George Cooper

George Cooper

Born: December 11, 1892
Died: December 9, 1943
in Newark, New Jersey, USA
George Cooper (born George Cooper Healey) was an American stage and screen actor, active in films from 1911 to 1940.

Movies for George Cooper...

Mystery Street
Title: Mystery Street
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1950
Type: Movie
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Character: Stone (Bank Teller) (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1947
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Blackmail
Title: Blackmail
Character: Released Prisoner Hawley (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
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Lucky Night
Title: Lucky Night
Character: $50 Passerby (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Say It in French
Title: Say It in French
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismayed to discover that the golfer's parents have arranged for him to marry a wealthy socialite so they can use her money to support their business....
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The Mexicali Kid
Title: The Mexicali Kid
Character: Blacksmith
Released: September 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.
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Boys Town
Title: Boys Town
Character: Tramp (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
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The Missing Guest
Title: The Missing Guest
Character: 'Jake'
Released: August 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Newspaper man "Scoop" Hanlon is looking for a way out of his assigned women's interest column. The one chance he has is to spend the night in the "blue room" of a haunted mansion where a number of people are gathered for a party. When one of the guests disappears from his room, "Scoop" decides to get to the bottom of things.
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The Chaser
Title: The Chaser
Character: Man at Calhoun's Auto
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
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The Canary Comes Across
Title: The Canary Comes Across
Character: Dutch (uncredited)
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.
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West of Rainbow's End
Title: West of Rainbow's End
Character: Happy
Released: January 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tim Hart (Tim McCoy), a former Texas Ranger, comes out of retirement to avenge the death of Lightnin' Ed (Frank LaRue), his foster father, who had been sent to Rainbow's End, to investigate a series of train robberies. He senses that George Johnson (Walter McGrail) and his henchman, Speck (Bob Kortman), head the robbery gang, especially after Speck makes an ambush attempt on his life.
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The Duke Comes Back
Title: The Duke Comes Back
Character: Janitor
Released: November 29, 1937
Type: Movie
After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his businessman father-in-law Arnold (Frederick Burton) loses his fortune, Duke returns to the ring to raise money for him. Susan is furious that Duke is breaking his promise never to box again, and the stakes get even higher when a crooked promoter orders him to take a dive ... or else.
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Portia on Trial
Title: Portia on Trial
Character: Efe
Released: November 8, 1937
Type: Movie
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton). Ironically, Portia herself had once had a relationship with Earle Condon, but Earle's father, powerful publisher John Condon (Clarence Kolb), forced them apart. She has a pretty good idea of what is going on in Elizabeth's head, since she herself was on the verge of killing Earle Condon when his father ruthlessly took custody of her illegitimate son. As Portia toils and strains to free her client, she carries on a romance with Dan Foster (Walter Abel) -- the attorney for the prosecution. LA Law and The Practice have nothing on this one!
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That I May Live
Title: That I May Live
Character: Mack
Released: September 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Title: Think Fast, Mr. Moto
Character: Muggs Blake
Released: July 23, 1937
Type: Movie
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, glittering gems and deadly assassins. Making his way from the mysterious streets of San Francisco's Chinatown to the dark and dangerous alleys of Shanghai, Mr. Moto will stop at nothing to bring the culprits to justice...even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice!
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Riders of the Dawn
Title: Riders of the Dawn
Character: Grizzly Ike
Released: July 14, 1937
Type: Movie
The first of 22 inexpensive Westerns starring Jack Randall (aka Addison Randall and Allan Byron), Riders of the Dawn is yet another in a long series of oaters featuring a lawman masquerading as an outlaw.
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Step Lively, Jeeves!
Title: Step Lively, Jeeves!
Character: Slug
Released: June 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
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The Man Who Found Himself
Title: The Man Who Found Himself
Character: Hobo
Released: April 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
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Adventure in Manhattan
Title: Adventure in Manhattan
Character: Duncan
Released: October 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
Title: Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character: Chuck Morse
Released: September 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns auto racer, beats his rival and wins a girl.
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Missing Girls
Title: Missing Girls
Character: Zig
Released: September 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
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The Phantom Rider
Title: The Phantom Rider
Character: Spooky
Released: July 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Phantom Rider helps Mary Grayson thwart a plot to steal her land.
