Marc McDermott

Marc McDermott

Born: July 24, 1881
Died: January 5, 1929
in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Marc McDermott was an Australian actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death.

Movies for Marc McDermott...

The Whip
Title: The Whip
Character: Lord Beverly
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
Lord Brancaster, a decent and upright British nobleman, loses his memory in an accident. While in this amnesiac condition, he becomes involved with the training of a horse, the Whip, for racing at Ascot.
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The Yellow Lily
Title: The Yellow Lily
Character: Archduke Peter
Released: May 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
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Glorious Betsy
Title: Glorious Betsy
Character: Col. Patterson
Released: April 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talking sequences, along with the by now usual Vitaphone musical score and sound effects. A copy of this film survives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., but the sound disks are lost.
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Man, Woman and Sin
Title: Man, Woman and Sin
Character: Bancroft
Released: November 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy himself and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man's affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
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The Road to Romance
Title: The Road to Romance
Character: Popolo
Released: October 8, 1927
Type: Movie
The beautiful Serafina is captured by Balthasar's pirates on an island near Cuba, but the redoubtable José Armando arrives from Spain to effect her rescue.
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California
Title: California
Character: Drachano
Released: May 7, 1927
Type: Movie
"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former all ardent and the latter defiant because of the fact that their countries are at war. Coincident with the American victory is the successful conquest by the 'gringo' of the girl's heart."
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Major Schoenboch
Released: March 19, 1927
Type: Movie
Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.
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The Taxi Dancer
Title: The Taxi Dancer
Character: Henry Brierhalter
Released: February 5, 1927
Type: Movie
A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.
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Flesh and the Devil
Title: Flesh and the Devil
Character: Count von Rhaden
Released: December 25, 1926
Type: Movie
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
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The Temptress
Title: The Temptress
Character: M. Fontenoy
Released: October 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
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The Love Thief
Title: The Love Thief
Character: Prince Karl
Released: June 13, 1926
Type: Movie
To avert war between their countries an official marriage is arranged between Crown Prince Boris of Moraine and Princess Flavia of Norvia. Prince Karl of Norvia sees in the alliance an opportunity to gain control of both kingdoms but upon visiting Boris finds him unyielding and independent. Flavia, shedding her stately dignity in the palace garden, is accosted by the flirtatious Boris, who believes her to be the princess' cousin; and falling in love, he realizes that he cannot go through with the planned marriage.
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The Lucky Lady
Title: The Lucky Lady
Character: Franz Garletz
Released: April 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome young American, and it's love at first sight. Meanwhile, in the Princess' home country, the Prime Minister plots to quell a rebellion by arranging a marriage between Antoinette and the Grand Duke.
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Kiki
Title: Kiki
Character: Baron Rapp
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
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Siege
Title: Siege
Released: September 27, 1925
Type: Movie
A stern old woman, who owns the largest factory in a small town and has ruled both the factory and the town with an iron hand, finds herself battling with the wife of her nephew, the man she has picked to succeed her.
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Graustark
Title: Graustark
Character: Prince Gabriel
Released: August 30, 1925
Type: Movie
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a dastardly prince.
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The Goose Woman
Title: The Goose Woman
Character: Amos Ethridge
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 Lady
Title: The Lady
Character: Mr. Wendover
Released: February 8, 1925
Type: Movie
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, loses what little money he has left gambling in casinos and then dies, leaving her penniless and with an infant son. When her former father-in-law tries to get custody of the child, she leaves him with a couple she trusts, but when she later goes to reclaim her son, she can't find the people she left him with.
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He Who Gets Slapped
Title: He Who Gets Slapped
Character: Baron Regnard
Released: December 22, 1924
Type: Movie
Up-and-coming scientist Paul Benedict is betrayed by his mentor, the Baron Regnard, who not only steals discoveries but also his wife Marie. Benedict, reeling from his pain, joins a circus sideshow in order to become the most famous clown in France. He becomes infatuated with Consuelo, a showgirl, who has become the recipient of affections by the Baron.
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This Woman
Title: This Woman
Character: Stratini
Released: November 2, 1924
Type: Movie
This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and starring Irene Rich, Ricardo Cortez, Louise Fazenda, Frank Elliott, Creighton Hale, and Marc McDermott. Based on the 1924 novel This Woman by Howard Rockey, it was released by Warner Bros. on November 2, 1924.
