John Cossar
Also Known As: John Hay Cossar
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 01, 1858
Deathday: April 28, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Long Arm of Mannister
Overview: Walking aimlessly in the desert, crazed by thirst and hunger, Lucy Mannister and Gaston Sinclair are overtaken by her husband George, who has pursued them around the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-15
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The Marriage Ring
Overview: Anne Mertons (Enid Bennett) is the unhappy wife of Hugo Mertons (Robert McKim), an unscrupulous brute. When the two struggle over a gun, Hugo is shot. Anne, thinking he is dead, flees to Hawaii, where she falls in love with Rodney Heathe (Jack Holt), who owns a sugar plantation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-26
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The Feud
Overview: Two Southern clans, the Lynches and the Summers, have been at odds with each other since long before Civil War times. But that hasn't stopped Jere Lynch and Betty Summers from falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-12-07
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Fools For Luck
Overview: Philander has embraced every superstition imaginable, from hoarding rabbit's foots and horseshoes to avoiding the third light on a match. But his luck manages to run out anyway -- he loses his girl, Brunhilda and his job.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-08
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The Poverty of Riches
Overview: John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, Tom and Grace Donaldson, decide to start a family right away. While John works his way up to a position of power at a steel firm, Katherine begins to question the wisdom of their decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-01
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Mrs. Trenwith Comes Home
Overview: Mrs. Trenwith is a typical shallow, thoughtless society woman. Her husband is wrapped up in business and as a result their little daughter, Marjory, suffers greatly from neglect. Her old nurse, Franchette, loves her dearly. Mr. Trenwith leaves town on a business trip while his wife goes to a house party, where she meets Ralph Eccles, a typical society tempter. She leads him on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-08
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The Blindness of Virtue
Overview: The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-19
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The Clutch of Circumstance
Overview: Eli Turner, an unscrupulous lawyer, is defeated in court by Frank Morrison, a young attorney. Frank also has had the temerity to get in Turner's path over a girl. Now Turner plots to send Morrison to prison, but Nance, a mountain girl, who admires Frank, warns him of his danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-05
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Genres: Romance Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-06
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Into Society and Out
Overview: This amusing and diverting comedy depicts the trials and tribulations of a French nobleman to win the hand of a rich American girl. He is about to succeed when Fate, in the form of two tramps, steps in and he has to abdicate in favor of the higher power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-04
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Within Three Hundred Pages
Overview: A necklace belonging to Mrs. Stuyvesant is stolen from Lawyer Smirney's office. It was smuggled in from China years before. Chief Knox is notified and believes Smirney guilty when he finds a diagram in his pocket, and following it, finds a necklace. Ho Fing-Tang, a Chinaman, studying law in the office, is not suspected by Knox, but Spider, a newspaper reporter, believes differently. Ho Fing-Tang is injured and in a delirium keeps repeating "Huns 764." Spider goes to the office and from a book called "Hun's 129 Reports," he extracts the real necklace. The stones Knox found prove to be paste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-10
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Beyond Youth's Paradise
Overview: Captain Fane, an English army officer stationed at Cairo, is in love with Lady Fiennis, who is treated most cruelly by her husband. Fane returns to England when he finds that she refuses to leave him. Five years later Fane's sister summons him to tell him that her son Frankie, who is only twenty-two years old, has decided to marry a widow many years his senior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-11-24
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The Buffer
Overview: John Harms, a corporation magnate, has two motherless sons, Bobby and Sam. Bobby is a cute little youngster of six, and Sam is of age and spends his father's money with recklessness. Richard Freely, an arch-enemy of Harms', is continually trying to dissolve the corporation, and not until Newton, a half-brother to Freely, has forged some checks on a good friend of Harms', does the financier secure a wedge with which to ruin Freely. Harms threatens to expose his enemy for defending Newton, and Freely is saved from bodily injury by Bobby, who has come to ask his father for candy. Meantime Sam has forged his father's name to a check and handed it to Newton in payment of gambling debts. Harms is about to sacrifice his son to down Freely, when the little "Buffer' again bursts in and drags Sam away to play horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-12-01
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The Girl, the Cop, the Burglar
Overview: Thomas Terpin. James Riding and Jack Hazard are sitting in the club when the talk drifts to a daring housebreaker, whom the police are powerless to capture. Jack makes a wager with Terpin that he can rob and get away with it. Terpin takes him up and agrees to pay a forfeit of $100 of Jack returns to the club within three hours with something valuable he has stolen. The adventures he has are screamingly funny and the climax comes with most amazing and amusing results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-11
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Made in Heaven
Overview: William Lowry rescues Claudia Royce from a burning building, and upon hearing that her parents are trying to force her to accept millionaire Leland, whom she does not love, he proposes a marriage of convenience to himself. She accepts, and Bill arranges a fake ceremony; but when she falls in love with Davidge, Bill refuses her a "divorce." Later, Bill gets rich in the manufacture of a patented fireman's pole, and when he buys a house for Claudia she realizes her love for him and they are legally married.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-01
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The Misleading Lady
Overview: Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-03
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The Return of Eve
Overview: Believing that over-civilization was destroying the race, Eli Tapper, an eccentric millionaire, took two unrelated orphan children, a boy and a girl, and placed them in a wilderness, there in the care of an old tutor, David Winters, to grow up as a new Adam and Eve, and become path-breakers of a better race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-10-16
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The Chaperon
