Frank Powell

Frank Powell

Frank Powell was a Canadian-born stage and silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter who worked predominantly in the United States. After getting his start acting in D.W. Griffith films, he cast Theda Bara in her breakout role in the 1915 release A Fool There Was. Powell would continue to direct Bara at Fox while she became an international star as the film industry's most popular vamp.

  • Title: Frank Powell
  • Popularity: 2.815
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1887-05-08
  • Place of Birth: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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  • Also Known As: Francis William Powell
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Frank Powell Movies

  • 1915
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    5.2 1915 HD

    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

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  • 1909
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    A Corner in Wheat

    A Corner in Wheat

    6.192 1909 HD

    On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines...

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  • 1909
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    The Mended Lute

    The Mended Lute

    4.667 1909 HD

    In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

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  • 1909
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    The Son's Return

    The Son's Return

    6.2 1909 HD

    A son leaves to seek his fortune in the city. Many years later he returns and checks into his parents' inn. They don't recognize him, but noticing...

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  • 1910
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    Over Silent Paths

    Over Silent Paths

    4.7 1910 HD

    In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him...

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  • 1909
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    The Country Doctor

    The Country Doctor

    6.3 1909 HD

    While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's...

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  • 1909
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    A Strange Meeting

    A Strange Meeting

    4.5 1909 HD

    Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...

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  • 1909
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    Nursing a Viper

    Nursing a Viper

    5 1909 HD

    During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat...

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  • 1909
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    The Broken Locket

    The Broken Locket

    4 1909 HD

    George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost,...

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  • 1909
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    The Indian Runner's Romance

    The Indian Runner's Romance

    4 1909 HD

    An Indian comforts a dying prospector in his last moments. In exchange, the prospector tells him the location of his gold claim. A group of cowboys...

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  • 1909
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    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    Lines of White on a Sullen Sea

    4 1909 HD

    Soon after their engagement, Bill goes to sea, and Emily vows to stay true until his return. Unknown to her, Bill marries another woman from a...

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  • 1909
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    The Honor of Thieves

    The Honor of Thieves

    1 1909 HD

    Mack Sennett appears as a man at the dance and a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

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  • 1909
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    The Cardinal's Conspiracy

    The Cardinal's Conspiracy

    4.5 1909 HD

    A royal woman rejects her arranged marriage. The cardinal hatches a plan: the suitor will shave and change clothes. He arranges with 4 clowns to...

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  • 1909
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    Fools of Fate

    Fools of Fate

    5.7 1909 HD

    Fanny is the wife of Ben Webster, a trapper, and while he is an affectionate and dutiful husband, she yearns for something which appears better than...

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  • 1910
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    The Rocky Road

    The Rocky Road

    4 1910 HD

    The evils of drink cause a man to separate from his family. In time he becomes sober and prosperous. Then he meets and falls in love with a young...

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  • 1910
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    In Old California

    In Old California

    1 1910 HD

    An historical dramatization of a Spanish woman during the reign of Spanish and Mexican owned California in the early 19th century.

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  • 1909
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    His Duty

    His Duty

    4 1909 HD

    It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the...

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  • 1909
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    Tender Hearts

    Tender Hearts

    1 1909 HD

    A country boy and a city boy are both courting the same girl. The girl sees the country boy's tender treatment of a wounded bird and chooses him.

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  • 1909
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    In the Watches of the Night

    In the Watches of the Night

    1 1909 HD

    An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested....

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  • 1910
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    The Man

    The Man

    1 1910 HD

    Mildred lives with her husband, the prospector Steve Clark, in an out-of-the-way cabin in the mountains. She is affectionate and considerate, but her...

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  • 1910
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    The Impalement

    The Impalement

    1 1910 HD

    Bored by a doting wife who is too eager to please (she even puts a cigar in his mouth and lights it), Mr. Avery falls for a dancer, and is invited to...

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  • 1955
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    Film Fun

    Film Fun

    4 1955 HD

    A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.

