William De Vaull
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Film5.9DramTarihAmerikan İç Savaşı tüm şiddetiyle ülkeyi kasıp kavurur. İnsanlar yakınlarını kaybeder. Aileler dağılır. Savaş biter. Birlikten ayrılmak isteyen Güney eyaletlerinin kurduğu Konfederasyon yenilmiştir. Yeniden Yapılanma Dönemi başlar. Kölelik yasaklanır. Başkan Lincoln'ün suikastiyle, yeni oluşan güven ortamı yerini kaos ve anarşiye bırakır. Özellikle güney eyaletlerinde çeteciler beyaz çiftlik sahiplerine saldırır ve ailelerine göz açtırmazlar. Polis gücüne katılan siyahlar ve melezler beyazları taciz eder. Bunun üzerine asayişi sağlamak üzere "Klan" kurulur. Haçlı şövalyelerini andıran giysileriyle Ku-Klux-Klan üyeleri gecelerin hakimidir artık. Devletin sağlayamadığı adaleti onlar getirir. D.W. Griffith’in sessiz filmi Bir Ulusun Doğuşu, gerçekten de bizlere anlatılan tarih tezinin aksi bir görüşü, üstelik şimdi izlendiğinde epey rahatsız edici bir tonda sunuyor.
Film6.8RomantikDramAdapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth - one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in the Irish slums.
Lights of Old Broadway
1925 · 4 votes
Film6.4RomantikDramAn Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
Blind Husbands
1919 · 34 votes
- FilmKomediDram
Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environment. When he falls in love with Diane, a showgirl from the follies, he sees a chance to prove his theory, but fate intervenes .......
Film7.0DramMrs. Pitman seeks a wealthy husband for her daughter, Virginia. The first prospect, Colonel Singleton, insults Virginia and is shot by her brother. They move, assume another name, and find a new suitor, Clayborne Gordon, who changes his mind when he learns of Virginia's past. She then tells her story to poor racing-driver Cole Hawkins, whom actually she loves. He not only accepts her but reveals himself to be one of the wealthiest men in the area.
White Shoulders
1922 · 1 votes
Film4.0DramPoor stenographer Gloria Graham believes that clothes make a woman successful in business and as a result she incurs great debts.
What Every Woman Wants
1919 · 3 votes
Film7.0Western18 episode Western adventure serial. 1. Bonds of Steel 2. In the Enemy's Hands 3. The Spy 4. The Sword of Grant and Lee 5. The Man of the Ages 6. Prisoners of the Sioux 7. Shackles of Fate 8. The Last Shot 9. From Tailor to President 10. Empire Builders 11. Perils of the Plains 12. The Hand of Justice 13. Trails of Peril 14. The Scarlet Doom 15. Men of Steel 16. The Brink of Eternity 17. A Race to the Finish 18. Driving the Golden Spike.
In the Days of Buffalo Bill
1922 · 1 votes
Film8.3KomediYoung American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic.
The Prince and Betty
1919 · 3 votes
FilmDramRomantikJohn spies his girlfriend embracing his brother. Stunned, John deposits the family's money and leaves the country. Years later he returns to find his brother dead, the plantation in ruins, and that he is suspected of stealing the money.
Big Tremaine
1916
- Film10.0Dram
An old man from the city comes to Mutton Hollow in the Ozarks to make amends for his son, an artist, who deserted the girl who posed for a picture which made him famous, and bore his child after he left.
The Shepherd of the Hills
1919 · 1 votes
Film9.0MaceraDramIn 1853, young Southerner Don Buckner goes west in search of gold to recoup his dwindling fortune, spent mostly on his new bride, Elizabeth. During the years of his absence he fails to communicate with his wife or his mother Margarite, even when he strikes gold, because he hopes to make this good fortune a surprise.
Kentucky Days
1923 · 1 votes
Film8.0DramMaceraFilm serial.
Around the World in 18 Days
1923 · 1 votes
Film9.0WesternMacera15 chapter serial. Gideon Trask and his henchmen at the saloon in Arkansas City covet the mineral survey of the Louisiana Territory made for Napoleon before the sale of the Territory to the United States. This is in possession of the Heath Brothers, who seek to use it in staking their land when the Oklahoma territory, last of the Louisiana tract to be released by the Government, is opened to Homesteaders.
The Ace of Spades
1925 · 1 votes
Film10.0SuçDramWhen spiritualist Madame Mysteria is killed in a train wreck, her three associates decide to replace her instead of declaring her dead. One of them, the Fox, calls on Jean Oliver, who he knew from prison. Jean was serving time after being framed by her former employer, Mrs. Ramsey, for a theft just to keep her and her son, Donald Ramsey, from marrying. Jean agrees to the crooks' scheme providing that they help her kidnap the baby that belongs to Donald and the woman that his mother had him marry.
The Hole in the Wall
1921 · 1 votes
FilmKomediWhen Richard Hudson receives a pair of silk pajamas from a friend in China, he is unaware that they are bewitched and that whoever wears them will be transformed into someone else.
Film8.0KomediYoung, introverted New York attorney Jimmie Pendleton is notoriously shy around women. Instead, he spends much of his time embarking on wild escapades with his friend, Herbert Austin. To fund these adventures, Jimmie frequently wires his eccentric Uncle Tobias in Kansabraska (a fictionalized Midwestern location) for emergency cash. Chaos ensues when Jimmie becomes engaged to Herbert’s sister, Mary. Following the engagement, Uncle Tobias unexpectedly arrives from the West. Jimmie is forced into a frantic, comical scramble to maintain appearances and conceal his true, wilder lifestyle—along with his careless spending habits—from his visiting uncle and his new in-laws.
Life's a Funny Proposition
1919 · 1 votes
FilmDramWhen Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When Dorothy soon thereafter becomes pregnant, Forbes vows to reform, but authorities arrest him on a gambling charge, and he serves a year in prison. During that time, and just before the birth of the baby, a woman comes to Dorothy and claims to be Forbes' wife. Stunned, Dorothy returns to her father, but the colonel throws her out, and so, on her own, she has her baby, whom the community believes to be illegitimate. Convinced that she has sinned, Dorothy is about to kill herself when Forbes, just out of jail, finds her and explains that the other woman simply had been an ex-sweetheart trying to win him back.
FilmDramEzra Scroggs is a shiftless gambler who has let his hotel, the Lakeview, fall on hard times. Finally his daughter Nancy gets fed up seeing all the business go to his rival, Si Whittaker at the Majestic, and she decides to do something about it.
Better Times
1919
Film8.0DramDorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city to study architecture. After winning a competition, she is a success, and meets Monty Rhodes, the son of aristocratic parents. Despite his parents' objections, Monty and Dorothy marry, but Mrs. Rhodes continually humiliates Dorothy for her lack of breeding. When she finally succeeds in driving the heartbroken Dorothy back to her own family, Monty realizes his mistake, and follows her to the country, where he finds happiness with his wife and their poor relations.
Poor Relations
1919 · 1 votes
Film5.7WesternA Tom Mix classic! Tom is a devil-may-care aristocrat whose father has mysteriously concealed all info about his deceased mother. One day, an old man shows up and shoots Tom's father dead! The only clue Tom has is a picture of a far-away ranch in Idaho that was hidden away for years in a secret locked room in their mansion.
Trailin'
1921 · 3 votes
FilmKomediSlapstick shenanigans at an overcrowded boarding house.