Maurice Costello - Movie Mafia

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The Love of Chrysanthemum

A little tragedy of Japan wherein a tourist fails to realize that love is a sacred thing the world r...

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The Story Without a Name

Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. Internati...

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A Man Betrayed

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politici...

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Siren of the Sea

Fantasy short starring Annette Kellerman as a Siren....

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Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by train...

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Man and Wife

Dora Perkins is a country girl who runs away to New York City. She gets work as a nurse and marries ...

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Alice in Movieland

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival....

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The Inherited Taint

Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another ...

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The Sleep Walker

A young woman does strange things, which are explained when it is discovered she is a sleep walker....

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Barriers Burned Away

John and Edwin Martin, two brothers, occupy, each with his own family, a double house; they are all ...

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How She Won Him

Some possess youth; others good looks, and still others have money, but Muriel Hanson has all three ...

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For Her Brother's Sake

The black sheep of the family is protected by his sister....

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A Quaker Mother

Mrs. Pearson is a little different from most mothers, at least in her general appearance, for she ha...

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A Princess of Bagdad

A caliph imprisons the cobbler's son his daughter has fallen in love with, but the cobbler's discove...

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She Came, She Saw, She Conquered

Rose Leigh is a young schoolteacher. She sees a paragraph in the paper, saying that in a certain sma...

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For Love and Glory

Young Lieut. Osmond, of the British Army, is engaged to be married to Rose Seaton. His father object...

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Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III....

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The Last Alarm

Firemen Tom and Joe each loves the other's sister, although neither is able to support a wife. Tom's...

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Conscience

More a cautionary moral tale than anything else, Conscience makes use of a setting that was to becom...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a ...

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Leah the Forsaken

Leah, a Jewish woman fleeing persecution in Hungary, arrives in the town and captures the heart of R...

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Fellow Voyagers

Miss Marbury comes on deck and looks haughtily at Mrs. Cray, an attractive young widow, half suspect...

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The Geranium

One glance at the poor and disordered home of the Tunisons shows us there is something still lacking...

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His Sister's Children

Harry Burton's sister and her husband are suddenly called away for a few days on business and telegr...

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Some Steamer Scooping

The Baron Lafitte is in love with and proposes to Adelaide Burton, daughter of Andrew Burton, a weal...

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Etta of the Footlights

Etta Lang, a chorus girl, is the principal support of an invalid mother and her sister and brother, ...

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Too Much Burglar

An exceptionally capable girl, Trixie Joyce, proves a great help, to her mother, a widow with a larg...

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The Evil Men Do

As childhood sweethearts, David Horton and Beatrice Elton are inseparable. Fifteen years later Beatr...

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For the Honor of the Family

On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, r...

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Some Good in All

John Lane is a prosperous businessman, a widower, who lives in a large house with his seven-year-old...

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The Money Kings

Three part chronicle of how the rumor of war triggers greed in some men and the comeuppance they suf...

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The Heart of Jim Brice

Jovial and big-hearted, Jim Brice, of the Howard Detective Agency, is sent to trap bribetakers in a ...

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Wanted... a Grandmother

Kitty Mallory, the young actress, finds herself in straightened circumstances. Looking for the immed...

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Her Grandchild

Mrs. Grant, a widow, has one son, Donald. He is not really a bad fellow, but is full of devilment an...

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Bobby's Father

Dick Ramsay is a "cracksman" and burglar. His wife, Jane, is a good woman and tries to persuade her ...

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The Hindoo Charm

Advised by his friends to seek a second wife so that his children, Helen and Dolores, may know a mot...

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A Tale of Two Cities

An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent ...

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A Vitagraph Romance

After meeting a handsome writer, Senator Carter's daughter leaves home and enters the employ of the ...

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Roulette

Before he can avenge a crooked card game, Dan Carrington suffers heart failure and dies in his chair...

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The First Violin

Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from...

