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Jim the Penman
EnglandA bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
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Die Frau in Weiß
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Pilgrims of the Night
EnglandThe son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term to shield his wife and there forms an alliance with his brother-in-law, Marcel, who conducts a fashionable gambling establishment as the head of a band of criminals. Marcel is arrested and sent to prison, and Champion escapes. Ambrose, a hunchbacked street musician, escapes with Christine, Champion's daughter, and frames Champion for robbery.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
EnglandThe world's greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst! — A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Anna Boleyn
England The 16th CenturyThe story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
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Suds
EnglandAmanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
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The Lure of Crooning Water
EnglandA London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
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A Dark Lantern
EnglandAlthough loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
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The Gift Supreme
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The Call of the Road
England The 1820sIn 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
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Aunt Rachel
EnglandA jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
EnglandA doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
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Prinz und Bettelknabe
England The 16th CenturyAlexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different origin: Edward the Prince of Wales son of Henry VIII and Tom Canty the son of an lowly pauper.
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The Case of Lady Camber
EnglandLord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.
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Maria Tudor
England The 16th CenturySilent Film Drama by Adolf Gärtner. Starring Ellen Richter
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The Husband Hunter
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Milestones
England The 1880s The 1860s1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
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Little Dorrit
England The 19th CenturyA jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British production survives.
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Hearts Are Trumps
EnglandHearts are trumps when Lady Winifred secretly marries gamekeeper Michael Wain.
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Der weisse Pfau
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Bleak House
England'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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Broken Blossoms
EnglandThe love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
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Male and Female
EnglandGloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
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Lord and Lady Algy
EnglandLord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
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The Romance of Lady Hamilton
England The 1800sAn aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
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The Toilers
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Her Heritage
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The Misleading Widow
EnglandTHERE WAS A MAN UNDER THE WIDOW'S BED, BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT—HE WAS HER HUSBAND. — The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood. The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It appears to be a lost film.
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The Squaw Man
EnglandFramed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the lost 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film
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The Life Story of David Lloyd George
Wales EnglandA biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.
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Patriotism
Scotland The 1910sDuring World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the adjoining estate, and Dr. Hyde both love Robin, but she gives her heart to John Hamilton, an American soldier whose ship was sunk off the coast.
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Maid o' the Storm
Scotland EnglandScottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often dances on the beach and dreams of a man who will appear to her out of the mist. Her dream comes true when she witnesses an airplane crash in which the pilot, Franklin Shirley, is injured.
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The Great Love
England The 1910sJim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of the American forces that are subsequently to leave for the battlefields of Europe. He begins active training at a camp outside London. While enjoying a few hours of leave, he meets Susie Broadplains , a young woman from Australia. She is flattered by his attentions and their friendship soon blossoms into love. However German plotters plan to destroy an arsenal at night and Sir Roger is inveigled into driving an automobile along a London road with its lights turned skyward to guide the Zeppelins. Jim, wounded and home on furlough, detects Sir Roger on the lonely road, follows and traps him in his cottage. Sir Roger turns his pistol on himself rather than be taken alive. Susie finds the "great love" in service for the cause of democracy and her country, with a greater love in sight.
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The Vicar of Wakefield
England The 18th CenturyThe production vindicated the new feature-length movie format by restoring several characters, plot complications, and atmosphere that had been truncated in Thanhouser’s 1910 version of less than one-sixth the length.
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A Tale of Two Cities
England The 18th CenturyAt the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.
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The Woman in White
EnglandThe lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice within a scene via superimposition, but that's in a flashback-within-a-mirror scene. There are a couple such scenes where La Badie's reflection in the mirror reflects her reflective melancholy mood.
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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
EnglandAJ Raffles, a handsome jewel thief masquerades as a gentleman of society fitting in with well-to-do people. He dons a mask and waits for an opportune moment to steal belongings, usually some jewelry and to take advantage of unsuspecting women whether at an estate or aboard a passenger ship. Raffles knows secret passageways to aid his escape from capture such as disappearing into a large grandfather clock that is really a secret doorway. He even eludes capture by jumping off a ship and swimming to shore while women passengers fire pistols at him.
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The Dark Road
EnglandJim Morrison is an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family. He marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy, the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.
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Masks and Faces
England The 18th CenturyAn actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Kidnapped
Scotland The 18th CenturyIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
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Great Expectations
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Silas Marner
EnglandAfter having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.
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East Lynne
EnglandMiscasting of everybody's favorite vamp as the long-suffering Lady Isabel cast in a modern setting.
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