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Federal Agent
Title: Federal Agent
Character: Agent Wilson
Released: April 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A federal agent sets out to track down his partner's killers.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Character: Bob (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Doubting Thomas
Title: Doubting Thomas
Character: Stagehand
Released: July 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
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Murder in the Clouds
Title: Murder in the Clouds
Character: Wings Mahoney
Released: December 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the liquid. While the government conducts a vast search for the formula, the spies entangle Judy in their web of deceit, causing Bob to set off on his own in an effort to save his sweetheart and retrieve the missing mixture.
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Broadway Bill
Title: Broadway Bill
Character: Joe
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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Return of the Terror
Title: Return of the Terror
Character: Cotton
Released: July 7, 1934
Type: Movie
"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn.
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The Personality Kid
Title: The Personality Kid
Character: Tiny
Released: June 6, 1934
Type: Movie
An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.
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The Big Shakedown
Title: The Big Shakedown
Character: Shorty
Released: January 6, 1934
Type: Movie
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.
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Before Midnight
Title: Before Midnight
Character: Stubby
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
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Havana Widows
Title: Havana Widows
Character: Paymaster Mullins
Released: November 18, 1933
Type: Movie
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
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Wild Boys of the Road
Title: Wild Boys of the Road
Character: Man near Columbus (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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Lady for a Day
Title: Lady for a Day
Character: Cheesecake (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Title: Mary Stevens, M.D.
Character: Pete
Released: July 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Soldiers of the Storm
Title: Soldiers of the Storm
Character: Red Gurney
Released: April 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Soldiers of the Storm is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman.
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Uptown New York
Title: Uptown New York
Character: Al
Released: November 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames). But when Pat is nearly killed in an effort to protect her husband's gumball machines from hoodlums and is in need of a lifesaving operation, Eddie calls on Dr. Max
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Forbidden Trail
Title: Forbidden Trail
Character: Happy - Tom's Sidekick
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell. Later when Tom is jailed he accidentally finds the evidence, but the Karger encited mob has jailed the Sheriff and is already on the loose.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Title: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Character: Vaudevillian (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1932
Type: Movie
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Blondie of the Follies
Title: Blondie of the Follies
Character: O'Brien the Stage Manager (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie makes the cast of the Follies and moves up in the world, she arranges for Blondie, as well, to join the cast and gain the advantages. But the friendship goes awry when Lottie's sweetheart, wealthy Larry Belmont, falls for Blondie and she for him.
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Night Court
Title: Night Court
Character: Safecracking Thug (uncredited)
Released: June 4, 1932
Type: Movie
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
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Flames
Title: Flames
Character: Fishey
Released: May 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the apartment building next door to his new girlfriend.
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Sky Devils
Title: Sky Devils
Character: Mitchell
Released: March 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow away on a ship which takes them into the war zone. While AWOL, the rivals for Mary's affections accidently destroy an ammunition dump.
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Emma
Title: Emma
Character: Airfield Mechanic (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
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The Wide Open Spaces
Title: The Wide Open Spaces
Character: Louis San Nabisco
Released: December 28, 1931
Type: Movie
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
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The Hot Spot
Title: The Hot Spot
Character: Shaw
Released: September 14, 1931
Type: Movie
In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
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Laughing Sinners
Title: Laughing Sinners
Character: Joe
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged by Carl, Ivy joins the Salvation Army. When her old flame re-enters her life, Ivy finds she is still attracted and begins another affair with him.
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Gentleman's Fate
Title: Gentleman's Fate
Character: Mike
Released: March 7, 1931
Type: Movie
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
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Paid
Title: Paid
Character: Red
Released: December 30, 1930
Type: Movie
Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.
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Renegades
Title: Renegades
Character: Harry A. Biloxi
Released: October 26, 1930
Type: Movie
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.
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The Girl of the Golden West
Title: The Girl of the Golden West
Character: Trinidad Joe
Released: October 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A hard-bitten saloon girl falls for a dashing outlaw, and tries to keep the local sheriff from catching him and sending him to prison.
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Shooting Straight
Title: Shooting Straight
Character: Chick
Released: July 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A gambler wanted for murder hides under the guise of a clergyman.
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Numbered Men
Title: Numbered Men
Character: 27635
Released: June 7, 1930
Type: Movie
Prison drama from 1930. Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and justice will prevail.
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Sailor's Holiday
Title: Sailor's Holiday
Character: Shorty
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.
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The Unholy Night
Title: The Unholy Night
Character: Frey, Lord Montague's Orderly
Released: September 13, 1929
Type: Movie
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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The Devil's Apple Tree
Title: The Devil's Apple Tree
Released: February 20, 1929
Type: Movie
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Lilac Time
Title: Lilac Time
Character: Mechanic's Helper
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome newcomer who is already engaged.
