Alec B. Francis

Alec B. Francis

Born: December 1, 1867
Died: July 6, 1934
in London, England, UK
English born Alec B. Francis (Alec Budd Francis) was, in America, a stage and film actor.

Movies for Alec B. Francis...

Outcast Lady
Title: Outcast Lady
Character: Truble
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Grand Duke Ferdinand
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: King of Hearts
Released: December 18, 1933
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
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His Private Secretary
Title: His Private Secretary
Character: Rev. Hall
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
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Looking Forward
Title: Looking Forward
Character: Mr. Birkenshaw
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mr. Brownlow
Released: February 28, 1933
Type: Movie
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.
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The Last Mile
Title: The Last Mile
Character: Father O'Connor
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.
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Alias Mary Smith
Title: Alias Mary Smith
Character: Attorney
Released: July 14, 1932
Type: Movie
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
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Mata Hari
Title: Mata Hari
Character: Major Caron
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Arrowsmith
Title: Arrowsmith
Character: Twyford
Released: December 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Title: Stout Hearts and Willing Hands
Released: June 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Stout Hearts and Willing Hands is a 1931 short comedy film directed by Bryan Foy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1932 for Best Short Subject (Comedy), but was disqualified.
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Captain Applejack
Title: Captain Applejack
Character: Lush, the Butler
Released: January 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
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Feet First
Title: Feet First
Character: Mr. Carson, old-timer
Released: October 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
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Outward Bound
Title: Outward Bound
Character: Scrubby
Released: September 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944).
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Title: The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Character: General von Lychow
Released: February 23, 1930
Type: Movie
This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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The Bishop Murder Case
Title: The Bishop Murder Case
Character: Professor Bertrand Dillard
Released: December 31, 1929
Type: Movie
The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he was killed. The note found dealing with the murder was part of a nursery rhyme and signed by 'Bishop'. The only witness may have been Mrs. Drukker and Adolph, but they are not talking. As the murders progress, each one is accompanied by a nursery rhyme. It is up to Philo Vance to unravel the clues and unmask the identity of the murderer 'Bishop'.
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Evidence
Title: Evidence
Character: Harbison
Released: December 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.
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The Sacred Flame
Title: The Sacred Flame
Character: Dr. Harvester
Released: November 24, 1929
Type: Movie
Colonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
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The Mississippi Gambler
Title: The Mississippi Gambler
Character: Junius Blackburn
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
He was a handsome gambler, living by his wits; yet when he played for the biggest stake of his life he threw away the winning hand; She was the beautiful daughter of a Southern gentleman; yet she fell in love with the gambler. How? Why? See the answer in this utterly charming, smashingly dramatic and colorful romance of river days fraught with adventure.
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Evangeline
Title: Evangeline
Character: Father Felician
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.
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Companionate Marriage
Title: Companionate Marriage
Released: October 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Sally Williams (Betty Bronson) marries Donald Moore (Richard Walling) and have trials and tribulations and input from others but they demonstrate that the most successful marriages are usually based on trust and respect, rather than on sex alone. Released in the UK under the title of "The Jazz Bride".
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The Terror
Title: The Terror
Character: Dr. Redmayne
Released: September 6, 1928
Type: Movie
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".
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The Lion and the Mouse
Title: The Lion and the Mouse
Character: Judge Ross
Released: May 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating the appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.
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Broadway Daddies
Title: Broadway Daddies
Character: John Lambert Kennedy
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy businessman and is just pretending to be poor to see if she really loves him. However, an item in the society pages gives away Robert's true identity. Complications ensue.
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The Shepherd of the Hills
Title: The Shepherd of the Hills
Character: David Howitt, The Shepherd
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.
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Camille
Title: Camille
Character: The Duke
Released: September 4, 1927
Type: Movie
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
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Sally in Our Alley
Title: Sally in Our Alley
Character: Sandy Mack
Released: September 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Sally, a girl of the tenements, is being raised by three bachelor foster-fathers, a pawnbroker, an organ-grinder and a peddler, and is very happy preparing their meals and keeping the house, while the old men bask in the attention she gives them. However, this happy home is broken up when Sally wealthy aunt appears on the scene and takes Sally back to her luxurious penthouse in order to give her the advantages of money and social position. But Sally's heart is back across the river with her plumber sweetheart, Jimmie Adams.
