Sidney Franklin

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Playing with Fire
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Playing with Fire

Dec 19, 1921
Enid Gregory, a pianist at the Melody Shop, a music store on Broadway, is content with her snappy, routine existence until Janet Fenwick, a society girl whose father committed suicide under a cloud of financial disgrace, comes to Enid's boardinghouse.
Comedy
The Sleeping Lion
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The Sleeping Lion

Jun 23, 1919
Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch.
Western
The Texas Trail
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The Texas Trail

Jun 01, 1925
Rangy Pete Grainger is a cowboy who saves a rancher and his daughter from being kicked off their property by the ubiquitous evil landlord.
Western
Lummox
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Lummox

Jan 13, 1930
Lummox is a 1930 American Pre-Code sound film directed by Herbert Brenon, released through United Artists, and based on a 1923 novel by Fannie Hurst. The story of Bertha, a young immigrant woman who cleans the homes of the rich and is largely ignored by them, except for a young poet who considers her a muse.
Drama
The Red Lily
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The Red Lily

Sep 08, 1924
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
Crime
The Block Signal
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The Block Signal

Sep 15, 1926
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one caused by his cowardly and opportunistic partner. Though Ryan's failing eyesight is named as the cause of the crash, he's undeterred as he designs an automatic braking invention.
Drama
Les Trois Mousquetaires
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Le jeune gascon d'Artagnan arrive à Paris, prêt à rejoindre les mousquetaires du roi. Il est pris sous les ailes des trois mousquetaires les plus respectés et les plus redoutés, Porthos, Aramis et Athos. Ensemble, ils se battent pour sauver la France et l'honneur d'une dame des machinations du puissant cardinal Richelieu.
Action
The Fighting Failure
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The Fighting Failure

Dec 02, 1926
Cullen Landis starred in this silent Western melodrama about a prizefighter accused of cowardice who toughens up on a Western ranch.
Western
The Guttersnipe
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The Guttersnipe

Jan 30, 1922
Mazie, a shop-girl of New York City's Little Ireland, goes to the aid of a young man in formal attire involved in a street fight. Though badly beaten, he bears a strong resemblance to Lord Lytton, the hero of a magazine story Mazie is reading in installments. Although he is, in reality, a soda clerk, Mazie permits his attentions, and together they read the "Sloppy Stories" yarn about English nobility.
Pawnshop Politics
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Pawnshop Politics

Mar 07, 1926
After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty Dolan, whose father is running for alderman, and it is love at first sight. A rival candidate makes trouble and plants a bomb in the shop but Abie turns the tables on him. Election day finds Dolan's followers too lazy to vote. Abie stirs them up by offering to lick them and then running to the polling place with the mob at his heels. Dolan wins and so does Abie.
Comedy