J. Searle Dawley

J. Searle Dawley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Searle Dawley was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Players, Fox, and other studios, he directed more than 300 short films and 56 features, which include many of the early releases of stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Pearl White, Marguerite Clark, Harold Lloyd, and John Barrymore. He also wrote scenarios for many of his productions, including one for his 1910 horror film Frankenstein, the earliest known screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. While film direction and screenwriting comprised the bulk of Dawley's career, he also had earlier working experience in theater, performing on stage for more than a decade and managing every aspect of stagecraft. Dawley wrote at least 18 plays as well for repertory companies and for several Broadway productions.

  • Title: J. Searle Dawley
  • Popularity: 0.82
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1877-10-04
  • Place of Birth: Del Norte, Colorado, USA
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  • Also Known As: James Searle Dawley, J.S. Dawley, Дж. Сирл Доули
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  • 1910
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    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6 1910 HD

    Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

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  • 1910
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    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    6 1910 HD

    Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done,...

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  • 1917
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    Bab's Diary

    Bab's Diary

    1 1917 HD

    Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named...

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  • 1913
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    Bill's Sweetheart

    Bill's Sweetheart

    1 1913 HD

    Bill, who is with a bunch of cowboys on their way to town, picks up from the wreckage of a prairie schooner a little baby girl. Five years later the...

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  • 1990
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    Edison's Frankenstein

    Edison's Frankenstein

    1 1990 HD

    Thoroughly researched remake of the first screen version of Mary Shelley's story. Blending visual nightmare & Gothic romance, it tells this much...

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  • 1913
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    In A Japanese Tea Garden

    In A Japanese Tea Garden

    1 1913 HD

    Looking for love in the tea garden

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  • 1916
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    The Rainbow Princess

    The Rainbow Princess

    1 1916 HD

    Hope has an act in a traveling circus where she is "the rainbow princess" and performs a Hula dance. The owner of the circus pawns the girl off on...

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  • 1910
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.2 1910 HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

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  • 1913
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    Hulda of Holland

    Hulda of Holland

    1 1913 HD

    A Dutch romance. Hulda and Heintz are bashful, giggling lovers, hut their spooning opportunities are few, as well as being forbidden. One day they...

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  • 1914
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    A Good Little Devil

    A Good Little Devil

    1 1914 HD

    A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

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  • 1916
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    Snow White

    Snow White

    6.1 1916 HD

    Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarfs in the woods, Snow White overcomes the...

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  • 1911
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    A Modern Cinderella

    A Modern Cinderella

    4 1911 HD

    This 20th-century retelling of the classic fairy tale keeps all the familiar elements — a selfish step-sister, a put-upon beauty, a Prince...

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  • 1917
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    Conscience

    Conscience

    1 1917 HD

    Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish...

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  • 1918
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    The Lie

    The Lie

    1 1918 HD

    Elinor Shale's happiness at being engaged to Gerald Forster is interrupted by the arrival of her sister Lucy, who confesses that she will soon give...

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  • 1907
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    The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love

    The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love

    4.7 1907 HD

    Jack and the daughter of a horse trainer are in love with each other, but when the trainer discovers them together, he makes it clear that Jack is...

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  • 1907
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    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

    A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus

    6.5 1907 HD

    A generous boy tries to help a girl who does not believe in Santa Claus because of her family's poverty.

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  • 1908
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    A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

    A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

    5.3 1908 HD

    An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

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  • 1908
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    Cupid’s Pranks

    Cupid’s Pranks

    4 1908 HD

    After receiving a scolding for falling asleep on the job, Cupid is sent out in search of potential lovers to unite. While flying over a city, he...

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  • 1908
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    Fireside Reminiscences

    Fireside Reminiscences

    3.5 1908 HD

    A broken-hearted husband thinks about the past as he sits by the fireplace.

