John thaw

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poster Stop Thief!
Stop Thief!
2mn - Crime, Comedy
A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, joined by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy
5mn - Animation, Comedy
Two cavemen, The Duke and Stonejaw Steve, call on Miss Araminta Rockface. The hated rivals fight, and Steve wins when he throws The Duke into a pot of boiling water. A title card introduces a third rival,…
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 Man from Beyond
The Man from Beyond
(2.7/5)
74mn - Mystery, Drama, Adventure
The Arctic, 1922. After being buried under the ice for a hundred years, Howard Hillary is thawed and revived. When he meets Felice Strange, he recognizes in her the same woman he once loved deeply. But is…
poster Everyman's War
Everyman's War
(2.6/5)
104mn - Drama, War
No one in high command believed that German forces would attack in the sub zero temperatures and near blizzard conditions. As the pre-dawn attack comes, with communications down Sgt. Smith is left with no…
poster The Call of the North
The Call of the North
(2.9/5)
49mn - Adventure, Drama
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse".
poster The Frozen North
The Frozen North
17mn - Comedy, Western
This satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, "last stop on the subway." He uses a wanted poster as his partner in robbing a gambling house. When he think…
poster Sherlock Holmes Baffled
Sherlock Holmes Baffled
1mn - Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears.
poster The Thieving Hand
The Thieving Hand
6mn - Comedy
A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', wh…
poster The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(2.9/5)
65mn - Mystery, Crime
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holme…
poster Wandering Papas
Wandering Papas
20mn - Comedy
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into cont…
poster Joshua
Joshua
83mn - Drama, Thriller, Western
A black Union soldier returns from the Civil War to discover his mother brutally murdered by white outlaws. Fueled by vengeance, Joshua transforms into a relentless bounty hunter, tracking his enemies acr…
poster The Doctor's Secret
The Doctor's Secret
10mn - Fantasy
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
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 Mr. Toots' Tooth
Mr. Toots' Tooth
6mn - Comedy
A short silent film in which Mr. Toots miraculously loses his tooth. Mister Toots tries everything to cure his toothache. He eventually succeeds with a string and a book. Furious with the staff, he throws…
poster Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
(3.7/5)
Nonemn - Western, Drama
In the untamed wilderness of 1750s America, fearless frontiersman Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican blood brother Chingachgook navigate the treacherous frontier during the French and Indian War. Together they…
poster Bulldog Courage
Bulldog Courage
60mn - Western
When miner Slim Braddock is swindled out of his valuable mine by corrupt banker Williams, he becomes "The Phantom," a Robin Hood-like outlaw who robs stagecoaches carrying Williams' ill-gotten gains. Afte…
poster The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild
16mn - Comedy
George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by L…
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