Arthur V. Johnson
Also Known As: Arthur Vaughen Johnson, Arthur Johnson, Arthur Vaughan Johnson
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 01, 1876
Age: 149 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 17, 1916
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The Sealed Room
Overview: The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
Genres: Romance Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-02
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Flicker Flashbacks #2
Overview: A collection of old-time silent movies, re-scored and narrated, featuring the most popular silent film stars. Includes: 1. Pathé 1900 Bathing Beauties fron Venice, California 2. Goodness Gracious with Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew 3. A Drunkard's Reformation Directed by D.W. Griffith
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-01
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Teaching Dad to Like Her
Overview: Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he meets Dolly that he wants to win her for himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-20
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The Tenderfoot's Triumph
Overview: "It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreciating this, pulls a victory that is amazing.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-21
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The Preacher and the Gossips
Overview: The Rev. Frank Speakman has been to a rural congregation, and is entertained by the members. He is considered a fine catch matrimonially and the ladies set their caps for him. A pretty little milliner is among the contestants and the new minister cannot be blamed for favoring her. The widow with whom the new minister boards, finds an unfinished letter which really is being written to Speakman's sister. The sister's name is Ellen and the milliner's the same, so the letter is an excellent weapon in the hands of a gossip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-03-16
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The Suicide Club
Overview: One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. Presumed to be a lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-03
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The Beloved Adventurer
Overview: In Chapter 8, "A Partner To Providence", His lordship rides a train that is mistakenly rerouted into a headlong collision into another engine, with the well-worn Lubin train crash footage ensuing. He's pulled out of the wreck and recuperates with a rural family. He recuperates enough to win a fight with a crook at the end.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-09-14
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The White Caps
Overview: Two members of a vigilante group known as 'The White Caps' post a warning sign on a man's home. When the man comes home, he tears down the sign, and then proceeds to abuse his wife both verbally and physically. As soon as she can get away from him, the wife leaves home with her child to find a place of refuge. When the vigilantes find out about this, they arm themselves with rifles and immediately go to confront the abusive husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1905-09-14
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What Drink Did
Overview: A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-02
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Faithful
Overview: Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and buys him a new suit of clothes. The naively innocent Faithful reads too much into this gesture, and he begins to follow his benefactor everywhere, expecting to receive future gifts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-20
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The Unchanging Sea
Overview: In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-05
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Money Mad
Overview: The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-04
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The Mountaineer's Honor
Overview: A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-24
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The Violin Maker of Cremona
Overview: A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-07
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The Cricket on the Hearth
Overview: After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-27
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Those Awful Hats
Overview: A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-25
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Balked at the Altar
Overview: A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-25
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The Song of the Shirt
Overview: Adaptation of a poem written by Thomas Hood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-17
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A Drunkard's Reformation
Overview: A man arrives home late and drunk as usual. His wife reminds him that he's supposed to take their daughter out to a play. While watching the play, he's faced with his own drinking evils and how his life would be without them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-01
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Resurrection
Overview: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-20
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Confidence
Overview: Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-15
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-10
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The District Attorney's Conscience
Overview: Tony Gazeco, one of the workers in the factory, is an anarchist and agitator. Being of excitable nature he is looked upon by the other men as a leader and during the lunch hour makes impassionate speeches. Will and May Mason passing in an auto are witnesses to one of the tirades and going to the office of Fred Jackson, the owner, tell him of the probable strike...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-05-20
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The Cord of Life
Overview: Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-28
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The Curtain Pole
Overview: An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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At the Altar
Overview: At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic turn of mind and her soul soared above plebeianism and her aspirations were romantic. Most persistent among her suitors was Grigo, a coarse Sicilian, whose advances were odiously repulsive. The arrival at the boarding house from the old country of Giuseppe Cassella, the violinist, filled the void in her yearning heart. Romantic, poetic and a talented musician, Giuseppe was indeed a desirable husband for Minnie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-25
