Anna Q. Nilsson
Also Known As: Anna Quirentia Nilsson, Annie Nilsson, Anna Nilsson
Biography: Anna Quirentia Nilsson was a Swedish-born actress who achieved success in American silent movies. Starring in some 200 feature films. The first Swedish actress to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1905, she had earned enough for a ticket across the Atlantic. In New York she was discovered on a thriving avenue by the famous portrait painter James Carroll Beckwith and soon she was New York's highest paid model. In 1907 she was named America's most beautiful woman and became a model for the 1910s beauty ideal, The Gibson Girl Look.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
Birthday: March 30, 1888
Deathday: February 11, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Sunset Boulevard
Overview: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-10
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One Hour Before Dawn
Overview: When a hypnotist named Norman Osgood mesmerizes a man named Harrison Kirke without his consent, Kirke threatens to kill him. Afraid for his life, Osgood hypnotizes another man named George Clayton and tells him he must murder Mr. Kirke one hour before the arrival of the dawn. Kirke is found murdered the next day, and Clayton starts to believe he was the murderer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-11
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Sold Out
Overview: This picture tells of Leila Austen, a wealthy girl, who leaves Halsey Brent, a young suitor, to marry Tom Carter, a mining engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-05
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Enemies of Children
Overview: A street waif of questionable parentage through circumstances is taken into a wealthy home where she is adopted and cared for until her marriage, which follows the successful attempt to expose the mystery of her birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-13
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Cheating Cheaters
Overview: Two gangs of crooks, living side-by-side, each mistake the other for a wealthy household and each plot to rob the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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In Judgment of...
Overview: Debutante Mary Manners has inherited the power of mind-reading from her gypsy ancestors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-12
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The Fighting Chance
Overview: Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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The Little Minister
Overview: The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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The Love Burglar
Overview: A young man infiltrates the underworld by pretending to be a convicted burglar. While undercover, he meets a young woman who turns out to be no more a part of gangland than he, but with similar reasons for disguising herself.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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Soldiers of Fortune
Overview: Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-22
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If I Marry Again
Overview: When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South Seas, where he gets a job on a plantation. The father sends an agent to the plantation to try to buy off his son's bride, but she won't go for it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-15
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Auction of Souls
Overview: A Hollywood biographical film about a survivor's experience of the Armenian Genocide. Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian plays herself in the film which is based on her published memoirs. It is thought to be the first film about made about genocide. All known complete copies of the film have been lost. A restored and edited 24-minute segment of the historic motion picture was released in 2009 by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California. It is based on a rare surviving reel of film edited in Soviet Armenia.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-01-19
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Regeneration
Overview: Remembering the miserable end of his father who had died a drunkard's death, George resolves to conquer the terrible craving he has inherited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-11
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Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Overview: General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye. Before sailing, the general calls upon his sweetheart, Katherine Lowther. She presents him with a locket containing a miniature of herself. Wolfe places the jewel on a chain about his neck. Mignon Mars and her brother, Hubert, of a Canadian family, are captured by a body of men attached to the Royal Americans. Lieutenant Arleigh, the officer in charge, secures their release. Mignon loses her heart to the young officer. General Montcalm arrives at Quebec and takes command of the French forces.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-05-25
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Shenandoah
Overview: Bronson Howard's Great Civil War Story in Three Reels, Featuring General Philip Sheridan's Ride from Winchester, 20 Miles Away.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-07-04
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The Fatal Legacy
Overview: On his wedding eve Henry Halleck opens a sealed envelope which has been handed down to each generation, and learns that the family is cursed with a lust for drink. He signs the pledge which bears the signatures of his fathers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-09-10
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A Mississippi Tragedy
Overview: Calhoun, a planter, lives with his son and daughter, James and Martha. He strongly objects to young Gordon, who has been paying court to Martha and who has the reputation of being a gambler. Calhoun forbids Gordon from entering the house. One day as Gordon is traveling up the river he sees Calhoun who is returning from the sale of his cotton crop and is counting his money on the deck. Meredith, an unscrupulous gambler, also notices Calhoun and determines to relieve him of his money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-05
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Overview: Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-17
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A Sister's Burden
Overview: Compelled to keep house for her father and her younger sister and brother, Martha is deprived of all the pleasures of youth. Ned, who loves her, begs her to elope with him. Martha yields, but while on the way to the minister, decides that her duty lies back home with her father. Heart-broken, Ned leaves for the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-10
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The Siren's Reign
