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An adaptation of the stage warhorse East Lynne featuring a young, curly-haired Alan Hale as the villain.
East Lynne
Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than...
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out...
Way Down East
An old colonel is proud as a peacock: his son leads a group of volunteers in the American Civil War. Untill one day his son returns home as a...
The Honor of His Family
Harry wants to marry Dolly, a showgirl, but only on the condition that she can win over his disapproving father. The father is so charmed when he...
Teaching Dad to Like Her
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
True Heart Susie
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but...
The School Teacher and the Waif
The Soul of Pierre
A criminal designs a plan to get revenge on the district attorney who convicted his brother.
A Terrible Discovery
Bobby is jealous of the new baby, so he takes it to the zoo and tries to return it to the stork.
The Baby and the Stork
They are brothers; one is a member of the village fire department, the other the property man at the "Opry House." A traveling dramatic company...
When the Fire-Bells Rang
Hank Hopkins is a "rube" of the most extreme type, and on the morning of the great Shrine Parade in Los Angeles, he is met by a couple of friends,...
The Would-Be Shriner
Are Brunettes Safe?
After the death of his wife the baby was all the sheriff had left, the promise of hope in the future, and the reflection of all that was dear in the...
The Sheriff's Baby
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure...
Experience
An eye strain was really the cause of making the young business man realize that he loved the young typist and a wrongly compounded remedy for the...
A Frightful Blunder
The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love,...
Just Gold
Nine-year-old Nedda is a direct descendant of the Trevors, a family that can trace its roots back to the reign of King Charles I. Alas, the Trevors...
Heredity
Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated...
My Hero
A poor man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family, not knowing there's a stolen diamond hidden inside.
The Stolen Loaf
A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that...
The Enemy's Baby
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders...
Death's Marathon
After a lifetime of hard work, Dad consents to live with his married daughter in the city. The young couple try to make him forget work. Ill at ease...
The Work Habit
No doubt the old antique dealer was prejudiced against his junior clerk. After frequent shortages, the clerk's visit to the gambling house was...
The Stopped Clock
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he...
The Mothering Heart
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant...
Judith of Bethulia
The hero's mother is desperately ill and the young fellow, while going afoot for a doctor, stops a mail carrier and forces him- at the point of the...
His Desperate Deed
An anonymous donor drops a gold coin in the shoe of a homeless girl as she sleeps. A gambler with a 'sure thing' borrows the coin and wins a fortune,...
The Golden Louis
Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over...
One Is Business, the Other Crime
At her dying mother's bedside, Kate promises to bring her young brother into manhood. Eager to gain possession of the farm by marrying Kate, the...
A Nest Unfeathered
Brutal rental agent Joseph McGuire demands that Molly-O marry McGuire's son Denny, lest her family be thrown out of their humble shack. But Molly-O...
The Marriage of Molly-O
An elderly actor who lives with his wife and daughter is dismissed from his acting job because he is considered too old. On his way home from the...
The Old Actor
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.
The New York Hat
Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble...
A Misunderstood Boy
Mr. Hobb's secretary and Mrs. Hobb's maid are sweethearts, but Mr. Hobbs has a tender feeling for his wife's maid, while Mrs. Hobbs forms a liking...
With a Kodak
Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
A Dash Through the Clouds
Rose and her cousin Mary dwell in the land of romance, but real Romeos are scarce in this prosaic age. Yet Rose, in spite of a gay young Lothario who...
The Perfidy of Mary
A butcher boy steals meat to give to a beggar woman and is ultimately rewarded for his kindness.
The Tender Hearted Boy
Two Johns, a Confederate and an Union soldier, leave their families to go to the front. After a skirmish they end up separated from their respective...
The Fugitive
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems...
The Painted Lady
The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The...
The Yaqui Cur
A Mack Sennett comedy for Biograph released as a split reel along with the comedy The Baron.
The Villain Foiled
After the Civil War, an ex-soldier and his family settle in the Dakota Territory. The son quarrels with the father and leaves home. Riding in the...
Fighting Blood
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...
Faithful
Mabel Normand is the wife of a rather rotund businessman, Dell Henderson. She doesn't get along with her mother Kate Bruce. She steals some money...
The Furs
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks...
The Sunbeam
Schoolteacher Edith breaks off her engagement after an argument with her fiancé. She writes him a note of reconciliation but throws it away....
A Country Cupid
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied...
Ramona
A young maiden is seduced by a charming traveling peddler who persuades her to steal from her host family in order to repay his gambling debts.
An Arcadian Maid
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals...
A Child of the Ghetto
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take...
The Flying Fool
A mountain girl is seduced by a traveler from the valley. Her brother tracks the seducer down and kills him. In retaliation, the sheriff captures the...