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The Tender Hour
Title: The Tender Hour
Character: Francis Chinilly
Released: May 1, 1927
Type: Movie
This romantic drama was released in 1927.
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The Music Master
Title: The Music Master
Released: January 23, 1927
Type: Movie
American silent drama film about music.
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The Return of Peter Grimm
Title: The Return of Peter Grimm
Character: Peter Grimm
Released: December 7, 1926
Type: Movie
"Old Peter Grimm makes his ward Katie promise to marry his nephew Frederik [ sic ] and then dies. Frederik proves to be a scapegrace and Peter's spirit returns to right matters and finally succeeds in doing so by communicating with Jimmie who is in a delirium." ( Moving Picture World, 20 Nov 1926, p164.) Peter thus thwarts selfishness and greed and rewards virtue.
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Forever After
Title: Forever After
Character: Mr. Wayne, Theodore's Father (as Alec Francis)
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A wounded captain recalls his youth, his time at college, and the woman he fell in love with.
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3 Bad Men
Title: 3 Bad Men
Character: Rev. Benson
Released: August 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
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Pals First
Title: Pals First
Character: Dominie
Released: August 8, 1926
Type: Movie
Richard Castleman, master of Winnecrest Hall in Louisiana, goes on a sea voyage recommended by his cousin and physician, Harry Chilton, who thereupon begins romancing Castleman's fiancée, Jeanne Lamont. When word arrives of Castleman's death, Chilton prepares to usurp the fortune and property of the dead man. Danny Rowland, who is found wounded by two wandering crooks, Dominie and The Squirrel, opportunely arrives at the estate seeking food and rest; and because of his resemblance to Castleman, he is welcomed as the master. Dominie is introduced as an English cleric and The Squirrel as an Italian count, while Danny falls in love with Jeanne, who believes him to be her fiancé. Chilton, however, suspects the trio and finally unmasks them. It then develops that Danny actually is Castleman, who had decided to reform the two men who befriended him and to expose the dishonesty of his cousin.
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Wandering Footsteps
Title: Wandering Footsteps
Released: June 14, 1926
Type: Movie
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Title: Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Character: Amos Logan
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.
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High Steppers
Title: High Steppers
Character: Father Perryam
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
Perryam is going through a round of bad luck; he is thrown out of school and loses at love. In search of a change, he heads for London, where he meets Audrey Nye, a former jazz baby who has gotten a responsible job on a newspaper. She helps Perryam get hired as a reporter.
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Transcontinental Limited
Title: Transcontinental Limited
Character: Jerry Reynolds
Released: February 4, 1926
Type: Movie
War veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset. Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some army mates hatch a plot. For the railway safe to be utilized. A rival though robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involving high speed the money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.
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The Yankee Señor
Title: The Yankee Señor
Character: Don Fernando
Released: January 10, 1926
Type: Movie
A cowboy estranged from his family and unsure of his heritage becomes a hero and falls for a beautiful Mexican beauty.
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Rose of the World
Title: Rose of the World
Character: 'Gramp' Tallifer (as Alec Francis)
Released: November 9, 1925
Type: Movie
In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.
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Where the Worst Begins
Title: Where the Worst Begins
Character: August Van Dorn
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
1925 picture starring Ruth Roland.
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Thunder Mountain
Title: Thunder Mountain
Character: Preacher
Released: October 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Sam Martin grows up in the Kentucky hills with a preacher as his closest friend and father figure. The young man goes away and gets an education, and when he returns home, he wants to build a school so that others can learn, too.
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Thank You
Title: Thank You
Character: David Lee
Released: October 5, 1925
Type: Movie
Young Kenneth Jamieson's millionaire father, fed up with his son's wild escapades, sends him to stay on a chicken farm in the small village of Dedham. On the day he arrives there pretty Diane Lee, the niece of local Rev. David Lee, arrives from Paris. A few days later Kenneth, reverting back to his wild ways, gets drunk and makes a spectacle of himself, but rather than reproving him, Rev. Lee gives him a heart-to-heart talk and gets Kenneth to turn his life around. Meanwhile, the reverend--barely able to get by on the pittance the local vestrymen pay him--asks for a raise but is denied it, being told that he must send Diane away before they'll even consider giving him any extra money. Soon afterward Kenneth falls gravely ill. His father, hearing of Kenneth's condition and of his infatuation with Diane, arrives at the village to see his son and isn't ready for what he finds.