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Pippa Passes
Overview: Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unbeknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-03
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Getting Even
Overview: All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his disguise is revealed, the other men are too embarrassed to approach Lucy, and Bud dances the rest of the night with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-12
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The Lure of the Gown
Overview: "Fine feathers make fine birds", and handsome gowns make handsome women. Hence it is when Isabelle appears on the scene clad in a gown that is a masterpiece of the dressmaker's art she easily fascinates the male contingent, among whom is Enrico, the sweetheart of Veronica, a street singer. Enrico is so enraptured at the sight of Isabelle in her resplendent attire that he becomes her abject slave, casting aside the poor, peasant-clad little Italian street singer, who has loved him devotedly. Crushed almost beyond endurance the poor girl stands sobbing at the entrance of the park where the inconsistent lever left her. Her tears attract the attention of a wealthy young couple who happen to pass. In answer to their queries she tells them how contemptibly her sweetheart acted, and all because of the fascinating influence of a gown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-15
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Twin Brothers
Overview: Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the other, but they grow lonesome and try to find each other's whereabouts, without success. We lose sight of Bill and Dick is seen up against it good and hard. For him the future looks like a chalk ring on a blackboard, until he happens to saunter along the Bowery, where the manager of a dime museum offers him a job to play the gorilla. It looks good so he accepts. It is pretty sort until the astute impresario decides to pull off an innovation: that is, a gorilla and lion in the same cage. Of course Dick objects most strenuously to this arrangement, but his objections are quailed with a treacherous looking run, so he is forced to share the same menagerie hallroom with the lion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-25
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Doctor Maxwell's Experiment
Overview: A criminal is turned into an honest man via surgery
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-02-28
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Over Silent Paths
Overview: In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him to return to civilization, where they may enjoy the fruits of their labor. Both are happy in the anticipation of what seems a bright future. While she's away, a desert wanderer appears at the camp, and at the sight of the old man weighing his gold is seized with cupidity. He himself had toiled long in the wilds, but with no success, so he demands that the old man divide his gains with him. This, of course, the miner decries, and the wanderer uses force to obtain the old man's gold. The wanderer collapses in the desert, only to be rescued by a certain young woman: the miner's daughter.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-15
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The Son's Return
Overview: A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-14
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Edgar Allan Poe
Overview: As Poe's lover is slowly dying, he struggles to make money to care for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-08
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A Physician's Honor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-01
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The Stolen Symphony
Overview: A beautiful story of a poor young musician who has composed an exquisite symphony. Adjoining his squalid quarters is a room occupied by a young lady of good family, but impoverished. She can hear the wonderful strains of the symphony played by the young musician and becomes first interested in the music and then in love with the composer. Together they plan to apprise the world of the genius. One evening, as a renowned musician is leaving a concert hall, after one of his great successes, the young composer throws the score of the symphony into the carriage of the great musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Girl and the Outlaw
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a Native American in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-08
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The Red Girl
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-15
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Where the Breakers Roar
Overview: A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent seaside fun becomes a struggle against a maniac on the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-22
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After Many Years
Overview: A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-03
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Concealing a Burglar
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a policeman and waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-30
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The Guerrilla
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-13
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The Clubman and the Tramp
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a dinner guest and a policeman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-27
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The Valet's Wife
Overview: Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-01
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The Feud and the Turkey
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a member of the Wilkenson clan in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-08
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The Test of Friendship
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-15
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The Mended Lute
Overview: In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-05
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A Strange Meeting
Overview: Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-01
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Nursing a Viper
Overview: During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon forces his attentions on the wife. Hearing their struggle, the husband intervenes and, stripping the aristocrat of his disguise, thrusts him outdoors to be killed by the mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-03
