Cordelia Callahan

5.3

The Village Blacksmith

Nov 01, 1922

The Village Blacksmith

1922 11 min 3 vues

(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom the blacksmith marries. This angers the squire. Years later, the squire's son Anson (Yearsley) dares the blacksmith's son Johnnie (Hackathorne) to climb a tree, from which he falls and is crippled. As adults, Anson and the blacksmith's daughter Alice (Valli) fall in love, which angers the blacksmith, who chastises his daughter. The blacksmith's other son Bill (Butler) returns from college and is injured in a train accident. Anson steals $480 from a church fund which is currently in Alice's possession. Alice is struck by lightning. The blacksmith take Anson and the squire to church where they both repent.

Drama

1

When Fate Decides

Jun 01, 1919

When Fate Decides

1919 50 min 1 vues

Vera Loudon is unhappily married to the wealthy but profligate Herbert Loudon who openly makes advances to Mrs. Alicia Carteret at a dinner party. Donald Cavendish, a former admirer of Vera's, witnesses her humiliation and advises her to leave her husband, which she is unwilling to do.

Drama

1

Cupid the Cowpuncher

Jul 25, 1920

Cupid the Cowpuncher

1920 50 min 1 vues

Alec Lloyd, the foreman of the Sewell ranch, is nicknamed "Cupid" because of his propensity for matchmaking. When Macie Sewell returns from boarding school, Cupid himself falls victim to love, but Macie has aspirations to go to New York and become an opera singer, and so ignores his advances. However, Leroy Simpson, a poor doctor who is enamored of Macie's father's money, encourages her ambitions....

Comedy

1

Boys Will Be Boys

May 05, 1921

Boys Will Be Boys

1921 50 min 1 vues

Peep O'Day, an orphan in a small Kentucky town, falls heir to a small fortune and begins to make up for all the lost pleasure of childhood, but Sublette, a crooked attorney, arranges for an eastern belle to show up as Peep's "niece" to steal his fortune.

Comedy

1

Doubling for Romeo

Oct 22, 1921

Doubling for Romeo

1921 60 min 1 vues

Slim Cody works in the movie industry, doubling for the performers. He has a dream in which he portrays Romeo in a movie version of "Romeo and Juliet," and arranges for someone to double for him when the fight scenes get scary. ....

Comedy

1

Watch Your Step

Feb 16, 1922

Watch Your Step

1922 50 min 1 vues

Elmer Slocum has just served a jail sentence for speeding. On his first day of liberty he encounters a physician whose car has broken down and offers to take him to his patient; he is pursued by motorcops for speeding, wrecks his car in a closed street, and knocks down and believes he has killed a policeman. Elmer boards a freight train and makes his way to a small town in Iowa, where he meets Margaret Andrews.....

Comedy

1

Edgar and the Teacher's Pet

Mar 27, 1920

Edgar and the Teacher's Pet

1920 137 min 1 vues

The story of Edgar Pomeroy, the first in a series, in which the boy Edgar imagines himself the triumphant master of his fate, revenging himself on a scornful young female classmate. But then the real events are seen in contrast with the ones Edgar has created in his mind.

Comedy

1

Edgar's Hamlet

Apr 18, 1920

Edgar's Hamlet

1920 21 min 1 vues

Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.

Comedy

1

Edgar Takes the Cake

Jul 09, 1920

Edgar Takes the Cake

1920 137 min 1 vues

Edgar delivers a cake to his sister's ill friend. The cake arrives safely, but not sound, and Edgar is taken to task for his careless handling of the article.

Comedy

1

Edgar's Sunday Courtship

Jan 01, 1970

Edgar's Sunday Courtship

1970 137 min 1 vues

On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath's sword. Edgar's answer to the teacher's question proves his straying thoughts. As a result he is placed on the platform, where he sees himself descending to the "lower regions" as the "worst boy in the school." Edgar's Sunday adventures end with him at peace with the world, after two helpings of pie.

Comedy

1

Edgar's Jonah Day

May 08, 1920

Edgar's Jonah Day

1920 137 min 1 vues

Edgar is called upon by his mother to execute a disagreeable errand, has to mind his troublesome younger brother, and runs away.

Comedy

1

Edgar's Feast Day

Feb 01, 1921

Edgar's Feast Day

1921 137 min 1 vues

Episode 11 of the series of 2-reel comedies “The Adventures and Emotions of Edgar Pomeroy”.

Comedy

1

What Would You Do

Jan 01, 1920

What Would You Do

1920 50 min 1 vues

Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.

Drama

1

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

Feb 02, 1924

The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln

1924 120 min 1 vues

A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

History

1

Edgar's Little Saw

Oct 01, 1920

Edgar's Little Saw

1920 137 min 1 vues

Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy next door, little brother Charlie saws up everything in the house, furniture, hats, and at length attempts operations on the cat. Edgar gets the blame, and is being kept from his sweetheart's party as punishment, when Charlie's guilt is discovered. This film is presumably lost.

Comedy

1

Edgar Camps Out

Sep 01, 1920

Edgar Camps Out

1920 137 min 1 vues

Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and everything. However, Edgar soon rallies and organizes a side show, displaying the greatest freaks on earth. This soon draws attention from the Bates boys, and Edgar is himself again, until that night when he camps out in the sideshow tent. Then the spooks hover about and Edgar is carried shrieking into the house by his father. This film is presumably lost.

Comedy

1

Edgar, the Detective

Apr 01, 1921

Edgar, the Detective

1921 137 min 1 vues

Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.

Comedy

1

Edgar's Country Cousin

Jan 01, 1921

Edgar's Country Cousin

1921 137 min 1 vues

Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city. His brave effort to go barefoot "like we do in the city" causes him much pain, and everything he attempts to demonstrate the city's superiority has disastrous results. However, a black eye, a face full of bee-stings, and the general bawling-out of the gang fails to conquer him, and he declares that he is having a bully time. This silent comedy short is presumably lost.

Comedy

1

The Love Piker

Jul 22, 1923

The Love Piker

1923 70 min 1 vues

Hope Warner, a wealthy young woman, is arrested for speeding in her roadster and meets Martin Van Huisen, a young civil engineer who helps her. Hope falls in love with Martin, but when their wedding is approaching, she is self-conscious about Martin's father's poverty and doesn't invite him to the ceremony.

Drama