Charles Swickard

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The Toast of Death

Aug 12, 1915

The Toast of Death

1915 40 min 1 vues

Ballerina Poppea is adored by all the men of Calcutta, especially British soldier Captain Drake and Indian PrinceYar Khan. Because of his title and wealth, Poppea decides to marry the prince, while keeping Drake as a lover. But the prince eventually discovers what she's up to and goes out of his way to catch the adulterers together. He takes two glasses of wine, pours arsenic into one, and tells Poppea to choose which glass each man will drink. She innocently picks the poisoned glass for Drake and he dies horribly. The prince disposes of the body and drives Poppea out into the desert.

Drama

5.6

The Bargain

Dec 03, 1914

The Bargain

1914 80 min 10 vues

After the bandit Jim Stokes robs the stage he is wounded fleeing. Recuperating at a ranch, he falls in love with and marries the daughter. Now wishing to go straight he tries to return the money but is recognized and captured. When the Sheriff then loses the recovered money at a crooked roulette table, he and Stokes strike a bargain.

Western

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The Forbidden Adventure

Dec 02, 1915

The Forbidden Adventure

1915 20 min 1 vues

Cecil Weatherby, travelling in the Arabian desert, comes upon a hidden and secret city. There he finds love in the form of a beautiful priestess, Ameera. Their love results in their being condemned to death, but even in the City of Death, love will find a way.

Adventure

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The Scarlet Crystal

Feb 05, 1917

The Scarlet Crystal

1917 50 min 1 vues

Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.

Crime

6.1

Le Justicier

Mar 05, 1916

Le Justicier

1916 64 min 27 vues

Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town. The plan works, but soon after Vincent and Priscilla's marriage, Vincent, besieged by his friends to return to his gay life and suspicious of his wife's relationship with Durant--an artist who has painted her portrait--yields to temptation.

Western

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The Devil's Claim

May 02, 1920

The Devil's Claim

1920 50 min 1 vues

A Persian novelist living in New York throws aside the woman who loves him, and she gets an American woman to help get him back. Meanwhile, the novelist's current novel is in progress, and it's dramatized for us as he writes.

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The Light of Western Stars

Nov 01, 1918

The Light of Western Stars

1918 70 min 1 vues

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.

Western

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The Last Straw

Feb 14, 1920

The Last Straw

1920 50 min 1 vues

A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.

Western

1

The Last Straw

Feb 14, 1920

The Last Straw

1920 50 min 1 vues

A cowboy helps a pretty ranch owner getting rid of both cattle rustlers and an unwanted suitor in this silent oater.

Western

1

The Three Musketeers

Feb 06, 1916

The Three Musketeers

1916 63 min 1 vues

D'Artagnan leaves home travelling to Paris to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age: Athos, Porthos and Aramis and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.

Adventure

1

The Beggar of Cawnpore

Apr 29, 1916

The Beggar of Cawnpore

1916 60 min 1 vues

Dr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.

Drama

5

The Captive God

Jul 23, 1916

The Captive God

1916 50 min 1 vues

A Spanish boy is shipwrecked and cast ashore in Mexico in the sixteenth century. He is raised as a god by the Tehuan tribe, who have never before seen a white man, and is named Chiapa. Then at manhood he rules the Tehuans. Chiapa loves the priestess Tecolote but she is kidnapped by the Aztec warrior Mexitli, so he follows in the hopes of rescuing her.

Adventure

1

The Raiders

Feb 27, 1916

The Raiders

1916 50 min 1 vues

Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.

Drama

1

The Renegade

Apr 28, 1915

The Renegade

1915 20 min 1 vues

A white slaver impersonates the heir to an English estate, but the rightful heir reappears and exposes the imposter.

Drama

1

The Sign of the Poppy

Dec 04, 1916

The Sign of the Poppy

1916 50 min 1 vues

Drama

1

Mixed Blood

Dec 18, 1916

Mixed Blood

1916 50 min 1 vues

For Nita Valyez, who is half-Spanish and half-Irish, Carlos represents potential violence and danger, two things to which she is both attracted and repelled. In contrast, she has only a passing interest in Big Jim, the town's honest, good-hearted sheriff. Then, after Carlos kills a faro dealer, he forces Nita to make an escape with him.

Drama

1

An Arabian Knight

Aug 22, 1920

An Arabian Knight

1920 50 min 1 vues

Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall from lascivious pasha Fred Jones. All this brouhaha is actually a dream experienced by Hall.

Action

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Li Ting Lang

Jul 24, 1920

Li Ting Lang

1920 50 min 1 vues

In a day and age when interracial marriages were considered taboo, film star Sessue Hayakawa rarely got the girl in his pictures. The issue of prejudice is broached here -- and Hayakawa still doesn't get the girl, who in this case is society girl Marion Halstead (Doris Pawn).

Drama

1

The Devil

Apr 01, 1915

The Devil

1915 137 min 1 vues

The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.

Drama

1

The Phantom's Secret

May 14, 1917

The Phantom's Secret

1917 50 min 1 vues

At the death of Count de Beaulieu, his daughter Jeanne learns that her father had been the arch-criminal known as The Phantom. The only other person who knew her father's identity was his lieutenant, Franz Leroux, who now demands that Jeanne marry him in return for his silence.

Mystery

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The Gates of Doom

Mar 05, 1917

The Gates of Doom

1917 50 min 1 vues

Indore, an Indian woman married to the English Captain Terence Unger is imprisoned by the prince after she gives birth to a baby daughter named Agatha. On his deathbed, Unger beseeches his friend Francis Duane to care for Agatha which Duane does, returning to England with the infant.

Drama

1

The Plow Woman

Jul 02, 1917

The Plow Woman

1917 50 min 1 vues

After her mother's death, Mary not only becomes the household slave of her overbearing father, Scottish American Andy MacTavish but also becomes a mother to her little sister Ruth at their home on the Dakota plains.

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The Lair of the Wolf

Aug 20, 1917

The Lair of the Wolf

1917 50 min 1 vues

Widow Margaret Dennis, unaware of the abusive nature of Oliver Cathcart, agrees to become his wife. Among other cruelties, Cathcart has ruined the Taylor family in a bad business deal, causing the death of Mrs. Taylor, turning Mr. Taylor into a worthless drunk and embittering their son Raymond, who swears revenge on Cathcart. Margaret's son Jim, learning of all this, forces his mother to choose between him and Cathcart.

Drama