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The Broken Locket
Overview: George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little Ruth King, who had secretly loved George since their childhood days. She succeeds in persuading him from his reckless life, and he determines to cut off from his old loose companions by going out West and making a man of himself. Bidding Ruth and her mother good-bye, he realizes that he loves his little preserver and promises to return worthy of her love and confidence. They plight their troth with their first kiss and a heart shaped locket, which Ruth wears, she breaking it in two, giving George one side while she retains the other, which symbolized the reunion of their hearts with his return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-16
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The Indian Runner's Romance
Overview: An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys tries to get the information and go as far as kidnapping the Indian's wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-22
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Love Among the Roses
Overview: In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through his estate and coming to the border of his own land he is struck by the entrancing beauty of the contiguous estate, so like his own, that the inclination to intrude is irresistible. His peregrination is halted by the appearance of the great Lady, who is indeed as fair as the flowers that clothe her land. He introduces himself and invites her to stroll with him in his gardens. She is in like manner entranced by the beauty of his possessions. How alike in beauty are they; a veritable fairyland. If they were only one, for it seems they should be. This thought is mutual, and the Lord proposes a way, a marriage, and so a betrothal of convenience ensues. They know nothing of love and so are content in the anticipation of being Lord and Lady of all Never-Never Land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-08
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The Way of Man
Overview: A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-28
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The Awakening
Overview: A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can't get his wife's face out of his thoughts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-29
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The Christmas Burglars
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as one of character Mike McLaren's assistants in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-22
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Mr. Jones at the Ball
Overview: Mr. Jones at the Ball is a 1908 American silent short comedy film, part of the once-popular Biograph series centered around the titular Jones and his long-suffering wife. In this film, Jones rips his suit pants and chaos ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-25
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The Helping Hand
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-12-29
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One Touch of Nature
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-21
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The Honor of Thieves
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-11
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Love Finds a Way
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a footman in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-11
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The Sacrifice
Overview: Oh, the woe of simultaneous birthdays, as were Mr. and Mrs. Hardlucks', and both being of a generous nature, were seized with an insatiable desire to make on this anniversary of their nativity suitable gifts, each to the other, Hardluck has a watch, but no fob. Mrs. Hardluck has a wealth of hair, but no decorative comb for her hair. What is worse, finances are low, or rather exhausted. An idea strikes Hardluck. He will pawn his watch and buy a comb; thus surprising her. Mrs. Hardluck's mind is also illumined by a bright thought. She will sacrifice her hair, and with the money buy him a fob. This they do, of course, unknown to each other. Well, here's the situation: He had no fob for his watch, and she no comb for her hair; but now he has no watch for his fob, and she has no hair for her comb. Mack Sennett appears as an extra in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-14
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The Criminal Hypnotist
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-18
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Overview: Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a party guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-21
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The Welcome Burglar
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a butler and a man in an office in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-01-25
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The Two Brothers
Overview: In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother noble in both station and character, they were vastly different morally. Jose was a dutiful son and upright young man, while Manuel was the black sheep. It was on Easter Sunday morning during the processional that Manuel appears in an intoxicated condition and foully ridicules the priests and acolytes as they enter the chapel of the old mission. At this the mother's pride is hurt beyond endurance and she exiles her profligate son from her forever. Manuel is shunned as a viper and while making his way along the road, meets Pedro, the notorious political outlaw, who sympathizes with him and offers him inducements to join him, and so takes him to his camp. Meanwhile, Jose woos and wins the Red Rose of Capistran and the day for the wedding is set.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-12
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A Child's Devotion
Overview: A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-09-18
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Her Child's Honor
Overview: Unable to bear the abuse of her drunken soldier husband, the wife left her home and went to the city, where she became a nurse in a hospital. Her husband, recovering from a spree, treated his wife's disappearance as a joke and soon went with his company to the Philippines. Meantime a doctor at the hospital had fallen in love with the young wife and when news came from the Philippines that her husband had been killed she married him. They were very happy and a child was born to them. To a friend in her old home she sent a photograph of herself and family. Then her soldier husband returned for he had not been killed. During a reception at her new home he appeared on the scene. A dancer was to be there, but being unable to keep the engagement, the wife had prepared to perform the dance herself. The appearance of her soldier husband greatly excited her for it made her second marriage illegal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-26