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The Circle
Title: The Circle
Character: Lord Clive Cheney
Released: September 22, 1925
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Cheney has a wealthy husband, social prominence and everything she could want in life . . . except Ted Lutton, the man she loves. She must decide whether to give everything up to follow her heart and run off with Ted.
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The Coast of Folly
Title: The Coast of Folly
Character: Count de Tauro
Released: September 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Silent film drama...
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A Thief in Paradise
Title: A Thief in Paradise
Character: Bishop Saville
Released: June 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Years of failure and bad luck have made Maurice Blake a beachcomber on an island in the Samoas, earning a precarious living by diving for pearls with Philip Jardine, the disinherited son of a San Francisco millionaire. When Philip is killed by a shark, his half caste common-law wife, Rosa, informs Maurice that Philip had been forgiven by his father, and she persuades him to assume Philip's identity and return to the States - The film is now considered a lost film.
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Waking Up the Town
Title: Waking Up the Town
Character: Abner Hope
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in love with her. Joyce has a number of bizarre inventions and he dreams of harnessing the nearby falls for power, but he can't get any financing from the town banker.
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The Mad Whirl
Title: The Mad Whirl
Character: John Herrington
Released: March 2, 1925
Type: Movie
A teenager with permissive parents gets too caught up in wild parties and the fast life.
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Capital Punishment
Title: Capital Punishment
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.
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Outwitted
Title: Outwitted
Character: John Kinney (as Alec Francis)
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by his old gang. Vowing to get even with Jack, Tiger kidnaps the young man's fiancée, Helen (Holmes), bringing the girl to his hideout, a fancy yacht owned by Lucy Carlisle.
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The Bridge of Sighs
Title: The Bridge of Sighs
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The spoiled, arrogant and slow-witted son of a wealthy businessman falls in love with the daughter of his father's business manager.
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The Tenth Woman
Title: The Tenth Woman
Character: Mr. Brainherd
Released: August 24, 1924
Type: Movie
A ranch owner saves a pretty young woman from committing suicide, and later marries her. They are very happy together until a former girlfriend visits him. Then the trouble begins.
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Beau Brummel
Title: Beau Brummel
Character: Mortimer
Released: March 30, 1924
Type: Movie
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Judge Winship
Released: December 8, 1923
Type: Movie
Lucretia Morgan has been married to an old man for the past seven years. The marriage is loveless but the whole time Lucretia has been a devoted wife. Her husband Allen has been sick for some time. Lucretia thinks Allen is upset with her because she is going out to a charity ball and he has to stay. Allen understands she is young and she needs to socialize he is not upset with her for wanting to go out.
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The Gold Diggers
Title: The Gold Diggers
Character: James Blake
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold diggers, always chasing after the men's money. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar decides to 'gold dig' Stephen, to show him what a nice and unselfish girl Violet is, but then she realizes that she's really in love with Stephen Lee....
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The Eternal Three
Title: The Eternal Three
Character: Dr. Steven Browning
Released: September 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A doctor's adopted son turns out to be an ungrateful whelp. He beds the doctor's maid, then his secretary, and finally targets the doctor's wife, his own stepmother as his next conquest....
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Three Wise Fools
Title: Three Wise Fools
Character: Dr. Richard Gaunt
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Sydney Fairchild, the daughter of a woman who was once loved by three bachelors, surprises the men with a visit. Findley, Trumbull, and Gaunt honor their former sweetheart's last request by becoming Sydney's guardians.
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Hollywood
Title: Hollywood
Character: Alec B. Francis
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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A Gentleman of Leisure
Title: A Gentleman of Leisure
Character: Sir John Blount (as Alec Francis)
Released: July 15, 1923
Type: Movie
Jack Holt is Robert Pitt, a wealthy young idler who has just returned home to the States from London. While at a restaurant, he notices pretty Molly Creedon (Sigrid Holmquist). He sees that she has a photograph inscribed "with love" and as a joke, he makes a bet with his pals that he will obtain an autographed picture from the girl within 24 hours. But getting the photo is harder than it seemed at first, and he finally asks a burglar to help him out by stealing it.
