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poster The Bargain Hunt
The Bargain Hunt
11mn - Comedy
The Smith Family goes for bargain hunt at a warehouse sale.
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 Little Match Seller
The Little Match Seller
3mn - Drama
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are vis…
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 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 Kleptomaniac
The Kleptomaniac
10mn - Crime
A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two sma…
poster For a Book of Dollars
For a Book of Dollars
80mn - Comedy, Western
A bounty hunter name Amen is hired by a group of nuns to recover stolen money. The nuns are female desperadoes in disguise, who want the booty pillaged by an outlaw named Catapult and his gang.
poster Thora van Deken
Thora van Deken
85mn - Drama
A divorced woman takes matters into her own hands and destroys her late ex-husband's will, to ensure that their daughter receives her rightful inheritance. Will her efforts be for naught? Based on "Lille …
poster Misty
Misty
(3.3/5)
91mn - Drama, Family
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Pha…
poster Beauty's Worth
Beauty's Worth
(3.2/5)
76mn - Drama
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…
poster Love Lessons
Love Lessons
(3.0/5)
97mn - Drama, Short
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
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 Blondie on a Budget
Blondie on a Budget
(3.3/5)
72mn - Comedy
Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for …
poster Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(3.4/5)
112mn - Drama
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.
poster Quicksand
Quicksand
(3.3/5)
79mn - Crime, Thriller
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeep…
poster Fluttering Hearts
Fluttering Hearts
23mn - Comedy
Defying her father's wishes, a young woman runs off to a sale at store. She's pursued by a policeman, but wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. In the mean time, her father tries to retri…
poster Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Comedy
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated …
poster The Little Tease
The Little Tease
25mn - Drama
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home. Bu…
poster Flirty Four-Flushers
Flirty Four-Flushers
(3.1/5)
19mn - Comedy
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
poster Our Gang
Our Gang
(3.8/5)
20mn - Comedy
An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
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