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Two Memories
Overview: Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry has become very ill and wishes to see Marion one more time. He writes asking her to visit. When she recieves the note, she laughs and tosses it on the floor, but, later, on a whim, decides to take all her drunken friends with her to visit him. When they arrive, Marion finds Henry dead, clutching her portrait in his hand. She sends her friends away and falls to her knees in remorse. Mary Pickford's debut!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-23
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In Old California
Overview: An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-10
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The Little Teacher
Overview: A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes interested in him. Soon she learns that he has a wife. Dave, an older pupil, offers the teacher solace and it becomes apparent that he is smitten with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-11
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The Thread of Destiny
Overview: The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved by the girl's ruse, who later becomes his bride.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-07
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The Day After
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-30
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All on Account of the Milk
Overview: The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor. The hero continues to represent himself as a laborer in order to see the maid. The daughter, in order to continue her impersonation, borrows the maid's clothes. At the end the two main characters are brought together in their true light with the blessing of their respective mothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-13
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The Newlyweds
Overview: A young man and a young woman, each unlucky in love, determine never to marry. But Cupid (and two separate bands of misinformed revelers) has other ideas.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-03
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The Twisted Trail
Overview: Ranch hand Bob Gorman loves pretty Molly Hendricks, and Daddy isn't happy about that. Then Bob is falsely accused of killing Mr. Hendricks. Soon we will discover whether Bob will sacrifice his own life to prove his love for Molly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-03-24
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Tender Hearts
Overview: A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-19
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The Trick that Failed
Overview: Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the sudden success, but when she learns the truth, Nellie leaves her sweetheart to accept the proposal of a rival painter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-29
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To Save Her Soul
Overview: Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. This brings about her change of heart, and together they return to the little church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-27
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The Heart of an Outlaw
Overview: A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted by the sheriff. A few years later the man, now an outlaw, ambushes the sheriff and plans to kidnap and murder the sheriff's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-31
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The Zulu's Heart
Overview: A Boer woman and her daughter are captured by Zulu warriors.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-06
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The Gibson Goddess
Overview: A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All but one of the men is driven off, and regret it when she removes the misleading leggings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-01
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Unexpected Help
Overview: John Bradley is a trusted clerk with an oil company. Enjoying a fair salary, he is comfortably fixed in a modest little village home with his wife and two small children. Starting from home in the morning he is accompanied by the two little ones, who always looked forward to each morning's scamper in the hills with pleasurable anticipation. He is met at the office door by the manager and handed a large sum of money with instructions to carry it to the bank. This is witnessed by a well-known gambler of the town, who being in hard link, resolves to get that money by hook or crook. Making a short cut across the little town, he manages to intercept John on his way to the bank, and in the course of their conversation invites him to have a drink, as it is half an hour before the bank opens. The invitation is accepted and while in the saloon the gambler tries to inveigle John into a game, but here his will serves him and he resists the fascination.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-28
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Comata, the Sioux
Overview: This story of the Black Hills consistently tells of the unrequited love of a Sioux brave for his chief's daughter, and how he premonished the awful results of her ominous marriage with a white cowboy. Clear Eyes, the daughter of Chief Thunder Cloud, is beloved by Comata, a Sioux brave, but having met and listened to the persuasion of Bud Watkins, a cowboy, leaves her mountain home to become his squaw. Poor little confiding Clear Eyes lives only for Bud, and he at first seems devoted to her, but at the end of two years, a little papoose arriving meanwhile to bless their union, he tires of her, and courts Miss Nellie Howe, a white girl, who thinks him single. Comata, however, has unremittingly watched his movements, and vows to avenge his lost one. Following him to the white girl's home, he sees enough to convince him of the whelp's villainy, so he goes and reveals the truth to Clear Eyes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-09
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The Lonely Villa
Overview: A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-10
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The Greaser's Gauntlet
