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drama film, silent film
It portrays the activities of a British undercover agent Cryil Mansfield, who is in Germany as part of a plan to feed false intelligence to the German high command. His mission is threatened by Rizzio, a double agent who uses Mansfield's A…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Jane Eyre (Brady) is sent to an orphan's home by her domineering aunt, and is expelled from that institution after she slaps the superintendent's face for trying to embrace her. She secures a position in th…
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drama film, melodrama, silent film
fantasy film, mystery film, silent film
John Lamar buys a Jade Box in Asia but it is stolen by his friend Martin Morgan. A cult, searching for the box because it contains the secret to invisibility, catches up with and abducts Lamar. After discovering the theft, the cult send a …
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drama film, silent film
The story begins on the night of August 1, 1914, aboard the Alma, a French scouting cruiser docked in the harbor of Toulon. Captain de Corlaix, the ship's commander, hosts a farewell dinner with his officers and his wife, Yvonne, before th…
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Ham and Eggs, two spirited privates in an "all-colored" U.S. Army regiment, become fast friends during training at a Georgia army camp. Sharing everything from lucky rabbit's feet to mess kit "corn willie" and bets on African golf, the duo…
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Two "ex-doughboys" Bartley Greer and Dick Flynn, are up for any dangerous mission that comes their way, and one does in the form of a request from father and elder sister Mary Severn to rescue daughter/younger sister Prudence Severn from t…
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drama film, silent film
Charles Edwin Keene, fondly known as “Good Time Charley”, is a beloved song-and-dance man of the old stock company circuit. Though his stage life is dotted with misadventures and indiscretions, his heart is firmly rooted in home: his lovel…
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romance film, silent film
James Randall, a second year upperclassman at the Naval Academy, befriends plebe Ted Lawrence. At an Academy dance, James meets and falls in love with Ted's sister Patricia. She is engaged to Basil Courtney, a wealthy reprobate who arrange…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, silent film
Spoiled Amy Burke lives with her doting grandfather, ruthless business magnate Alexander Guthrie, in his Fifth Avenue, New York City mansion. She is initially delighted when he offers to take her with him on a trip to Europe. However, as t…
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drama film, silent film
Fernande, a greedy woman, marries a rich old man who is expected to die soon, in order to inherit his money. The husband discovers her intentions but dies suddenly before he is able to change his will. Now a widow, Fernande's next plan is …
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drama film, silent film
At the ball celebrating the wedding of Henry of Navarre on August 23, 1572, the evil Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici persuades her son King Charles IX to sign a decree to exterminate the Huguenots. Meanwhile, at that same ball, the Comte…
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drama film, silent film
Colorado miners strike, this forces, Warren Harcourt, the coal company manager to come to the scene. This causes a chain of events that will change the current status quo.
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comedy film, silent film
Marmaduke Clyde, a wealthy boy in search of adventure, leaves home to join a gang of crooks. He and Dumbbell strike out by themselves and find work on a farm. Dumbbell falls in love with Mary Wilde, but they incur the wrath of the Purist's…
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action film, mystery film, serial film, silent film
Jack Derry, football star fullback, is working his way through college while supporting his mother at the same time. His father is in prison, serving time for a crime he did not commit. In the town lives an unscrupulous man named Leonard B…
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comedy film, silent film
silent film
Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Murphy, are a couple of feuding tenement housewives working to keep control of their many children.
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crime film, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, recently released convict 'Swagger' Barlow (O'Brien) is mistaken for Lord Birmingham (O'Brien) and is feted and dined, while the true nobleman is held by a scheming band of crooks. He falls in love with Peg…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=3|Padlocked (1926) Edith is the daughter of Henry Gilbert, a Christian devoted to moral reform but hypocritically infatuated with his assistant, Belle Galloway. Her life is strictly regulated - she writes her thoughts in a …
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drama film, race film, silent film
Herbert Lanyon is thought to be dead after a shipwreck, and his fiancée Mildred Carrison is forced by her money-minded Aunt Clara into marriage with "Bull" Magee, a gambler and underworld boss who mistreats Mildred. After Herbert returns, …
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