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D.W. Griffith
	Date of Birth: Jan 22, 1875 Country: USA Biography: Born to a Confederate Army colonel in rural Kentucky, Griffith was the first giant of the motion picture industry, the genius of film who is credited with making it an art form. He improvised new ways to use the camera and to cut the celluloid, redefining the craft for the next generation of directors. Total Films at Criticker: 286 - You've Seen 0
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The Funniest Man in the World (1967)

Summary: This documentary examines the early career of Charlie Chaplin, from childhood through his introduction to the movies at the Keystone, Essanay and Mutual studios. (imdb)

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The Struggle (1931)

Summary: A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism. (imdb)

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Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Summary: Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination. (imdb)

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Lady of the Pavements (1929)

Summary: Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl. (imdb)

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Drums of Love (1928)

Summary: Princess Emmanuella agrees to marry the Duke of a neighboring kingdom in order to keep the peace between their two countries. However, when the duke's handsome brother arrives to escort her to her new husband, she finds herself attracted to him, and even more so when she discovers that her future husband, whom she has never met, is ugly, brutish and deformed. (imdb)

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The Battle of the Sexes (1928)

Summary: Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. (imdb)

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The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

Summary: Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan (imdb)

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That Royle Girl (1925)

Summary: Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. Joan believes that the real murderer is Baretta, a gangster who was keeping Adele as his mistress. (imdb)

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Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

Summary: Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage. (imdb)

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America (1924)

Summary: The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War. (imdb)

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Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)

Summary: A family of Polish refugees tries to survive in post-World War I Germany. For a while it seems that they are making it, but soon the economic and political deterioration in the country begins to take their toll. (imdb)

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The White Rose (1923)

Summary: A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child. (imdb)

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One Exciting Night (1922)

Summary: A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older wealthy man who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with a young stranger at a party. Odd noises begin to be heard as a group of bootleggers clandestinely try to get away with their hidden loot. One of them is killed and the young man is suspected of being the killer. (imdb)

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Dream Street (1921)

Summary: Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl. (imdb)

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Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Summary: Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love.(imdb)

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Way Down East (1920)

Summary: The callous rich, portrayed by Lennox, think only of their own pleasure. Anna is but a poor country girl whom Lennox tricks into a fake wedding. She believes that it is true, but secret, while he has his way with her. When she is pregnant, he leaves her and she must have the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own. When the baby dies she wanders until she gets a job with Squire Bartlett. David falls for her, but she rejects him due to her past and then Lennox shows up lusting for Kate. (imdb)

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True Heart Susie (1919)

Summary: Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her. (imdb)

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A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)

Summary: John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly- arrived "stranger" for his money. (imdb)

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The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

Summary: Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country. (imdb)

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Scarlet Days (1919)

Summary: A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman. (imdb)

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The Greatest Question (1919)

Summary: An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife. (imdb)

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The Mother and the Law (1919)

Summary: A young couple endures hardships in modern life as they struggle to raise their child through homelessness.

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Broken Blossoms (1919)

Summary: Cheng Huan is a missionary whose goal is to bring the teachings of peace by Buddha to the civilized Anglo-Saxons... (imdb)

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Hearts of the World (1918)

Summary: A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town. (imdb)

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The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)

Summary: Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, a giant of a vegetable peddler, but his unsophisticated ways disillusion her. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young man from home who had spurned Jeannette, now turns up and realizes the error of his ways. (imdb)

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The Great Love (1918)

Summary: An idealistic young American during World War I, itching to fight the Germans and not wanting to wait until the U. S. joined the war, journeys to Canada and enlists in the British army. He is sent for training to England, and then to the front in Ffance, where he is wounded. Returned back to England to recuperate from his wounds, he falls in love with the daughter of an Australian minister. (imdb)

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Hoodoo Ann (1916)

Summary: A little orphan girl believes that her life is falling apart. It seems that everything that could possibly go wrong does go wrong. However, certain things happen that begin to make her suspect that maybe she has been cursed by a doll, or is it really a doll? (imdb)

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Intolerance (1916)

Summary: Intolerance and its terrible effects are examined in four historical eras. In ancient Babylon, a mountain girl is caught up in the religious rivalry that leads to the city's downfall. In Judea, the hypocritical Pharisees condemn Jesus Christ. In 1572 Paris, unaware of the impending St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, two young Huguenots prepare for marriage. Finally, in modern America, social reformers destroy the lives of a young woman and her beloved. (imdb)

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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)

Summary: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them... (imdb)

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Enoch Arden (1915)

Summary: Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves her, he cannot bear to disrupt her current happiness. (imdb)

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The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Summary: The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war. (imdb)

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The Massacre (1914)

Summary: The story of the massacre of an Indian village, and the ensuing retaliation. (imdb)

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The Avenging Conscience (1914)

Summary: Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man turns to thoughts of murder. Experiencing a series of visions, he sees murder as a normal course of events in life and kills his uncle. Tortured by his conscience, his future sanity is uncertain as he is assailed by nightmarish visions of what he has done. (imdb)

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Brute Force (1914)

Summary: A primitive tribe are attacked by apemen and menaced by various prehistoric monsters. (imdb)

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Judith of Bethulia (1914)

Summary: A fascinating work of high artistry, "Judith of Bethulia" will not only rank as an achievement in this country, but will make foreign producers sit up and take notice. It has a signal and imperative message, and the technique displayed throughout an infinity of detail, embracing even the delicate film tinting and toning, marks an encouraging step in the development of the new art. (imdb)

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The Escape (1914)

Summary: A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. (imdb)

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Home, Sweet Home (1914)

Summary: John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need. (imdb)

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The Mothering Heart (1913)

Summary: A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife... (imdb)

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The House of Darkness (1913)

Summary: A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation. (imdb)

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The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)

Summary: Drunken red Indians carouse in pagan revelry, whipping up their appetite for dog meat. In search of supper, a party of Indians attempts to kidnap the pets of some nearby pioneers. The settlers shoot the Indians which instigates a war. Will the isolated town of settlers survive the onslaught of the savages long enough for the cavalry to arrive? (imdb)

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The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)

Summary: D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl (Mae Marsh) who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" (Claire McDowell) goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robbery (Harry Carey) has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels. (imdb)

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The Wanderer (1913)

Summary: This story is somewhat in the nature of a poetical fantasy, and may be construed as the spectator pleases. It is the story of a wanderer who prefers to seek, through his flute, the spirit of truth, that he may give it out into the world as he passes through his various journeys and experiences in life and thus make earth a better and fairer place. He prefers this to the perpetual strife for gain. (imdb)

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The Yaqui Cur (1913)

Summary: The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and again, the moans of men caught under falling horses struck terror in the boy's heart The incensed warriors cast him from the tribe with the brand of a coward. It was then that his opportunity came to follow the white man's wonderful doctrine. "Big love man lay down life for friend," (imdb)

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The Unwelcome Guest (1913)

Summary: Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper (Mary Pickford); she and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together. (imdb)

