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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, silent film
Submissive husband Stan has clandestinely saved money from his thrifty wife. Upon discovering Stan's savings, Ollie proposes they utilize the funds for leisure. However, before they can embark on their escapade, Stan's wife intercepts the …
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romantic comedy film, silent film
A young girl named Nancy falls in love with handsome Robert. He is to marry soon, yet Nancy develops a plan to finally get him. Nancy, an American on an unchaperoned trip to Paris, encounters Robert several times in her first day - vying f…
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drama film, silent film
Lady Helen Haden—descended from the aristocratic but notorious “Mad Varicks”—lives amid immense wealth and refinement at her country estate near London. Despite her beauty, status, and the admiration she inspires, she is profoundly unhappy…
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Komödie
Papa Gimplewart exchanges his house, in order to escape the antics of his strange next-door neighbors, the "cuckoos", often assumed to be inmates in a lunatic asylum. They include characters played by Laurel and Hardy. Their activities inc…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|promotional photograph of Gilbert as Lukashka For centuries under the Tsardom of Russia, the Cossacks were stationed as a military force to combat the Turkish people. Ivan, the Ataman, leads a victorious army into their village after…
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drama film, silent film
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, silent film
drama film, silent film
Rose-Marie Lemaitre is a French-Canadian girl raised by her mountie uncle after her father is killed. She falls in love with Jim Kenyon, a handsome criminal who is hiding in the mountains, and becomes his accomplice. When her uncle and Jim…
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Komödie
thumb|So's Your Old Man (1926) Sam Bisbee is a small-town glazier who's always trying to get rich quick, and his schemes are driving his wife crazy. When he invents an unbreakable glass windshield, his attempt to demonstrate it at a conven…
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Drama
The film's theme of immurement draws inspiration from Balzac's "La Grande Bretêche", and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". The king constructs a cozy, windowless love nest for himself and his concubine. However, she is not faith…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Marion Taylor is a stenographer employed by Wall Street broker Edward Mallory. She is the support of an invalid younger brother, who has been ordered to the Adirondack Mountains by the family physician. To …
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Western film, silent film
The film is based on Zane Grey's 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. When Adam Larey (Jack Holt) confronts his younger brother Guerd (James Mason) about his gambling addiction, the latter is accidentally…
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drama film, silent film
Komödie, romantic comedy, silent film
Jack Kelly, a crack golfer who worked as a shipping clerk for the aging Mr. Waters. One day, Mr.
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Adventure
thumb|thumbtime=10|Moran of the Lady Letty (1922) The opening scenes are set in Scandinavia, where a ship's captain and his daughter, Moran, are introduced. Moran, it is clear, adores her father. She has grown up on and around ships and ca…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
Komödie
Edna's father greedily wants her to marry wealthy Count Chloride de Lime whom neither she nor he has ever met. Unknown to Edna's father, his daughter already has a true love: Charlie. Edna drops a note to her Charlie explaining her plight …
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comedy drama, silent film
adventure film, silent film
Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
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comedy of remarriage, romantic comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, infatuated with her music teacher, LouLou decides to leave her husband. Her husband takes a room at the club. When the time for the divorce arrives, the husband returns home to get his clothes and hi…
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drama film, silent film
The wife of a wealthy barrister seduces her chauffeur, with whom she falls in love. She gives birth to a baby, apparently without her husband knowing anything about her pregnancy. The child is killed by the chauffeur during a car accident—…
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comedy film, silent film
Joselyn Poe is a southern girl who tries her luck as dancer in New York City. When she is unable to find work, she works as taxi dancer and meets several suitors.
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Romance Film, drama film, silent film
Allen John Pender is an innocent young man who wishes to go to the sea on the boat he has built. He falls in love with jaded Rosalee, the former mistress of a man now in jail for murder.
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adventure film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Richard Marshall, nicknamed The Mollycoddle by his friends, is the descendant of hard-hitting, fearless western stock, and although born in Arizona he has been raised since a child in England and acquired E…
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