Louis Wolheim

Louis Wolheim

It was Lionel Barrymore who gave Louis Wolheim his start as an actor. Wolheim had had his face more or less smashed in and his nose nicely fractured while playing on a scrub Cornell football team. Later as a Cornell Instructor he found life none too easy. He had worked off and on as an extra in the Wharton studio but never received much attention. Barrymore had only to look at him once to realize that Wolheim's face was his fortune. Through Barrymore, Wolheim gained an entree into New York theatrical life. On the legitimate stage he made a great success in "Welcome Wing" and "The Hairy Ape", climaxing these plays by his triumph in "What Price Glory". Louis Wolheim died in Los Angeles, California on 18 February 1931, the result of stomach cancer.

  • Title: Louis Wolheim
  • Popularity: 0.2075
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1880-03-27
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Louis Robert Wolheim, Louis R. Wolheim, L. Robert Wolheim, Louis Walheim, L. Walheim, Louis W. Wolheim
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Louis Wolheim Movies

  • 1930
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    7.8 1930 HD

    When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

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  • 1920
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.699 1920 HD

    A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

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  • 1923
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    The Last Moment

    The Last Moment

    1 1923 HD

    Hercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are shanghaied and taken aboard "The Finn's" ship, bound for the South Seas. "The Finn" is a brutal captain who reinforces his authority with a caged, ape-like monster. "The Thing" escapes during a storm, destroys the captain and crew, then turns on Alice and Nap. Fearing that their last moment has arrived, they declare their love for each other, and Nap suddenly develops a heroic impulse. He holds off the monster for a time, Alice and Nap swim for shore closely followed by "The Thing," and Nap finally drowns the beast with the aid of a large abalone. A lost film.

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  • 1924
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    The Story Without a Name

    The Story Without a Name

    1 1924 HD

    Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.

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  • 1917
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    The Eternal Mother

    The Eternal Mother

    1 1917 HD

    Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving notification that her husband and child are dead. Discovering that Alden employs child labor, Maris, assisted by the village minister, tries to persuade him that this is wrong, but he will tolerate no interference in his business.

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  • 1928
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    The Racket

    The Racket

    6.5 1928 HD

    A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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  • 1918
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    The Poor Rich Man

    The Poor Rich Man

    6 1918 HD

    Vantyne Carter is a playboy living in luxury off his father. Vantyne's cousin Teddy, meanwhile, leads a fine upstanding life -- or at least he appears to, so he can curry favor with his wealthy uncle, Vantyne's father. One day, the senior Carter, fed up with his son's antics, decides to play a trick on both Vantyne and Teddy. The old man and his lawyer go off on a hunting trip, and then the lawyer returns with news that Carter was killed in an accident.

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  • 1919
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    The Test of Honor

    The Test of Honor

    2.7 1919 HD

    After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.

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  • 1924
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    The Uninvited Guest

    The Uninvited Guest

    1 1924 HD

    Olive Granger, an heiress survives a shipwreck in the South Seas and is washed ashore an island along with international crooks Irene Carlton and Fred Morgan, who steal her credentials and escape to America, where Irene poses as Olive. Paul Patterson and Jan Boomer, divers, find Olive abandoned in a cave and fight through the jungle in competition for the girl. While diving for pearls, the treacherous Boomer dies in the clutching coils of a giant octopus. Olive and Paul arrive in New York, expose the impostors, and get married.

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  • 1922
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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    6.159 1922 HD

    Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.

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  • 1918
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    The Eyes of Mystery

    The Eyes of Mystery

    1 1918 HD

    Carma Carmichael, who lives with her uncle Quincy, is kidnapped by her renegade father Roger and taken to his ancestral Southern home. Uncle Quincy sends young Jack Carrington to investigate and goes into hiding, leading the Carmichaels to believe he is dead. Carma is at first suspicious of Jack's intentions but soon learns that the man who abducted her is actually an impostor who had murdered her father and now lives in the plantation with a group of thugs. Despite "Roger's" attempts to take Jack's life, the young man incites the thugs against him and they attack the house.

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  • 1917
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    The End of the Tour

    The End of the Tour

    1 1917 HD

    A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.

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  • 1928
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    Tempest

    Tempest

    6.2 1928 HD

    In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

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  • 1917
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    The Avenging Trail

    The Avenging Trail

    1 1917 HD

    Lumberjack Gaston Olaf is newly arrived in the lumber camp of Havens Falls, but it isn't long before he finds himself coming to the rescue of the lovely Rose Havens, who is being pursued by the nasty Lefty Red.

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  • 1929
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    Condemned!

    Condemned!

    6.4 1929 HD

    Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.

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  • 1930
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    The Silver Horde

    The Silver Horde

    5.3 1930 HD

    A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

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  • 1916
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    The Brand of Cowardice

    The Brand of Cowardice

    1 1916 HD

    Cyril Hamilton is a chicken-hearted easterner who heads west. He makes up for his past misdeeds by rescuing a Cavalry colonel's daughter Marcia West from Mexican bandidos.

