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drama film, silent film
Billy Randalph who is a young bugler on a frontier cavalry post in the mid-1870s, whose stepmother Alice Tremayne attempts to replace his real mother who only lives in his memory.
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Following the death of the owner of the Hunt ranch, foreman Tom Foster assumes responsibility for the property, taking also into his care Eleanor Hunt, the beautiful daughter of the late owner. Although he falls in love with the girl, Tom …
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comedy film, silent film
Merton is an aspiring movie actor. He is a terrible actor but when the movie executives see how funny his overacting is, they cast him in a comedy, but tell him that he's acting in a drama.
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A thrill-seeking socialite named Diana Mallory is engaged to marry a bland, very proper Englishman named Roderick Keswick. Keswick wants to purge Diana of her thrill-seeking ways, so he arranges for her to spend a night in a haunted house …
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crime film, silent film
After learning they are short of money, a group of four robbers decide to execute a bank heist. The four create a plan and hire an unwitting chauffeur to drive them to their location. As soon as they reach an isolated road, the robbers for…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London. Madame is ashamed of the life she has led in Paris. Owen is in the midst of a flirtation …
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Lord Dryan, a British aristocrat and explorer, leads an expedition into the wilds of Africa and is gone for four years. Near the end of their journey, a young Italian companion, Giacopo, is killed by bushmen. Among his belongings, Lord Dry…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
Set in the fictitious European kingdom of Balanca, Prince Michael IV is being coerced, by his advisers, to marry a young woman of royal blood. However, he has fallen for a peasant.
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Drama, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Beatrice Audley breaks her engagement with Captain le Briquet and he marries her acquaintance Sonia Roubetsky. Sonia and her friend Laura Westonry previously had admitted to Beatrice that they were b…
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As described in a film magazine, Breezy Hart takes charge of his war buddy, Frank Wilcox, who has shell shock so badly that he goes out of his head every time he hears a noise. Breezy leaves Frank in a deserted cabin near the ranch formerl…
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drama film, silent film
The film is "(a) tale of chivalry in modern times, involving a Glasgow grocer and a Russian princess imprisoned in a deserted castle" according to the British Film Institute.
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Drama
On a snowy holiday evening, an old woman sends a small girl begging for money along the streets of late 17th-century "old Paris". Well-dressed revelers and others passing by the child ignore her pleas for charity. Exhausted and cold, the l…
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drama film, silent film
A judge's wife has an affair with a lawyer who plans to blackmail her.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, John Joyce (Collier), newly arrived in Sacramento during the California Gold Rush to edit a newspaper, arrays himself with the Vigilantes. He is one of the most eager in his demand that the mini…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Count Gorfa, anarchist leader, steals the private records of a Senate Investigative Committee, the loss of which threatens the political fortunes of Senator Belgrave, whose daughter the Count wishes …
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comedy film, silent film
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Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up, hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. Neither suitor gets Malarkey …
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Tommasso Longo (Caruso), a poor artist making his living modeling plaster casts, proudly boasts that he is a cousin of Caroli (also Caruso), the great tenor, whom he greatly resembles. Tommasso is in love w…
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Convict Bill Hyde (Will Rogers) and his friend, Danny Dorgan (Dan Mason), break out of prison, but in running from the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas (Clarence Oliver), tries so hard to save Danny that lat…
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