids in San Francisco's Barbary Coast. At a dive run by Hell Morgan (Alfred Allen), he meets Lola (Dorothy Phillips), who nurses him back to physical and moral health.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-05
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Anything Once
Overview: A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-08
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Fires of Rebellion
Overview: Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her sister Helen (Belle Bennett) has repeated the pattern by marrying Dan Mallory (Edward Brady). The new foreman, John Blake (William Stowell), fires Mallory. Mallory attacks him, but because of his alcohol abuse, his heart gives out and he dies. Blake asks Joe for Madge's hand, and he accepts for her. Madge longs for something better, when Cora, a former stenographer from the company (Golda Madden), writes her from the big city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-02
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Bobbie of the Ballet
Overview: Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical production in which she is currently starred. But when Velma proves to be fickle and unreliable, Jack shifts his affections to humble chorus girl Bobbie (Louise Lovely).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-12
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The Gilded Spider
Overview: An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-08
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The Grasp of Greed
Overview: En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-17
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The Piper's Price
Overview: After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business woman. Trouble begins when he foolishly invites her to lunch, setting gossipy tongues-wagging. The news reaches his devoted wife who has discovered she is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-08
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The Price of Silence
Overview: A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-11
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A Doll's House
Overview: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-11
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A Broadway Scandal
Overview: Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he's shipped Over There. After meeting several "nice" Frenchwomen, David returns to the states with a whole new perspective on things. It isn't long before he falls in love with Nenette (Carmel Myers), the daughter of French-born restaurateur Armande Bisson (Andrew Robson). But when Nenette is implicated in a murder, the disillusioned David instantly repudiates her -- and by extension, all Daughters of France.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-01
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The Flashlight
Overview: Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger -- when the trigger is stepped on by a passing animal, a flash goes off and the camera shoots the picture. Lane goes up to the mountains to try out his new contraption. When a recluse refuses to let him spend the night in his cabin, Lane goes to sleep out of doors, with the camera set up near by. In the middle of the night, he is awakened by the flash and the sound of gunshots. Trekking back to his own cabin the next day, he develops the picture, which is of a girl holding a rifle. He returns to the recluse's cabin where he is arrested for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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The Rescue
Overview: After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging Anne to save Nell's daughter Betty from marrying Kent, the ex-Mrs. Wetherall decides to journey to the Jerrold's home in the town of Wheaton to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-23
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Danger, Go Slow
Overview: Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "the Eel," the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works, is arrested. In the village of Cottonville, Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah, whom she later discovers is Jimmy's mother. When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton, who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarah's property, is planning to foreclose, she threatens to blackmail him, and he relents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-16
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat
Overview: When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroundings while Fannie, inheriting her father's disposition, remains and is raised as a thief.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-23
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Pay Me!
Overview: During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-01
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The Grand Passion
Overview: Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own financial ambitions; however, Jack envisions The Trumpet as an instrument of good and soon persuades Dick to clean up Powderville.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-28
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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Overview: Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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Paid in Advance
Overview: In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Riddle Gawne
Overview: When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he swears revenge.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-03
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Nadie inquietó más
Overview: A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso Ibañez Menta (1912-2004), spiritual disciple of Lon Chaney, the new man of a thousand faces, master of horror, star of Argentinean theater, cinema and television for decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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That Devil, Bateese
Overview: After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school. Kathleen loses her way between the station and the village and is attacked in the woods by the town bully, Louis Courteau. Seeing a pretty woman in distress, Bateese Latour, a warmhearted lumberjack whose drunken temper tantrums have earned him the sobriquet "That devil, Bateese," beats off her attacker. A short time later, Bateese falls in love with Kathleen, and promising to abandon his drinking, he carries her off and marries her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-02
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The Talk of the Town
Overview: Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," she takes its advice to heart. She uses her newly found wiles on Lawrence Tabor (William Stowell) and gets him to marry her. Only after the wedding does she tell him she married him just to get away from her family, and that she intends to do exactly as she pleases.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-28
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Bits of Life
Overview: This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Chinese father and a white mother is sold into slavery by his father. The boy becomes a criminal and a cunning but cruel thief. The one time he stops to help a lady in distress he is thrown in jail. Wesley Barry is the young boy and Lon Chaney the grown-up criminal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-26
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The Grip of Jealousy
Overview: In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in the care of one of her sister's slaves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-28
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Tangled Hearts
Overview: Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his marital situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-02
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Universal Horror
Overview: A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Hollywood Story
Overview: A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Dolly's Scoop
Overview: James Fairfax, editor of the scandalous Morning Argus, stops at nothing for a juicy story, much to the disdain of his staff—especially reporter Dolly Clare.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-20
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