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The Phantom of the Opera | Erik, The Phantom | 1925-09-22 | A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. L… |
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The Monster | Dr. Ziska | 1925-03-16 | A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum…. |
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The Unknown | Alonzo the Armless | 1927-05-29 | A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost…. |
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The Unholy Three | Professor Echo / Grandma O’Grady | 1930-07-12 | A trio of former sideshow performers double as the “Unholy Three” in a scam to nab some shiny rocks…. |
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The Unholy Three | Professor Echo / Granny O’Grady | 1925-07-20 | Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” – a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series o… |
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West of Zanzibar | Phroso ‘Dead-Legs’ | 1928-11-24 | A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife…. |
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh | Tito Beppi | 1928-04-14 | A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but bot… |
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A Blind Bargain | Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man | 1922-12-03 | Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb’s “experiment”, known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb’s a… |
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He Who Gets Slapped | Paul Beaumont aka HE | 1924-12-22 | Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other … |
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While Paris Sleeps | Henri Santodos | 1923-01-21 | Lon Chaney plays a Parisian sculptor who falls in love with his model (Mildred Manning). She, however, cares nothing for him. The film is considered l… |
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The Ace of Hearts | Mr. Farallone | 1921-09-17 | A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even more tense when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination…. |
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London After Midnight | Professor Edward C. Burke | 1927-12-03 | The abandoned Balfour House, which former owner was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-look… |
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Shadows | Yen Sin | 1922-11-10 | Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin el… |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | 1923-09-06 | In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral ca… |
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The Road to Mandalay | Singapore Joe | 1926-06-26 | Joe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a pockmarked, disreputable divekeeper in Singapore where he i… |
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Mockery | Sergei | 1927-08-13 | There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman… |
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Mr. Wu | Mr. Wu / Wu’s Grandfather | 1927-03-26 | When Mandarin Wu’s unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance…. |
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The Blackbird | The Blackbird / The Bishop | 1926-01-11 | Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the … |
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The Shock | Wilse Dilling | 1923-06-10 | A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love w… |
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Flesh and Blood | David Webster | 1922-08-22 | A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his … |
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Where East Is East | Tiger Haynes | 1929-05-04 | A Chinese wife returns to the American family she left and moves in on her daughter’s (Lupe Velez) beau (Lloyd Hughes)…. |
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While the City Sleeps | Dan Coghlan | 1928-02-15 | A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he’s been accused of, even though t… |
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The Trap | Gaspard the Good | 1922-05-08 | A miner’s happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine…. |
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Tell It to the Marines | Sergeant O’Hara | 1926-12-23 | U.S. Marine Sergeant O’Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, ‘Skeets’ Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns’s lacka… |
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The Miracle Man | The Frog | 1919-08-26 | A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang’s leader encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam g… |
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The Mark of Cain | Dick Temple | 1916-08-06 | … |
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London After Midnight | Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage) | 2002-11-01 | A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney…. |
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Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask | Himself | 1996-01-01 | A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him…. |
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The Big City | Chuck Collins | 1928-03-23 | Gangster boss Chuck Collins, despite his ruthlessness, is a basically decent fellow. Collins is plagued by a rival gang, led by deceptively boyish Cur… |
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Thunder | Grumpy Anderson | 1929-07-08 | A train operator’s obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family…. |
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A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) | | 2013-10-25 | Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,†and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a … |
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The Millionaire Paupers | Landlord | 1915-10-26 | Mrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question h… |
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When Bearcat Went Dry | Kindard Powers | 1919-11-01 | Bearcat Turner Stacy loves Blossom Fulkerson and promise her to give up drinking. Turner is arrested and he find Blossom in the arms of Jerry Henderso… |
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By the Sun’s Rays | Frank Lawler, the Clerk | 1914-07-21 | The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun’s Ray’s was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdoc… |
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The False Faces | Karl Eckstrom | 1919-02-15 | During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German line… |
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Nomads of the North | Raoul Challoner | 1920-09-25 | A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves…. |
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The Tower of Lies | Jan | 1925-10-10 | After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected s… |
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack | Royce Rivers | 1920-06-30 | Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he play… |
