Jules Cowles
Also Known As: Ed Cowles, J.D. Cowles, Julius D. Cowles, Mr. Jules Cowles, Mr. Cowles
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Farmington, Connecticut, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1877
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 22, 1943
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Genres: Comedy History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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The Lost World
Overview: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Horror Romance Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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Seven Chances
Overview: Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-03-15
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Isle of Lost Men
Overview: The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story writers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-02
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The Poor Rich Man
Overview: Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-23
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Emmy of Stork's Nest
Overview: Through the death of his father, Benton Cabot is left with nothing but a small mountain cabin which he has never seen. He goes to take up his property and in the mountains meets Emmy Garrett, an untutored but attractive girl, just budding into womanhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-11
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Tangled Trails
Overview: Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-20
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-18
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Sea Devils
Overview: An escaped convict stows away on a ship of mutinous treasure hunters to find the crooks who framed him for murder.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-15
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Notorious Gallagher; or, His Great Triumph
Overview: "Buttsy" Gallagher is a harmless young product of the slums. In all his life he has never been of the slightest importance. His spirit is so submerged that he has almost forgotten how to get angry. One night the gaiety going on in Judge Winters' home attracts him, and he crouches on the fire-escape to watch it. He becomes interested in the Judge, in his pretty daughter Peggy, in her cousin Flo, in Flo's admirer, the Count, and in Bob Ewing, a struggling young lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-22
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The Prodigal
Overview: An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-21
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The Emperor's Candlesticks
Overview: Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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Dog Law
Overview: Ranger races to the rescue when Jim is framed on a murder charge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-02
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Johnny Eager
Overview: A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-09
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Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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Sal of Singapore
Overview: SAL OF SINGAPORE was nominated for an Oscar for achievement in Writing during the second year of the Academy Awards. The film, being a part-talkie, nearly disappared from view. However, a preservation print does exist at UCLA, although it is unavailable for public viewing, awaiting restoration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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The Oakdale Affair
Overview: Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-06
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How to Vote
Overview: A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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Lord Jim
Overview: Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually works his way up to managing the business. He falls in love with the owner's daughter, and shares leadership of the local village with the son of the Rajah. One day, however, a band of pirates attacks the village, and the man is astonished to see that the pirates are none other than the tyrannical captain of his former ship and his crew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Two-Faced Woman
Overview: A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-31
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Young Eagles
Overview: Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-30
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Love Is a Headache
Overview: A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-14
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Rich Man, Poor Girl
Overview: A millionaire courts a working-class woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-12
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
Overview: Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-27
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Mississippi
Overview: A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Fast and Loose
Overview: The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Thunder Afloat
Overview: A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Genres: Action Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-15
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Heroes of the West
Overview: Efforts to build a transcontinental railroad are resisted by crooks and Indians on the warpath. A 12-chapter movie serial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-19
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Fury
Overview: Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-05
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A Failure at Fifty
Overview: The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-01
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Bringing Up Father
Overview: The wealthy Jiggs is tired of being left out of the swanky parties thrown by his social-climbing wife Maggie and their daughter. He decides to teach them a "lesson" by faking his own suicide, but things don't quite turn out the way he planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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Law Beyond the Range
Overview: Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Spook Ranch
Overview: Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat. The sheriff promises them their freedom if they solve the mystery of a haunted house near the town. Bill agrees.....
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-20
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The Secret Menace
Overview: An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. They run into trouble when the owners put up a fight.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-28
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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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Stablemates
Overview: A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-07
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The Show
Overview: Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-22
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Woman of the Year
Overview: Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Cross Fire
Overview: Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.
