Alec B. Francis
Birthday: 1867-12-01
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: English born Alec B. Francis (Alec Budd Francis) was, in America, a stage and film actor.
Movies
Forget-Me-Not
Adventuress Stefanie Paoli forsakes her lover, humble fisherman Gabriel Barrato, for the arms of a n...
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The Cross Bearer
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Bel...
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Thunder Mountain
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. T...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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The Sacred Flame
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediat...
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Rose of the World
When rich Jack Talbot falls in love with not-rich Rose Kirby, he doesn't marry her, fearing his moth...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London...
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The Last Hour
Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper th...
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The Butterfly Man
Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie ...
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The Gilded Cage
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who ...
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Miss Petticoats
Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position a...
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Feet First
An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leath...
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The Bishop Murder Case
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance dedu...
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High Steppers
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In searc...
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Mary of the Movies
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio a...
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The Pest
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady...
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated f...
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The Last Mile
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on de...
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The Face in the Dark
Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father...
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The Military Air-Scouts
The story takes place three years into the future. Events represented take place in 1914 when suppos...
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Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of ...
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Troublesome Secretaries
A frustrated, protective father tries to stop his secretaries from falling in love with his charming...
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A Reformed Santa Claus
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until...
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A Voice in the Dark
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man....
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The Forgotten Law
Margaret Jarnette discovers that her husband Victor has been cheating on her and confronts him. Outr...
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Outward Bound
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of the...
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The Ballet Girl
Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter,...
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Earthbound
When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's wife Da...
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Beau Brummel
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley...
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a mes...
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Wanted, A Mother
Neglected by her grief-stricken father, a doctor, after the tragic death of his wife, little Eileen ...
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Evangeline
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forci...
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this cate...
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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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The Music Master
Former Viennese orchestra leader Anton von Barwig has been searching for his daughter, taken by his ...
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The Younger Brother
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solic...
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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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A Friendly Marriage
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in lov...
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Her Code of Honor
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art stu...
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Alias Mary Smith
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy w...
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Lucretia Lombard
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless bu...
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Captain Applejack
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere...
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The Mad Whirl
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life....
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Leap to Fame
Charles Trevor is a young chap just out of college, who is put to work on a daily newspaper and at o...
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Flame of the Desert
An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to thr...
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The Trail of the Silver Fox
A real life drama enacted in the Yukon region where the rigors of battle for existence reduced it's ...
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The Heart of a Hero
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. ...
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Lord and Lady Algy
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. ...
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The Paliser Case
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from rui...
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Looking Forward
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fir...
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The Eternal Three
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secr...
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A Thief in Paradise
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earn...
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The Cinderella Man
When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. ...
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Thirty a Week
Although she is engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright prefers her father's handsome I...
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The World and Its Woman
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. W...
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Smilin' Through
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of K...
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison....
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Three Wise Fools
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men w...
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Beyond the Rocks
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman...
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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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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company...
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The Tenth Woman
A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are ve...
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The Circle
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . ...
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The Return of Peter Grimm
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Fr...
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His Private Secretary
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Husband and Wife
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where h...
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A Woman's Way
Marion Livingston, daughter of General Livingston, boss of the Elsinore coal mines, rescues Jack Sta...
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The Coast of Folly
Unable to abide her self-righteous husband, Nadine Gathway leaves home and drops out of sight for 20...
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The Crimson Gardenia
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for ad...
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The Little Snob
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her fat...
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Oh, You Ragtime!
The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "...
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Man and Maid
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Ado...
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Children of Jazz
Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his r...
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The Mississippi Gambler
He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life ...
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Do It Now
At the urging of his sweetheart, Rosemary Smith, a man (William Fairbanks) leaves his soft job in th...
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The Reckless Sex
Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of ...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in Americ...
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Outcast Lady
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry....
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Thank You
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay...
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Camille
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils....
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Waking Up the Town
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, ...
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The Transgression of Deacon Jones
The Purity League tries to close down a small-town nickelodeon....
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The Lion and the Mouse
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unawar...
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The Terror
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror"....
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Little Church Around the Corner
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn...
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Mata Hari
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying fo...
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Chamber of Forgetfulness
A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which cause...
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The Gold Diggers
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he beli...
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Godless Men
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own s...
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Evidence
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon,...
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Transcontinental Limited
War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless...
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The Man Who Had Everything
Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar ...
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The Tender Hour
Marcia Kane, daughter of an American capitalist, is persuaded by her father to marry the expatriated...
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The Venus Model
A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disas...
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Sally in Our Alley
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an o...
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Broadway Daddies
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Rob...
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Outwitted
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfei...
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Companionate Marriage
Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulatio...
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Forever After
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with....
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When Doctors Disagree
Millie Martin falls for falsely accused Joe Turner on a train where he is masquerading as a doctor. ...