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Death's Marathon (1913)

Summary: Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. (imdb)

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Man's Genesis (1912)

Summary: A man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man. Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering since her mother died. But when they venture out in search of breakfast, Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling into a cave. There, he hits upon the design for a club: A rock on the end of a stick. (imdb)

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The Mender of Nets (1912)

Summary: A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor. (imdb)

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The Sunbeam (1912)

Summary: Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. (imdb)

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Billy's Stratagem (1912)

Summary: While their mother is away from home, Billy and his sister are set upon by marauding Indians, who trap them in their cabin. Billy rigs a keg of gunpowder and tricks the Indians into entering the cabin, while he and his sister escape. (imdb)

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A Blot on the 'Scutcheon (1912)

Summary: An aristocrat is delighted when a nobleman asks for his sister's hand in marriage. But delight turns to shock when he discovers that the engaged couple are already lovers. He kills the nobleman in a duel, watches his sister die of grief, and then poisons himself. (imdb)

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The Eternal Mother (1912)

Summary: John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact with John until many years later when he becomes ill and she finally forgives him for deserting her. (imdb)

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The Old Bookkeeper (1912)

Summary: A beloved old man is fired by a new manager who wants to give the bookkeeping job to his friend. Trying to contact his employer, who doesn't know about the firing, the old man foils a robbery at his employer's house. (imdb)

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A String of Pearls (1912)

Summary: A poor young man is seriously ill, but his rich employer won't help him. Instead he spends a fortune on a pearl necklace for his wife. The poor man recovers with the help of his kindly neighbors while the rich man's wife becomes sick and dies, with the useless necklace by her side. (imdb)

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The Root of Evil (1912)

Summary: A rich man's daughter marries against his will, and is disinherited. A manipulative attorney contrives to keep the rich man poisoned against his daughter in order to make himself heir. (imdb)

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An Unseen Enemy (1912)

Summary: The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. (imdb)

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The New York Hat (1912)

Summary: When Mrs. Harding dies, she leaves a mysterious letter to her pastor. The note tells how her cold, miserly husband worked her to death. She asks the pastor to administer a small trust which she has bequeathed her daughter so that the girl might enjoy some finery which her father has always denied her. The village milliner carries the latest hat styles from New York, one of which has caught the girl's fancy. The pastor, loyal to the dying mother's wishes, buys the young lady the hat. (imdb)

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The Narrow Road (1912)

Summary: Two men are released from prison after having served their sentences. One is determined to go straight and stay out of trouble, but his fellow ex-con has other ideas, and his plans wind up spelling trouble for both of them. (imdb)

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The Lesser Evil (1912)

Summary: A young woman's peaceful existence is shattered when she is abducted by the crew of a boat of smugglers, who then also turn against their captain. (imdb)

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The Female of the Species (1912)

Summary: Four survivors from an abandoned mining town - a married couple, the wife's sister, and a younger woman - are making a desperate trip to safety across the desert. The wife suspects the younger woman of having an affair with her husband, and soon afterwards the husband dies suddenly. The three women must then continue their journey amidst the growing tensions caused by the wife's desire for revenge. (imdb)

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One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)

Summary: Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured a gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidently discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme . . . (imdb)

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The Burglar's Dilemma (1912)

Summary: In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the young intruder with murder. How can the burglar prove his innocence? (imdb)

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A Temporary Truce (1912)

Summary: As Jim, a well-known loafer, is drinking in a saloon, he provokes a confrontation with a prospector who has just come in. The prospector humiliates Jim, who then swears to get even with him. Meanwhile, three malicious drunks have just killed an Indian, solely to amuse themselves. When Jim abducts the prospector's wife, and takes her to a remote place, he soon afterwards encounters a party of angry braves seeking revenge. (imdb)

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The Painted Lady (1912)

Summary: A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a burglar who is only interested in breaking into her father's house. One night she is awakened by a noise. Grabbing a pistol, she enters her father's downstairs office where she confronts a masked intruder . . . (imdb)

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A Beast at Bay (1912)

Summary: Another D.W. Griffith film with a criminal invading an otherwise unrelated situation; this time, the interest is heightened as August's cowardice does play well against the danger offered by convict Paget. (imdb)

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Friends (1912)

Summary: The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners. (imdb)

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The Sands of Dee (1912)

Summary: Mary falls for an artist, but he hides his fiancee from her. When she finds out about his fiancee tragedy ensues.

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The Girl and Her Trust (1912)

Summary: Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured. (imdb)

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For His Son (1912)

Summary: A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope. (imdb)

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)

Summary: A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement. The husband's job requires him to go away for for a number of days. On his return, he is robbed by the neighborhood gangster. Sometime later, an unrelated mob shoot-out ensues. The husband happens upon the melee, recognizing the crook who robbed him. Can the husband retrieve his money? (imdb)

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So Near, Yet So Far (1912)

Summary: Walter Miller loves Mary Pickford, but he is very shy and doesn't dare to speak up, so she prefers Bobby Harron. All perfectly natural. But one morning when he is nursing a hangover, Elmer Booth and Harry Carey break into her apartment and threaten her, until Walter rushes in to her rescue. (imdb)

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Blind Love (1912)

Summary: A country girl is persuaded to elope with the minister's nephew but she discovers that he is worthless. After he is killed in a brawl, her former sweetheart takes her back to her home. (BFI)

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The Transformation of Mike (1912)

Summary: Mike breaks into an apartment to steal an old man's money, not realizing it's his girlfriend's father. When he discovers whose apartment it is, he begs her for forgiveness. (imdb)

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The Old Actor (1912)

Summary: The actor loses his part as the theatre manager thinks that he is too old. On his way home he helps a dying beggar to his lodgings and is impressed by the amount of money that is found on the beggar. (BFI)

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Under Burning Skies (1912)

Summary: Joe, "The Bad Man of San Fernand," is one tough customer. He sets his sights on a lovely young lady who spurns his advances and elopes with a fresh-faced young cowpoke. An angry Joe eventually gets his revenge.

