Herschel Mayall
Also Known As: Hershal Mayall
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 12, 1863
Age: 161 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 10, 1941
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Drag Harlan
Overview: William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love with her, but the same gang that shot the old man is after the gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-24
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The Road to Love
Overview: Hafsa, a beautiful Arab girl (Lenore Ulrich), wants the right to choose her own mate, instead of the husband picked out by her father, Malik (Herschel Mayall). Naturally, the man she falls in love with is unacceptable, since he's an American.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-07
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Under Two Flags
Overview: Ouida's novel made into a 1912 film -- released within days of another 2-reeler based on the same story.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-09
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Wild Bill Hickok
Overview: The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Genres: History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-18
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Corianton: A Story of Unholy Love
Overview: Corianton is unsure of his father Alma's religious teachings until God strikes down a religious foe. Converted, he becomes a successful missionary until seduced by the harlot Isabel. Struck with guilt, he runs away until discovered by his brother Shiblon who is then killed. While mourning, Corianton has a vision of Jesus and leads his people in victorious battle.
Genres: War Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Alimony
Overview: Jimmy Mason lifts himself up from poverty to unlimited riches. The audience knows that he couldn't have done it without the help and support of his wife Marion. When Jimmy starts cheating on her, she divorces him, receiving an enormous settlement. Reduced to penury by various spendthrift mistresses, Jimmy is rescued once more by Marion, who once more guides him to success-and remarries him, this time on her terms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-03
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Cleopatra
Overview: The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a small fragment of this film survives.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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To a Finish
Overview: A small Western community is terrorized by an unscrupulous empire-builder.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-21
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Straight from the Shoulder
Overview: Played mostly for laughs, this silent Western featured the"The Mediator," a drifter who manages to restore peace both within a family and between miners and their powerful employer.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-19
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The Renegade
Overview: A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-28
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Shackled
Overview: A destitute young woman named Lola Dexter falls in love with Walter Cosgrove, who establishes her in a luxurious apartment and promises to marry her. After his fortune has been squandered, however, he woos and marries wealthy Edith Danfield while her sweetheart, James Ashley, is fighting in the trenches overseas. Embittered, Lola decides that from now on she will use men to her own advantage and travels to Florida to seek her first victim. She soon loses heart, however, and is about to commit suicide when Edith's invalid father, Thomas Danfield, convinces her to begin her life anew. The two become close friends and together return home, where they find that Edith, neglected and abused by Walter, has realized her mistake and is longing for James. To provide Edith with grounds for divorce, Lola allows Walter to enter her room, but when he rushes to attack her in a drunken rage, he falls down the stairs and is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-20
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The Toast of Death
Overview: Ballerina Poppea is adored by all the men of Calcutta, especially British soldier Captain Drake and Indian PrinceYar Khan. Because of his title and wealth, Poppea decides to marry the prince, while keeping Drake as a lover. But the prince eventually discovers what she's up to and goes out of his way to catch the adulterers together. He takes two glasses of wine, pours arsenic into one, and tells Poppea to choose which glass each man will drink. She innocently picks the poisoned glass for Drake and he dies horribly. The prince disposes of the body and drives Poppea out into the desert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-12
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The Forbidden Adventure
Overview: Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess, Ameera. Their love results in their being condemned to death, but even in the City of Death, love will find a way.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-02
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Thirty Days
Overview: John Cadwalader Floyd gets himself into a lot of trouble when hot-headed Italian Giacomo Polenta finds him in the arms of his wife, Rosa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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Come to Dinner
Overview: MGM's all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, 'Jean Harlow' , et al.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-24
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Money, Money, Money
Overview: A socially ambitious woman who convinces her father to borrow money from a snobbish man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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In the Days of Daniel Boone
Overview: Presumed lost. 15-episode serialized Western directed by William James Craft. A trailer is included in the DVD More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931: 50 Films.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-25
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Big Town
Overview: A newspaper owner discovers that his girlfriend's father is the head of the biggest racket in New York City.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-19
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The Beast
Overview: Mildred Manning wants to experience the Wild West firsthand with her beau, Sir Charles Beverly. While Charles is gambling, Mildred is saved from two drunken cowboys by Del Burton. Del falls in love with Mildred and follows her back east.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-24