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The Barker
Title: The Barker
Character: Hap Spissel
Released: October 2, 1928
Type: Movie
A successful carnival barker deals with the arrival of his eager son, who he'd hoped would stay far from the carnival world, his son's entanglement with a showgirl, and his own jealous mistress.
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The Trail of '98
Title: The Trail of '98
Character: Samuel Foote - The Worm
Released: March 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.
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Rose-Marie
Title: Rose-Marie
Character: Fuzzy
Released: February 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but she doesn't light up until soldier of fortune Jim Kenyon drifts into the post. Soon Jim is accused of murder but he escapes.
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Women Love Diamonds
Title: Women Love Diamonds
Character: Snub Flaherty
Released: February 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A young woman can't marry a millionaire because she was born illegitimately.
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Tin Hats
Title: Tin Hats
Character: "Lefty" Mooney
Released: November 28, 1926
Type: Movie
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
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Pals First
Title: Pals First
Character: The Squirrel
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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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Released: May 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars Charles Emmett Mack, Marguerite De La Motte, Henry B. Walthall, Claire McDowell, and George Cooper. The film was released on May 30, 1926, by Producers Distributing Corporation.
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The Wise Guy
Title: The Wise Guy
Character: The Bozo
Released: May 23, 1926
Type: Movie
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: Sgt. Murphy
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
Years after Alaskan storekeeper Gale had rescued his ward Necia from Bennett, her murderous sea-captain father, Bennett shows up seeking his daughter -- and revenge.
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Red Dice
Title: Red Dice
Character: Squint Scoggins
Released: March 14, 1926
Type: Movie
This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La Rocque) is a war hero who is very much down on his luck. He makes a deal with big-time bootlegger Andrew North (Gustave von Seyffertitz) -- if North will give him a large sum of money, Beckwith will kill himself at the end of a year's time. He is to marry a girl of North's choosing and take out an insurance policy naming her as beneficiary; North will collect from the widow. The plot thickens when Beckwith and Beverly (Marguerite De La Motte), the girl North has him marry, actually fall in love. Beverly's brother, Johnny (Ray Hallor), teams up with Beckwith to steal one of North's cargos of rum. North and his men catch them and things look bad until revenue officers -- called on by Beverly -- show up. The North gang is rounded up and Beckwith looks forward to a long life with his wife.
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Shadow of the Law
Title: Shadow of the Law
Character: Chauffeur
Released: January 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released, she sets out to take her revenge on those responsible. -from IMDB.com
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The New Commandment
Title: The New Commandment
Character: Red
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Billy Morrow (Ben Lyon), who comes from a wealthy family, is sailing to Europe with his father (Holbrook Blinn) on their yacht. Along for the ride is Mrs. Parr (Claire Eames) and her stepdaughter. Near the French coast, Billy discovers that Mrs. Parr wants to arrange a marriage between him and the girl, so he escapes and takes a lifeboat ashore.
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The Goose Woman
Title: The Goose Woman
Character: Reporter
Released: August 2, 1925
Type: Movie
A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story in order to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
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The Lawful Cheater
Title: The Lawful Cheater
Character: Johnny Burns
Released: July 17, 1925
Type: Movie
Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow path.
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The Great Divide
Title: The Great Divide
Character: Shorty
Released: February 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.
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The Devil's Cargo
Title: The Devil's Cargo
Character: Jerry Dugan
Released: February 2, 1925
Type: Movie
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper. He is determined to clear the town of the low-down mining camp types who are flaunting their freewheeling ways. When Joyce meets Faro Sampson, he falls in love, believing that she is the daughter of a minister. Actually she's the daughter of the man who runs a gambling den, "Square Deal" Sampson.
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Smouldering Fires
Title: Smouldering Fires
Character: Mugsy
Released: January 18, 1925
Type: Movie
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
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Scarem Much
Title: Scarem Much
Character: Edison Watts - Violet's Suitor
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.
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No More Women
Title: No More Women
Character: Tex
Released: February 15, 1924
Type: Movie
When Matt Moore was thrown over by vamp Kathleen Cliffford, he resolved to have no more women in his life. But he didn't take account of wealthy Mage Bellamy who is determined to pursue him until he marries her.
