Thomas Meighan
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 - July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading man roles opposite popular actresses of the day including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he commanded $10,000 a week. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Meighan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 09, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 08, 1936
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A Prince There Was
Overview: A wealthy socialite poses as a magazine editor living in a boardinghouse to learn more about an intriguing woman who wants to publish her stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-13
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Her Better Self
Overview: Even though society debutante Vivian Tyler (Pauline Frederick) is engaged to Count Belloto (Frank deRheim), she finds herself attracted to Dr. Robert Keith (Thomas Meighan). Keith works amongst the poor, and his wealthy benefactors include Vivian's father (Charles Wellesley). But when Vivian meets streetwalker Aggie May (Alice Hollister), she mistakenly believes that Keith is responsible for the woman's downfall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-21
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The Racket
Overview: A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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Eve's Daughter
Overview: Eve's Daughter was the fourth and final screen teaming of Billie Burke and Thomas Meighan. This time out, Burke is cast as Irene Simpson-Bates, who is disheartened to learn that her millionaire father has left her with a mere $15,000. She is subsequently courted by two men: Poor but respectable John Norton (Thomas Meighan), and rich but disreputable Courtenay Urquahrt (Lionel Atwill, in his American screen debut).
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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The Mysterious Miss Terry
Overview: In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-08-19
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The Land of Promise
Overview: Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-12-09
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In Pursuit of Polly
Overview: Pretty Polly Marsden is ardently pursued by three different Romeos, but she coyly refuses to choose between them. When they insist that she give them her answer, she arranges an impromptu automobile race: whichever one of the three can overtake her speeding roadster will be the man whom she will marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-19
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Young Sinners
Overview: The reckless son of a millionaire struggles to find a positive outlook on life, so he turns to a hard-nosed trainer for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-05-17
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Fascinating Youth
Overview: Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-17
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Coming Through
Overview: Because he wants a promotion, Tom Blackford marries Alice Rand, the daughter of his boss, John Rand. Rand is aware of Blackford's motivations and he sends him to take over as superintendent of one of the company's mines in the hopes that he will fail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-17
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Male and Female
Overview: When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-23
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Why Change Your Wife?
Overview: Robert and Beth Bordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-21
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The Immigrant
Overview: Masha, a young Russian emigrant traveling to the U.S., is saved from an officer's advances by civil engineer David Harding. Upon landing in America, J. J. Walton, a self-made political boss and contractor, pursues Masha and hires her as his maid. She leaves after the first night, but becomes his mistress after Walton promises her an education and marriage. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-20
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Sapho
Overview: Sapho, whose real name is Fanny Legrand, is the daughter of poor people, her father being a coachman, and her early home is little more than a hovel in the slums of Paris. She is a flower seller on the streets of Paris, earning a few sous daily, which she uses to support her family. She meets famous sculptor, Caoudal, who recognizes her wonderful beauty and persuades her to pose for him. The luxury of his studio awakens in her an unsuspected love for the beautiful things of life. It's not long before she becomes the most talked of and sought after model of Paris. She is content to live in this way, reveling in beauty and the admiration of her friends and Caoudal himself. Until a poet named Dejoie, moved by her beauty, writes verses to her which make both himself and her still more famous, winning her away from Caoudal. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-11
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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The Mating Call
Overview: A World War I veteran takes on the Ku Klux Klan when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-21
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The Canadian
Overview: A couple undergo hardship homesteading in Alberta, where they are plagued by bad weather and financial woes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-27
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Peck's Bad Boy
Overview: Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-18
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Manslaughter
Overview: Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-09-24
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Heart of the Wilds
Overview: In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians. Val's friend Pierre resolves to win Jen, even though she is in love with Sergeant Tom Gellatly of the Mounted Police. When Val tries to retrieve some liquor sold illegally by the elder Galbraith to an Indian named Grey Cloud, the Indian insults Jen and Val shoots him. Tom is assigned to track down the murderer, but after he arrives at the tavern, Galbraith and Pierre drug him. Jen delivers the papers he is carrying to police headquarters, but when she discovers that they contain orders to arrest her brother, she shoots Tom to prevent him from going after Val.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-09-01
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Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Overview: Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he expected nor what he hoped for.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-06
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A Trip to Paramountown
Overview: Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-07-10
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The Miracle Man
Overview: A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang. Lost film, only the most famous scene has survived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-26
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Madison Square Garden
Overview: Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-04
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M'Liss
Overview: M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-05-05
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Out of the Darkness
Overview: Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company goes to work in her own factory, to find out that its staff working in poor working conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-09-08
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Irish Luck
Overview: Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes friends. The Earl of Killarney, Fitzhugh's uncle, who is on his deathbed, wishes to see his favorite nephew and wipe out past animosities. Fitzhugh, in the meantime, has disappeared, and his sister, Lady Gwendolyn, persuades Tom to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-07
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The New Klondike
Overview: Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of the Florida land boom (in which a lot of the land sold was under water), makes a fortune and buys into the team that cut him from its roster.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
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The Alaskan
Overview: An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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Cheaters at Play
Overview: Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-27
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The Frontier of the Stars
Overview: East Side gangster Buck Leslie attempts to stop a fight between chemist Gregory and a tough and is pursued by detective Phil Hoyt to a tenement roof where he takes refuge. On the roof he meets crippled Hilda Shea, who shelters him, and they eventually fall in love, the appeal of her innocence causing him to reform. Buck antagonizes the gang, however, and they try to frame him. Hoyt finds Buck on the roof, and during the ensuing fight the tenement catches on fire. Buck rescues Hilda, and she miraculously regains use of her limbs. The detective abandons his pursuit, leaving the lovers happy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-30
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The Argyle Case
Overview: A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The murdered man's son thinks something is fishy, and a homicide cop sets out to find out who was behind the man's death. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Overview: Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-02-13
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Kindling
Overview: Pregnant tenement dweller Maggie Schultz is being used by burglars....