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  • 1913
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    The Old Monk's Tale

    The Old Monk's Tale

    1 1913 HD

    A monk tells a tale about a woman who can only surrender her heart to a man who can offer her jewels. A poor man falls in love with her and steals...

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  • 1911
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    Aida

    Aida

    1 1911 HD

    Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter...

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  • 1909
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    The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    1 1909 HD

    Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

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  • 1913
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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

    1 1913 HD

    A peasant girl sent to make a claim on her family's ancestral home in England's Wessex is seduced and left with child by its current owner.

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  • 1910
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    A Daughter of the Mines

    A Daughter of the Mines

    1 1910 HD

    A Romeo and Juliet story of the rivalry between two miners, one rich and one poor, whose son and daughter overcome their respective fathers'...

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  • 1908
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    Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

    Rescued from an Eagle's Nest

    5.6 1908 HD

    A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies...

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  • 1907
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    The Rivals

    The Rivals

    5.3 1907 HD

    Chollie and George compete for a young woman's affection, using trickery and sabotage.

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  • 1908
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    Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

    Tale the Autumn Leaves Told

    5 1908 HD

    A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.

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  • 1907
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    College Chums

    College Chums

    5.3 1907 HD

    While in a park, a young woman sees her fiancé being quite affectionate with another woman. When she calls him on the telephone to demand an...

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  • 1912
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    The Relief of Lucknow

    The Relief of Lucknow

    5 1912 HD

    The story of the siege and eventual relief of British soldiers garrisoned at Lucknow during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. Only a fragment of the...

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  • 1917
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    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    1 1917 HD

    In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.

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  • 1909
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    Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    5 1909 HD

    One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

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  • 1909
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    Hansel and Gretel

    Hansel and Gretel

    5 1909 HD

    One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

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  • 1917
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    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    The Mysterious Miss Terry

    1 1917 HD

    In her first Paramount film, Billie Burke plays Helen Wentworth, an heiress who's bored with the high life and decides to enjoy a bit of the low life.

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  • 1918
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    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    1 1918 HD

    Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the...

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  • 1918
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    Rich Man, Poor Man

    Rich Man, Poor Man

    1 1918 HD

    Born and raised in poverty, Marguerite Clark has learned to expect very little out of life and thus is rather surprised to learn that she is the...

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  • 1912
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    4 1912 HD

    Silent film drama of the famous incident..

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  • 1923
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    Broadway Broke

    Broadway Broke

    1 1923 HD

    Nellie Wayne, a retired Broadway actress, has a small dog named "Chum", who is part of a vaudeville act and is the sole support of the family.

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  • 1910
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    The Song That Reached His Heart

    The Song That Reached His Heart

    5.2 1910 HD

    A Story of the Lumber Regions of Western Canada: a lumberjack remember his past while he listens to a record of the song his fiancée used to...

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  • 1909
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    The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    1 1909 HD

    Directed by J. Searle Dawley.

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  • 1913
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    A Lady of Quality

    A Lady of Quality

    1 1913 HD

    News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of...

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  • 1913
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    A Lady of Quality

    A Lady of Quality

    1 1913 HD

    News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of...

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  • 1917
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    Bab's Burglar

    Bab's Burglar

    1 1917 HD

    When Bab Archibald's father gives her $1,000 with the proviso that the gift will serve as her allowance for the year, our heroine proceeds to blow...

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  • 1914
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    The Lost Paradise

    The Lost Paradise

    1 1914 HD

    Unknown to Reuben Warren, the foreman of an ironworks, his invention, the volta-dynamo, was stolen years earlier by his employer, Knowlton, and is...

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  • 1914
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    Marta of the Lowlands

    Marta of the Lowlands

    1 1914 HD

    Sebastien, a landowner, shelters the orphan Marta in exchange for sexual favors. When, years later, Sebastien's fortunes ebb, he marries Muri, the...