Overview: Jose, a handsome young Mexican, leaves his home in the Sierra Madre Mountains to seek his fortune in the States. On leaving, his dear old mother bestows upon him her blessing, presenting him with a pair of gauntlets, upon the dexter wrist of which she has embroidered a Latin Cross.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-11
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The Final Settlement
Overview: Noticing that Jim is partial to a drink, Ruth breaks off her engagement to him and turns to John, who until then had kept his love for her to himself. They get married and move to a cabin in the forest where John works as a woodcutter. In the meantime, Jim, who has become a hoodlum and ignores that his rival has married his former fiancée, runs into John at the lumber camp and challenges him to a duel for the same evening. He then goes to look for money to buy himself alcohol, and breaks into John and Ruth’s cabin. Surprised to find Ruth there, he realizes that she has married John and has given him a child. On leaving the cabin, he looks to the vengeance the duel is going to allow him to wreak. Yet, he eventually thinks better and, ashamed at his own idea and out of the love he still feels for Ruth, decides to spare her husband’s life. He shows up at the duel with a gun loaded with blanks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-01-05
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Taming a Husband
Overview: Neglected by a husband too engrossed by his activities and social obligations, a woman convinces a girlfriend to dress as a man and make love to her openly in the hope to arouse her spouse’s jealousy. Dressed as a male, her friend causes a commotion among the couple’s acquaintances. When the husband eventually catches the newcomer making overtures to his wife, he challenges his rival to a duel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-24
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Film Fun
Overview: A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-19
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Pranks
Overview: Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-30
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A Sweet Revenge
Overview: After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots her old lover's glove left behind, she has a change of heart and repents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-18
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The Ingrate
Overview: A hunter lost in the Northern woods is rescued by a trapper and his wife. He makes advances to the wife, is rejected, and tries to kill the trapper.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-20
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The Planter's Wife
Overview: John Holland, a planter in a small way, is devotedly attached to his wife and infant child. The wife wearies of the monotonous grind of farm life and is easy prey of a contemptible villain, in the person of Tom Roland, the ubiquitous "other man".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-20
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The Vaquero's Vow
Overview: Mack Sennett appears as a man in the bar and in the wedding party in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-16
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A Woman's Way
Overview: The pretty daughter of a French-Canadian backwoodsman incites the love of a trapper who is so smitten with the beauty of this wood nymph that he purchases her into marriage from her father. The transaction meets with repugnance from the girl. She was entirely contented with conditions, a child of nature, carefree. However, she finds her pleading of no avail, and so pretends to accept the situation. The trapper and Canadian go into the cabin to seal the bargain with a drink, and while inside the girl closes and fastens the door on them and makes her way through the woods to escape.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-11-24
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The Deception
Overview: A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without telling him the truth. When he discovers her lie, he is determined to leave her, until she is injured and he understands the sacrifice she made for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-22
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Drive for a Life
Overview: Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fiancée before she eats the candy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-22
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Eloping with Auntie
Overview: A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long enough for them to elope.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-24
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Eradicating Aunty
Overview: A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-31
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His Ward's Love
Overview: Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she has dropped, and realizes he loves her.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-15
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The Jilt
Overview: John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-17
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The Life Saver
Overview: A local girl's romance with the lifeguard at a seaside lifesaving station is threatened by the arrival of tourists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-20
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The Maniac
Overview: An escaped mental patient assumes the identity of a society girl's dead father and threatens her marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-16
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The Matchmaker
Overview: A young governess catches the eye of an aristocrat and romance blossoms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-25
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One on Reno
Overview: When a bored wife seeks a Reno divorce, she regains the attentions of her inattentive husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-03
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Opportunity and the Man
Overview: One man squanders a fortune and loses his house and sweetheart to another who strikes it rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-11
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The Professor’s Ward
Overview: An orphaned young woman rejects her appointed suitor and falls in love with her guardian.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-08
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The Snare of Society
Overview: A society woman gambles at cards.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-10
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The Slavey’s Affinity
