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silent film
The film opens in the small village of Coma, where Aunt Katie Allen, a spinster who missed out on youth, is helping her lively niece Babs prepare for a night out by pinning a new dress on her. Babs confidently tells Katie that boys go wild…
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comedy film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=36|The Man and the Moment (1929; International Sound Version) When Joan crash-lands her plane in the middle of Michel Towne's weekend yachting party, she finds herself rescued by the charming host. Her sudden arrival draws …
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silent film
A country boy, Jim Conroy, is living a dissolute life in the city, running around with vamp Helen Ross. When his father cuts him off, he is dumped by Helen and returns to the bush. Jim works for a corrupt squatter, Stingey Smith, and falls…
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documentary film, silent film
drama film, silent film
left|thumb|Still with Raymond Hatton and Esther Ralston A social comedy about a cigarette girl, Lulu, who falls in love with a count while finding success as a fashion model.
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drama film, silent film
During the Russian Revolution in Petrograd, Vera Souroff, a young Russian music teacher, is accosted on the street and dragged into a room where three men of the Royal Guard are dining. The lights are turned out, and she is sexually assaul…
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comedy horror, mystery film, silent film
At a quiet rural crossroads in Ohio, Louise and her brother Chester—both unmarried and well into middle age—live a modest, uneventful life running the small country store left to them by their father. Their existence is calm, monotonous, a…
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drama film, silent film
Western film, comedy film, silent film
Chimmie is sent out west as part of a scam by a railroad company. He is to pretend to find gold, then retreat as the company takes advantage. Things do not go as planned.
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drama film, silent film
Jerry Fay is a bootlegger who expropriates the home of society girl, Jane, for his illicit activities. While as his captor, Jane slowly begins to fall for Jerry.
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comedy film, silent film
Arthur Wells, a timid daydreamer with poetic ambitions and a chronic fear of almost everything, earns his keep working as a baggage porter in "Lunon," where he's often mocked for being more skittish than strong. One day, while clumsily hau…
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drama film, silent film
A famous pianist (Montgomery Royle) is engaged to a quite younger woman. An accidental explosion results in him becoming deaf but he learns to read lips quite quickly. He decides to use that skill to help random people around him.
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drama film, silent film
Romantic Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy film, silent film
Set in San Francisco during the early 1900s, the film revolves around Amarilly, the daughter of a widowed scrubwoman. Amarilly is proud of her hard-working Irish family, and takes care of her five roughhouse brothers. She is engaged to bar…
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romantic comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, war veteran Chester Binney incorrectly believes he is carrying a silver plate in his skull and must avoid all excitement and exertion, returns to his home town where he is feted by his old employer George S…
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romance film, romantic drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Helen Sanderson has become infatuated with Robert Williams, a painter who has come to her small village. While painting The Saint Among the Lillies in which Helen is the model, their friendship develops int…
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drama film, silent film
In 18th-century France, the King's mistress Madame Pompadour, frees her jailed lover, political prisoner Rene Laval, to make him her bodyguard.
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Western film, drama film, historical film, propaganda film, silent film
The film recreates four battles – the Battle of Summit Springs, the Battle of Warbonnet Creek, the Battle of the Mission and the Battle of Wounded Knee – which were fought by the United States Cavalry and various tribes of the Sioux Indian…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Eva, daughter of millionaire James King, spends money wastefully and enjoys life wonderfully. Her elder sister Julie and her husband Clinton Dewitt live in the King mansion, content to share the wealthy man…
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drama film, silent film
Komödie
Consisting of two shots, the first shot is set in a wood during winter. The actor representing then vice-president Theodore Roosevelt enthusiastically hurries down a hillside towards a tree in the foreground. He falls once, but rights hims…
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pirate film, silent film
drama film, historical film, silent film
The famed poet and vagabond rogue Francois Villon is by odd circumstances given the opportunity to rule France for a week. Adventure and intrigue ensue.
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