Frank Opperman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Birthday: December 31, 1860
Deathday: April 26, 1922
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Power of the Camera
Overview: Two convicts escape from the city jail and manage to elude their pursuers for quite a while, by contriving a fake motion picture machine and posing as picture producers. But, like many of us, they become over-confident and are finally apprehended by the guard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-17
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Overview: Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-26
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The Lady and the Mouse
Overview: The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be that as it may, she could not find it in her to drown the unwelcome visitor to the pantry, so she let it go and the silent little drama witnessed by the tramp greatly impressed him. Not so the strict aunt, she declared the whole thing to be in exact accordance with everything else in the family. Their hearts ran away with their heads. That was why they lost money on credit, could not pay off the mortgage and send the sick sister to a better climate. As for the tramp, they had no business to take him in. He could not pay for his keep. But the tramp surprised them all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-26
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A Temporary Truce
Overview: A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the prospector's wife. In the meantime, a group of drunkards shoot and kill an old Indian; The son, a brave, vows revenge and asks the tribal chief for help. When the Indians attack both prospector and Mexican, these two make a temporary truce and join forces against the common enemy.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-10
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
Overview: The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the tenderfoot prospector and leaves him another worshiper of her. His chances, however, are slim for Blue-grass Pete has won her affections, he having at an opportune moment saved her from the fangs of a snake which was about to attack her. Pete's affections turn to the Goddess's sister, while Pete's friends plot to rob.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-25
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A Dash of Courage
Overview: A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-07
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Those Country Kids
Overview: Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-19
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The Love Thief
Overview: Chester Conklin steals some hot dogs from the traveling vendor and brings the lady some flowers, then a chase ensues including a chase over roof tops and a lot of rapid-fire action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-22
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How Heroes Are Made
Overview: It has been arranged between the fathers that their children shall marry. When the young people meet, the intended husband, who is somewhat rakish in appearance, falls desperately in love with the girl, but she spurns him. He bribes two young men to kidnap the girl, in order that he may play the hero and rescue her. However, he does not know that one of the "kidnappers" is the young man whom Mabel really is in love with, and his confidential friend, who, of course, delight in the deception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-14
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The Sands of Dee
Overview: A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day she meets a wily artist painting on the beach, he seduces the young girl and gives her a ring, with the promise of marriage. When the young admiring fellow comes to propose, she proudly announces her engagement to the artist. Shocked he leaves and her parents demand meeting her husband to be. She goes to bring him home, and finds he already has a sophisticated fiancée. Distraught she hurries home, and when her father realizes what she has done, he orders her out of the house. As she wanders despondent along the sea, the young fellow who has found out about her betrayal, immediately goes to see her. Finding she has been disowned by her father, he goes looking for her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-21
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An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Overview: Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true to the end, though it seemed for a time as if his purpose would never he fulfilled. Cunning minds were thwarted and the girl received a double promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-16
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During the Round-Up
Overview: Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were seeking. The girl's determination to recover the money at all costs resulted in a daring rescue on the part of the young foreman, who registered another triumph at the final round-up.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-19
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Near To Earth
Overview: This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger brother, Giuseppe, on a small truck farm in the west. Gato becomes so intent on his work that he neglects to show his wife the little attentions she demands. A foppish wandering Italian, Sandro, sees in this an opportunity to work his ends, but is prevented by the timely interference of Giuseppe.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-20
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The Sorrowful Shore
Overview: There dwelt the widowed fisherman and his indulged son. Then the girl, the sole survivor of the wreck came into their lives. The father suppressed his own love, realizing the son could offer youth instead of age, but the young woman decided otherwise. It was through the young wife's attempt to make peace without exposing the son that the sorrowful shore revealed another tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-05
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The Massacre
Overview: The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation.