The Mountaineer's Honor
Mrs. Wharton, a dashing widow, gives a party at her beautiful villa in honor of the presentation to her of a handsome diamond necklace by her...
Betrayed by a Handprint
Nellie flees her old life and goes east to become a nurse, where she marries a doctor. One of her old colleagues finds her and tries to blackmail...
Confidence
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...
Muggsy Becomes a Hero
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
The Struggle
Ruth Wilson, daughter of a wealthy landowner, receives a visit from her country sweetheart, Joe Merriam. who is a motorboat enthusiast. Unknown to...
A Lesson in Mechanics
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and...
The Hun Within
A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
Mary Ellen Comes to Town
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...
Orphans of the Storm
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken...
An Awful Moment
At the Italian boarding house the male boarders were all smitten with the charms of Minnie, the landlady's pretty daughter, but she was of a poetic...
At the Altar
All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a chance. At a dance, Bud dresses as a woman and all...
Getting Even
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not...
The Girl Who Stayed at Home
The District Attorney came face to face with the man who he believed had murdered his father years before. This man was held for murder. The District...
The Honor of the Law
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see...
The White Rose
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who...
The Idol Dancer
The manicure lady spurns the barber and dates a rich cad instead.
The Manicure Lady
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and...
A Romance of Happy Valley
A mother works as a dancer to support her ill daughter. One night while performing, the mother has a vision of her child dying. She rushes home, but...
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the...
The House Built Upon Sand
A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in...
The Greatest Thing in Life
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...
The Country Doctor
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment,...
A Strange Meeting
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,...
The Broken Locket
In the Kingdom of Never-Never Land there live a great Lord and Lady, each presiding over their own domain. This great Lord goes for a stroll through...
Love Among the Roses
Tony, the barber, on his way to the shop meets little Alice, the newsgirl, who runs a stand on a neighboring corner. He at once becomes smitten and...
The Italian Barber
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
A crime drama in which a police officer does everything possible to help his criminal younger brother.
The Strong Man's Burden
A farmer takes in a young orphan after her mother's death and sends her off to school. After she's grown, he encourages her to consider his younger...
The Rose of Kentucky
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...
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
Mack Sennett appears as a cop in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
One Touch of Nature
In Camarillo, principality of the Spanish dominion, there lived two brothers, Jose and Manuel. Born in a noble Spanish family and reared by a mother...
The Two Brothers
A 1917 filmd riected by Chester Withey.
Madame Bo-Peep
A 1917 film directed by Chester Withey.
A Woman's Awakening
Betsy Harlow is a hard-working maid in a boarding house. Her dream. however, is to be a detective, a dream she shares with her boyfriend Oscar, a...
Betsy's Burglar
Count Ferdinand, a submarine commander and secret pacifist refuses to torpedo a defenseless passenger ship during wartime. His submarine is sunk in...
Civilization
A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.
The Usurer
In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in...
The Modern Prodigal
A small-town drama group's rehearsal is interrupted when one of their members receives a letter telling him his English relative is arriving for a...
The Englishman and the Girl
Ranch hand Bob Gorman loves pretty Molly Hendricks, and Daddy isn't happy about that. Then Bob is falsely accused of killing Mr. Hendricks. Soon we...
The Twisted Trail
It is springtime when little Mabel arrives at her Uncle Zeke's farm. Henry and Steve, two farmhands, are chums, having spent the years of their...
In the Season of Buds
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....
All on Account of the Milk
Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been...
Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal
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...
May and December
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...
A Gold Necklace
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...
A Lucky Toothache
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
Simple Charity
Her trademarked curls hidden under a black wig, Mary Pickford stars as a wide-eyed Indian maiden. Two braves vie for the heroine's affections,...
The Song of the Wildwood Flute
Edith is a salesgirl in a department store who envys her store-mates, as she views them passing by with their sweethearts, lighthearted and happy....
A Plain Song
Mary is the youngest of three sisters and of an impressionable nature. She and her sister Florence are living at home with their widowed mother,...
Three Sisters
Two lovers elope and expect to be pursued by her father. But the clever father has tricked them into running off, and celebrates their wedding when...
They Would Elope
Papa is proud of his new birthday present, a shotgun. Mary's boyfriend arrives for a visit and she is anxious to introduce him to Papa. When Harry...
What's Your Hurry?
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...
The Unwelcome Guest
Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order...
A Midnight Adventure
A society couple, neglect their young daughter in favor of their social life. When the girl becomes seriously ill, the father realizes the errors of...
Through the Breakers
The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...
The Informer
The two brothers and their adopted daughter of the household grew up from childhood together. The girl and the younger brother were childhood...
A Feud in the Kentucky Hills
Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the...