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  • 1911
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    The Ransom of Red Chief

    The Ransom of Red Chief

    1 1911 HD

    After reading a newspaper article regarding old Tightwad's rise in the world, Bill and Jim hit upon a plan to get some of Tightwad's easy money by...

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  • 1911
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    A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers

    A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers

    6 1911 HD

    The story itself deals with the primitive instinct of mankind; to desire was to take at strength of arms, and thus one of the chiefs chose for his...

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  • 1915
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    Four Feathers

    Four Feathers

    1 1915 HD

    A British army officer refuses to avenge the death of a general who was murdered years earlier. He is awarded three feathers by his officers. When...

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  • 1913
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    Leah Kleschna

    Leah Kleschna

    1 1913 HD

    Leah Kleschna has been a thief all her life. However, an encounter with a man she intends to rob makes her question her life's course. The film is...

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  • 1912
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    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah

    Copper Mines at Bingham, Utah

    1 1912 HD

    Survives only incomplete, but it nicely evokes the lost mining West. The steep hillsides of Bingham Canyon were divided into ethnic enclaves, and in...

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  • 1910
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    An Unselfish Love

    An Unselfish Love

    5 1910 HD

    Unsuccessful in his suit for Mabel, John goes to farm in western Canada. Mabel's father convinces her that John has found another sweetheart, so...

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  • 1970
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    The Life of a Salmon

    The Life of a Salmon

    1 1970 HD

    We are first shown the picturesque canyon of Capilano, near Vancouver, B.C. As the camera descends the rocky cliffs, we pause for a moment to give...

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  • 1913
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    Dances of the Ages

    Dances of the Ages

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1913
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    In the Bishop's Carriage

    In the Bishop's Carriage

    1 1913 HD

    A lost film. A successful stage actress with a hidden past as a criminal is kept on the path of righteousness by a benefactor.

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  • 1919
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    When Men Desire

    When Men Desire

    1 1919 HD

    A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.

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  • 1913
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    Caprice

    Caprice

    1 1913 HD

    A lost film. A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears...

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  • 1912
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    Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jack and the Beanstalk

    1 1912 HD

    We see Jack and his mother very poor and the project of selling the cow discussed. Jack meets the familiar figure of the butcher who bargains with...

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  • 1907
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    Laughing Gas

    Laughing Gas

    5 1907 HD

    A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger...

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  • 1919
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    The Phantom Honeymoon

    The Phantom Honeymoon

    5 1919 HD

    Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle,...

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  • 1919
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    The Phantom Honeymoon

    The Phantom Honeymoon

    5 1919 HD

    Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle,...

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  • 1912
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    The Lord and the Peasant

    The Lord and the Peasant

    4 1912 HD

    In a peasant's cot we find a fair, young maiden who is loved by an honest, true-hearted peasant lad, while yonder stands the manor of Glenwood with...

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  • 1913
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    Chelsea 7750

    Chelsea 7750

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1913
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    Chelsea 7750

    Chelsea 7750

    1 1913 HD

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  • 1916
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    Silks and Satins

    Silks and Satins

    1 1916 HD

    On the eve of her wedding to a man she does not love, young Felicite (Marguerite Clark) stumbles upon a diary written by one of her ancestors.

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  • 1918
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    The Death Dance

    The Death Dance

    1 1918 HD

    Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man named Boresky. He falls in love with Flora...

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  • 1911
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    Who Gets the Order

    Who Gets the Order

    1 1911 HD

    Rival salesmen use every means of transportation to be the first to land that big order.

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  • 1910
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    Michael Strogoff

    Michael Strogoff

    6 1910 HD

    A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia

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  • 1910
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    Michael Strogoff

    Michael Strogoff

    6 1910 HD

    A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia

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  • 1914
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    An American Citizen

    An American Citizen

    1 1914 HD

    A young American broker at large in London.

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  • 1914
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    An American Citizen

    An American Citizen

    1 1914 HD

    A young American broker at large in London.

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