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Drama
A young woman (Lillian Gish) tends to flowers in a garden and rescues a puppy. She is courted by a melancholic young man (Walter Miller) and agrees to marry him. Following their marriage, the couple face financial difficulties.
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Drama, drama film, silent film
During the French Revolution a British lawyer courageously takes the place of a French aristocrat sentenced to be guillotined.
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action film, drama film, silent film
Dave Roberts is a professional boxer who loses intentionally in fixed matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he meets an honest woman and rescues an orphan from an oncoming train. As he cares for the woman and child, he must dec…
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adventure film, drama film, silent film
mystery film, silent film
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior…
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Tragic Comedy Film, War Film, comedy drama, drama film, silent film, war film
Flagg and Quirt are veteran United States Marines whose rivalry dates back a number of years. Flagg is commissioned a captain, he is in command of a company on the front lines of France during World War I. Sergeant Quirt is assigned to Fla…
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drama film, silent film
In Sussex, England after the Great War, former aristocrat Mary Viner (Florence Vidor) and her father, retired sea captain Hesketh Viner (Charles A. Stevenson), live in a small humble cottage on Doomsday, a large and valuable farm property …
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Komödie
Sue Graham (Normand) is a small town girl who travels to Hollywood to escape marriage, and in the hope of becoming a motion picture star. She wins a contract with a studio on the strength of a picture of a quite different (and very attract…
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romantic drama film, silent film
Stephanie is a restless and adventurous young woman. She is in love with Jim, her foster brother and childhood sweetheart. But now, she also finds herself attracted to art student Oswald Grismer.
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silent film
As described in a film magazine review, in an automobile accident David Hale is uninjured, but his sweetheart Judith Allen sustains a slight bump to the head. Her father is accidentally killed. While at a cabaret with another suitor, Del C…
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silent film
Rena is a young woman of mixed race. Although she is romantically pursued by an upwardly-mobile African American named Frank, she does not decide in his favor. Although she has grown up in the Black community, her appearance allows her to …
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crime film, silent film
A leading financier is found dead at his home, leading amateur detective Philip Trent to investigate the case.
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drama film, silent film
Komödie
thumb|thumbtime=0|Mabel's Blunder (1914) Mabel's Blunder tells the tale of a young woman who is secretly engaged to the boss's son. The young man's sister comes to visit at their office, and a jealous Mabel, not knowing who the visiting wo…
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drama film, silent film
Upon graduating from college, Fred is offered a faculty position and proposes to his sweetheart and classmate Babs. However, Babs, yearning for stardom on Broadway, turns him down and travels to New York with their classmate Bob, who is al…
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drama film, silent film
Melodrama, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Maritana, a beautiful Spanish young woman, is so full of life and fun that she is adored by the poor people among whom she lives and who dote on her dancing in the public squares. Through her daring,…
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drama film, silent film
In 1925, pilot Larry Cassidy (Ormer Locklear) is flying air mail for the United States Postal Service. He faces a deadly foe, Chester Van Arland (Ray Ripley), the leader of the "Death's Head Squadron", intent on stealing a $20,000 shipment…
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action film, drama film, serial film, silent film
thumb|upright|The hooded villain Shortly after Winthrop Waldron, munitions magnate and head of the house of Waldon, arranges for the betrothal of his only heir, his adopted daughter Pearl, to her cousin so that control of his munitions emp…
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Drama
The films opens in present. 75-year-old Mary Carlton is depressed over her husband John's illness. She feels her life has no use if he dies.
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Komödie
Three men will fight for the love of a charming girl. A Suitor and a Rival Suitor teams up against the third, and play dirty, throwing bricks and using a mallet. However, the Suitor double-crosses his partner, thus losing his trust and the…
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Crime
Zélie de Chaumet (Jeans) is a bored, sensation-seeking demimondaine, living with her older lover and keeper Herman Stetz (Robert Scholz) in a lavish apartment in a wealthy area of Paris. By contrast career criminal Pierre Boucheron (Novell…
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drama film, silent film
thumb|upright|John Gilbert and Joan Crawford in Four Walls Benny Horowitz, a reformed gangster, proposes marriage to Bertha, a neighbor who had been a frequent visitor while he served his sentence. Bertha rejects his proposal because she b…
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comedy drama, silent film
Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent…
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