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The Sea Hawk
Title: The Sea Hawk
Character: Sir John Killigrew
Released: June 14, 1924
Type: Movie
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Title: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
Character: Sir Malcolm Vernon
Released: May 24, 1924
Type: Movie
In the year 1550, Sir George Vernon agrees to have his young daughter Dorothy betrothed to John Manners, the son of the Earl of Rutland. Sir George signs a contract, promising that the marriage will take place on Dorothy's 18th birthday, or else he will have to pay a large penalty to Rutland. But when the two children have grown older, rumors of John's wild behavior in France provoke Sir George to call off the engagement, and to pledge his daughter instead to her cousin Malcolm. Rutland now claims the forfeit from Sir George, and meanwhile, John has befriended Mary Stuart, the sworn enemy of Elizabeth, who is now Queen of England.
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Hoodman Blind
Title: Hoodman Blind
Character: John Linden
Released: December 20, 1923
Type: Movie
It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon and a 1916 William Farnum Fox feature titled A Man of Sorrow and based on the play Hoodman Blind.
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Lucretia Lombard
Title: Lucretia Lombard
Character: Sir Allen Lombard
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 Satin Girl
Title: The Satin Girl
Character: Fargo
Released: November 30, 1923
Type: Movie
The Satin Girl is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Mabel Forrest, Norman Kerry and Marc McDermott.
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The Spanish Jade
Title: The Spanish Jade
Character: Don Luis Ramónez de Alavia
Released: April 10, 1922
Type: Movie
When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.
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Footlights
Title: Footlights
Character: Oswald Kane
Released: October 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Exotic Russian actress Lisa Parsinova tires of her glamorous life on the New York stage and returns, under her actual identity as Lizzie Parsons, to her small New England hometown. But she is pursued by a young man who is in love with the famed Russian alter ego.
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Miss 139
Title: Miss 139
Character: Prof. John Breede
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
France is being swamped by counterfeit bills that are being made by a ring in the US. A beautiful female member of the French gang circulating the bills negotiates a deal with the counterfeiters' ringleader in the US, and in so doing falls in love with a returning US soldier who has his own reasons for trying to destroy the gang.
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While New York Sleeps
Title: While New York Sleeps
Character: Strange Visitor / The Man / The Paralytic
Released: August 23, 1920
Type: Movie
An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.
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Even as Eve
Title: Even as Eve
Character: O'Hara
Released: January 15, 1920
Type: Movie
Eileen O'Hara lives as a member of a cult in a remote retreat in the Adirondacks with her father, an embittered man since his wife's infidelity years earlier. Because his wife was untrue, O'Hara is determined that his daughter, Eileen, shall never marry. Peyster Sproul was the man who had the affair Mrs. O'Hara's infidelity, and when he shows up as president of the Sagamore Club and attempts to buy O'Hara's land, the two men come to blows.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Stephen Lee
Released: August 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Mrs. Philip Mason commits suicide after she has an affair with Stephen Lee, a disreputable stockbroker, and sells her husband's securities so that Lee can buy stocks. When Lee goes bankrupt, he blackmails Helen Trent by threatening to reveal silly love letters she wrote to him before she married. Her brother, Willy Grosby, and his fiancée, Helen O'Neil, who lives with the Grosbys, go to retrieve the letters. While Willy waits outside, Lee is knifed to death as he attacks Helen. Lee's friend, Edward Wales, attempts to pin the murder on Helen by having Madame LaFarge, a clairvoyant, conduct a séance. In the darkened room, Wales, through whom Lee's spirit supposedly speaks, is about to name Helen as the murderer, but Wales, who sits in the thirteenth chair, is himself murdered. After Helen confesses to Inspector Donohue that Madame LaFarge is her mother, LaFarge, while conducting another séance, tricks Philip Mason into confessing to the murders.
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Kathleen Mavourneen
Title: Kathleen Mavourneen
Released: August 19, 1919
Type: Movie
Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and forces her father to allow him to marry her to forgive the father's debt.
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The New Moon
Title: The New Moon
Character: Vasili Lazoff
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign government, becomes dictator and, desiring the princess, issues an edict that all women between the ages of seventeen and thirty-two must register and become state property.