Overview: An upright young man marries a siren, a drunken, unfaithful woman, who mothers his child, and then ruins him financially and morally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-02
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The Destroyer
Overview: An actress weaves her web, like a disgusting spider, around a susceptible young man, lures him away from his sweetheart, and eventually destroys him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-30
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The Haunting Fear
Overview: Lured by Diana, Katherine runs away from home. The foolish girl is soon drawn into the whirlpool. She meets Mace, a notorious man-about-town, and is fascinated by him. Doctor Busby, an insane physician, recognizes in Mace the man who had caused his daughter's death. Shortly afterward, Katherine discovers Mace's real character. Wild with rage, she stabs him.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-11
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Supreme Sacrifice
Overview: David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-20
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In the Heart of a Fool
Overview: Laura Nesbit, daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, plans to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until she flirts with rising but unethical lawyer Tom VanDorn to arouse her beau's jealousy. A saddened Grant is drawn into an affair with town siren Margaret Muller, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, which breaks up both marriages. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home, where Laura's care restores his health. When Grant's little son is shot and killed during a strike, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the boy's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past and they begin a new life together.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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The Night Operator at Buxton
Overview: Bob's daughter is sick, so Helen volunteers to take his place on the night run, unaware that the Blackhall gang intends to rob the train which carries a valuable gold shipment. Learning of Helen's peril, Bob and Tracy pursue the train by automobile, arriving just as the hijackers are about to explode a charge of dynamite under the rails.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-13
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Flowing Gold
Overview: The film deals with the Texas Oil Industry. A silent film, it was famously remade in 1940 with sound.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-01
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Behind the Criminal
Overview: Episode 13 of the Crime Does Not Play series from MGM.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-30
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The Splendid Road
Overview: Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-06
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-02
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The Luck of the Irish
Overview: William Grogan, lives in New York City and meets the outside world only through the little basement window of his plumbing shop. One day he sees and falls in love with a pretty pair of feet, belonging to Ruth Warren, a schoolteacher who is lusted after by Norton Colburton, a dissolute playboy. Ruth is about to marry Colburton, but at the last minute runs away and decides to take a Cook's tour. On the boat, she meets Grogan, who has inherited a fortune, and recognizing the feet, he falls in love with their owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-05
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The Unknown Man
Overview: A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-09
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Winds of Chance
Overview: A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-15
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I Live on Danger
Overview: A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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Cynthia
Overview: Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-29
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The Secret Heart
Overview: Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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The World Changes
Overview: Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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Blockade
Overview: Blockade was one of those curious 1929 hybrids known as a "part-talkie." The story of a dauntless female prohibition agent. In her pursuit of a gang of Florida rum-runners, Bess assumes three identities. At various junctures, she is "herself," a society belle and a gangster's moll.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-16
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No Man's Land
Overview: Free and easy Garrett Cope loves Katherine Gresham, but his rival, Henry Miller, who is really Heinrich Mueller, a World War I German spy, gets rid of Garrett by having him arrested for the murder of Pembroke Van Tuyl. While Garrett is in prison, Katherine marries Mueller, but Sidney Dundas, knowing that the German actually committed the crime, finally confesses, and Garrett is freed. Meanwhile, Mueller takes Katherine to a remote island called No Man's Land, which he uses as a base for blowing up Allied ships.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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Fighting Father Dunne
Overview: A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Girls' Town
Overview: A West Coast version of "Stage Door", set at a Hollywood boarding house for young women hoping for movie careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Grounds for Marriage
Overview: Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-12
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The Regeneration
Overview: At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-12
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Broadway After Dark
Overview: Ralph Norton, man-about-town and wealthy favorite in Broadway society circles, is attracted to Helen Tremaine, but her flirtatious behavior causes him to reject the superficial life of his set.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-19
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Easy Pickings
Overview: Simeon Van Horne is poisoned by Stewart, his lawyer, who hopes to get a part of the estate to be divided between young Peter Van Horne and Dolores, Peter's cousin. Knowing that Dolores is dead, Stewart, who catches Mary Ryan burglarizing the Van Horne home, induces her to pose as Dolores.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-20
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The Whip
Overview: Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Souls for Sale
Overview: A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-22
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The Fire Patrol
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-14
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Prison Farm
