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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Roxie Kemp (Bennett), a lion tamer in her father's circus, is sent to boarding school. The girls there have nothing to do with Roxie until she rescues them from a mad dog. Marjorie Trent (Lynne), with a lon…
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The story opens with Barabbas (Arthur Maude) stealing a headdress of precious stones to impress Judith (Constance Crawley), but her love is actually for Caiaphas (Joe Harris), the high priest of the city, who is devising a plot to kill Jes…
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As described in a film magazine, Finch, a wealthy but bashful young artist, falls in love with Molly Waddington and follows her around for several days without having the courage to speak to her. One day her Pomeranian dog breaks loose fro…
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John Paul Bart (Charles Ray), a lowly pants presser in Anton Huber’s (Tom Ricketts) tailor shop, believes that fine clothing can transform a person’s status and opportunities. Determined to test this theory, he "borrows" an elegant suit fr…
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Charles Carpenter is obliged to marry Suzanne, with pressure from his wealthy and respectable family, although he is in love with young Valerie Winship. Years later, when Valerie is back in town, they renew the affair and Carpenter plans t…
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crime film, silent film
Nosey Norton, a brash and self-assured star reporter for The News, and grizzled Detective Robinson are the first to arrive at the scene of a sensational double murder: two prominent downtown brokers, Randall and Kernell, have been found de…
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The central plot revolves around an ailing prospector who splits the map to his gold mine into three sections: one for the outlaw who wounded him (Frank Campeau), another for the comedic sidekick Harry Grippe, and the third for the protago…
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As described in a film magazine review, Dolores Valdez, an attractive young woman returning home from college by ship, meets and falls in love with the ship's doctor, Dan Stone. Upon arrival, Dolores discovers an atmosphere of mystery abou…
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documentary film, silent film
drama film, silent film
Hallie (Esther Ralston), a spirited carnival worker, serves as barker, diving girl, and shill for a seedy street show where she's romantically involved with Butch (Reed Howes), a smooth-talking three-shell artist and grifter. When the carn…
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drama film, mystery film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Laura Bruce is divorced from her husband following an unpleasant matrimonial term. She then marries Paul Ramsey, whom she has always loved. Dick Turner, his employer and enamored of Laura, sends her husband…
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As described in a film magazine review, Tony Hamilton bets his friends that Charlotte Randolph will not marry the duke that she is engaged to. Later, he wagers that she will marry him. He sweeps her off her feet with his violent love makin…
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crime film, drama film, silent film
Set on the Maine coast, a young sloop skipper Bramdlet Dickery discovers a plot to smuggle alien Chinese into the United States. Bramdlet's younger brother Thad is enamored with daughter of the captain of the smuggling ship. A struggle ove…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Renee (Rambeau) finds herself unhappily married to scientist Horation Browning (Burton) with her baby being her only comfort. The monotony of her life is broken temporarily when gambler Tony Salviatti (Fern…
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mystery film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, a love affair between Paula Harris (Dalton) and Hugo Wagner (Hall), begun in Wilhemstrasse, continues in America where the two, as German spies, obtain employment in the home of Dorothy Robinson (Lorraine),…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, when the American Civil War veterans staying at an old soldiers' home in a small town hear that young men are not volunteering for military service, they attempt to enlist but are rejected, much to the amus…
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During the First World War an American officer and a British aristocrat fall in love but are separated. After the war he returns to find her engaged to another man. The issue is settled by a bet on The Derby horse race.
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film, war film
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drama film, silent film
When his secret lover Maria Marten tells him she is pregnant with his child and asks him to marry her, the villainous Squire Corder murders her and buries her body in the red barn. The dead woman's ghost later visits her mother in a dream,…
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As described in a film magazine, Alice Schuyler (Hammerstein), a selfish flapper expelled from a convent school, goes to live with her crusty old aunt near New York City. Because of the restrictions placed on her, she runs away from home a…
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