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drama film, silent film, war film
As luridly described in a film magazine, the Kaiser has plans to conquer the world while all of the other nations are engaged in peaceful pursuits. The Germans enter France and their U-boats work like sharks in the sea, and after many insu…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Mary and John, residents of the county poor farm, have had their lots cast there by a train wreck from which they were taken as babies and the identity of their parents lost. The two are the closest of frie…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Jason Honeycutt is a young boy who lives with his stepfather chief Steve Honeycut at the ancestral Honeycutts' home. One day the chief is looking for the 13-year-old mountain girl Mavis Hawn, who is shooting bullets in the woods. Mavis des…
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drama film, serial film, silent film, war film
Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heire…
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As described in a film magazine review, a gay philanderer has one flirtation after another. When he really falls in love with a beautiful young woman, she refuses to take him seriously until he proves his fidelity by patching up a quarrel …
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romantic comedy, silent film
Charlie (Fairbanks) loves a woman, Estrell (De La Motte), who has a theory that if rich people would take a number of poor children into their homes each day, the environment would cause the children to grow up properly and become good cit…
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drama film, silent film
biographical film, silent film
silent film
Western film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Whistling Dan, the adopted son of rancher Joe Cumberland, has been raised since childhood with the latter aware of his instinct to fight like an animal and kill that which harms him. Joe has forbidden Dan f…
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drama film, silent film
The film begins by showcasing the idyllic scenery surrounding the Gaines farm. Thomas Gains, the family patriarch, and his wife Mary live on the farmstead with their two sons, Silas and Johnnie. We see Grandpa Gains mending a toy for his g…
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drama film, silent film
During the French Revolution, a jaundiced British lawyer takes the place of a French aristocrat who has been sentenced to the guillotine.
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As described in a film magazine, Wolf Larsen, the captain of the sealing steamer Ghost, is severely injured in a fight with his brother Death Larsen on the day he is set to sail. Following the wreck of a ferry boat, wealthy idler Humphrey …
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
Evelyn Mortimer (Estelle Taylor) accidentally kills her husband. A self-sacrificing youth John Ogletree (George O'Brien) takes the blame for the crime and goes to prison. Evelyn marries mineowner Mr.
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drama film, silent film
At the beginning of the American Civil War Milt Shanks, who owns a farm in Illinois, is asked by President Abraham Lincoln to join the Copperheads, a clandestine quasi-political organization whose sentiments lie with the South. His family …
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Patience Winslow (Esther Ralston) is an impulsive thrill-seeking heiress who spends most of her time going from one wild party to another. One night after attending several parties, she smashes her car and spends the rest of the night in j…
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Komödie, comedy film, silent film
thumb|350x350px|1926 advertisement Burlesque chorus girl Orchid Murphy (Gloria Swanson) attracts the attention of wealthy Brian Alden (Eugene O'Brien), who is posing as a writer while "slumming" in the city. Finding her manner quite refres…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Mrs. Esther Meyers (Gordon) moves from her modest home to one of the elite in the West End. Here she sees her daughter-in-law Aida (Bennett) and the latter's mother (Mason) squander her hard-earned savings …
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Tillie is a runaway who goes to Frisbee's Colossal Circus, with lions, a ringmaster that wants to take over the circus from the owner, a strong woman, a girl with "a voice of gold and an arm of iron". The group decides to go to the French …
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