Jane Novak
Also Known As: Johana Barbara Novak
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Birthday: January 11, 1896
Deathday: February 03, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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One Increasing Purpose
Overview: Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris returns home with nary a scratch. This convinces him that his life has a "greater purpose" in the scheme of things, so he sets about to find that purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-02
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Desert Fury
Overview: The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Overview: Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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The Eyes of the World
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright, The Eyes of the World was told almost exclusively via flashbacks. The basic plotline concerns a pretty violinist, the handsome artist who falls in love with her, and the double-dyed villain who hopes to seduce the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-27
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Redskin
Overview: Wing Foot is a Navajo educated in an otherwise all-white school. He experiences prejudice from both the whites (because of his race) and the Navajos (who disown him because of his upbringing). Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin".
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-22
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Kazan
Overview: Kazan, a dog who reverts to the life of the wild when his master is killed, becomes docile when he develops a loyalty to a girl in distress.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-28
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Man of Courage
Overview: A crusading district attorney tries to stop a local mob boss who has connections in high places.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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The Golden Trail
Overview: At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Graft
Overview: 20 two reels episodic dramatic serial now lost. (1) Liquor and the Law (1915); (2) The Tenement House Evil (1915); (3) The Traction Grab (1915); (4) The Power of the People (1916); (5) Grinding Life Down (1916); (6) The Railroad Monopoly (1916); (7) America Saved from War (1916); (8) Old King Coal (1916); (9) The Insurance Swindlers (1916); (10) The Harbor Transportation Trust (1916); (11) The Illegal Bucket Shops (1916); (12) The Milk Battle (1916); (13) The Powder Trust and the War (1916); (14) The Iron Ring (1916); (15) The Patent Medicine Danger (1916); (16) The Pirates of Finance (1916); (17) Queen of the Prophets (1916); (18) The Hidden City of Crime (1916); (19) The Photo Badger Game (1916); and (20) The Final Conquest (1916).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-11
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The Power of the People
Overview: Bruce Larnigan finds himself so bitterly opposed by the administration that he resigns his office as District Attorney. He enters into an agreement with Editor Nash of the Independent, whereby he intends to continue his attacks on the criminal trusts through the press. His first effort is directed against the combine of the grain interests and the subsequent raising of the price of bread. His investigation takes him to Chicago. Stone immediately has a tough character, known as "Red Mike," sent after him with instructions that he must prevent the return of Larnigan if possible, but there will be no reward unless the fatality "looks like an accident." 4th episode of the Graft serial. All now lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-01
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Grinding Life Down
Overview: The experience of Bruce on the grain steamer has been a great shock to Dorothy. She thinks Stone responsible and breaks her engagement, despite the pleadings of her father. Tom Larnigan is working for the Textile Trust in Lyndham. The low wages have caused a strike. Tom does what he can for the workers.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-08
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The Railroad Monopoly
Overview: Tom Larnigan, encouraged by his victory over the Textile Trust, turns his attention to the Railroad Monopoly. Tom receives warning from the Graft Trust to cease his activities or suffer the fate of his father and brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-15
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America Saved from War
Overview: The plan is this: a foreign man of war is interned in the harbor. By blowing up this boat, Carney figures that strained relation existing between this country and warring nations will snap and the United States will be drawn into the conflict. This would mean untold orders and profit for the Steel Trust. Stone and Carney plan to carry out the plot with aid of an eccentric inventor named Bill Bean. #7 in the Graft serial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-22
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Old King Coal
Overview: Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom. 8th chapter in the Graft serial.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-29
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The Insurance Swindlers
Overview: The insurance companies, organized in one mighty trust, have been using the policy holders' money to speculate with. Tom Larnigan has announced that he will investigate and proceed against the trust. 9th episode of the Graft serial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-05
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The Harbor Transportation Trust
Overview: Bruce Larnigan, in connection with Jack Stevens, is editing the "Independent," the newspaper which Ben Travers had bought to assist the fight against the trusts. 10th episode in the Graft serial.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-12
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What Price Love?
