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Sent as a missionary to cannibals, Lloyd Hamilton boards a ship, but encounters many problems along the voyage.
Nov 1920
A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.
Oct 1920
Jimmie Adams comedy produced by Educational.
Feb 1921
15 part serial: CHAPTER TITLES: 1. The Sultan's Necklace; 2. The Bowstring; 3. The Air Peril; 4. Amid the Clouds; 5. Between Fire and Water; 6. The Abandoned Mine; 7. The False Pearl; 8. The Man Trap; 9. The Message on the Wire; 10. The Hold-Up; 11. Gems of Jeopardy; 12. Buried Alive; 13. Over the Falls; 14. The Tower of Death; 15. The Seventh Pearl.
Sep 1917
During World War I, a group of German saboteurs plot to blow up an ammunition dump in New York City. A secret agent sets out to stop them.
Nov 1917
Beam opens a boarding house and many interesting characters are introduced. She spreads her optimism to their lives. Also to her blind father by telling him army stories about her brother when in actuality, he's deserted.
Aug 1917
A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.
Dec 1920
A pretty movie star is stalked by a strange gang whose leader is infatuated with her in this superior Pathé serial written by genre specialist H.H. van Loan. Released in 15 chapters between May and August of 1920, the serial offered a glimpse into the still mysterious world of movie-making
May 1920
A silent movie serial directed by George B. Seitz.
Jul 1917
A cult of Hindu tiger worshippers and a gang of Western outlaws try to cheat a young woman out of rich mines that belong to her.
Apr 1919
Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife.
Feb 1918
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
Jan 1918
Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
Bang! is a 1921 silent comedy
Mar 1921
Suspected of smuggling, Eileen Caverly boards the Connecticut Limited where she befriends Helen Raymond who is traveling with her new husband Bob Guerton. Helen confides they had recently married impulsively, the service performed by a justice of the peace. Shortly after their talk the train is wrecked, Helen is killed and Bob injured. Seizing the opportunity Eileen poses as Bob's wife to avoid capture. Bob’s mother visits him, learning that they were married by a Justice of the Peace, insists they be married by a minister. Bob becomes successful with Eileen’s support, and they have a son. All is well until Cromwel Crow, who knows of Eileen's past, is released from jail. Demanding $5000 for his silence they struggle, Bob enters and in the ensuing fight, Crow is killed. Eileen's secret dies with her adversary, freeing her to continue her life.
Jun 1917
The spread of yellow journalism in a small town almost destroys the lives of several people and threatens the livelihood of the hamlet itself.
Dec 1917
When her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
Jul 1918
Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's house, Mary escapes and Syd is jailed. Mary begins working as a locksmith. When she meets the man again, will he believe she's changed?
Anna Mirrel, a young Jewish girl in Czarist Russia, is forced to degrade herself in order to visit her father, whom she believes to be ill. She obtains a yellow passport, signifying that she is a prostitute.
May 1918
Lucy Millington is an independent woman who looks upon men with contempt. Novelist Donald Prime, who has written a book on women, considers himself an authority on the subject. Both are lured into the desolate backwoods of Arcady by adventurers who plan to keep them in captivity until a fortune bequeathed to them has been safely deposited in the hands of their rivals.
Oct 1917