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-12
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The Forbidden City
Overview: The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-10-06
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The Heart of Wetona
Overview: After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she turns to a white Indian agent who marries her.
Genres: Western Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-05
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The Probation Wife
Overview: A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-24
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Tin Gods
Overview: In a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the story of Drake's life: As a rising engineer, he marries Janet Stone, the ambitious daughter of a wealthy family, and neglects his career while Janet becomes a candidate for the State Assembly. Drake comes into conflict with her political friends, and when their baby falls from its nursery window, the couple remorsefully decide to separate. Drake, degenerated by drink, goes to South America to construct a bridge; there he is stricken by fever and is redeemed by the love and care of Carita, a dancer. Carita, however, learns of Janet's political defeat and her attempt to effect a reconciliation with Drake; thinking he still loves his wife, she leaps from the bridge. Drake returns each year to the chapel he has erected in her memory. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-19
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Common Ground
Overview: Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mordant's daughter, Doris. Hearing of Evan's plan, Mordant devises a scheme of his own and `frames' Evans with five teenage girls and a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-07-30
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Skyline
Overview: Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by Fox Film Corporation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-08
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Pied Piper Malone
Overview: Pied Piper Malone (1924)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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The Confidence Man
Overview: Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school teacher Margaret Leland is friends with the old man, he romances her. He also helps out the local charities and endears himself to the local folk. Corvan is too good at his tricks -- all this hard-won trust is turning him into an honest man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-20
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The Ne'er-Do-Well
Overview: Disgusted with his spendthrift son, Kirk Anthony's father has Kirk shanghaied and taken to Panama, where he attracts the attention of Mrs. Edith Cortlandt. He subsequently falls in love with Chiquita, the daughter of a Panamanian general, gets a railroad job through Stephen Cortlandt and decides to make something of himself when he meets Allen Allan, a black mercenary. Stephen Cortlandt's death is blamed on Kirk until Edith produces a suicide note. He succeeds in his railroad position and returns to the United States with Chiquita to ask his father's forgiveness. A lost film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-04-29
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Woman-Proof
Overview: At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-28
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The City Gone Wild
Overview: Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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We're All Gamblers
Overview: The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney Howard, the story concerns a refugee of the Lower East Side who rises to the uppermost rungs of the nightclub world, all for the sake of a "dame." Boxer Sam McCarver (Meighan) falls in love with society girl Carlotta Asche (Mariette Mische).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
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Arms and the Girl
Overview: Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second. Burke plays an American lass who journeys to Europe to be reunited with her fiance. Not only has her sweetheart been unfaithful, but she arrives on the continent just as World War I breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-14
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Blackbirds
Overview: Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt). She meets English crook Nevil Trask (Thomas Meighan), and they fall in love -- however, neither one knows of the other's criminal ways.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-14
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The Secret Sin
Overview: Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live in poverty with their parents and their father (Hal Clements) finally finds work. Because he is faithful to his boss (Thomas Meighan), he is offered a partnership.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-10-21
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Cappy Ricks
Overview: When seaman Matt Peasley and his friend, Murphy (Hugh Cameron), go ashore in San Francisco, they save Florrie Ricks (Agnes Ayers) from a couple of robbers. Matt falls in love with Florrie, whose father is ship owner Cappy Ricks (Charles S. Abbe).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-08-21
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Civilian Clothes
Overview: During the First World War, Captain Sam McGinnis marries Florence Lanham, a Salvation Army worker in France. When she mistakenly hears that Sam has been killed, she returns home to her wealthy family without mentioning her brief marriage. But Sam turns up, alive but poorly dressed, and Florence is happy to see him but appalled at his clothing.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-05
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The Man Who Found Himself
Overview: Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-23
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The Conquest of Canaan
Overview: Joe Louden is an outcast in the small town of Canaan, and is especially disliked by Judge Pike. There is one inhabitant, however, who is fond of Joe -- the pretty but poor Ariel Tabor. But she inherits some money and goes to Paris with her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-07-10
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Homeward Bound
Overview: A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there. (lost film)
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-29
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Tongues of Flame
Overview: The Native American Siwash people have been displaced from their land and live on a reservation. The wealthy Mr. Boland attempts to buy the reservation from the Siwash for dubious reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-15
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White and Unmarried
Overview: When an underworld figure inherits a fortune, he goes straight and endeavors to become a respectable businessman. But on a trip to Paris, he encounters a few not-so-honest types who think he is ripe for picking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-29
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Armstrong's Wife
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-18
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
Overview: A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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The Clown
Overview: Severely injured after saving the son of Judge Jonathan Le Roy from a team of runaway horses circus clown, Piffle is taken to recover at the Le Roy home where he falls in love with the judge’s daughter, Millicent. She however loves another, Dick Ordway and is secretly carrying his child. When he is reported to have perished in the desert Piffle steps forward to save Millicent’s reputation by being husband and father. Millicent agrees but the judge insists Piffle leave the circus and become a banker. Piffle acquiesces but when Dick reappears many complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-06-19
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The Thunderbolt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-10-06
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The Bachelor Daddy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-29
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Our Leading Citizen
Overview: Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-14
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Peg o' My Heart
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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The Prince Chap
Overview: An artist in England is torn between an old flame and the now grown up little girl he has adopted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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