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Drama, drama film, silent film
The following plot summary is derived from the 10-page “Sequence Summary” issued by Paramount's Story Department (October 28, 1928). The narrative is framed between a prologue and an epilogue, both set in a small Hungarian village. The mai…
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drama film, silent film
The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.
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An upstanding taxi driver unknowingly picks up a woman and her "little person" accomplice, disguised as a baby, who are revealed to be criminals. Upon their departure without payment and leaving the meter running, the driver, Stan, pursues…
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An old flame of businessman Titus Tillsbury threatens to expose their past, destroying both his marriage and career. He sends his aide to keep her away from a dinner party he and his wife are hosting that evening. Romaine fails to do this,…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Jim (Marmont) is a seaman who joins a cowardly captain and his stenchful crew in deserting a boatload of Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca. He is hypnotized into turning his back on his duty…
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Western film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Jim Wynnegate, a young Englishman, assumes the guilt for the embezzlement of trust funds that were lost in speculation by his cousin Henry. He embarks to the United States and settles in the west, where he …
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Documentation, documentary film, silent film
Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
In the quiet Alsatian village of Pré d'Or, just before the outbreak of the Great War, lives Marie Ducrot, a beautiful and virtuous young woman, the admired belle of the village. Despite the attentions of many local suitors, Marie remains u…
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Two waiters are working at a restaurant. One is especially inept and his comic carelessness enrages the customers. The workers in the restaurant's bakery go on strike for more pay, but are fired by the unsympathetic proprietor.
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romantic comedy film, silent film
Kid Boots is a put-upon clerk in a men's tailor shop. When Big Boyle storms in to buy a new suit, the service he receives is so inept that he destroys the shop trying to throttle Boots. Boots flees for his life, stopping only to make Clara…
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musical film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Broadway Babies (1929) Chorus girl Delight "Dee" Foster is in love with stage manager Billy Buvanny and he also loves her. They plan to marry until bootlegger Perc Gessant steps in. Dee is led to believe that Billy is in …
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Drama
17-year-old Tess Skinner is the daughter of a squatter, and wealthy man Elias Graves, who owns the land, is trying to get rid of them and the other squatter families. Tess is just as determined to make sure they all stay. Elias, however, g…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
Drama
Frank Andrews (Donald Crisp) is a well-to-do, middle-class apartment dweller who is devoted to his wife (Mary Alden) and two children, John (Robert Harron) and Jane (Lillian Gish). Andrews enters into a midlife crisis when a fetching young…
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drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|left|The film As described in a film magazine, David Graham (Calhern) is the husband of Marie (Windsor), a wife whose great love leads her to too careful safeguarding of her husband's happiness. Sara Daily (Lisa), a form…
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Crime, Melodrama, crime film, silent film
A criminal referred to by the press as "The Wrecker" is orchestrating accidents on Britain's railways. One such accident occurs on the (fictional) United Coast Lines Railway, whose train is carrying Roger Doyle (Joseph Striker), who has re…
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American football film, drama film, musical film, silent film
Marty Reid is the star quarterback of Sanford College, and according to Coach Wilson, the finest backfield man the school has ever had. But Marty hates taking physical punishment and, after being knocked out by a vicious clip to the head i…
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silent film
The film tells the story of a Chinese-American couple and their conflict with the values of their traditionally oriented Chinese relatives. Silent film from 1906, which was never released. The film has not been completely preserved, only t…
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Tina, the drudge of the Red Mill Tavern in Holland, works hard and long hours, with her only company being a mouse, named Ignatz. Willem is the mean Tavern proprietor who catches her feeding the mouse. He is outraged and scares away the mo…
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drama film, silent film
Officer Paul Almasy is separated from his unit behind enemy lines and hides in the Hotel Imperial in Lemberg (nowadays Lviv, Ukraine), where chambermaid Anna disguises him as a waiter. The invading Russian troops make the hotel their headq…
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thumb|left|220px|Lobby card thumb|thumbtime=0|Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) The vessel Merry Maiden is being loaded; the captain and the first mate are domineering figures among the crew. Meanwhile, on land, fisherman Willie Brisling is en…
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Western film, silent film
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Michael Caviol, violinist, after he has been hit on the head sees visions in which he is dominated by a god-like creature, Maliol, who promises him success so long as he loves nothing but his art. He…
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Drama, drama film, silent film