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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Jane Vale, a forty year old business woman who ran a great industrial plant left to her by her father, awoke to the realization that she was in love with Robert Elliott, a youth scarcely more than half her …
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Komödie
Charlie and his partner Mike work at a piano store, whose manager orders them to deliver a piano to Mr. Rich at 666 Prospect Street and repossess one from Mr. Poor at 999 Prospect Street.
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romantic comedy
A man returns from a trip to Peru rich and looking for a wife. While still single, he has a real estate agent show him a house or two. The agent invites him to dinner, during which the agent and his wife start bickering, causing the poor f…
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drama film, silent film
Tim Kelly and Max Ginsberg have struck it rich by investing in copper stock. But when the stock takes a dive, they are compelled to go back into their former profession — junk dealers. They take in the destitute Mary Riley as a boarder and…
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crime film, mystery film, silent film
Burglars Molly Brian and Joe Hagney break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island and loot the safe but are caught in the act by another crook, Jerry Winters, who takes the money from them. The three are confronted by Pious Joe McDowell an…
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drama film, silent film
Rome, 64 A.D. When the emperor Nero renews the persecutions against Christians, the prefect Marco Superbo fears for the life of Mercia, a Christian with whom he is in love. The woman, however, is arrested and the emperor refuses to pardon …
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American football film, silent film
Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still in school and is a classmate of his son, Jack. Othe…
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Western film, mystery film, race film, silent film
romance film, silent film
silent film
crime film, drama film, mystery film, silent film
A recently married heiress named Laura Fairlie keeps seeing visions of a woman in white around her estate. Laura is unaware that her husband Sir Percival Glyde is plotting to steal her inheritance. Her sister Marion learns of the plot, but…
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silent film
comedy film, silent film
While serving in the American Army during World War I, Pat Kelly, a womanizing soldier, tells all the young women he romances to come and visit him in New York City after the war. Never expecting any of them to take him up on it, he gives …
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silent film
A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when their manager steals what meager funds they have. Hattie Hartley (Bessie Love), who plays Eva in the production, decides to marry the local undertaker, so that he will fund the troupe and pay…
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drama film, silent film
crime film, silent film
According to a film magazine, "Rose Fay one day is riding in a railroad parlor car and suffers an insult by a fellow passenger, from whose brutality she is defended and saved by a handsome young stranger, who, assured that she will not be …
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silent film
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
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romance film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, a handsome and titled Englishman visits a Balkan kingdom and falls madly in love with a young princess who has come to marry the elderly, grouchy, and ugly king. He determines to save her even a…
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silent film
silent film
As described in a film magazine review and other references, a poor mannequin from the slums of Chicago fancies she is in love with a jazz music composer and orchestra leader who is married but does not live with his wife. One night his wi…
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comedy drama, comedy film, melodrama, silent film
Gladys O'Brien, a chorus girl, sees James Gordon driving an expensive custom-built automobile and assumes that he is a millionaire playboy, so she sets her sights on him. In reality, James is only an badly-paid insurance salesman who was d…
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drama film, silent film
silent film
A group of small boys make up the Star baseball team. They are having a practice game in a vacant lot. The boy, Harold, is at the plate when he hits the baseball through the window of a small cottage.
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drama film, silent film
"Doris Poole, whose parents were theatrical people, was orphaned as a child, and four members of the troupe adopted and raised her. When grown, she has become the leading lady in a San Francisco stock-company. She meets and falls in love w…
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