Edward Elkas

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The Cross Bearer
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The Cross Bearer

Apr 01, 1918

The Cross Bearer
1918 50 min 1 vues
Cardinal Mercier protects the altar of his church from desecration when German forces invade the Belgian city of Louvain during World War I. Although the soldiers commit widespread atrocities, the cardinal does his best to protect the townspeople.
Drama
Chains of Evidence
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Chains of Evidence

Mar 01, 1920

Chains of Evidence
1920 50 min 1 vues
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.
Mystery
Joan of Plattsburg
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Joan of Plattsburg

Mar 05, 1918

Joan of Plattsburg
1918 60 min 1 vues
Joan, an earnest little orphan who lives in an asylum near the World War I training camp at Plattsburg, reads the story of "Joan of Arc" and soon imagines that she is the reincarnation of the peasant-soldier. As she sits in the cellar reading, she hears voices plotting against the government. She thinks the voices are from another world but they actually belong to a group of German spies. The agents plan to acquire the important invention of a young man named Ingleton, who is staying at the camp under the guardianship of Captain Lane. Joan relates this information to the captain, with whom she is in love, but he at first refuses to believe her. Later, however, he learns that the plot is real, and with Joan's help, he captures the spies.
Comedy
Kitty and the Cowboys
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Kitty and the Cowboys

Oct 27, 1911

Kitty and the Cowboys
1911 12 min 1 vues
Fatty comes up with a plan to prank his cowboy buddies. He announces that his sister Kitty is coming to visit, but it's not at all what his friends expected.
Comedy
Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
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Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde

Jun 19, 1915

Miss Jekyll and Madame Hyde
1915 18 min 1 vues
Madeline Jekyll meets Baron Stana, a distinguished looking man, and finds her father has promised her in marriage to Daggerts, a politician, who, in reward, has agreed to see that Jekyll is elected governor. Madeline is already in love with Robert Mayhew, and rebels at the prearranged marriage.
Drama
The Awakening of Ruth
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The Awakening of Ruth

Sep 17, 1917

The Awakening of Ruth
1917 59 min 1 vues
Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.
Drama
The Little Captain
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The Little Captain

Jul 16, 1914

The Little Captain
1914 11 min 1 vues
While visiting General Forbes, a friend of his Daddy, Sonny Jim imitates the soldiers at the garrison and feels certain that he was cut out for one of them. The General tells him always to help a comrade in distress. Later, a convict escapes from prison and coming upon Sonny Jim playing sentinel, asks help and says he is a comrade in distress. Sonny Jim remembers the General's command, secures one of his father's suits, a large chicken and an apple pie, and finds the convict a hiding place in the cellar.
Comedy
The Suspect
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The Suspect

May 22, 1916

The Suspect
1916 60 min 1 vues
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.
Drama
Jane's Bashful Hero
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Jane's Bashful Hero

Jan 31, 1916

Jane's Bashful Hero
1916 16 min 1 vues
Husbandless Jane has her eye set on Willie but he is too bashful to take the initiative. To make him jealous, she creates a scarecrowl who happens to resemble the notorious bank robber Banker Bill. The constable, sure she is harboring the fugitive, is out to make an arrest.
Comedy
The Musical Barber
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The Musical Barber

Jul 17, 1916

The Musical Barber
1916 12 min 1 vues
De Goat only barbers to earn enough to keep supplied with musical instruments and he certainly keeps a goodly stock of them. Between (also during) shaves he amuses himself by playing solos on the violin or whatever instrument happens to be near at hand. Even when he is running the "scythe" over the chin whiskers of an unfortunate victim, he cannot resist the temptation to play a one handed serenade to himself on the flute. Intent on his music, he allows the weapons of his trade to wander aimlessly over the countenances of his customers with tragic results. When a Chink finds that his queue is among the missing, a fond mother sees her Percy shorn of his curly locks, and Wild Bill from out Nevada way misses half his hirsute adornment, bedlam is cut loose and the barber shop is ransacked. De Goat manages to escape his pursuers by hiding in a lunatic asylum, but when the superintendent sees him, he extends a cordial invitation to sojourn for a while in a padded cell.
Comedy
Who Killed Joe Merrion?
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Who Killed Joe Merrion?