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Buchanan's Wife
Title: Buchanan's Wife
Character: Herbert Buchanan
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Beatrix marries Herbert Buchanan while under his hypnotic trance, although she really loves Harry Faring. When Herbert learns of his wife's love for Harry, he disappears with Kansas, a tramp. Soon after, Beatrix falsely identifies a body at the morgue as her husband's and marries Harry, but when Herbert, still alive though ill and demented, appears at her door with Kansas, she confesses her lie to her new husband. Kansas' plans to blackmail Beatrix are ruined when Harry visits the two tramps, and Herbert, now dying of tuberculosis, pleads with Kansas to leave the couple in peace. Kansas agrees, and after Herbert's death, Beatrix and Harry return to a normal life. - From AFI
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The Girl of Today
Title: The Girl of Today
Character: Dr. Wolff
Released: September 23, 1918
Type: Movie
During World War I, the beautiful and patriotic Leslie Selden is courted by two ardent admirers: Jack Wynn, a young man not yet taken by the draft, and Dr. Wolff, a Danish scientist who, in reality, is a German agent. When Jack learns that Wolff is masterminding a plot to bomb several munitions factories and destroy the water system in New York City, he goes to the spy's home and confronts him.
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Mary Jane's Pa
Title: Mary Jane's Pa
Character: Hiram Perkins
Released: August 13, 1917
Type: Movie
After wandering the world for fifteen years, Hiram Perkins returns home to find his wife running a small town newspaper to support their two daughters. With pity in her heart, Mrs. Perkins allows her husband to stay in the house providing that he not disclose his identity. Mrs. Perkins is waging a battle against the re-election of Joel Skinner for a seat in the assembly, and when she learns that Skinner has mistreated old Mrs. Miller, she is determined to expose his actions. Rome Preston, running in opposition to Skinner, requests that she stop the story, but Mrs. Perkins refuses and so Preston disables the press. With Hiram's help, Mrs. Perkins prints the story and Skinner is defeated. In revenge, Skinner's men burn the press and demand that Hiram be tarred and feathered. At this moment, Mrs. Perkins acknowledges that Hiram is her husband and all is forgiven as the Perkins family is reunited. - From IMDB
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The Sixteenth Wife
Title: The Sixteenth Wife
Character: Kadir El Raschid
Released: May 14, 1917
Type: Movie
Though the Turk has 15 wives, he yearns to make our heroine his 16th.
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The Last Sentence
Title: The Last Sentence
Character: George Crosby
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
George Crosby, a New York lawyer, with a passion for painting, wearied of his legal duties, sails for Brittany, where he meets Renée Kerouac, a fisher-maiden, and sketches her as a Corregan, a fairy who destroys the men who refuse her love. Hoel Kalloc, her betrothed, becomes jealous, and George marries her, after saving her from Hoel's brutality.
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The Price of Fame
Title: The Price of Fame
Character: John Thatcher / William Thatcher
Released: November 13, 1916
Type: Movie
They were twins, and the passing years had in the sifting melting-pot of life. William looms brilliantly, a success, while John is deep in the discouraging shadows, a failure. Another span of fleeting years, and William attains the summit of a meteoric career; he is a candidate for the United States Senate.
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The Man Who Disappeared
Title: The Man Who Disappeared
Released: April 7, 1914
Type: Movie
Film serial directed by Charles Brabin.
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With The Eyes Of The Blind
Title: With The Eyes Of The Blind
Character: James Horton
Released: April 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Short silent drama
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The Portrait
Title: The Portrait
Character: Paul Le Grand
Released: March 18, 1913
Type: Movie
Not "as in a looking glass" but "as in his own portrait" in a dream does Paul Le Grand, the famous artist, see the lines of dissipation come, one by one, after each successive debauch.
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The Man He Might Have Been
Title: The Man He Might Have Been
Character: The Principal
Released: January 20, 1913
Type: Movie
A son wants more out of life, but Dad does not.
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Lady Clare
Title: Lady Clare
Character: Lord Ronald
Released: December 17, 1912
Type: Movie
A Lord weds a Lady despite knowledge of her lowly birth.
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A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
Title: A Suffragette in Spite of Himself
Character: The Gentleman
Released: October 30, 1912
Type: Movie
A gentleman who's opposed to and mocks women's suffrage goes for a walk and unknowingly becomes an advertisement for it.
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When She Was About Sixteen
Title: When She Was About Sixteen
Character: The Rugged Old Farmer - Sue's Father
Released: July 30, 1912
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about two lovers; the parents of the girl forbid them from being together.
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What Happened to Mary
Title: What Happened to Mary
Character: Lt. Straker
Released: July 25, 1912
Type: Movie
The forerunner of all serials, What Happened to Mary was a series of twelve monthly one reel episodes, each a complete entity in itself, revolving its immediate dramatic and melodramatic problems within the framework of a single episode and designed more for story and suspense situations than action.
