Melbourne MacDowell

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Love Me
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Love Me

Mar 18, 1918
In a Western mining town, millionaire Gordon Appleby meets Maida Madison, a civil engineer, and proposes. The two marry and return to Philadelphia, where they are coldly received by Gordon's snobbish family. Gordon's elder brother Mortimer's highbrow sensibilities are particularly offended by Maida's breezy manner, and he determines to break up the marriage.
Drama
The Infidel
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The Infidel

Apr 02, 1922
Lola Daintry (MacDonald) is an actress who's mad at the world, and especially ministers, one of whom -- her father -- was so cruel that he drove her mother out of the house. When Bully Haynes (Melbourne MacDonald) wants her help in showing up a group of South Seas missionaries, she's more than happy to assist. But Lola doesn't realize she's being used so that Haynes can gain control over the copra trade from his rival, Cyrus Flint (Robert Ellis).
Drama
The Rainmaker
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The Rainmaker

May 10, 1926
The story of a racetrack tout whose prayers could bring a dry or muddy racetrack, and how he learned to capitalize on those powers. Until the day he lost the power and bet the wrong way.
Drama
Playing the Game
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Playing the Game

Apr 22, 1918
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
Comedy
Soldiers of Fortune
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Soldiers of Fortune

Nov 22, 1919
Civil engineer Robert Clay is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza, the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract.
Adventure
Driven from Home
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Driven from Home

Jan 15, 1927
A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
Drama
Forsaking All Others
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Forsaking All Others

Dec 10, 1922
Jealous of her son Oliver's interest in Penelope Mason, Mrs. Newell takes him to a resort where he is easy prey for designing Enid Morton. After some near-disastrous situations with Enid's suspicious husband, Penelope comes to Oliver's rescue at Mrs. Newell's request.
Drama
Les révoltés
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Les révoltés

Jan 06, 1921
À San Francisco, le gangster Madden renonce au crime et se retire avec sa fille Molly, après avoir reçu les préceptes d'un philosophe de Chinatown, Chang Low. Un autre gangster, Mike Sylva, amant de Molly, complote alors pour mettre sur le dos de Madden un meurtre.
Crime
Tais-toi mon cœur
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Tais-toi mon cœur

Feb 26, 1928
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Comedy
Miss Nobody
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Miss Nobody

May 01, 1920
A raft carrying a little girl and a dead woman drifts in from a shipwreck to Devil's Island. There, a band of thieves and smugglers name the girl Rose Marie, though she grows up as "nobody's girl."
Adventure
What Happened to Jones
5.8
On the night before his wedding, a young man plays poker with friends. When the game is raided by the police, he escapes into a Turkish bath on ladies night, ending up disguised in drag and with difficult explanations to make.
Comedy
The Vamp
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The Vamp

Jul 14, 1918
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the method on the shy minister she loves, and it works.
Comedy
Savages of the Sea
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Savages of the Sea

Feb 17, 1925
A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take over the ship and falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his adopted sister.
Action
Modern Husbands
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Modern Husbands

Apr 28, 1919
When wealthy Wall Street stockbroker Stephen Duane neglects his wife Julia for business, she consorts with philanderer Bert Brockwell. Finding them in an embrace forced by Brockwell, Stephen denounces Julia and leaves. After losing his fortune in the market, Stephen refuses Julia's offer to sell her jewels, and stays away for one year
Drama
Le voilà !
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Le voilà !

Jan 01, 1928
Un personnage mystérieux semble causer une série de perturbations à la maison Frisbie à New York. La rumeur court à Scotland Yard que le fantôme à facettes est à l'œuvre. Bientôt, Charley MacNeesha et son assistant MacGregor sont envoyés pour enquêter. Mais quand ils arrivent à la maison, une nouvelle série d'événements étranges commence.
Horror
Code of the Cow Country
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Jim West, foreman of John Calhoun's ranch, falls in love with Helen, the boss's daughter, after rescuing her from a runaway horse. Her brother, Ted, falls into the companionship of Bill Jackson, a notorious gambler and saloon keeper, who persuades Ted to sign I. O. U.'s while under the influence of alcohol. Jim, in company with Red Irwin, a tough deputy sheriff, confronts the gambler and forces a confession. Jackson plans a raid on the Calhoun cattle, forcing Ted to be his ally. Dolores, a dancehall girl, overhears the plot and tells Jim, causing Helen to misunderstand his motives.
Western
The Cloud Rider
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The Cloud Rider