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The Adventure of the Ambassador's Disappearance

A gang of crooks are employed to get possession of valuable papers of international importance, held...

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On the Pupil of His Eye

The household of Senator Walker consists of himself, his ward, Mary, and his nephew, Herbert. The ot...

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The Black Sheep

You would think that the death of his wife through his dissipation and neglect would have brought Ja...

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The Sacrifice

During Nick Austin's imprisonment, his wife passes away. Before she dies, she writes a note to her h...

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The Two Battles

Just previous to his departure for South Africa and the Boer War, Gordon Frazier, a young officer in...

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Getting Up a Practice

Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his ...

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The Sale of a Heart

To avoid ruin, an impoverished count arranges a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man she ...

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Iron and Steel

Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the...

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Lady from Louisiana

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate b...

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Water Lilies

Albertina is a celebrated dancer whose fame is widespread. However, she has overtaxed her strength, ...

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Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton....

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The Wagon Show

Colonel Beldan runs a Wild West show. When Beldan's star attraction switches to his unscrupulous com...

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Little Nemo

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wil...

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Citizen Kane

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...

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A Man to Remember

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients....

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The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...

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The Crimson Stain Mystery

In attempting to develop a chemical which would make a person super-intelligent, Dr. Montrose fails ...

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It's a Wonderful World

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme...

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The Picture Idol

A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Mauric...

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Practically Yours

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, an...

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Comet Over Broadway

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....

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Hollywood Boulevard

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...

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Dr. LaFleur's Theory

Dr. Lafleur is convinced that crime is an illness and can be treated like that....

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The Glass Key

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help d...

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the jo...

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All This, and Heaven Too

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Du...

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The New Stenographer

A capable but homely new hire becomes ill and recommends her beautiful cousin during leave. The boss...

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Five Little Peppers And How They Grew

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular bo...

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The Spider's Web

Banker Graham Lawlor is convinced to invest in Silver Shield Mines and becomes president, unaware th...

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Search for Beauty

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine whi...

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Edison, the Man

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...

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Half a Hero

A little country village comedy in which Mr. Costello plays a young grocer's clerk. This clerk and t...

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The Merchant of Venice

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...

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Fog Bound

Silent film directed by Irvin Willat...

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The Mad Marriage

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by...

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The Way of the Cross, The Story of Ancient Rome

A story of ancient Rome. The scene of this story is laid in Rome in the days of Nero. Rome has recen...

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The Days of Terror; or, In the Reign of Terror

During the French Revolution, the Duke and Duchess of Bérac are captured by a mob. The Duchess agree...

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Aunty's Romance

Romantic comedy in which a woman who no longer wants to marry her fiance when it turns out he doesn'...

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The Loyalty of Sylvia

The daughter of an old friend is staying with Dr. Laurence. Sylvia is a naughty girl; she puts sneez...

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Delayed Proposals

It is sometimes decidedly difficult to get a little privacy on shipboard. Several times Jack Hardy a...

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As You Like It

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguise...

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The Lonely Princess

A young American millionaire in Venice falls in love with the beautiful princess Ione....

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Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy

Biographical drama, adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

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Eagle of the Night

1928 was the last year when silent films dominated the market, and this aviation-based action serial...

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Foreign Correspondent

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...

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Tin Pan Alley

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...

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The Sea Hawk

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D...

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Third Finger, Left Hand

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleague...

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Johnny Apollo

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur...

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The Meeting of the Ways

Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and g...

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Lulu's Doctor

Magde leaves her fiancé Lewis in order to take care of Lulu, the child of her deceased sister, in Ne...

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It All Came Out in the Wash

A romance between Mr. Wall and the girl from the laundry, who encounter each other for the first tim...

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Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins

Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very c...

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The Show Girl

Audrey, a charming actress, but classed among the show girls, is invited with some of her stage comp...

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When Persistency and Obstinacy Meet

Short comedy about a arguing couple in which the man is doing everything to make up with his girlfri...

