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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, an outcast from home, Jimmy Duncan (Ray) goes to New York City where, under an assumed name, he becomes famous as a playwright. His childhood sweetheart Carol (MacDonald), also goes to the city seeking succ…
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drama film, silent film
comedy film, silent film
A spirited generational rivalry spanning half a century comes to a head in this light-hearted football romance. The Norton and Brawn families have been gridiron adversaries since the 1880s, when Johnny Norton I (Mack Fluker) was first best…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Matthew Denton finds out that, because the Centipede oil wells do not pay a dividend, the villagers consider his father to be a swindler. He leaves his mother and New England home to go to Centipede, Texas,…
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thumb|100px|Advertisement for the play with Rose Stahl Patricia O'Brian is engaged to Danny Mallory, a detective whose ambition is to own a farm and leave the Broadway life for the countryside. Patricia, on the other hand, is a chorus girl…
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drama film, melodrama, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Christine Madison marries Stuart Knight. He is a heavy drinker and prefers the company of his companions to that of his wife’s more polite circle. She realizes a loss of love, and becomes intere…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Philip Noloan (Daly) is a young American who entertains pacifist views about the American entry into World War I because of his selfish desire to maintain his own comfort. His father, to arouse his duty to …
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
adventure film, romance film, silent film
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drama film, silent film
A convicted man secures his freedom to save his daughter from her manipulative mother, who intends to entangle the girl in a blackmail scheme.
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drama film, silent film
A man returns to England having fought in the British Army during World War I. He finds both his problems are having difficulties with their marriages and sets out to help them and others.
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drama film, silent film
melodrama, silent film
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A man gives aid to another man on the condition that he can marry the man's daughter. The daughter refuses and goes to a lumber camp with her father. At the lumber camp she marries a man named James Murry.
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drama film, silent film
thumb|left|McGregor and Miller Brothers Harvey and Jim operate a pearl diving barge on an island in the South Seas. Harvey tries it on with a Mary Hale, an opera singer stranded in the area and working in a waterfront dive bar, and is knoc…
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comedy drama, silent film
Widower Colonel Dodge (Alec B. Francis) enjoys being single, but when Arbutus Quilty (Louise Fazenda), his former sweetheart, threatens to sue him for breach of promise, he decides its time for him and his daughter Mary (Eva Novak) to take…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Mary Stevens jilts Kenneth McLane and marries Chester James, a wealthy clubman. His mother lives with them and governs them as she controls the finances. She forbids Mary to have any children.
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