Feb 15, 1925
Bruce Torrence is an aviator and member of the secret service. His rival for the hand of Zella Wingate is Juan Lascelles, a drug smuggler. To get rid of Torrence, Lascelles loosens a wheel on one of his planes, but Zella is the one who goes up in it. Torrence goes up in another plane and attaches a fresh wheel to Zella's plane. In spite of his efforts he later finds her in Lascelles' arms.
Action
Fighting Courage
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Fighting Courage

Dec 12, 1925
Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, enraged by the bad publicity, threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't go to Colorado in search of a mine....
Western
Geared to Go
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Geared to Go

Dec 15, 1924
"Hero is son of owner of taxicab company. Learning of injustice toward independents, he becomes independent driver. Heroine inherits half interest in company, and desiring to learn truth, goes to work as telephone operator in independent garage. Together they force a consolidation with the independents, and find happiness in their love."
Drama
Behind the Front
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Behind the Front

Feb 22, 1926
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, the two are sent to the front lines in France, where they wind up in trouble with the MPs, getting involved with some cute French girls and "volunteering" for a dangerous front-line mission, and their antics result in their endangering the armistice.
Comedy
The City
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The City

Nov 14, 1926
Après la mort de Rand, un riche gangster mort d'en d'étrange circonstance, sa famille déménage dans une autre ville où Rand Jr, est candidat à la mairie et madame Rand qui néglige sa famille pour poursuivre ses ambitions sociales.
Drama
Coals of Fire
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Coals of Fire

Aug 26, 1918
Pretty young Nell Bradley is the daughter of a saloonkeeper in a "dry" town, and is looked down upon by townspeople, but Rev. Charles Alden, the town minister, finds himself attracted to her. One day at Nell's father's bar, a traveling salesman gets a young woman intoxicated, intending to "have his way" with her. Nell sees this and gets the bartender to save the young woman's virtue, but just at that moment Rev. Alden walks in and mistakenly believes that Nell has gotten the girl drunk. Complications ensue.
Drama
The Gift Supreme
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The Gift Supreme

Mar 30, 1920
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father makes plans to break the relationship; when the plans fail, he disinherits his son.
Drama
The Flame of the Yukon
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George Fowler arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him, but he has no money...
Adventure
Eve in Exile
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Eve in Exile

Dec 07, 1919
Society girl Eva Ricardo is sent to a seaside New England village to live with her maiden aunt by her father after he loses all his money in speculation. There she falls in love..
Drama
The March Hare
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The March Hare

Jun 27, 1921
Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to visit her aunt. After betting the chaperon that she can live on 75c for an entire week, she assumes the part of a flower girl in a restaurant and there makes a hit with young millionaire Tod Rollins, who invites her to his home.
Comedy
Wolves of the Rail
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Wolves of the Rail

Jan 01, 1918
Smoky Gap Railroad president Murray Lemantier is fed up with a bandit gang led by Buck Andrade constantly holding up his train and getting away with it. He hires ace detective David Cassidy to track down and get Buck, dead or alive. However, when Buck goes to see his dying mother she makes him promise to reform, and he does. Cassidy, though, doesn't care about that and tries to arrest him. Buck decides to do something that will once and for all show everyone that he has indeed reformed--especially Faith Lawson, a pretty station agent he's in love with.
Western
Bond of Fear
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Bond of Fear

Sep 23, 1917
When stern Judge McClure gets into an argument with his younger brother John, a physical fight ensues in which the judge apparently kills John. In fear of the consequences, he runs off to the West and hires guide Cal Nelson to take him far into the desert. Along the way they meet Mary Jackson, and the judge, overcome by heat prostration, babbles out his secret.
Western
Beyond the Crossroads
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Beyond the Crossroads

Jan 27, 1922
While James Fordham is away prospecting in Alaska, his wife runs off with Truman Breese. She manages to make her way back to her husband, but dies shortly thereafter.
Drama
The Golden Snare
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The Golden Snare

Jul 10, 1921
Sgt. Philip Raine of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police is sent to the mountains to capture killer Bram Johnson.
Drama
He Raised Kane
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He Raised Kane

Dec 18, 1922
Kane, who does not want his father to know he is a fighter, thinking he objects, nearly loses the fight when he sees him at the ringside. In the end, it is the words of encouragement from his father which causes him to win. It develops that the "Kid's" father has known it all the time and has been getting reports on his son's prowess in the ring. Eighth episode in the first 'Leather Pushers' series of two-reel boxing shorts.
Drama
Scandalous Tongues
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Scandalous Tongues

Oct 22, 1922
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through education by Reverend Charles Alden.
Drama