Overview: A maid loves her employer, sacrificing her own happiness in order to insure his.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-11
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The Story of Rosie’s Rose
Overview: Two brothers vie for Rosie's hand; she gives a rose to each of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-09-07
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That Awful Brother
Overview: A wayward brother is mistaken for a burglar in his own house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-08
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Through Jealous Eyes
Overview: A jealous mother is envious of the affection shown toward her future daughter-in-law by her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-17
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The Roue’s Heart
Overview: Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture and places it on sale. The roué is so impressed with the work and the girl that he purchases it at once and follows her to the atelier, where he learns that she is the maid of the sculptress, whom he sees and at once falls passionately in love with her, but when he learns that she is totally blind, his feelings change to one of deepest pity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-08
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The Wife’s Awakening
Overview: The Harrington's first born has died and the father and mother are inconsolable in their grief. Mrs. Harrington later seeks diversion in society, but the husband is engrossed in his work as a scientist, having a laboratory in his house. He conducts several experiments and is on the verge of success in his invention when an explosion of the chemicals occurs and it subsequently develops that he is blinded for life, his eyesight being permanently destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-03
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The Surgeon’s Heroism
Overview: A surgeon risks his life in order to finish surgery on a patient when a fire breaks out in the hospital.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-08
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A Village Romance
Overview: John Cummins, a wealthy society man, while out in his auto, discovers he is out of gasoline. He stops at a country store and meets Flo Page, the daughter of the proprietor. It is a case of mutual attraction, causing many a heartache to Si, the clerk, who adores Flo. Cummins manages to have sundry excuses for visiting the little general store, and finally realizes he is head over heels in love with the girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-03
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Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
Overview: Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his house, but when he sees they are stealing all the noisy distractions, he helps them get away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-08
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Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
Overview: Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-29
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The Wooden Leg
Overview: A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-08
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The Actress and the Singer
Overview: A prima donna falls in love with the voice of a singer that she hears on a recording.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-13
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Always a Way
Overview: A minister is talked into performing a marriage ceremony for his sister and the beau he despised.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-08
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Art Versus Music
Overview: A pianist's music annoys a painter, making him unable to work. Eventually they fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-20
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The Little Rebel
Overview: A Civil War spy story in which a girl and the officer she loves find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-01
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The Two Fathers
Overview: An impoverished father is forced to give up his daughter for adoption. After she is grown, she realizes she has two fathers: her real one and her "adopted" one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-17
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Aunt Jane’s Legacy
Overview: Aunt Jane's nieces and nephews bicker over an anticipated legacy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-06
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Duke de Ribbon Counter
Overview: An heiress, a businessman, and a playboy form the eternal triangle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-15
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During Cherry Time
Overview: An actress teaches a young girl how to flirt and win back her beau.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-07-27
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A Fascinating Bachelor
Overview: A nurse ignores her other patients in order to concentrate on her favorite one, a fascinating bachelor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-01
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A Game of Deception
Overview: Misunderstandings abound when a minister's son and an actress become engaged.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-01
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A Good Turn
Overview: A woman's sweetheart is prevented from killing himself by two burglars who are afraid they will be accused of murder if he pulls the trigger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-25
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A Head for Business
Overview: A young woman helps her brother by purchasing a much needed piece of land.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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Her Artistic Temperament
Overview: A girl from the country writes glowing letters about life in the big city despite the fact that it's really been disastrous.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-20
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Her Humble Ministry
Overview: A reformed woman shows a petty thief the righteous path by her good example.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-05-18
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Her Two Sons
Overview: Two brothers, one a minister and the other a cad, both love the same girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-07
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Higgenses Versus Judsons
Overview: The sons and daughters on the opposing sides of a Kentucky feud fall in love and dismantle their fathers' guns to prevent further bloodshed.
