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poster The Renunciation

The Renunciation

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.

poster Their Purple Moment

Their Purple Moment

The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupons for Stan's secret stash of mad money. The boys run up a huge tab treating a couple of girls to dinner …

poster His Musical Career

His Musical Career

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St.

poster Some Shimmiers

Some Shimmiers

The night that Eddie's girl announces her engagement to her friends she plans a slumming party, which does not meet with Eddie's approval but the others are so in favor of it he is compelled to go.

poster The Gay Shoe Clerk

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1mn - Comedy, Romance

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

poster The Last Fling

The Last Fling

95mn - Comedy, Romance, Short

A young woman decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiancé.

poster The American Side

The American Side

103mn - Mystery, Drama, Thriller

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

poster Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives

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.

Carmen

Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jeal…

poster The Mite Makes Right

The Mite Makes Right

7mn - Animation

One of several animated short versions of "Tom Thumb"

poster A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

A Husband, a Wife and a Lover

95mn - Drama, Short

When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.

poster Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

67mn - Drama, Romance

Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a r…

poster The Dream

The Dream

A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsi…

poster The Greater Call

The Greater Call

Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penn…

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