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Through the Dark
Title: Through the Dark
Character: Travel
Released: January 6, 1924
Type: Movie
Through the Dark is a 1924 silent mystery drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures. It is based on a short story "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" by Jack Boyle
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Flip Flops
Title: Flip Flops
Character: Professor Whiz - Magician
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
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The Eternal Three
Title: The Eternal Three
Character: Bob Gray
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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The Nth Commandment
Title: The Nth Commandment
Character: Max Plute
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
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Little Church Around the Corner
Title: Little Church Around the Corner
Character: Jude Burrows
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 Shriek of Araby
Title: The Shriek of Araby
Character: Presto the Magician
Released: March 4, 1923
Type: Movie
An employee in a theater showing Valentino's "The Shiek" daydreams about himself playing Valentino's role.
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Quicksands
Title: Quicksands
Character: Matt Patterson
Released: February 28, 1923
Type: Movie
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina suspected of being the headquarters of the dope ring.
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Suzanna
Title: Suzanna
Character: Miguel
Released: February 16, 1923
Type: Movie
Hoping to consolidate their adjoining ranches, Don Fernando and Don Diego betroth their children, Ramón and Dolores, although Ramón is in love with Suzanna, the daughter of a peon on his father's ranch, and Dolores is interested in Pancho, a toreador. When Suzanna learns that she was kidnapped in infancy and is really Don Diego's daughter, she keeps silent; but Ramón finally rebels and steals Suzanna from the altar as she is about to marry Pancho. There are explanations, Ramón marries Suzanna, and Dolores marries Pancho. Suzanna (1923) has been mastered from a good quality but incomplete 35mm print.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Released: February 9, 1923
Type: Movie
While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
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Turn to the Right
Title: Turn to the Right
Character: Mugsy
Released: January 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Joe is the son of a poor widow and in love with the daughter of the town’s richest and meanest man. The couple is determined to marry and plan their “dream house.”
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The Glorious Fool
Title: The Glorious Fool
Character: Al
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Billy Grant, a wealthy young playboy, drunkenly crashes his car and appears near death. Afraid that his greedy and unpleasant relatives will get his estate, he convinces his nurse, Jane Brown, to marry him. When Billy regains his health, Jane finds herself in a situation she never imagined nor intended.
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For Those We Love
Title: For Those We Love
Character: Bert
Released: September 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
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The Fox
Title: The Fox
Character: K.C. Kid
Released: July 24, 1921
Type: Movie
Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a job as a porter in the bank. Santa Fe learns that the leading banker, Coulter, is in league with a band of outlaws, and when Coulter frames Dick Farwell, Annette's fiancé, Dick is suspected of robbery and is captured by the outlaws.
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I Am Guilty
Title: I Am Guilty
Character: Dillon
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Connie (Louise Glaum) is married to attorney Robert MacNair (Mahlon Hamilton). When he leaves town on a business trip, her friend from the old days, Molly May (May Hopkins), invites her to a party. Connie, who misses her old life, decides to go under an assumed name. Teddy Garrick, the host (Joseph Kilgour), makes a play for her and she burns her shoulder trying to get away from him. Dillon, a burglar who is hiding in the house (George Cooper), surreptitiously presses a gun into Connie's hand from behind a curtain. As Garrick comes toward her he is shot dead.
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Chains of Evidence
Title: Chains of Evidence
Character: George Brownlow
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Edith Sturgis, the daughter of a judge, returns from studies abroad to find her widowed father remarried. The new Mrs. Sturgis does not reveal that she has a son Dick, once unjustly jailed by Judge Sturgis, but now working as a reporter while still maintaining an association with the Brownlow gang. Quarrelling with her stepmother, Edith leaves home, meets Dick and falls in love.
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The Birth of a Soul
Title: The Birth of a Soul
Character: Joe Barlow
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Mountain families feud.
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Anne of Green Gables
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Released: November 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
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The Dark Star
Title: The Dark Star
Character: Mr. Brandes
Released: August 3, 1919
Type: Movie
A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Character: Valdor
Released: May 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher." Sophie, leader of a band of revolutionaries, attempts to assassinate Karatoff but accidentally wounds his son Paul instead.
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A Night Out
Title: A Night Out
Character: Waldo Deacon
Released: January 31, 1916
Type: Movie
A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out.
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From Out of the Big Snows
Title: From Out of the Big Snows
Character: Jean
Released: September 25, 1915
Type: Movie
Harris, a young adventurer into the big snows of the Northwest, through an accident, becomes a great friend of Dr. Brandon, who warns him against his fascination for Marie, woman of the dance hall. He tells him of Jean, her half-breed lover, and that he is a bad man. Harris disregards this and Jean, returning from a trapping expedition, finds Marie in his arms. Concealing his hatred, he contrives a fiendish plan, and in pursuance of this, wins the friendship of Harris.