Overview: A man who has been jilted by the woman he loves sets out to recover her stolen jewels in order that she can be happy with her new husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-08-30
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The Iron Hand
Overview: After political boss Tim Noland adopts Roy, the infant son of a dead crony, he reluctantly gives the boy up to a doctor who claims that, if raised in an respectable environment, the child will grow into a model citizen. Twenty years later, Roy comes back to live with Tim, and is appalled at his unscrupulous methods of conducting business. Then, he falls in love with Enid Winslow, the daughter of a social reformer who is running for office against Tim. Largely due to Roy's financial support, Winslow wins the election, but, holding a grudge against Tim and anyone connected to him, he refuses to let Enid marry Roy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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Ghost Town
Overview: An old miner is ambushed by outlaws trying to steal the $10,000 he is carrying to start up a new mine. A passing cowboy comes to the miner's aid, but winds up getting blamed for the attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-15
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Isobel or the Trail's End
Overview: In retaliation for an attack upon his wife Isobel, Scottie Dean, a passenger on a whaling ship, throws Captain Jim Blake overboard and, believing that he is responsible for the captain's death, flees to the Northwoods for safety.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-12-19
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The Kiss
Overview: Directed by Ulysses Davis, the screenplay was based on a story by Marc Edmund Jones. Long thought to have been a lost film, a copy was found and put on YouTube. The film is the only known surviving film in which director William Desmond Taylor appears as an actor. In 1964 Taylor's co-star Margaret Gibson, shortly before her death, reportedly confessed to having murdered him in 1921.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-14
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Willie Runs the Park
Overview: Willie Runs the Park is a 1915 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Greater Courage
Overview: The Greater Courage is a 1915 silent film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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The Hungry Actors
Overview: The Hungry Actors is a 1915 Comedy short.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-17
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From Italy's Shores
Overview: Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-19
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Wagon Tracks
Overview: Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-28
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Behind the Door
Overview: Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is drawn into the war with Germany, he enlists and travels the seas with his wife, Alice Morse. During a submarine attack Alice is snatched from Krug's side by a German officer. Krug now lives to have his revenge, and when the opportunity presents itself, he will have it.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-14
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The Claws of the Hun
Overview: An American munitions manufacturer and his son become ensnarled with enemy agents from Germany during the First World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-08
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Lazybones
Overview: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-06
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Just Nuts
Overview: Just Nuts is a 1915 short comedy film featuring Harold Lloyd playing the character that preceded his glasses character. It is also the only surviving film featuring Lloyd as Willie Work
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-18
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Three Word Brand
Overview: Ben Trego dies defending his twin sons from Indian attack. Separated, the two boys grow up very differently, one as Paul Marsden, the other as a cowboy named Three Word Brand. Paul becomes governor of Utah while Brand partners with George Barton in a ranch. The owner of the adjacent ranch plots to get Barton and Brand out of the way in order to control water rights. When Governor Marsden comes to the area to investigate, Brand sees the resemblance between them, though neither knows about his twin. Brand waylays Paul and takes his place as governor in an attempt to thwart the crooked rancher in the water rights scheme.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-15
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A Little Madonna
Overview: Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-04-22
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String Beans
Overview: Farmer Toby Watkinsm whose fanciful poetry does not impress his exasperated uncle, leaves the farm to become a subscription solicitor for the "Sawbert Weekly Clarion." In Sawbert, Toby meets Mayor Lot Morris' daughter Jean, and the shy young people fall in love. Crooked stock promoter Kendall Reeves arrives in town and unveils his plan to open a string-bean cannery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-12-22
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The Man Without a Heart
Overview: When Rufus Asher suspects that Barbara Wier is plotting with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, he abducts Barbara and takes her to a lonely mountain retreat. Mistaking Rufus for a vagabond, Barbara shoots him, then nurses him back to health, explaining that she and Edmund were trying to stop an elopement of Edmund's wife with another man, Hugh Langley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Hollywood Boulevard
Overview: With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Treat 'Em Rough
Overview: Daredevil cowboy Ned Ferguson is hired by John Stafford to stop the cattle rustling plaguing his ranch. On the way to the ranch Ned is bitten by a rattlesnake and is nursed by Mary Radford, who is writing a western novel. Ranch foreman Dave Leviatt tells Ned that Mary's brother Ben is behind the rustling. After Ben and Ned come to an understanding, Dave shoots Ben from under cover but Ben is sure that Ned double-crossed him. Mary will have nothing to do with Ned, even after Ned saves her life during a cattle stampede. Ned finally runs down the rustlers, and Mary sees him as a hero instead of merely putting him in her novel.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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The Blackguard
Overview: A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-09-04
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The Barbarian
Overview: Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-29
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Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Scared Stiff
Overview: A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Genres: Music Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-27
