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drama film, silent film
Peter Jones (Jack Mulhall), a small-town hotel clerk from Chillicothe, Ohio, dreams not of tending keys and ledgers, but of conquering Broadway as a theatrical producer. When a fast-talking showman named Jack McLure (William Demarest) chec…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, the Comte de Maigny continues his complacent life in French society despite the hardship his arbitrary attitude imposes on his children. His eldest daughter Odette, reared in a strict school, is ther…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, one of the passengers on a ship sailing from Boston around Cape Horn to California is an adventurous young woman, Sandra (Nilsson). A widow dies, and her little girl appeals to Sandra. Rather th…
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Flores is a prosperous Mexican plantation owner, but he desperately needs workers for his plantation in the Yucatán Peninsula. General Martinez is an Indian-hating commander of a Mexican garrison in the northern district of Mexico. The gar…
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comedy film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A woman escapes the Turkish harem in which she has been brought up and flees to London in the company of a British adventurer.
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Western film, serial film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, historical film, silent film
thumb|left General Manuel Belgrano (Bushman) is leading a military campaign against Spanish rule. His sweetheart, Monica (Logan), the daughter of a Spanish loyalist, is acting as a spy and supplying information. Monica is captured and sent…
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silent film, war film
drama film, silent film
silent film
Fleeing a murder scandal in New York in which she was wrongfully implicated, Lola Mantell escapes to the sultry streets of Havana, Cuba, where American outcasts and criminals drift beneath the tropical gaiety. Cloaked in mystery and tinged…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Mary, a waitress, is sublimely happy in her love for sailor Steve, a jolly young star who surprises even himself when he marries the young Mary. Steve's old girl Cassie Lang, a patron of Ma Tapman's …
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Marquis de Marignan is a brazen womanizer who spends most of his life escaping the wrath of husbands he has angered. Joseph, his faithful valet frequently rescues Marignan from disaster. But when Joseph finds out that his boss has been sle…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Christmas Eve finds Ralph Allen (Wallace) breaking the speed laws and eluding the police. In his car are his son Bobby (Moore) and Patsy Heath (Walsh), the daughter of a neighbor. The Allens go …
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drama film, silent film
A Cape Cod melodrama about the U.S. Life-Saving Service based on a novel by Joseph C. Lincoln.
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B. J. Calhoun, a wealthy utilities entrepreneur, gives a commencement speech at a law school with the promise of assisting the new graduates.
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drama film, silent film
Valerie West (Griffith), hungry and tired, presents herself as a model at the studio of painter Louis Neville (Tearle), which he shares with two other artists. When she is asked whether she poses draped or undraped, she replies that she wi…
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According to the AFI, the plot of this lost film revolved around Janet Wells, the secretary of "Howdy" Jones, whose wife's jealous behaviour is problematic, and other flirting attempts among them and other company employees, including the …
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August and Hilda were simple peasants living together, desperate to wed and start a new family. In the "old country," a man does not marry until he has saved money to support his new family. Since August cannot find work in the village, he…
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drama film, silent film
comedy film, silent film
silent film
Genevra French has been raised strictly by her father Major French, without knowledge of worldly affairs. Using ideas she finds in a book "How to Attract the Opposite Sex", Genevra convinces a family friend, Lawrence Tabor, to marry her an…
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