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Fast and Loose
Overview: A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-08
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His Woman
Overview: Tough Caribbean freighter Captain Sam Whelan engages Sally Clark, a tramp masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for an abandoned baby on board his ship. En route to New York, ships mate Gatson sexually attacks her. The Captain knocks Gatson overboard in an ensuing scuffle. A romance developing between the Captain and Miss Clark is put to the test in New York after an assault investigation uncovers the girl's questionable past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-20
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Keno Bates, Liar
Overview: Jim Maitland loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors "Keno" Bates and "Wind River"are robbed, at gunpoint. After the surprise, they track Maitland down, and Keno shoots him dead on self defense. Keno goes through his belongings and finds a letter and a locket; the letter announces the arrival of the deceased's sister, and the locket has a cameo picture of Doris Maitland. Thus, Keno tells Wind River they must do a heap of lying. Meeting the girl at the stagecoach's arrival, Keeno feels responsible for the innocent and attractive Ms. Maitland; he tells her a white lie, that her brother was a good man, "killed in a mine accident," who had left her a cabin and money - and Keno turns his own cabin over to Doris. Keno and Doris began to fall in love. Anita, a dance-hall girl, aggressively tries to seduce Keno.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-27
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Three Word Brand
Overview: Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-15
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Hey, Pop!
Overview: Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-12
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Todd of the Times
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-09
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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: Action Adventure Mystery Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-30
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On the Night Stage
Overview: A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her and she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.
Genres: Romance Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-15
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Civilization
Overview: Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in the following fracas. In the spirit world, Christ commends the captain, and returns to earth in the commander's body to promote His message of peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-02
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Patriotism
Overview: During World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the adjoining estate, and Dr. Hyde both love Robin, but she gives her heart to John Hamilton, an American soldier whose ship was sunk off the coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-06-10
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Maid o' the Storm
Overview: Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often dances on the beach and dreams of a man who will appear to her out of the mist. Her dream comes true when she witnesses an airplane crash in which the pilot, Franklin Shirley, is injured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-27
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The Studio Murder Mystery
Overview: When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-17
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Kismet
Overview: Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-14
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The Typhoon
Overview: Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-10-10
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A Peach of a Pair
Overview: Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-29
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Wedlock
Overview: Unknown to his proud and wealthy family, Granger Hollister marries Margery Harding, a telephone operator. Granger presents his new wife at an engagement party given for his sister Jane, but Jane's fiance, Lord Cecil Graydon, threatens to break off the betrothal unless Granger's marriage is annulled. To please his sister, Granger sacrifices Margery, who seeks work and later gives birth to a child. Following the baby's death, Margery goes West, where she befriends an old miner who later leaves her his fortune. Meanwhile, Granger becomes involved in a fraudulent mining deal, and because of George Osborne's perjured testimony, he is sent to prison for five years. When he escapes, Margery agrees to hide him and is ultimately responsible for obtaining his pardon. Granger then remarries the wife he once abandoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-27
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Honor's Cross
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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The Wrath of the Gods
Overview: An American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-08
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The Bargain
Overview: After the bandit known as the Two-Gun Man Jim Stokes robs the stage, he is wounded in his flight from the scene. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with a local settler's daughter. Now wishing to go straight, Stokes encounters trouble when the Sheriff-- not entirely incorruptible-- Catches wind of his location.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-03
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The Royal Family of Broadway
Overview: Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshal, the platinum magnate from South America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-22
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The Isle of Lost Ships
Overview: A likely lost film. The passengers on an ocean steamer guided by a strict captain are shipwrecked. He gives the main woman in the group 24 hours to choose her mate from among the motley community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-17
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The Aryan
Overview: Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-04-09
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-10
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A Man in the Open
