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tt0009389 Moonshine (1918)
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant. The revenuers search high and low for the secret hideaway where the mountain people prepare illegal alcohol, but end up in deep trouble that only a little movie magic can save them from.
tt0326577 I Want You to See My Girl (1909)
A fine British baritone tackles an early Fred Godfrey composition
tt0008874 The Bell Boy (1918)
A hotel employee (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) takes over a barbershop.
tt0174714 The Great White Trail (1917)
A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
tt0139488 A Natural Born Gambler (1916)
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
tt0008822 All Night (1918)
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
tt0009732 Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
tt0009062 The Merry Jail <Das fidele Gefängnis> (1917)
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
tt0008907 The Bond (1918)
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally.
tt0009466 Out West (1918)
A sheriff (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) tracks a notorious outlaw.
tt0010281 I Don't Want to Be a Man <Ich möchte kein Mann sein> (1918)
A teenager (Ossi Oswalda) poses as a man to enjoy freedom.
tt0009369 Mickey (1918)
A woman's (Mabel Normand) relatives plot against her after she inherits a mine.
tt0236878 The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917)
An unemployed actor is mistaken for the new preacher in a small town.
tt0009306 Little Orphant Annie (1918)
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
tt0248867 The Hobo (1917)
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
tt0009558 The Rogue (1918)
Billy West as the rogue in confrontation with restaurant manager Oliver Hardy and dandy Leo White. Charlotte Mineau plays the girl. West is best known as Chaplin impersonator, copying him so accurately that West was often mistaken for the genuine performer.
tt0160467 The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
Bio-pic of Britain's World War 1 Prime Minister.
tt0009611 Shoulder Arms (1918)
Charlie is a private with dreams of becoming a war hero by going behind enemy lines.
tt0008844 Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
tt0008395 Father Sergius <Otets Sergiy> (1918)
During the reign of Russian Tsar Nicholas I. Prince Kasatsky discovers that his fiancée has an affair with the Tsar. He decides to break his engagement and retires to a convent where he tries to reach holiness.
tt0235599 Mister Vampire (1916)
Edna's husband is unfaithful to her and has been accustomed to going out with the other woman. She is about to become a mother and broods over her loneliness. She finds a woman's card in her husband's pocket and becomes suspicious. She watches his office, sees a woman enter, and follows her in. The husband is caught in a compromising position with the woman, so the wife demands a large sum of money to spend on the expected child.
tt0321185 The Amazing Adventure (1917)
Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesnt think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. Ernest dets him 50,000 english pounds.
tt0008414 The Pawnbroker's Heart (1917)
Farce about a pawnbroker, his clerk and their wives.
tt0009434 The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
Harold tries to marry Bebe by impersonating a professor.
tt0301356 Goodbye 1918 (1918)
It was based on a novel by John Strange Winter. It is about a woman who pushes another couple towards divorce then marries the husband.
tt0009522 Engineer Prite's Project <Proekt inzhenera Prayta> (1918)
It’s the tale of young Mack Prite, a recent graduate from a technical college whose diploma involved the invention of a power station that runs entirely on peat. The fuel source is an important detail owing to its abundance - it can be found anywhere, the intertitles inform us - whilst Prite’s method is both simple and reliable. Consequently his invention poses a threat, particularly to the ‘transnational’ oil company that has a monopoly on electricity supply. This being a Soviet production from 1918, any explicit anti-capitalist message behind this is entirely intentional.
tt0008961 The City Slicker (1918)
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
tt0249661 Know Thy Wife (1918)
Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
tt0009123 Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.
tt0285140 The Girl from Paris (1900)
She does a very clever dance with a nimble young man. The dance ends with him kissing the toe of her shoe. There is much amusing by-play in the picture.
tt0007998 Ghost House (1917)
The action of this comedy centers around a supposedly haunted house. Gardener Jeremy Foster (James Neill), in reality a burglar, has made sure the ghost rumors keep on circulating -- that keeps it a good rendezvous spot for his gang. But finally, in spite of the stories, some poor relatives of the deceased owner move in -- Lois Atwell (Louise Huff) and her widowed sister, Alice (Olga Grey).
tt0009406 My Four Years in Germany (1918)
The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
tt0009326 M'Liss (1918)
The film takes place in the mining town of Red Gulch in the High Sierra. M'Liss (Mary Pickford) is one of the inhabitants whose father 'Bummer' (Theodore Roberts) lost his fortune in the gold mines. Now his only investment, which pays a dividend, is his chicken Hildegarde. M'Liss regards herself as a crook and robs Yuba Bill's stage coach. Yuba, however, is fascinated by the young lady and does not mind.
tt0007476 Triple Trouble (1918)
The new janitor screws up an explosives experiment.