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Mary of the Movies
Title: Mary of the Movies
Character: Alec B. Francis (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?
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Is Divorce a Failure?
Title: Is Divorce a Failure?
Character: Philip Wilkinson
Released: March 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Reverend Bradley
Released: March 9, 1923
Type: Movie
A wealthy minister in a mining town is something of an advocate for the miners' safety, but he doesn't really get involved in the issue. He is soon snapped out of that attitude, however, when his daughter is trapped underground in a mine explosion, along with the mine's owner.
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The Last Hour
Title: The Last Hour
Character: Reever McCall (as Alec Francis)
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Steve Cline returns to the U.S. after earning his fortune in South America. He reads in the paper that his brother Tom was arrested for safecracking. Tom escapes and runs to the home of Sadie McCall, whose father Reever heads a forgery ring. Steve rushes to meet his brother, but Tom is killed in a police raid. Reever gets away and Steve falls for Sadie, but Steve takes the blame for the murder and faces death by hanging. Reported by some to be Gary Cooper's first film as an extra. However this is not confirmed in any way.
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The Forgotten Law
Title: The Forgotten Law
Character: Judge Kirtley
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Margaret Jarnette discovers that her husband Victor has been cheating on her and confronts him. Outraged, Victor has his lawyer rewrite his will so that in the event of his death, his brother Richard will get custody of his daughter Muriel, and his wife won't. When Victor dies shortly afterward, Richard suspects that Margaret had murdered him and takes custody of Muriel. However, he soon begins to suspect that things may not be quite as cut-and-dried as he thought they were.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Father Hillaire
Released: May 14, 1922
Type: Movie
Son of Colonel Haddington, Bob leads a posse against raiders in a settlement. During his absence, one of the prize horses is stolen and his father is killed. Bob swears revenge and becomes known as Velantrie, leader of a band of semi-outlaws, and befriends a priest, Father Hillaire. At a mission, he meets Val, daughter of John Hannon, a wealthy ranch-owner.
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Beyond the Rocks
Title: Beyond the Rocks
Character: Captain Fitzgerald
Released: May 7, 1922
Type: Movie
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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Smilin' Through
Title: Smilin' Through
Character: Dr. Owen
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of Kathleen and Moonyean. Kathleen, a young Irish woman, is in love with Kenneth Wayne but is prevented from marrying him by her guardian John Carteret. John is haunted by memories of his thwarted love for Kathleen's aunt, Moonyean.
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The Great Moment
Title: The Great Moment
Character: Sir Edward Pelham
Released: September 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip to Nevada with her father, she meets engineer Bayard Delavel, who saves her life when she is bitten by a snake; when her father finds her with Bayard in his cabin, he forces them to marry. Believing that Nadine does not love him, Delavel leaves her and prepares to sue for divorce.
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A Voice in the Dark
Title: A Voice in the Dark
Character: Joseph Crampton
Released: June 5, 1921
Type: Movie
The solution to a murder hinges on two witnesses: a deaf woman and a blind man.
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Godless Men
Title: Godless Men
Character: Reverend Sam Poor
Released: November 6, 1920
Type: Movie
On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.
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The Man Who Had Everything
Title: The Man Who Had Everything
Character: Matt Sills
Released: October 17, 1920
Type: Movie
Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, "May you always have everything that you want."
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Earthbound
Title: Earthbound
Character: Dr. Roger Galloway
Released: August 10, 1920
Type: Movie
When Jim Rittenshaw learns that his friend Richard Desborough is having an affair with Jim's wife Daisy, Jim kills Richard. The murdered man's ghost then takes up residence and attempts to positively influence the lives of those he had wronged.
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The Butterfly Man
Title: The Butterfly Man
Character: James Bachelor
Released: April 18, 1920
Type: Movie
Sedgewick Blynn is determined to marry a rich woman. One night he saves a child from a fire. Bessie Morgan, an heiress charmed by his act of heroism, promises to marry him, but at the last minute her father forbids it. Soon after, Blynn receives a telegram informing him of the death of his mother, and he realizes that he has wasted his life.
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The Paliser Case
Title: The Paliser Case
Character: Paliser Sr.
