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drama film, silent film
Clay Whipple is convicted of murdering the governor following an incident involving a cat's eye pin. Whipple is sentenced to death, but a mentalist named Psychic Jack believes he is innocent since Whipple had been hypnotized at the time of…
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Huntley Sheldon, notorious scion of “the divorcing Sheldons,” sets his roving eye on Helene Martin, the innocent younger sister of Myra Martin, who serves as private secretary to high-profile divorce attorney Leonard Gilbert. When Mrs. Jua…
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Western film, silent film
According to the copyright description, "Impoverished by the Civil War, and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his wife and his daughter Beth, are proceeding toward Salina, Kansas, by wagon train. Tom Kirby, a go…
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experimental film, silent film
action film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Joan Lowrie (Dean) is one of the beasts of burden making up the population of the little English mining village. Culling slate from coal all day long with a score of broken-down hags, young women, and girls…
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drama film, silent film
comedy film, fantasy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, during World War I, Alf (Henson) discovers that he has a brass button which, when he rubs it, summons Eustace (Carew), a genie. While in the trenches, the genie brings Alf and his friend Bill (MacAndrews) g…
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Drama
Victoria Vickers (Turner) lives with her aunt and uncle in Poplar and is being courted by Bert Grummett (Edwards), who aspires to one day marry Victoria and open up his own fish and chip shop. For the time being, Victoria is happy for them…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, John Strong, a dominatingly strong willed fisherman who is loved by a young woman who lives in his mother's home meets and marries the daughter of a bookseller, but then loses her love to his brother…
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action film, adventure film, serial film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A business tycoon's wife runs off with a poet, but returns to help run the company when her husband falls ill.
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adventure film, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Frank Cassilis, a wanderer, returns once each year to a spot on the bleak Scottish coast to fulfill his word of honor to his archenemy Northmour, a wealthy soldier of fortune in whose hands hang his life. D…
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silent film
Western film, silent film
comedy drama, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Speed Carr, driving from New York to Los Angeles to visit an uncle he has not seen in twenty years, is robbed of his car, clothing, and credentials by tramps and reaches the coast penniless wearing a borrow…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Dr. Arbutus Budd (Hitchcock) is besieged by creditors who insist on being repaid, telling one holding a bill while he held a saxophone that "I can't pay it but I can play it." Dr. Budd has purchased the rig…
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drama film, silent film
A marriage is arranged between Magnus Stephenson, son of the Governor of Iceland, and Thora Neilsen, daughter of "the Factor"; but the prospective bridegroom, discovering that Thora loves his brother, Oscar, a budding musician, blackens hi…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 threatens the peace of Japan, so Yuki Onda (Aoki) is directed home from her American school by her father (Seki). With her sails a party of American diplomatic friends th…
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comedy film, silent film
Count D'Estrange tries to save his nephew Hubert from Denise Laverne he believes a heartless flirt. Denise's mother Mme. Florence Laverne uses all her charms to solve the problems.
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As described in a review in a film magazine, Dan Angus, train baggage master, mistreats two dogs in his care throwing the small one off, while the big one attacks him. Dan is fired and gets off at a small town, steals from the postmaster a…
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drama film, silent film
As described in Reel Life magazine, "In the days of the Revolution in Japan — in the early '60's — the feeble, old Emperor, for reasons of state betrothes his elder son, Yoritomo, to Sada San, daughter of the Prime Minister. The chief Shog…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, a young American captain aids a beautiful young English woman to find her Italian husband, who has abandoned her and her child, in an evil African port. Her efforts at reconciliation refused, she ret…
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