Genres: Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-05-28
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The Gay Bride
Overview: Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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The Fighting Parson
Overview: A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the man's identity, but when he arrives at the nearest town, he rides into the middle of a hanging--and the man who is being hanged knows his real identity.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-01
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Renegades of the West
Overview: A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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Reducing
Overview: Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-03
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An Hour for Lunch
Overview: Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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One Hysterical Night
Overview: The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are actually having him committed to an insane asylum. Since all the other inmates/attendees think they are historical figures such as Robin Hood, the Duke of Wellington, Paul Revere, William Tell, Salome, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes and others, it takes a while for Judd to separate the wheat from the chaff and prove he is not deranged. His quest becomes more urgent when he falls in love with a nurse named Josephine, who does not think she is Napoleon's "Josephine" but is convinced Judd thinks he is Napoleaon.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-05
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Give Us This Night
Overview: After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout) whose guardian is a noted composer (Philip Merivale). They met when the fisherman evaded the police by seeking refuge in the village church. While there, they are each captivated by hearing the other singing Mass. The beautiful woman falls in love with the fisherman with the wonderful voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
Overview: Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt. He subsequently falls in love with Chiquita, the daughter of a Panamanian general, gets a railroad job through Stephen Cortlandt and decides to make something of himself when he meets Allen Allan, a black mercenary. Stephen Cortlandt's death is blamed on Kirk until Edith produces a suicide note. He succeeds in his railroad position and returns to the United States with Chiquita to ask his father's forgiveness. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-04-29
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The Were-Tiger
Overview: A jungle drama about a woman who befriends a tiger.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-31
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Mannequin
Overview: Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-21
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Quitter
Overview: When his friends decide that "Happy Jack" Lewis needs a wife, they place an ad in the paper for one. Glad Mason replies and sends her picture. Jack's pals decide she is the one, and after he sees her picture, Jack thinks so too -- until the saloon proprietor points out that maybe she doesn't look anything like her photo. In fact, she could be an old hag!
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-10
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Fingers at the Window
Overview: In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-22
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Love on the Rio Grande
Overview: A 1925 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-25
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The Girl Philippa
Overview: About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown princess. The time shifts to the present. Foreign agents steal the plans of a new shell loaned Great Britain by America. Halkett and Gray, English officers, recover the plans; and the foreign agents endeavor to gain possession of them again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-21
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Double Wedding
Overview: A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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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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The Ghost Comes Home
Overview: Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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His First Command
Overview: A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-12-28
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The Leatherneck
Overview: A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-24
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The Bootleggers
Overview: Jose Fernand seems interested in luring Helen Barnes onto his ship than he is in smuggling. The innocent orphan miss goes, accompanied by her younger sister Alice. With the boat out to sea, Fernand proceeds to attack the girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-01
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The Ace of Clubs
Overview: Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-14
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Every Sunday
Overview: Edna's grandfather is a conductor of a small orchestra that gives concerts in the park every Sunday. Because of lack of audience the city officials want to cancel these concerts. To stop this from happening, Judy and Edna gather a crowd the following Sunday; and to keep its attention, they themselves perform with the orchestra. Edna sings an aria and Judy sings 'Americana'.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-28
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Second Honeymoon
Overview: A wealthy man's wife becomes bored with him, so his friend decides to trick her into believing her husband is having an affair to "wake her up".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Persuasive Peggy
Overview: Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow. After the honeymoon, Ed takes his bride to the home that had been his mother's, and Peggy redecorates the entire house in her husband's absence. Gradually, Ed learns to submit to his wife's modern attitudes until he discovers that her continual visits to the city have not been to the dentist's, as she had said, but to the studio of portrait painter Perry Pipp. Ed angrily confronts Peggy with her deception, forcing her to return home to her parent's house. Later, when Ed learns that Peggy has been posing for a portrait as a birthday surprise, he begs his wife's forgiveness, which she bestows, along with the information that a baby is on it's way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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A Royal Family
Overview: The King of Kurland suggests a marriage between his son, the crown prince, and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, to defuse tensions between their tiny European countries. The tempestuous Angela rejects the idea, so the prince visits Arcacia in the guise of Count Bernardine, determined to secure the union. Unaware of his true mission, Angela grows to love the count, but finally heeds his warnings about impending war and agrees to the arranged marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-16
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God's Crucible
Overview: Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing both attracts Marjorie Menzies and earns him the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. At a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, her abuser is slain and Ivan arrested. Her escapee father confesses to the murder but both men are freed when a family servant who admits to the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-20
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Parnell
Overview: Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-04
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A Fool and His Money
Overview: American author John B. Smart, searching for solitude and an atmosphere for a new story, purchases an old castle in Switzerland. He discovers the beautiful Aline hiding with a baby in the east tower. Daughter of an American millionaire she on running from her ex-husband Count Tarnowsky, who squandered her money and treated her brutally, but whom the courts have awarded their child. The Count arrives confronting John who overcomes him and has him thrown into the dungeon. Smart, Aline and her child flee on a sleigh speeding towards the Italian border with the escaped Count in pursuit. In the nick of time they safely cross the border and Aline consents to be John's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-29
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Lost in a Big City
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-30
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