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Voices of the City | O’Rourke | 1921-12-01 | Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is conside… |
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Triumph | Paul Neihoff | 1917-09-02 | This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chane… |
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The Next Corner | Juan Serafin | 1924-02-18 | While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband mus… |
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A Mother’s Atonement | Ben | 1915-10-17 | A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him…. |
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | Himself (archive footage) | 2000-10-24 | Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subje… |
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Bobbie of the Ballet | Hook Hoover | 1916-06-12 | Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical productio… |
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The Gilded Spider | Giovanni | 1916-05-08 | An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus … |
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The Grasp of Greed | Jimmie | 1916-07-17 | En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher Joh… |
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The Grip of Jealousy | Silas Lacey | 1916-02-28 | In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimate, leaves the baby in the care of one of her siste… |
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Life in Hollywood No. 3 | Self | 1927-08-25 | Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood…. |
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The Empty Gun | | 1917-09-04 | … |
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The Wicked Darling | Stoop Connors | 1919-12-25 | A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society’s matron’s necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to … |
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The Scarlet Car | Paul Revere Forbes | 1917-12-24 | Paul Revere Forbes, an ancestor of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody’s bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $3… |
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The Light in the Dark | Tony Pantelli | 1922-09-03 | A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron’s car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. Later, a hardened thief i… |
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The Oubliette | Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne | 1914-08-14 | Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon’s he… |
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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-10-24 | On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula – the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film’s lead … |
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All the Brothers Were Valiant | Mark Shore | 1923-01-15 | Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. But when Mark’s ship arrives in port sans its capt… |
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The Place Beyond the Winds | Jerry Jo | 1916-11-06 | The story of a young woman living in the wilderness…. |
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A Doll’s House | Nils Krogstad | 1917-06-11 | Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives i… |
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The Flashlight | Henry Norton / Porter Brixton | 1917-05-21 | Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a camera with a trigger — when the trigger is steppe… |
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The Rescue | Thomas Holland | 1917-07-23 | After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea for help from childhood chum Nell Jerrold begging… |
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Hell Morgan’s Girl | Sleter Noble | 1917-03-05 | Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire to be an artist. But instead of making good as a pa… |
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Fires of Rebellion | Russell Hanlon | 1917-07-02 | Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a drunk who beats his wife (Alice May Youss), and her … |
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Danger, Go Slow | Bud | 1918-12-16 | Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy’s clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy “the Eel,” the leader of the gang of crooks with whom… |
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The Grand Passion | Paul Argos | 1918-01-28 | Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, in… |
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat | Hector Maitland | 1917-04-23 | When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are left motherless, Mary flees from her unhappy surroun… |
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Pay Me! | Joe Lawson | 1917-09-01 | During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man’s wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope wit… |
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Paid in Advance | Bateese Le Blanc | 1919-09-01 | In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields…. |
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Riddle Gawne | Hame Bozzam | 1918-08-03 | When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother’s wife, he swears revenge…. |
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Bits of Life | Chin Chow | 1921-09-26 | This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a story in Popular Magazine in which the son of a Ch… |
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Tangled Hearts | John Hammond | 1916-04-02 | Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends’ business than to his marital situation…. |
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Poor Jake’s Demise | The Dude | 1913-08-16 | Jake’s wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparat… |
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The End of the Feud | Wood Dawson | 1914-04-12 | For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Put… |
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A Ranch Romance | Raphael Praz | 1914-07-08 | Raphael Praz kidnaps heroine Kate…. |
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A Man’s Country | ‘Three Card’ Duncan | 1919-07-13 | Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley’s Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to “clean up” the town. … |
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Quincy Adams Sawyer | Obadiah Strout | 1922-12-04 | Quincy Adams Sawyer is a young attorney who one day meets a girl in the park and is immediately smitten with her…. |
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The Penalty | Blizzard | 1920-08-15 | Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and even… |
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Alas and Alack | The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate | 1915-10-10 | A fishwife tells her young daughter a fairy story about a princess imprisoned by a hunchback in a seashell, a story that parallels her own life…. |