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The Greater Motive
Title: The Greater Motive
Character: Jimmy Kelly
Released: July 30, 1915
Type: Movie
Bob Hammond, a promising young boxer, is taken east by his manager to meet some of the better men in his class. Bob promises his sweetheart, Maggie Dowling, he will return and marry her. In the past he becomes champion in his class, and is known as "The Battler."
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Four Grains of Rice
Title: Four Grains of Rice
Released: June 12, 1915
Type: Movie
The leader of "The Sons of the Brazen Joss," one of the Tongs, or Chinese social organizations, is murdered by Moy Wong, cunning leader of The Four Grains of Rice," a Tong of higher class and bitter enemies of the "Sons." Sworn to vengeance, the "Sons" await an opportunity to get even.
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In the Days of Famine
Title: In the Days of Famine
Character: Lt. Walker, R.C.M.P.
Released: May 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who have died of the dreaded smallpox. In one of them he finds Jeanette, a little girl, who, by some miracle, has escaped the plague.
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Pawns of Mars
Title: Pawns of Mars
Character: Rizo Turbal - the Spy
Released: April 24, 1915
Type: Movie
Conducting experiments with a new explosive of tremendous power, Dr. Lefone, a celebrated chemist, receives a visit from Rizo Turbal, secretly acting as spy for the emperor of a foreign country. Lefone's friend, John Temple, is experimenting with a discovery he has made of a new wireless wave, with which he expects to explode bombs at long range.
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The Wheels of Justice
Title: The Wheels of Justice
Character: 'Red' Hall, the Burglar
Released: April 22, 1915
Type: Movie
Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality. They plan to run away together but while Rita is taking a large sum of money from her husband's safe, he returns early from a business trip and a fight ensues which results in her husband's death.
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A Fortune Hunter
Title: A Fortune Hunter
Released: March 31, 1915
Type: Movie
When Rupert's uncle tells him he must quit his writing and offers him a real job in his tannery, the young man rises in his wrath and dramatically leaves his uncle's home, saying that he will go forth to the big city and carve out his fortune with his pen. After many hardships and cold rebuffs from the cruel publishers and editors he begins to despair
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A Wireless Rescue
Title: A Wireless Rescue
Character: Jim Burke
Released: March 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A romance of the rail, this two-part "thriller" uses wireless telegraphy as the means of averting a disaster to an express train.
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Twice Rescued
Title: Twice Rescued
Character: Godfrey Royston - Elder Son
Released: February 20, 1915
Type: Movie
Saved from a terrible shipwreck by Stephan Royston, son of a farmer. Nana, orphaned by the catastrophe, is adopted by the family and the two sons, Stephan and Godfrey, fall in love with her. Stephan's artistic tendency for painting, etc., is classed as foolishness by his stern father, while Godfrey, realizing that the girl favors his brother, determines to get rid of him.
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A Madcap Adventure
Title: A Madcap Adventure
Released: February 19, 1915
Type: Movie
Willfull, headstrong and inclined to be sporty, but withal, a very lovable girl, Thomasin Webb (called Tommy for short) keeps her Aunt Sarah, with whom she lives, on the jump. Guy Dunbar becomes deeply interested in Tommy, first from a psychological point of view, then fascinated by her personality. George Hilton, a society rounder, is after Tommy's money
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Title: The Man, the Mission and the Maid
Character: Bert Peyson
Released: January 17, 1915
Type: Movie
Living in adjoining homes at Oakdale, Hal Oilman and Alice Blanchard are childhood friends and playmates. Some years later. Hal goes to college, and while there makes a bitter enemy of Bert Peyson by exposing him as a card cheat and a thief.
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The Greater Love
Title: The Greater Love
Character: Phillip Lane
Released: December 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Shortly after the engagement of John Brown and Hope Avery is announced, he receives an offer of a fine position in South America. She demurs at his going, but he overcomes her objections and after a tender farewell, leaves her with the promise to return within a year and make her his wife. Philip Lane is injured in an auto accident near the Avery home, and Hope discovers him. She has him taken to her home and during his convalescence, he falls deeply in love with her.
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Saved from a Life of Crime
Title: Saved from a Life of Crime
Character: Jack Bonner
Released: December 1, 1914
Type: Movie
Becoming imbued with a lawless spirit, Tom, a street waif of twelve, holds up an old woman with a toy pistol, robs her of a dollar and gets away. Exhibiting the money to some of his companions, the boy proceeds to give them all an ice cream treat. The feast is interrupted by the police, who nab Tom.
