Charles K. Gerrard
Also Known As: Charles Kavanagh, Charles K. Gerard, Charles Gerard, Charlie Gerard, Charles Gerrard , Charles Girard
Biography: Charles K. Gerrard (20 December 1883 – 1 January 1969), also known as Charles Kavanagh, was an Irish-American motion-picture actor, and the elder brother of actor and film director Douglas Gerrard. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Carlow, Ireland
Birthday: December 19, 1883
Deathday: January 01, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Dracula
Overview: British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together and Dracula, a secret vampire, begins preying on London socialites.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-12
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Richard the Lion-Hearted
Overview: Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-15
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Romance of a Rogue
Overview: A low-key silent drama of a man seeking vengeance on the villain whose lies sent him to prison on the night of his wedding.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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Miss Petticoats
Overview: Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-31
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California Straight Ahead
Overview: Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden loses his inheritance and his fiancé due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-12
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Circumstantial Evidence
Overview: Duplicitous businessman Henry Lord talks Tony Benton, the weakling brother of heroine Jean Benton, into forging a check. The evidence is framed so that innocent clerk Arthur Rowland is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-01
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Journey's End
Overview: In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-09
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Sheltered Daughters
Overview: New York police sergeant Jim Dark is determined that his daughter, Jenny, will be shielded from any knowledge of evil. Consequently, she lives in a dream world, imagining herself to be a descendant of Saint Jeanne d'Arc, but has a loyal friend in reporter Pep Mullins. Her school friend, Adele, also raised by overly protective parents, is ejected from her home when she becomes inebriated after spending an evening with a disreputable young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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Another Fine Mess
Overview: Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-29
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The Glimpses of the Moon
Overview: The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-25
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The Wedding Song
Overview: A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the couple said "I do" than Beatrice's partners in crime show up, claiming to be the bride's parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-29
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Men Without Women
Overview: Made during the early days of sound cinema, this tense submarine adventure is an intriguing example of a hybrid silent-talkie. A disgraced English sub commander changes his name to Burke and joins the American Navy. When the U.S. submarine on which he is serving as a torpedo launcher begins to sink, Burke must make the ultimate sacrifice to save as many crew men as possible..
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-08
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The Menace
Overview: A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-29
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Counterfeit
Overview: In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of counterfeiters and gain the reward money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-30
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The Better 'Ole
Overview: The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-23
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Heroes and Husbands
Overview: Susanne Danbury and Walter Gaylord, the man she loves, are among the weekend guests of her publisher, Hugh Bemis, and his wife Agatha, who also loves Walter. Lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-21
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Chasing Choo Choos
Overview: Virginia Craig will become super-wealthy and gain sole control of her factory, unless insubordinate schemers can trick her into marrying one of their clique. Unfortunately for them, she loves Monty, one of her employees. When the schemers' plot is discovered, a chase starts away from the factory and onto a runaway train.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-21
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French Heels
Overview: Returning from France after the war, John Tabor informs Palma May of her brother's death and offers the penniless girl his help, but she refuses it, preferring to work as a cabaret dancer. Later, John and Palma meet again, marry, and go west to manage a lumber camp, as instructed by John's wealthy father, Jarvis Tabor. Displeased by John's choice of wife, the elder Tabor tests the couple with difficult living conditions, which eventually discourage Palma, and she accepts the party invitation of Keith Merwyn, manager of the cabaret where she starred. Meanwhile, Merwyn effects a disturbance among the lumbermen, endangering John.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-29
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The Hun Within
Overview: A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German agents plotting against U.S., and the father must decide between his son and his adopted homeland.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-08
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Mary Ellen Comes to Town
Overview: A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-21
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The Fair Barbarian
Overview: An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-17
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Light Fingers
Overview: "Light Fingers" is both the name and the physical description of this film's hero, a dapper petty thief.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-29
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The New Moon
Overview: When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign government, becomes dictator and, desiring the princess, issues an edict that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two must register and become state property.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-11
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His Brother's Wife
Overview: When Richard Barton's health fails, his wife Helen, desperate for money to pay the medical bills, agrees to spend the night with the wealthy Howard Barton, without knowing that he is Richard's long-absent brother. However, after she tells Howard that she is selling herself in order to help her husband, he calls off the rendezvous and sends her home with enough money to pay for Richard's care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-04
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Framed
Overview: Wrongfully court martialed from the French Army Captain Hilaire heads to Brazil. Upon arrival he is hired as a foreman in a Diamond mine eventually falling in love with the boss’s daughter, Diane. Remsen who wants both Hilaire’s job and Diane frames him for stealing from the company while Hilarie is away. Convicted, he is sent to a Devil's Island-like prison camp. Eventually, Remson, too is sent there, where he confesses on his death bed, freeing Hilaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-19
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The Port of Missing Girls
Overview: Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend Buddie Larkins, vocalist Ruth King joins a school for stage and fancy dancing, thus playing into the hands of DeLeon, ....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-19
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
Overview: Mary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-15
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The Nervous Wreck
Overview: Henry Williams, out in Arizona looking for a cure for his imaginary ills, stops at the ranch of Jud Morgan, and decides to stay. Jud's daughter, Sally, attracts his attention, although she is engaged to be married to Sheriff Bob Wells. Henry rides with her to town, where she wants to go shopping for her wedding clothes, but they run out of gas. No, problem' Henry holds up a passing motorist, with a monkey-wrench, and takes gasoline out of his car. They stop at a ranch where the foreman makes them become the cook and dishwasher. Then Jerome Underwood and his daughter, Harriet, arrive and they recognize Henry and Sally as the ones who held them up for gas. The jealous sheriff adds to the complications.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-09