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  • 1917
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    The Millionaire's Double

    The Millionaire's Double

    1 1917 HD

    After his wife has run off with another man, New Yorker Bide Bennington decides to stay in Europe. After hearing of his wife's death years later, he returns home but finds it lonely there and heads West. While he is gone his house is robbed, and the leader of the crooks, Richard Glendo, leaves Bennington's coat and identification on an East River pier. The newspapers pick up on this and announce Bennington's "suicide." Since he is now officially deceased, Bennington decides to start life all over again -- but first he must foil a scheme by a gang of con artists, who have forced pretty Constance Brent to pose as Bennington's widow so that they can lay claim to his estate.

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  • 1924
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    America

    America

    5.7 1924 HD

    The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

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  • 1931
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    Danger Lights

    Danger Lights

    5.941 1931 HD

    Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job; then he finds the man was a railroader, too, and takes him under his wing. Engaged to Mary, Dan doesn't notice the growing attraction between his protégé and his intended but focuses instead on running the railroad.

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  • 1931
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    Gentleman's Fate

    Gentleman's Fate

    6 1931 HD

    A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

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  • 1929
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    Wolf Song

    Wolf Song

    4.429 1929 HD

    In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love and he persuades her to elope with him. After they get married, Sam is torn between his love for Lola and his yearn for traveling.

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  • 1931
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    The Sin Ship

    The Sin Ship

    5.8 1931 HD

    A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.

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  • 1930
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    The Ship from Shanghai

    The Ship from Shanghai

    5.7 1930 HD

    On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.

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  • 1928
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    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    5 1928 HD

    A French country lass Marie Ducrot, name is "mud" after she is compromised by a German soldier . Turning to religion, Banky becomes one of the "sisters in white" in the field hospitals of World War 1. THE AWAKENING was nominated by the Academy for its Art Direction in the first transitional year of the talkies. A vast number of films from this year are lost and this is no exception. No print or negative materials are known to exist at this time. William Cameron Menzies received his third nomination for this film, having received two the prior year and winning for both.

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  • 1923
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    Unseeing Eyes

    Unseeing Eyes

    1 1923 HD

    The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.

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  • 1921
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    Orphans of the Storm

    Orphans of the Storm

    6.774 1921 HD

    France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

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  • 1927
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    Two Arabian Knights

    Two Arabian Knights

    5.8 1927 HD

    During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation in 2016.

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  • 1923
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    Little Old New York

    Little Old New York

    6.458 1923 HD

    An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

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  • 1918
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    A Pair of Cupids

    A Pair of Cupids

    1 1918 HD

    Henry Burgess favors a match between his ward, Virginia Parke, and his nephew, Peter Warburton, but she is only interested in her poodle, Frou Frou, and Peter devotes all of his attention to his business. To bring them together, Uncle Henry rents twin babies of the laundrywoman, Bridget McGroghan, placing one on Peter's doorstep and the other on Virginia's. Each discovering that the other has a baby, Peter and Virginia soon begin to share their views on child rearing and matrimony, and are about to become engaged when the babies disappear. Michael McGroghan, the twins' father, hires a pair of crooks to kidnap the babies so that he may collect the $25,000 bond that has been put up by Henry for their safe return. Peter, however, tracks down the kidnappers, and after the infants are returned to their grateful mother, he and Virginia look forward to having their own babies. (from the AFI)

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  • 1918
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    The House of Hate

    The House of Hate

    6.6 1918 HD

    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...

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  • 1927
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    Sorrell and Son

    Sorrell and Son

    5.7 1927 HD

    Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.

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  • 1929
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    Square Shoulders

    Square Shoulders

    1 1929 HD

    Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, like his father. What he doesn't know is that his father, Slag, is actually a thief and a derelict. Slag robs a factory in order to get the money to send Tad to military school, then gets a job at the academy's horse stables to be close to his son, who doesn't know he's alive.

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  • 1921
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    Number 17

    Number 17

    1 1921 HD

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  • 1922
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    The Face in the Fog

    The Face in the Fog

    6 1922 HD

    Boston Blackie Dawson gets some jewels that belonged to the imperial family of Russia. A gang of terrorists is after the jewels.

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  • 1918
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    Opportunity

    Opportunity

    1 1918 HD

    When Mary’s father refuses to let her attend a prize fight because he thinks it’s undignified for a young lady, she disguises herself in her brother's clothes, which sets in motion a series of misunderstandings that almost wreck a marriage and land Mary in jail — but all works out in the end!

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  • 1929
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    Frozen Justice

    Frozen Justice

    1 1929 HD

    The picture is based on the 1920 novel, Norden For Lov og Ret, by Ejnar Mikkelsen, set in Nome, Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and 1899. Presumed lost.

