William H. Brown

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The Bad Boy
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The Bad Boy

Feb 18, 1917
Small town youth Jimmie Bates is a well-intentioned, but troubled youth. Jimmie is a rowdy boy who is always getting into trouble and playing pranks on his friends and neighbors. Although deeply in love with young Mary, he eventually spurns Mary's affection for the more outgoing and worldly young Ruth.
Crime
The Fighting Chance
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The Fighting Chance

Aug 01, 1920
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing. Avarice is the only emotion that Sylvia feels towards her fiance, and when she meets Stephen Siward, a young man afflicted with alcoholism, she falls in love.
Drama
Little Eva Ascends
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Little Eva Ascends

Jan 08, 1922
When an itinerant performing troupe that specializes in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” return to the owner and her son’s hometown for a show the younger brother Roy is nervous and unhappy because he plays Little Eva in the play. Sure that his sweetheart and her family will jeer along with the rest of the town he stumbles during the performance wrecking the set and bringing the show to a grinding halt. All is well though when the town’s hotel proprietor throws a big dinner for the troupe.
Comedy
A Yankee from the West
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Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
Drama
The Wolf-Man
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The Wolf-Man

Sep 09, 1915
Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula.
Drama
Le Rachat suprême
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Le Rachat suprême

Mar 28, 1918
John Trimble a détourné des fonds et désire se créer une seconde identité. Pour cela, il fait enterrer un corps mutilé comme étant le sien mais quelques années plus tard, il est arrêté et jugé pour son propre assassinat. Personne ne le reconnaît lors de son procès excepté sa mère qui meurt suite au choc
Drama
The Valley of the Giants
5.5
Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
Drama
Back to the Kitchen
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Back to the Kitchen

Oct 16, 1914
The ranchman's daughter is in love with Jack of the Rancho and becomes engaged to him, but Pa comes on their lovemaking and rudely separates them. Following an idea which he worked on during a visit to New York, Pa writes to a Frenchman, a lawyer there, and tells him he will marry his daughter to a count the lawyer will provide. The lawyer accordingly looks up an Italian cook, decks him out with a red sash, etc., and sends him west for the easy money.
Comedy
The Little Catamount
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The Little Catamount

Jul 23, 1915
Hattie, a moonshiner's daughter, plays with her weird dog, Fanny, and rules her father with a rod of iron. To their mountain cabin comes Neighbor Dawson, another moonshiner, and arranges with Hattie's father to marry her. This does not agree with Hattie's ideas at all.
Comedy
Little Meena's Romance
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Meena Bauer is the heroine of this romance of a Pennsylvania Dutch girl, who is loved by the son of a Mennonite family. Meena treats Jacob as a joke in spite of the arrangement their parents have made that they should wed. The Mennonite simplicity has no charms for Meena, who proceeds to fall in love with Count Fredrick von Ritz
Comedy
The Dancin' Fool
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The Dancin' Fool

May 02, 1920
Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.
Comedy
L'Enfant de la forêt
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L'Enfant de la forêt

May 05, 1918
Melissa, alias M'Liss, vit avec son père "Bummer" Smith à Red Gulch (Californie) pendant la ruée vers l'or de 1849. Sauvage, indisciplinée, mais aussi charmante, M'Liss décide d'acquérir des manières et de l'éducation lorsque Charles Gray, un jeune instituteur, arrive en ville. Bummer devrait hériter un fortune de son frère Jonathan, mais les anciens employés de celui-ci, Jim Peterson et Clara Parker, engagent le hors-la-loi Mexican Joe pour l'assassiner. Après sa mort, Clara arrive en ville, prétendant être la veuve de Bummer et de ce fait son héritière. Pendant de temps, Charles est arrêté et condamné pour ce crime. Peterson incite la population à lyncher Charles, mais ce dernier arrive à s'échapper à l'aide de M'Liss et d'un de ses amis, Yuba Bill. Finalement, Peterson est obligé d'avouer sa culpabilité et M'Liss retrouve son héritage et l'amour de l'instituteur.
Mystery
The House Built Upon Sand
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Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
Comedy
Intolérance
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Intolérance

Sep 04, 1916
À travers l'image d'une femme berçant un enfant, quatre épisodes de l'intolérance sont racontés dans une fresque monumentale. Un épisode moderne sur un gréviste condamné à la pendaison. Un épisode biblique lors d'une noce à Cana. Un épisode des guerres de religion au temps de Charles IX. Un épisode chaldéen. Dans tous l'intolérance l'emporte sur l'amour.
Drama
Hoodoo Ann
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Hoodoo Ann

Mar 26, 1916
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.
Romance
The Courting of Mary
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The Courting of Mary

Nov 26, 1911
A lost film. Mary the tomboy, and Owen, the sportsman, have an equal aversion to the opposite sex. . Meeting at the trout stream one day, Owen orders Mary off his side of the stream, where she has comfortably ensconced herself. But alas! Cupid has not lost his opportunity and the die is cast. Mary's uncle, although seemingly severe, has a tenderness for an interesting spinster of uncertain age and plans to get Mary married off at the behest of the spinster lady.
Faithful Wives
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Faithful Wives

Nov 25, 1926
The title tells it all. Faithful wives perhaps but can the same be said for their husbands?
Drama