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Helens Marriage (1912)

Summary: The movie begins with Tom carrying a ladder for an elopement with Helen. Unfortunately, as soon as Helen climbs down the ladder, her parents, played by Grace Henderson and Frank Opperman, come out armed, and Opperman chases Tom away. (imdb)

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Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)

Summary: Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return. (imdb)

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Enoch Arden: Part II (1911)

Summary: Annie remains faithful to her husband, Enoch, even though he's been lost at sea for many years. Finally her grown children convince her to marry Philip, her former suitor. Enoch is rescued from the deserted isle where he has been stranded, and returns home. He discovers Annie's new life, and decides not to interrupt her happiness. (imdb)

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A Romany Tragedy (1911)

Summary: A gypsy woman must take revenge on her lover after he kills her brother. (imdb)

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The New Dress (1911)

Summary: Marta asks her husband Jose to buy her a new dress she saw at the market. On his way home, he goes with a friend to a saloon and drunkenly gives the dress to a barmaid. At home Jose tells his wife he lost the dress. She retraces his steps and finds the barmaid modeling her new dress. Faced with the truth, she goes mad. (imdb)

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In the Days of '49 (1911)

Summary: Bill hits a rich gold strike and sends for his wife, Edith, to join him. While traveling on the stage, Edith meets and flirts with Jack, an old friend of Bill's. Once they arrive at the mining camp, Edith and Jack continue meeting secretly, and plan to run off together. Bill confides in Jack, wondering why Edith has become cold to him. Jack realizes that Bill's love for Edith is more worthy than his, and he leaves the camp. (imdb)

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The Primal Call (1911)

Summary: A young woman who is engaged to a millionaire she doesn't love meets and falls in love with a rough sailor. (imdb)

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Bobby, the Coward (1911)

Summary: Bobby's girlfriend thinks he's a coward when he refuses to fight a gang of toughs after they insult him. But when the gang breaks into his apartment, he fights them off, and wins his girlfriend's respect again. (imdb)

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The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911)

Summary: A blind princess is informed that her sight can be restored by the first kiss of unselfish love she receives. She remains blind until a humble poet steals a kiss. (imdb)

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The Rose of Kentucky (1911)

Summary: A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger brother as a husband. When the younger brother proves to be a coward, she chooses the older brother instead. (imdb)

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The Ruling Passion (1911)

Summary: A brother and sister decide to play pirates with a real boat. It becomes untied from the dock and drifts away with the kids in it. Soon it starts to sink. Their father hires a motor boat to rescue them before it's too late. (imdb)

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The Last Drop of Water (1911)

Summary: A wagon train heading west across the great desert runs out of water, and is attacked by Indians. One man -- their last hope -- is sent out to find water. (imdb)

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The Indian Brothers (1911)

Summary: A renegade Indian kills a chief who has insulted him. The chief's brother swears vengeance and pursues the renegade, overtaking him just in time to rescue him from another tribe who are angry with him for stealing a horse. (imdb)

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The Two Sides (1911)

Summary: A rancher's daughter runs away and hides in the barn, where she falls asleep. A workman throws away a cigarette and the barn catches fire. A ranch hand sees the hay starting to burn but, angry that he's just been fired, decides to do nothing. He overhears the rancher calling for his missing daughter... (imdb)

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His Mother's Scarf (1911)

Summary: Two brothers, living in a wilderness cabin, rescue a girl from an Indian attack. They both fall in love with her, and their mutual jealousy almost leads to violence. (imdb)

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What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)

Summary: An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate. (imdb)

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Fate's Turning (1911)

Summary: A young girl working as a waitress at a resort for the wealthy is swept off her feet by a rich young gentleman, and before she knows it, she's pregnant. (imdb)

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Conscience (1911)

Summary: As they have breakfast in their hunting lodge Howard jokingly tells his wife to improve her coffee or he'll shoot her. Later she meets him as he's out hunting and is accidentally shot and killed by another hunter. Because the maid overheard his joke at breakfast Howard is arrested for her murder. (imdb)

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The Broken Cross (1911)

Summary: Before Tom departs for the city, he becomes engaged to Kate. She gives him half of her broken pendant cross, with the agreement that either can end the engagement by sending his or her half to the other. In a city boarding house, Tom is vamped by a flirtatious manicurist who learns of the agreement and sends Tom half a cross, pretending it is from Kate. Tom realizes he has been tricked and returns to the country and his fiancée. (imdb)

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The Spanish Gypsy (1911)

Summary: Jose becomes engaged to Pepita, but still has eyes for Mariana. He runs off with Mariana, but he is accidentally blinded, and she deserts him. Pepita discovers him wandering blindly, and forgives him. (imdb)

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Swords and Hearts (1911)

Summary: A poor girl is secretly in love with a wealthy young planter. During the Civil War she helps him escape capture by Union soldiers. After the war, with his fortune gone, she confesses that she loves him. (imdb)

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His Trust Fulfilled (1911)

Summary: Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George, a slave, takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin. (imdb)

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His Daughter (1911)

Summary: William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical practice. However, Mary's alcoholic father discovers the savings and steals it. (imdb)

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Fisher Folks (1911)

Summary: A crippled girl marries a fisherman, who also has eyes for the town flirt. (imdb)

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A Knight of the Road (1911)

Summary: A tramp overhears a rancher's plans to go to town for the ranch's payroll. He tries to enlist another loafer (the Knight) to help with a robbery. Instead, the Knight helps thwart the robbery. (imdb)

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The Chief's Daughter (1911)

Summary: Frank becomes engaged to an Indian chief's daughter. Susan, Frank's first fiancée arrives from the East. The chief's daughter finds out about Susan, and confronts them both. Frank ends up losing both fiancées. (imdb)

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His Trust (1911)

Summary: A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in an exciting battle sequence, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust. Events continue to turn for the worse when invading Yankee soldiers arrive to loot and torch the widow's home. George saves the officer's daughter and battle sword by braving the flames. (imdb)

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Was He a Coward? (1911)

Summary: Norris gets a job as a ranch hand and falls in love with Kate, the rancher's daughter. The jealous foreman challenges him to a fight, but he refuses, and Kate thinks he's a coward. When smallpox hits the ranch, Norris cares for the sick at the risk of his own life, and shows Kate his true heroism. (imdb)

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A Country Cupid (1911)

Summary: Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away. Without her knowledge, one of her students fishes it out of the trash and sends it to her fiancé. Later, Edith is alone grading papers when a man bursts in and threatens her. (imdb)

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The Voice of the Child (1911)

Summary: A businessman neglects his wife, who is tricked into believing he is having an affair. She packs to leave him, but is distracted by their little girl, and can't bear to go. (imdb)

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As in a Looking Glass (1911)

Summary: A father's drinking leads him to neglect his family. His young son emulates his father's actions when playing with his friends. The father sees his vices reflected in the child's play and resolves to change his ways. (imdb)

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The Failure (1911)

Summary: A man loses his business and his fiancée, and drifts into the saloons. There he meets a similarly-downtrodden young woman. She works behind the scenes to help him recover his life, and eventually he realizes how steadfast she is. (imdb)

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Saved from Himself (1911)

Summary: Joseph Graybill, learning that his friends have been making a lot of money in the stock market, takes a flyer himself. However, when a drop in the shares he has bought wipes him out, he breaks into his employer's safe for money to pay for a margin call. Will the thought of his grey-haired mother and the importunities of his co-worker Mabel Normand stop him or will he descend to a life of crime? (imdb)

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The Battle (1911)

Summary: Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades. (imdb)

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The Squaw's Love (1911)

Summary: Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower is stealing her fiancé. Silver Fawn sets out in pursuit and jealously attacks Wild Flower. They fall into the river but are rescued by Gray Fox. (imdb)

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The Lonedale Operator (1911)

