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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 59.

Thunder Mountain (1925)

drama film, silent film

In Thunder Mountain, the inhabitants are poor and illiterate. In the village ignorance reigns and only Si Pace, one who lives by lending money, owns a "book". A feud divides two families, the Martins and the Givens.

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What's Your Hurry? (1920)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, to win the favor of his sweetheart's father "Old Pat" MacMurran, race car driver Dusty Rhoades forsakes the speedway in determination to put over effective publicity for the father's product, Pakro motor tr…

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Blindfold (1928)

drama film, silent film

Lois Moran stars as Mary Brower, a young woman whose life is shattered when her brother is killed by gangsters. Mary’s sweetheart, Officer Robert “Bob” Kelly (George O’Brien), is a dedicated policeman determined to bring the criminals to j…

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Hashimura Togo (1917)

silent film

Hashimura Togo takes responsibility for a problem done by his brother, and is then disowned by his family. He moves to New York and becomes a butler. Hashimura helps to expose a scam to steal money from his employer's daughter.

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Frisco Sally Levy (1927)

silent film

Colleen Lapidowitz falls in love with an Irish police officer named Patrick Sweeney, which is a relief to her Jewish father Isaac and Irish mother Bridget who have tried to discourage her interest in a sleazy lounge lizard named Stuart Gol…

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Don't Call It Love (1923)

romantic comedy film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, vampish opera diva Rita Coventry is attracted to wealthy New Yorker Richard Parrish and determines to add him to her long list of admirers, much to the annoyance of her conductor Luigi Busini, who is…

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The Firefly of France (1918)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, while the actions of Esme Falconer are suspicious, Devereux Bayne's admiration for her forces him to believe in her. When her chauffeur is mysteriously killed, he drives her to a deserted chateau to protect…

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Life (1920)

drama film, silent film

As described in a film magazine, the film starts with an 8-oar shell race between college teams. Later, there is a prison escape from Sing Sing, and then a murder on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City (fi…

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Lombardi, Ltd. (1919)

comedy film, silent film

Tito Lombardi's struggling Fifth Avenue couture house is spiraling into financial failure. Through a Broadway investor he meets and falls for a showgirl who soon proves to be a gold-digger; his attractive but unassuming female assistant No…

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Stolen Goods (1915)

adventure film, silent film

An orphan named Margery (Blanche Sweet) is working a dressmaking company in New York. She is sent to prison when a rich kleptomaniac named Helen North (Cleo Ridgely) puts some stolen lace in Margery's handbag. After leaving the prison she …

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The Female Highwayman (1906)

crime film, drama film, silent film

According to descriptions of the film's storyline in 1906 and 1907 publications, the Selig release portrayed four crimes of a young woman in a big city. The first scenes depicted her "daring" and "carefully mapped out robbery" of guests at…

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