Overview: Jim Ogden, secretly engaged to Madge Hemmingway, wealthy heiress, becomes sensitive over his lack of money and breaks the engagement. In a moment of pique she marries Count Van Tuyle. After six months she returns from Europe, minus her husband. Trying to forget her error, she goes to the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-20
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When Fate Decides
Overview: Vera Loudon is unhappily married to the wealthy but profligate Herbert Loudon who openly makes advances to Mrs. Alicia Carteret at a dinner party. Donald Cavendish, a former admirer of Vera's, witnesses her humiliation and advises her to leave her husband, which she is unwilling to do.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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Pants
Overview: Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with. The result is that she runs away and joins a group of children from the ghetto district on the beach. In play she exchanges clothing with a little boy. That evening Betty doesn't return home. Her maiden aunt, an over-zealous guardian, is frantic. She notifies the police. The same evening the father of the boy, who has lost his position and is facing starvation, decides to turn burglar. He steals into the home of Betty's father. The household is awakened and the intruder captured.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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The Dream Doll
Overview: A. Knutt, a crack-brained chemist, discovers an elixir that will endow dolls with life. He does not know that it will change living persons to dolls. He shows his invention to the Toy King and his lovely daughter, and Ruby is overcome by the fumes and is changed into a doll, eloping with a doll lover and undergoing many strange adventures.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-10
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The Crimson Wing
Overview: The hero is a young soldier who is in love with two girls simultaneously. While on the battlefield, the soldier learns that one of his sweethearts has committed suicide. Only temporarily taken aback, he begins to dream of the blissful domesticity which he will enjoy with the other girl upon his return.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-01
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Her Country First
Overview: During World War I, young Dorothy Grant comes home from finishing school and informs her parents that she is going to contribute to the war effort by organizing a "Girls Aviation Corps". She has uniforms made and hires a veteran of the Spanish-American War to teach her "cadets" military routines and drills. Her father owns a munitions factory and is always telling her to be on the lookout for spies. She convinces herself that the family butler, Williams, is a spy because he cuts his grapefruit in an odd way. It turns out that Williams isn't a spy but the people whom Dorothy least suspects are in fact spies, and they discover that Dorothy knows the password to get into the factory after hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-22
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The Highest Trump
Overview: Secret Service officer Richard Paget receives a letter from his twin brother John imploring him to take over his identity after he commits suicide, so that Richard can subvert the plans made by the airplane company which John had financed, to make defective planes for the United States to use in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-03
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Doubling for Romeo
Overview: Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary. ....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-22
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Watch Your Step
Overview: Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-16
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On Trial
Overview: Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-23
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His Wooden Wedding
Overview: A few moments before Charley is going to marry, a friend, gives him an anonymous note, stating that the bride has a wooden leg.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-19
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Common Clay
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-02
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When Husbands Deceive
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-08-20
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Grand Larceny
Overview: Directed by Wallace Worsley.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-26
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Voices of the City
Overview: Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Edgar and the Teacher's Pet
Overview: The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate. But then the real events are seen in contrast with the ones Edgar has created in his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-03-27
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Edgar's Hamlet
Overview: Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-04-18
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Edgar's Sunday Courtship
Overview: On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath's sword. Edgar's answer to the teacher's question proves his straying thoughts. As a result he is placed on the platform, where he sees himself descending to the "lower regions" as the "worst boy in the school." Edgar's Sunday adventures end with him at peace with the world, after two helpings of pie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Edgar Takes the Cake
Overview: Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the article.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-09
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Edgar's Jonah Day
Overview: Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-05-08
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Edgar's Feast Day
Overview: Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-02-01
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Thorns and Orange Blossoms
Overview: While in Spain Alan Randolph falls for famed singer Rosita Mendez, but when he goes back to Louisiana, he returns to his fiancée Violet Beaton. On an American tour Rosita discovers Alan has married Violet. Consumed with jealousy she threatens to kill him with a revolver and in the scuffle is wounded. Full of vengeance Rosita has him jailed for five years. Suddenly contrite she then outlines a plan of escape to Alan, but he refuses until destiny takes a hand.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-10
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The House Without a Key
Overview: A Pathe serial in ten chapters of two-reels each: Dan Winterslip, a wealthy man in Honolulu, has not spoken to his brother, who owns a hotel next to Winterslip's estate, in over twenty years. Minerva, sister to the estranged brothers, comes from Boston to try to reconcile the two men. John Quincy Winterslip, Dan's nephew, receives a letter instructing him to retrieve a box from an attic in San Francisco and dump the contents into the ocean. He is on board a ship bound for Hawaii in which other passengers are also after the box. Dan Winterslip is murdered. Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective, offers to help solve the killing and the mysteries surround the box. Chan is looking for the person whose wristwatch is missing the number 'three.'