Summary: When her father becomes ill, a young woman takes over the telegraph at a lonely western railroad station. She soon gets word that the next train will deliver the payroll for a mining company. The train brings not only the money, but a pair of ruffians bent on stealing it. All alone, she wires for help, and then holds off the bad guys until it arrives. (imdb)

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Fighting Blood (1911)

Summary: After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the hills, he spots a band of Indians attacking a neighboring homestead, and he races back to warn his family as the Indians chase him. (imdb)

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A Woman Scorned (1911)

Summary: Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the thieves has jilted his sweetheart, who tells the doctor of the robbery, and helps him save his family. (imdb)

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A Terrible Discovery (1911)

Summary: A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother. (imdb)

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The Making of a Man (1911)

Summary: A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home... (imdb)

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The Adventures of Billy (1911)

Summary: Billy witnesses two tramps accidentally kill someone during a robbery. The tramps lock him up and decide that he must be killed, too. (imdb)

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Dan the Dandy (1911)

Summary: Dan has returned from the university weak and lazy. His father wants to toughen him up so he hires a tramp to pick a fight. This doesn't work, but when the tramp starts paying attention to a young heiress, Dan resolves to toughen up and win the heiress for himself. (imdb)

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Love in the Hills (1911)

Summary: A pretty mountain girl has to decide between three suitors, an upright young man from the mountains, a shiftless fiddler, and a visitor from the city. (imdb)

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Her Awakening (1911)

Summary: An attractive young woman is ashamed of her shabbily-dressed mother, and won't introduce her to her suitor. Distraught, the mother wanders into the street and is killed. Too late, the daughter realizes how badly she treated her. (imdb)

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Through Darkened Vales (1911)

Summary: Hard-working Dave loves Grace, but she rejects him for a flashier suitor. Grace is blinded in an accident, and her suitor abandons her. Meanwhile, Dave also goes blind from eye strain caused by overwork. Dave learns of Grace's misfortune and gives a doctor the money he was saving for his own operation, so her sight can be restored. (imdb)

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The Long Road (1911)

Summary: Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps his family. (imdb)

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The Miser's Heart (1911)

Summary: Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building. (imdb)

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In the Border States (1910)

Summary: During the Civil War, a father living in a border state leaves to join the Union Army. After he leaves, Confederate troops forage on his property, where a soldier encounters one of his daughters. The father himself is wounded on a hazardous mission and must run for his life, pursued by Confederate soldiers. (imdb)

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The Usurer (1910)

Summary: A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations. (imdb)

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A Child of the Ghetto (1910)

Summary: After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side and hides in the country where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. (imdb)

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Faithful (1910)

Summary: Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp 'Faithful' and knocks him over. Feeling sorry for him, Adonese helps him up and buys him a new suit of clothes. The naively innocent Faithful reads too much into this gesture, and he begins to follow his benefactor everywhere, expecting to receive future gifts. (imdb)

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The Englishman and the Girl (1910)

Summary: A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a visit. The Englishman turns out to be a stuffy and humorless, and is the butt of several pranks. The drama group dresses as Indians and threatens him, but he turns the tables, pulls out a gun and chases them away. (imdb)

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Wilful Peggy (1910)

Summary: Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy. (imdb)

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In Old California (1910)

Summary: An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century. (imdb)

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Over Silent Paths (1910)

Summary: A lone miner and his daughter make the journey to California by prairie schooner. (imdb)

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The Last Deal (1910)

Summary: Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood,his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of his gambling fever. Footage of this film (and 1909's IMP production of "Behind the Stockade") was used in the first release (October, 1947) of the 1947-48 production season of "Flickers Flashback" series of RKO shorts. (imdb)

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Ramona (1910)

Summary: Ramona, a young girl growing up on her adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian lad Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the two lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the bigotry and greed of the white landowners. (imdb)

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The Oath and the Man (1910)

Summary: The Oath and the Man was directed by D W Griffith in 1910. Griffith is often out of his depth when he goes far back in history. Herein he trivializes the French revolution. Before you criticize him, though, remember he was making two or three of these a week. If you get a few laughs, you will be laughing at it not with it. (archive.org)

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The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

Summary: During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her son's presence a secret for many years, though two boyhood chums stumble upon the truth... (imdb)

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The Fugitive (1910)

Summary: Two sons named John (one from a Union family and one from a Confederate family) go off to war leaving behind their mothers and fiancées. Their respective foraging parties encounter each other and exchange fire, and the Union party runs into the woods near the home of the Confederate John. (imdb comments)

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The Affair of an Egg (1910)

Summary: A whimsical farm girl writes a message on an egg that finds its way to a city restaurant where it is served to a young man. Intrigued, the young man sets out to locate the message-writer. He makes the long and arduous trip by train to the country and confronts the young woman, who, much to his dismay, doubles up her fists and hits him. The next scene shows the young man boarding a train, and the young woman on her knees beseeching him to return to her. (imdb)

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The Unchanging Sea (1910)

Summary: In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident (imdb)

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As It Is in Life (1910)

Summary: A widower must raise his young daughter by himself. He gets a job at a pigeon farm. He falls in love with another woman, but decides not to marry her because he cannot support a family of three. Years later his daughter who was away at school returns home. She falls in love with a young man, but her father feels jealous of her new boyfriend. She runs away, gets married, and later has a baby. Her husband is busy working all of the time so she visits her father and introduces him to his grandbaby. (Answers.com)

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An Arcadian Maid (1910)

Summary: D.W. Griffith film about an out of work maid (Mary Pickford) who gets a job and soon starts getting hit up on by a playboy (Mack Sennett). (archive.org)

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Rose O'Salem Town (1910)

Summary: Typical morality tale has a Deacon coming onto a "wild child" (Dorothy West) but after she rejects him he goes back into town saying that the girl and her mother are witches. (imdb)

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The Red Man's View (1909)

Summary: An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one young Indian woman stay behind. This woman is thus separated from her sweetheart, whose elderly father needs his help on the journey ahead. (imdb)

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The Test (1909)

Summary: Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo from his bill case, and when he writes her that he is looking at her picture, she writes back that she knows otherwise. Realizing that he has been found out, Harry obtains his mother's photograph of Bessie, and upon his return home convinces her that he had it all along. (imdb)

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Through the Breakers (1909)

Summary: A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of his ways and stays home with her, demanding his wife do likewise. She sneaks out to a dance and the child takes a turn for the worse. By the time she returns home the child is dead. After her husband leaves her, the mother realizes her selfishness and begs forgiveness at her daughter's grave. (imdb)

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The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)

Summary: During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. (imdb)

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In a Hempen Bag (1909)

Summary: A woman decides to drown the family cat which has become a nuisance. She ties it in a hempen bag and gives it to the deaf gardener to throw in the river. However, the children discover the cat and set if free. Meanwhile a maid who has been fired decides to take revenge and hides the baby in the same sack. The deaf gardener takes the sack, but doesn't notice the change in contents and is unable to hear the baby. (imdb)

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In the Window Recess (1909)

Summary: An escaped convict takes refuge in the home of a police officer out on duty. He seizes the officer's daughter and pulls her into a window recess, with a pistol to her head. The officer returns and discovers the convict's hat. He suspect his wife is concealing an affair and she must avoid revealing the convict's presence for the sake of their daughter. (imdb)

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The Trick That Failed (1909)

Summary: Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the sudden success, but when she learns the truth, Nellie leaves her sweetheart to accept the proposal of a rival painter. (imdb)

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The Country Doctor (1909)

Summary: While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse. (imdb)

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The Mountaineer's Honor (1909)

Summary: A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the brother and prepares to lynch him. Mother intervenes and, to save her son the disgrace of hanging, shoots him. (imdb)

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Edgar Allan Poe (1909)

Summary: As Poe's lover is slowly dying he struggles to make money to care for her.