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Netty or Letty
Title: Netty or Letty
Character: The Bellboy
Released: November 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Twins in all but disposition, Netty and Letty quarrel continually. Letty goes to spend a few days at a friend's cottage at a nearby summer resort. Netty also goes later. Freddy meets Netty and they are mutually attracted. They are not allowed to be together much, however, as they are always being interrupted.
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Within an Ace
Title: Within an Ace
Character: Jack Heriot
Released: October 31, 1914
Type: Movie
On shipboard, Edwin Forrester, a middle-aged Scotchman, makes the acquaintance of Tom Munroe, a confidence man. Forrester discloses the fact that he is going to visit his ranch in western America, also that he has but one relative, a niece, Ethel, in England." Munroe's greed aroused, he determines to kill Forrester, then gain possession of his property
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The Love of Pierre Larosse
Title: The Love of Pierre Larosse
Character: Pierre Larosse
Released: October 1, 1914
Type: Movie
When Pierre Larosse, a trapper, calls on his sweetheart, Jeanne Coudert, to present her with the skin of a silver fox, he finds a stranger. Jacques Javillier, at the Coudert cabin. Jealousy is aroused between the two men by the girl's evident preference for the stranger. Pere Coudert, her father, is called away and announces that one of the men must accompany him.
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Regan's Daughter
Title: Regan's Daughter
Character: Tom Dawson - Strongarm
Released: September 29, 1914
Type: Movie
Known as a saloon-keeper, a politician and a bad man, Regan becomes the sworn enemy of Phil Riordan, a young headquarters detective. The only bright spot in Regan's life is his love for his daughter, Mary, who is being brought up in the Tennessee hills in ignorance of her father's character.
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The Unwritten Play
Title: The Unwritten Play
Character: Paul Hesseltine - the Suitor
Released: September 7, 1914
Type: Movie
A new theatrical star is born when Ivy Liversedge, daughter of Silas, an unsuccessful playwright, scores a big success in Paul Hesseltine's new play, "The Fatal Silence." Paul falls in love with Ivy. but her father exhibits an intense dislike for him at their very first meeting.
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The Wheat and the Tares
Title: The Wheat and the Tares
Character: George Collins
Released: August 15, 1914
Type: Movie
In a game of cards, Stillwell, a young Southerner, incurs the hatred of Collins, an unscrupulous scoundrel. Seeing a chance for a double revenge, Collins goes to LaVinge, father of Edith, with whom Stillwell is in love, and demands payment of an old gambling debt.
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The Apple
Title: The Apple
Released: July 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Promising to send for his sweetheart Roza, when he gets settled, Hugo Hunfalvy leaves Hungary for America. In New York he meets Louis Kaplan, an old friend, who owns a fruit store. Louis' sister, Marie, is pretty and flirtatious, and is much impressed by Hugo. He soon falls under the influence of her wiles and buys part interest in Louis' store.
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The Soul of Luigi
Title: The Soul of Luigi
Character: Tonio
Released: July 13, 1914
Type: Movie
In the poor Italian quarter of New York lives Luigi, an Italian peasant and inventor, who is so absorbed in his work that he greatly neglects his wife, Nedda. She is younger than he and fond of pleasure. Not understanding his neglect, she strongly resents it.
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The False and the True
Title: The False and the True
Character: Dick Saunders
Released: July 6, 1914
Type: Movie
Betty, the only daughter of Jenkins, a wealthy farmer, is secretly loved by Tom Saunders, a farm hand. Tom's scapegrace brother, Dick, returns from the city and is befriended by Tom. Dick later wins Betty's love. While Jenkins is blasting out a tree stump with dynamite, Betty and Dick are passing close by unnoticed, and the explosion destroys Betty's sight.
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The Toll
Title: The Toll
Character: Antonio Perino
Released: July 4, 1914
Type: Movie
While traveling in Italy, John Steele, a young American millionaire, is kidnapped by Antonio Perino, and fellow members of the Camorra. They demand an immense ransom, but he defies them. Marta, Antonio's wife, feels sorry for Steele. She is left to guard the prisoner alone and Steele induces her to help him escape.
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The Hero
Title: The Hero
Released: February 25, 1914
Type: Movie
Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maude is simply crazy about him. She will not consider the attentions of Syd, her brother Bert's pal. One day Maude sits dreaming in the parlor, a book of daring adventures lying open in her lap. Syd enters and tries to make love to her.
