Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.
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drama film, silent film
Jefferson Stockton is a railroad tycoon. His daughter Virginia falls in love, in return, with Stuyvesant Lawrence, a young man who belongs to a high-ranking New York family. The two plan to get married, but Mrs.
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crime film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic faith healer who falls in love with the young woman. When she is injured during an acrobatic dance m…
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silent film
The movie is set in Indiana, around the Limberlost swamp. It is the story of a young girl, Elnora Comstock, who is emotionally abused by her mother, who blames her for the death of her father. Elnora has a love of nature and sells her moth…
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adventure film, silent film
Competing efforts to build railways into interior Alaska in the early part of the 20th century.
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, a French Legionnaire on foreign station loves a cafe dancer, and when the natives rebel and the young woman is endangered, the officer leaves his command to go to the woman's aid. His friend saves hi…
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silent film
The daughter of an American millionaire assists a young European prince who faces being kidnapped.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, mistaking the intentions of Prince Anton of Argovinia in seeking her hand, young English woman Katherine Dereham suffers a great shock when his attentions culminate in a proposal that she be his morganatic …
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drama film, silent film
Rita Martin is the assistant to Hadrian, a fake spiritualist who cons people out of their money. When they arrive in town, she gets a job as secretary to John Clayton, a local wealthy man. It is her job to get information about him that sh…
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silent film
As described in a film magazine review, John Shefford has to enter a lawless settlement in order to reach the deep valley imprisoning his uncle and companions. Fighting against heavy odds, he rescues a young woman to save her from a forced…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Miles, lover of Marie Lamont, leaves her because he believes her to be untrue. She rises to fame as an actress and infatuates the youthful Philip Tranter. Philip's mother begs Miles to save Philip fr…
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For fifteen years, vaudeville comedian "Twisty" has struggled for his big break, holding onto nothing but faith—and a small ivory elephant charm he believes brings him luck. One day, he’s summoned to the office of big-time producer Greenin…
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In San Francisco, Sylvia Douglas and her fiancé, James Callahan, who has recently turned back to his criminal ways, flee the city after Jim steals a diamond necklace due to frustration with his job search. Detective Graham pursues them to …
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
Cathleen Gillis (May McAvoy) falls in love with Jack Herrington (Jack Mulhall). Martin Gillis (George Fawcett), Cathleen's loving father, is stern, very religious, and runs an ice cream shop. Cathleen is an obedient daughter and conservati…
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silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Leonore Bewlay (Astor), recently grown into womanhood, while in Switzerland meets a childhood friend, Richard Valyran (Keith), who has become an opera singer. When she is injured, she is shocked…
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silent film
silent film
Barrister Dick Carew receives a letter from a dying friend asking that he and his three bachelor friends, known as the Trinity, adopt his baby, Richard Audaine. Although they experience awkwardness in caring for the infant, they soon grow …
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action film, silent film
A mysterious masked villain known as the Wolf Devil tries to drive all of the non-native settlers out of Alaska. Walter Miller plays a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer named Inspector Steele. The Wolf Devil kidnaps the heroine, Miss M…
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silent film
In Philadelphia, George Washington is having a meeting with many of his higher ups to discuss the new flag of the United States. Each delegate suggests using the flag of his state when Betsy Ross suggests creating an entirely new flag repr…
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romance film, silent film
A smuggler falls in love with a gypsy girl he meets, but she seems to prefer his companion.
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drama film, silent film
A French woman abandons her husband and child. Years later the child and mother both fall in love with the same artist, even though they don't know who each other are.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Paris in 1918 knows Claire only as "The Blackbird," the Queen of the Apaches. Her lover Fernand is reported killed at the front during the War. She then masquerades as a society woman and becomes the…
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