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The Peacemaker

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The Crown Prince's Double

A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing ...

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Camille

Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils....

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Ride 'Em Cowboy

Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train h...

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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual pro...

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The Shamrock and the Rose

The neighborly "feud" between a Jewish and an Irish families escalates when two of their youngsters ...

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Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian

A short film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatiz...

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Du Barry Was a Lady

Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a p...

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Happily Buried

For some unexplained reason, sales of waffle irons have plummeted. Evelyn Foster, president of the M...

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The Bride of Lammermoor

Sir Walter Scott adaptation, existing in fragmentary form in the Library of Congress paper print col...

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Auld Lang Syne

Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and ...

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Rose Leaves

Mrs. String, sitting under the rose bushes with her baby, Helen, on her knee, is approached lovingly...

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic

This patriotic and historic picture portrays the writing of the famous national hymn by Mrs. Julia W...

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The Adventure of the Italian Model

Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning...

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The Old Silver Watch

Mary Collins dies leaving two children; Mildred ('Lucie') and Frank. On her deathbed, she gives Fran...

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The Glimpses of the Moon

Although Susan Branch is herself without finances, she has many wealthy friends who supply her with ...

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Proving His Love; or, The Ruse of a Beautiful Woman

An unfortunate twist of fate provides the opportunity for a reporter to demonstrate the depth of his...

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What a Change of Clothes Did

Tired of being sought only for his money, a rich man goes on a fishing trip....

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The Moonstone of Fez

While touring Algiers, Mrs. Osborne and her daughter, Winnifred, make the acquaintance of Schuyler V...

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The Mysterious Lodger

Returning home from a matinee, Ralph Brent, a poor actor, finds his step-child dead. The child's mot...

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Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils

King Herod is enchanted by Salome's dance and grants her wish for the head of John the Baptist....

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The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain

A dancer enchants a leacherous king but rebuffs his advances, resulting in his vengeful anger....

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The Climax

Dr. Hohner, theatre physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, murders his mistress, the star soprano wh...

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The Ghost Comes Home

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voya...

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His Mother

Donald Gray, living with his mother in Scotland, through the friendship of the family physician, is ...

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Dead Man’s Honor

Hugh and Henry Watson, two brothers, are in love with Helen Mallory. She rejects Hugh and accepts He...

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Over the Garden Wall

Making the best of her genteel poverty, our heroine prepares to attend the dance to which she has be...

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The Changing of Silas Warner

Silas Warner dictates a letter commanding his son Harry to leave college at once and enter his offic...

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A Fig Leaf for Eve

A nightclub dancer, raised in an orphanage, learns she might be the long-lost heiress to a hair toni...

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None So Blind

Aaron Abrams' daughter Rachel died broken-hearted after her marriage was cruelly annulled by her fat...

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Love of Women

Cynthia Redfield elopes with Ernest Herrick, against the wishes of her socially ambitious mother and...

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Rags and the Girl

Wealthy young broker Tom Raine is set upon in a lonely wood by a tramp, knocked out, and stripped of...

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Saul and David

Tells the biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the book of Samuel...

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The Tower of Jewels

Emily Cottrell, one of the most respected members of a large gang of crooks headed by Fraser Grimste...

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Deadline at Eleven

When socialite Helen Stevens obtains a job on a New York newspaper, she is met by much derision from...

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The Cambric Mask

John Sark is the owner of a piece of land coveted by Henry Murden, leader of the band of "White Ride...

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Virtuous Liars

A high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in New York City, gets snared in a tangle of li...

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Week End Husbands

William Randall becomes a bootlegger to provide his wife with the luxuries she demands. As a consequ...

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The Captain's Captain

Louise Grayling escapes from a straight-laced aunt on a plea that she wants to visit her uncle, Capt...

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The False Alarm

The False Alarm is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Ralph L...

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