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His Daughter
Title: His Daughter
Character: Mr. Thompson
Released: February 13, 1912
Type: Movie
William Thompson slips away to New York, leaving his wife and daughter to shift for themselves. He obtains a station and finally becomes head waiter in one of the gay restaurants of the Great White Way. As years slip by his daughter becomes star-struck. Harry Valentine, the manager, notices her pretty face and tries to take her from town with him, although he has no position in the company to offer her. This she declines, but when he later writes her that he will marry her if she will come to New York and will also place her on the stage, she decides to leave her mother and accept the offer. Of course, Valentine has no intention of marrying her and when he meets her in New York he takes her for a little supper at the restaurant before the supposititious wedding ceremony and thus Thompson is brought face to face with his daughter.
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Papa's Sweetheart
Title: Papa's Sweetheart
Character: The Widower
Released: December 26, 1911
Type: Movie
In the first scene we see a group of children at a window waiting for the arrival of their father. Following this we learn that the little family lacks a mother. The next scene brings us to a theater-box party. The father of the little family meets another woman. It soon becomes evident that he intends to marry again and at last he brings this other woman to the house. While he is present, she seems to be fond of the children, but once he is out of the room we see that her fondness is hardly skin-deep. Soon the mother's picture is removed from over the fireplace and evidently the new wedding will take place. Little Margaret, taking care of the children, finds them hard to amuse one day, and going up into the garret, finds some old clothes, in which they all dress. By chance she puts on the very costume which was used when her mother posed for the big portrait, now absent from its place over the mantel, and so it happens that when the father comes home at night.
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Monsieur
Title: Monsieur
Released: April 3, 1911
Type: Movie
Monsieur is a prosperous man in Paris, and is just sending his young daughter to complete her education at one of the nearby convents. From the affection shown between father and daughter it is evident that her mother no longer survives. News reaches him of the disaster which sweeps away his entire fortune and leaves him penniless. He writes to his daughter and tells her of the great change in their affairs, and that America seems the only hope of retrieving his fortunes. In New York, we find that he has taken a very modest little apartment, to which he, months later, brings the daughter, who takes up her share of the work and does the cooking. She receives an invitation from a girl chum to attend a party, where she meets the girl's brother, with whom she falls in love. When he and his sister come to call at the little apartment they are welcomed by Monsieur, but as the old man has an engagement at the club, departs.
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Aida
Title: Aida
Released: January 2, 1911
Type: Movie
Aida, daughter of the King of Ethiopia, having fallen a prisoner into the hands of the Egyptians, is given as a slave by their king to his daughter Amneris who, captivated by the grace and beauty of the unknown maid, takes her into favor. Radames, a young captain of the king's guards, loved by Amneris, suspecting a rival in her slave, swears to be avenged. Meanwhile war is again declared between Egypt and Ethiopia and Radames, appointed leader of the army by the High Priest of Isis, is invested with the sacred arms and departs to fight the Ethiopians who, headed by their king, have invaded Egypt. Radames defeats them and returns victorious, followed by the prisoners, among whom is the king himself, disguised as an officer.
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A Christmas Carol
Title: A Christmas Carol
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: December 23, 1910
Type: Movie
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
Title: The Stenographer's Friend; Or, What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph
Released: September 28, 1910
Type: Movie
It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the demands on her skills. Even when she stays late, she cannot catch up with all of the work. But then a man comes into the office to demonstrate the many advantages of the Edison System, his company's new business phonograph.
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The Attack on the Mill
Title: The Attack on the Mill
Released: August 12, 1910
Type: Movie
First, the eye is introduced to the old mill itself, with a gay betrothal party in progress, and laughter and merriment on all sides. Suddenly the laughter is hushed by the martial tread of feet, and the smile of joy fades from the two young lovers' faces as the French soldiers march into the courtyard and prepare to defend the mill against the oncoming attack of the German army. The mild summer afternoon has but half way run its course towards its western home when a wounded outpost comes staggering into the courtyard with the news of the advancing German army stamped upon his blood-stained forehead. Suddenly the courtyard is filled with the smoke of battle, and we know that the long-expected attack is on.
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Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Released: April 1, 1910
Type: Movie
A graphic reproduction of Jules Verne's famous story under the above title. It deals with a secret mission in Russia