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adventure film, silent film
thumb|Elinor Field and Truman Van Dyke in a still from the film A young girl is kidnapped and put in the basket of a hot air balloon. The balloon is accidentally cut loose and drifts into the middle of the African jungle. The young girl is…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
romance film, silent film
comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, John Smith left Yale University to make the world safe for democracy. After the World War I Armistice, he is quartered in a little German village near the Rhine River at the home of Major von Hartmann, and …
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Concerned that her husband is spending too much time with a couple of chorus girls, his wife undergoes an expensive makeover.
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drama film, silent film
A pilot who has lost his nerve following an accident regains it after meeting a woman and goes on to win a major air race.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, under the patronage of Mrs. Thorndyke (Wise), who recognizes that her protege has a voice, selfish and pampered Aurora Meredith (Phillips) leaves her family and rustic lover Phineas Schudder (Anderson) in t…
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comedy film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Rev. Robert Martin (Tooker) is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who …
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drama film, silent film
Western film, drama film, silent film
A notorious outlaw in the old west named Dan Malloy made his reputation as a fearless train robber. Needing to hide out after a recent robbery, Malloy finds a secluded mountain cabin. Unfortunately, the cabin is occupied by a girl.
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adventure film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, the gold-greedy sultan in levying taxes seizes the daughter of one of his subjects in lieu of money and carries her to his harem. The youth she loves is captured while attempting her rescue, but a fr…
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Romantic Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy, silent film
As described in a film magazine, because a firm has a policy against hiring attractive women because they soon marry other employees and then quit, Germaine Morris makes herself unattractive and is hired as an interior decorator. She is se…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Hairpin Harry Dutton (Hart) is released from prison after serving ten years of a fourteen-year sentence. His old friend Boston Blackie (Long) takes him to San Francisco where he learns that Polly (Hansen), …
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A Yankee planter buys a squire's house, where he installs his exiled mother, to learn that he is in fact the squire's son.
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comedy drama, silent film
Jane, a waitress at a small-town Maine hotel, assumes guardianship of a baby whose mother has died. The baby's rakish father, Dr. Sheldon, conspires to steal prize money won by Jane after she enters the child in a baby show.
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adventure film, silent film
The virtuous Lord Carew and the good-for-nothing Lord Geradine compete for the attentions of the virtuous Marny and the good-for-nothing Lady Carew, all set in the exotic desert sands of Algeria.
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