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Choosing a Husband (1909)

Summary: Four bachelors all want to marry Gladys. To test their fidelity she pretends to be away, and when they come to visit, each in turn is met by her pretty younger sister. One by one they fail the test by flirting with the sister. Gladys renounces them, then is reunited with her real sweetheart, who has been abroad. (imdb)

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The Day After (1909)

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his behavior. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself. (imdb)

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To Save Her Soul (1909)

Summary: Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the curate who loves her, she accepts the offer and goes to the city. Later the curate goes to hear Agnes perform and, fearing that her soul is being corrupted by show business, he asks her to return to the small town with him. When she refuses, he is prepared to kill her in order to protect the purity of her soul. (imdb)

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In Little Italy (1909)

Summary: Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. When he learns that Victor is still alive, he breaks into the room in Marie's house where Victor is convalescing and attacks him again. He is threatening to attack Marie when lawmen burst in and arrest him. (imdb)

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The Little Teacher (1909)

Summary: A young female teacher is assigned to an unruly class. After a student revolt, a passing surveyor helps her restore order, and the teacher becomes interested in him. Soon she learns that he has a wife. Dave, an older pupil, offers the teacher solace and it becomes apparent that he is smitten with her. (imdb)

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The Road to the Heart (1909)

Summary: Miguel casts out his daughter when she marries a poor man, causing his wife to leave him, too. After he is unable to find a reliable cook, he reconciles with his daughter so he can get a good meal. (imdb)

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Trying to Get Arrested (1909)

Summary: A tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person. (imdb)

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Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade (1909)

Summary: Schneider is trying to write a speech but he can't concentrate with all the noise around him. During the night, Schneider catches burglars in his house, but when he sees they are stealing all the noisy distractions, he helps them get away. (imdb)

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A Rude Hostess (1909)

Summary: Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and opens the safe. He can't make his getaway before she returns, and tries to bluff his way out by saying he entered the wrong apartment. She sees the open safe and secretly tells the butler to get the police. (imdb)

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A Sound Sleeper (1909)

Summary: A tramp manages to sleep through a street riot and having hot ashes dumped on him. (imdb)

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The Winning Coat (1909)

Summary: A young courtier gambles in a tavern and wins a coat from the leader of a gang. In the pocket he finds details of a plan to kidnap the Queen. He returns to the castle and hides until the kidnappers show up, then he exposes the kidnapping plot. (imdb)

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A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)

Summary: A drinking man arrives home, late and sozzled as usual. His wife reminds him that he promised to take their child to a play. The play proves to be a morality tale about the evils of drink; he sees the parallels in his own life and swears off the demon brew. (imdb)

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Jones and His New Neighbors (1909)

Summary: Jones' new house looks like all the others on the street. One night Jones enters the wrong house and finds himself in a precarious situation. (imdb)

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The Deception (1909)

Summary: A wife offers to support her artist husband by teaching piano. She can't find work at the conservatory, and ends up working in a laundry, without telling him the truth. When he discovers her lie, he is determined to leave her, until she is injured and he understands the sacrifice she made for him. (imdb)

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The Voice of the Violin (1909)

Summary: A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his anger he joins a communist group who plan to blow up a rich capitalist's house. When he realizes it's Helen's house, he tries to stop the plan. (imdb)

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And a Little Child Shall Lead Them (1909)

Summary: Seven years after the death of their first child, a couple has grown apart and decides to divorce. Their second child asks a question about who will keep the first child's most cherished toy after they separate. This leads the couple to reconsider their actions. (imdb)

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A Burglar's Mistake (1909)

Summary: Henry is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer breaks into his house, Henry apprehends him at gunpoint and takes the opportunity to rid himself of the blackmailer's threat. (imdb)

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The Medicine Bottle (1909)

Summary: While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late. (imdb)

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Confidence (1909)

Summary: Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail her. When the blackmail plot is exposed, Nellie's husband expresses his complete faith in her. (imdb)

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A Troublesome Satchel (1909)

Summary: Sight unseen, a man buys a bag that turns out to contain burglar tools. He can't get rid of the bag, even when he's robbed. The thieves assume he's a colleague and return the bag and tools. (imdb)

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The French Duel (1909)

Summary: Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel. (imdb)

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One Busy Hour (1909)

Summary: Jim decides to sell his store because business is bad. When his prospective buyer comes to look the place over, Jim offers friends and strangers money to visit the store and make it look busy. (imdb)

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Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)

Summary: After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones's pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge quarrel erupts. (imdb)

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A Baby's Shoe (1909)

Summary: A poor mother abandons her daughter on the doorstep of a wealthy family. On the way home she becomes ill, but manages to confess what she's done to a priest before she dies. The priest adopts her son. He grows up and falls in love with a girl he saved from a runaway horse. When the priest visits her parents' house to arrange the engagement, he discovers she's the long-lost daughter. (imdb)

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The Jilt (1909)

Summary: John is seduced and abandoned by a cruel flirt. Later he learns that his friend Frank is engaged to the same woman. He relates his story to Frank and convinces him to jilt her at the altar. (imdb)

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The Note in the Shoe (1909)

Summary: A shoe-factory worker puts a note in a shoe box offering to marry the lucky buyer. As a result, she is dismissed from her job, but her employer finds her so attractive that he suggests a new job for her, as his wife. (imdb)

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The Open Gate (1909)

Summary: Hetty is engaged to George, but after her sister dies she breaks the engagement in order to raise her sister's orphaned daughter. After many years, Hetty's niece has grown up and has fallen in love with George's nephew, but they have split up after a quarrel. George, still heartbroken at losing Hetty, helps his nephew make up with Hetty's niece, and in doing so, reconciles with his own long-lost sweetheart. (imdb)

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Twin Brothers (1909)

Summary: Twin brothers are separated for many years. One of them takes a job in a cheap circus where he wears a gorilla suit. He is forced to enter a lion's cage, but is relieved to see that the 'lion' is his long-lost brother. (imdb)

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The Drive for a Life (1909)

Summary: Harry's jealous former mistress puts poison in some candy intended for his new fiancée. Harry discovers what she has done, and races to save his fiancée before she eats the candy. (imdb)