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  • 1909
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    A Sweet Revenge

    A Sweet Revenge

    1 1909 HD

    After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots...

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  • 1909
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    The Voice of the Violin

    The Voice of the Violin

    4.8 1909 HD

    A music teacher is in love with Helen, one of his students, but she rejects him. In his hurt he joins an anarchist group who plan to blow up a rich...

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  • 1909
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    The Faded Lilies

    The Faded Lilies

    4 1909 HD

    A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

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  • 1909
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    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

    The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period

    1 1909 HD

    During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die....

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  • 1909
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    The Way of Man

    The Way of Man

    4 1909 HD

    A woman is scarred in an accident and refuses to stand in the way of her lover's marriage to another.

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  • 1909
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    The Necklace

    The Necklace

    5 1909 HD

    Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. The necklace is stolen, and Mr. Kendrick goes into debt to...

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  • 1910
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    The Last Deal

    The Last Deal

    1 1910 HD

    Owen Moore is addicted to gambling and about to lose his family and job because of it. James Kirkwood, his brother-in-law, shows up and cures him of...

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  • 1910
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    The Oath and the Man

    The Oath and the Man

    4.5 1910 HD

    A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants. His priest...

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  • 1910
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    Faithful

    Faithful

    4.5 1910 HD

    Adonese is returning home from seeing the woman he is courting, and he is driving around a corner when his car accidentally brushes against the tramp...

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  • 1909
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    The Light That Came

    The Light That Came

    5 1909 HD

    A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?

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  • 1913
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    For Her Government

    For Her Government

    1 1913 HD

    He was one of a league whom society thought honest. The little French lady who became his wife believed him a diplomatic spy for her government, so...

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  • 1919
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    You Never Know Your Luck

    You Never Know Your Luck

    1 1919 HD

    Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada, his past is a mystery to everyone. He is actually...

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  • 1915
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    5.2 1915 HD

    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

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  • 1915
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    5.2 1915 HD

    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

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  • 1921
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    Astray from the Steerage

    Astray from the Steerage

    1 1921 HD

    While an immigrant couple are detained by authorities to see if they're fit, a smuggler tries to sneak a bottle into their luggage, but he...

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  • 1917
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    Mrs. Balfame

    Mrs. Balfame

    1 1917 HD

    Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama

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  • 1917
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    Mrs. Balfame

    Mrs. Balfame

    1 1917 HD

    Mrs. Balfame is a 1917 Mystery Drama

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  • 1923
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    The Man Without Desire

    The Man Without Desire

    5 1923 HD

    A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds...

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  • 1914
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    A Fair Rebel

    A Fair Rebel

    1 1914 HD

    Steve Monteith and Ezra Mason, upper class men, and Bill Bronson, a plebe, are chums and roommates at West Point before the Civil War. Steve prepares...

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  • 1910
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    His New Lid

    His New Lid

    1 1910 HD

    A comedy short about a man trying to get a new hat.

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  • 1915
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    Her Grandparents

    Her Grandparents

    1 1915 HD

    Dorothy, the girl who presides over the notion counter of the Emporium, the general store in a country town, is the sole support of her aged...

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  • 1916
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    The Scarlet Oath

    The Scarlet Oath

    1 1916 HD

    Driven from Russia by the persecution of the police, who had caused the death of his wife, was Ivan Pavloff, a Nihilist, accompanied by his two...

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  • 1917
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    The Greater Woman

    The Greater Woman

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1917
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    Motherhood

    Motherhood

    1 1917 HD

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  • 1915
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    The Devil's Daughter

    The Devil's Daughter

    1 1915 HD

    "My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on...

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  • 1910
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    The Tenderfoot's Triumph

    The Tenderfoot's Triumph

    1 1910 HD

    "It's in the surprise" that great plays are made and battles won, and our tenderfoot friend, appreciating this, pulls a victory that is amazing.

