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melodrama, romantic comedy, silent film
Lessons in Love is "a fast-paced farce about an heiress who pretends to be the family maid in order to determine the true intentions of a potential suitor". The story was adapted from a Douglas Murray stage play, The Man from Toronto.
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, always ready to wreck the happiness of human beings, Jealousy selects Charm and Valor as her two victims. She is almost successful at bringing about her desires, but the arrival of the child Happiness overc…
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drama film, silent film
silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
comedy film, silent film
When Buffalo Bill Jr. rescues an older woman trapped in a runaway car, she invites him to dine with her and her wealthy husband. At dinner, Bill becomes entranced with the couples' daughter, Cleo.
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action film, silent film
drama film, silent film, sport film
drama film, silent film
silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Craig Norton ends his vacation in New York early to return and straighten out matters at his ranch in the West. His neighbor Wallace Roberts accuses his men of rustling his cattle. Craig defends his …
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drama film, silent film, sport film
The wife of a Member of Parliament pressures a jockey to throw The Derby.
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, shabby and lovable old inventor Noah Vale (Rogers) shares his attic room with Rip (DeVilbiss) and Patch (Trebaol), two orphans he has befriended. His lifetime ambition is centered in an invention he has sla…
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silent film
Sis, a laundress, is neither beautiful nor clever, but she still wishes to attract a boyfriend. When attractive Edith Van inadvertently hides her love-letter in the wrong pocket, Sis finds it and, thinking it is for her, goes to meet the l…
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Western film, silent film
"Silk" Merrick and "Chicken" O'Toole are two World War I veterans who head West. The two friends find themselves accused of murdering a local rancher. Merrick escapes from jail and helps another rancher burn down Sin Town.
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silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Isobel, an Eastern young woman, introduces Philip Steele to her father Colonel Becker, but as a trick implies that her father is her husband. Philip becomes disillusioned and goes to Canada and joins…
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drama film, silent film
In New York, traveling from a French convent to one in Montreal, the novice Fidele Roget is captured by a slaver. Running away, the young woman witnesses a murder. He then meets Jim Webster who is about to commit suicide.
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As described in a film magazine review, J. Austin Bell, a divorced man, promises his former wife Nancy not to marry again unless she approves of the woman. He becomes infatuated with Ruby, an adventuress, who vows to win him from the court…
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comedy film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, a crabbed, elderly lady on a motor trip through the west loses control of her car on a steep hill and Tom Faxon, a native, heroically rescues her. A few years after she dies, leaving her estate,…
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Western film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, after Enoch Kidder discovers his son John in his brother Aaron's saloon, he lays a line down the center of the main street of the rough mining town and separating the brothers' houses, and tells Aaron that …
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