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Lucky Jim (1909)

Summary: Gertrude chooses Jim over Jack, which makes Jack very jealous. Later Jim dies, and Jack marries Gertrude. He finds himself once again very jealous of the late Lucky Jim. (imdb)

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Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good (1909)

Summary: Out-of-work, Tim steals a sandwich, then knocks out the policeman who chases him. He changes into the policeman's uniform, and is approached by a wife who needs help with her drunken husband. (imdb)

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The Suicide Club (1909)

Summary: One of the members of a suicide club learns he has inherited some money, but only after he drew the fatal lot and is expected to kill himself. (imdb)

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I Did It (1909)

Summary: A mother punishes her son for eating a plate of cream puffs, unaware that the daughter really did it. As the daughter watches the punishment, she feels guilty, and confesses her misdeed. (imdb)

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The Lure of the Gown (1909)

Summary: Enrico, a poor street singer, forsakes his sweetheart, Veronica, when he meets a fashionably-dressed young woman. A rich couple takes pity on the shabbily-dressed Veronica, and buys her a new gown. At a dance, Enrico sees Veronica in her new dress and tries to win her back. (imdb)

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A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)

Summary: The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap. (imdb)

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The Gibson Goddess (1909)

Summary: A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limbs appear misshapen. All but one of the men is driven off, and regret it when she removes the misleading leggings. (imdb)

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What Drink Did (1909)

Summary: A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for a refreshing malt beverage, then to have another and another.... (imdb)

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The Little Darling (1909)

Summary: Lillie runs a boarding house full of young bachelors. A friend writes to say she's sending her little darling daughter for a visit. The bachelors all buy toys for a little girl, but an attractive young woman gets off the train instead. (imdb)

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The Heart of an Outlaw (1909)

Summary: A man gets revenge on his cheating wife by killing her and her lover. He thinks he has killed his daughter as well, but she survives and is adopted by the sheriff. A few years later the man, now an outlaw, ambushes the sheriff and plans to kidnap and murder the sheriff's daughter. (imdb)

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The Hessian Renegades (1909)

Summary: During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers. He takes refuge with a civilian family, but is soon detected. The family and their neighbors must then make plans to see that the important message gets through after all. (imdb)

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Nursing a Viper (1909)

Summary: During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguising him as a servant, but he soon forces his attentions on the wife. Hearing their struggle, the husband intervenes and, stripping the aristocrat of his disguise, thrusts him outdoors to be killed by the mob. (imdb)

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The Mended Lute (1909)

Summary: Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape. (imdb)

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The Lonely Villa (1909)

Summary: A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home. (imdb)

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A Corner in Wheat (1909)

Summary: A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. The film continues to contrast the ironic differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit. (imdb)

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Those Awful Hats (1909)

Summary: A gentleman with a top hat, and a series of women with ever more ludicrous hats enter a movie theatre. They refuse to remove them, until a giant bucket forcibly removes one hat. All but one woman then remove their hats, and the bucket returns to remove the woman. (imdb)

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The Sealed Room (1909)

Summary: In this movie suggested by Poe's "A Cask of Amontillado", The king constructs a cozy, windowless love-nest for himself and his concubine. However, she is not faithful to her sovereign, but consorts with the court troubadour. In fact, they use the king's new play chamber for their own lovecraft. When the king discovers this, he sends for his masons. With the faithless duo still inside, the masons use stone and mortar to quietly seal the only door to the vault... (imdb)

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Lady Helen's Escapade (1909)

Summary: A bored Lady Helen goes slumming as a domestic in a boarding house. There she falls in love with a sensitive young musician. The other women in the house are jealous, and accuse her of trying to steal the musician's violin. (imdb)

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Those Boys! (1909)

Summary: Two boys find a pistol their father has hidden. While they're playing with it, they line up a target, not realizing their sisters are on the other side of the door. The parents realize the gun is missing and avert the disaster. (imdb)

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The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)

Summary: A young man becomes infatuated with Mrs. Francis after she sings at a party. His father convinces her to discourage the young man's attentions. Out of despair, the young man considers suicide, until he meets a woman his own age. (imdb)

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The Prussian Spy (1909)

Summary: Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy. (imdb)

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At the Altar (1909)

Summary: A rejected suitor sets a trap that will kill a bridal couple at the altar, then he kills himself. Before he dies, he writes out a confession of what he planned. His confession is discovered in time, and a policeman races to the church to prevent disaster. (imdb)

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His Wife's Mother (1909)

Summary: Jones's mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk. (imdb)

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A Fool's Revenge (1909)

Summary: A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and, disguised in the Duke's cloak, sacrifices her life to save him. (imdb)

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The Wooden Leg (1909)

Summary: A father wants to marry his daughter to a rich man, but she's in love with someone else. She borrows a tramp's wooden leg, pretending that it's hers, and the disgusted suitor rejects her. (imdb)

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The Golden Louis (1909)

Summary: An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune, but he can't find her again to repay her. (imdb)

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The Politician's Love Story (1909)

Summary: A corrupt politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in wooing her. (imdb)

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The Girls and Daddy (1909)

Summary: Portrays two teenage girls who are safeguarding money for their father and their reaction to a burglar's attempt to steal it. (imdb)

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The Cord of Life (1909)

Summary: After being refused a loan by a friend, an angry Antonine vows revenge. Finding his friend's child at home alone, he ties the child to a rope suspended precariously over a five-story drop. Then he follows his friend and tries to stab him. When caught, he boasts about the child in danger, giving the father enough time to rush home and affect a rescue. (imdb)

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The Brahma Diamond (1909)

Summary: An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and imprisoned, while he prepares to sell the diamond and make his getaway. (imdb)

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The Curtain Pole (1909)

Summary: An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced. (imdb)

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His Ward's Love (1909)

Summary: Reverend Howson loves his young ward, but urges her to marry someone else. She accepts the proposal, but then sees the Reverend kissing an object she has dropped, and realizes he loves her. (imdb)

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Resurrection (1909)

Summary: Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process. (imdb)

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The Eavesdropper (1909)

Summary: Hidalgo offers his daughter's hand in marriage when he can't repay a loan to Manuella. But when Manuella overhears the daughter bidding farewell to her lover, he is so moved by their devotion that he cancels the debt. (imdb)

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Getting Even (1909)

Summary: All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all the men flirt with him and abandon Lucy. When his disguise is revealed, the other men are too embarrassed to approach Lucy, and Bud dances the rest of the night with her. (imdb)

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The Children's Friend (1909)

Summary: Three little girls fall into a sand pit and can't get out. One of them ties a note around her pet pigeon's neck and releases it. The pigeon flies home, alerting the parents to where the girls are trapped. (imdb)

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The Broken Locket (1909)