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Outside the Law | Ah Wing / ‘Black Mike’ Sylva | 1921-01-06 | Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master…. |
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Victory | Ricardo | 1919-12-07 | Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island…. |
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The Forbidden Room | John Morris | 1914-06-20 | Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitim… |
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek | The Greaser | 1914-05-01 | American silent short movie…. |
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | Bethmann-Hollweg | 1918-01-02 | A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, an… |
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If My Country Should Call | Dr. George Ardrath | 1916-09-25 | A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army…. |
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The Piper’s Price | Billy Kilmartin | 1917-01-08 | After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself again attracted to his ex-wife, a shrewd business … |
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The Price of Silence | Edmond Stafford | 1916-12-11 | A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the child…. |
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A Broadway Scandal | ‘Kink’ Colby | 1918-06-01 | Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he’s shi… |
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That Devil, Bateese | Louis Courteau | 1918-09-02 | After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little village of Montrouge, where she plans to teach school…. |
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The Measure of a Man | Donald MacDermott | 1915-01-28 | Helen MacDermott, daughter of the Factor at Bear Lake, has been carefully and religiously brought up by her widowed father. Bob Brandt, a dashing youn… |
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The Stool Pigeon | | 1915-04-19 | Walter Jason, a young man from the country, comes to the big city to find a position, but fails to do so. Oswald Trumble, so known to society, though … |
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The Oyster Dredger | | 1915-06-14 | Vera, an heiress, while on a trip to the seaside, sees and admires Jack, an oyster dredger. She takes a fancy to his mode of living and through her la… |
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The Ways of Fate | | 1913-04-19 | Two men playing cards, the argument, flash of a revolver, and one lay dead…. |
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-05-16 | Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction’s greatest fan – Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with t… |
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Treasure Island | Blind Pew / Merry | 1920-01-02 | Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of… |
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Broadway Love | Elmer Watkins | 1918-01-21 | A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd…. |
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The Talk of the Town | Jack Langhorne | 1918-09-28 | Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand on a book called “How to Attract the Opposite Sex,… |
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Discord and Harmony | Lon – the Sculptor | 1914-03-16 | Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing a… |
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The Gift Supreme | Merney Stagg | 1920-03-30 | … |
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The Restless Spirit | The Russian Count (uncredited) | 1913-10-27 | The Dreamer is unhappy with his marriage and runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convince him to return to his family. In v… |
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Richelieu | Baradas | 1914-09-26 | Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film…. |
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Anything Once | Waughnt Moore | 1917-10-08 | Playboy Franklyn Farnum inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain (none other than Lon Chaney) m… |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) | 1945-09-06 | A look back at 25 years of Columbia’s series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in … |
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The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931-07-08 | The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pictures made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the… |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1922-10-30 | Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring u… |
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Bondage | Seducer (uncredited) | 1917-10-17 | Dorothy Phillips was starred as Elinor Crawford, a small-town girl who becomes a reporter on a big-city newspaper — and immediately plunges into the … |
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They Came from the Attic | The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage) | 2022-05-10 | A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive…. |
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Himself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 | Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford’s The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of Al… |
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Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953-12-02 | A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood’s Golden Ye… |
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For Those We Love | Trix Ulner | 1921-09-01 | Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done — her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 do… |
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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces | (archive footage) | 1995-10-25 | Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wol… |
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Damon and Pythias | Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed) | 1914-11-23 | The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse…. |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942-01-01 | The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have died… |
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The Horror of It All | The Phantom (archive footage) | 1983-02-23 | A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them…. |
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 | In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earlie… |
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Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998-10-08 | A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s…. |
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Nadie inquietó más | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008-10-30 | A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Spanish by birth, Argentinean by adoption, Narciso I… |
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