Released: February 15, 1920
Type: Movie
A young woman consents to a bad marriage to an unscrupulous man in order to save her father from ruin. When her marriage is disrupted by a murder, three different people confess to it.
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The Street Called Straight
Title: The Street Called Straight
Character: Rodney Temple
Released: February 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
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Flame of the Desert
Title: Flame of the Desert
Character: Sir John Carleton
Released: October 26, 1919
Type: Movie
An Englishman goes undercover posing as an Egyptian sheik in order to infiltrate a conspiracy to throw off British rule. An English woman complicates things by falling in love with the sheik, unaware of his true identity.
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The World and Its Woman
Title: The World and Its Woman
Character: Prince Michael Orbeliana the Elder
Released: September 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.
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Lord and Lady Algy
Title: Lord and Lady Algy
Character: Swepson
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Lord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
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The Crimson Gardenia
Title: The Crimson Gardenia
Character: Mr. Banniman
Released: June 14, 1919
Type: Movie
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
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When Doctors Disagree
Title: When Doctors Disagree
Released: May 25, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Probation Wife
Title: The Probation Wife
Character: Huntley McMerton
Released: May 24, 1919
Type: Movie
A 1919 film directed by Sidney Franklin.
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The Pest
Title: The Pest
Character: Judge Fisher
Released: April 20, 1919
Type: Movie
Naive country girl Jigs Blodgett makes friends with Gene Giles, the nephew of a wealthy judge. Shady John Harland is courting the judge's daughter Blanche because of her father's money and position. To amuse herself, Blanche invites Jigs to a party with her "sophiscated" friends, intending to humiliate and embarrass Jigs. Things don't quite go the way Blanche planned.
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Her Code of Honor
Title: Her Code of Honor
Character: Tom Davis
Released: April 6, 1919
Type: Movie
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
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Thirty a Week
Title: Thirty a Week
Character: Mr. Wright
Released: October 12, 1918
Type: Movie
Although she is engaged to the wealthy Freddy Ruyter, Barbara Wright prefers her father's handsome Irish chauffeur, Dan Murray, and marries him. The newlyweds struggle to survive on Dan's meager income, but Barbara's father, furious with them both, nearly destroys their happiness by securing Dan's dismissal from several jobs. ...
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The Venus Model
Title: The Venus Model
Character: John Braddock
Released: June 16, 1918
Type: Movie
A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love with her employer's son, who is in danger of ruin from a romantic scandal.
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Leap to Fame
Title: Leap to Fame
Character: Judge Hendricks Trevor
Released: April 24, 1918
Type: Movie
Charles Trevor is a young chap just out of college, who is put to work on a daily newspaper and at once starts to lead a life of adventure and romance. A German spy and a maiden in distress cross his path the first day and, before the end of the story, he has landed a big scoop for his paper, put the German in jail and married the girl.
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The Face in the Dark
Title: The Face in the Dark
Character: Charles Ridgeway
Released: April 15, 1918
Type: Movie
Jane Ridgeway, the daughter of retired Secret Service man Charles Ridgeway, has inherited her father's knack for solving crimes and puts her talent to work when her sweetheart, Richard Grant, is accused of robbing a bank. Her father, now a bank examiner, works in collusion with two thieves who are acquainted with a master criminal known only as "the Face in the Dark." When the evidence implicates her father in the robbery, Jane confronts him, and although Richard is released from jail, Ridgeway escapes. The two crooks lead him to the Face in the Dark, but as the two men are shaking hands, the place is raided by Secret Service agents who arrest the mysterious criminal and congratulate Ridgeway for his fine detective work. Jane is happily reunited with her sweetheart and her father.
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The Cross Bearer
Title: The Cross Bearer
Character: Brother Joseph
Released: April 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
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Wanted, A Mother
Title: Wanted, A Mother
Released: March 18, 1918
Type: Movie
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The Cinderella Man
Title: The Cinderella Man
Character: Romney Evans
Released: December 16, 1917
Type: Movie
When Marjorie Caner returns from abroad, she is quite lonely in her millionaire father's big house. Learning that a young poet, Anthony Quintard, is living in poverty next door while working on the libretto of a great opera, she skips across the roofs and brings him a Christmas banquet. The poet sees Marjorie, and knowing that he detests wealth, she pretends to be the secretary of the Caner family.....