Overview: Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Ponjola
Overview: Ponjola is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley and directed by Donald Crisp. The film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she masquerades as a man. A print of Ponjola still exists and is held by a private collector.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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Cry 'Havoc'
Overview: The Army nurses on Bataan need help badly, but when it arrives, it sure isn't what they expected. A motley crew, including a Southern belle, a waitress, and a stripper, show up. Many conflicts arise among these women who are thrown together in what is a desperate and ultimately hopeless situation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-23
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The 13th Commandment
Overview: Disillusioned by the transience of wealth when her father's bank balance can no longer support his family's posh lifestyle, and when her fiancé Clay Wimborn admits that he has gone into debt to shower her with presents, Daphne Kip determines to become financially independent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-01-17
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Adam's Rib
Overview: Michael Ramsay only has time for gathering his fortune in wheat. His wife seeks comfort elsewhere and, to avoid a scandal, her daughter Matilda assumes her mother's guilt. Ramsay nearly goes broke but gets rich again; his wife returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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Show Boat
Overview: A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-19
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The Toll Gate
Overview: Outlaw Black Deering leads a band of desperadoes, but decides to give up the bandit life. Agreeing to go on one last job with his gang, he is captured when his henchman Jordan betrays the gang for the reward. Deering escapes and determines to avenge himself on Jordan.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-15
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The Tight Rein
Overview: Two wealthy mill owners wishing to consolidate their riches plot the arranged marriage of their children despite that pair’s indifference to each other and the son’s love for another woman. To bend them to their will, the fathers take too nefarious and cruel means to achieve their goals and bring tragedy down on them all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-14
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Her Surrender
Overview: A story of violence, deceit, deception and malfeasance among the rich set and the hoodlums with whom they unknowingly become involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-01
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In the Good Old Summertime
Overview: Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-29
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The Man From Home
Overview: A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-30
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Three Live Ghosts
Overview: Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Seven Keys to Baldpate
Overview: A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he can write in complete seclusion. Things start heating up, though, when a succession of people who also have keys to the inn begin showing up.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-16
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An American in Paris
Overview: Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Overview: In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-22
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Overview: Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an elaborate scheme to trap him into marriage
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Headin' for God's Country
Overview: In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-26
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The Darling of the CSA
Overview: Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War. She delivers an important message regarding an attack on a Yankee fort, then infiltrates the fort and turns herself in, only to change into a Union soldier’s clothes and escape with more confidential information. The Confederate soldiers love her, and treat her with respect, despite her un-ladylike profession. During the attack, morale appears to flag, but she sneaks out a message that she has been captured by the Yankees and is due to be executed, urging the boys to greater heroism. As they capture the fort, she again infiltrates and pretends to be grateful to her “rescuers.”
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-06
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Overview: Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Riders of the Timberline
Overview: Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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The Great Diamond Robbery
Overview: Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Remlick, in a strategy to get a fabulous uncut diamond through Ambrose, arranges for Emily Drummon, Duke Fargoh and Maggie Drummon to pose as Ambrose's long-lost parents and sister. The diamond, through many comic situations, is acquired and the gang is going to have Ambrose cut the diamond, and relieve him of the two stones and his parental illusions at the same time. But Maggie, who has no taste for the deception, tips Ambrose off and a wild chase ensues. At the end, Ambrose is very happy as he can now marry his "sister."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Adam's Rib
Overview: A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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It Had to Be You
Overview: A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-07
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The Farmer's Daughter
Overview: After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-26
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Lonesome Ladies
Overview: Released on July 3, 1927
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-03
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The Lotus Eater
Overview: Naive Jacques Lenoi marries money-hungry Madge Vance. When Madge realizes he isn't as moneyed as she assumed she turns a cold shoulder to him and he takes off on a balloon trip to China.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-27
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Painted People
Overview: A 1924 film directed by Clarence G. Badger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-28
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Midnight Lovers
Overview: During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence that her new husband has been cheating on her.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-25
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They Died with Their Boots On
Overview: The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.