Summary: Before George goes out west to earn his fortune, he and Ruth each take half of a broken locket as a pledge of their love. Out west, George becomes a drunk, and is seduced by a girl who writes to Ruth, telling her that George is dead. In shock, Ruth becomes feverish and loses her sight. Later, when George returns a broken-down drunk, Ruth can't see what a sad mess he's become, and is joyous at his return. (imdb)

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In Old Kentucky (1909)

Summary: Brothers George and Robert enlist on opposite sides in the Civil War. Robert is captured as a spy for the South, but escapes and hides in his parents' house. George leads the search party, but doesn't reveal his brother's hiding place, and Robert escapes. After the war, George is a hero and Robert is down on his luck. George cautiously welcomes him back into the family home. (imdb)

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Leather Stocking (1909)

Summary: A short version of James Fenimore Cooper's famous tale about Natty Bumppo, or "Hawkeye," and his exploits during the French and Indian war. (imdb)

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A Fair Exchange (1909)

Summary: Silas Marner takes care of a dying friend while William Dane steals the dying man's money and leaves evidence to incriminate Silas. Found guilty of the crime, Silas restores the money out of his own savings, but is shunned by the townsfolk. Years later he is a bitter miser, but regains his good heart with a help of a homeless child. (imdb)

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Two Memories (1909)

Summary: A dying man sends a note to his lost love, asking her to visit him. As a lark she does, but brings along some drunken party guests. They find him dead, and she repents her lightheartedness. (imdb)

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Pranks (1909)

Summary: Tom and Ethel separately decide to go bathing in a river. Pranksters switch their clothes and they each have to dress up as the opposite sex. (imdb)

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The Indian Runner's Romance (1909)

Summary: An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys tries to get the information and go as far as kidnapping the Indian's wife. (imdb)

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His Wife's Visitor (1909)

Summary: Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone. (imdb)

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The Seventh Day (1909)

Summary: A neglectful woman wants custody of her children in her divorce. The judge rules that he will give her the children only if she can demonstrate her children's love for her within a week. (imdb)

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Oh, Uncle! (1909)

Summary: Harry's rich old bachelor uncle thinks Harry is still single. When Uncle announces a visit, Harry's wife has to play the part of the housekeeper so Uncle doesn't discover the truth. (imdb)

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The Mills of the Gods (1909)

Summary: A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work. (imdb)

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Wanted, a Child (1909)

Summary: A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when forced to choose, the parents realize they can't part with any of their children. (imdb)

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The Awakening (1909)

Summary: A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can't get his wife's face out of his thoughts. (imdb)

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The Light That Came (1909)

Summary: A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored? (imdb)

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What's Your Hurry? (1909)

Summary: Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry sees Papa walk in with a shotgun he misunderstands and departs in terror. Harry continues to encounter Papa everywhere and runs away, baffling the old man. At last Papa hauls Harry back home for an explanation and a reunion with Mary. (imdb)

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Two Women and a Man (1909)

Summary: A man strikes it big on the stock market and abandons his wife for a singer. Later his stocks collapse and his new wife refuses to pawn her jewels to help him. (imdb)

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A Sweet Revenge (1909)

Summary: After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots her old lover's glove left behind, she has a change of heart and repents. (imdb)

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A Midnight Adventure (1909)

Summary: Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph. The young woman catches him and has him arrested, but he is released when a family friend bribes the police. Mercedes eventually returns the stolen photograph only to find her boyfriend in the other woman's arms. (imdb)

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Lines of White on a Sullen Sea (1909)

Summary: Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a different port. Emily waits faithfully for six years, finally becoming dangerously ill. When Bill suddenly appears in town with his family, Joe, who has loved Emily all along, forces Bill to make Emily's final moments happy by pretending he has returned to marry her. (imdb)

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In the Watches of the Night (1909)

Summary: An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested. One of the police officers is an old friend and accompanies Whitney home to allow a farewell with his wife. Humiliated, Whitney decides to kill himself and his family. The rich man learns of his desperate situation and arrives in time to save the family and drops the charges. (imdb)

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Fools of Fate (1909)

Summary: On a lake in the woods, a man's boat suddenly capsizes. He nearly drowns, but another man camping nearby sees him and rescues him. After they part, the rescuer meets the first man's wife and, not knowing who she is, he befriends her and begins to spend time with her. It is not long before a tense and very uncomfortable situation develops. (imdb)

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Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience (1909)

Summary: Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by. (imdb)

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A Change of Heart (1909)

Summary: Howard uses a friend as a fake minister to dupe a simple country girl into a phony marriage. Eventually the girl learns the truth and flees back to her father's house. Howard realizes the error of his ways and catches up to her, then they go to her father's house together with a real minister. (imdb)

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His Lost Love (1909)

Summary: Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary and leaves her newborn daughter motherless. Luke offers to raise the daughter. Years later James returns and tries to convince his daughter to leave Luke, the only father she's ever known, and come with him. (imdb)

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The Expiation (1909)

Summary: William is drawn to Edward's wife, Helen. Sensing his feelings might lead him into an affair, he decides to go away. As he says goodbye to Helen, Edward spies from behind a curtain. Soon afterwards Edward shoots himself, believing Helen can be happier with William. When William returns to convince Helen to become his wife, she refuses, blaming herself for Edward's suicide. (imdb)

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Mrs. Jones' Lover; or, 'I Want My Hat' (1909)

Summary: Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the parlor. (imdb)

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Comata, the Sioux (1909)

Summary: Comata loves Clear Eyes, but she is seduced by a cowboy and goes to live with him, eventually having his baby. Comata discovers the cowboy courting Nellie, a white woman. He brings the baby to Nellie as proof of the cowboy's perfidy. At first the cowboy denies everything, but once brought together with Clear Eyes and the child, he admits it all, and loses both women. (imdb)

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His Duty (1909)

Summary: A policeman faces a difficult decision when he finds out that his brother is a thief. (imdb)

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Eradicating Aunty (1909)

Summary: A young couple must endure a tedious visit from their aunt until their friend offers to find a way to make her leave. (imdb)

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With Her Card (1909)

Summary: Adele is in love with a rich Wall Street trader, but he treats her indifferently. With the help of another suitor, she plots to ruin him financially. (imdb)

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The Cricket on the Hearth (1909)

Summary: After three years at sea, Edward returns home to find his sweetheart forced into an engagement with a much older man. (imdb)

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The Way of Man (1909)

Summary: A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another. (imdb)

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The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909)

Summary: A contest is being held in Cremona for the best violin, with Giannina's hand in marriage as the prize. Filippo is secretly in love with her, but is also ashamed of being a cripple, so he switches his superior violin with that of another apprentice, Sandro, whom Giannina loves. (imdb)

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The Mexican Sweethearts (1909)

Summary: A Mexican spitfire romances an American soldier to make her Mexican lover jealous. When the lover is about to kill his rival, she convinces him it was all a joke and the two reconcile. (imdb)

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The Peachbasket Hat (1909)

