Samuel sweeney

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows samuel sweeney

poster A Fool and His Money

A Fool and His Money

Sam the white-washer pines for the affluent Lindy, but she has dumped him in favor of another. Sam finds a large sum of money, and goes to New York to enjoy a shopping spree, buying new clothes, jewelry a…

poster Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

Fulta Fisher's Boarding House

12mn - Comedy, Drama

Fulta Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the "property" of S…

Sounder

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

poster Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

62mn - Comedy, Adventure, Family

Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Hu…

poster Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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 A Lover in Pawn

A Lover in Pawn

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

poster A Sailor-Made Man

A Sailor-Made Man

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

poster An Unseen Enemy

An Unseen Enemy

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…

poster Sideshow Wrestlers

Sideshow Wrestlers

8mn - Drama, Comedy

A man gets cajoled into working as a sideshow wrestler.

poster Smith's Uncle

Smith's Uncle

Here it's Andy Clyde in a long beard as Raymond McKee's rich uncle Dan. He quickly becomes entangled with Carmelita Geraghty, the vamp next door, and her conniving brother Bud Jamison.

Salomé

Based on Oscar Wilde's version of the story, what is noteworthy is the sheer luxury of the production, an attempt to capture the wild and weird Aubrey Beardsley illustrations that transfigure the work. Th…

Suds

75mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that…

poster The Soul of Youth

The Soul of Youth

Ed Simpson has been raised in an orphanage where he has caused much trouble. He can't stand living there anymore and runs away. On the streets, he finds a friend in newsboy Mike. Mike teaches him how to s…

poster The Yawner

The Yawner

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 Devil

The Devil

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

poster The Double Incarnation of William Sheep

The Double Incarnation of William Sheep

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 Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki-I.W.W. Rat

1mn - Animation

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.

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 Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost

6mn - Drama, Fantasy

Filmed in 35mm and in black and white, this short silent film was produced by the English film pioneer R. W. Paul, and directed by Walter R. Booth and was filmed at Paul's Animatograph Works. It was relea…

poster The Sawmill

The Sawmill

28mn - Comedy, Romance, Action

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

Related terms

See also