Genres: Western War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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The Great Man's Lady
Overview: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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The Isle of Lost Ships
Overview: A likely lost film, that tells the story of people and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-17
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Crossroads
Overview: A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-23
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The Confederate Ironclad
Overview: During the Civil War, Elinor, a pretty Northern girl, comes south to visit her aunt-- Little does anyone suspect she works as a spy. Lieutenant Yancey, who's nearly engaged to the fetching and resourceful Rose, is gallant enough to show the Yankee guest around, including a walk down a hidden creek where a gunboat is built and awaits powder. Elinor sends this intelligence North, and the Bluecoats attack.
Genres: History Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-10-04
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Babe Comes Home
Overview: A baseball-styled sports filmed centered on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. It is considered a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-22
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Overview: In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-22
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Venus in the East
Overview: Buddy McNair is so enchanted by the newspaper photos of New York society beauty Mrs. Pat Dyvenot that he decides to leave Colorado with his newly inherited fortune, travel to New York, and win her heart. On the train, some gamblers, apparently aided by a pretty girl named Martha, cheat Buddy out of a large sum, and in New York, his lack of eastern polish makes him appear foolish.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-26
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Hello, 'Frisco
Overview: A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-28
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Her Kingdom of Dreams
Overview: A young girl living a secluded and unsophisticated life is suddenly thrust into a great wealth and a frightening social whirl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-21
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Miss Nobody
Overview: The father of an heiress dies broke leaving her destitute without inheritance. She falls in with a group of hobos traveling incognito cross country dressed as a man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-27
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The Greater Glory
Overview: A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mother-love and sacrifice.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-02
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The Masked Woman
Overview: Baron Tolento lusts for Diane Delatour, his physician's wife, and donates money to their favorite charity, a children's home, in hope of gaining her favor. When Delatour is called away, Tolento inveigles Diane into attending a party at his house. There he threatens to ruin her husband if she does not submit to his demands within three months. Diane retaliates by showing him a letter proving that Tolento has only three months to live, according to a specialist. Delatour learns of his wife's presence at the party from one of the baron's women, and when Tolento makes Diane heir to his fortune, he becomes convinced of her infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-16
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The Side Show of Life
Overview: An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-21
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The Trail To Yesterday
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Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-06
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A Sporting Chance
Overview: A young lady takes on a convict as her chauffeur, believing him to be a burglar. In reality, however, he is an innocent broker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-13
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The Spoilers
Overview: Based on the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-26
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The People of Värmland
Overview: Anna is a poor girl who loves Erik, the son of a rich farmer. His parents are however determined to make Erik marry the rich Britta.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-10-23
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The Rustle of Silk
Overview: Lola de Breze loves Lord Arthur Fallaray from afar, though there seems to be no way to bring them together -- he is England's Colonial Secretary and married, while she is merely a working class maiden. But when she is given a maid's position in his household, it brings her that much closer to her idol. She puts on a fancy gown and heads to the Ritz in hopes of getting a formal introduction. After being fired from the household, she follows Fallaray to his country home and nurses him when he falls ill. Lord Fallaray's wife Lady Feo doesn't love him and is having an affair with Paul Chalfont. When it looks like he will be faced with scandal, Fallaray contemplates giving up politics and marrying Lola.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-13
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Without Limit
Overview: Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-20
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The 13th Juror
Overview: A 1927 American mystery film directed by Edward Laemmle and written by Charles Logue and Walter Anthony. It is based on the 1908 play Counsel for the Defense by Henry Irving Dodge. Richard Marsden is a long-time friend of Henry Desmond, a powerful and successful attorney. The district attorney plan to break Desmond by having George Quinn infer that Marsden's wife is having an affair with the lawyer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-13