Genres: Action War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-12-19
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One Is Business, the Other Crime
Overview: Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-24
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The New Superintendent
Overview: James Morley, superintendent of the Crown Hill oil refinery, is unable to cope with the rough element in the works. Jack Hartway asks for a position, and Mr. Hastings discharges Morley. Hartway is duly installed as the new superintendent, and his first act is to put up a sign that Rooney, the bully, has formerly resented. Rooney tears the sign down, goes to the office to confront Hartway, is knocked down, and is made to nail the sign up again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-16
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Overview: Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-01
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The Yaqui Cur
Overview: The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend,"
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-16
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Fatty Again
Overview: Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-03
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The Little Teacher
Overview: The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-20
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My Valet
Overview: The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his valet to switch places. The idea is that the valet will make a bad impression on the fiance, the wedding will canceled and the hero can marry his true love. There is only one problem, his love and unseen fiance are the same woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-07
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The Late Lamented
Overview: Slapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-23
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He Would a Hunting Go
Overview: Count Chicori is perused by a bear whilst visiting at a hunting lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-29
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The Under-Sheriff
Overview: The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-08
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Rebecca's Wedding Day
Overview: Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-24
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Tango Tangles
Overview: In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-09
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His Favorite Pastime
Overview: A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-16
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A Flirt's Mistake
Overview: When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-12
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A Fair Rebel
Overview: Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares to leave for his home in Virginia, and Mason and he exchange photographs before parting. General Abner Montieth, Steve's father, and his sister Clairette are overjoyed and surprised when Steve arrives. Aunt Margie and her adopted daughter, Joan Fitzhugh, who is very fond of Steve, join the family and give Steve a warm welcome. One year later the rumble of war is heard. Steve, now a major, and his father, General, leave at the head of separate companies with the Confederate troops.
Genres: War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-21
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A Film Johnnie
Overview: The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-02
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The Masquerader
Overview: Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-27
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Mabel's Married Life
Overview: Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes off to a bar and gets drunk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-20
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The Knockout
Overview: To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-11
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Mabel's Busy Day
Overview: Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-13
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The Property Man
Overview: Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets the star's dressing room. Once all that is resolved the next issue is getting everyone on stage with the correct backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-01
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
Overview: A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, finds himself drunk and getting drunker by the minute with some sailors at a bar until he's literally falling down. He keeps futilely trying to draw the woman's picture on the floor with a piece of chalk until he finally passes out cold (or perhaps dies, as in the poem) at the end of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-08-10
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
Overview: A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-21
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Fatty's New Role
Overview: Fatty gets kicked out of a bar, and then the place gets a bomb threat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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The Primal Call
Overview: A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-21
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Her Fame and Shame
Overview: A slapstick comedy with Charles Murray & Louise Fazenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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Love in Armor
Overview: Mae Busch and Charley Chase are in love. However, her father does not approve. A Baron sees Mae and concocts a fake kidnapping in order to get her attention. In other words, he pays two guys to pretend to try to abduct her and the Baron waltzes in like a hero and saves her. Well, the scheme seems to work as her family think the Baron is great and invite him to the house. But Charley and the two accomplices have other ideas...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-11
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The Ambitious Butler
Overview: A cocky butler poses as a Count to win an heiress during his master's absence, but his scheme is foiled by the chef whom he snubbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-21
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The Beating He Needed
Overview: Effeminate college boy Mace is sent West by father Sterling to make a man out of him, but Mace only responds to a severe beating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-07
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Stolen Glory
Overview: Veteran Warner and old gardener Burns vie for the hand of Widow Simpson, and the gardener steals the former's uniform and joins in the ranks of a parade, pursued by his rival. Utilizes footage shot during a Thomas Ince battle production at Inceville, the Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles which commenced at 9:30am PST on September 11, 1912 (including starting area at 5th and Los Angeles and viewing stands near finish by Courthouse at Broadway and Temple), and other G.A.R. festivities at the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle in Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-14