Summary: Mrs. Jones leaves her baby with the maid and goes shopping for a new hat. Meanwhile, the maid invites a band of gypsies into the house for a palm reading. After the gypsies leave, no one can find the baby, and everyone assumes it's been kidnapped, until the baby is found under a hatbox. (imdb)

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The Son's Return (1909)

Summary: A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing his fat wallet, plan to rob him. (imdb)

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A New Trick (1909)

Summary: To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher. (imdb)

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The Faded Lilies (1909)

Summary: A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind. (imdb)

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Her First Biscuits (1909)

Summary: A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs a theatrical booking agency), plus the workmen at home, are ill; when she shows up at the office, they all go after her. (imdb)

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Was Justice Served? (1909)

Summary: An ex-con is accused of stealing a wallet, but the real thief happens to be on the jury and refuses to vote for a guilty verdict. (imdb)

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The Necklace (1909)

Summary: Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs. Kendrick goes into debt to duplicate it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but Mrs. Kendrick never learns the truth, and struggles for years to pay off the huge debt. (imdb)

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Eloping with Auntie (1909)

Summary: A girl is being shipped off to Europe with her aunt to break up her romance. Her suitor dresses himself as the aunt and manages to fool everyone long enough for them to elope. (imdb)

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A Convict's Sacrifice (1909)

Summary: Thanks to a friend, an ex-convict gets a job. He accidentally kills another worker and goes to prison. Later he escapes, but turns himself in so his friend can claim the reward. (imdb)

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Jealousy and the Man (1909)

Summary: House painter Jim Brooks thinks his wife is cheating on him with his best friend John West. The intrigue is in fact a birthday surprise. (imdb)

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Sweet and Twenty (1909)

Summary: Alice misunderstands when she sees her sweetheart kissing her sister. Despondent, he tries to drown himself, but Alice wants to make up and coaxes him out of his gloom. (imdb)

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The Slave (1909)

Summary: A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food. (imdb)

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A Strange Meeting (1909)

Summary: Mary is coerced into helping with a burglary of a minister's apartment. Later she repents and goes to the minister's storefront mission to help. (imdb)

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The Better Way (1909)

Summary: Elizabeth is in love with a young man, but she is pressured by her mother to marry a wealthy but kind older man. After the marriage, her suitor still pursues her. Her husband finds them together and gives them his blessing. Soon Elizabeth learns her lover is not the man she thought he was and longs for her kindly older husband. (imdb)

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Mr. Jones' Burglar (1909)

Summary: Mr. Jones stays out late playing poker with his buddies. While he's gone, a burglar starts to break into his home. Mr. Jones arrives home just in time to catch him. Instead of calling for the police, he restages the capture in an overdramatic fashion and makes sure his wife sees it. She is so grateful she forgets to be mad at him for staying out so late. (imdb)

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They Would Elope (1909)

Summary: Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when they return home. (imdb)

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The Message (1909)

Summary: Effie marries an honest farmer, rejecting a suitor from the city. Years later he returns and tries to persuade her to run away with him. (imdb)

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The Renunciation (1909)

Summary: Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city. (imdb)

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The Friend of the Family (1909)

Summary: Robert is about to abandon his family for a society beauty. His best friend romances the beauty, who then drops Robert and sends him back to his family. (imdb)

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Tender Hearts (1909)

Summary: A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him. (imdb)

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The Cardinal's Conspiracy (1909)

Summary: A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to stage an attack on the princess which he easily repels. It works; the princess falls for him, especially when the cardinal arranges his arrest. (imdb)

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The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)

Summary: At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead, the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken to jail. There, he has a nightmare. (imdb)

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At the French Ball (1908)

Summary: A husband finishes packing a suitcase, and then says good-bye to his wife. As soon as he is gone, the wife has her maid help her to dress for a costume ball... (imdb)

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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)

Summary: A family is terrified when an eagle carries off its young child. (imdb)

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Father Gets in the Game (1908)

Summary: D.W. Griffith film about an elderly father who grows tired of seeing his son bring home beautiful women so he gets a makeover and heads out on the prowl. (imdb)

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At the Crossroads of Life (1908)

Summary: At the Crossroads of Life is a typically Victorian-style melodrama in which a girl's wishes to be an actress are condemned by her stern father, a man of the cloth who has no time for those in the acting profession. (imdb)

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The Adventures of Dollie (1908)

Summary: On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing. A gypsy basket peddler happens along, and is angered when the mother refuses to buy his wares. He attacks mother and daughter but is driven off by the father. Later the gypsy sneaks back and kidnaps the girl. (www.imdb.com)

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Balked at the Altar (1908)

Summary: A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made. But just as the wedding ceremony is about to begin, the man decides to make a last desperate attempt to get out of it. (imdb)

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Romance of a Jewess (1908)

Summary: This early D.W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family. (imdb)

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The Taming of the Shrew (1908)

Summary: Based on Shakespeare's play: Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior. (imdb)

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The Clubman and the Tramp (1908)

Summary: A tramp tricks a cook into leaving her wealthy employer's house. While the clubman's house is empty the tramp makes himself at home, starting by helping himself to a good meal, then going upstairs for a bath and a new set of clothes. Attired in the clubman's clothes, the tramp walks around town, where he is continually mistakes for the clubman. (imdb)

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An Awful Moment (1908)

Summary: As a judge passes sentence on a man, a gypsy woman in the audience vehemently protests, and she has to be physically removed from the courtroom. Soon afterwards, the judge returns home, and enjoys some time with his wife and child. But all the while, the gypsy woman is watching him closely, and is plotting a cruel revenge. (imdb)

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Where the Breakers Roar (1908)

Summary: An early Biograph short in which two separate sequences of events collide and the leading man must save his lady from the villain. The first storyline involves a group of young adult beach-goers, particularly focusing on one couple in love. The other storyline involves a criminal who escapes from two policemen. The con eventually makes his way to the beach where the other group is frolicking. He takes the leading lady hostage out in a rowboat, and it is up to her man to save her. (imdb)

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Behind the Scenes (1908)

Summary: A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but it is too late. (imdb)

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The Black Viper (1908)

Summary: A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This time they succeed in kidnapping the rescuer. The girl runs home and gets help from several neighbors. They track the ruffians down to a cabin in the mountains where the gang has trapped their victim and set the cabin on fire. (imdb)

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Deceived Slumming Party (1908)

Summary: Several scenes of tours being conducted in New York. At the end of each scene it becomes obvious that the events of the tours have been set up to shock and defraud the tourists. (imdb)

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A Calamitous Elopement (1908)

Summary: A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are leaving, a thief discovers their plans, and he decides to turn the situation to his own advantage. (imdb)

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The Fight for Freedom (1908)

Summary: In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot dead by Pedro, who is wounded as he attempts to escape. Pedro is followed home by the local sheriff, who proves the next victim of Pedro's quick temper and pistol. Pedro's wife, Juanita, is thrown into jail, but he manages to break her out. They head for the border, unaware that a posse is waiting for them. (imdb)

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