Having alienated virtually all the major Hollywood studios, filmmaker Erich Von Stroheim turned to independent entrepreneur...
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Fortunat Schweisser
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1928
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Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense...
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Carson, Alex's Father
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1927
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Hardly an important film, Finger Prints pleased the crowd with its heady combination of slapstick comedy and old-dark-house...
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1927
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Hoping to change the winsome "Cinderella" image of actress Betty Bronson, Ritzy. Despite her name, Ritzy Brown (Bronson) is...
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Nathan Brown
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1927
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Its title notwithstanding, White Flannels starts out in a grimy coal-mining town. Mrs. Jacob Politz (Louise Dresser) scrimps,...
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Jacob Politz
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1927
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In this romantic silent adventure, a beautiful heiress goes to California for a visit and while there learns that her New...
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1926
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Based on a novel by Francis Brett Young, Sea Horses stars Florence Vidor as Helen Salvia, who is deserted early on by her...
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1926
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A novel by Edna Ferber was the source for this Rod LaRocque vehicle. The story begins just before the outbreak of WWI, when...
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Pa Hubbel
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1926
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1926
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Warner Brothers' Broken Hearts of Hollywood is still another of the "mother love" dramas that festooned the silent era....
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1926
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In his first Western for First National and producer Charles J. Rogers, Ken Maynard played Don Luis O'Flagherty, a daredevil...
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"Tiger" O'Flagherty
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1926
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1926
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Bashful bond salesman Talbot Trent (George O'Hara) constantly finds himself in trouble thanks to his brash, practical-joking...
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Amos Milliken
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1926
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The drama opens with a prologue in which an innocent boy (Eddie Phillips) is sent to the electric chair and executed before...
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1925
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King Vidor does a nice job of making an insignificant novel by Lawrence Rising into a pleasant light comedy. Fernanda...
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1925
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1925
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Frank Lloyd, who directed The Sea Beast, tried to create another epic with this Rex Beach tale of the 1897 gold rush. The...
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1925
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This silent adaptation of Franz Lehar's famous operetta (in which precious little of the original story was retained) was a...
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1925
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Harry Leon Wilson's novel made an amusing stage play, but when it was brought to the screen, it lost something in the...
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1925
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The Goose Woman was inspired by the notorious Hall-Mills murder case, wherein a woman known as the "Pig Woman" was wheeled...
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1925
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Owen Moore was a bit long in tooth when he played the brash young hero of East of Broadway. Peter Mullaney (Moore) has one...
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1924
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After his impressive directorial effort on The Sea Hawk, Frank Lloyd made this far smaller and more intimate film. The...
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Jim Tufts, stage doorman
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1924
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Like many other pictures in the 1920s, Daughters of Today depicted the dangers that could befall those who led a jazz...
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1924
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John Oakes
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1924
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Reed Howes, former "Arrow Collar Man" turned action hero, stars in Geared to Go as the son of a taxi-company CEO...
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1924
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After a series of less-than-stellar pictures, Norma Talmadge tried something a little different with this sentimental...
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1924
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1923
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1923
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Mabel Normand's last feature-length film is also one of her most entertaining. Sue Graham (Normand) lives in the tiny hamlet...
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Po Graham
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1923
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The forty-ish Leah Baird was getting a bit too old to play ingenues, but she was still writing that type of role for herself....
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Capt. Joe Mansfield
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1923
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Silent screen stunt-man Richard Talmadge also produced this fine action melodrama, one of the few of his starring films to be...
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Hack Frazer
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1923
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This comedy was one of Charles Ray's last for First National, and in it, Ray continues to do damage to his starring career....
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His Father
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1922
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Pretty Eileen Pearcy plays the title character in this adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel. Cora (Pearcy) is the spoiled...
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Papa Madison
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1922
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Mack Sennett graduates Marie Prevost (star) and Clarence Badger (director) were reunited in the 5-reel feature...
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1922
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This quirky comedy with its mystical overtones was a departure for the down-to-earth Will Rogers. The story opens up with a...
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Pat Curran
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1922
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Comedienne Mabel Normand was in the middle of production for this comedy-drama when William Desmond Taylor was murdered. She...
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Don Fernando
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1922
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This virile drama, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, was based on the novel by then-popular author...
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1922
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It is easy to imagine Theda Bara playing the lead in this Fox Biblical epic, especially since its credited director is J....
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1921
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This comedy-drama marked Mabel Normand's return to producer Mack Sennett after making a number of mediocre films for Samuel...
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Tim O'Dair
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1921
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Modernizing any classic story is a questionable pursuit, and few are successful (the musical West Side Story, which took...
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1921
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The six-year-old son of director B. Reeves Eason, Breezy Eason Jr., was killed by a runaway truck during the filming of this...
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Sheriff Mart Fraser
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1921
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This eight-reel Fox feature is a blatant example of the rampant racial prejudice that existed in the early part of the 20th...
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Jonathan Fielding
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1921
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Like all of director J. Gordon Edwards' silent films, Joyous Troublemakers no longer exists. Existing documentation indicates...