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He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law
Title: He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law
Released: August 28, 1913
Type: Movie
That the way to a man's heart is by means of his appetite, is strikingly shown. Mother-in-law comes to visit the newly wedded couple and finds the young man somewhat discontented. It is no wonder, for his wife is so engrossed in her "art," although only an amateur, that she forgets all about cooking dinner and such like trivialities.
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The Butler's Secret
Title: The Butler's Secret
Character: Barrow's Son
Released: June 6, 1913
Type: Movie
After a serious quarrel with his father concerning his debts, Wallace Dixon leaves the house in anger, declaring that he will live his life as beat pleases him. That night, Alfred Dixon, the father, hears a noise by the safe in his bedroom, where he is sleeping, and shoots at the intruder who escapes unharmed.
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Cupid Through a Keyhole
Title: Cupid Through a Keyhole
Released: May 24, 1913
Type: Movie
While making preparations for the entertainment of Aunt Maria, who had announced her arrival by telegram, Lila Lane gets herself shut in the storeroom. Here she is found later by her sweetheart, Harry Eschert, who has returned for some forgotten papers.
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The Skull
Title: The Skull
Character: A Robber
Released: May 2, 1913
Type: Movie
Just as the bead clerk and his assistants are closing up the jewelry store for the day, a package containing a very costly necklace arrives by special messenger. The large safe deposit vault has been closed for the night and the time clock set. The head clerk is fearful to leave the necklace in the store and so decides to take it home. His actions have been closely watched by one of the junior clerks, with sinister and stealthy glances.
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Getting Up a Practice
Title: Getting Up a Practice
Character: Jack - One of the Doctor's Friends
Released: March 27, 1913
Type: Movie
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his misery, his sweetheart's father, Mr. Irving, distinctly objects to Emily, his daughter, marrying Bob until he has a practice.
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The Mouse and the Lion
Title: The Mouse and the Lion
Character: A Gangster
Released: March 17, 1913
Type: Movie
John Burling, a detective, rounds up some members of the Night Hawk gang. Bill Hanks, the chief, swears to get even with him. Tim, a little street waif, entering the saloon where the gang are consulting with Maime, a female accomplice, overhears some of their threats. He is discovered and kicked out of the place by Hanks. The next day, Tim, half starving, picks up a purse in the street which he has seen a lady drop. He is tempted to steal it, but in the end gives it back to her. Burling sees this, is struck with the boy's honesty, and being in need of a page boy, hires him and dubs him "Buttons."' Maime visits Burling and leaves him an address to come to investigate a robbery which has occurred at her home. Tim recognizes her as she goes out, follows her and has his suspicions confirmed by seeing her with one of the gang on the street. He goes to warn his master, but Burling has already gone.
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Stenographer Troubles
Title: Stenographer Troubles
Character: Office Employee
Released: February 6, 1913
Type: Movie
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office.
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Two of a Kind
Title: Two of a Kind
Character: George
Released: January 9, 1913
Type: Movie
So much alike, you can't tell t'other from which, Edna and Alice, two twins, are receiving the attentions of two young friends, Wallie and George. Edna receives her caller in the front parlor and Alice in the back parlor.
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Lessons in Courtship
Title: Lessons in Courtship
Character: Billy
Released: December 1, 1912
Type: Movie
A farce in which Dick Edna wants to learn the art of seduction, and takes lessons for this from the brother of his beloved.
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The Mills of the Gods
Title: The Mills of the Gods
Character: Tano, an Instrument of Lorenzo's
Released: November 4, 1912
Type: Movie
A silent crime film in which the wealthy landowner Lorenzo, who has been taunting poor Miguel and his family for years, eventually gets his comeuppance.
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The Toymaker
Title: The Toymaker
Character: Bert Avery
Released: October 24, 1912
Type: Movie
An old German toymaker, Hans Greyburg, living in a little flat on the east side of New York, while engaged one day making and dressing dolls, is visited by Dot Avery, the little girl from the flat above. He is fond of children and makes friends with her and gives her an old doll.
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The Adventure of the Italian Model
Title: The Adventure of the Italian Model
Character: Luigi - the Model's Rejected Suitor
Released: September 21, 1912
Type: Movie
Master detective, Lambert Chase, unravels a case of poisoning
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At the Eleventh Hour
Title: At the Eleventh Hour
Character: A confidence man
Released: August 6, 1912
Type: Movie
Much ado about a necklace - short film based on the story "The String of Pearls"
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The Cross Roads
Title: The Cross Roads
Character: Kirke Dundee
Released: August 6, 1912
Type: Movie
A melodrama about a girl who has to marry the landlord in order to save her parents’ home.
