In this crime drama, two ex-hoods find their attempts to straighten up and fly right are foiled by a blackmailing gangster...
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Screen Story
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1946
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Merlini the Magician, Clayton Rawson's crime-solving illusionist, has been singularly ill-used by Hollywood, having appeared...
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Director
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1939
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Falsely convicted Lionel Barrymore escapes from Devil's Island with fellow prisoner H.B. Walthall. A brilliant scientist,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1936
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Director
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1935
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This story centers around a love triangle between two construction workers and a girl. The film climaxes with a fight on top...
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Director
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1933
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The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted...
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Director, Producer
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1932
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"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram...
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Director
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1931
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In this boxing drama, a prizefighter is left by his money-grubbing showgirl wife who aspires to be a movie star. The...
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Director
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1931
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Director
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1930
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Director, Screenwriter
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1930
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Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1929
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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Director, Producer
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1929
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Director
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1928
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In this lurid Tod Browning melodrama, boasting a thoroughly creepy performance by Lon Chaney, Chaney plays Phroso, a...
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Director
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1928
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Long believed to be a "lost" film, The Show resurfaced in the mid-1970s, proving to be a real treasure trove for aficionados...
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Director
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1927
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The most tantalizing of the "lost" Tod Browning films, London After Midnight has gained a near-legendary status in recent...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1927
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As a group, the silent-movie collaborations between director Tod Browning and star Lon Chaney hardly represent the best work...
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Director
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1927
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Having nothing whatever to do with the Rudyard Kipling poem, The Road to Mandalay is a typically bizarre collaboration...
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Director
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1926
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This characteristically grim Lon Chaney/Tod Browning collaboration stars "The Man of a Thousand Faces" in two distinct...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1926
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In one of her valiant but unsuccessful attempts to escape the serial grind, action heroine Ruth Roland played Ruth Craig...
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Director
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1925
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Returning to one of his favorite themes, crooks bilking the gullible nouveau riche, Tod Browning both co-wrote (with Waldemar...
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Director
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1925
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Although Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning had made a couple of films together earlier in their careers, this unique...
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Director
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1925
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In between contracts with Universal and MGM, where he would do his best work, enigmatic director Tod Browning marked time...
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Director
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1924
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Silk Stocking Sal (Evelyn Brent) is caught robbing a home by its owner, Bob Cooper (Robert Ellis). Instead of turning her in...
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Director
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1924
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This drama was an early starring vehicle for fledgling star (Eleanor Boardman), and it was given a haunting directoral...
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Director
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1923
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A crook melodrama whose working title "Lady Raffles" basically told the story, White Tiger was director Tod Browning's last...
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Director, Screen Story
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1923
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Priscilla Dean made a name for herself at Universal by playing charming female crooks in a number of films. The character of...
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Director
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1923
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The titular wise kid of this five-reel comedy/drama is Rosie Cooper (Gladys Walton), the cashier in a modest restaurant,...
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Director
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1922
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Because of Rudolph Valentino's success in The Sheik, Universal deemed it a good time to bring out a desert story of their...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1922
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Universal bragged that this standard crime melodrama was written by Louis Victor Eytinge, a "lifer" at the Arizona state...
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Director
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1922
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After a string of successes including Outside the Law and The Virgin of Stamboul, Universal gave director Tod Browning's next...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1921
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One of the earliest of the "psychological" crime yarns, Outside the Law stars Priscilla Dean as "Silk Moll" Madden, daughter...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1921
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In the '20s, the Turkish empire was considered a lawless and barbaric place by Westerners who didn't understand the people's...
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Director
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1920
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Roma (Edith Roberts) is a girl with too much energy and time on her hands. She becomes bored living with her staid aunt...
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Director
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1919
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Alisa Graeme (Mary MacLaren) is sent from Scotland to America by her grandfather. She visits with old Jeremiah Wishart...
