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poster How Jones Lost His Roll
How Jones Lost His Roll
8mn - Comedy
Jones is on his way home, carrying a roll of money, when he meets a neighbor who is a notorious miser. The neighbor unexpectedly invites Jones to dinner, and serves him a large meal with plenty of wine. A…
poster Meet John Doe
Meet John Doe
(5/5)
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 Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
9mn - Comedy
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 The Yawner
The Yawner
4mn - Comedy
A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…
poster A Clever Dummy
A Clever Dummy
19mn - Comedy
An inventor and his assistant build a robot that looks like their janitor, and everyone tries to profit off the invention.
poster The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
(3.3/5)
60mn - Drama
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confi…
poster Man's Genesis
Man's Genesis
17mn - Adventure, Drama, History
An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also be…
poster The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle
24mn - Crime, Drama
A lonely widower living in the Italian quarter of the city, whose only solace since the death of his wife is his little child, reluctantly becomes a member of a secret society existent among his countryme…
poster The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth
10mn - Comedy
A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wife (Helen Gilmore) who is sitting in the witness box, and claims she is this way due to her husband, who…
poster The Doll
The Doll
(3.7/5)
48mn - Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually th…
poster A Window on Washington Park
A Window on Washington Park
15mn - Drama
From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, he …
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 D.O.A.
D.O.A.
(3.6/5)
83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…
poster A Mormon Maid
A Mormon Maid
(2.9/5)
68mn - History, Drama
This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the…
poster Lonely Wives
Lonely Wives
(3.1/5)
85mn - Comedy
A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in mother-in-law tries to keep him in line. When an actor-impersonator comes to see him, the two switch lives.
poster Father Gets in the Game
Father Gets in the Game
10mn - Comedy
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.
poster Don Juan
Don Juan
(3.6/5)
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 The President
The President
(3.3/5)
71mn - Drama
By his father’s deathbed, a young man agrees to never marry below his station. Later, he falls in love with a lowly governess, impregnates her, and does not marry her. Many years later, as the President o…
poster Where Are My Children?
Where Are My Children?
(3.2/5)
62mn - Drama
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been h…
poster Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
Why Mrs. Jones Got a Divorce
1mn - Comedy
This scene opens by showing a pretty cook mixing bread in the kitchen. Jones comes in unexpectedly from a trip and carries a dress suitcase. He inquires for his wife and is told by the cook that she is ab…
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