The One She Loved
A first-born baby girl is sent away and placed in the care of Gretchen, a trusted peasant woman, who is the widowed mother of a child about the same...
Lena and the Geese
A lonely old widower arrives in town and seeks out a pleasant boarding place. The house he selects may be pleasant and homelike, but most of all it...
An Indian Summer
When the suitor of the daughter of an apparently wealthy widow finds out that the oil stocks, in which her late husband's fortune is invested, are...
Just Like a Woman
Griffith interweaves two tales of one family: A stern father rules his family by what he thinks to be the Bible's precepts, but it is simply the...
Home Folks
Papa becomes so miserable over his bad luck as a fisherman, it causes him to reject Harry, his daughter's sweetheart, who tease him about it. The...
Won by a Fish
D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for...
The Telephone Girl and the Lady
A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle's fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns...
The Awakening
Edith enters a convent after losing her fiancé to someone else. Years later, Edith finds him again, now poverty-stricken, and secretly helps...
The Long Road
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her...
The Little Tease
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers....
Scarlet Days
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...
His Duty
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies...
Hearts of the World
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him,...
Souls Triumphant
A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a...
His Darker Self
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds...
The Reformers
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident....
The Unchanging Sea
A Quaker father is bringing up his daughter Ann in a stern, religious manner, often disturbed by her frivolity. A motorist, a concert singer from the...
Her Father's Pride
A rural schoolmaster, beloved by his pupils, is dismissed from his teaching post when the county’s visiting school inspector is mildly...
Examination Day at School
A little over six minutes survive of this Biograph short. Not to be confused with another Biograph short, Olaf- An Atom (1913, starring Harry Carey,...
The Wanderer
After the death of her father, Betty Lockwood goes to Graystone Gables, the estate where he had been the caretaker, to spend some time alone there....
Betty of Greystone
Broken by grief after his mother's death, Olaf becomes a wanderer. He is treated cruelly until he is given a meal by a woman at the homestead where...
Olaf—An Atom
A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.
Film Fun
An attempt to hide her working-class origins appears to have disastrous consequences for an attractive office worker.
Her Awakening
Wild flapper Patricia Van Nuys decides to become a pilot like her husband Robert, but with a difference--she wants to become the first woman to cross...
Flying Pat
A poor, elderly couple with many children is tempted when the husband's brother offers to pay to adopt one of the children himself. However, when...
Wanted, a Child
Poor Hiram didn't anticipate the trouble laid out for him when he and his wife went for a stroll in the park.
The Masher
When a wealthy hypochondriac is dissatisfied by the care of the town doctor (Doc Arnold), he consults with a new physician in town who swindles him...
The Microscope Mystery
Agnes, a singer in a country church, is practicing one day when a vaudeville manager hears her and offers her a job. Over the objections of the...
To Save Her Soul
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
Make Mine Memories
During the American Revolution, a young soldier carrying a crucial message to General Washington is spotted and pursued by a group of enemy soldiers....
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
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...
A Corner in Wheat
A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy...
The Slave
Mary marries James, after jilting his brother Luke. Mary's sister arrives and soon James is professing his love to her. The shock of this kills Mary...
His Lost Love
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...
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the...
The Gibson Goddess
A dance hall girl is converted to a religious life by a phony evangelist. But can he, himself, be saved?
The Converts
Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.
Hot Stuff
Alice has two persistent suitors, one rich, one poor. Each buys her an engagement ring; the rich man pays cash, but the poor man must pay on...
The Engagement Ring
Wild Flower follows her banished lover, Gray Fox, into the wilderness. Her departure is witnessed by Silver Fawn, who mistakenly thinks Wild Flower...
The Squaw's Love
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce...
Wilful Peggy
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...
The Rocky Road
Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told...
What the Daisy Said
A man sacrifices a new marriage for the happiness of his daughter.
As It Is in Life
A disfigured young woman with two beautiful sisters is courted by a blind man. Will he still love her when his sight is restored?
The Light That Came
An Indian village is forced to leave its land by white settlers, and must make a long and weary journey to find a new home. The settlers make one...
The Redman's View
The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.
A Trap for Santa Claus
In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in...
That Chink at Golden Gulch
A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...
His Trust
A feud existed between two Italian houses and it meant disaster to any one of the belligerents to intrude into the opposing house. The Lord of the...
Heart Beats of Long Ago
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own...
His Trust Fulfilled
William promises to marry his sweetheart, Mary, after completing medical school. William's father has saved enough money to set up William's medical...
His Daughter
In a saloon in a Mexican border town, a group of cowboys, including a Mexican named Pedro, play poker. One man is discovered cheating, and is shot...
The Fight for Freedom
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch