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drama film, melodrama, silent film
In the dreamy opulence of Venice, Prince Fazil (Charles Farrell), an Arabian nobleman with bronzed features and burning eyes, meets Fabienne (Greta Nissen), a carefree Parisienne whose striking pale beauty and vivacious charm quickly capti…
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crime film, detective film, silent film
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Drama, drama film, silent film
At Zenith Studios, a starlet plots an escape to Hollywood with her lover and the murder of her superfluous husband.
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Drama
thumb|thumbtime=10|The Red Lily (1924) Outside the town of Vivonne, France, Marise La Noue, a cobbler's daughter, and Jean Leonnec, the son of Mayor Hugo Leonnec, are childhood sweethearts in love. Marise is informed that her father has di…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
After the Ghost of his father appears, Hamlet (Forbes) kills his stepfather, but dies after sustaining fatal battle wounds.
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drama film, silent film
Richard Brand, manager of the Anglo-Oriental oil fields in China, entertains Major Howells and his daughter Nadine, whom Brand hopes to marry. Nadine's former fiancé, Gregory Kent, a young English aristocrat wrongfully charged with embezzl…
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Western film, silent film
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. US government agent Kearney holds him off till the cavalry shows up and he can declare his love for Juanita "The Rose of the Ran…
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musical film, silent film
Anna Gibson (Belle Baker), her husband Tom Gibson (Ralph Graves), and their little boy Buddy (Dannie Mac Grant) form the small-time vaudeville act “The Three Gibsons.” Anna sings with warmth and dramatic flair, Tom provides comic dancing a…
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Western film, drama film, silent film
thumb| In rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era California, Salomy Jane is saved from the ruffian Baldwin by a heroic stranger (the Man, aka Jack Dart), and he is saved from a lynching after being falsely accused of a crime.
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adventure film, mystery film, silent film
Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possess…
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comedy film, silent film
Jewel Courage rejects a suitor, whom she thinks is a chauffeur, in favor of a man she thinks is a millionaire. It transpires that the roles were, in fact, reversed; Hamilton is the millionaire and the other man a chauffeur. Jewel is crushe…
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silent film, war film
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as a private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy. The film climaxes with the Charge of the Light Brigade.
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drama film, silent film
Sir Patrick and Lady Gorry sit by the fireside, and turning the pages of an old album, recall their past life. As a boy Patrick's mother, a widow, kept the mill in a small village in the Isle of Man. Sayle Moore, a large landowner, diverte…
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Drama
When John Woolfolk's wife dies in an accident, he vows not to open himself to future emotional harm. With a shipmate, Paul Halvard, he begins sailing around the world, coming to anchor near an isolated, dilapidated mansion on the Southern …
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drama film, silent film
thumb|A Mormon Maid (1917) Set in the 1840s during the Mormon migration westward, this film introduces a young woman named Dora and her family as they travel west. After being saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community, the family j…
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Komödie
The Tramp, a janitor in this film, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out of the window and onto his boss, the chief banker. Meanwhile, one of the junior managers is being threatened with exposure by his booki…
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drama film, silent film
Swiss peasant girl Vroni is having a secret summer romance with Viennese artist Andre Frey. When Andre later returns to Switzerland, he learns that Vroni has been forced to marry wealthy burgomeister Poldi Moser. Explaining Andre's appeara…
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drama film, silent film
"Ready Money" Ryder, a powerful financial magnate, advises Judge Ross to purchase Pacific Oil stock. When Ross follows this advice, it is later publicized that he accepted the stock as a bribe. A letter in Ryder's possession would prove th…
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Drama, Romance Film
After finding out her father and his estate are in danger, Princess Emanuella saves his life by marrying Duke Cathos de Alvia, a grotesque hunchback. She actually is in love with Leonardo, his attractive younger brother. They already had a…
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drama film, silent film
In a small rural village, impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry the villainous Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner, is dead. Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette…
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