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-21
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Beans
Overview: Brewster, the bean king, has an option of renewal on a certain bean canning plant owned by Ellis. Ellis does not want to renew so hires shyster lawyer Wingate to help him. Brewster sends Betty to renew the contract but Ellis declines. Later Brewster sends his lawyer along with Ellis' man to persuades her that he isn't crooked. There follows plot and counter-plot, but innocent Betty carries the day.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-16
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The Game's Up
Overview: Struggling young painter Ruth Elliott has written her Eastern friend Mildred Colburn that she has gained fame in the West as an artist. When Mildred stops to visit on her way to Honolulu, Ruth hires Peter Neyland to pose as her chauffeur for five hours. Peter is actually a wealthy young man who accepts the offer as a lark.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-20
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Home
Overview: A young woman of humble origins hides her family's lack of wealth and prestige from her boarding school friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-31
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Do Children Count?
Overview: "Do Children Count?" was a series of 12 films, each completely independent of the other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-06
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The Strange Case of Mary Page
Overview: A 15-episode dramatic action movie serial only two of which survive.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-24
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The Prince of Graustark
Overview: Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of the adjoining principality, will advance the money if the young Prince of Graustark marries his daughter. Prince Robin, however, inherits an independent spirit, his father having been an American. He refuses absolutely to marry a Princess whom he has never seen. His councilors plead in vain. With the ruin of his country imminent, the boy ruler hastily sails for America to negotiate the loan, hoping at the same time to meet the girl of his dreams. The money is readily advanced by William W. Blithers, a self-made millionaire anxious to have his daughter marry into royalty. The daughter, however, avoids the Prince and he does not see her. He rescues a girl from drowning and falls in love with her. He believes her to be Blithers' daughter, but she does not reveal her identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-06
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The Misjudged Mr. Hartley
Overview: In honor of his return from abroad, Mrs. Worthington invites her cousin, Brian Hartley, to dinner that evening, but forgets to tell him she has moved from her old address. He goes to the old home where he is met at the door by Celia Thayer, a guest of the Holbrooks, who now occupy the residence. None of the family being at home, Ceclia admits him, thinking he has been invited to dinner. When her hostess does not arrive the two have dinner together and become quite infatuated. Later it develops that the house was robbed while Mr. Hartley was there and, of course, he is suspected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-19
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My Lady of Whims
Overview: Aspiring author Prudence "Prue" Severn leaves her staid home for the wild life in New York's artistic Greenwich Village community. Her concerned family hires two thrill-seeking ex-doughboys, bow-tied Bartley "Bart" Greer and his trigger-happy buddy Lee, to look after her and, hopefully, persuade her to come home. They move into Prue's apartment building, where she lives with a sculptress pal. Although interested in Bart, Prue senses he is being paid to watch over her-- so she decides to elope with the handsome Rolf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-09
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Edgar's Little Saw
Overview: Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy next door, little brother Charlie saws up everything in the house, furniture, hats, and at length attempts operations on the cat. Edgar gets the blame, and is being kept from his sweetheart's party as punishment, when Charlie's guilt is discovered. This film is presumably lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-10-01
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Edgar Camps Out
Overview: Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and everything. However, Edgar soon rallies and organizes a side show, displaying the greatest freaks on earth. This soon draws attention from the Bates boys, and Edgar is himself again, until that night when he camps out in the sideshow tent. Then the spooks hover about and Edgar is carried shrieking into the house by his father. This film is presumably lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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Edgar, the Detective
Overview: Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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Edgar's Country Cousin
Overview: Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city. His brave effort to go barefoot "like we do in the city" causes him much pain, and everything he attempts to demonstrate the city's superiority has disastrous results. However, a black eye, a face full of bee-stings, and the general bawling-out of the gang fails to conquer him, and he declares that he is having a bully time. This silent comedy short is presumably lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
Overview: After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of the people, and he leaves for Belgium. When the war begins, the inventor saves a Belgian burgomaster's daughter from Prussian invaders. The inventor and the girl endure horrible suffering because of the war, but they find happiness at its end, while the formerly fighting nations direct their effort towards world peace at the Paris conferences. The assassination of Kurt Eisner of Bavaria occurs at the end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-15
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The Chimney Sweep
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-01
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Orphan Joyce
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-06
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The Sap
Overview: Barry Weston is raised by his widowed mother and is, at best, a "mama's boy," and, at worst, a bit of a coward. He is drafted into the A.E.F. when World War I breaks out, and accidentally captures a nest of German snipers, and is decorated for bravery. He returns home as a hero but Vance, the town bully, challenges him to a fight but Barry refuses and the townsmen mock him and consider him a coward. His girlfriend Janet is none too impressed, either. He heads for the tall timber with suicide as his intent.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-20
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The Fast Express
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Genres: Action Drama Thriller Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-10
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Vagabond Luck
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-16
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Love Is Love
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-17
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A Pair of Sixes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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