Genres: Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-06-22
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His Friend, the Burglar
Overview: A husband uses a ruse to sneak back into the house after a night out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-03-09
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His Chorus Girl Wife
Overview: A young man's parents refuse to accept his new wife, but a reconciliation is eventually brought about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-13
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A Girlish Impulse
Overview: A hastily written letter is used in a blackmail scheme by a scorned suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-12-11
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The Hoyden
Overview: A young soldier is shipped overseas after a hasty marriage; when he returns he doesn't recognize his wife who has changed from the tomboy he married to a sophisticated young woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-24
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A Rebellious Blossom
Overview: A widow threatens her rebellious daughter that she will remarry if the girl does not behave at school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-21
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Romance of Pond Cove
Overview: When a young man loses his wealth, he also loses his fiancee, but he is more than consoled by her younger sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-08-31
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A Rural Conqueror
Overview: Florence Lawrence stars in this society comedy in rural surroundings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-10-26
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The Sheriff and the Man
Overview: A sheriff must decide whether or not to allow his old friend, a criminal, to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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The Adventures of Dollie
Overview: On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-14
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The Little Darling
Overview: This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, receives a letter from her old school chum, Polly Brown, whom sin hasn't seen in years, to the effect that as Lillie has never seen her little darling daughter, she will send her for a few days' visit, asking that someone meet the child at the 3:40 train. Lillie's boarders are a bunch of kind-hearted bachelors, who at once prepare to give the "Little Darling" the time of her life, buying a load of toys, etc., for her amusement, also procuring a baby carriage with which to meet her at the train. You may imagine their embarrassment when they find that Tootsie, instead of being a baby, proves to be a handsome young lady of seventeen, whose tastes run rather to garden gates, shady lanes and quiet nooks, than toys. (Moving Picture World)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-01
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1776, or The Hessian Renegades
Overview: During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-09-06
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The Voice of the Violin
Overview: A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he tries to stop the plan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-18
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An Affair of Hearts
Overview: Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-05-19
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The Refuge
Overview: A 1910 short starring Arthur V. Johnson and Marion Leonard.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-12-24
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The Command from Galilee
Overview: A 1911 short starring Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard and Henry B. Walthall. it is now considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-02-04
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The Armorer’s Daughter
Overview: Set in Rome, during the feudal period. The heroine, the daughter of an armor manufacturer, is in love with a humble tradesman. The resistance expressed by the armorer towards this romance inexorably leads to disaster for everyone concerned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-29
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The Gray of the Dawn
Overview: A young society swain is stolen away from the young blind girl he loves by a rapacious queen of the demi-monde who is only out for his wealth…at first. Soon enough, she falls for him and is purified by her feelings. Realizing she will ruin his life if they stay together, she commits suicide in the gray of the dawn, and he returns to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-10-22
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The Peachbasket Hat
Overview: Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped-- until the baby is found under a hatbox.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-24
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A Corner in Wheat
Overview: On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-13
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And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
Overview: Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will keep the first child's most cherished toy after they separate. This leads the couple to reconsider their actions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-22
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The Brahma Diamond
Overview: An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and imprisoned, while he prepares to sell the diamond and make his getaway.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-04
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The Expiation
Overview: William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen, Edward spies from behind a curtain. Soon afterwards Edward shoots himself, believing Helen can be happier with William. When William returns to convince Helen to become his wife, she refuses, blaming herself for Edward's suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-21
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The Girls and Daddy
Overview: Sisters guarding their house from a burglar set upon stealing their daddy's money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-01
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The Necklace
Overview: Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to replace it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but the Kendricks never learns the truth; Husband and wife struggle for years to pay off the huge debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-01
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The Hindoo Dagger
Overview: Jack Windom experiences a sensation of awe at the reception of the Hindoo dagger from his old chum, Tom, who was traveling in India. Hanging the dagger on the wall. Jack goes out. For some time Jack has discerned a coolness in his wife, and his jealous misgivings were verified when he returned and found her in company with a stranger. Seizing the dagger from the wall he chases the recreant lover from the house and then follows the wife to the bathroom, wither she has flown in terror. Mercilessly he plunges the dagger and flies the place. The lover in hiding sees him leave and returns, and calling aid succeeds in reviving the wife, who afterwards with careful treatment recovers and marries her paramour. However, either from the baneful influence of this diabolical dagger, or the woman's capricious nature, just one year later the second husband enacts the same scene, but with fatal results.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-18
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The Cardinal's Conspiracy
Overview: A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-12
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The Renunciation
Overview: Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-19
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The Slave
Overview: A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-29
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The Mills of the Gods
Overview: A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-30
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A New Trick
Overview: To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-07-19
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A Rude Hostess
Overview: Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and opens the safe. He can't make his getaway before she returns, and tries to bluff his way out by saying he entered the wrong apartment. She sees the open safe and secretly tells the butler to get the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-08
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The Test
Overview: Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo from his bill case, and when he writes her that he is looking at her picture, she writes back that she knows otherwise. Realizing that he has been found out, Harry obtains his mother's photograph of Bessie, and upon his return home convinces her that he had it all along.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-16