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An Indian's Loyalty
Overview: Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to reinstate the Indian. In gratitude the Indian captured the thief with the ranchero's money and saved the girl as well.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-08-15
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The Rent Jumpers
Overview: The plot is driven by the confusion that results when two pairs of trousers are mixed up. One pair is owned by the landlord of an apartment building and the other by one of his lodgers. The lodger also has a wallet that contains rent money except when it doesn't, and the wallet passes from one pair of trousers to the other at unexpected moments. But neither the landlord nor the owner of the wallet are the central figures here, for The Rent Jumpers is primarily a love story between the landlord's daughter, played by the ever popular Mae Busch, and the lodger's roommate, young Charley Chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-07
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The Feathered Nest
Overview: Keystone-Triangle comedy starring Louise Fazenda and Charles Murray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-06
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Colored Villainy
Overview: The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-26
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A Lucky Leap
Overview: A Keystone comedy with Charley Chase and the gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-22
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The Mate of the Alden Bessie
Overview: The captain of the "Alden Bessie" was a drunken tyrant who manhandled his men upon the slightest provocation, despite the pleadings of his daughter and the first mate who loved her in his rough way, but for whom she could feel only friendship. One night the crew killed him, and marooned the mate and the captain's daughter by sending them adrift in a small boat. Days passed upon the vast expanse of ocean, and their food was all gone and death near, when land was sighted and their boat was cast up on a coral reef, and they with difficulty made the shore. Fear of death was soon supplanted in the heart of the captain's daughter by fear of a man loving her all too well. The mate, seeing this and realizing the strength of his passion, decided to live on the side of the island, but as the months passed away his loneliness overcame him and he made his way to where she sat reading. He looked over her shoulder, and saw that she read the marriage service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-04
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A Bear Affair
Overview: Keystone comedy mayhem with bears, chases and whatnot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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Hash House Mashers
Overview: A boy pines for the girl next door to the dismay of both their parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-16
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Broken Ways
Overview: In this story the young wife concerned is called upon to solve a rather momentous question. After separating from her husband, whom she has discovered to be a brute and a criminal, she is about to give herself to another man, believing her husband dead, when he appears before her fleeing from justice. Shall she deliver him to the law or surrender to his claims? She yields in one instance, but not in the other. Then justice intervenes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-08
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'Curses!' They Remarked
Overview: Two dastardly men conspire to keep their ward from marrying in order to maintain control of her vast fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-05
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Fatty's Magic Pants
Overview: 'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-13
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A Lodging for the Night
Overview: Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-05-09
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Iola's Promise
Overview: Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.
Genres: Romance Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-14
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Fate's Interception
Overview: The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he pays considerable attention to the little Mexican girl, at whose home he is a roomer. The girl falls deeply in love with the American, who wins her absolute confidence. When the time comes for his departure, he of course cannot take her with him, and when he says goodbye, she realizes how false his promises were. Her love for the American now turns to bitter hate, so she agrees to marry her erstwhile sweetheart, whom she threw aside for the American, if he will avenge her wrong. This he consents to do.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-04-08
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The Little Tease
Overview: The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. But that was before the man from the valley lost his way and later found it back again, bearing away the little tease to the valley. While she suffered the qualms of broken faith, her father passed through a like struggle, for he felt the precepts of the "beloved book" had failed him. He closed the door of his cabin upon the world and the light from his window, lighting the wayfarer over the mountain path, disappeared. The struggle over, it came hack in its place in time to beckon the little tease as she left the valley behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-12
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His Luckless Love
Overview: His Luckless Love, starring Edgar Kennedy, has some funny moments as confusion surrounds the maid’s new beau.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-18
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His Second Childhood
Overview: This extremely corny film has him disguising himself in drag to get a job as a governess and access to his overprotected sweetheart. The old father falls for him, needless to say and there is another suitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-26
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The Mender of Nets
Overview: A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-15
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A Timely Interception
Overview: A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be postponed and the money put to the more pressing need. The farmer, now himself destitute, is forced to put his house up for sale to repay his creditors. Meanwhile, a man from the oil syndicate discovers oil on the farmer's land. Moving quickly, the syndicate tries to buy the farm before the farmer knows what he is selling. -Harpodeon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-06-07
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Ramona
Overview: Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-23
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The Unchanging Sea
Overview: In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-05
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