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  • 1916
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    The Chain Invisible

    The Chain Invisible

    1 1916 HD

    James Wadsworth sets his sights on the lovely society girl Anna Dalton and determines to marry her. To achieve that goal, he follows her everywhere...

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  • 1910
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    Love in Quarantine

    Love in Quarantine

    1 1910 HD

    A quarrelling couple are forced to quarantine together after the household maid becomes ill of an infectious disease.

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  • 1915
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    5.2 1915 HD

    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

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  • 1916
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    The Witch

    The Witch

    1 1916 HD

    A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.

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  • 1916
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    The Witch

    The Witch

    1 1916 HD

    A young woman uses her hypnotic powers to destroy the potential marriage of her crush.

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  • 1910
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    White Roses

    White Roses

    1 1910 HD

    Harry loved Betty, and vice versa, but Harry was very shy. No matter how he tried, he never could muster up sufficient courage to propose, despite...

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  • 1910
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    All on Account of the Milk

    All on Account of the Milk

    6 1910 HD

    The hero, a young contractor, is mistaken by the heroine for a laborer, while he thinks she is the maid although she is the daughter of the manor....

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  • 1910
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    The Smoker

    The Smoker

    1 1910 HD

    A young bride wonders at her husband's frequent absences. Suspicion mounts. What can the young man find more alluring than she, herself?

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  • 1910
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    Never Again

    Never Again

    4 1910 HD

    Clarence McKnight and Felix De Grosse are rivals for the heart of pretty little Letitia Mooney, but it is evident that Clarence is the favored one....

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  • 1910
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    May and December

    May and December

    5 1910 HD

    The quartet comprising this story are of ages as the months are to each other. June, a young college boy, finds his resources in depletion, and to...

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  • 1910
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    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    When We Were in Our 'Teens

    5 1910 HD

    Diplomacy was not Tom's strong suit. So when May showed to him her latest painting he poured scorn on it. He was anxious to discourage her from...

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  • 1910
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    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    Muggsy Becomes a Hero

    5 1910 HD

    Two spinsters on their way to church, are accosted by a couple of burly tramps. When Mabel is called to the church meeting with her mother, she sends...

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  • 1910
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    A Gold Necklace

    A Gold Necklace

    5.5 1910 HD

    Mazie lends her necklace to Nellie, her guest. Nellie is asleep in a hammock when Sam, her sweetheart, arrives in his auto. He awakens Nellie with a...

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  • 1910
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    A Lucky Toothache

    A Lucky Toothache

    1 1910 HD

    Bessie, the new school teacher, arrives at the little western village, and on her way to the school she meets a gang of cowboys who bestow boxes of...

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  • 1914
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    His Last Dollar

    His Last Dollar

    1 1914 HD

    Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton, becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York. He soon becomes the prey of swindler Tom Linson...

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  • 1970
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    From the Valley of the Missing

    From the Valley of the Missing

    1 1970 HD

    A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of...

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  • 1970
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    From the Valley of the Missing

    From the Valley of the Missing

    1 1970 HD

    A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of...

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  • 1914
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    Man's Enemy

    Man's Enemy

    1 1914 HD

    Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is liquor. When elderly tosspot John Warriner is...

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  • 1910
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    The Kid

    The Kid

    1 1910 HD

    To Walter Holden since the death of his wife, falls the responsibility of raising his only child.

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  • 1910
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    An Affair of Hearts

    An Affair of Hearts

    1 1910 HD

    Two eccentric Frenchmen argue for the hand of an eligible American girl, who finally discouraged both of them by introducing her betrothed.

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  • 1910
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    The Masher

    The Masher

    1 1910 HD

    Poor Hiram didn't anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park.

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  • 1914
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    The Stain

    The Stain

    1 1914 HD

    An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making...

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  • 1918
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    Heart of the Sunset

    Heart of the Sunset

    1 1918 HD

    Alaire Austin runs a cattle ranch along the Texas-Mexican border with her corrupt husband Ed. After Texas ranger Dave Law saves her from dying of...

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  • 1917
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    Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

    1 1917 HD

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