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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Fleur, daughter of Soames Forsyte, marries Michael Mont, whose best friend Wilfrid Desert, author, painter, and traveler, is also in love with her. He knows that Fleur married Michael without any lov…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, while on vacation, Fancourt Babberley (Chaplin), known to his friends as Babbs, falls in love with Ela (Shannon) and schemes to help her father (Francis), who has lost heavily at roulette. Babbs…
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Komödie
Near West Coast Studios in Hollywood, the gang is waging a street war against a rival group of kids; their ammunition primarily consisting of old vegetables. The battle is halted when Mary is called to act in one of the West Coast films. T…
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comedy drama, crime film, silent film
Small-town pitcher Thomas Kelly (Thomas Meighan) is sent to Spring training with his baseball team in Florida, but is fired by the team's jealous manager, Joe Cooley (Jack W. Johnston). Kelly is then talked into being the celebrity endorse…
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drama film, romance film, silent film
A young American millionaire named Jerry is vacationing in Paris and visits an Apache den, the Birdcage Cafe, where he meets "The Girl". Trouble ensues when "The Cat" injures Jerry in a jealous rage. "The Girl" nurses Jerry back to health …
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Komödie
Amanda Afflick is a poor laundry woman working in London. She is too weak to do the hard work, but is always picked on and humiliated by her boss Madame Didier. Amanda is desperately in love with the handsome customer Horace Greensmith, bu…
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comedy drama, silent film
Duke, a pampered millionaire's son, who longs to be a boxer, takes an interest in Susie, a college coed, after he defends her from being bullied. Duke's interest in Susie leads him to enroll in the same school as Susie. After a misundersta…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, parody film, silent film, swashbuckler film
Dart-In-Again, a young and poor nobleman from Gascony travels to Paris hoping to become one of the King's musketeers. When he first encounter three musketeers, Walrus, Octopus and Porpoise, he starts duelling with them but rapidly becomes …
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silent film
romance film, silent film
Crime
thumb|left|Scene from the film The Evidence of the Film tells the story of a messenger boy (Marie Eline) at a film studio who is framed for the theft of $20,000 in bonds by a broker (William Garwood). The broker plans to have his office st…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
The story is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 book, The Secret Garden, about an orphan who is sent to England to her uncle's house, where she finds a beautiful garden with many secrets.
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drama film, silent film
Robert Strickland, a respected businessman, finds himself at the center of a sensational murder trial in New York. He stands accused of killing his friend Gerald Trask, a wealthy man to whom Strickland owed $20,000—a loan taken during a ti…
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silent film
During the First World War, a hard-pressed British patrol in the deserts of Mesopotamia come under attack from the enemy. Gradually they are picked off one by one.
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A criminal, “Heliotrope” Harry (Clive Brook), comes home after a stick-up job and finds his wife Lilly (Olga Baclanova) in bed with another man. He shoots his rival and deposits their baby daughter Alice (played later as an adult by Mary B…
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drama film, silent film
In France, a beautiful young model named Trilby meets three Bohemians (Little Billee, the Laird, and Taffy) and they all become friends. Trilby and Billee fall in love, but their happiness is thwarted by an evil mesmerist named Svengali, w…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, silent film
adventure film, silent film
D’Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D’Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis a…
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comedy film, silent film
comedy drama, silent film
Mary Willard, who has taken control of her father's interests after his death, has become so exasperated at the unscrupulous business practices of her competitor Harvey Judson that she has him kidnapped to teach him a lesson and protect he…
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