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Down to Earth
Overview: A healthy outdoors-type follows the girl he loves to a resort for wealthy hypochondriacs. In order to prove to her and the other patients that their "illnesses" are all in their minds, he hatches a scheme to take them on a boat ride, then get them stranded in the wilderness, where he can show them that they can live without their pills, doctors and "cures".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-16
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Facing The Music
Overview: A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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The Teeth of the Tiger
Overview: Living quietly under the assumed name Paul Sernine, reformed gentleman crook Arsene Lupin is summoned to protect his invalid, wealthy friend Henry Forbes.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-02
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A Political Party
Overview: A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-09
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Anybody's Woman
Overview: A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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The Man Who Came Back
Overview: A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-11
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Painting the Town
Overview: Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, headed the cast of Universal's Painting the Town. In his first starring role, Tryon is cast as bucolic inventor Hector Whitmore, who falls for flirtatious city gal Patsy Deveau (Miller). Misinterpreting her fluttering eyelashes as a sign of true and lasting love, Hector follows Patsy to New York, much to the dismay of the girl's wealthy fiance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-07
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The Isle of Conquest
Overview: A 1919 film directed by Edward José.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-26
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A Woman's Awakening
Overview: A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-24
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Caught in the Fog
Overview: Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-25
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The Cheerful Fraud
Overview: A young man fakes his identity to impress a girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-27
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Circe the Enchantress
Overview: Mae Murray as a Jazz Age baby who treats men like swine until she falls for the upright doctor living next door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-10-06
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Beans
Overview: Brewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not want to renew so hires shyster lawyer Wingate to help him. Brewster sends Betty to renew the contract but Ellis declines. Later Brewster sends his lawyer along with Ellis' man to persuades her that he isn't crooked. There follows plot and counter-plot, but innocent Betty carries the day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-16
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The Gilded Lily
Overview: A hostess at a Broadway cafe marries one of her many suitors, and finds out her new husband is prone to drinking heavily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-27
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Accused
Overview: Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hidden. One day her father manages to get ahold of the confession. Helen shows up at his apartment looking for it, which culminates in her and a young man she meets there being taken prisoner by a criminal gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-03
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The Dangerous Maid
Overview: Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-19
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The Lone Wolf's Daughter
Overview: Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-18
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The Heart Thief
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-26
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A Criminal at Large
Overview: At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night. Following a village dance, the household's chauffeur is found strangled with an Indian scarf.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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The Passionate Pilgrim
Overview: An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was killed by her mother (and it wasn't suicide). When he is finally released, he meets and becomes involved with a young woman who belongs to the town's influential elite. Once again, he finds himself caught up in intrigue - which eventually leads to his exposing the mayor of the town as corrupt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-02
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Loving Lies
Overview: A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to complications when he rescues a young girl and her baby from the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-22
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Lilies of the Field
Overview: A young mother, Mildred, doesn't know that her husband Walter is cheating on her. One night she attends a party with a friend of her husband's, and the man gets drunk and begins groping her when they get home. Her husband sees this and uses it as an excuse to sue his wife for divorce. In the ensuing trial he wins, due to fraudulent evidence, and gets custody of the child. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-29
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The Pest
Overview: Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The World and His Wife
Overview: Elderly Spanish nobleman Don Julian is happily married to Teodora, a beautiful young girl, when his protégé, young poet Ernesto, comes to live with them. Vicious gossip spreads false rumors of a love affair between the two young people and the evil Don Alvarez, the most bitter slanderer of all, goads Ernesto into challenging him to a duel. Don Julian, realizing that the youth is no match for one of the best swordsmen in Spain, forces the slanderer into a fight in which Don Alvarez is slain and Don Julian gravely wounded. Ernesto calls upon the dying Don Julian to convince him of his wife's innocence. Misled by his brother Severo, Don Julian believes the youth has come to visit Teodora, denouncing them both before dying, ironically driving Ernesto and Teodora from the house to face the world together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-18
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Out of the Chorus
Overview: Dancer Florence Maddis marries Ross Van Beekman, son of an aristocratic New York family, and despite her friends’ doubts manages to fit into the family. Her scheming mother-in-law disapproves of her however colluding with Ned Ormsby, who wants Flo for himself, to make her appear faithless. When Ross suspects Flo of harboring Ormsby, he fires a pistol at her closet. Later when Ormsby is found shot in his house, Ross confesses, believing himself guilty. Sick at heart, Flo returns to the stage of the Winter Palace. Ross is freed, however, when Ormsby’s enemy, Maddox, confesses to the crime, and Flo is happily reconciled with Ross.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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The Lights of New York
Overview: Silent drama with two different New York stories. One tells of a good man led astray until a dream causes him to change his ways. The other is about a man whose despair over his love marrying another is lifted through increasingly unlikely events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-11-12
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Sure-Fire Flint
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-25
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Blackbirds
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-04
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Playthings
Overview: Marjorie North, a department store clerk, falls in love and has an affair with the store owner's son, Gordon Trenwith, but realizes when her baby is born without a name that he meant only to use her as a plaything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-12
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Why Women Sin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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