Jes' Call Me Jim (1920)
A picture that will warm the cockles of your heart
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 0M
Director : Clarence G. Badger
Escritor : Thompson Buchanan, Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Sinopse
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum. Miss Butterworth convinces Jim that Belcher, one of the town's prominent citizens, has incarcerated Paul to steal the patents from his inventions. Jim breaks into the asylum and spirits away the enfeebled inventor......
Uma mãe abandona seu filho com um bilhete em uma limusine, mas o carro acaba sendo roubado e a criança é deixada em uma lata de lixo. Um vagabundo encontra o bebê e passa a cuidar dele. Cinco anos depois, a mulher tenta encontrar o filho perdido.
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
Produção da era silenciosa que adapta o clássico de Victor Hugo. Chaney está no papel de Quasimodo, o tocador de sino da Catedral de Notre Dame, desafortunadamente deformado. Ele se apaixona por Esmeralda, uma jovem e bela dançarina cigana, logo depois que ela lhe deu água quando ele estava apanhando em praça pública. as o gesto fora apenas por comiseração. Ainda assim, Esmeralda mais tarde é acusada de trair e esfaquear seu amado. Por isso ela é torturada e sentenciada à morte. Quasimodo é quem vai resgata-la nas escadarias de Notre Dame.
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
Praga, Boêmia, 1820. Balduin, um estudante sem dinheiro, se apaixona pela Condessa Margit, uma nobre abastada que ele salva do afogamento.
The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement."
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.
The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.
Short film of 300 individually painted images.
A verdadeira história do fora-da-lei australiano Ned Kelly.
Apesar de suas origens diferentes, o pescador Pete e o advogado Philip foram amigos a vida longa na Ilha de Man. Pete quer se casar com Kate, a filha do proprietário da estalagem local, porém o pai de Kate não acha que é bom o suficiente.Pete deixa a ilha para tentar a sorte no estrangeiro, e confia Kate para Philip, mas eles começam a ser atraídos um pelo outro.
Carlitos entra bêbado em um hotel, onde encontra Mabel. Juntos, eles causam a maior bagunça entre os hóspedes. Mabel tenta se enconder em um dos quartos e é descoberta por uma esposa ciumenta.
Three men will fight for the love of a charming girl. Charlie will play dirty, throwing bricks and using a huge hammer.
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief banker (Tandy). Meanwhile, one of the junior managers (Dillon) is being threatened with exposure by his bookie for gambling debts unpaid. Thus the manager decides to steal from the company.
Charlot convence Tillie (Edna Purviance), a filha de um abastado agricultor, a fugir com ele (e levar o dinheiro do pai). Na cidade Tillie embebeda-se e vai parar à prisão enquanto Charlot foge com o dinheiro e a sua antiga namorada Mabel. Mais tarde, Charlot descobre que Tillie (a trabalhar como empregada de mesa) herdou uma grande propriedade do seu multimilionário tio. Charlot abandona Mabel e convence Tillie a mudar-se para a casa do seu falecido tio, mas Mabel arranja maneira de ser contratada para criada da casa. O tio, que afinal não morreu, aparece e chama a policia para expulsar todos da sua propriedade.
Guy and his sister grow up on an island. His domineering mother keeps watch over everything from the tip of a lighthouse, his eccentric father experiments in the basement laboratory. Then there are the orphans, on whose heads the adoptive parents later find puzzling wounds. Another brother and sister pair is sent to the island: the Lightball Kids, two detectives that are meant to bring light into the darkness. The brothers and sisters are all yanked into the emotional roller coaster of first love, while something cryptic comes to light in the parents' house.