Jan 03, 1916

Who Killed Joe Merrion?
1916 20 min 1 vues
Sir Philip Randall, a prominent judge, is fed up with the antics of James, his scapegrace son, and tosses him out of the house. The conflict between father and son leaves Mrs. Randall heartbroken, and when she dies, she makes her husband swear to help James if he ever needs it. When Joe Merrion, a bookmaker, is found dead, circumstantial evidence points to Squire William Rufford. Although Randall can't believe he committed the crime, he is forced to convict him and sentence him to prison. But later, when James, whose wild ways have left him penniless, comes to his father for help, Randall discovers that he was the killer.
Drama
The Oakdale Affair
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The Oakdale Affair

Oct 06, 1919

The Oakdale Affair
1919 50 min 1 vues
Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury, after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway.
Adventure
Phantom Fortunes
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Phantom Fortunes

Sep 11, 1916

Phantom Fortunes
1916 50 min 1 vues
Bob Deering on his way to business meets his sweetheart, Molly Sherman. He arrives at Milliken and Co., stockbrokers, his place of employment, just in time to save Herman, Zalmon Pinsker's 14-year-old son, from a very rough engagement with the other messengers in the office. For this act Herman takes him to his father's shop and obtains a suit at wholesale, and it is here that Bob meets Ike Mandell, who is in love with Dora, the daughter of Pinsker.
Drama
The Alibi
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The Alibi

Aug 07, 1916

The Alibi
1916 50 min 1 vues
To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but before carrying out the pilferage, he confesses to cashier Slayton, his superior. Slayton, who needs money to pay for his unsuccessful speculations, goes at night to take the money that Mansfield planned to embezzle, so that Mansfield will take the blame.
Drama
The Dawn of Freedom
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The Dawn of Freedom

Aug 14, 1916

The Dawn of Freedom
1916 50 min 1 vues
"The Dawn of Freedom" is a stinging satire on the death of those ideals that prompted the founders of the United States.
Drama
For the Honor of the Crew
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For the Honor of the Crew

Nov 09, 1915

For the Honor of the Crew
1915 20 min 1 vues
Robert Brent and Dick Morgan, the former wealthy, the latter poor, are chums at one of the big colleges until they both fall in love with Viola Scott, a college girl.
Drama
The Man, the Mission and the Maid
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The Man, the Mission and the Maid

Jan 17, 1915

The Man, the Mission and the Maid
1915 20 min 1 vues
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.
Comedy
Bullin' the Bullsheviki
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Bullin' the Bullsheviki

Nov 01, 1919

Bullin' the Bullsheviki
1919 40 min 1 vues
As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.
Comedy
Les Misérables
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Les Misérables

Dec 03, 1917

Les Misérables
1917 90 min 1 vues
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Drama
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
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Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation

Apr 09, 1917

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
1917 70 min 1 vues
When the nation of Ruthania declares war on the United States, an army of enemy soldiers invades the U.S. and captures New York. But the American forces have prepared adequately for such an event, and hidden booby traps, trick fortifications, and remote-controlled bombs...
Drama
When Men Desire
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When Men Desire

Mar 09, 1919

When Men Desire
1919 60 min 1 vues
A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.
The Woman Under Oath
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The Woman Under Oath

Jun 29, 1919

The Woman Under Oath
1919 75 min 1 vues
After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.
Mystery
The Venus Model
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The Venus Model

Jun 16, 1918

The Venus Model
1918 50 min 1 vues
A young lady designs a wonderfully received bathing suit and saves her employer from financial disaster. In the course of this, she falls in love with her employer's son, who is in danger of ruin from a romantic scandal.
Comedy
Cabman Kate
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Cabman Kate

Feb 01, 1915

Cabman Kate
1915 15 min 1 vues
Kate, a washerwoman, takes Tim McGrath’s cab on security when he doesn’t pay his laundry bill. Trouble arises when Kate picks up her first passenger.
Comedy
Mortmain
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Mortmain

Sep 06, 1915

Mortmain
1915 50 min 1 vues
Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a musician and a friend of the surgeon.
Drama
Too Much Money
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Too Much Money

Jan 03, 1926

Too Much Money
1926 70 min 1 vues
Millionaire Robert Broadley, in order to curb his wive's enthusiasm for spending money foolishly, inform her that he is now broke and penniless, which might have been a good plan if a friend of his, with some crooked ways, hadn't gotten involved. A lost film.
God's Crucible
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God's Crucible

