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As described in a film magazine review, Gloria Gregory's extravagance causes marital trouble for her husband Dick. She is influenced by a chum, May Seymour, and both are jazz-crazy, attending liquorish parties and spending lavishly. Alec S…
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As described in a film magazine review, Linda Haverhill is left penniless after the death of her father, who was esteemed but lived by his wits and was a sponger par excellence. She is advanced money by John Converse, who desires her despi…
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drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
A rake makes a bet that he can seduce a woman if he offers her enough money.
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As described in a review in a film magazine, Arnold Grahme, celebrated organist, returning from abroad finds that his sweetheart, Madeline, has married Count Zara, who treats her brutally and has an affair with his "cousin," Pauline. Zara,…
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Western film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Smiling Bill wanders west to forget that he killed a man in the boxing ring, and goes into the desert. Meanwhile, he has incurred the enmity of Texas, a bad man. Texas gets a job at the Corliss ranch.
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As described in a film magazine, Billy Bates (Ray) believes that he has inherited the desire for strong drink from his father and, in order to live apart from his friends unmolested, he retires to a cheap saloon where each day finds him si…
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silent film, war film
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As described in a film magazine, through a clairvoyant Bunker Bean (Pickford) learns that in his various incarnations he has been Napoleon and Ramtah, an Egyptian king, and these facts spur him to greater things. He falls heir to some mone…
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The plot description in the 11 August 1917 issue of Moving Picture World reads:
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The Merediths, in reality much in love, have quarrelled and agreed to separate but cannot agree as to the disposition of their little daughter Beryl. All this is opportune for the plans of Spider, a notorious kidnapper and his gang, who pl…
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Attorney Peckham is murdered by a gang of criminals just as he is about to deliver a tin box containing $25,000 in marked bills—left as an inheritance by a deceased sailor—to Captain Fairchild, an old shipmate of the boy's father. The croo…
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