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Capital Punishment
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates ...
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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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Wandering Footsteps
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess...
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The Bridge of Sighs
The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter o...
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Pals First
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his c...
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Saved from the Titanic
A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic an...
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The Yankee Señor
A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautif...
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The Great Moment
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Romani Russian, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's ...
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The Shepherd of the Hills
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Oz...
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North of the Rio Grande
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, on...
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Where the Worst Begins
Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she...
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The End of the World
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca...
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The End of the World
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no ca...
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The Model
Dick Seymour is fortunate in having a nice father and a nice girl as sweetheart. Money is coming to ...
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After Dark
A baronet's son marries a barmaid in order to qualify under the inheritance terms of a will....
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The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds
During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are both courting beautiful Margar...
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All Man
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to ...
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For the Mastery of the World
US secret service agent Mr. Grimm is hot on the trail of spy Rosa Morini and her brother Prince Mori...
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Man of the Hour
Ruined by Charles Wainwright, George Garrison commits suicide but begs his son Henry to avenge him b...
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Son
Harry Horton, a spoiled son of a bookie, is prone to gambling and allows a weak character to influen...
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Adventures in Diplomacy
Two foreign spies are commissioned by their government to secure at all costs a secret treaty which ...
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Boy
Moran, blind to ambition, has been a long-time friend of the widow Casey. In his own way Moran likes...
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Moonlight
Paul La Blanc graduates from the seminary with high honors with plans to enter the priesthood, a muc...
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Duty
Dr. Alexander is dedicated to his young wife Isabel, but she craves a more exciting life and the com...
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The Greatest of These
Old shoemaker Peter is beloved by the children in his neighborhood. His daughter, Rose, elopes with ...
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Wife
Financial ruin stares Price and Holliday in the face. Holliday discovers that his beautiful daughter...
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The Drug Traffic
Johnson, a pharmacist, makes an illicit traffic in cocaine and morphine, which he cleverly sells thr...
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At the Court of Prince Make Believe
Little Sonny Brown returns to his wretched poverty-stricken home one day to find that his father has...
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The Diamond Master
After years of scientific research Thomas Kellner, an eccentric chemist, succeeds in manufacturing a...
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The Good in the Worst of Us
Morton, encouraged by Watson, who wants to expel him from the bank, is the president who uses the ba...
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Coming Home
John Sprague, a promising young minister, wins the love and hand of a simple country girl, Margaret....
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The Case of Cherry Purcelle
"Coke" Morgan, a hopeless cocaine fiend with a brilliant but crooked mind, evolves a clever plan of ...
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Cue and Mis-Cue
Billiard nut Michael McCue arrives home intoxicated where his wife greets him with a shower of knive...
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Fruits of Desire
Mark Truitt dreams of becoming a steel magnate, so he leaves his home in the country and his sweethe...
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The Arrival of Perpetua
Perpetua is a rich little orphan with a kind but absent-minded dreamer of a guardian, Thaddeus, who ...
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The Pit
Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker C...
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When Broadway Was a Trail
Henry Minuet, son of the governor of New Amsterdam, travels to Danvers, now Salem, Mass., to buy gra...
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Faithful Wives
The title tells it all. Faithful wives perhaps but can the same be said for their husbands?...
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The Beaten Path
A lost film. "The Beaten Path" was a 3-reel 3000-foot film produced by the Eclair company in the Uni...
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Broken Ties
West Indian born Corinne La Force, who is biracial, is raised by Henry Hasbrook after her father's d...
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The Spider and the Rose
In Southern California during the Mexican regime, Don Marcello, son of the territorial governor, ret...
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Charley's Aunt
Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Braz...
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Vanishing Millions
European produced 15 chapter adventure serial starring William Fairbanks and Vivian Rich....
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Champion of Lost Causes
Loring, an author, in getting material for a book, goes to a gambling den. He sees Wilbur, who acts ...
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Soiled
Chorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so s...
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A Hungry Heart
Vivacious little Gilberte, known as Frou Frou, is the daughter of M. Brigard, a retired merchant, wh...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
In trying to decide whom to marry--Rita Pring, the daughter of a South Seas ship captain, or Lady He...
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A Virginia Courtship
Colonel Fairfax, who lives on a Virginia plantation with his adopted daughter, Prudence, has remaine...
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What's a Wife Worth?
After Bruce Morrison marries Rose Kendall, he receives information that his father is gravely ill, a...
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Day Dreams
A young woman reads tales of a gallant White Knight and imagines that such a knight might come to re...
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The City of Comrades
A young man becomes a burglar due to hunger, but after gathering up his booty feeds himself from the...
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The Yellow Passport
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British ...
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The Marionettes
Fernande de Ferney, a young French girl, has spent her time between the convent and the country home...
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