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Across the Mexican Line
During the Mexican Revolution, a female spy for the Mexican guerrilla fighters falls in love with an American lieutenant. When he is captured and threatened with execution, she turns to the Americans for help by climbing a telegraph pole, tapping the wire, and sending out a distress call.
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A Drama on a Locomotive
Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling everyone aboard the train.
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A Florida Enchantment
Lillian Travers, a New York heiress, pops down to Florida to surprise her fiancé, Fred Cassadene, the house doctor at a prominent Saint Augustine hotel. The surprise, however, is Lillian’s when she finds Fred in a series of compromising situations with a certain wealthy widow staying there. When ...
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An Old Man’s Love Story
Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father’s rich friend.
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An Unusual Honeymoon
On their honeymoon, Tammas and Mary have a bit too much to drink. The next thing they know, they are crash landing a balloon on a South Sea island. They are swarmed by cannibals, but the menacing headhunters back away in awe when Tammas begins playing his enchanted bagpipes.
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A Railroad Smashup
Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short.
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A Railway Tragedy
A thief notices a large amount of money in a woman’s purse when she opens it to pay her cab driver. He follows her onto the train and waits for her to doze off before snatching the cash. When she wakes up, finds her purse empty, and sees that the man is the only other person in the compartment, t...
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A Slave’s Love
A listless patrician in Rome is awakened by the love of a dancing slave, angering his jealous wife.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Lucie Manette discovers that her father is not dead, as she had always believed. He has just been released from the Bastille, where for decades he was being held for offending the Marquis St. Evrémonde. A short time later, Lucie meets and falls in love with Charles Darnay. The two marry, with Luc...
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Attacked by Redskins
A wagon train of pioneers is ambushed by hostile Indians in this short home movie abridgment of Pioneer Trails.
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Auld Robin Gray
Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.
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Ben Hur
Jerusalem is in a state of rebellion against its Roman overlords. During a Roman procession, Judah Ben Hur wounds Valerius Gratus when he accidentally shakes loose a roof tile and it falls on the procurator. Messala — once Ben Hur’s friend, now a Roman legionary — betrays him and he is sent to th...
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Blackbeard
Blackbeard and his pirates sack the island of Martinique, forcing the governor to walk the plank and making a prisoner of his wife.
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Cinderella
The enchantment of Cinderella’s fairy godmother allows her to attend the Prince’s ball but the spell is broken at midnight. In her haste to flee, Cinderella loses a slipper. The Prince, having fallen in love with the mysterious lady, vows to wed whosever foot fits the lost slipper.
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Coronets and Hearts
Heir to an impoverished earldom, Lord Kewes travels to New York to marry a wealthy woman. He genuinely falls in love with Lilly but she returns his ring when she discovers why they were introduced.
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David and Goliath
David, a boy shepherd, defeats the giant Goliath and saves the people of Israel.
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Dawn and Twilight
When a blind violin virtuoso’s vision is restored, his eyes wander from his homely beloved to a beautiful social butterfly.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll’s experiments to split man’s good and evil sides leads to the creation of Mr. Hyde and his own downfall in this, the earliest surviving screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Good Dr. Jekyll seals his fate when his experiments unleash the evil within him.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In this modernized retelling of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll’s theory that man is composed of both good and evil natures drives him to develop a drug that he hopes will allow those natures to be separated. Tired of being continually ignored while the doctor devotes all ...
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From the Submerged
A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a homeless woman. Forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman, but when she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.
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Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva rides naked through the streets of Coventry to save her people from an onerous tax in this short based on Tennyson’s poem “Godiva".