Charles Hill Mailes
Birthday: 1870-05-24
Place of Birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Biography: Charles Hill Mailes (25 May 1870 – 17 February 1937) was a Canadian actor of primarily the silent era. Mailes appeared in 290 films between 1909 and 1935. He married actress Claire McDowell in 1906 and the couple appeared in numerous silent films together. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Son of the House
In the home of ease and refinement a new life opens to the girl. She no longer is obliged to resist ...
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East Lynne
An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the vill...
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The Spotted Lily
Wracked with illness and discarded by a wealthy and unscrupulous aristocrat, Yvonne Lamour seeks out...
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Come Through
From a Montana mining camp, a young man progresses to the society heights of New York, making his ma...
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The Man from Downing Street
Someone in India is deciphering secret codes and passing information from London's Downing Street to...
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The Great Mail Robbery
Veteran serial director George B. Seitz keeps things perpetually on the move in The Great Mail Robbe...
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Under Two Flags
Tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French ...
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Murder by Television
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent an...
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The Talk of the Town
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand ...
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Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of ...
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The Speed Maniac
Billy Porter sells his ranch and travels to San Francisco to try his hand in the business world. But...
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The Long Road
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, ...
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Go and Get It
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked...
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The Baby and the Stork
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork....
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A Terrible Discovery
A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother....
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The Mark of Zorro
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Z...
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Treason
It's just after the Civil War in Kansas and Joan Randall and her troops are continuing the struggle....
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Man Power
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be d...
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Uncharted Seas
After her drunken husband Tom brings home three cabaret women, Lucretia can no longer bear the abuse...
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The Sands of Dee
A young girl who lives by the sea with her parents, is the object of one fellows affection. One day ...
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The Americano
Isabella De Ortega rides over to the mission for her music lesson. While she is there, pirates attac...
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Pirate Gold
Elusive as is the pursuit of pirate gold it is found in this picture and brought to the ship by the ...
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In the Aisles of the Wild
A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of ...
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An Adventure in the Autumn Woods
Summoned to the trading post, granddad promised the girls the money from the deal. He remained true ...
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A Chance Deception
The jealous husband saw a flirtation; the Raffles, a necklace. The husband's suspicions were further...
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A Modest Hero
It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but h...
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The Wrong Bottle
Happy in her devotion to her unfortunate sister and the promise of honest love that had come into he...
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The Hero of Little Italy
It was on the night of the Italian ball when Maria, to tease her sweetheart, Tony, indulged in a mil...
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Madonna of the Storm
The bored clubman sought the excitement of the street. The husband, believing himself neglected for ...
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Brothers
His dumb grief was mistaken for indifference at his mother's death-bed, but it was the non-committal...
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Just Gold
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth ch...
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Lord Chumley
After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for anot...
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Near To Earth
This is the story of Gato, an Italian immigrant, who lives with his wife, Marie, and his younger bro...
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A Dangerous Foe
The judge's young daughter championed the cause of Ching Fow against "The Bull." Kindness begot kind...
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The Stolen Loaf
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden in...
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The Ranchero's Revenge
The heartless woman with her partner answered the ranchero's call for a wife. Then the adventuress s...
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When Love Forgives
Bessie, the bookkeeper, and Harry, the confidential clerk, are sweethearts. Harry does not fully rea...
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The Unholy Garden
At a hotel in the middle of the Sahara, an old man and his daughter try to keep the location of a hi...
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The Coming of Angelo
Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony....
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The Work Habit
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young...
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Our Better Selves
The marriage of a wealthy and frivolous member of French nobility, Loyette Merval, to an American ar...
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The Lesser Evil
A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smuggl...
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The Midnight Flyer
The speed of lightning; the roar of thunder; the thrills of an earthquake; it's "The midnight flyer"...
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The Old Actor
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is...
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The New York Hat
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a styli...
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The Frontier Trail
Dolly Mainard, en route to her father, a major at Fort Blaine, is escorted through dangerous Sioux t...
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Queen of the Chorus
A chorus girl falls for a young man pretending to be his boss, a millionaire. WHen his boss returns ...
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Crashin' Thru
Gracia, a half-breed Indian girl, plots with Cons Saunders to steal cattle from Blake because he is ...
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
The owner of a gambling hall is entrusted with the care of a pretty young girl. He falls in love wit...
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A Misunderstood Boy
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters m...
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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting i...
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The Lure of the Circus
Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan....
