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Tragic Comedy Film
thumb|upright=1.2|alt=The Matinee Idol (1928), directed by Frank Capra|Surviving film Don Wilson, a famous blackface comedian, is preparing to headline a new show. Arnold Wingate, his manager, persuades him to take a weekend off in the cou…
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Western film, silent film
Stephen Ghent, a mine owner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, …
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, in accordance with custom, Castro arranges the marriage of his son, Don Alonzo (Valentino), with Julietta (Helena D'Algy), the daughter of a proud Spanish family, and she comes to the South Amer…
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Komödie
thumb|thumbtime=10|Angora Love (1929) Laurel and Hardy encounter a wandering goat that becomes attached to them subsequent to their benevolent act of offering it doughnuts. The goat persistently trails them, necessitating its accommodation…
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drama film, silent film
Fast Workers is set in the early 1930s, in the time of the film's release. It portrays the freewheeling lives and romantic escapades of two friends who work as riveters on high-rise construction projects. Gunner Smith is a rake who loves w…
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Romance Film
Nina (Mary Pickford) and Jack Graham (Harold Lockwood) are both marooned on a deserted island. They fall in love and eventually Nina gives birth to a child. Despite being stranded, they are very happy together.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, two young women, twins, whose mother dies while the family is en route from Ireland to the United States, are separated in New York City, Anne being adopted by a wealthy family and the other, Fely, b…
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crime film, silent film
The film follows the activities of a gang called 'The Ladybirds' -- criminals who prey upon the rich and famous of New Orleans. During Mardi Gras, a society girl called Diane Wyman gets a job dancing at a local cabaret and unwittingly beco…
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Biographical picture
thumb|220px|alt=A man seated playing a violin|A still from Home, Sweet Home (1914) John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and girlfriend, Payne begins to lead a dissolute lif…
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adventure film, silent film
Independently, the two protagonists, Diana Martin and Secret Service agent Larry Trent, are searching the jungle for missing relatives, her father and his brother. Tied up in this plot are ivory smugglers and a lost treasure hidden in the …
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Deloryse, a dancer of exquisite charm and grace, is wooed and won by David Compton, an English officer billeted in Paris. On the eve of their marriage, her fiancée is unexpectedly called away. A blow…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, facing poverty, Carol Drayton a singer, attempts suicide but is saved by Rose, a young woman of the streets who buys her a meal in a questionable café. Gordon Duane, a wealthy man joins them, th…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Frances Wadsworth (Gish) is a very superstitious young woman who implicitly believes in fortunes told by cards. She discovers through the cards that her friend Mollie Rourke (McGinnis) is doomed to marry. A…
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Komödie
thumb|left|The full short Harold works in an office on a tall building next to his girlfriend Mildred. Mildred learns she will be let go by her employer, osteopathic specialist Dr. Frank Gary, because "business is slow." To prevent Mildred…
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Western, drama film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=8|The Trap (1922) Gaspard, a French fur trapper, returns from a trip to find his sweetheart Thalie romantically involved with a newcomer named Benson. Gaspard then learns that Benson has also acquired ownership of Gasp…
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silent film
In Ypsilanti, Michigan, Speed Doolittle, the brash Don Juan of the town, and Buddy Blake, a more serious and modest youth, spend their days tinkering with a rickety homemade glider mounted on a battered car. Their dream is to become real a…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=975|Underground (1928) An electrician and a porter both fall in love with a shop girl they meet on the London Underground. Their rivalry begins with humour and ends very darkly at the Power Station.
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Drama
After fifteen years, Joshua Judd (Charles Ogle) tells his adopted son, Amos (Valentino), that his real father was an Indian maharajah overthrown by Ali Khan (Bertram Grassby). Amos, then a young boy (played by an uncredited Pat Moore), was…
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American football film, drama film, silent film
The film opens on a shot of a party, then focuses in on a couple. A title card introduces the man as Jack Hamill, "... an all around athlete -- his 'approach' sure -- his 'stroke' swift, and his 'service' - perfect." Jack tells his date, M…
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Western film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Cheyenne Harry (Carey), one of the cowboys on a ranch in Wyoming, falls in love with Helen (Malone), his boss's daughter. She decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton (Pegg), a wealthy visitor to …
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, while in a graveyard trying an old remedy to get rid of their warts, Tom (Pickford) and Huck (Gordon) witness a murder. At the trial, their repetition of the story clears Muff Potter (Bates), an innocent su…
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drama film, romance film, silent film
Axel Heyst, a solitary individual, lives by himself on an otherwise deserted island in the South Seas. When he travels to a neighboring island on business, he encounters a pretty young girl named Alma, who is being abused by her boss, Mr. …
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Private Cuthbert Hope, a well-meaning but inept soldier, continually exasperates his superior, the irascible Sergeant Banner, who in turn answers to the equally temperamental Captain Bustle. While departing by train, Captain Bustle becomes…
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silent film
In the icy reaches of the Northern wilderness, a husky pup named Lobo is raised by a wolf but refuses to follow the savage ways of the pack. Striking out on his own, he wanders south until, for the first time, he sees human beings. His fir…
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