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Forget-Me-Not
Title: Forget-Me-Not
Character: Marquis de Mohrivart
Released: April 16, 1917
Type: Movie
Adventuress Stefanie Paoli forsakes her lover, humble fisherman Gabriel Barrato, for the arms of a nobleman, the Marquis de Mohrivart.
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The Family Honor
Title: The Family Honor
Character: General Jason Wayne
Released: April 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 silent film drama
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The Heart of a Hero
Title: The Heart of a Hero
Character: Col. Knowlton
Released: November 6, 1916
Type: Movie
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: King Comus
Released: October 9, 1916
Type: Movie
In The Gilded Cage, Alice Brady plays Princess Honore, who falls in love with a handsome prince who doesn't know her true identity (nor does she know his).
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Husband and Wife
Title: Husband and Wife
Character: James Watson
Released: August 28, 1916
Type: Movie
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments. He is joined in these plans by one of the bank's directors, but when Doris unknowingly snubs the director's wife, he pulls out his aid. Dick finds himself in serious trouble, and then Doris leaves him after an argument. She is about to leave for the Orient with her daughter Bessie, a friend, Mrs. Prescott, and an admirer, Patrick Alliston, but they are stopped at the station because Dick is believed to be with them. He isn't, and his difficulties drive him to an aborted suicide attempt. Doris finally wakes up to what is going on and reconciles with Dick. The bank examiner looks over the books and helps Dick get back on his feet, much to the director's chagrin.
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A Woman's Way
Title: A Woman's Way
Character: General John Stanton
Released: August 7, 1916
Type: Movie
Marion Livingston, daughter of General Livingston, boss of the Elsinore coal mines, rescues Jack Stanton, a young superintendent of the mines, from a mob of miners led by Jim Saunders, who were enraged at his having ordered them to work after it had been found that the mine is dangerous. Jack's brother, Harold, a young district attorney, comes to visit him and falls in love with Marion.
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Miss Petticoats
Title: Miss Petticoats
Character: Worth Courtleigh
Released: July 31, 1916
Type: Movie
Miss Petticoats stops a runaway horse, saves a wealthy woman from death, is rewarded with position as a private secretary. Society shuns her. She goes abroad; then see how she becomes the acknowledged daughter of a French Count and falls heir to a title.
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The Ballet Girl
Title: The Ballet Girl
Character: Jerry Vergoe
Released: January 24, 1916
Type: Movie
Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance.
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Alias Jimmy Valentine
Title: Alias Jimmy Valentine
Character: Bill Avery
Released: February 22, 1915
Type: Movie
After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Dr. Barnhelun
Released: November 23, 1914
Type: Movie
A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.
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The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Title: The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
Character: The Earl Of Bateson
Released: November 9, 1914
Type: Movie
Giles Bateson gets expelled from college for misconduct. His angry father, the Earl, sends him a message: "Never let me see you again until you have earned a half crown and proven yourself worthy of confidence."
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The Trail of the Silver Fox
Title: The Trail of the Silver Fox
Character: Officer At Mountie Headquarters
Released: February 12, 1913
Type: Movie
A real life drama enacted in the Yukon region where the rigors of battle for existence reduced it's human characters to it's primitive. The girl's perilous trip to the frozen north to save a life will grip you tight....
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The Transgression of Deacon Jones
Title: The Transgression of Deacon Jones
Character: Deacon Jones
Released: October 30, 1912
Type: Movie
The Purity League tries to close down a small-town nickelodeon.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Sheriff of Nottingham
Released: August 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century. The movie's costumes feature enormous versions of the familiar hats of Robin and his merry men, and uses the unusual effect of momentarily superimposing images different animals over each character to emphasize their good or evil qualities. The film was directed by Étienne Arnaud and Herbert Blaché, and written by Eustace Hale Ball. A restored copy of the 30-minute film exists and was exhibited in 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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Chamber of Forgetfulness
Title: Chamber of Forgetfulness
Character: The Husband
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A husband, thinking his wife is unfaithful to her, has a confrontational scene with her, which causes her to have a heart attack and die. He sends his son away until, after a dozen years, he discovers she was true; whereupon he summons his son and, after a bit, they reconcile at her grave.