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The Yaqui Cur
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack o...
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The Woman in Black
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the ...
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Dora Thorne
Ronald, heir to Lord Earle in Earlescourt, England, secretly loves Dora Thorne, a desirable but work...
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The Painted Lady
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice...
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The Battle
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Ar...
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Saved from Himself
Joseph Graybill, learning that his friends have been making a lot of money in the stock market, take...
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For His Son
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke wh...
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The Narrow Road
Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straig...
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The Eternal Mother
John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby i...
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The School Teacher and the Waif
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her...
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The Bond Boy
For the sake of his impoverished mother, Joe Newbolt bonds himself to harsh Isom Chase. Ollie Chase ...
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The Phantom City
A weird letter tells our heroes to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they conten...
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Held to Answer
John Hampstead gives up his career as an actor and his actress sweetheart, Marian Dounay, to become ...
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The Lair of the Wolf
Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife. ...
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Name the Man
Victor Stowell, son of the deemster of the Isle of Man, is engaged to Fenella Stanley. He becomes in...
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Chasing Choo Choos
Virginia Craig will become super-wealthy and gain sole control of her factory, unless insubordinate ...
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Her Mother's Oath
The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose...
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By Man's Law
An oil tycoon corners the market, then cuts jobs and causes much suffering. Because she's lost her j...
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Full of Pep
Returning from a selling trip, Jimmy Baxter, the fastest salesman at his father's munitions company,...
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The Carnation Kid
It's a case of mistaken identity in this comedy that centers around a country bumpkin mistaken for a...
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The Faker
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and as...
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Find Your Man
Paul Andrews returns from the World War with Buddy, a dog he found in Europe. Instead of getting a w...
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
A lighthouse keeper and his daughter are in trouble on two fronts--if the authorities find out he is...
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Man's Genesis
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a wom...
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A Woman Scorned
Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house...
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I'll Tell the World
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo...
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The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1929 American drama film directed by Monta Bell and written by Monta Bell and...
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Mothers Cry
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious...
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Old Ironsides
An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Iron...
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The Honor of the Law
The District Attorney came face to face with the man who he believed had murdered his father years b...
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Under Burning Skies
Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady ...
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Drums of Love
A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother....
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A Sailor’s Heart
A sweetheart at every port has ever characterized the sailor, but it is believed that the sailor in ...
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The Speed Demon
An ambitious race driver who is not allowed to compete decides to outwit his competitors....
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At the Altar
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the land...
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A Woman in the Ultimate
The unwilling dupe of her step-father, she became the decoy of the wealthy young man, but at the cru...
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Liberty Belles
Liberty Belles, silent comedy film from 1914 starring Dorothy Gish, Jack Pickford, and Gertrude Bamb...
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The Blue Streak
A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, who...
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The Hungarian Nabob
After Count John Karpathy, belovedly known as the Nabob, falls ill while entertaining the peasants o...
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Three Mounted Men
Fellow convicts Cheyenne Harry and Buck Masters become even more bitter enemies when Buck agrees to ...
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Michael O'Halloran
Orphan newsboy Michael O'Halloran "adopts" Peaches, a little crippled girl, when her grandmother's d...
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East Side - West Side
Poor, decent young woman Lory (Percy) avoids moral pratfalls after she is employed by a rich family....
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One Stolen Night
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the...
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The Making of a Man
A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks a...
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Polly Redhead
Aside from the fact that Polly had red hair in abundance, she was not otherwise an exceptional child...
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A Lodging for the Night
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two ...
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The Unwelcome Guest
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated...
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Fate
Sim Sloane and his beloved son were the reprobates of the village, not what would be called lovers o...
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A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The gi...
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With the Enemy's Help
A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children prayin...
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The Inner Circle
A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his...
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Home Folks
Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to b...
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Fate's Interception
The representative of an American Syndicate comes to Mexico to look over some land. While there, he ...
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The Telephone Girl and the Lady
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film...
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A Temporary Truce
A Mexican is thrown out of a bar by a young prospector and swears to get even. Later, he kidnaps the...
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Thundering Hoofs
The border bandit Severn is after Estrada's money. He not only gets Estrada to promise his daughter ...
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Bitter Apples
John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thord...
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What a Night!
The daughter of an industrialist, Dorothy Winston, arranges to work on a newspaper in which her fath...
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The College Widow
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President W...
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The Reformers
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that ...
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The City Gone Wild
Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prose...