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The Prude's Fall
Overview: A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-23
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The Danger Signal
Overview: A recently widowed and destitute young mother (Jane Novak) appeals to her wealthy and heartless father-in-law (Robert Edeson) for financial aid. Instead, he convinces her to hand over her new baby to his care so that the child will be brought up with "everything money can buy." Unbeknownst to the grandfather, we learn that there are twin sons and our heroine keeps one baby to raise herself. The narrative jumps ahead to the boy's twenty-first birthday and we see what's become of them. Not surprisingly, the wealthy son has grown up spoiled and greedy while the poor one works hard and loves his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-26
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Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
Overview: A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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The Man Life Passed By
Overview: Inventor John Turbin vows vengeance when "Iron Man" Moore, a wealthy iron industrialist, steals his plans. Poverty and disappointment make him a derelict, but he forgives his enemy and finds happiness after Moore's daughters, Hope and Joy, befriend him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-24
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Gallant Lady
Overview: A female doctor is sent to prison for a mercy killing. She manages to escape, get married and lead a model life, but one day her secret is exposed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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The Target
Overview: Colorado lawyer Bill Brent, falsely accused and imprisoned for a murder committed by his partner, escapes to Canada with his cellmate where they become wealthy in the trapping business. When out of a trapping expedition the pair rescue Nita, the only survivor of a boating accident. In time Bill and she fall in love and marry then Bill makes the unwise decision to try to return to see his elderly mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-06
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A Little Brother of the Rich
Overview: While working his way through college, Paul Potter acquires a flock of wealthy friends who encourage him to give up his hometown fiancée, Sylvia Castle, for Muriel Evers, a flirtatious married woman. After Sylvia releases Paul, and Muriel's husband divorces her for infidelity, Paul and Muriel marry. Meanwhile, when Sylvia's father dies after being ruined in the stock market, she goes from one job to another in the city until she tries acting in a stock company. There she befriends Henry Leamington, an alcoholic leading man, who, as he tutors her, falls in love and stops drinking because of her. When Paul discovers Muriel's unfaithfulness, he renews his acquaintance with Sylvia, who still loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-06
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The Temple Of Dusk
Overview: Japanese poet Akira living in Tokyo, loves American Ruth Vale, who was placed in the care of Akira's father when her missionary parents died. Ruth returns Akira's affections until she meets Edward, but the American proves an unfaithful husband. Three years later, Ruth is gravely ill while Edward amuses himself with his new lover, Adrienne Chester, but Akira comforts the dying woman with the promise that he will protect her little daughter Blossom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-20
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The Tiger Man
Overview: Outlaw Hawk Parsons, notoriously successful in his pursuits, has been caught by the local sherif of a New Mexico town in the 1850s. The overly prideful sherif and his lawmen are outsmarted and Parsons escapes. In the desert, he falls in with a reverend, his wife, and their group of missionaries, who hope to establish a church. After coming under attack by a tribe of Native Americans, Parsons strikes a deal: in exchange for the safe keeping of the missionaries, he takes the reverend's wife for himself. Ultimately a parable of Christian values, the film's narrative establishes and overcomes obstacles that test the virtue of men in the American West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-30
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Selfish Yates
Overview: The story is set in Arizona, where the aptly nicknamed Yates is the proprietor of the local saloon. Unable to find any other work, pretty Mary Adams is forced to scrub floors in Yates' establishment. At first treating her with the same disdain that he extends to the rest of the townsfolk, Yates slowly but surely falls in love with Mary.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-12
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The Furies
Overview: A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-16
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The River's End
Overview: In the gold fields of the Canadian Northwest, a man is falsely accused of a crime and determines that a lookalike is responsible.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-22
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The Rosary
Overview: After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, inherits the bulk of the estate. Wright is further enraged by the engagement of Vera Mather, whom he loves, to Bruce. Wright joins forces with Donald MacTavish, a pirate captain, and wins the affections of Bruce's sister, Alice, who becomes his victim. Vera, in an attempt to save Alice, becomes involved in the scandal, and Bruce takes back the rosary he has given her to pledge his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-16
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Man's Desire
Overview: Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-20
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The Money Corral
Overview: Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-20
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The Spirit of '76
Overview: Catherine Montour, a striking half-breed Indian princess, and mistress of King George III aspires to become the first Queen of America when the revolution breaks out.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Scarlet Sin
Overview: Against the wishes of Cecelia, his wife, the Reverend Eric Norton leaves his position in a fashionable New York congregation to preach in a poor mining town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-02
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The Yanks Are Coming
Overview: A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-09
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The Fire Flingers
Overview: A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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A Nine O'Clock Town
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-07-28
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