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1920
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As a child, Nellie Jarvis (Lillian Gish) witnessed a murder, but it only remains a shadowy memory. After the death of her...
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Martin Cain
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1920
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Charles Ray was almost 30 when he played 19-year-old Andy Cavanaugh, a love-struck country boy. That alone goes a long way to...
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His Uncle, Daniel Cavanaugh
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1920
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1919
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Since much of this film takes place in rural Kentucky, where director D.W. Griffith grew up, it no doubt has many...
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1919
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Axel Heyst (Jack Holt) is taught bitter lessons by his father -- that pity is contemptible and sympathy is useless. So the...
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1919
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Monroe Salisbury is Naval Lieutenant George Blenton, who has a fatal attraction to alcohol. His drinking causes him to lose...
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1919
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Clay Burgess (Tom Mix), a drifter, returns to the small town of Palo to find the president of the bank -- his father --...
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1918
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Mickey was comedienne Mabel Normand's first full-length feature film and it was perhaps her finest moment. Normand is Mickey,...
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1918
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On the heels of his masterpiece, Intolerance, which dramatized the futility of war born out of prejudice, director...
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1918
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Tom Martin (Guy Oliver) is the blacksmith of a small country village, and his sweetheart is Mary Brandon (Vivian Reed). But...
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Director
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1916
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After taking a lot of abuse from his father (Guy Oliver), hunchback Bobby Stone (Jack Pickford) runs away and joins the...
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Director
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1916
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This the second full-length film version of Henrik Ibsen's stage tragedy Ghosts (the first was a Russian production directed...
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Director
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1915
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Tom Mason (Earl Foxe) is the reform candidate for mayor; when he is elected, the socially ambitious Ruth agrees to become his...
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Director
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1915
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Although Eugene Palette was known in the 30s for his portly character roles, during the silent era, he was a handsome,...
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1915
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1914
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In Charles Chaplin's seventh film for the Keystone Company, the Little Fellow's favorite pastime is drinking and chasing...
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Director
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1914
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In Charlie Chaplin's fifth Keystone comedy we get a look inside the famous laugh factory. Charlie is a movie fan and we first...
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Director
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1914
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In his eighth film for Keystone Charlie Chaplin, in frock coat and bushy mustache, is cast in the role of a melodramatic...
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Director
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1914
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After saving a little girl from drowning, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle receives an offer to join the police force, or rather, the...
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Director
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1913
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1913
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Nine-year-old Nedda (Madge Evans) is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign...
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1912
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1912
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Filmed during the Biograph Company's yearly winter excursion to sunny California, this one-reel Western melodrama features...
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1912
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This simple and very effective melodramatic short film was a landmark in its day; in fact, today it is still a fine example...
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1911
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1911
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With Florence LaBadie in the title role and Harry Benham as her Prince Charming, Cinderella, filmed in one reel in the summer...
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1911
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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In his characteristic fashion, D.W.Griffith attacked modern-day hypocrisy and bigotry by using a historical example in Rose...
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1910
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Among the many villains in D.W.Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance were those self-styled "social uplifters" who presumptuously...
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1910
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This 990-foot Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed in late November of 1909. Charles Craig plays the leading character,...
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1910
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1910
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This D.W.Griffith-directed Biograph melodrama is set during the Russian Revolution. No, not the successful 1917 coup, but...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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Running just shy of a full 1000-foot reel, Biograph's One Night -- and Then was what was known at the time as a "bohemian"...
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1910
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The outskirts of Paterson, New Jersey proved an interesting substitute for 18th-century Paris in Biograph's French Revolution...
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1910
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1910
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Always fascinated with Native American mythology and folklore, director D.W. Griffith turned out no fewer than six "Indian"...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This Biograph gambling melodrama was completed by D.W. Griffith in a fast two days. The hero, a chronic gambler, embezzles...
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1910
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This Biograph "temperance melodrama" was filmed at the company's Bronx Studios, with location work completed in...
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1910
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1910
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An excellent early D.W.Griffith effort, Her Terrible Ordeal was completed the first week of December, 1909, and released six...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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A widower (George O. Nicholls) must raise his young daughter by himself. He gets a job at a pigeon farm. He falls in love...
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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1910
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This Biograph "monastic drama" was set during Feudal Times. Kidnapping the wife of one of his vassals, a despotic Duke forces...
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1910
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Mary Pickford is a young woman who convinces a farmer's wife to hire her as a maid. When a travelling salesman comes by the...
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1910
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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Running 211 feet (approximately 4 minutes), Little Darling was filmed right after the more ambitious D. W. Griffith...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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This D.W. Griffith-directed "contemporary comedy" was filmed at the Bronx headquarters of Biograph studios, with location...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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Incorrectly reviewed by the trad magazine Variety under the title The Sealed Door, this Renaissance melodrama is among the...
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1909
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This 974-foot Biograph subject was designated by the studio as a "Contemporary Melodrama." The main character, a young...
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1909
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1908
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1908
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1908
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