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Danger Within
A ruthless, miserly millionaire wakes up one day and finds that a quarantine sign reading "Danger Wi...
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The Eagle's Wings
A senator fights for the passage of a war-preparedness bill, while foreign spies conspire to plan an...
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The Mysterious Mrs. M
A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire....
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Southern Justice
Three old men -- Judge Moran (George Hernandez), Roger Appleby (Jack Curtis) and Caleb Talbot (Jean ...
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The Fighting Grin
A man bets his father $10,000 that he'll marry his girlfriend within the next week, even with the op...
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The Sunbeam
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster....
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The People vs. John Doe
A farmer is unjustly convicted of a homicide he did not commit....
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The Magic Eye
During World War I, John Bowman, the captain of a tramp steamer, refuses to allow his wife and daugh...
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The Winged Mystery
Louis and August Siever, the twins sons of a German father and American mother, are traveling in Eur...
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The Wanderer
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph s...
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The Fighting Demon
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South Amer...
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The Better Man
Lord Hugh Wainwright is a Britisher who, on his way to his California ranch, rescues pretty American...
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So Near, Yet So Far
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles— namely shyness, and the temerity of other suito...
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The God Within
The woman of the camp implores her lover to marry her, and he promises to do so, but goes away and d...
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Free to Love
An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young minis...
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Iola's Promise
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Ha...
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Olaf—An Atom
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is...
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The Brass Bullet
Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial...
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The Ghost
A ghost has been the regular nightly visitor at a certain house so long that the occupants have gott...
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The Soul of Pierre
Two tortured artists believe by committing suicide their souls will avail themselves on their ill fr...
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The Seekers
The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the See...
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Soft Boiled
John Steele, a rich uncle, threatens to disinherit his nephew, Tom Steele, unless the latter learns ...
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The Home Stretch
Johnny Hardwick (Douglas MacLean) is the owner of the fastest horse in the next race. Although it's ...
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The Combat
Blaze Burke, rough-and-ready lumberjack, is promised the job of camp boss if he eliminates a gang of...
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The Girl Who Won Out
Orphaned after the death of their mother, Nancy Grimm and her baby sister Ellen are taken to the cou...
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Lena and the Geese
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who...
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The Fatal Wedding
The hero, Howard, has just married his sweetheart Mabel. Howard's ex-flame Cora remains in love with...
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The Man in the Saddle
A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits....
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The Whirlpool of Destiny
George Bell, a wild young man, lives with his rancher father, Thomas Bell, in Paradise Valley, Calif...
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The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch
The Goddess, the prettiest and best-natured girl that ever graced that little mining town, meets the...
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The House of Darkness
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano....
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The Faded Lilies
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mis...
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The Bronze Bride
Disgusted with his son Harvey's attitude since his return from college, wealthy William Ogden turns ...
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A Tender-Hearted Crook
The girl decided after what happened at the garden party that she did not want his love any longer, ...
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Money Madness
When a bank is on the verge of collapse, its president, George Fuller, uses his own fortune to cover...
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The Lash of Power
John Rand, having lived in a small town his entire life, dreams of possessing wealth and power in Ne...
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Lilies of the Field
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in dis...
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The Miser's Heart
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them...
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The House of Horror
A drunken Clark threatens a moneylender, blacks out, and wakes to find the man murdered. He flees fr...
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Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....
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The Massacre
The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation....
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The Root of Evil
A woman, driven by envy, is convinced that her husband loves another woman, leading her to a vengefu...
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A String of Pearls
A story about a poor young man who falls ill, while his wealthy employer ignores his plight and inst...
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The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit
Roscoe Tracy, the foreman of a large mining camp, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for robber...
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The Fourth Witness
William Bryant, a hopeless invalid due to a profligate life and made vicious by the fact, lives to m...
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The Town Scandal
Broadway chorus girl Jean Crosby visits her sister in Murphysburg and finds that not only has her br...
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The Oath and the Man
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the p...
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The Adventures of Billy
Little Billy, the bootblack, finding luck against him, decides to move to some other town. To do thi...
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Beloved Jim
Jim Brockton has three interests in life: His nephew, Donald: the Trinity, three friends of differen...
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Fools and Their Money
Although her husband and children want to continue living modestly after they acquire a fortune from...
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The Ten Dollar Raise
A lowly office worker suffers the abuses of his cruel boss, until fate gives him enough wealth to bu...
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