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant. The revenuers search high and low for the secret hideaway where the mountain people prepare illegal alcohol, but end up in deep trouble that only a little movie magic can save them from.
tt0326577 I Want You to See My Girl (1909)
A fine British baritone tackles an early Fred Godfrey composition
tt0008874 The Bell Boy (1918)
A hotel employee (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) takes over a barbershop.
tt0174714 The Great White Trail (1917)
A husband, mistakenly believing his wife has cheated on him and that he is now the father of their newborn son, throws both her and her child out of the house. Frantic to the point of madness, she abandons her baby, and when she gains her sanity she flees to Alaska to start a new life. However, her husband finds out and follows her there.
tt0139488 A Natural Born Gambler (1916)
A lovable scoundrel is busted for gambling and thrown into jail, where he dreams of playing poker - but even in his dreams, he loses.
tt0008822 All Night (1918)
A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.
tt0009732 Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
A mild-mannered young man has left home, and is now playing the piano in a bar in the west. The dangerous criminal Dagger-Tooth Dan enters the bar where the young man is playing. Soon afterwards, the local sheriff also arrives, with some letters that he has received. Dan notices the letters, and he switches the information in them to make the sheriff think that the piano player is the dangerous one.
tt0009062 The Merry Jail <Das fidele Gefängnis> (1917)
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
tt0008907 The Bond (1918)
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally.
tt0009466 Out West (1918)
A sheriff (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) tracks a notorious outlaw.
tt0010281 I Don't Want to Be a Man <Ich möchte kein Mann sein> (1918)
A teenager (Ossi Oswalda) poses as a man to enjoy freedom.
tt0009369 Mickey (1918)
A woman's (Mabel Normand) relatives plot against her after she inherits a mine.
tt0236878 The Wrong Mr. Fox (1917)
An unemployed actor is mistaken for the new preacher in a small town.
tt0009306 Little Orphant Annie (1918)
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
tt0248867 The Hobo (1917)
Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
tt0009558 The Rogue (1918)
Billy West as the rogue in confrontation with restaurant manager Oliver Hardy and dandy Leo White. Charlotte Mineau plays the girl. West is best known as Chaplin impersonator, copying him so accurately that West was often mistaken for the genuine performer.
tt0160467 The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
Bio-pic of Britain's World War 1 Prime Minister.
tt0009611 Shoulder Arms (1918)
Charlie is a private with dreams of becoming a war hero by going behind enemy lines.
tt0008844 Are Crooks Dishonest? (1918)
Con artists Harold and Snub attempt to outwit phony psychic Miss Goulash and her "professor" father.
tt0008395 Father Sergius <Otets Sergiy> (1918)
During the reign of Russian Tsar Nicholas I. Prince Kasatsky discovers that his fiancée has an affair with the Tsar. He decides to break his engagement and retires to a convent where he tries to reach holiness.
tt0235599 Mister Vampire (1916)
Edna's husband is unfaithful to her and has been accustomed to going out with the other woman. She is about to become a mother and broods over her loneliness. She finds a woman's card in her husband's pocket and becomes suspicious. She watches his office, sees a woman enter, and follows her in. The husband is caught in a compromising position with the woman, so the wife demands a large sum of money to spend on the expected child.
tt0321185 The Amazing Adventure (1917)
Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives Ernest a prescription that he doesnt think Ernest can fill: Ernest must earn his own living for one year using none of his current wealth. Ernest dets him 50,000 english pounds.
tt0008414 The Pawnbroker's Heart (1917)
Farce about a pawnbroker, his clerk and their wives.
tt0009434 The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
Harold tries to marry Bebe by impersonating a professor.
tt0301356 Goodbye 1918 (1918)
It was based on a novel by John Strange Winter. It is about a woman who pushes another couple towards divorce then marries the husband.
tt0009522 Engineer Prite's Project <Proekt inzhenera Prayta> (1918)
It’s the tale of young Mack Prite, a recent graduate from a technical college whose diploma involved the invention of a power station that runs entirely on peat. The fuel source is an important detail owing to its abundance - it can be found anywhere, the intertitles inform us - whilst Prite’s method is both simple and reliable. Consequently his invention poses a threat, particularly to the ‘transnational’ oil company that has a monopoly on electricity supply. This being a Soviet production from 1918, any explicit anti-capitalist message behind this is entirely intentional.
tt0008961 The City Slicker (1918)
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
tt0249661 Know Thy Wife (1918)
Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."
tt0009123 Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.
tt0285140 The Girl from Paris (1900)
She does a very clever dance with a nimble young man. The dance ends with him kissing the toe of her shoe. There is much amusing by-play in the picture.
tt0007998 Ghost House (1917)
The action of this comedy centers around a supposedly haunted house. Gardener Jeremy Foster (James Neill), in reality a burglar, has made sure the ghost rumors keep on circulating -- that keeps it a good rendezvous spot for his gang. But finally, in spite of the stories, some poor relatives of the deceased owner move in -- Lois Atwell (Louise Huff) and her widowed sister, Alice (Olga Grey).
tt0009406 My Four Years in Germany (1918)
The experiences of the American ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, are recounted in this semi-documentary.
tt0009326 M'Liss (1918)
The film takes place in the mining town of Red Gulch in the High Sierra. M'Liss (Mary Pickford) is one of the inhabitants whose father 'Bummer' (Theodore Roberts) lost his fortune in the gold mines. Now his only investment, which pays a dividend, is his chicken Hildegarde. M'Liss regards herself as a crook and robs Yuba Bill's stage coach. Yuba, however, is fascinated by the young lady and does not mind.
tt0007476 Triple Trouble (1918)
The new janitor screws up an explosives experiment.