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Tragic Love
Overview: Bob Spaulding, a manly fellow, meets Dr. Rankin and his wife on the street while they are engaged in a violent tiff. The doctor is about to strike his wife when Bob interferes, incurring the resentment of the doctor. During the flurry Mrs. Rankin drops her card case. From a card inside he learns the address and goes there to return it. They meet, and it is a case of love at first sight; but she is a wife, and beyond his reach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-02-11
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The Converts
Overview: A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-02-08
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Where the Sea and the Shore Doth Meet
Overview: A 1910 short directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Marion Leonard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-11-05
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The Oath and the Man
Overview: A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest made him swear an oath to leave vengeance to God, however.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-21
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The Light That Came
Overview: A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-11-11
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The Redman's View
Overview: An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-09
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Rose o' Salem Town
Overview: A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-09-25
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Through the Breakers
Overview: A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out to a dance and the child takes a turn for the worse. By the time she returns home the child is dead. After her husband leaves her, the mother realizes her selfishness and begs forgiveness at her daughter's grave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-12-06
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A Timely Rescue
Overview: John Bronson, Mr. Daly's farmhand, has ambitions and decides to go to the city. He breaks the news to Mr. and Mrs. Daly and their daughter Lottie. They do their utmost to dissuade him from his purpose, but John has made up his mind to go. He gets employment in a department store. Soon he is promoted to a slightly higher position. He has become neglectful of his country friends, and Lottie waits in vain for an answer to her letters.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-13
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The Usurer
Overview: A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-08-15
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Fate's Turning
Overview: A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman who's there for the summer. However, his impending nuptials with another woman complicate the matter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-22
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They Would Elope
Overview: Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-08-09
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The Fight for Freedom
Overview: In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro's quick temper and pistol. Pedro's wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-07-17
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For a Wife's Honor
Overview: Irving Robertson, a successful playwright, has just received a message from out of town to witness the initial performance of one of his plays. As he is about to leave, Henderson, the manager, calls to pay a sum due him for royalties. At the same time, Frank Wilson, a friend of the family, drops in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-08-28
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I Did It
Overview: A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feels guilty, and confesses her misdeed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-15
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A Burglar’s Mistake
Overview: Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of the blackmailer's threat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-25
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Lady Helen's Escapade
Overview: A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. Lady Helen retreats to her own home, and arranges a position for the musician which allows them to be together.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-19
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Kiss Me Good Night
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-03
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Lord Algy
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-08
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The School Principal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-24
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The Power of the Cross
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-18
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The Burden Bearer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-04
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Friend John
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-21
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When John Brought Home His Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-03-13
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The Insurance Agent
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-25
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John Arthur's Trust
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-02
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The Samaritan of Coogan's Tenement
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-26
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The Last Rose
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-29
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Country Blood
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-04
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An Hour of Freedom
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-16
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The Life Line
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-23
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The Cornet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-11
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Who Violates the Law
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-05
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Mother of Pearl
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-03
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On the Road to Reno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-20
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Winning Winsome Winnie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-09
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Socially Ambitious
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-03-06
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-10-27
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A Smoked Husband
Overview: After his wife receives an extravagant dress, a man find himself the victim of an attempted burglary; He hides in his fireplace, which is then fired. The police arrive and pursue the man, now covered in soot. He jumps onto the roof below his, landing two dandies into a trough of paint.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1908-09-25
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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Overview: Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-10-27
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Her First Biscuits
Overview: A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-06-17
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Lucky Jim
Overview: Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-04-25
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The Salvation Army Lass
Overview: A girl from the New York slums falls in with crooks. After her love is arrested following a barfight turned deadly, her life seems directionless-- that is, until she's saved from the streets by a band of Salvationists. She enrolls, and soon afterward encounters her former love in the same bar. Her faith is real, and strong, and her former love doesn't like this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-03-11
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His Duty
Overview: It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lining. Jack then goes to work and Bob goes out also. Later in the evening, Jack is called to the scene of a robbery, where he finds the cap with his brother's initials. Dismayed by the idea that his brother is a thief, he goes home and confronts Bob with the evidence. Though it breaks their mother's heart, Jack does his duty and leads his brother out in handcuffs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1909-05-31
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