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poster A Film Johnnie

A Film Johnnie

The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.

poster The Eternal Mother

The Eternal Mother

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 h…

poster Salomy Jane

Salomy Jane

88mn - Romance, Western

When beautiful Salomy Jane resists the romantic advances of a young ruffian, she is rescued by Jack Dart, who has his own additional reasons for tangling with the man. Jack fights the ruffian and kills hi…

poster Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

117mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby…

poster Uncle Josh's Nightmare

Uncle Josh's Nightmare

2mn - Fantasy, Comedy, Horror

Poor Uncle Josh is trying to get to sleep, but being constantly bedevilled by a fellow in red long underwear with horns. A short early trick editing film using a stationary camera much more valuable for i…

poster Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

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.

poster Jack the Chimney Sweep

Jack the Chimney Sweep

Jack is taken on a sea-snail to the lair of a fairy, who magically turns him into a prince. He thoroughly enjoys the dancing and fawning of the court. Then he wakes up, and it turns out that he's an ordin…

poster Buncoed Stage Johnnie

Buncoed Stage Johnnie

This Georges Melies film is one of several to appear in only a fragment form. The film opens up with a title card explaining what happens in the missing parts of the movie. Basically a man wants to give s…

poster Divine Access

Divine Access

113mn - Drama, Comedy

Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question…

poster Don Juan

Don Juan

112mn - Adventure, Romance

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isob…

poster Jack the Giant Killer

Jack the Giant Killer

7mn - Animation

Jack is trying to impress Susie with his ambition to visit the Land of the Giants. She watches as he demonstrates the strength with which he will conquer the giant. Then we see the cat and dog loading up …

poster Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on…

poster An Expensive Visit

An Expensive Visit

At college, Jack is spending his dad's money and not studying. When dad comes for a visit, Jack gets one of his friends to dress as a woman and flirt with his father. Another friend pretends to be the jea…

poster A Jazzed Honeymoon

A Jazzed Honeymoon

9mn - Romance, Comedy

This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker.

poster Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill

90mn - Horror, Drama

A horror retelling of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill. A group of friends grieving a recent loss meet up with one another only to discover they are being hunted by Jack and Jill.

poster Home, Sweet Home

Home, Sweet Home

55mn - Drama, Fantasy

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…

poster Captain Jinks, the Cobbler

Captain Jinks, the Cobbler

Captain Jinks, the Cobbler was one of two Jinks comedies released by Vitagraph for Christmas 1916 and, according to the U.S. copyright filing, was loosely based on the true story of celebrated conman Frie…

poster The One-Man Band

The One-Man Band

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal p…

J-U-N-K

A Hank Mann slapstick comedy where he plays a Junk Dealer's Helper.

poster Love Never Dies

Love Never Dies

John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves …

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