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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 54.

The Ordeal (1922)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, Sybil Bruce (Ayres) agreed to a marriage with her older drunken and abusive husband George Bruce (Burton) to provide for her invalid sister and young brother. The husband's physician Dr. Robert Acton (Nagel…

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Lawful Larceny (1923)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, Vivian Hepburn, a modern vampire, runs a gambling house with Guy Tarlow, a male partner who directs the victims to the house. She financially ruins Andrew Dorsey while his young wife Marion is in Eur…

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The Slim Princess (1920)

comedy drama, silent film

As described in a film magazine, Princess Kalora (Normand) of Morovenia, a fictional country where obese women are prized and the normal-sized princess is widely regarded as being too slender, finds no suitors in the matrimonial market. He…

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The Bravest Way (1918)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, Kara Tamura (Hayakawa), a humble worker studying landscape gardening, and Shiro Watana (Aoyama), a trusted clerk, live together in San Francisco. Watana sends for his wife Sat-u (Aoki) and children from Jap…

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Drums of Fate (1923)

drama film, silent film

As described in various film magazine reviews, Carol Dolliver, a young society girl, rejects her guardian's choice of a suitor in favour of the dashing explorer Laurence "Larry" Teck. After their wedding, Larry returns to Africa without Ca…

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Sapho (1917)

drama film, silent film

Beautiful and poor, Fanny tries to escape from a life of hardship and her drunkard father. She earns her living selling flowers but, one evening, while looking for customers in a restaurant, her beauty catches the attention of Caoudal, a f…

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Sandy (1926)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, after the breakdown of her automobile places her in a compromising position, jazz-mad Sandy McNeil marries the wealthy Ben Murillo. Her husband’s cruelty results in the death of their baby. Sandy goes away …

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The Hawk's Nest (1928)

crime film, drama film, silent film

The title of The Hawk's Nest comes from the speakeasy around which most of the action revolves. Two bootleggers quarrel over a dancer while a political assassination plot.

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After Business Hours (1925)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, John King enters married life with the plan of allowing his wife June no money except a few dollars a week. She gambles, loses, and is ashamed to ask her husband for enough to pay her losses. In an e…

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Captain Courtesy (1915)

drama film, silent film

Set against the events surrounding the formation of the California Republic on June 14, 1846, and its occupation by United States forces on July 9, 1846, Dustin Farnum plays the son of American settlers of Alta California who when he was a…

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Little Mickey Grogan (1927)

silent film

Mickey Grogan (Frankie Darro), a nine-year old vagabond of the streets, assumes the responsibility for the well-being of a fellow homeless waif (Susan Dale, played by Lassie Lou Ahern), a sensitive architect named Jeffrey Shore (Carroll Ny…

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Whispering Wires (1926)

mystery film, silent film

A person is murdered after receiving a weird phone call, in which someone is heard whispering in a menacing way. Barry McGill sets out to uncover the killer's identity before he can kill again. Barry's girlfriend Doris Stockbridge gets a s…

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