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Saved from the Titanic
Title: Saved from the Titanic
Character: Father
Released: May 13, 1912
Type: Movie
A young woman tells her parents and fiance (in flashback) about the recent sinking of the Titanic and her experiences as a passenger during the disaster. Her intended marriage now faces a new hazard because her fiance is a sailor and her parents have just been reminded of the dangers of the sea. Premiering in the United States just 29 days after the event, it is the earliest dramatization about the tragedy.
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Oh, You Ragtime!
Title: Oh, You Ragtime!
Character: The Banker
Released: April 17, 1912
Type: Movie
The famous pianist Tenorini has moved into the neighbourhood. He plays a song (a spring waltz from "Alexander's Ragtime Band") on the piano; it is such a joyful tune that everyone in the neighborhood starts to dance. When he finally stops everyone is exhausted.
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Playmates
Title: Playmates
Character: The Doctor
Released: February 10, 1912
Type: Movie
A short film about the friendship between a little girl and a stray dog.
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The First Violin
Title: The First Violin
Released: February 2, 1912
Type: Movie
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen sleeping on the steps of the stage door. He picks her up and takes her to his comfortably furnished home. The old man even grows childish, he is so pleased with the little tot's presence and he gives her the love with which his heart abounds. The next day he learns from the morning papers that Helen's mother and father were lost in a fire. He spends many happy hours with her, playing with her toys. He takes her to rehearsals with him, where she is the pet of the musicians. One year later Helen shows an aptness for the stage. This delights the old musician and the child grows nearer and dearer to his heart. A sad blow, however, comes to him when the Children's Society take the little girl away from him and once more he finds himself a lonely old man.
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For the Honor of the Family
Title: For the Honor of the Family
Character: Col. Lawrence
Released: January 27, 1912
Type: Movie
On account of his extravagance and dissipation, Col. Ryder disowns his son and casts him off. Guy, resolved to redeem himself, joins an Indian regiment as a private, and leaves England.
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The Younger Brother
Title: The Younger Brother
Released: December 26, 1911
Type: Movie
When the two Werner brothers are called to the front it is not strange that the mother is very solicitous about the younger brother and enjoins the older boy to care for and defend him at all hazards. The English army is transported lo the Soudan and is now encamped in the midst of the activities of the campaign.
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A Reformed Santa Claus
Title: A Reformed Santa Claus
Released: December 22, 1911
Type: Movie
The employees of Harrison's mine have been out on strike for a long time. The men wait for him until he is leaving his office in the evening. They try to state their case but he entirely ignores them. They attack him. In terror, he flees before them, escaping by entering the home of a poor widow with two children.
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The Military Air-Scouts
Title: The Military Air-Scouts
Character: Commander Arthur
Released: December 12, 1911
Type: Movie
The story takes place three years into the future. Events represented take place in 1914 when supposedly there is a war between the United European States and the United States of America. The hero is commissioned to fly over the enemy's fleet in a war aeroplane and destroy them. This he does by dropping bombs. He is then told to spy upon their land forces, but his aeroplane is brought to earth by a portable gun of the enemy that shoots directly into midair.
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Auld Lang Syne
Title: Auld Lang Syne
Character: Scotsman
Released: November 7, 1911
Type: Movie
Among the green hills of Scotland dwelt two farmer lads, Tammas and Geordie, fast friends tried and loyal as members of the same clan. They are both very much in love with Jenny, a little Scottish lass, and Geordie dreams of what might be if he were successful in his wooing.
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A Friendly Marriage
Title: A Friendly Marriage
Released: September 4, 1911
Type: Movie
A penniless British Lord sets up an arranged marriage with an American heiress. He soon falls in love with her and is determined to support himself financially so they can have a real marriage.
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Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
Title: Troublesome Secretaries, or How Betty Outwitted Her Father
Released: August 20, 1911
Type: Movie
This is basically a two practical-joke comedy. Bunny is a businessman father and Mabel plays Betty, his lovable daughter. The first practical joke is Betty getting her girlfriend to be daddy's secretary. The secretary sprays perfume on all his papers and tries to make out with him. The second practical joke has Betty getting her boyfriend to put on a wig and old man's outfit and apply for the job of daddy's secretary.
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Vanity Fair
Title: Vanity Fair
Character: Pitt Crawley
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
A silent short film telling the classic story of Becky Sharp.