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Wanted, a Sister
Title: Wanted, a Sister
Character: Bunch
Released: July 22, 1912
Type: Movie
In the college play, Tom and his room-mate, "Bunch," take prominent and successful parts, Tom as the hero and "Bunch" as the heroine, in which he is an excellent female impersonator. The day after the performance, "Bunch" makes an engagement to take a real chorus girl to dinner. Unexpectedly his mother comes to college to visit him and he makes Tom take the girl.
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The Foster Child
Title: The Foster Child
Character: Dick Kasper - the Son
Released: July 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Caspar, home-loving, industrious people, long for a little one to bless their lives and their home. Their hopes are not in vain. One night, when they are sitting in the quiet, they hear the voice of a baby. Mr. Caspar, opening the door, finds a deserted child lying on the door-step. Tenderly lifting it in his arms, he brings it to his wife, who cares and nurtures it with a mother's love. Their adopted child is just one year old when a son is born to Mrs. Caspar, and an added joy comes to bless their union.
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The Cylinder's Secret
Title: The Cylinder's Secret
Character: Dave
Released: June 17, 1912
Type: Movie
Employed as secretary to Howard Abele, Marjorie Abbott attracts the attention of Sydney, her employer's son, who falls desperately in love with her. Mr. Abele is strenuously opposed to their marriage and he quarrels with his son. Marjorie has a half-brother, Dave, who is of an inventive turn of mind.
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The Picture Idol
Title: The Picture Idol
Character: Howard's Room-Mate
Released: May 31, 1912
Type: Movie
A short comedy about a girl (played by Clara Kimball Young) who is in love with a movie star (Maurice Costello) and who follows him everywhere. Her parents want to teach her ​​a lesson, and invite the actor to their home.
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Fortunes of a Composer
Title: Fortunes of a Composer
Character: Man in Tavern (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1912
Type: Movie
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone.
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Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Title: Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Character: Ruffian
Released: March 13, 1912
Type: Movie
Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very cranky and very gouty. Henry Hawkins, a young coster, and Bill Brown, a teacher of boxing, and an ex-pugilist, are both in love with Liza. Old Clayton favors Bill, because he is well off. Liza likes Henry, and they meet down near the old church and do their love-making. Bill lays siege to Liza, offering her presents, which she refuses. At last he offers to take her to a music hall and she yields and goes with him. There they are seen by Hawkins, who becomes furiously jealous and upbraids Liza. She loses her temper and claims the right to do as she likes. Henry on this swears he will fight Bill, and Liza tells him not to be a fool, that Bill could lick him with one hand, and they part in anger. Hawkins meets Bill and challenges him. The result is a foregone conclusion. Poor Hawkins is knocked out and laid up in bed for repairs, tended by his landlady.
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The Struggle
Title: The Struggle
Character: Jerry Grafton
Released: February 19, 1912
Type: Movie
Howard Peyton served two years for forgery. Jerry Grafton, a genteel crook, is on the lookout for him when Howard comes out of prison. He is met at the jail door by his young wife. Jerry also meets him and offers him help, but urged on by his wife, Howard refuses it. When they reach home, his wife, who has a little money, induces him to go to New York and start life anew, and send, for her when he has a position. In New York, he manages to obtain a position in the office of Arthur Jamieson, an importer. Howard sends for his wife to join him. While he is waiting, Grafton finds him and insists that he forge his employer's name, or he will expose his past offense. Naturally weak, Howard yields.
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The Meeting of the Ways
Title: The Meeting of the Ways
Character: A Thief
Released: January 12, 1912
Type: Movie
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and graduates with honors, while Dick is expelled from college through misbehavior. Dick is ashamed to go home, but before leaving Tom gives him a locket containing a picture of their mother. Ten years later Tom, who is a successful lawyer, is married and has two little children. Dick, who has now been reduced through personal neglect to a derelict, overhears a plan to rob his brother's house. Making up his mind to prevent it, Dick climbs through the nursery window, catches the burglars, but effects their escape. His two little nieces, who have been watching him, kiss and hug him before he makes his exit. When their parents return from the reception they attended, the children relate to them what had happened. Dick gets into a scrape with a gambler a month or two later, who laughs at the miniature of his mother that Dick puts up in lieu of cash.
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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.