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Tag Archives: 1910s
Victory (1919) Maurice Tourneur, Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery
Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. Read More »
Where Are My Children? (1916) Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber, Tyrone Power Sr., Mrs. Tyrone Power, Marie Walcamp
While prosecuting a physician for the death of a client after an abortion Read More »
The Wicked Darling (1919) Tod Browning, Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney
Pickpockets ‘Stoop’ Connors and Mary Stevens often work together Read More »
The Blue Bird (1918) Maurice Tourneur, Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed
Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Read More »
The End of the World AKA Verdens Undergang (1916) August Blom, Olaf Fønss, Carl Lauritzen, Ebba Thomsen
A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world. Read More »
A Modern Musketeer (1917) Allan Dwan, Douglas Fairbanks, Marjorie Daw, Kathleen Kirkham
Ned Thacker, through prenatal suggestion, is born in Kansas with the spirit of D’Artagnan Read More »
A Tale of Two Cities (1917) Frank Lloyd, William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary
Charles Darnay is the nephew of the Marquis St. Evremonde in pre-Revolutionary France Read More »
The Italian (1915) Reginald Barker, George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke
An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. Read More »
The Dragon Painter (1919) William Worthington, Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr.
Tatsu is a slightly delusional painter who lives in the wilderness. Read More »
Children of Eve (1915) John H. Collins, Viola Dana, Robert Conness, Tom Blake
Young Henry Clay Madison, a clerk, falls in love with Flossy Wilson, a prostitute from New York’s East Side. Read More »
The Devil’s Needle (1916) Chester Withey, Tully Marshall, Norma Talmadge, Marguerite Marsh
Wynne Mortimer, a pampered society girl and daughter of William Mortimer Read More »
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917) George Irving, John Barrymore, Christine Mayo, H. Cooper Cliffe
Gentleman burglar Raffles tries to get his hand on a priceless pearl. Read More »
I Accuse AKA J’accuse (1919) Abel Gance, Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other’s wife Read More »
Traffic in Souls (1913) George Loane Tucker, Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner
An early social commentary on the New York sex trade, this film attempts to sensationalize prostitution Read More »