Apr 20, 1922

God's Crucible
1922 68 min 1 vues
Their father, Michael Kalmar, imprisoned in Siberia, political refugees Ivan and Irma Kalmar seek freedom in Winnipeg, Canada. Encountering persecution at the hands of prejudiced neighbors, including their father's enemy, Makaroff. Ivan's violin playing both attracts Marjorie Menzies and earns him the enmity of District Attorney Mortimer Staunton, a rival for her affection. At a party at Makaroff's home, Irma is insulted, her abuser is slain and Ivan arrested. Her escapee father confesses to the murder but both men are freed when a family servant who admits to the murder.
Drama
The Birth of a Race
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The Birth of a Race

Jan 02, 1918

The Birth of a Race
1918 88 min 1 vues
L'égalité à travers les siècles : la création du monde, le Déluge, la crucifixion du Christ, la découverte de l'Amérique, la signature de la Déclaration d'indépendance et la guerre de Sécession... jusqu'à la démocratie menacée par les pouvoirs autocratiques d'Europe lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, représentée par le destin tragique de la famille germano-américaine de Fritz Schmidt et la lutte sans merci de deux frères, Oscar, devenu soldat allemand pour le Kaiser, et George, combattant pour les Alliés.
Drama
Hitting the Trail
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Hitting the Trail

Dec 02, 1918

Hitting the Trail
1918 50 min 1 vues
Kid Kelly, a gangster in New York's Lower East Side, attempts to rob Goldberg's millinery store. When the police arrive, Flo Haines, who had come to the building to look at an apartment, hides. When the police find her, they charge her with the crime, but the Kid turns himself over to the law instead. After his release, he again meets Flo, who works in an artificial-flower factory by day and at Reverend Roberts' relief mission by night. The Kid soon falls in love with Flo, and his jealous sweetheart Mamie tricks her into coming to her apartment, where she drugs her and turns her over to Joe Carelli, the flower factory's lustful owner. The Kid saves Flo, but when Carelli is found murdered the next day, he is arrested for the crime. The confession of Annie, who had stabbed Carelli in a jealous rage, frees The Kid, who reforms himself and marries Flo.
Drama
Beloved Adventuress
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Beloved Adventuress

Jul 16, 1917

Beloved Adventuress
1917 50 min 1 vues
Romantic melodrama of musical comedy star Juliette La Monde's thoughtless pursuit of love and pleasure with various men until her ultimate redemption through sacrifice.
Drama
Moral Courage
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Moral Courage

May 14, 1917

Moral Courage
1917 50 min 1 vues
Wealthy Joshua Anson expects his son Chadwick to marry a woman of their class, but much to his chagrin Chadwick falls in love with factory girl Mary McClintock. Anson schemes to break up the romance by framing Mary in a compromising situation, but she outsmarts him and marries Chadwick. Not to be defeated, Anson offers his daughter-in-law $100,000 to divorce his son, but Mary outfoxes him once again by accepting the money, getting a divorce, and then remarrying Chadwick. Mary's last trick wins her father-in-law's respect, and he finally offers the couple his blessings.
Drama
The Mystery Mind
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The Mystery Mind

Nov 01, 1920

The Mystery Mind
1920 300 min 1 vues
A murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind."
Crime
West of the Water Tower
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West of the Water Tower

Jan 06, 1924

West of the Water Tower
1924 80 min 1 vues
Young marrieds Guy & Bee are ostracized by their supposed friends in town when Bee discovers she is expecting but the legitimacy of their union is called into question. Eventually the squire who performed their ceremony becomes aware of the scandal and produces the necessary certificate.
Drama
The Dust of Egypt
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The Dust of Egypt

Oct 04, 1915

The Dust of Egypt
1915 10 min 1 vues
Geoffrey's relationship with his fiancée is threatened by Ameuset, a princess of Egypt awakened after five thousand years. Originally a six reel feature, only short fragments of The Dust of Egypt survive today.
Comedy
The Goddess
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The Goddess

May 09, 1915

The Goddess
1915 310 min 1 vues
A young girl is reared on a desert island by natives and led to believe that she is a goddess. One day an outsider comes to the island, and persuades her to accompany him to preach about the kindness and love she has experienced. She agrees, but she's soon confronted by the problems and travails of the "outside" world.
Drama