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  • 1917
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    The Belle of the Season

    The Belle of the Season

    1 1917 HD

    The Belle of the Season is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by S. Rankin Drew, and stars Emmy Wehlen, S. Rankin Drew, and Walter Hitchcock.

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  • 1916
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    Dorian's Divorce

    Dorian's Divorce

    1 1916 HD

    Wealthy clubman Richard Dorian is a lighthearted soul who can't seem to take anything seriously, including his wife. Even when they decide to divorce, he meets the lawyers with a smile. When one of the attorneys suggests a charge of brutality, Mrs. Dorian points out that it is ludicrous. Dorian offers to have a party on his yacht, during which he will try very hard to be brutal to her to give her grounds for the divorce. Among the partygoers are Mrs. Dorian's guardian and Morgan, a smuggler who is buying the yacht. The guardian, who has squandered Mrs. Dorian's money on the stock market, kills himself. Dorian thinks that his wife killed him, gallantly takes the blame himself, and dives overboard. He becomes a tramp and is shanghaied by Morgan's men to become a stoker on his former yacht. Dorian's steward, Puck, is still onboard, and he tells Dorian that the guardian committed suicide.

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  • 1921
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    Experience

    Experience

    1 1921 HD

    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 and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.

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  • 1915
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    The Romance of Elaine

    The Romance of Elaine

    1 1915 HD

    The heroine had little time for romancing newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, what with Doctor X, alias Marcus Del Mar, threatening American democracy in general and master detective Craig Kennedy's designs for a new torpedo in particular. Whenever Doctor X has Elaine or Jameson in his grasp, they are inevitably saved in the nick of time by a mystery figure garbed in black.

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  • 1923
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    The Go-Getter

    The Go-Getter

    1 1923 HD

    Bill Peck is discharged from an army hospital and goes in search of a job. Cappy Ricks hires Bill, but gives him an seemingly impossible test of finding and buying a particular blue vase to prove he can handle a challenging job in China.

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  • 1925
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    Lover's Island

    Lover's Island

    1 1925 HD

    Clemmy Dawson, the daughter of a sea captain, lives in a small fishing village, where, in the summer season, she meets Jack Avery, who is visiting a nearby resort. When Clemmy is later attacked by Sam Johnson, her father (who does not know the identity of the man who sought to force his attentions on Clemmy) vows that he will force the responsible man to marry her. Clemmy names Avery, and her father proceeds to make plans for a wedding. In the meantime, Clemmy discovers that Avery already has a fiancée and, with a change of heart, she runs off, taking refuge on Lover's Island. She makes plans to marry the villainous Sam, but Avery, realizing that he has come to love her, goes to Lover's Island, stops the wedding, and marries Clemmy himself.

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  • 1923
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    Enemies of Women

    Enemies of Women

    5.2 1923 HD

    The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)

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  • 1916
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    The Sunbeam

    The Sunbeam

    1 1916 HD

    Big-hearted Prue, living in the slums, and Danny O'Maddigan, a reformed crook, want to buy a birthday cake for Prue's 75-year-old grandmother. They live across the hall from Ellen Rutherford, the destitute widow of Steven Rutherford, Jr., who was disinherited by his father, a wealthy candy manufacturer. Prue, who works at the candy factory, gives Ellen the money that was meant for her grandmother's cake so Ellen will be able to care for her son Bobby. Frustrated over the loss of the money, Danny steals the price of a cake from the factory's safe, leaving the safe's door open in his haste to depart.

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  • 1928
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    The Shady Lady

    The Shady Lady

    1 1928 HD

    The Shady Lady is a 1928 sound part-talkie American drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith.

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  • 1931
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    The Sin Ship

    The Sin Ship

    5.8 1931 HD

    A lecherous ship captain becomes spiritually changed by a female passenger, not realizing she and her "minister" husband are really bank robbers.

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  • 1917
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    The Greatest Power

    The Greatest Power

    1 1917 HD

    Miriam Monroe and John Conrad are two young scientific workers who, independently of each other, have discovered a chemical called exonite. Miriam discovered it while searching for a cure for cancer, while Conrad used it as a basis for a powerful explosive.

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  • 1918
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    Together

    Together

    1 1918 HD

    According to Richard Standhope's will, both his daughter Laura and her long-lost twin brother Larry must be reunited by a certain date, or the estate will revert to her avaricious guardian, Andrew Brean. Following Standhope's death, Laura and her sweetheart, Jim Watson, read in her deceased mother's diary that Andrew had broken up the Standhopes' marriage soon after the twins' birth by unjustly accusing Mrs. Standhope of infidelity. Laura was then sent to boarding school, while little Larry, placed in his father's care, was neglected and later became a thief. As Laura and Jim ponder Larry's whereabouts, the house is robbed by none other than Larry, now called "the Kid," and his cohort, "the Snail."

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