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Director
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1919
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During her years at Universal, Priscilla Dean became known for her lady crook roles. Here she is Blue-Jean Billie, who is...
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Director
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1919
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This simple picture, adapted from a Sinclair Lewis story, concerns Gudrun Trygavson (Mary MacLaren), a Swede living in the...
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Director
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1919
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Priscilla Dean has impressive support from Lon Chaney in this crime drama. Mary Stevens (Dean) is a thief of the slums. She...
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Director
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1919
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In this adaptation of a Fannie Hurst story, Stella (Mary McLaren), an innocent shopgirl, is invited to a party by some fast...
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Director
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1919
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The Eyes of Mystery was one of the first full-blooded melodramas directed by Tod Browning, who soon became an acknowledged...
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Director
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1918
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The first film to be produced at Metro's California studios, Tod Browning's The Legion of Death was a rather muddled...
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Director
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1918
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The seeker of the eponymous revenge in this five-reel western is Alva Leigh (Edith Storey), whose fiancé was killed under...
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Director
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1918
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Director
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1918
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In a odd bit of casting, the strong-willed, 20-year-old Edith Roberts starts out as a meek, 12-year-old ragamuffin in this...
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Director
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1918
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Director
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1918
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Though he was obliged to share directorial credit with Wilfred Lucas, Tod Browning graduated to "prestige" pictures with his...
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Director
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1917
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Filmed on location at Saranac Lake and the St. Lawrence River in New York State, The Jury of Fate starred Mabel Taliaferro in...
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Director
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1917
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This love story is based on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, the singer who regained his wife Eurydice from the land of the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1917
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Former train robber Al Jennings wrote the story to this western adventure which, not surprisingly, opens with a train...
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Director
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1917
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Although Tod Browning had only recently been promoted to directing his own features, he was able to make the most of the thin...
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Director
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1917
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The late film historian William K. Everson has cited the 1916 De Wolf Hopper vehicle Sunshine Dad as one of the earliest...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
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1916
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Screenwriter
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1916
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Silent superstar Douglas Fairbanks lampoons both his dashing onscreen persona and the detective mystery genre in this curious...
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Screenwriter
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1916
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What everybody's doing would appear to be writing film scenarios: This satiric two-reel crime story is also a send up of the...
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Director
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1916
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This spoof of temperance melodrama is the last two-reeler directed by Tod Browning. The virtuous John (Jack Brammall) learns...
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Director
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1916
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A lot of potent talent was invested in this humble two-reel fantasy drama. The star was Broadway legend DeWolfe Hopper and...
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Director
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1916
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This one-reel detective thriller is the first directorial effort of Tod Browning, who had previously only acted in short...
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Director
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1915
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This race-themed melodrama is the first two-reeler directed by Tod Browning. Indians kill homesteader Bob West (Otto Lincoln)...
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Director
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1915
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Director
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1915
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San Francisco's Chinatown is the scene for this two-reel melodrama of crime and miscegenation. The cruel saloonkeeper Pat...
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Director
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1915
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Symbolic special effects highlight this early one-reel morality tale directed by Tod Browning. Writer John Penhallow (Eugene...
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Director
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1915
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Young heiress Jessie Curtis (Signe Auen) is disowned by her wealthy father (Charles Cosgrave) after she elopes with artist...
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Director
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1915
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This last-minute-rescue melodrama is the final one-reeler directed by Tod Browning. The fire-alarm system for a Pennsylvania...
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Director
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1915
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Having lost his wife and son, Dr. Farrell (Fred A. Turner) focuses all his devotion on his surviving daughter Naida (Billie...
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Director
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1915
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The dissolute Hanson Landing (Charles West) has seduced and exploited Wynona Ware (Lucille Younge), the trusting woman who...
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Director
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1915
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Railroad worker Beppo Puccini (Charles West) seeks to please his young daughter Marie by proposing to Bianca Pastorell (Signe...
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Director
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1915
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Director
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1915
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