John elliott

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poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster The Double Incarnation of William Sheep
The Double Incarnation of William Sheep
(2.8/5)
15mn - Drama, Horror, Fantasy
A young gambler plays a game of chess against his creditor in order to clear his debts. Whilst playing he falls into a dream where he encounters a mysterious man who has the power to take his identity. Th…
poster Little Nemo
Little Nemo
12mn - Animation, Comedy
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Mov…
poster Eve's Love Letters
Eve's Love Letters
20mn - Comedy
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the com…
poster Quell and Co.
Quell and Co.
(3.0/5)
90mn - Western
In post-Civil War Texas, Quell and his band of justice-seeking homesteaders stand as the last line of defense against a ruthless land mogul who threatens to destroy their community. When bullets are cheap…
poster Cowboy and the Senorita
Cowboy and the Senorita
(2.9/5)
78mn - Western
When singing cowboy Roy Rogers discovers that scheming town boss Craig Allen is trying to swindle young Chip Williams out of her supposedly worthless inherited gold mine, he races against time to prove th…
poster The Crowd
The Crowd
(4.1/5)
98mn - Drama
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid th…
poster Wild and Woolly
Wild and Woolly
(3.2/5)
72mn - Comedy, Western
A rich Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone and it is an orderly and civilized place now. The to…
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 Black Gold
Black Gold
(2.7/5)
57mn - Action, Drama, Romance
Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson sets his sights on their territory. When longtime driller Dan O'Reilly fall…
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 Dickson Greeting
Dickson Greeting
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the first film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company to …
poster Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York
Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York
(3/5)
6mn - Animation
Farmer Al Falfa goes to New York, money bag in hand. He is immediately spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down. At a restaurant, she gets him drunk and lays him out with knocko…
poster Penn of Pennsylvania
Penn of Pennsylvania
(2.8/5)
78mn - History, Drama
A young English aristocrat abandons privilege and defies his father to join the persecuted Quakers, ultimately founding Pennsylvania as a revolutionary colony based on religious tolerance and peaceful coe…
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 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 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
(2.6/5)
19mn - Drama
Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe: Eliza, a slave who has a young child, pleads with Tom, another slave, to escape with her. Tom does not leave, but Eliza flees with her child. After getting som…
poster The Portrait of Captain Grogg
The Portrait of Captain Grogg
(3.3/5)
7mn - Animation
An artist receives the visit of Grogg, an animated captain, to draw his portrait
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 The Mechanical Cow
The Mechanical Cow
(3.1/5)
6mn - Comedy, Animation
Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing…
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