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Inez from Hollywood
Overview: Inez Laranotta is an actress who is notorious for her vamp roles and for the wild parties she attends. But images are deceiving -- the parties (and police raids) are staged by Inez's press agent, and she is actually very devoted to her innocent younger sister, Fay Bartholdi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-14
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The Talker
Overview: Kate Lennox is bored with suburban life and her husband, Harry. Their next-door neighbors, the hen-pecked Henry Fells and his wife, Maud, have several boarders, among them Barbara Farley, who is Lennox's stenographer, and Lonnie Whinston, who is in love with Lennox's little sister, Ruth. Kate claims that women need more independence and less duty, and flirts with Ned Hollister, a car salesman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-24
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Too Much Money
Overview: Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, with some crooked ways, hadn't gotten involved. A lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-03
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School for Girls
Overview: After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Vanity Pool
Overview: A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence with political boss Jarvis Flint could help him win the election. Carol agrees to speak to Diana on condition that Gerald temporarily assume her work in the city's tenements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-07
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Heart of the Sunset
Overview: Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of thirst in the desert, the two fall in love. Mexican bandit Longorio, who longs to possess the beautiful Alaire, orders his men to kill her husband and take control of the ranch. The bandit captures Alaire and forces an old priest to marry them, but before the ceremony can be performed, Dave arrives and secretly marries her himself. The couple escapes and seeks refuge in a little house just inside the Mexican border, but Longorio's men pursue them and set the building on fire. Just in time, a force of United States cavalrymen arrives and conducts the couple across the Rio Grande to safety.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-01
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Pink Gods
Overview: The owner of vast diamond mines, John Quelch is constantly fearful of theft and convinced that any woman will "sell her soul" for diamonds, he deals harshly with any employee caught stealing and has Lady Margot Cork watched while she is visiting Lorraine Temple. John and Margot fall in love, but she cancels their engagement when she learns of the "brutal" punishment of Jim Wingate for swallowing a diamond.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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Thundering Dawn
Overview: Jack Standish feels responsible for the failure of the partnership with his father and goes to the South Seas where he falls prey to alcohol, is seduced by Lullaby Lou, a vamp, and tricked by a brutal plantation owner, Gordon Van Brock.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-05
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Wanderer of the Wasteland
Overview: Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold prospectors. Years later, he meets his wife and her gold-prospecting father as they have come there seeking their fortune, and not knowing the danger of the treacherous desert wastes, the poisoned-water holes and the outlaw bands of marauders who roam the desert in search of the gold found by others. He comes to their aid and, eventually, manges to clear his name of the false charge against him.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-09
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Vanity's Price
Overview: Successful actress Vanna Du Maurier ignores her friends' advice and overworks herself toward her goal of having her own theater. She is introduced to Henri De Greve, a millionaire who might help her, but she recognizes him to be her former husband, the father of her son, Teddy, and therefore refuses to have anything to do with him. The shock of seeing him is hard on Vanna, and fearing the loss of her youthful beauty, she visits a physician in Vienna to be rejuvenated. Vanna returns thoroughly changed and even invites the attentions of De Greve when she realizes his interest in Sylvia Grayson, Teddy's sweetheart. Teddy turns against his mother, Sylvia attempts to drown herself, and Vanna lures De Greve to her boudoir, where she discloses his past and gives him a beating with a riding crop. Sylvia and Teddy are reunited and forgive Vanna, who now recognizes the folly of vanity and accepts the proposal of long-time admirer Richard Dowling. This film is lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-07
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The Inevitable
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-04-05
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The Scarlet Road
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-16
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Why Girls Leave Home
Overview: Mr. Hedder is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model. Hedder believes that she stole it and confers with Mr. Wallace, the owner of the store. On Wallace's advice, Hedder hits Anna, causing her to leave home and move in with some gold diggers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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Over There
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-27
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Ten Nights in a Bar Room
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-11
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