Marginal calls

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poster The Greater Call
The Greater Call
10mn -
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…
poster Clancy in Wall Street
Clancy in Wall Street
0mn - Comedy
Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebe…
poster Leonard-Cushing Fight
Leonard-Cushing Fight
1mn - Documentary
In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in whit…
poster The Planters
The Planters
(3.2/5)
78mn - Comedy
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple per…
poster Good Glue Sticks
Good Glue Sticks
5mn - Comedy
A peddler of "the best glue" sets up his outdoor stall. A crowd gathers for a demonstration. As he gives his pitch, two observant cops decide drive off his customers and close him down, much to his fury. …
poster Bumping Into Broadway
Bumping Into Broadway
25mn - Comedy
A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just bef…
poster The Proposition
The Proposition
0mn - Romance, Drama, Adventure
In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
poster La ribalta
La ribalta
5mn -
A woman and a mistress fight.
poster My Name Is Mallory... M Means Death
My Name Is Mallory... M Means Death
90mn - Action, Romance, Western
A half-breed gunfighter and a vengeful ex-Confederate Colonel fight to protect their newly purchased ranch from the murderous previous owner and his gang, but complications arise when the gunfighter falls…
poster Glass Half
Glass Half
(3.5/5)
3mn -
Two amateur art critics meet in a gallery and argue passionately about the pieces they see, until finally they find a piece on which they can agree...
poster The Price She Paid
The Price She Paid
61mn - Drama, Romance
Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemue…
poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino courtier en paratonnerres
5mn -
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.
poster Dangerous Afternoon
Dangerous Afternoon
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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 Hit and Run
Hit and Run
(2.8/5)
0mn - Thriller
Still grieving his young wife's death in a hit-and-run accident, Manhattan cab-driver David Marks accepts a regular evening assignment to drive a beautiful but enigmatic woman to a mansion outside New Yor…
poster Run 'Em Ragged
Run 'Em Ragged
14mn - Comedy
Run ’Em Ragged, Snub Pollard’s 39th starring vehicle, uses familiar slapstick-- Over-the-top make-up, ethnic humor, and a chase across Los Angeles’s Echo Park-- But there is more here than knockabout; Sop…
poster Crazy to Act
Crazy to Act
25mn -
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts,…
poster Cohen’s Fire Sale
Cohen’s Fire Sale
13mn - Comedy, Crime
A shopkeeper suffers the loss of some valuable merchandise, and thinks of a way to regain his losses.
poster The Midnight Limited
The Midnight Limited
(2.7/5)
0mn - Action, Adventure, Mystery
poster Men O' War
Men O' War
(3.6/5)
19mn - Comedy
Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are short on cash. Luckily Stan wins the jackpot on a slot machine and the boys have enough money to rent a bo…
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