William Wolbert

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Cupid Incognito
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Cupid Incognito

Apr 01, 1914

Cupid Incognito
1914 11 min 1 vues
Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future. He makes him promise to watch over her. His fortune he places in the hands of his brother, a New York banker, to be held in trust for his daughter until her wedding day; the fact of her being an heiress to be kept secret in order to insure her safety from fortune-hunters.
Drama
The Skeleton
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The Skeleton

Apr 20, 1914

The Skeleton
1914 137 min 1 vues
Two friends, Tad and Jack, are conversing with each other at the Club, when Dr. Matthews, the wealthiest man in town, enters. In contemplating the rich man, the two young men speculate as to whether or not, with all his wealth, he is happy. The argument leads them to a wager. Tad bets $1,000 that there is something in the physician's life he would hate to have known, and that as a consequence he is unhappy. Jack accepts the bet.
Comedy
The Quack
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The Quack

May 06, 1914

The Quack
1914 137 min 1 vues
Dr. Frank Rosslyn, known to the world as a prominent physician, is in reality the head of a quack medical concern which dispenses patent medicines and advertises extensively.
Comedy
The Siren
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The Siren

May 13, 1914

The Siren
1914 137 min 1 vues
On her deathbed, Renee's mother confides to her daughter the troubled history of her life. She was wealthy and she was loved alone for her riches. She was to be married; on her wedding day the bridegroom married another woman he really loved. She married her second choice of men and after two years, he left her.
Drama
Passing of the Beast
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Passing of the Beast

May 27, 1914

Passing of the Beast
1914 137 min 1 vues
Jacques watched through an opening in the foliage and saw Gilbert of the mounted police and his own wife exchange pleasant greetings. From that moment he hated the police officer. Gilbert was too fine-looking.
Drama
Love's Western Flight
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Love's Western Flight

Jun 03, 1914

Love's Western Flight
1914 137 min 1 vues
For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love had long since been drowned in drink. Dorothy had reached the turning point. She answered an advertisement calling for a leading woman to accompany a repertoire show west. She was given the position and that night left.
Drama
The Den of Thieves
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The Den of Thieves

Jun 24, 1914

The Den of Thieves
1914 137 min 1 vues
Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of starvation or the "easiest way." She chooses the "easiest way." After eighteen years she again shows up, a social outcast and a tool for David's black profession.
Crime
The Burned Hand
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The Burned Hand

Jun 13, 1915

The Burned Hand
1915 20 min 1 vues
Three college boys graduate. One is in love with a girl, whose mother and father have domestic difficulties. They go to court and are divorced. Father is refused the request for his daughter, and in turn kidnaps her and takes her to another state, where he becomes a great political factor. Bill, one of the graduated college boys who is in love with the girl, with his two companions, traces the girl and steal her away. In doing so his hand is burned with a poker and the father uses that as a means of identification in tracing him.
Drama
Nerve
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Nerve

Jul 11, 1914

Nerve
1914 137 min 1 vues
Comedy
The Wild Strain
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The Wild Strain

Jan 14, 1918

The Wild Strain
1918 50 min 1 vues
Although the prominent Hollywood family prides itself on its illustrious family tree, young Winifred Hollywood exhibits a fondness for wild adventures that greatly disturbs her parents. When Winifred becomes engaged to bank official Harold Burton, his equally snobbish parents visit the Hollywood home and are shocked by the young woman's spirited outbursts and mischievous tricks, and the engagement is broken after she decides to perform bareback feats with a traveling circus.
Comedy
Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
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Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers

Feb 25, 1918

Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers
1918 137 min 1 vues
Ed Wetherford becomes an outlaw and, to escape imprisonment, abandons his wife Eliza and daughter Virginia. After attending college in the East, Virginia returns to California, where she meets and falls in love with Ross Cavanaugh, a United States ranger.
Drama
The Girl from Beyond
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The Girl from Beyond

Apr 15, 1918

The Girl from Beyond
1918 137 min 1 vues
Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide.
Drama
The Home Trail
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The Home Trail

Mar 25, 1918

The Home Trail
1918 137 min 1 vues
Tom Evans, the fearless range boss of the Double X Ranch, falls in love with a romantic schoolteacher from the East named Clara. They marry and for a time are happy, but in Tom's absence, his partner Blackie persuades the restless young wife to run away with him. Blackie soon deserts Clara, and she is forced to earn her keep at a disreputable dance hall. After robbing a stage, Blackie returns, and Tom, who has been waiting for his former friend, goes after him. In a gun battle with Tom and his posse, Blackie kills Clara and escapes, but Tom follows him into the desert and takes his horse, leaving him to die of thirst.
Western
The Light of Victory
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The Light of Victory

Mar 17, 1919

The Light of Victory
1919 50 min 1 vues
U.S. Navy Lieutenant George Blenton becomes drunk at an official reception, and his fiancee, Jane Ravenslee, the captain's daughter, breaks their engagement. After war is declared, George, entrusted with a secret code book to deliver to an English admiral, drinks and loses the book which German spies recover. During a private court-martial he is offered a pistol for suicide. After drinking again, he fires a shot, but still lives. Put ashore on the island of Tafofu "to rot," George, hating the U.S., moves in with Lehua, a half-white who tries to wean him from drink.
War
That Devil, Bateese
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That Devil, Bateese

Sep 02, 1918

That Devil, Bateese
1918 50 min 1 vues
After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school. Kathleen loses her way between the station and the village and is attacked in the woods by the town bully, Louis Courteau. Seeing a pretty woman in distress, Bateese Latour, a warmhearted lumberjack whose drunken temper tantrums have earned him the sobriquet "That devil, Bateese," beats off her attacker. A short time later, Bateese falls in love with Kathleen, and promising to abandon his drinking, he carries her off and marries her.