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poster How Jones Lost His Roll

How Jones Lost His Roll

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 A Lucky Strike

A Lucky Strike

Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they ha…

poster Miss Lulu Bett

Miss Lulu Bett

71mn - Comedy, Drama

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Th…

poster Rustlers on Horseback

Rustlers on Horseback

U.S. Marshal Rocky Lane goes undercover to infiltrate a ruthless gang led by a seemingly harmless book salesman planning a massive land swindle, but his mission becomes complicated when another vigilante …

poster Patterns

Patterns

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…

Perfect Profile

Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…

poster A Corner in Wheat

A Corner in Wheat

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the …

poster A Window on Washington Park

A Window on Washington Park

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 The Laird of McGillicuddy

The Laird of McGillicuddy

Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her engagement to Charles. Out of revenge, Charles and his friends turn Kees the milkman into a Scottish lord,…

poster Among Those Present

Among Those Present

An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.

poster Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit

87mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with…

poster What Drink Did

What Drink Did

A man leaves his wife and two daughters for work in a carpentry shop. At work, he initially refuses a beer with lunch, then gives in. After work, two friends take a little while to convince him to go for …

poster Another Job for the Undertaker

Another Job for the Undertaker

1mn - Fantasy, Comedy

Shows a bedroom in a hotel. On the wall of the room is a conspicuous sign "Don't blow out the gas." A hayseed enters the room, accompanied by a bellboy. The boy deposits the Rube's bag and umbrella, turns…

poster The Ragtime Band

The Ragtime Band

Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.

poster The Roaring Road

The Roaring Road

58mn - Drama, Comedy

"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his dau…

poster Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Sand

Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of bandits preyin…

poster The Fighting Coward

The Fighting Coward

Southerner Tom Rumford was sent up north to be raised by relatives who happen to be Quakers. As a result, he returns home a passive, peace-loving young man, completely out of place in an area where men ki…

poster Wild and Woolly

Wild and Woolly

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 The Cowboy Millionaire

The Cowboy Millionaire

Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bro…

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