Overview: Sailor Jesse, shipwrecked off the Texas coast, naively becomes involved with a cattle rustler. Because the sheriff believes in his innocence, Jesse finds work as a cowboy, but soon becomes infatuated with Polly, the medium for fake hypnotist Bull Brooks, and marries her. When he learns that Polly married to win a bet, Jesse attempts to take her from the town's influences to open spaces, but Brooks falsely reports that she killed herself rather than go.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-23
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The Rose Of Blood
Overview: Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the death of his wife, Lisza and he become involved, but because of the difference in social station he refuses to marry her. Lisza's former lover, Vassya (Richard Ordynski), convinces her to join the revolution and she goes off to the group headquarters in Switzerland. But the prince's little boy begs to have Lisza come back, so he goes after her and marries her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-04
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The Sleeping Lion
Overview: Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-23
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Bonds of Honor
Overview: In this picture, Sessue Hayakawa is in a dual role, playing twin brothers. One of them, Yamashiro is serious and hardworking, while the other, Sadao, is a playboy. There is a girl, Toko-Ku, who loves them both, but really prefers the bad boy. Sadao encounters Paul Berkowitz in a gambling den and borrows far more money from him than he can ever pay back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-04
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The Heart of Rachael
Overview: Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he ignores her for the bottle. In addition, his daughter, Billy (Ella Hall), who is not much younger than Rachael, is spoiled. When Rachael meets the family doctor, Warren Gregory (Herbert Heyes), they fall in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-04
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Madame du Barry
Overview: After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-30
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The Beautiful Gambler
Overview: After Mark Hanlon gambles away his fortune and his equity in his house, his daughter Molly marries Kirk, proprietor of the gambling hall; and as mistress of the gaming tables, she meets young Miles Rand, exiled to the West for his reckless behavior.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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In the Sage Brush Country
Overview: In what scenarist C. Gardner Sullivan misleadingly called “The Romantic Adventures of a Woman of the ’50s,” this story has Hart play Jim Brandon, who has just robbed the Wolf Creek stage of a payroll meant for Frank Wilding’s Lost Hope Mine. Fearing another holdup, Wilding reluctantly entrusts his daughter Edith with the next payroll. Confident of his concealed identity, Brandon comes to town, orders drinks at the local saloon, and hears that this is “payday” for the mine. Outside, he realizes Edith will be carrying the payroll and follows her onto the stage. When it stops at the Mountain House Restaurant, Brandon protects Edith from a man forcing his attention on her, which forges an unacknowledged bond between them. strangely leaves her to barricade the door.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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The Scuttlers
Overview: The Scuttlers is a lost 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by J. Gordon Edwards. William Farnum and Jackie Saunders star in this adventure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-12
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Calvert's Valley
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-08
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The Silver Girl
Overview: Jefferson Hunter (Frank Keenan) is a Western mining man. Anne Kepple (Catherine Adams) has inherited the mine next to his, but a loan shark steals it from her. Hunter helps her get it back, and out of gratitude Anne marries him, even though she is half his age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-06
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The Money Corral
Overview: Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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Carmen of the Klondike
Overview: Dorothy Harlan, a vaudeville artist, joins her fiancé, Cameron Stewart, in the Klondike during the early days of the gold rush. Dance hall owner "Silk" McDonald, who wants her for himself, tricks Dorothy into believing that Cameron has been unfaithful, and Dorothy begins dancing in Silk's establishment.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-03
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The Great Power
Overview: John Power is a hard-nosed financier who has neglected his domestic life and who tries to ruin the Wray family. But a revelation concerning a Wray family member sends Power into a climactic delirium in which he believes he is being judged by people in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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The Babes in the Woods
Overview: A story within a story, including a passage from Hansel and Gretel.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-03
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Treasure Island
Overview: Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother run the Admiral Ben Bow Inn, but when they are threatened by a pirate attack, they stay with friend, the squire, for the night. He is given something from Mrs. Hawkins. The squire discovers it's a map showing the location of the treasure buried by someone named Flint. Jim overhears how the squire is planning to retrieve the treasure and feels inspired by it ...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-11-18
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The One Woman
Overview: Denounced for preaching socialism Reverend Frank Gordon founds his own "Temple of Man." financed by Kate Ransom, the woman Gordon has fallen in with love and entered into a common-law agreement with after divorcing his wife. With the outbreak of World War I, however, the members of his new congregation oppose conscription while he wholeheartedly supports the Allied cause. Driven from his own church, he returns home to find Kate in banker Mark Overman's arms, enraged he strangles the banker. Sentenced to life imprisonment, his ex-wife Ruth pleads with Governor Morrison to pardon the errant clergyman. Gordon is allowed to return to his family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-01
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